THE BRISBANE LINE
MOSTYN BRAMLEY-MOORE
LEAH EMERY
JULIE FRAGAR
PAT HOFFIE
MADELEINE KELLY
JONATHAN MCBURNIE
GLEN SKEIN
JENNY WATSON
CURATED BY ROSS WOODROW

SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 10

The Brisbane Line is a great title for a drawing show but this isn’t strictly a drawing show.

The term Brisbane Line can evoke very different responses depending on where you live. Many Queenslanders know this as a WWII strategy to draw a defensive line to cut Queensland adrift if the Japanese invaded Australia. This is but one of the many real or imagined wrongs that have made Queenslanders see themselves as different or more correctly think that Southerners see them as different. The Brisbane Line defines the last frontier that can never catch up or the new Babylon that must be always bigger and better – Queensland.

The Brisbane Line features the work of eight artists from Queensland. A couple of the artists, Jenny Watson and Mostyn Bramley-Moore, are not usually described as Queenslanders despite the fact that they have both lived there for a decade. Julie Fragar is also a relatively recent arrival from Sydney, although the other artists have always been based in Queensland. The most senior of these artists is the nationally acclaimed Pat Hoffie.