'Helen Fuller: Bowerbird' and 'Pat Hoffie: This Mess We're In' Auslan Interpreted Tour

Join QUT Galleries and Museums Engagement Coordinator, Renae Belton on a tour of Pat Hoffie: This Mess We're In and Helen Fuller: Bowerbird at QUT Art Museum.

Accredited Auslan interpreter Kelly Cooper will accompany this tour for our Deaf community.

This Mess We’re In explores the chaos and catastrophes that have become white noise in our everyday lives. Through a visual anthology of failures, propositions and imagined futures, Brisbane-based artist Pat Hoffie presents us with a series of mise en scènes where the borderlines between the factual and the fantastic disintegrate.

Like the bowerbird, Fuller is compelled to mine the archaeology of the everyday to create something new. This is reflected in the artist’s eclectic mix of materials, including newspaper, fox fur, sardine tins, gum wrappers, bus tickets, cutlery, crockery and other domestic items scoured from op shops and local tips. Bowerbird brings together Fuller’s early collages and assemblages, along with her more recent paintings and ceramics.

Image credit: Helen FULLER Untitled pots 2021, hand-built terracotta, oxide, porcelain slip. Collection of the artist. Photo by Grant Hancock. Image courtesy of Samstag Museum of Art.

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For any queries, contact QUT Art Museum on +61 7 3138 1384 or artmuseum@qut.edu.au.