On display at Brisbane Quarter (Podium 1, Atrium) from 3 July to 16 August, by Artist Matthew Aberline.
Love Follows a Line
A joyous, oversized flower garden installation—celebrating kindness, memory, and the quiet power of family.
Love Follows a Line is a luminous, inflatable flower garden created by artist Matthew Aberline with the Beautiful and Useful Studio for Brisbane Quarter. Handcrafted in Australia, these large-scale, joyously colourful blooms draw inspiration from lush tropical flora and the artist’s childhood growing up in Airlie Beach, in the Whitsundays. The work is both playful and profound—an ephemeral celebration of love, kindness, patience and respect, and how these societal qualities are passed from generation to generation.
The project takes its title from the idea that love isn’t static, it travels. It follows a line from mother to child, from carer to community, from teacher to student. These social values are not inherited automatically, they are taught, modelled, and offered with care. At the heart of the work is a reflection on the feminine experience and the evolving roles of motherhood – being a mother, having a mother, becoming a mother, or bearing witness to maternal care in all its forms.
Drawing inspiration from Pop, Decorative Arts and Fashion, Aberline is known for creating bold, immersive, socially activist works that explore complex themes through beauty, humour, and community participation. His work Microbial raised awareness about antimicrobial resistance at the United Nations General Assembly. His three-storey inflatable Live for Love celebrated the evolution of Australian LGBTQI+ rights at World Pride in New York. His meditative artwork Becoming the Path of Least Resistance turned collaborative making into a peaceful reflection space at the Art Gallery of NSW. Most recently, The Spot, a 20-metre-wide inflatable sculpture of a melanoma, appeared on Tamarama Beach for Sculpture by the Sea—raising awareness about skin cancer (don’t worry, the beach made a full recovery!).
With Love Follows a Line, Aberline invites audiences to slow down, reflect, and share in a moment of tenderness and memory.
Free Wonderstruck Exhibition at GOMA
Wonderstruck at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) explores the wonder that can be found in the ordinary and the extraordinary. The free exhibition invites visitors on a journey from spectacular large-scale artworks to captivating small treasures and immersive experiences. Featuring more than 100 artworks and interactive projects by over 70 international and Australian artists drawn from the Gallery’s Collection, the exhibition will include audience favourites Nick Cave’s Heard 2012, Ron Mueck’s In bed 2005 and Yayoi Kusama’s The Obliteration Room 2002-present.
Wonderstruck is a FREE exhibition at GOMA running from 28 Jun – 6 Oct 2025.
LOVE FOLLOWS A LINE $1,000 GIVEAWAY
Enter for your chance to WIN a $750 ‘Wonderstruck’ merchandise pack from QAGOMA Store plus a $250 Brisbane Quarter dining voucher.
To ENTER, all you have to do is sign up to the Brisbane Quarter App via the App Store or Google Play between 3 July to 16 August 2025.
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