- Acidum Project – Brazil
- Adlane Samet – Algeria
- Alburoto – Philippines
- Alvar Mena – Spain
- Amanda Adomaitis – USA
- Amanda Shelsher – AUS
- Amber Kingi – AUS
- Angie Goto – AUS
- Ariel Katzir – AUS
- Attilio Esposito – Italy
- BL2A – Spain
- BRIAN CIRMO – USA
- Beau Bernier Frank – USA
- Brad Donovan – New Zealand
- CAMERON HAAS – AUSTRALIA
- CARLOS QUIRALTE – Spain
- Caitlyn Taylor – AUS
- Cezary Stulgis – AUS
- Christina Gschwantner – VIENNA
- Christopher Lees – Australia
- Claire Yerbury – Aus
- Constance Bachmann – Canada
- David Thomas – USA
- EMMA YOUNG – AUSTRALIA
- Elina Ojakangas – Sweden
- Emanuele Tozzoli – Italy
- Erik Minter – USA
- Flora Castiglia – Argentina
- Florent Stosskopf – FRANCE
- GABRIEL HUNE – BRAZIL
- Gabo Valenzuela – Philippines
- German Jauregui – Colombia/Aus
- Glendon Cordell – AUS
- Go Suga – AUS
- HAYDEN PHOENIX – AUSTRALIA
- Hayden White – USA
- IOANA BALTAN – UK
- IVÁN MONTAÑA – SPAIN
- Ian Bertolucci – Italy
- Igor Villares Rosa – Brazil
- Iryna Maksymova
- JOAQUIN VALDEZ – USA
- JULIANA SHAFFIA
- JUN OSON – JAPAN
- Jisbar – France
- Johnny Romeo – AUS
- Jose Ramón Lozano – Spain
- Josias Figueirido – USA/Spain
- Juan Manuel Romero
- Juri Lobunko – Germany
- Kevin Sabo – USA
- LUCAS GEOR – AUSTRALIA
- Laura White – AUS
- Leisa Russell – AUS
- Linda Wallis – UK
- Lucas Lamenha
- Luciano Suárez – Spain
- Lucy Pulvers
- MART AIRE – ARGENTINA
- MS. DYU
- Marina Gonzalez Eme – Spain
- Marius Seidlitz
- Megan Puls – AUS
- Mellissa Read-Devine – AUS
- Michael Polakowski – USA
- Michelle Selway Lampard – AUS
- Mickey Mason – Australia
- Mikael Takacs – Sweden
- Nathaniel Bolarinwa – Nigeria
- Nector – COLOMBIA
- Ota – Korea
- Paolo Pilotti – Italy
- Patrick McMahon – AUS
- Philip Bosmans – Belgium
- RAMIRO SILVA-CORTES
- Rachel Morrissey – USA
- Ramona Nordal – Canada
- Riccardo Nannini (A.K.A CANE) – SPAIN
- Robyn Leoni Abbott – AUS
- Ryuzo Kojima – Japan
- SALMOS – BRAZIL
- Sally Paxton – AUS
- Sarah Beetson
- Sean Edward Whelan – AUS
- Silas – Netherlands
- Sol Felpeto – Spain
- Talita Barbosa – Portugal
- Thomas Graven – France
- Todd Romanowycz – AUS
- Tom Berenz – USA
- Tony Roos – Sweden
- Vincent Arnold – CANADA
- Wayan Sarcita Yasa – Indonesia
- YANA MEDOW – SPAIN
- Yool Kim – Korea
- Yoshi 47 – Japan
Participating Artists.
ABIGAEL WHITTAKER – The Vision Splendid
Hosted By 19 Karen
July 31st - August 28th, 2010
Artist Statement
The Vision Splendid is the third solo show from inspiring Brisbane based artist, Abigael Whittaker. Opening Saturday July 31st at 19 Karen Contemporary Art Space, The Vision Splendid illustrates a personal quest described with an honest optimism that is both beautiful and captivating. While Abigael’s preceding bodies of work utilised her signature textile based detailing, it is in The Vision Splendid that this is explored in a most celebratory fashion.
Concentrating here on the ultimate beauty of circumstance, it is Abigael’s use of opulent detailing that communicates this splendid vision in its truest form. With personal symbology intrinsic to the narrative of her work, Abigael refuses to give too much away, as though in this journey its all about her own interpretation, so you the viewer must communicate with it in your own way to gain each piece’s potential revelation. With each composition referencing Abigael’s own interpretation of the Tarot cards from which she drew much inspiration, viewers are invited to approach the works with their own questions about how they hope to reach the ultimate enlightenment – The Vision Splendid.
With a suggestion that it is only through questioning one’s own mortality that a person can truly reach this absolute, a chilling honesty describes a once intoxicating despair remedied only by a belief in the power of positive thought and decisive action.