OUTSTANDING – OPEN STUDIO
Brisbane City Council’s Indigenous Art Program 2022, OUTstanding, presents Open Studio with Dylan Mooney and Tori-Jay magnum test r 200 Mordey.
Open Studio events give audiences a behind-the-scenes look at creative spaces across Brisbane. Join us for a cuppa and a yarn as we show you around their studio and discuss what drives their creativity and inspires their practice.
From 7 May to 7 August 2022, explore the OUTstanding exhibition throughout Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery. For more information and to book tickets visit www.brisbane.qld.gov.au and search ‘Indigenous Art Program’.
Tori-Jay Mordey – Visual Artist
Tori-Jay Mordey is an established Indigenous Australian illustrator and artist based in Brisbane. Growing up she openly shared both her Torres Strait Islander and English heritage, which is often reflected in her contemporary Indigenous art practice – producing work based around her family and siblings as a way of understanding herself, her appearance and racial identity. Tori-Jay also produces a lot of illustrative work that conceptually explore deeper human emotions – these works are often drawn as longingly expressive, exaggerated cartoon characters. Over the years Tori-Jay has hone her skills in digital illustration, drawing, painting, printmaking and film while also expanding her skills as a mural artist.
Dylan Mooney – Visual Artist
Dylan Mooney is a proud Yuwi, Torres Strait and South Sea Islander man from Mackay in North Queensland working across painting, printmaking, digital illustration, and drawing. Influenced by history, culture and family, Mooney responds to community stories, current affairs, and social media. Armed with a rich cultural upbringing, Mooney now translates the knowledge and stories passed down to him, through art. Legally blind, the digital medium’s backlit display allows the artist to produce a high-impact illustrative style with bright, saturated colour that reflects his experiences with keen political energy and insight.
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