The Wandering Room showcases the work of emerging Brisbane artists. The name, The Wandering Room stands for three things: a new style of art exhibition that is transitional and continually evolving; a gallery that changes location for each exhibition; and which presents short term exhibitions, capitalising on the culture of the ‘opening night’. The group’s artistic focus includes, but is not limited to installation, new media, and performance. As an artist run initiative focusing on non-traditional media and experimental practice, we aim to provide artists with the freedom to explore new working methods and processes as well as respond to issues of ephemerality, transience, temporality and site-specificity. To date, The Wandering Room have devised exhibition concepts for events, projects and exhibitions that have taken place in a variety of gallery and ‘beyond the gallery’ locations. The Wandering Room is made up of Angela Rossitto, Sarah Werkmeister and David Creed.

Ian Burns

Courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney & Melbourne

Natasha Cordasic : Artist Statement

Cordasic's practice engages personal history with the propaganda of nationalism and commercialisation.  I create images and use materials in such a way to generate a friction between properties or production and symbolism.

Genevieve Staines : Artist Statement

Staines’ new body of work, Synthetic Pomp Precinct, is a response to the contemporary crusade for cultural and urban reinvention.

Exemplified by obscene projects such as the redevelopment of Brisbane’s King George Square, re-urbanisation forcefully and desperately seeks to coerce humans into inhabiting place differently, although we often don’t know how we are actually to do this.

Are boxes ticked when, as we peruse these desolate environments, we mimic CAD sketches; we and others become model miniatures, scattered and indifferent with our headphones, shopping bags and takeaway coffees?

In Synthetic Pomp Precinct -Phase 1, Staines takes slapdash photographs of B-grade worksites, and re-fabricates their digital surfaces into heroin chíc stages for imaginary posturing. These are then displayed as two (2) promotional style DVDs that polarise the realities of such ‘concept zones’::