FireWorks Gallery Exhibitions | 1993 - 2021 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 Emily Kame Kngwarreye, 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, Albert Namatjira, 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 Gloria Petyarre Maningrida 1988 - Photographs Robert Mercer 8 Nov - 1 Dec A Fruitful Season - Paintings Barbara Weir 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 Papunya 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 Papunya Tula 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 Kathleen Petyarre 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 & Minnie Pwerle 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 & Kudditji Kngwarreye 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 Dorothy Napangardi & 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 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