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Brisbane Gone Sideways

With a fantastically heady combination of urban adventures in a remarkable metropolis, and a wide variety of stunning natural landscape escapes, Brisbane is a gorgeous destination for world travelers.  Australia has a charm that is at turns elegant and rough, but always delightful, and in Brisbane it is exceptionally honed.  There are many splendid attractions here that will appeal to visitors of all ages, and can vary as widely as the magnificence of the Great Barrier Reef, to one of the world’s finest music scenes.  You can find everything here, including a very rich selection of five star Brisbane hotels.  Our selection offers some of the best and most sumptuous in decor and hospitality.

Design and style and very acute here, and it’s an excellent place to shop for the latest designs, and also to people watch, and explore the current trends.  There is a certain heartbeat that is very contagious, and it’s always shifting, too, making it a brilliant place to have a new adventure.  If you’re looking for some interesting new local art, watch out for the works of Sue Beyer.  With disparate interests, like urban design and roller derby, this emerging artist is pushing some boundaries in her elegant and vibrant work.

She works in a variety of mediums, like phosphorescent pigments, ink, acrylic and oil.  Her images are often suburban landscapes, where there is a sensible graphic design element that represents the static structures of contemporary life, interrupted or written over with other, livelier lines that suggest chaos and a serious loss of control.  It’s a great combination, and very effective.  Some of Beyer’s other works, are formally cohesive, and play with different ways of putting together images through experiment with texture and shape, to make a steady and pleasing surface that holds something quite potent back in its jaws.  Her interrogations of permanence in contemporary urban culture are fascinating, and her next incarnation will be equally illuminating in painting or recording a Brisbane gone sideways.

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