Museum of Brisbane is excited to partner with Brisbane City Council on their Outdoor Gallery exhibition <play/ground> this year.
Our modern lives are busy with work and responsibilities, living a balanced and playful life while remaining grounded is essential to finding and maintaining joy in our day-to-day physical and digital lives. <play/ground> celebrates the existing playful charm of Brisbane’s concrete playground and reminds us of the importance of daily routines that ground and connect us to the planet that houses and nourishes.
Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery transforms Brisbane’s laneways and city streets into imaginative, curious and engaging spaces. Comprising light boxes, banners, vitrines and evening projections, the Outdoor Gallery displays art outside in city streets, instead of inside on gallery walls. Recently, the Outdoor Gallery has grown to include art projections at Howard Smith Wharves and light boxes in Ann Street.
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Emily Devers is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based multidisciplinary artist and designer whose current practice is directly informed by 12 years as a commercial public artist, public arts facilitator and complementary professional as a senior graphic designer. Emily’s works see the convergence of realism and abstraction, using contemporary collage techniques to emulate depth within digital planes and on two-dimensional surfaces.
Emily invites viewers into her digital playground—a space of exploration that allows her to take analogue processes into a digital future. The painted elements in this artwork originate from Emily’s studio artworks, which have been fed through an artificial intelligence (AI) application programming interface (API), until no longer recognisable as her own—existing somewhere between physical reality and Web 3.0.
