
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.






















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.
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.
Amy-Jean Mitchell (b. 1999, she/her) is a visual artist based in Meanjin, Australia. Completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at QUT in 2020 she has exhibited in group shows and creative residencies. In May/June 2023 she completed her first residency at PADA studios in Barreiro, Portugal, where she recently revisited for four weeks in September 2024. Amy-Jean works mostly with paint, pencil, paper and canvas, but also explores sculpture, poetry and sound. Her compositions move between and combine abstract and figurative styles of painting and drawing and are often embedded with glimpses of landscapes, photographs and sketched memories. Connection to place and people are central to her work, as well as a respect for and exploration of materials and the medium.
Dean Ansell (b. 1997, he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist of Melanesian (Rigorabana, Balawaia, Papua Niugini), Maltese, and Anglo-Celtic descent living and practicing in Meanjin. His practice connects his cultural heritage to material processes that harness his body and the environment. Spanning installation, soundscape, and embodied performance, Ansell stages ritualistic site-responsive mediations that draw attention to natural systems of transformation. Poetically correlating these universal material changes with his personal experiences of cultural displacement, Ansell’s work is an expression of the complexities of his Melanesian diasporic experience.
Eric Della Bosca (b. 1998, he/him) is an emerging artist based in Naarm with an interdisciplinary practice that spans primarily sculpture, installation, and painting. Their practice focuses on embodying queer sensibilities into Formalist approaches to art making. The raw substance and Formalist qualities of the work are redefined as expressions of delicacy; carrying a palpable fragility. Eric’s practice also engages in relational aesthetics through creative event production. Eric is a co-founder of Carne, an arts/party collective that uses the party as a medium to challenge traditional modes of art presentation.
Stefa Panoschi (b. 2000, she/her) is an emerging artist working in Naarm/Melbourne. Stefa has spent the last few years queering the limits of cultural identity, religious nationalism and home. Sșș is interested in the conflicts/contradictions and problematics of an “ east-west” life. Stefa works from a personal and familial history.
Tiana Jefferies (b. 1996, she/her) is a Berlin-based spatial artist working predominantly in sculpture and installation. Engaging with the smutty and the sublime, her practice is driven by the entangled relationships between people, architecture and climate. Jefferies holds a Bachelor of Fine Art, during which she participated in a study exchange at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2021, she completed a Master of Philosophy at the Queensland University of Technology, receiving the Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize for Experimental Practice. In 2023, she completed a three-month residency at GlogauAIR, Berlin. Since then she has remained in Berlin, exhibiting with Ventana Projects and preparing for future residencies.
Kyle McIntyre (b. 1997, he/him) is a curator and arts administrator based across Naarm/Melbourne and Meanjin/Brisbane. Currently he works as the Exhibitions Manager at the ARI Bus Projects and in artist/studio administration for artists D Harding and Sancintya Mohini Simpson. He is a freelance curator whose practice focuses on queer entanglements with empathy and nihilism.











