BEAF 2013

Last weekend at the Brisbane Emerging Art Festival (BEAF) 2013 held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art. The festival was established in 2010 to promote and present Brisbane’s leading emerging artists and the city’s contemporary arts culture. The vision of the festival is to highlight and connect local artists, while being a catalyst for new and experimental art practice.







Lita and the Bird playing the opening act of the festival.







"They create sound that reminds me of fairy tales and candy floss. Mixed with a warm cup of love and loss, and a hairy monkey that's stolen your banjo into the wilderness of life..." Anonymous, 2011











Terra Nemo is an ensemble of emerging artists from The Queensland Academy of Creative Industries. Terra Nemo exists to create provocative, relevant art that is able to sustainably develop through the creation of a dialogue between artist and audience. Charlie is an exploration on the positioning of Absurdist themes and conventions in an immersive, visceral and post-modern environment. The dynamics of two parallel relationships unravel as a result of being repeatedly stretched to their breaking point through their discontentment with banality.



Artists (first wave): Revy Hamilton, Ryan Fraser, Lynette Letic, Rosie Gardner, Mark Kleine, Jacinta Howard. Nuclear Family have created a shrine that encompasses the aesthetic confusion and longing in the secular youth community who must reconcile themselves with the unsurmountable historical presence that religion has left to linger in everyday culture.



New work from Brisbane-based visual and performance artists.



















Curated by Rachael Parsons & Stephen Russell.