West Space – Offsite

West Space Offsite is a digital platform for publishing artist-led content and writing that supports and extends our exhibition program.

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Some large leafy palms in foregrounding an old heritage manner. potentially the front of the house, it has 3 rounded gate ways and is one story. The colour of the building is murky and worn.

Amelia Winata, Phuong Ngo: Inheritance
2025

Two figures are in discussion holding microphones at the front of the artists' exhibition window display. The window is exhibiting a screen with text installed on a large black vertical pole. They are both smiling and in dialogue assumably about the work. In front of them is an open blanket-like cloth holding a chopping board covered in a specific plant-like matter or material.

Ronen Jafari, Unpacking Power in Family Dynamics with Alyssa Powell-Ascura
2025

A photograph of a young girl holding a soft toy standing on a green couch in a living room.

Sadaf Zekaria, The job you never applied for and can't escape
2025

Gabriela Renee, The place I do not know is the place I am looking for
2025

A black and white photo of Aasma Tulika sitting on a chance with sound equipment for her performance.

Recompositions
2025

The back of some people sitting on the chairs looking at two people with ladder in front of a wall painted with human shapes.

Emily Hubbard and Elyssia Bugg, On Keith Haring, Public Art and Influence
2025

Images of an industrial ceiling, split into two parts in a single portrait image.

Gail Priest and Joy Zhou, Underheard: sharing listening
2024

Melissa Ratliff, Tongue becomes hand becomes world: Akil Ahamat’s storytelling in the dark
2024

Akil Ahamat, Sarah Rodigari and Sebastian Henry-Jones, A conversation about Extinguishing Hope
2024

Seven people weaving in a dimly lit room around a green table. Two standing and five sitting with a basket and four candles on the table.

Lorna Munro, ARKAN & IRBELA: A Blak Matriarchal Lens
2024

Two people sitting on chairs with a table in-between holding glasses of water, one person speaking into microphone. Maroon abstract painting displayed on the wall behind them and yellow cushions in front of them on the wood floor.

Gabi Briggs and Julie Gough, ARKAN & IRBELA Conversation
2024

Sebastian Henry-Jones, Gabi Briggs: ARKAN & IRBELA
2024

A film still from Basim Magdy's film 'FEARDEATHLOVEDEATH'. A close up shot of an eye with the reflection of a face within the iris. The whole image is cast in red colour.

Joanna Kitto, On storytelling and subversion
2024

A large projection of a figure standing from the waist up. The film is in Black and White

wani toaishara, a most beautiful experiment
2024

A close up detail of a relief print of a dress made of muslin fabric. There are loose threads that are visible.

Elijah Money, Unravelling Rivals
2024

A close up detail of an artwork by Lhotse Collins. The artwork is a slab of unfired wild clay with two swirling lines that has been sculpted into the circular tablet of clay

Lily-rose Pouget, Concrete Womb: Re-imagining Urban Water
2024

A hot pink / purple ven-diagram-like image of two overlapping female figures and faces. One of the images in the second circle frame is turned to appear upside down.

Annabel Brown, Today I am alive, and without nostalgia the night flows
2024

An elongated landscape image comprising of digital images - cropped and placed in an amplitude-like sequence in different scales. There is one same recurring bald figure in different settings per image.

Sebastian Henry-Jones, A popular game for the people
2024

A crafted blue and white plate on the ground.

Chris Ng, Where you from?
2023

A deep yellow and red close up of a work, with subject matter comprising of 3 camels, a human figure and lizards and snakes.

Ender Başkan, Optimal Listening
2023

A photograph of Nahid, HOSSEI's mother. She is looking up towards the skys, lighting fills the background of the image.

Sebastian Henry-Jones, HOSSEI: THUNDERBLOOM
2023

People watching videos displaying on three screens in the dark.

Rachelle Koumouris, THE SOUND OF HONEY
2023

Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse, The Waltz of the Yabby
2023

Channon Goodwin, Run to Paradise: West Space as a Micro-Utopia
2023

An install shot, the focal work being a large black and white suspended material comprising of 2 large triangles on the left and right. Below the work there are around 30 large scattered leaves on the floor. Around it are other smaller less-focal works including a white table in the backdrop, another suspended work - smaller with chains - and some framed wall pieces.

Sebastian Henry-Jones, On the importance of breaking rules
2023

Two figures sitting down in a panel discussion, on green stools. Behind them is a large projection with some diagramatic images of packaging and cutlery settings. One male-appearing figure has their hand in the air gesturing as they speak into a microphone. The other has amore mellow expression with their legs crossed in thought.

Unison Symposium
2023

Ahmet Öğüt, The Anti-Shock Doctrine
2023

Zhanna Kadyrova, Russian Rocket
2023

Noor Abuarafeh, Only the Earth Doesn't Tell its Secrets
2023

Ateş Alpar, What We Carry
2023

Grace Culley, Studio visit
2023

Grace Culley and Sebastian Henry-Jones, Surprised face; Heart eyes
2023

Amelia Wallin, One Thing After Another
2023

People eating in a circle on the grass.

Olga Svyatova, Они/They
2023

Sebastian Henry-Jones, Speaking two things at once
2022

Sebastian Henry-Jones, Nói hai điều cùng một lúc
2022

Two individuals sit on fold out chairs. One is sitting crossed-legged speaking into a microphone with a hand out gesturing while speaking. A TV is seen to the far left of him. The other individual sits on the right, intensely listening, with a speaker directly next him. We see the blurred figure of a person in the peripheral listening.

Hoang Tran Nguyen and Sebastian Henry-Jones, House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue Conversation
2022

Victoria Pham and Joel Sherwood Spring, TERRA: Memory & Soil
2022

Casey Carsel, To Build A Home
2022

Sarita Gálvez, Strings of Sustenance: Feeling/sensing/spinning weeds
2022

A front on, black and white drawing of a bird, possibly a magpie, against a white background.

Anna Louise Richardson, Augury – The diary of birds – Part 1
2022

Anna Louise Richardson, Theia Connell and Rebecca Dagnall, Augury – The diary of birds – Part 2
2022

Anna Emina El Samad , Inherited Memory
2022

Two people sitting and speaking to the microphone.

Tarik Ahlip, Lara Chamas and Samira Farah, Paradise, Beauty and Violence
2022

Leila el Rayes, Introduction to Casual-Paradise
2022

Sofiyah Ruqayah, green poem
2022

Shareeka Helaluddin, It is only through dreaming I have found the divine
2022

Hana Pera Aoake, Imagination and other spaces
2022

Tabitha Prado Richardson, vibration/body/heart

Sebastian Henry-Jones, Introduction to Favourable Conditions

A person with a blue outfit standing in front of some furnitures and decors.

Jane Polkinghorne, The Year of Denim
2022

A cream and blue building with windows, doors, and the sign "BRISBANE BIKE WRECKERS".

Sarah Poulgrain, Wreckers Walkthrough
2022

Aunty Barbara McGrady, Bodies in Motion

Cakes by Hoogy, Bake-down Breakdown
2022

Seelan Palay, The New World Awaits, Those With Stendhal Syndrome (An Artist’s Statement)
2022

Arben Dzika, Freed From Desire
2022

to listen, not to preserve
2022

Rosemary Forde, The Paradox of Paradise
2022

Sebastian Henry-Jones, How do we find each other in the dark?*
2022

Isabella Hone-Saunders, And Seb started thinking about the birds
2022

Tahmina Maskinyar and Talia Smith, Introduction to A border can have no boundaries
2022

Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, day end in dark blue
2022

Bahar Sayed, dogs and light
2022

A world map titled 'Age of Enlightenment'.

Megan Cope, Age of Entitlement
2022

A person sitting in front of the window on the left screen and a shadow on the right screen.

Samia Sayed, Last dance with you, Samia
2022

The Region: Dialogues on the power and precarity of artist self-organisation in the Asia-Pacific
2022

Sophia Cai, #CASUALFAN, an Introduction to Sincerely Yours
2022

Jinghua Qian, One Night Snatch, or Brother Wang’s guide to eating out in Tashkent
2022

Natasha Hertanto, Best of Me

Diego Ramirez, What do you like about vampires?
2022

Sunanda Sachatrakul, Honolulu, 2002
2022

Jessyca Hutchens, Introduction to The Mulka Project
2021

A handful of quandongs.

Maya Hodge and Jenna Rain Warwick, (story) Loading… a thread between sisters
2021

Elijah Money, Let’s go Home Together
2021

Bernadette Hardy, Balawaa (no one is left behind)

Nicole Reilly, Documenting
2021

Alice Skye, Am I allowed to say your name?
2021

Alistair Ott, This body that holds me,

Taneshia Atkinson, return to wala
2021

Brianna McCarthy, Sand Dreams
2021

Maile Bowen, Kuleana
2021

Tais Rose Wae, Other Words for Love
2021

Mykaela Saunders, Warm Possibilities
2021

Four people doing sign language at their own space.

Work in Progress, Work in Lockdown
2021

J and Harriet Jones, 1 : 1 : infinity issue 5: empty chairs sit between us
2021

Holly Craig, Benjamin Hancock and Janice Florence, Imprints on the Unseeable Space
2021

Amelia Wallin, On dust, touch, erosion, translation, circulation, intermingling, entanglements
2021

Carmen Papalia, Open Access: Accessibility As Temporary, Collectively-Held Space, 2020
2021

Lizzie Boon and Jennifer Justice, Scores
2021

Janaleen Wolfe and Katie West, Scores

Fayen d'Evie and Harriet Jones, 1 : 1 : ♾
2021

Holly Craig and Georgina Kleege, Scores
2021

To Catch a Thing in Flight
2021

Language already in the air…
2021

Amelia Wallin and Arini Byng, Artist Walks
2020

Andy Butler and Nat Thomas, Artist Walks
2020

Amelia Wallin and Abbra Kotlarczyk, Artist Walks
2020

Atong Atem and Lucreccia Quintanilla, On Merri Creek
2021

Tamsen Hopkinson, The act of listening: Introduction to Performing the Archive
2020

Phil Dadson, Between Worlds
2020

Phil Dadson, 10 Sound Stories
1975-2020

Huni Mancini, We Carry Their Voices
2020

Lucreccia Quintanilla, Call
2020

David Chesworth, Indexing the Cylinder
2020

Andy Butler, Introduction to Points of Connection
2020

Nikki Lam , 03:20
2020

Camila Galaz, STUDIO VLOG
2020

James Nguyen, Porniniso
2020

Jazz Money, through the moon
2020

Rafaela Pandolfini, Introduction to Myths & Facts
2021

Samuel Karmel, Myths & Facts Mix
2021

The billboard is positioned in a country setting with blue a sky, long grass

Jazz Money, Myths & Facts Mix
2021

Zakia Sewell, Myths & Facts Mix
2021

EN. V, Myths & Facts Mix
2021

Myths & Facts Mix
2021

Jeanette Little, Myths & Facts Mix
2021

Improvements & Reproductions
2020

Tender Machine / Nothing to Time
2019 - 2020

Rafaella McDonald, Untitled 1
2020

Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Narrbong
2020

MeowTV (Carmen-Sibha Keiso with Meow), MeowTV Episode
2018-2019

Spencer Lai, Moral inventory
2020

William Yang, The Party After the Mardi Gras, R.H.I Showground
2020

William Yang, Erwin Olaf Opening
2020

Josey Kidd-Crowe, Debt Forgiveness
2020

Isadora Vaughan , Resus
2020

Katie West, calico dyed with wandoo bark
2020

Mark Smith, Improvable
2019

An artwork made with repurposed bed sheets, dyed fabric, LED candles, and shoe keyrings.

Rafaella McDonald, How ___ relates to a pair of pants, I’m not sure
2020

Georgia Robenstone, Power Without Glory
2020

Reparation Hardware
2018

3 figures in conversation, two of them withe side profiles and one gesturing their hands. The middle figure facing forward smiles, listening. Behind and around them are faint outlines of artworks on walls.

Professionalising Practice & The Cultural Landscape
2019