Jugglers Art Space Inc - “Facilitating the healthy growth of the core creative human spirit.”

Jugglers is an idea that has birthed other ideas.

It has slotted into the space between all the other creative endeavours, ideas, festivals and art institutions in Brisbane.

The drivers continue to be community cultural development and spiritual inquiry - that is, we are keen to explore the life long human quest, “what does it all mean” or in the words of Victor Frankl we are on about “Man’s search for meaning”. The practices that underpin these overriding drivers include a determination to provide and facilitate a welcoming and if possible affordable place for artists, musicians, poets, writers,comedians, film makers and graffiti writers.

We work to make that happen by being facilitating companions.

Over the past 21 years we have inhabited all kinds of spaces, both permanent and transient including 101-103 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley [ 2002 -2018], The Shed [McArthur Ave,Hamilton] 4 Queensland Rail houses, Tarragindi Guide Hut, Dutton Park Scout Hut and in 2019, The Glasshouse Space at 33 Charlotte Street, Brisbane CBD.

Jugglers Art Space [ formerly Cafe Jugglers] began on a church property in North Brisbane in 1998 as an idea forged by Peter Breen and his son Harley. Phil Lock and Mike Yates were ethusiastically supportive and it was soon supported by another of Peter’s sons, Randal who was to become the lead innovator and director of Jugglers - from 2002-2010 - once 103 Brunswick Street became Jugglers home space in 2002. Phil, Peter, Randal and Harley bought the building from Jeff Hopkins-Weise the nephew of the former owner Marie Ellis, who passed away early in 2003.

Emerging Artist Development Program EADP workshops at 103 Brunswick Street, Guido van Halen, music gigs in the main gallery space and advertising material for exhibitions.

Images from top left:

“Peter” on a train skin arriving at the same moment that the Lord Mayor of Brisbane was opening the Ferny Skate Park Brisbane Colour Program - a collaboration between BCC Visible Ink and Jugglers Art Space. [ Lead artist: Lucks Schaare]

Artist Paul Harris at the entrance to his studio at the Jugglers Tarragindi Guide Hut.

Visible Ink and Jugglers with young artists from local schools at the launch of another school art and mural project out the back of 103 Brunswick Street

Shar Sarwari and Blueroom Productions at the Hamilton Shed filmig an edit after a White Silence event featuring the vessel Sha had built as part of his BFA at Queensland College of Art.

Artists drawing each other and the surroundings inside and outside at 103 Brunswick Street

Public Art Mural program with UnityWater and Jugglers Art Space - Perigian 2016

Hardened aerosol paint removed from a collapsed wall - back space 103 Brunswick Street

Getting ready for a labyrinth walk and White Silence at The Shed [McArthure Avenue] with 2014

The Shed McArthure Avenue Hamilton Brisbane River - artist studios leased by Jugglers from Economic Development Queensland 2012-2015

Public Mural with Visible Ink and Jugglers Art Space in a laneway in Moorooka about 2015 with David Don

Kids workshop in The Shed

Upstairs bar area and chill out space 103 Brunswick Street

Tarragindi Studios - leased from Brisbane City Council 2014 - 2023

Tarragindi Studios.

Early graffiti and drawings at 103 Brunswick Street. The back yard and tunnel graffiti space became sacred for hundreds of young writers over the years 2003- 2018.

In 2014, Jugglers was contracted to paint the train supports under the over head cross river rail link in South Brisbane in preparation for the G20 Visit of world dignatries by Arts Queensland and the Department of Premier. A range of outstanding artists from Brisbane in cluding aboringinal man Warraba Weatheall and Guido van Halen and Fintan Magee painted public art pieces that have stood the test of time 10 years later.