Karla Dickens, Wiradjuri painter, was born in Sydney in 1967. Dickens enrolled in Life Drawing classes at high school where the female form was her main subject matter. She began her formal training as an artist when she enrolled at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1991, obtaining a Fine Arts Diploma in […]
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Fields combines drone footage of local Brisbane antennas with live radio signal recordings taken in the same area, exploring the invisible realm of radio through video. Most radio transmissions are digital, yet they can still be heard as stereo when scanning the airwaves, these sounds range from beeps and boops to harsh static chunks, or sometimes
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‘Stir crazy from the coronavirus lockdowns and with a show to paint, fellow artists Ondine Seabrook and Holly Greenwood and I made the 13 hour car trip from Sydney to Broken Hill. The car was filled to the brim, stocked up with paper, paints and camping gear. There’s something really special about hitting the road,
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Adderton: house & heart of mercy is being taken outside with innovative and exciting exhibitions, workshops, installations and events in surprising public spaces. Adderton Everywhere is a continuation of Adderton’s activation of community exploration and engagement in contemporary social justice and mercy through art and ideas. Adderton Everywhere is free and aims to be inclusive
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‘Cut It’ contemplates our voracious consumption of images, to show how artists have redeployed the meaning of images through the enduring techniques of collage, montage and sampling. Using the lenses of news reporting and entertainment media, the artworks are cropped and altered pictures from newspapers, popular movies, the internet and art history, bringing together disparate
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Artists: Zach Blas, Natalie Bookchin, Chicks on Speed, Xanthe Dobbie, Sean Dockray, Kate Geck, Elisa Giardina Papa, Matthew Griffin, Kenneth Macqueen, Daniel Mckewen, Zach Blas & Jemima Wyman Conflict in My Outlook investigates the way the Internet mediates and shapes social relations and ideas. It highlights the erosion of boundaries between online and offline, public and private.
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The Greek word ‘demos’ comes from the root of ‘demo’ meaning people, or population. Demos refers to its plural; a group, an assembly, a city, or a chorus of individuals. A ‘demo’ can also mean the “demonstration” of something, such as music, a political protest or computer software. Athens-based artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis’ ongoing project
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Lisa Behan and Donna McDonald present a lively half-day workshop titled, ‘Artful Engagement’, held in Side Gallery’s event space. The skills we learn and use to engage with art can have practical use in our daily lives. In this workshop, Lisa and Donna guide participants through immersive, artful practices for wellbeing. With a focus on
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long water: fibre stories illuminates spiritual, ancestral, and physical connections to water through fibre practices of artists from Yuwaalaraay (North West NSW), Quandamooka (Moreton Bay, South East QLD), Kuku Yalanji (Far North QLD), Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait Islands, QLD), Yurruwi (Milingimbi Island, NT), and surrounding homelands. Together this group—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, spanning different
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Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. More recently her work has been influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and and the abstracted surface possibilities these objects can show as they begin to age. Kirsten Coelho trained in Adelaide at the
Premiering in Australia at the IMA is INFRACTIONS, a feature length video installation in dialogue with frontline Indigenous cultural workers’ struggles against threats to more than 50% of the Northern Territory from shale gas fracking. As Australia becomes the leading exporter of planet-warming fossil fuels globally, and Asia and the EU plan to increase fracked gas
Lab.17 art contest, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks and much more. PRIZES: 5000,00€ –
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Remember, see and feel the last 20 years through Twenty – an online exhibition of State Library of Queensland’s contemporary photography collections. What memories do the images spark? How might we learn from the first two decades of this millennium? How much has changed in the last 20 years? And most importantly, what do these
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The Northshore Sculpture by the River Exhibition will showcase excellent outdoor and indoor sculptures at the newly emerging precinct – Northshore. Northshore and this Hamilton stretch of the Brisbane River continues to transform from an Aboriginal campsite and natural swampland, to a vibrant and evolving community, where businesses see great opportunities to operate and many
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Cleverman stormed onto ABC TV in 2016 as a dystopian sci-fi with a difference. With predominantly Indigenous cast and senior crew, the series explores a series of Aboriginal origin stories in a contemporary context, with political nuance touching on themes of class, racism and power. Exploring First Nations storytelling, language and creativity in production design, costumes
Marc Clark has lived a rich and varied life. He has lived in different countries, served in the Second World War, and taught at numerous art institutions, all the while committed to the pursuit of art. A life in art surveys the artistic ideas and principles that Clark returns to time and again. His experimentations
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CALLOUT: Artist in Residence Opportunities for Sculptors and Object Makers. 4 x 3 month residencies available in 2021 @ Sculptors Qld venue ‘The Shed’. Located at 480 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, the Sculptors QLD ‘Shed’ is a wooden building set in the grounds of the historic Old Museum Building. ‘The Shed’ is surrounded by large
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The Marginalised Chair refers to 100 years of Bauhaus design and reinterprets the fundamental values and societal influences of the time embedded in the modernist chairs. Selected students from Interior Design and Environments, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, relied on their individual reflections and creativity to develop a sustainable and re-imagined vision of a selected Bauhaus
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Sculptors Qld invites you to experience Object Memory Poem by outgoing artist in residence Genevieve Memory. Tied to the historic Sculptors Qld shed as well as the Old Museum Building itself, Object Memory Poem is both site-specific and deeply personal. Taking the form of an immersive deconstructed self-portrait, the artist looks to objecthood and memory
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Art In The Dark is an experiential workshop created by artist Katrin Terton in collaboration with blind art enthusiast Geoff Munck, who developed a unique technique that harnesses the power of language to enable both the blind and sighted to enjoy a comparable experience of visual culture. This 3-hour workshop is designed for anyone with
TELEPHONE is a global art project based on the children’s game Telephone (also called Operator, Grapevine, Telefono Roto, Dengon, Stille Poste, Telefono Descompuesto, Phonebook), in which a message is whispered from person to person. In this game, the message is whispered from art form to art form. A poem could become a painting, and then
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Since launching the Making Art Work initiative in June, the IMA has commissioned 36 new projects that not only respond to the global the pandemic and resulting lockdowns, but more importantly seek to reinforce the value of creative labour at a time of increased precarity and apathy towards the arts. We are excited to announce the final
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Our popular MoB Makers: Drawing the Body series returns to Museum of Brisbane with a twist! Join us in the Dome Gallery for a guided workshop led by Artist in Residence Tori-Jay Mordey. Learn how to join the face through contemporary portraiture techniques, in an intimate setting with all materials plus drinks and nibbles provided
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For an artist black & white are colours, as far as I’m concerned; and come from the paint box in as many variations as skin colours on the human race – where the two words are used to socially classify with brutal, generalized simplicity. Ian Smith Catalogue essay extract Catalogue (PDF) Image: Ian Smith, Tropical Colour
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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST NOW OPEN FOR PERFORMANCE MAKERS AND PRESENTERS TO BE PART OF THE 2021 ANYWHERE FESTIVAL, RUNNING 6-23 MAY. Anywhere Festival is a two and a half week festival of discovery from comedy in backyards, dance in hedge mazes, theatre in light houses, circus in driveways and music and immersive anywhere in between
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‘Smart Lasso and Details of Disquiet’ presents the studio outcomes of Sally Molloy’s PhD research, which responds to the denial of Indigenous sovereignty and ongoing processes of colonisation in Australia from a white, non-Indigenous perspective. Utilising processes of digital collage and painting, these works locate and visualise everyday manifestations of colonisation so as to acknowledge
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In December we are presenting three exhibitions. In Galleries 1 & 2 are new paintings by Jon Cattapan. In Gallery 3 we are presenting ZONWEE: The first known recording of a daydream (2019) by James Barth and Harvie Spencer. In CARPARK we are presenting I can’t sleep when I’m anxious: thinking through the blue hour by Courtney Coombs, a new
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Thirty-six artists will showcase their work in the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting finalist exhibition. Featuring the best watercolour artworks from across Australia, the exhibition opens Thursday 26th November at Griffith University’s Webb Gallery, located within the Queensland College of Art South Bank campus, Brisbane. The exhibition will run until Saturday, 12th
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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