Jill Chism Displaced 2023, studio view. Courtesy the artist and NorthSite Contemporary Arts.

NorthSite Contemporary Arts Season Four running from August 24 to October 12, showcases four distinctive exhibitions that explore experimental approaches to the environment, body, and materials offering opportunities to experience diverse artistic expressions from Far North Queensland. In Gallery 1 and Void, a feature exhibition and installation is Remnants, an assemblage and mixed media works by Oak Beach artist Jill Chism.

Selected existing works will be presented in dialogue with new works, contextualising Jill’s career as an artist working in Far North Queensland since the early 1990s. Rather than a dystopian view of the planet, Chism’s material investigations question our inevitable relationship with what remains of the natural world. Chism offers another, existential possibility of moving away from the cultural trance of separateness and materialism, towards an understanding of our connectedness to each other and the cosmos.