An Artist Fellowship from the RSL Club Cairns was awarded to Jason Wegger on the strength of his graphite drawing, Dementia Study #1 Mental Funeral 2021 presented in the Gallery’s FNQ Contemporaries 2022 exhibition. The Fellowship provided Jason with $7,500 to develop a new body of work for a solo exhibition at the Gallery. 

Together with the Fellowship, Jason was awarded a studio residency in Cairns that was funded by the Double R Arts Foundation.  During this residency Jason produced a series of drawings composed in a circular format that foreshadow the end of the world in ten stages. Simply using graphite on paper each drawing delivers a bracing dystopian commentary for the artist, “Our world operates to devalue everything, so when everything becomes meaningless and worthless the machines stop working, structures collapse, populations die off, extinction ensues. The planet is now a churning, giant drain-hole in outer space littering the vast blackness with the debris of a broken-up humanity.”