Overview, Images
Tiana Jefferies, Ground State (Schwül) (detail), 2024. Installation view, The road to hell is paved with good intentions, CARPARK Gallery 2024. Photo by Carl Warner.

Hell is full of good meanings but heaven is full of good works

Amy-Jean Mitchell, Dean Ansell, Eric Della Bosca, Stefa Panoschi, Tiana Jefferies

30 Jan–1 Mar 2025

Hell is full of good meanings but heaven is full of good works is an alternate proverb to The road to hell is paved with good intentions, both referencing the necessity for not only having or speaking positive intentions but enacting them. This exhibition is a continuation of the presentation The road to hell is paved with good intentions, a group exhibition shown at Carpark Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane in August of 2024. While the original exhibition highlighted more the inevitability of the promise of eternal damnation despite the best of intentions, Hell is full of good meanings but heaven is full of good works rather aims to discover and aim towards a sense of freedom and utopia outside of the restrictions of a prevalent narrative, found through the perseverance and ingenuity of f*gs (...and associates).


There are two key iterative works in this exhibition by Dean Ansell, and Tiana Jefferies. These works create a thread that connects the varying localities of thinking, making and showing. Eric Della Bosca, Stefa Panoschi & Amy-Jean Mitchell further the investigations into queer extensions of yearning, empathy, desperation for connection and divinity through creating immersive installations, sculptures and paintings - allowing a suspension into a heaven that is full of good works.

Onsite, Exhibition
Overview

Hell is full of good meanings but heaven is full of good works investigates queer extensions of yearning, empathy, desperation for connection and divinity through creating immersive installations, sculptures and paintings - allowing a suspension into a heaven that is full of good works.

Exhibition Opening: 30 Jan 2025, 7am–9am

This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.

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Working on unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Blindside pays respect to Elders, past, present and emerging.


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Working on unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Blindside pays respect to Elders, past, present and emerging.