Showcasing an incredible array of the diverse migrant stories that make up this city we call home, Departure by Christine Ko and Louis Lim has welcomed visitors to Museum of Brisbane since February 2024.
This November we invite you dive deeper into the artists’ practice, and unpack the complex themes of community in this intimate in-conversation led by artist and curator Pat Hoffie.
Join Pat, Christine, Louis and some of the participants of the Departure project as they share their stories and engage in a dynamic discourse on immigration and belonging.
All stories and experiences welcome.
MoB’s Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC.
Christine Ko is a Brisbane-based visual artist working with installation and photomedia to explore marginality, hybridity and spaces characterised by the ‘in-between’. Drawing from her personal experience as a Chinese-Australian, she examines feelings of ambivalence—between hopes, dreams, invisibility and shame, through the lens of the contemporary Chinese-Australian migrant experience.
Louis Lim is an Australian-based photographer and visual artist whose work explores the diversity in human conditions, specifically those that are under-represented in mainstream media. With a keen interest in light, his practice focuses on non-fictional visual storytelling and conceptual photographic portraits with a collaborative methodology.
Motivated by his local community, Louis has worked closely with people from migrant backgrounds and differently-abled groups within the creative arts sector. He currently works as a freelance photographer and together with Christine, runs a fine art printing lab and creative space in Meanjin/ Brisbane’s inner south.
Pat Hoffie is a Queensland based visual artist. Trained in painting, her practice includes a range of media including installation, assemblage and sculpture. She held her first solo exhibition in Brisbane in 1974, and since then has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally.
She has engaged in visual arts residencies across the Asia-Pacific region and in Europe, and has worked collaboratively with artist communities including, and especially, those in the Philippines. She has also worked on a range of projects and exhibitions that include Australia’s changing role in the Asia-Pacific region; art and human rights; the changing nature of Country, land and place; and the effects of globalisation on local cultural production in Australia and overseas.