Participating Artists
- Acidum Project – Brazil
- Aidan Weichard – AUS
- Alison Mooney- AUS
- Alma Sarac- AUS
- Amanda Adomaitis – USA
- Amanda Shelsher – AUS
- Amber Kingi – AUS
- Angie Goto – AUS
- Anne-Sophie Tschiegg – France
- Antonyo Marest – Spain
- Ariel Katzir – AUS
- BIJIJOO – USA
- BL2A – Spain
- Bar Ben Vakil – ISRAEL/USA
- Beau Bernier Frank – USA
- Brendan Kelly – AUS
- Britty EM – AUS
- Caitlyn Taylor – AUS
- Cane – SPAIN
- Cannibal Malabar – FRANCE
- Carole King – AUS
- Cezary Stulgis – AUS
- Christina Gschwantner – VIENNA
- Claire Yerbury – Aus
- Danny Gretscher – Germany
- David Thomas – USA
- Debbie Reda – Spain
- Emanuele Tozzoli – Italy
- Erik Minter – USA
- Fanny Brodar – USA
- Florent Stosskopf – FRANCE
- Florian Eymann – France
- GABRIEL HUNE – BRAZIL
- Geoffrey Bouillot
- German Jauregui – Colombia/Aus
- Glendon Cordell – AUS
- Go Suga – AUS
- Igor Villares Rosa – Brazil
- Iryna Maksymova
- JOAQUIN VALDEZ MACHER – USA
- JOHN REUSS – DENMARK
- Jayde Chandler – AUS
- Jaye Early – AUS
- Jisbar – France
- Joan Blond – AUS
- Johnny Romeo – AUS
- Jose Ramón Lozano – Spain
- Juan Manuel Romero
- Kevin Sabo – USA
- LUKE LEE – SOUTH KOREA
- Laura White – AUS
- Laust Højgaard – Denmark
- Leisa Russell – AUS
- Lindsay Gwinn Parker – USA
- Loser Angeles – USA
- Luciano Suárez – Spain
- Lucy Pulvers
- MARIUS SEIDLITZ
- MART AIRE – ARGENTINA
- Marcus Gomad Debie – Netherlands
- Marina Gonzalez Eme – Spain
- Mark Liam Smith – CANADA
- Megan Puls – AUS
- Mellissa Read-Devine – AUS
- Michelle Fogarty – Australia
- Michelle Selway Lampard – AUS
- Mikael Takacs – Sweden
- Miss Moresby – AUS
- Mister Zozo – FRANCE
- Nector – COLOMBIA
- Nick Grindrod – UK
- Patrick McMahon – AUS
- Philip Bosmans – Belgium
- Ralf Kokke – The Netherlands
- Ramona Nordal – Canada
- Remy Uno – FRANCE
- Richard Denny – AUS
- Robyn Leoni Abbott – AUS
- Roghayeh Najdi – Iran
- Ryan White – AUS
- Ryuzo Kojima – Japan
- SALMOS – BRAZIL
- Sally Paxton – AUS
- Sckaro – France
- Sean Edward Whelan – AUS
- Silas – Netherlands
- Skount – Spain
- Skuja Braden – LATVIA/USA
- Sol Felpeto – Spain
- Talita Barbosa – Portugal
- Todd Romanowycz – AUS
- Tom Berenz – USA
- Tony Roos – Sweden
- VANESSA VAN MEERHAEGHE – BELGIUM
- Verity Nunan – AUS
- Vincent Arnold – CANADA
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.