Queensland artists Vesna Klačar-Nedimović, Donna McDonald, Jennifer Brasher, Georgi and Anna Gonzalez explore cultural, environmental and social issues through visual art. The Five Show: Queensland Artists Thinking is on at the Artist’s Walk, Logan West Library Gallery from until Saturday April 30.

About the Artists:

Klačar-Nedimović
Vesna Klačar-Nedimović is a contemporary visual artist who graduated from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2010, with a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Interdisciplinary Print Media, specialising in Art Theory and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. Klačar-Nedimović has received the Griffith Award for Academic Excellence (2008) and was recognised nationally as a finalist in the Port Jackson Press Australia Graduate Printmaking Award (2011), the Print Council of Australia Print Commission (2013), the Burnie Print Prize (2015) and the Rick Amor Print Prize (2015). Vesna is inspired by environmental and cultural issues.

Brasher
Rhythm/colour/dance inspire her art at Kangaroo Point. In the eighties, she was awarded a Caltex Art Fellowship by Bea Maddock as a post-graduate, Victorian College of Arts, she won the National Gallery of Victoria’s Trustees Acquisition Prize. Brashers career spans art shows locally and in Melbourne, design (ballet sets, cafe designs), education, 22 yrs as image librarian (QCA – Griffith Uni).

McDonald
Donna McDonald is Senior Research Fellow with the Menzies Institute at Griffith University. Her rehabilitation and disability research areas include contemporary influence of visual arts narratives of people with disability. She works with her own drawings, and examines the work of other visual artists to find fresh ways of understanding entrenched dilemmas.

Georgi
After South Australian School of Art , Georgi was selected for post-graduate studies at Victorian College of the Arts, on Lyndsay Clarke Scholarship and Maude-Fleay Bursary, to go on to a Masters degree at the College of Fine Art, Sydney, NSW. She has been included in artist in residencies, arts grants, group shows at Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Heide Park Art Gallery, Melbourne. She has been working for many years as an artist in Brisbane, QLD.

Gonzalez
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Gonzalez explores the diversity of two cultures and is a PhD candidate Griffith University. Queensland College of Art. As a visual storyteller her seminal characteristic is humour. Expanding her art for more than thirty years, she comments on personal experience of historical and political upheavals. She is represented by Bosz Gallery, Brisbane.