FireWorks Gallery Exhibitions | 1993 - 2020

1993 | George Street, Brisbane Political Works Campfire Group - Featuring Richard Bell, Michael Eather & Marshall Bell 6 May Firebrand Group Exhibition Rebels without a Course David Paulson & his Rebel Art Students 22 Aug - 8 Sept Political Bedrooms Group Exhibition - Installation works 22 Sept - 15 Oct

1994 | George Street, Brisbane Political Boats Group Exhibition - Installation work & mixed media 18 Mar - 9 Apr Cultural Debris Laurie Graham & David Darby Apr Utopia Artists - Featuring , Sue Elliot & Christopher Dialogue 29 Apr - 17 May Hodges Tiddas Buddas - Works on Paper North Queensland Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Artists Jun Indigenous Sculpture and Mixed media North Queensland Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Artists Jul Lajamanu - Desert Paintings Group Exhibition Photographs Robert Mercer 22 Jul - 6 Aug Paintings Ruby Abbott Napangardi South West Queensland Stories Featuring Robert White & Joanne Currie Nalingu Aug That's women all over Group Exhibition - Curated by Joyce Watson Sept Prints and Weavings from the Torres Group Exhibition Sept Strait Islands 24 Hours by the Billabong Lin Onus Oct Paintings & Sculptures Laurie Nilsen Paintings Rod Moss Nov Indigenous Prisoners Exhibition Group Exhibition Dec Group Exhibition (touring) - Featuring Ian Burn, , Kim A Different View 9 Dec - 1 Jan 1995 Mahood & Joanne Currie Nalingu

1995 | Ann Street, Fortitude Valley Timeless Land Vincent Serico Jun Dwelling in Arrente Country Rod Moss Jul Group Shows & Residencies Featuring Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Aug - Sept Boo-Meringue QUT Student Graduate Exhibiton Oct

1996 | Ann Street, Fortitude Valley Fire-Works On-Paper Group Exhibition 28 Mar - 21 Apr Saltwater, Freshwater, Borewater Group Exhibition (touring) May Barbed Wire Boundaries Laurie Nilsen 7 Jun - 7 Jul Elephants in the Dark John Armstrong Long Time Ago Lots of Women Around Ti Tree Artists Creek 12 Jul - 4 Aug Pushing up-river Rod Moss Still Eating Paris and New Work Phil Gordon 9 Aug - 4 Sept New Works Maningrida 1988 - Photographs Robert Mercer 8 Nov - 1 Dec A Fruitful Season - Paintings Black Humour (Fish 'N' Chips) Group Exhibition (touring) - Featuring Campfire Group Dec - Feb 1997

1997 | Ann Street, Fortitude Valley OCHRES Featuring Rick Roser & Rover Thomas 27 Mar - 15 Apr My Fathers Dreaming Ruby Abbott Napangardi Perpetual Motion Group Exhibition (touring) 15 May - 1 Jun Classic Collection - Desert Paintings Group Exhibition Jun Mt. Singleton Stories Michael Nelson Jagamara Form and Substance 2 Christopher Hodges Aug Brisbane VS Essendon Group Exhibition with Alcaston Gallery Melbourne Twelve Drawings David Whyte Oct Emily Kame Kngwarreye & Utopia Works Emily Kame Kngwarreye & Utopia Artists Dec

1998 | Ann Street, Fortitude Valley Fire-Works On-Paper Group Exhibition 22 Apr - 24 May Powerful Medicine Community Group Show May - Jun Where do you come from Brother Boy? Rod Moss Jul Good Women from Mt Wedge Women Painters from Kintore Sept Travels in Country Robert Mercer & Simon Turner Selected Works Leah King-Smith Oct - Nov Hiddeness and Unhiddeness Julie Bowen Kearney Oct Water-Ways (Udungallo (Bungil Creek)) Laurie Nilsen Dec - Jan 1999 Water-Ways Joanne Currie Nalingu

1999 | Ann Street, Fortitude Valley St Valentines Lorna Fencer, Gail Cowley & Kylie Taggart Feb Good Vibrations Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Pierre Garoia & Bianca Beetson Mar Dunnage Jihad Muhammad John Armstrong Apr Tingari Cycle Walala Tjapaltjarri Group Exhibition 18 - 27 May Powerful Medicine II Group Exhibition - Papunya Women 28 May - 28 Jun City Gallery Michael Nelson Jagamara Jun Lin Onus, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Rover Thomas & Johnathan Brown Eternal Aug Kumintjara The Road to Cherbourg Vincent Serico The Ongoing Adventures of X&Ray Lin Onus, Michael Eather & Tiriki Onus Sept New Expressions Michael Nelson Jagamara The End of the World Pierre Garoia, Daniel Bogunovic & Campfire Group Nov Maningrida Group Exhibition Flipside Elton Cole Dec - Nov

2000 | Ann Street, Fortitude Valley Lines Group Exhibition Feb Saltwater - Prints & Carvings Group Exhibition - Yirrkala 14 Apr - 13 May Procreation Stories Group Exhibition May - Jun Once Upon A Time In The Centre Rod Moss Aug The River Joanne Currie Nalingu Sept - Oct New Works Barbara Reid Some Other Way Michael Nelson Jagamara & Campfire Group Dec

2001 | Ann Street, Fortitude Valley Future Classic - Soiree Group Exhibition 1 Feb - 10 Mar Tingari Cycle Walala Tjapaltjarri Mar Warmun Art Centre W.A. Group Exhibition - Warnum Artists May A Few of My Favourite Things Group Exhibition Jun Ideas of Landscape Group Exhibition 16 Aug - 15 Sept A Season of Women, A Month of Men Group Exhibition Sept Pintubi Women from Kintore Group Exhibition Sept - Oct A Few Good Men Group Exhibition Dec

2002 | Stratton Street, Newstead Lines II Group Exhibition Apr - May Mountain Devil Lizard Stories Violet Petyarre Jul Gelam Nguzu Kazi - Dugong My Son Group Exhibition - Mua island Artists 16 - 24 Aug Pink Palace Richard Bell Big Country - Small Worlds Group Exhibition 30 Aug - 21 Sept Featuring Archie Moore, Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi, Janice Peacock, Six Coats of Black Joanne Currie Nalingu, Laurie Nilsen & Bianca Beetson 27 Sept - 19 Oct Featuring Laurie Nilsen, Richard Bell, Michael Eather & Joanne Currie Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi Tribute Show Nalingu Unforseen George Tjungurrayi & Matthew Johnson 25 Oct - 23 Nov Discomfort - Relationships within Featuring Richard Bell, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Imants Tillers & Michael 29 Nov - 24 Dec Aboriginal Art Nelson Jagamara

2003 | Stratton Street, Newstead Woodstock 1 Group Exhibition 5 Feb - 4 Mar Changes Gloria Petyarre 7 - 29 Mar Woodstock 2 Group Exhibition 27 Mar - 10 Apr New Flames 1 Jenny Fraser 11 - 12 Apr Bushfire Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 11 Apr - 10 May New Flames 2 Ian Waldron 16 - 17 May Group Exhibition - Featuring Archie Moore, Trevor Nickolls, Patty Fordham People 15 May - 14 Jun Wainburranga & Rod Moss New Paintings 27 Jun - 26 Jul New Paintings Abie Loy New Flames 3 Bob Dixon & Lilly Campbell Jul Northern Lights Group Exhibition - Featuring Rover Thomas & Ian Waldron 6 - 30 Aug Minimal Fuss Featuring Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Tony Tuckson & 19 Sept - 18 Oct Paintings from Wangkatjungka Group Exhibition Oct Woodstock 3 Group Exhibition Oct - Nov New Flames 4 Andrea Fisher & Tony Albert 14 - 15 Nov What have you done lately? (to change Group Exhibition - Featuring Danie Mellor, Jenny Fraser & Walala 13 Nov - 20 Dec the situation?) Tjapaltjarri

2004 | Stratton Street, Newstead Featuring Vincent Serico, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Michael Eather, Crossing the Line - Brisbane to Belgrade Jan Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri & Daniel Bogunovic Woodstock 4 Group Exhibition Jan - Feb New Flames 5 Marcia Murrungun 27 - 28 Feb What Colour is Your Heart? Featuring Christine Bauer 27 Feb - 27 Mar Paintings from Wangkatjungka Wangkatjungka Community Group Show Yilpingi Love Magic and Ceremony Group Exhibition Jun Lines III Ian Waldron, Barbara Weir & Matthew Johnson 9 - 31 Jul Featuring Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Minnnie Pwerle Lines IV 13 Aug - Sept & Eduard Bangerl predominately white (by predominately Group Exhibition 23 Nov - 24 Dec black artists)

2005 | Stratton Street, Newstead A Backward Glance Danie Mellor 26 Feb - 24 Mar Repetition Group Exhibition - Kintore Women The Dark and The Light I Featuring David Paulson, Archie Moore & Pwerle Sisters 26 Apr - 28 May Smoke: Campfire Group and other Group Exhibition 7 Jun - 9 Jul commissioned works Featuring George (Hairbrush) Tjungurraye, Yvonne Mills-Stanley & Ian The Dark and The Light II 16 Aug - 1 Oct Waldron New Flames 6: The Reminder Archie Moore 1 Sept - 1 Oct Featuring George Ward Tjungurraye, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Lawrence The Dark and The Light III 11 Oct - 19 Nov Johnston & Rod Moss The Dark and The Light IV Featuring Jenny Fraser, Michael Nelson Jagamara & Walankur Napanjka 25 Nov - 24 Dec

2006 | Stratton Street, Newstead New Flames 7 Roy McIvor Feb Two Way: Artists and Mentors Featuring Campfire & NEWflames Artists 8 Mar - 8 Apr New Flames 8 Christine Christopherson Jul Dhuwa and Yirritja Echo Island Stone Knife Arrangements Michael Nelson Jagamara Aug - Sept Three Large Rooms Group Exhibition Homage to the Square Group Exhibition Oct - Nov Two Fields Matthew Johnson & 15 Nov -23 Dec

2007 | Stratton Street, Newstead New Flames 9 Peter Mulcahy Mar Lines + Signs Group Exhibition Mar - Apr Minutiae David Paulson Apr Voyage & Recovery Danie Mellor Some People Are Stories Vincent Serico Jul - Aug Maranoa Lines Joanne Currie Nalingu Country in Mind & Yvonne Mills-Stanley Oct - Dec

2008 | Doggett Street, Newstead Laurie Nilsen Laurie Nilsen 5 Mar - 12 Apr Symbols, Icons & Emblems Chistine Christopherson Urban Chameleon Ian Waldron Apr Intervention Rod Moss Blue: A Group Exhibition Group Exhibition 18 Jun - 2 Aug From The Studio: experimentations and Michael Nelson Jagamara 12 Aug - 27 Sept collaborations From The Air Group Exhibition - Featuring Matthew Johnson Oct

2009 | Doggett Street, Newstead Waterline Joanne Currie Nalingu May Some People Are Stories - print folio Vincent Serico Tenebrous David Paulson Jun Collectability Various Artists 23 Jul - 22 Aug Selected Paintings from Kintore & Papunya Tula Artists Kiwirrkura 3 Sept - 11 Oct Fragile Fields Yvonne Mills-Stanley Sculpture and Works on Paper Group Exhibition - Featuring David Paulson 16 Oct - Nov

2010 | Doggett Street, Newstead Trapped Laurie Nilsen Summer Storms Michael Nelson Jagamara Mar - Apr Resonance - new paintings Matthew Johnson 28 May - 3 Jul Body Lines - selected works Minnie Pwerle Blue August Group Exhibition 9 - 24 Aug On the land Ian Waldron Sept Irony Ben Somerville All is calm Joanne Currie Nalingu, Dorothy Napandgardi & Gloria Petyarre Oct Bringing Nature to the Table Sarah Mitchell Nov - Dec

2011 | Doggett Street, Newstead Eclectica I Group Exhibition 4 Mar - 21 Apr Eclectica II Group Exhibition 29 Apr - 21 May Re-reflections David Paulson 28 May - 26 Jun Eclectica III Group Exhibition 2 Jul - 6 Aug Colourfield: New Paintings Kudditji Kngwarreye 10 Nov - 24 Dec

2012 | Doggett Street, Newstead From the Bush I (Summer Berries) Featuring Josie Petrick & Zim Sculptures Jan - 31 Mar From the Bush II (Desert to Island) Featuring Dorothy Napangardi, Judy Watson Napangardi & Yessie Mosby Mar - Apr From the Bush III (Regeneration) Featuring Laurie Nilsen & Tanya Stubbles Apr - May Lightning Man Michael Nelson Jagamara 13 - 28 Jun Winter Lines Group Show 18 Jul - 18 Aug Mirror Rod Moss 6 Sept - 13 Oct Olive Pink Cheryl Kensett Selected Works Matthew Johnson 4 Oct - 10 Nov Celebrations Ian Waldron Cluster: Five Exhibitions at FireWorks Group Exhibition - Featuring Sarah Mitchell & Allison Ohlsen 22 Nov - 22 Dec Gallery

2013 | Doggett Street, Newstead Mina Mina Maranoa Joanne Currie Nalingu & Dorothy Napangardi 31 Jan - 30 Mar Firebrand I: 20th Anniversary Exhibition Michael Nelson Jagamara & Laurie Nilsen 16 Apr - 1 Jun Series Firebrand II: Into the woods Ian Waldron 4 Jun - 13 Jul Firebrand III David Paulson, Matthew Johnson & Collaborative Corner 16 Jul - 31 Aug Firebrand IV: Taking the temperature, Yvonne Mills-Stanley & Polly Ngal 3 Sept - 12 Oct Bloom! Firebrand V: Still Lives & Vandemonians, Sarah Mithchell & Ronnie Tjampitjinpa 15 Oct - 16 Nov Fire & Rain

2014 | Doggett Street, Newstead Long Hot Summer Group Exhibition 28 Jan - 1 Mar DRAWN Rod Moss 19 Mar - 19 Apr LEGENDS Featuring Lin Onus, Rover Thomas & Freddie Timms New Paintings for Brisbane Rosella Namok 1 May - 7 Jun Warlu on Fire Warlukurlangu Artists 21 Jun - 12 Jul Block Work Alick Sweet 16 Aug - 23 Sept 16 Aug - 23 Sept Earth & Sky Kudditji Kngwarreye Drawing Back David Paulson 26 Sept - 24 Oct Leaves Gloria Petyarre 26 Sept - 24 Oct Big Storm Between Two Places Michael Nelson Jagamara & Imants Tillers 1 Nov - 5 Dec Fiona Omeenyo, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Rosella Namok, Sarah Mitchell & Qld Gals Xmas Collection! 2015 Yvonne Mills-Stanley 6 Dec - 24 Dec Four Spirits from Maningrida Maningrida Arts & Culture

2015 | Doggett Street, Newstead Disappearing Olive Cheryl Kensett 14 Feb - 5 Mar Reef edgy blues Sarah Mitchell The Coming of Sigai and other stories Kei Kalak (Glen Mackie) 25 March - 25 Apr Wangarra spirits from Maningrida Serena Bronson Dorothy Napangardi, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa & Secondary Market Super Sale 9 May - 6 Jun Rover Thomas Tommy Watson Showcase Tommy Watson 8 June - 9 Jul Weather Patterns Matthew Johnson, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa & Rosella Namok 17 July - 15 Aug Captain Cook and Mother Carey's Sarah Mitchell Chickens 21 Aug - 12 Sept Rockholes and Soakages Margaret Lewis Napangardi Back on the Land Ian Waldron Seduction Suite Ian Waldron 13 Sept - 24 Oct Fun + Games = Scott Redford Target Practice Pat Hoffie Flight Yvonne Mills-Stanley 25 Oct - 28 Nov Assembly Lines Alick Sweet UP CLOSE Jo-Anne Driessens, Juno Gemes & Michael Aird 4 Dec - 27 Jan 2016

2016 | Doggett Street, Newstead Yam Wall Michael Nelson Jagamara 27 Jan - 13 Feb Miles Allen Miles Allen 26 Feb - 24 Mar Conway Ginger Conway Ginger Malu (Deep Water) Fiona Omeenyo 12 Mar - 9 Apr Digesting 50 thousand years Sarah Mitchell 11 May - 11 Jun Desert Line George Tjungurrayi (Hairbrush) Space & Place David Paulson 17 Jun - 23 Jul GET SHORTY! Shorty Jangala Robertson SECOND NATURE Group Exhibition 28 Jul - 10 Sept Service Industry Pat Hoffie 16 Sept - 22 Oct She Walks the Line I Rosella Namok, Sharonne Solk & Yvonne Mills-Stanley 3 Nov - 1 Dec Cheryl Kensett, Fiona Omeenyo, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Nathania Nangala She Walks the Line II 2 - 24 Dec Granites & Samantha Hobson Betty Milliken, David Paulson, Fiona Omeenyo, Gillie and Marc, Kudditji 10 Days at the Beach 15 Dec - 11 Jan 2017 Kngwarreye, Phil Gordon, Scott Redford & Yvonne Mills-Stanley Summer Stockroom Specials Various Artists 22 Dec - 15 Feb 2017

2017 | Doggett Street, Newstead Dorothy Napangardi, Fiona Omeenyo, George Tjungurrayi (Hairbrush), Ian Along the Lines Waldron, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Ronnie 1 Feb - 4 Mar Tjampitjinpa, Rosella Namok & Yvonne Mills-Stanley Weather Patterns II Matthew Johnson, Michael Nelson Jagamara & Rosella Namok 9 Mar - 13 Apr A SWEEP: Old & New Works Group Exhibition 21 Apr - 27 May A SWEEP continues Group Exhibition 2 Jun - 8 Jul The Gulf Ian Waldron 14 Jul - 19 Aug Mirrors Rod Moss 25 Aug - 30 Sept The Reef & Other Stories Samantha Hobson Metafisica Michael Nelson Jagamara & Imants Tillers 6 Oct - 5 Dec my faith don't mean a thing Pat Hoffie 6 Oct - 11 Nov In context Joanne Currie Nalingu, Paul Bong whiteNOT Jennifer Herd 17 Nov - 23 Dec David Paulson, Fiona Omeenyo, Ian Waldron, Joanne Currie Nalingu, 60 X√30 Rosella Namok, Samantha Hobson, Scott Redford & Yvonne Mills-Stanley Synonyms for Beauty Helen McIntosh 2 Dec - 10 Feb 2018 Summer Stocktake 2017 Various Artists 8 Dec - 10 Feb 2018

2018 | Doggett Street, Newstead Nature's Way Rosella Namok Violet Indigo Moss Series II Sharonne Solk 16 Feb - 17 Mar Guardians of the Secret 1999-2017 Lyell Bary The Flower Show Anthony Lister 23 Mar - 5 May The Call from Papunya Michael Nelson Jagamara & Imants Tillers 10 May - 16 Jun Anniversary Group Show I: Country George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Rod Moss & Yvonne 23 Jun - 4 Aug Lines Mills Stanley

2018 | Thompson Street, Bowen Hills WELCOME TO THOMPSON ST! Laurie Nilsen, Rosella Namok, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa & Tommy Watson 21 Aug - 15 Sept Alick Sweet, Fiona Omeenyo, Glen Mackie, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Kudditji WELCOME TO THOMPSON ST two! 19 Sept - 4 Nov Kngwarreye, & Yvonne Mills-Stanley Punch the Clock Anthony Lister, Jennifer Herd, Pat Hoffie, Paul Bong & Vincent Serico 10 Nov - 22 Dec Fiona Omeenyo, Ian Waldron, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Michael Nelson Small Mercies Jagamara, Miles Allen, Scott Redford, Warlukurlangu artists & Yvonne Mills- 30 Nov - 2 Feb 2019 Stanley

2019 | Thompson Street, Bowen Hills Matches 1: little mysteries David Paulson 7 Feb - 23 Mar Matches 1: Reef/Life Samantha Hobson Matches 2: Ancestor Spirits at Double Fiona Omeenyo Stone 29 Mar - 4 May Matches 2: Under the Sun Itamar Freed Matches 2: Crossing the Great Divide Rod Moss David Paulson, Fiona Omeenyo, Ian Waldron, Itimar Freed, Joanne Currie 30 Apr 2019 - Perfect for the boardroom Nalingu, Rosella Namok, Samantha Hobson & Yvonne Mills-Stanley 30 Apr 2020 Matches 3: THE KELLY SERIES MINUS FIVE Anthony Lister (as part of Museum of Brisbane's, Brisbane Art & Design [BAD] festival) 9 May - 15 Jun Matches 3: ARTCASTS (as part of Museum of Brisbane's, Brisbane Art & Scott Redford Design [BAD] festival) Matches 4: Floating cities Merryn Trevethan 21 Jun - 27 Jul Matches : Sandscribe Rosella Namok Matches 5: Nirdakiy (Middle Creek) Ian Waldon 2 Aug - 7 Sept Matches 5: Matthew Johnson Matthew Johnson Group Exhibition - Featuring Barbara Weir, Ian Bettinson, Jack Britten, Lilly Matches 6: Three Clusters 12 Sept - 19 Oct Kelly Napangardi, Minnie Pwerle, Tony Tuckson & Yvonne Mills-Stanley Matches 7: A Shared Space Michael Nelson Jagamara collaborations 24 Oct - 30 Nov Group Exhibition - Featuring Dorothy Napangardi, Evelyn McGreen, Helen Matches 8: Woven Tyalmuty McCarthy, Maningrida Arts & Culture, Miles Allen, Paul Bong & 7 Dec - Feb 2020 Regina Wilson Matches 8: From the hill Yvonne Mills-Stanley

2020 | Thompson Street, Bowen Hills Laurie Nilsen - One Day at a Time Laurie Nilsen Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi (PCT) Tribute 14 Feb - 21 Mar Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi Collection Alick Sweet, David Paulson, Dean Rusling, Glen Mackie, Juno Gemes, From the Sea Michael Eather, Phil Gordon, Sally Gabori & Samantha Hobson Abie Loy Kemarre, Dorothy Napangardi, Gloria Petyarre, Judy Watson 26 Mar - 2 May Napangardi, Kathleen Ngale, Maggie Watson Napangardi, Minnie Pwerle, From the Desert Mitjili Napurrula, Ningura Naparrula, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa, Poly Ngal, Tommy Watson, Violet Petyarre, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, & Yinarupa Nangala