Mia Boe

Mia Boe is a painter from Meanjin (Brisbane). Her mother is of the Badtjala people from K’gari (Fraser Island) and her father is Burmese. Her work looks at the brutal and violent history of colonisation in Australia through a contemporary perspective.

Boe's art practice records and recovers Indigenous histories which Australia seeks to deny. This practice of recovery is urgent in contemporary Australia: the patient work of tracing historical trauma and violence can open new perspectives on the reasons for Aboriginal Australians' present suffering.

Jieun Ha

Jieun Ha primarily works with painting examining the relationship between geometric forms and vernacular objects. Her image sources are collected from her attraction to un-designed products or accessible objects with ready-made patterns which are then re-formatted and examined through a process of distortion and erratic formations on uninterrupted surfaces. The process highlights and monumentalises abandoned images and allows to investigate her attraction and relationship to “hot spots.”

(Untitled), oil on canvas, 50 cm x 40 cm, 2020.

Golden ratio love, oil on canvas, 33 cm x 30 cm, 2020.

Katie Rasch

Katie Rasch is opening House Conspiracy new Garden Residency program. We are really pleased to have Katie who is using our garden to explore the Samoan concept of Va. Va is a word that describes sacred relationships, be it those between people or those between objects. It can be used to describe the relationship between a person and their community, where they sit in relation to other individuals and how they move and behave in that space.

Katie is a New Zealand born, Australian/Samoan woman living here in Meanjin on unceded Yuggera and Turrbul lands. She is an artist and filmmaker and most of her work up until this point has been in a video or photographic medium. Katie is now exploring the medium of nature, ideas of culture and belonging, and making art that is tactile and engages your senses.

“My residency at House Conspiracy is my first work in a physical medium and I am excited to create a space that fosters storytelling and community in the garden.”

About the work in the words of the artist

My work in the garden of House Conspiracy is primarily exploring the Samoan concept of Va. Va is a word that describes sacred relationships, be it those between people or those between objects. It can be used to describe the relationship between a person and their community, where they sit in relation to other individuals and how they move and behave in that space.

It can also refer to the physical space between objects. The night sky between the stars, or the ocean between our many many islands. It describes this space as not empty or void, but as a thing of its own that connects the objects that it surrounds. Practically this shows its self in the view of our ocean as a highway that connects islands and carries people, as opposed to an obstacle that needs to be overcome in order to travel.

I want to explore this concept in two ways, firstly through the physical space in the garden. I will be using traditional Pacifica tattooing patterns in the pathing through out the garden, as well as in the planting. I will also be using plants native to the tropics to help ground the space in a pacific identity. Lastly I hope to have a mural that uses more traditional patterns to depict the night sky on the back wall.

Secondly I will use this physical space to explore the relationship between my heritages and my space within the Pacifica community. Like myself, the space will have a clear pacific identity within a very Australian context. Just as the space will be grounded in the islands, it’s location and its history ground it firmly in Meanjin. I will be inviting other artists, weavers and story tellers to use the space and to build on its identity.

Arbour Theatre Company

Arbour Theatre Company is a newly formed company looking to make their mark on the Brisbane scene. Focused on devised, physical works outside of the traditional theatre space, the company is intrigued by the ensemble process, and through their work endeavour to create beauty out of chaos. Arbour Theatre Company has been rehearsing at the House since August 2020.

Angus Shaw

Angus Shaw is a Brisbane-based artist and designer. His oil paintings, often figurative, are explorations of thoughts, moods, and imagined narratives. Inspired by the subjects and techniques of classical atelier painting, Angus uses traditional realism to create small works that encourage a quiet and introspective engagement.

Daniel Ogilvie

Daniel Ogilve

Beauty in an Ugly Time

House Conspiracy welcomes our new artist in residence, Daniel Ogilvie. Follow the progression of his work on our socials and website!

Daniel Ogilvie is a cultural events producer and artist currently working on an exhibition of fine cut paper and natural fiber collage while curating a conceptual event, the cultural salon, as resident artist at the House Conspiracy studios in West End, Brisbane, Australia.

The colourful composition of his visual work can be both pleasing to the eye while offering an opportunity to explore symbolic narrative and relationship archetypes using his fine attention to detail and intricate, multi layered collage techniques.

Daniel’s current work will also be a homage of love and gratitude, celebrating his relationship to his birth city of Brisbane and sees him collaborating with local photographers and natural fiber artists to weave in even more layers to his work.

While in lockdown Daniel was exploring the simple theme of “beauty in an ugly age” and wishes to continue down that path by creating opportunities to use his work to inspire open and nuanced discussion around cordial diversity in all manner of relationship constructs.

When it comes to cultural events Daniel is in his element having produced and promoted a vast gambit of successful events including infamous underground warehouse parties, train party flash mobs, music festivals, block parties, boutique workshop festivals and villa retreats.

I am thoroughly excited to use my experience to explore an event format popular in the renaissance era called a ‘salon.’ Simply put, a Salon is a gathering of people curated by an inspiring host aimed to amuse and increase knowledge through conversation and artistic expression. I hope to use this opportunity to conceptualise an inspiring, expressive and collaborative way to participate in exceptional cultural events in the age of covid.”

Huon Kane

Huon is queer interdisciplinary artist who combines animation, video and technology in his works. His practice seeks to modify traditional artforms to increase their immersion, with an emphasis on interactivity. 

He currently works part-time as an animator and AI developer for the Virtual Songlines project at Bilbie Virtual Studios.

Emmalyn Hawthorne

Emmalyn Hawthorne is an installation artist working in expanded drawing. She is interested in beautiful things, poetry, and wilful self-deception, and has spent quite a bit of time intellectualising that. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours in 2018.