Anyone who titles their exhibition after a Pet Shop Boys song is clearly onto something. Lincoln Austin’s I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing is the artist’s solo exhibition supported by Flying Arts Alliance (FAA) as the 2023 Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) ‘Art For Life’ winner. The exhibition, which is currently being shown at Brisbane’s Judith Wright Centre, emphasises joy and communion between the artist and the audience.
Joy and wonder are at the centre of the artist’s work. The piece that won them the QRAA is titled I saw myself, in you, wondering, how did I get here. It appears as a minimalist painting, but is presented on corrugated aluminium. It gives the piece depth, but also radically changes itself depending on the angle from which the viewer examines it.
