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Tyza Stewart’s work focuses on journeys of identity and gender formation. The work challenges normative expectations and prescriptions, highlighting anxieties largely overlooked in our society. In this work the artist is rendered ambiguously; there is a suggestion of slipping away yet at the same time becoming.

Untitled
2015
Oil on board
185×75 cm

‘GOMA Q’ will profile more than 30 emerging, mid-career and senior artists working with various media. It will reflect and contextualise the dynamic character of Queensland art today, showcasing artists of all generations working across the spectrum of themes and media. ‘GOMA Q’ will challenge expectations and demonstrate, with conviction, the inspired, innovative and inventive.

Tyza Stewart (AU), Eugene Carchesio (AU), Vishal Jugdeo (USA) | Mike Richards (USA) present works that turn to modes of doubling and reflection in their questioning of selfhood.

Sensitive to the politics of contemporary image circulation Tyza Stewart creates self-portraits using processes of visual editing. Including in this exhibition is a new lithograph composed from two images: a photograph of the artist’s body re-drawn with a body found in an online search. This process acts as an area to imagine and project a physical identity, wherein self-image develops through image-making. Erasing the original photographs and without colour, here Stewart creates a singular image developed as another step within this long-running process of shifting self-portraiture.

Curated by Laura Brown

Garden brings together a selection of artwork that draws out the aesthetic, conceptual and therapeutic possibilities of the garden and explores why this reoccurring motif provides such a rich source of material for artists and their creative energies.

Keep Running brings together work from nine artist-run initiatives across Australia to explore the importance of community, collaboration and collective support in national artist-run culture.

Following on from Run Artist Run, Paper Mountain’s 2014 comprehensive survey of Perth ARIs, this exhibition sees the ARI itself as an engine of sustainable creative practice, with artists, art workers and audiences playing active parts in artistic production.

'Spatiums’ featured work by: Emily Carroll, Peter Hill, Melissa Matveyeff, Tyza Stewart, Kiah Reading/ Andrew McLelland.

A solo exhibition of recent works.

Tyza’s practice is a continually evolving self-portrait formed through paintings, digital images and installations. The work deals with the production and perceptions of gendered identity and concurrent social norms. At Boxcopy, Tyza experimented with video-based installation and continue an exploration of self-portraiture through digital mediums.

The project Dense Plant Scenes centred on a video profile of Tyza Stewart’s art practice. As a dense plant scene painter, Tyza Stewart uses the practice to experiment and think about ways the artist is perceived based on physical presence and the impact this has on both the subjectivity of the artist, and the art practice itself.