For the second year running, Lemonade is excited to be planning coverage of eight Graduate Exhibitions across the sunshine state.

Lemonade Grad Show reviews promise fascinating insights into hyper-emerging trends and artists to watch. They are almost exclusively the first time exhibiting artists have been reviewed, critiqued, or written about. And they offer QLD-based artists unique national reach.

We are seeking funds to make this extended coverage possible. 100% of funds raised go directly to writers.

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For the month of October, Lemonade welcomes our first extended Guest Editor, Jonathan McBurnie.

Jonathan McBurnie is an artist, writer and curator based in Rockhampton, Queensland. McBurnie is the Director of Rockhampton Museum of Art and has been published in diverse periodicals including Eyeline, Catalogue, The Lifted Brow, Zine Panique, Trip, the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture and Sneaky, where he was an editor and contributor. His first full length book, Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel, co-written by Adam Geczy, was released in 2023 by Rutgers University Press. 

Jonathan is also a Regional Ambassador for Lemonade.

We hope you enjoy Jonathan’s month of reviews.

Pitches, commentary and feedback continue to be welcomed to Louise Mayhew, Founding Editor, via editor@lemonadeletters.com.au

It is such a pleasure to share news of Lemonade Live: a new pilot project that invites each week’s writer to also read their review aloud. Lemonade Live offers a forum for writers to add off-the-cuff and additional reflections, tangents, caveats, and explanations to their review and for audiences to hear the voice and connect with the image of art critics.

Lemonade Live can be live-streamed on Wednesdays and Fridays at midday or replayed anytime via Instagram.

Lemonade Live is funded by Moreton Bay Regional Council through the Regional Art Development Fund. It runs from July to December 2024.