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Furari Flores
Cara-Ann Simpson
26 February - 11 April 2026
Enter a world of multisensory botanical magic and join the artist, Cara-Ann Simpson, on a journey of deep listening, Earth admiration and plant love. Furari Flores explores the relationship between sound, plants and lived experience. The Latin titles of Cara-Ann's artworks reflect the continued use of Latin in contemporary sciences, evoking poetry, symbolism and the irony of a “dead” language dedicated to life and regeneration.
Using spectrography, field-recorded soundscapes are transformed into real-time visual compositions that reveal the complexity of relationships between plants and their environments. Growing from Cara-Ann’s experiences with serious illness, the project explores storytelling, health and wellbeing, home, and the symbiotic relationships between humans and plants.
Cara-Ann Simpson is represented by Onespace, Brisbane. Furari Flores is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Image: Cara-Ann Simpson, narratio regenerationis (the narrative of rebirth), 2022, single-channel video with stereo sound (video still), 6:18 mins.
Breathing Fire
Anna Louise Bayen Freya
12 March - 11 April 2026
This series of earthenware sculptural work explores themes that have continued to remain important to the artist, myth and symbolism from many parts of the globe featuring spirit animals and guides have played a part in legends and tales from long ago.
Living in a world where technology and greed is worshipped, these ancient stories send messages from our ancestors, through ancient art idols and text. Images of these animals were used to protect, bring fortune as well as fertility.
Combined with the celebration of the female form which has been a constant in my art, evoking emotions through connection, healing, journeying through grief, transformation, finding strength and resilience.
Breathing fire expresses the feeling most potters experience as they move through the steps of creation , beginning with wet clay in their hands, drying , firing decorating , firing again , sometimes multiple firings to achieve the finished permanent piece, it’s the feeling that gets buried deep within your soul and it becomes something that is part of you almost as necessary as breathing itself.
Image: Ferocia, Anna Louise Bayden Freya, buff raku and white raku
