About
Jordan Azcune is an artist and maker based in Meanjin/Brisbane who is driven by materials and their processes. Fascinated with colour, optics, and spiritual connection, his artwork relates to the natural world, the body, and architecture. He is captivated by natural bee’s wax and its connection to heat, its elemental state of being both liquid, and solid. Azcune mines wax to find the limits of its potential, expanding its possibilities through colour, treatment, and processes. The outcomes of these experiments navigate the fields of mathematics, fantasy, and chance, and are paired with metals to present camp offerings that captivate and intrigue.
In 2016 Azcune completed Honours in Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology. He has since exhibited in solo and group exhibitions locally and nationally. Recent exhibitions include Heat at Redcliffe Art Gallery, Brisbane 2022 (curated by Hannah Williamson), Devil’s Ivy at Metro Arts, Brisbane 2021 (curated by Sarah Thompson), Post-Christian Camp at Seventh Art Gallery, Melbourne 2021 and N.Smith Gallery, Sydney 2021 (curated by Michaela Bear). He has been the recipient of a range of grants including Australia Council for the Arts ArtsProjects and Individuals and Groups Grant (2018, 2022), the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship(2020), Arts Qld Individual Fund (2018, 2020) and has been a finalist in a range of national prize opportunities. His work is held in national and international public and private collections. He has completed research and material based residencies in Australia, United States of America, and India.
Solo Exhibitions
Green sky, orange clouds, purple rain, Redlands Art Gallery, Cleveland 25th June - 13th August 2023
Treading on the heights of Earth like smoke, N.Smith Gallery, Sydney 2nd-28th July 2022
Post-Christian-Camp, N.Smith Gallery, Sydney 1st - 30th September 2021
Post-Christian-Camp, Curated by Michaela Bear at Seventh Gallery, Melbourne 7 July - 30 July 2021
Naughty Crosses, Wreckers Art Space, Brisbane 27 March - 10 April 2021
Other Offering, Produced by Jenna Green, Metro Arts and TAP Brisbane City Council 1st and 2nd of November 2020
Fishers of Men, COMA Sydney 5th February - 1 March 2020
MIAMI/MIAMI (Hot Stuff) THE WALLS, Gold Coast 7th November - 23rd November 2019
A Modest Creation About Ambition, HASSELL Architects Brisbane studio 14th March - 28th March 2019
Open Studio, THE WALLS 20th January 2019
Raw Prawn, Cut Thumb ARI 29th January 2016
Group Exhibitions
Material Culture - In a Material World. With Jessica Dorizac and Miguel AquOuter Space Gallery Brisbane 19th May - June 25th 2023
Things I want to say. The Condensery | Somerset Regional Gallery Toogoolawah 6th May -16th July 2023
Tondi ( ) Tondo. KEPK Gallery, Brisbane 25th February - 4th March 2023
Heat. Redcliffe Art Gallery 9th December 2022 - 18th February 2023 Curated by Hannah Williamson
Devils Ivy. Metro Arts 7th -27th of May 2022 Curated by Sarah Thomson
Come as you are. Brisbane Institute of Art 24th September - 8th October 2021
Still: National Still Life Award 2021, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery 14th August - 16th November 2021
Welcome, inaugural exhibition at N.Smith Gallery, Sydney 3rd-6th June 2021
Considering the Environment in Practice, with Five Mile Radius, People+Artist+Place, Kirralee Robinson, Jordan Azcune, Brisbane Art and Design, BAD Festival 2021 27th -30th May 2021
Diamonds in the Sky, Courtney Coombs and Jordan Azcune, Schmick Contemporary, Sydney 6th -24th March 2021
The 66th Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney 13th February - 11th April 2021
Sunny Side Up, Giffin Lane, Brisbane CBD, Holt Thomson Projects, Brisbane City Council Outdoor Gallery Exhibition 1st December 2020 - 31st March 2021
Virtually Live, Plexus Gallery 21st August -17th September 2020
Sideways (After 42 Minutes), Side Gallery, Brisbane 11th June -July 12th 2020
Siri, play Untouched by the Veronicas, Deep Impact Gallery 5th April 2020
right/NOW, Onespace Gallery, Brisbane 7th February - 14th March 2020
Elements, Home of the Arts (HOTA) Curated by THE WALLS, Gold Coast 29th November - 1st December 2020
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize 2019, IMA, Brisbane 13th September 2019
Brisbane Quarter, Innerspace Contemporary Art, Brisbane 14th - 28th April 2019
PRIZE NO PRIZE 2018, THE WALLS, Gold Coast 1st December 2018
Toowoomba Emerging Art Prize, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery 9th September - 10th October 2018
Swell Sculpture Festival 2017, Pacific Parade, Currumbin 8th-17th September 2017
Hatched: National Graduate Show 2017, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 6th May - 18th June 2017
Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF), 11th January - 3rd February 2017
2016 QUT Graduate Exhibition, Brisbane 14th – 21st November 2016
Redlands City Art Gallery, Cleveland11th September – 5th October 2016
Spring Break Frank Moran Memorial Hall, Brisbane 20th -30th September 2016
In Residence: Shift 2 In Residence ARI, Brisbane 3rd June 2016
KUNSTBUNKER_01 [JANUS] KunstBunker, Brisbane 7th May 2016
Excerpts: 2015 BFA (Visual Arts) Showcase Exhibition, QUT the Block, Brisbane 3rd- 6th November 2015
SEND HELP | QUT Graduate Exhibition QUT Art Studios, Brisbane 3rd – 5th November 2015
R U srs? QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane 10th – 23rd August 2015
Lost Movements X, The Foundry, Brisbane 22nd August 2015
Connections Between, (Post Datum) QUT Art Studios, Brisbane 12th October 2014
Creative Generation, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane 10th May – 11th August 2013
Awards, Prizes and Grants
Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects for Individual and Groups 2022
Still: National Still Life Award 2021 (Finalist)
66th Blake Prize 2021 (Finalist)
Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship 2020
Sidney Myer Fund, National Assistance Program for the Arts 2020
The Creative Sparks Grant 2020
Arts Queensland Individual Fund 2020
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize 2019 Finalist and People’s Choice Winner
Regional Arts Development Fund 2019
Arts Queensland - Individual Fund 2018
Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects for Individual and Groups 2018
Toowoomba Emerging Art Prize Winner 2018
Hild Chenhall Painting Scholarship 2016
Residences
2023 Artist in Residence Urban Art Projects (UAP) Brisbane Foundry Northgate.
2022 The Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship - through sister city partnership Hyderabad, and research residency across India.
2019 MIAMI/MIAMI, Through THE WALLS (Gold Coast), exchange in Miami FL to research late Art Deco architecture and design in relation to queer culture.
2018 -2019 The Walls Arts Space Summer Residency, Gold Coast.
2018 Studio Residency, Outer Space Brisbane.
Education
Queensland University of Technology, Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) Honours, Minor in Architecture. 2016
Mentorship in Public Art, Lincoln Austin. 2017 and 2020
Byzantine Gold, Apprenticing with Orthodox Ikonographer Leonard Brown. 2017-2019
Mentorship in Public Art, Urban Art Projects supported by Arts Queensland and The Australia Council. 2018 - 19
School of Sogetsu Ikebana, Brisbane and Toyko 2019 - ongoing
Clay at The Precinct with Richard De Haan, Wellington Point 2020 - ongoing
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which I live and work, and pay respect to Elders – past, present and future . Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.