Innovate Grant is now accepting submissions for the Summer Cycle. Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers […]
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art+design+architecture A legacy of migration and modernism in Brisbane. Bauhaus Now brings to life the little-known story of how revolutionary ideas of the Weimar Republic in Germany influenced modernist art, design and architecture in Brisbane and Australia. The exhibition reveals the migrant and refugee contribution to Australian life and art history in the inter-war period and
Explore new projects by Tony Albert, Kieron Anderson, Mariam Arcilla, ∑gg√e|n, Hannah Gartside, Mindy Gill, Kinly Grey, Susan Hawkins, Tori-Jay Mordey, Sally Olds, Amy Sargeant, and Des Skordilis. The Institute of Modern Art is excited to share with you the first outcomes of this commissioning initiative, Making Art Work, which includes poetry, a cooking demonstration, a music video, a downloadable poster, instructions on making DIY instruments at home, and video artworks.
South East Queensland is a testing ground for many Australian First Nations artists. It is a place of experimentation and interrogation where artists share their own stories in their own words. With a focus on First Nations artists living in or from South East Queensland, this exhibition features works from the Moreton Bay Regional Council
The 2020 finalists’ exhibition, curated by Talia Smith, will showcase work by Nathan Beard, Tom Blake, Jessica Bradford, Marina Pumani Brown, Martin George, Yasbelle Kerkow, Guy Louden, Lachlan McKee, Georgia Morgan, Nabilah Nordin, James Nguyen, Emily Parsons-Lord, and Athena Thebus. ‘the churchie’ offers a prize pool of $25,000, with the overall winner receiving a non-acquisitive $15,000 cash prize donated by long-standing sponsor, BSPN Architecture along with a $5,000
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‘This series continues my work with imagery from my archives, my investigation of family history and its impact on identity’. Glimmer is a term used in psychology to describe something that is the opposite of trigger. It is an instance of safety, tolerance and hope. In times of great turbulence and in the complexities of psyche, I’m interested in
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Bronwyn Hill is known for her photorealistic oil paintings, using a contrast of high detail and soft layering techniques. Completing her Diploma of Fine Arts in 2011, Hill has since been involved in many exhibitions across Australia including the finalists showcase for the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award and the Portia Geach Memorial Award. Bronwyn
We are excited to announce the artists and facilitators behind the next round of Making Art Work projects: Mia Boe, Michael Candy, Emil Canita, Natalya Hughes, Peter Kozak, Archie Moore, Shandy, Jacqui Shelton, Hannah Smith, David Spooner, Grant Stevens, and Tyza Stewart. This round of commissions includes a number of projects selected from our call out in June and will for the first time include products and editions. Projects will be launched online
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Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’? surveys 30 years of the career of Australian artist Elizabeth Newman. Formal structures in the work of Melbourne-based artist Elizabeth Newman (b.1962) resonate and repeat. Newman’s paintings, cut-fabric pieces, collages, sculptures and constructions engage with voids and frames, offering encounters between words and wordlessness. This selection spans 30 years, from
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McCarthy-Swann Projects is excited to share RAZZLE DAZZLE a Brisbane City Council Outdoor Gallery exhibition, featuring works by Richard Bell, Eric Bridgeman, Gerwyn Davies, Chantal Fraser, Hannah Gartside, Rachael Haynes, Natalya Hughes, Luke Roberts, Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, and Jemima Wyman. A colloquial term for good ol’ theatrics, and the name of an early 20th century camouflage
The Dirty Laundry Day Project is being activated in Queensland for the first time through Adderton Everywhere. The Dirty Laundry Day Project, an initiative of Social Futures, began in Casino, Northern NSW in 2009 and has been run annually since. It was created to draw attention to Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) in the community, to give people experiencing abuse
Fragments of Remembering is a new body of work by Yuwaalaraay, Gamilaraay and Koama artist Melissa Stannard. Developed from her research into archival records of Aboriginal reserves, missions and family members, Melissa’s works in jewellery, sculpture, assemblage and textiles embrace the damaged parts of herself, her culture and family history. By stitching together lost, discarded,
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It is with great excitement that we announce the opening of our first solo exhibition with Riley Beaumont – ‘If I Were A Racehorse They’d Have Shot Me By Now’ on Friday August 28th. Given the current requirements of social distancing, we will be conducting private tours with Riley rather than hosting an opening reception. Please
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This exhibition will present new paintings by Richard Bell made over the past two years, including his monumental protest painting From little things, big things grow. Richard Bell (b. 1953) lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. He works across a variety of media including painting, installation, performance and video. One of Australia’s most significant artists, Bell’s
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Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Brisbane. We believe that a Festival should be festive and celebrate the personality of its city. We are Brisbane’s most anticipated event of the year, bringing people together as they awake from their winter slumber for an explosion of arts performances and experiences. Brisbane Festival is unlike anything else you
‘The Allure of the Unaesthetic Discord’ An evolving exhibit over three weeks featuring 15+ local & interstate multidisciplinary artists in a collaborative experimental installation discarding mercantile tools & utilizing only amplified found/created/repurposed objects rejecting anticipated latent profound purpose and celebrating the unexplainable intrinsic fascination toward the unaesthetic discord. Information: https://anaturallow.org/allure Location: Wreckers Art Space – 7
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A Connective Reveal – Community, is a new work by local artist Robert Andrew. In the work, Andrew explores the interconnections, links and the layering within local communities. This kinetic work comprises an intricate mass of liquid filled conduits that weave through Factory Lane above the heads of viewers. Pumping water, ochre, soil and minerals
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Assembly Now is a newly commissioned participatory installation, set to inaugurate Metro Arts’ Main Gallery at West Village, and transform it into a light and sound reactive environment. Developed as a collaboration between Sally Golding and electronic musician and creative technologist Spatial, Assembly Now uses the interface of the mirror to elaborate the psychology and technology
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Idlewild brings together artists who are continuing their creative practices during this pandemic and making sense of this stillness and pause in productivity. Many of these artists have begun to explore how this shift has shaped work for creatives and to bring focus to the practice of working indoors with still life subject matter and/or interior
“In this body of work I have concentrated on making landscape paintings where the painting is more important than the landscape. In a painting the sky need not be blue and the leaves of a tree need not be green. The relationship between colours in a painting is the most important thing. My practice is
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Metro Arts’ new home at West Village – set to officially open in September 2020 – will present an annual program of contemporary and experimental performing and visual arts. Metro Arts’ exciting and cutting edge programs will include theatre, dance, video art, circus, physical theatre, cabaret, installation art, hybrid art, public art, family programs, themed festivals, films and discussions.
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Gain insights into the life and work of artist Gordon Bennett. Hear from those who knew him and those who have been inspired by him, as they consider his profound influence and legacy on the art world. Guests include: Tony Albert, artist Leanne Bennett Professor Ian McLean, Hugh Ramsey Chair of Australian Art History, University of
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As part of exhibition RAZZLE DAZZLE, you are invited to join us for a lunchtime webinar. Co-curator Amy-Clare McCarthy, will be joined by exhibiting artists Chantal Fraser, Natalya Hughes and Gerwyn Davies from the RAZZLE DAZZLE exhibition to discuss their works. A colloquial term for good ol’ theatrics, and the name of an early 20th century camouflage patterning, RAZZLE
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Larry Lanley was an activist and Leader and a founding member, way back in 1973, of the Woomera Aborigine Company that, after various name changes, became Mirndiyan Gununa that includes MIART. Mr. Lanley said: “it is the way we think and feel about the land that makes us Aboriginal … Our lives are changing but
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Welcome to the first of the FORA /squared series, a project begun in reaction to our current situations. The FORA/squared series is an exercise in activating the beautiful window space that throws an oblique shoulder from the gunsmith’s alley at 75 Vulture St. The installations will rotate bi-monthly, with the first cat out of the
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‘Valdetta’ is an exploration of Perkins’ genealogy that applies fiction as a method to autobiographical fact in order to examine the processes of self-narrativisation through a suite of autofictive painted, sculptural, text and video works. Centred on a great great uncle named after his father and his father’s father, the exhibition explores themes of inheritance,
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Story Lines illustrates the diversity of Aboriginal art practice from the desert to the sea. Featuring artists from the Northern Territory and Queensland, this exhibition showcases both traditional “dot painting”, contrasted with contemporary artistic expressions. Though stylistically the works differ dramatically, each artist uses their practice as a way of connecting to (and sharing) their
‘Crit Sessions’ provides early career artists the opportunity to receive feedback on work-in-progress from professional artists and arts workers. Join us for the third event in our suite of Crit Sessions, facilitated by curator Ellie Buttrose. Led by a different artist or arts worker each event, Crit Sessions takes place in the communal space of
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The Carstairs Prize aims to support socially engaged art projects that embrace participatory and collaborative experiences, bring participants into active dialogue with the artist(s) in order to involve audiences beyond the art community. The prize is intended to contribute to artwork production costs to assist the successful applicant(s) to develop and present new work. In
The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie have launched the Lake Art Prize, a new biennial national acquisitive art prize valued at $25,000. Australian artists, aged 18 years and over, are invited to submit works which reflect on the theme ‘Where there is Water’. There is a total acquisitive prize pool of $25,000 (ex
If you look at the great traumatising events of the past – world wars, global emergencies of different kinds – artists have always responded. Considering the impacts of COVID-19 in 2020, this exhibition will showcase ‘unseen’ bodies of work by the artists-in-residence of Mayne Line Studios. While the art scene has been affected due to
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‘Anyone who is among us today, may be buried tomorrow.’ – Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) In this talk, Dr Andrea Bubenik, Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Queensland will explore how Dürer gave visual expression to fears of plague and death in his 1498 Apocalypse series, and consider why his response matters during our present-day global
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Ever wondered how an artwork makes its way into the QAGOMA Collection? Philanthropy plays a fundamental role in the building of diverse public collections. Hear from QAGOMA Future Collective members Belinda Elderton and Timothy Roberts, as they share the stories behind artworks they have supported and gifted to the Gallery. Hosted by Dominique Jones, Philanthropy
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Scott is based in Brisbane but also makes art in Florence, Italy for some of his year. This is where he is working with the TIAC group on the establishment of an exciting new representational fine art education institution. “Two main themes characterise Scott’s new collection: one is the use of geometric planes and other
Created across distance between Brisbane and New York where the artist currently lives, Julian Day’s installation at IMA Belltower examines the power of instruction as a medium, and the embedded tensions between personal liberty and social duty. Please scream inside your heart utilises commercial signage and exploits its quotidian relationship to the abundance of information and
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Come and view all the finalists work selected from our 2020 Art from the Margins Queensland Outsider Art Award Exhibition. This years theme is “belonging”. A simple word for a huge concept – whether it be the need to belong or finally having found a place where they do. This compelling exhibition provides the platform
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