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Art Exhibition - Our Landlord, The Ocean: LEWIS

Obsidian Bide: Art Gallery and Studio

Our Landlord, The Ocean is a site-specific installation by LEWIS. Created for Obsidian Bide: Art Gallery and Studio and the Bribie Island Nature Festival, Our Landlord, The Ocean transforms the gallery into a grotto: a constructed sanctuary assembled from found, repurposed, natural and industrial materials gathered during residency on Yarun / Bribie Island. The grotto, geological and handmade, a space carved by water and a ramshackle shrine built from whatever the landscape offers. It opens an unexpected conversation with Bribie's artistic history and Ian Fairweather, who lived and worked in improvised shelters made from bark, timber and salvaged materials in the island's dunes. This is a new connection, not a tribute or imitation. Beneath the shelter sits a harder proposition. The work responds to housing precarity and rewrites the Australian Dream: security is not found in title deeds, but in knowing and tending a place. On an island where shorelines are shifting and the sea is already redrawing the edge of habitation, the ocean becomes more than scenery. It is the landlord arriving to collect. Part shelter, part shrine, the installation is deliberately wild and impermanent. Nothing pretends to last forever, everything is borrowed. Yet the grotto remains a place for wonderment, repair and the possibility that belonging might mean something other than ownership.
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An alter or shrine
When
07 October, 2026
Venue
Obsidian Bide: Art Gallery and Studio
Contact
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Location and Directions9 Toorbul Street Shop 9 Bongaree Queensland 4507 Australia
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Product Types
  • Exhibition and Shows
Accessibility
  • Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
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  • Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
Dates
  • Wednesday 07 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 08 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 09 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 10 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 11 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Monday 12 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 13 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 14 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 15 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 16 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 17 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 18 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Monday 19 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 20 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 21 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 22 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 23 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 24 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 25 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Monday 26 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 27 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 28 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Thursday 29 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Friday 30 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Saturday 31 October, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Sunday 01 November, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Monday 02 November, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Tuesday 03 November, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event
  • Wednesday 04 November, 202610:00 - 14:00Confirmed Event

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