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TRACE Biennial

AT RALPH'S GARAGE WITH RICHARD BELL’S ‘STILL...’, 2017 – TRACE 2017

Inkahoots has helped conceive, establish and design TRACE, a biennial exhibition and art auction in unexpected West End venues. The event raises needed funds for Community Plus’s vital services, and puts contemporary art where we live our everyday lives. The artists in TRACE are among Australia’s most important, and many have strong connections to the area.

Visit the art in a fruit shop, book stores, a barber, a record store, a bakery, and lots of other unlikely venues along Boundary and Vulture Streets in Brisbane’s West End. Then bid for the art online, with proceeds supporting the indispensable, indomitable Community Plus and their work with marginalised and vulnerable community members. The artists are also paid for their work.

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TRACE is conceived as a de-institutionalised, temporary, multi-venue public art gallery. The art is encountered in unprecedented contexts, potentially provoking new ways of seeing both the art and the neighbourhood. Since the 1960s many artists have investigated different ways to exhibit art outside of purpose-built galleries and museums. TRACE draws from this trajectory of encountering art in ordinary and unexpected places.

Along with in-person guided walking tours led by the curator, local historians, artists and architects, we’ve developed TRACE Tracker. The phone app features artist biographies, artwork stories, artist interview videos, venue snapshots and more, all embedded in a geolocated self-guided walking tour.

AT CHARLIE AND LIZ’S FRUIT SHOP WITH VERNON AH KEE’S ‘HALLMARKS OF THE HUNGRY’, 2014 – TRACE 2015

AT PHILLIP’S BARBER SHOP WITH GORDON HOOKEY’S ‘TWO KANGAROOS’, 2013 – TRACE 2015

TRACE 2017 WALKING TOUR

AT JET BLACK CAT MUSIC WITH ROSS MANNING’S ‘AMBIENT PAINTING’, 2017 – TRACE 2017

AT ADDWEST SHOE & LUGGAGE REPAIRS WITH JUDY WATSON’S ‘IN AND OUT, LIFE FORCE 1 & 2’, 2016 – TRACE 2017

AT AVID READER WITH GORDON BENNETT’S ‘UNTITLED (BLUE/BLACK LINES & SPIRALS)’, 2001 – TRACE 2017

AT RALPH’S GARAGE WITH VANGHOUA ANTHONY VUE’S ‘UNTITLED TRIPTYCH’, 2015 – TRACE 2019

AT HONG LAN GROCER WITH SEBASTIAN MOODY’S ‘I CAN SHOW YOU, THAT THIS WORLD, IS YOUR WORLD’, 2016 – TRACE 2019

AT DRESDEN OPTOMETRIST WITH MARGARET LOY PULA’S ‘ANATYE (BUSH POTATO DREAMING)’, 2010
AND LINDE IVIMEY’S ‘SACCHURO MORTUIS 1’, 2018 – TRACE 2019

TRACE 2019 OPENING EVENT AT RALPH’S GARAGE WITH DADANG CHRISTANTO’S ‘CIDUK, SISKA, BUNUH, BUANG IV’, 2019

AT WEST END BAKERY WITH SAM CRANSTOUN’S ‘POWER STRUCTURES 7’, 2017  – TRACE 2019

INSTALLING MEGAN COPE’S ‘NOOGOON’, 2017, AT HOPE ON BOUNDARY – TRACE 2023

INSTALLING ROSS MANNING’S ‘REFLECTION STUDY’, 2023, HALL’S JEWELLERS AND WATCHMAKERS – TRACE 2023

The Trace team: Marilyn Trad, Jason Grant, Dr Susan Ostling, Josh Milani, Caroline Gardam, Bec Mac, Nick Goding, Sophie Skordilis

The Inkahoots team: Jordan McGuire, Bhu Vidya, Ben Mangan, Jason Grant

Participating galleries include: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, David Pestorius Projects, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Heiser Gallery, Jan Manton Gallery, Milani Gallery, Mitchell Fine Art, Onespace Gallery, Philip Bacon Galleries Sullivan+Strumpf

Photography by Marc Grimwade, Cristian Galvis, Frankly Photography.

Listen to ABC Radio National with Sarah Kanowski for Books and Arts, talking to Curator Susan Ostling and Jason, as well as some local high school students, on a TRACE walking tour in the streets of West End.

Another great story about TRACE on ABC Radio National here

And in The Guardian here