Delivered as part of Brisbane City Council’s Temporary Art Program 2020. Inspired by a shared interest in geocaching and mobile location based games, Story Bridge Run is an augmented reality location based experience where the audience moves around the city discovering objects and activating augmented reality artworks viewed on phones or other portable devices. Story Bridge […]
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Onespace Gallery is excited to present Ayuva Meenha (‘My Mark’) a suite of vinyl-cut prints by by Cairns-based artist, Teho Ropeyarn. Ayuva Meenha is Teho Ropeyarn’s first solo exhibition in Brisbane. Teho Ropeyarn is an early mid-career artist and curator from the community of Injinoo, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. He is a descendant of the Seven Rivers Peoples of Angkamuthi and connected
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Join us to send off the year that was! Our end-of-year open day is a chance to come together to celebrate our 2020 program with a full day of talks, tours, performance, book launches, workshops, and a pop-up artist market. —Don’t miss your last and only chance to join a guided tour of our current
Home is where the heart is, but where is the heart? We move for different reasons, and the exhibition intends to capture different experiences of uprooting and rerooting, and the hopes and the traumas that come with them. Home is a multimedia exhibition bringing together artists from the Brisbane community, interstate, and internationally. The event
The Crit Sessions are an opportunity to have in depth discussions about your practice or specific works with a range of other practicing artists and a special guest critic for each session. These events are intended to be accessible, inclusive safe spaces, and to provide a supportive environment for gathering feedback and suggestions that are
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Expanding Jewellery delivers ways of viewing body-object relationships and experiences. When objects are worn on the body they are activated, becoming a performance which highlights the spatial awareness and the intimate void between the self and the rest of the world. The role of the body gives the objects context and relativity in space. Vivien
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Slow reveal examines the body as a site of objectification. Clothing and fashion are a form of social communication that is often perceived to play a key role in encouraging the objectification, dehumanization and denial of agency for female bodies. The repetitive act of ripping jeans within this video is a violent performance of self-objectification which
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Unleashed 2020: Emerging Craft & Design brings together six exciting emerging Queensland artists whose practices take us beyond the worn and utilitarian to a more complex and challenging conceptual realm. What might appear initially to be an exhibition of a disparate range of fashion, textiles, jewellery and ceramics are, in fact, a challenging group of objects
In the age of COVID-19, is it now more than ever important to have the right to protest? GOMA Talks returns during the Children’s Art Centre exhibition ‘Now is the Time’, for a virtual session exploring the future of protest. Hear from special guests as they consider whether a global pandemic and social distancing measures
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Samantha Hobson’s (Lockhart River, FNQ) solo show Fracture will be featured in the mezzanine gallery at FireWorks. Eleven paintings express the development of new works alongside the artist’s existing and well-known bushfire and reef imagery. Also exploring stories of ‘fire and water’ is Ronnie Tjampitinpa’s (Kintore, NT) exhibition on the ground floor, Special Edition, including
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‘Archive of Loss’ gathers approximately 60 buildings demolished under Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen in the 70s and 80s around Brisbane city and Queensland in an archive that commemorates their loss. Organised in an obituary format, the archive highlights the loss of each of the buildings through text and photograph. Through the material and psychological loss of a
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Dark Entries delves into the simultaneity of experience, the act of looking back whilst looking forward, and the interpolation of memories into a single, yet multi-dimensional timeline. Extending on Ross’ July 2020 residency and exhibition Dark Matter(s) at Metro Arts @Hope Street, Dark Entries steps into a void of past realms, remixing spatial and video elements into a matrix of
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‘Only This Will Last’ is a multimedia exhibition which primarily examines the ways cultural institutions establish and maintain a range of control over the visitors to their space. Whether it be control over how to experience a work, or even how to act appropriately in an imposing public space, this exhibition questions how this effects
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Hold Sway is the 2020 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition. This online platform captures this year’s exhibition and showcases the art practices of 32 emerging artists. Hold Sway features an online exhibition catalogue and presents virtual events including artist talks, screenings and performances from 11th – 28th November, 2020. The art practices featured in Hold Sway address the challenges facing
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Sarah Hickey’s latest work, “Home , hearth & harbingers” is an invitation to share in her personal keepsakes, everyday arrangements and simple pleasures found at home. The art of contentment – of looking around and seeing the beauty of exactly where we are, has driven the work. These home made curations are emblematic of a
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Delivered as part of Brisbane City Council’s Temporary Art Program 2020. Becoming invites viewers to experience the space between personal memory and shared understanding through combining photography and architecture. Within this project photographs, which have been created through experimental processes that take their cues from how memory operate, are materialised on the built environment. A building, which
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Bed Bound showcases Rose Manning’s most recent exploration into feelings of comfort and discomfort. Domestic spaces and bedrooms have been heavily associated with rest and recuperation. The impact of being confined to these spaces for the larger part of 2020 has transformed them into safe havens from the dangers of the outer world, or have
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Collective: Ghost – Jazz Money, Katy B Plummer, Meng-Yu Yan, Pony Express & Sancintya Mohini Simpson. Dim the lights. Close the door. Light a candle. Sit very still… We gather here today for Collective: Ghost, a vigil to the year we lost. We bow our heads and think about the plans we set in stone and how they crumbled, the
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Lee Wilkes latest exhibition Retracing Steps showing from 4 – 29 November, 2020. We welcome you to visit the gallery space from Wednesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm and 11-4pm Sunday. Wilkes is a Brisbane based painter and photographer working primarily with landscape, as a blurring of time, space and memory. Utilising traditional oil paint,
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Circuitous City challenges the worth of the internet’s ideals of speed and efficiency. The work asks us to consider our ability (as users) to shape our technological and interpersonal networks with our own values, rather than those thrust upon us by capitalism under the guise of convenience. Circuitous City acknowledges that the fastest and most
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The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. The sitter must also have a connection with Brisbane. To book tickets – Click Here Image – Digital Award: GLENN HUNT, Prize Fighter
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Join the launch of Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings with an online event, presented by Power Publications. Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings is the first publication to survey the writing practice of the late Gordon Bennett (1955–2014), profiling the importance of the written word within Bennett’s art and broader intellectual practice, and providing vital insight into one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists. Shifting
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ILEANA is delighted to announce the opening of its gallery space in November. Located on Brunswick St in the heart of New Farm, Brisbane, the gallery will be a platform for selling exhibitions of international contemporary art in Australia. The first exhibition, titled Great Ladies, will present a group of historically important female artists from Europe
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present, Still life after the virus, the new solo exhibition by Ben Quilty. Quilty makes no fuss in selecting his objects, leaving the studio in search of ‘beauty’ was neither responsible, or, as it turns out, necessary. Multi-vitamins, disinfectant, clamps, wine glasses and pumpkins are gathered to create disjointed
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Land Art Mongolia 6th Biennial 2021 – A Nomadic Horizon announces a call for proposals, seeking applications from emerging and mid-career artists. Experience in environmental art or public urban art is requested. The program is designed to pursue personal creative work and share in collegial interaction within the community of Mongolian and international artists, and the general public. The
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The call for applications for artists to participate in the fifteenth edition of Horizons Sancy is online. Proposals are invited for temporary site-specific works to be installed in the natural environment. The Horizons “Arts-Nature” in Sancy event, programmed for 12th June till 19th September 2021, will be the fifteenth contemporary art based event. The pieces
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Art for Armenia is a Plexus Gallery Online Exhibition to raise funds for the children and families affected by the current crisis in Artsakh. Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) is a small independent region connected to Armenia, bordering Azerbaijan and Iran. Armenians have been indigenous to this area since the 5th Century BC. On 27th September, Azerbaijan, with
SCOTT MCDOUGALL In these Covid-19 times, Scott’s travels have been somewhat curtailed and he has been inspired to look at landscapes closer to home. His neighbourhood of the Tweed Valley has provided a wealth of subject matter to paint – both in flora and fauna, from the bushfire ravaged hillsides to the regeneration of the green valley that
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This exhibition presents a suite of new paintings by Imants Tillers centered around Terra nullius, the 11th work in his ‘Diaspora’ series of paintings. These will be shown in galleries 1 and 2 alongside a key work from 1989, Towards the Shining Light. In gallery 3, we will be presenting screenings of the film Journey to Nowhere, the
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Opening at The Ferryman’s Hut in Teneriffe Friday 23rd October, Inwood’s multi-faceted exhibition blends exquisite portraiture with experiential lighting which throws the audience into a sensory deprivation tank that will shock and delight. Featuring the artist’s signature contemporary realism, this highly engaging exhibition is a breathtaking combination of portrait and playful illusion, that shift and
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The Access Arts Achievement Award provides up to $10,000 funding for Queensland artists, arts workers and producers with disability working in any art form to create, develop, present, produce, exhibit, and tour their work. This is a fantastic opportunity to extend the life of an existing work, or create a new one! Important Dates Applications
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Hold the Dopamine is an exhibition of new artworks by Matthew Newkirk and Sebastian Moody. Both artists create large-scale outdoor projections and for Hold the Dopamine they have turned their public-facing practices towards a gallery context. In these works Newkirk’s ‘call to action’ and Moody’s poetic ambiguity offer subversive responses to contemporary media landscapes. Matthew
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Blaklash has partnered with Metro Arts to deliver a professional development program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who are interested in developing their curatorial skills. The program aims to strengthen the sector by enhancing knowledge, support networks and practical skills, through presentations from industry experts, guided art tours and critical discussions regarding First Nations
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Artists: Barbara Penrose, Sally Cox, Nameer Davis When the flexible distinction between inside and outside is intensified… This is when events emerge – chains of events, cascades of events that withhold themselves from language, to which every word, every sentence, every speech can only react. Reinhardt Koselleck
