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Optimism

Currently showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’.

It's the first in a major new national triennial series of thematic contemporary art exhibitions.

The exhibition presents work by more than 60 emerging, mid-career, and senior Indigenous and non-Indigenous contemporary artists from every state and territory.

"As you would expect, many of the works in Optimism are as colourful as a Gold Coast property developer." (Richard Jinman, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Optimism has something for everybody.
Sydney artists Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy combined to produce Not Under My Roof, which is a must-see. In fact, viewers of Optimism cannot miss seeing it. It's in the gallery's main atrium.

Cordeiro and Healy found a Queenslander home in south-west Brisbane, removed everything above the skirting boards, took the wooden floor plate to the gallery and mounted it on the wall.
All nine of the building's rooms are decorated with a different linoleum - together they form a fantastic geometric design - it's both abstract AND a reminder of generations of human life.

Optimism is at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, until February 22.

Credits: Photos taken from the Gallery of Modern Art's Optimism - Media Kit