Strange Ways is the first major survey exhibition of Samstag Scholar Anne Wallace, and includes works from the early 1990s through to the current day. Born and raised in Brisbane in the 1970s and now based in Melbourne, Wallace’s highly accomplished figurative paintings are as much about the textual as the pictorial.

Wallace has an uncanny ability to tap into shared psyches, drawing upon the language of pop culture to combine the familiar with the unfamiliar. The moments conjured capture a tension between the real and the imagined; there is sexual and social confusion, vulnerability and violence, alienation and loneliness, feelings of the abject, and fantasies of power and revenge.

Spanning three decades and bringing together works from public and private collections, this is the most comprehensive survey of Wallace’s practice to date.

Strange Ways is a QUT Art Museum touring exhibition, accompanied by a major publication featuring new essays by Gillian Brown, Curator at Samstag, Francis Plagne and Vanessa Van Ooyen.