Still from the Brave Girl project by Karike Ashworth. Image courtesy the artist.
In recent decades, Queenslanders have held our cultural heads high. Flagships like the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) feature international artists alongside our local artists, who have garnered a world profile for the quality of their work.
Since 2021, The Condensery has undergone a rebrand and revitalised program under curator Rachel Arndt, with its website tagline reading: ‘CHALLENGING. CREATIVE. CONCEPTUAL. CONTROVERSIAL. CONTEMPORARY. COLLABORATIVE. COMMUNITY. CURIOUS? THE CONDENSERY.’
Louise Martin-Chew has been a freelance writer since 1992, and writes regularly for Art Collector, Art Monthly, Art Guide Australia, VAULT, Artist Profile and other publications. In 2019 she was awarded the John Oxley Fellowship by State Library of Queensland. Her biography Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life (published QUT Art Museum, 2021) was shortlisted for the 2022 Magarey Medal. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and is Brisbane-based.
