VAST ART MAGAZINE is excited to announce the international open call for ISSUE N°02. See your work in print and published along side new, emerging, and established practices from around the world. Thirty (30) artists will be selected and profiled in full color print spread showcasing their work, artist biography, and artist statement. Featured artists […]
Step inside OMNIPRESENCE and become a part of the installation. As your image becomes blurred by multilayered reflections, the perception of time becomes distorted and the images of you are no longer controlled by your actions! OMNIPRESENCE is an audio-visual installation that invites visitors to immerse themselves inside an infinity mirror where they become the
oin the founding members of BVAA (Brisbane Visual Arts Advocacy) as we officially launch Brisbane’s newest arts advocacy group, specifically focused on supporting and advocating for independent and artist-run projects across our city. BVAA is an artist-run working group which anyone can join and contribute to. Hear about who we are, why we’ve started, and
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Paul Cadzow is a Sunshine Coast based painter. His paintings are expressive, poetic mediations on the sad beauty of the human condition in the wonderful sweep of the universe and time. In these challenging times, his art addresses the difficulties and solaces of being authentically human. More information
QCA Galleries are now accepting proposals to exhibit in the Webb Gallery, Project Gallery and Grey Street Gallery in 2021. Please take the time to read through the information listed on the QCA Galleries website, including the QCA Galleries Terms and Conditions prior to applying. Successful applicants will be notified within two weeks of the application closing
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1. Your new-found love of wool and weaving is pretty exciting. There’s so much to look at but also through. Like your collages there seems to be this reliance on outlines and block colouring, a phasing out of detail. These gaps and hollows between the strings and shapes make me think of guitar strings but
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Jan Manton Gallery is excited to release to the public Dylan Jones’ latest catalogue for his exhibition ‘Together. Alone.’ Please note, due to the high interest in Dylan’s works, the gallery will not be taking artwork reservations at this time. Please contact info@janmantonart.com to express your interest in an artwork (this will operate on a ‘first in best dressed’ basis). Exhibition Opening and
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“I’m riding my bike around, talking to people, sitting in parks and zooming in with my handy cam.” Please join us for Georgia Morgan’s show ‘4 Weeks in Fight Talk Place’. Georgia came up to Brisbane for the Churchie Emerging Art Prize and has for the month of October spent her time thinking and making
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Satellite: FOUND is a curated satellite iteration in collaboration with the FOUND! Studio Dog exhibition held at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. Brisbane and Bundaberg-based artists will exchange places to exhibit to different audiences across the state. There are satellite events in Hervey Bay, Bargara, Maryborough and Brisbane, making this a showcase across southeast Queensland. Satellite: FOUND is a sample of
A fresh and wild reflection on country life comes to view in Myles Young’s new work. Conceived and painted in a bright and airy studio in Byron Bay in early 2020, themes of relaxation, exploration, isolation and amusement encompass the work. Enabled by many cups of tea and a lot of dancing, these energetic paintings
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‘Voices of Nature 2020’ aims to encourage the exploration of the concepts of voice, standing, representation, and agency of the natural world within human governance systems. Rights of Nature is grounded in the recognition that humanity is just one member of the wider Earth community, and that we have evolved with, and are dependent upon, a
Resolution-19 marks the final dumb dumb exhibition for 2020. As per the current covid-19 restrictions, we will be limiting capacity to 30 people at a time. Please be respectful of the space and the people who occupy it. Dumb Dumb ARI – 65 Heidelberg St, East Brisbane QLD 4169, Australia
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‘Mother’ by Umwelt Collective. Sensorial agents Umwelt Collective invite you to be enveloped in an intimate audio-visual, olfactory experience that takes you out of the digital ether and lands you back in your body. Drawing on shared childhood memories of finding identities and boundaries through the natural environment, ‘Mother’ asks us to find ways
Calling to Country is an exhibition by young Indigenous contemporary artists. ‘Calling to Country’ is a group exhibition that expresses identity, culture and the desire to return home. Showcasing artworks by a new generation of visual storytellers; Madeleine Coleman, Jody Rallah, Sam Harrison, Christi Hollingsworth, and Kyah Welsh McKnight. Please join and support participants of
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Ocular Drift is an exhibition of new works by Brisbane based artist Nicola Scott that explores the ambiguity and illusory nature of visual perception “Scott’s Ocular Drift works employ the illusory qualities of paint in order to toy with the potential of colour, creating images that prompt contemplation on the nature of understanding. The experience of looking at Scott’s
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Confronting Contemporary Art Virtual Talk: Why is everyone nude? | 10.30am, Sat 17 Oct | Book now Contemporary art can sometimes be challenging, intriguing and confusing, but don’t let that intimidate you. In this 3-part virtual talk series, unpack the big ideas and ‘art speak’ behind contemporary artworks, including artworks from the QAGOMA Collection. Hosted
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Presented at West End’s Vacant Assembly (2-4 October, 2020), ‘Left // Right’ is a series of site-specific installations by Brisbane artist René Danika. Through materiality, symbolism and immersive environments, Danika examines political extremism, inherited philosophies and morality. By positioning the viewer within the work, ‘Left // Right’ asks us to consider our own relationship with
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This exhibition investigates how materiality and painting can be used as a vehicle to express and heal from childhood trauma. The series includes large painted self-portraits and smaller matching works. The smaller works are cropped, expressionist masses of paint, the compositions inspired by their larger counterparts. The paintings feature thick swipes of impasto applied by
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Disruption is defined as “a break of interruption in the normal course or continuation of an activity or process.” There is no doubt that 2020 has been a year filled with a record amount of uncertainty, challenge and interruption. Published through the Queensland College of Art’s Blur – QCA Photography Club in conjunction with transmedia
As we move into spring Mitchell Fine Art presents an eclectic exhibition of artworks that celebrates the resilience of our artistic community. 2020 has set a number of challenges that have altered our world immeasurably. One thing that hasn’t changed is that artists continue to create and find new meaning in their work. ‘Primaveral’ is
Form and Function considers everyday objects through sculpture and painting. To make her ‘tools for regeneration’, Susan Gourley joins the handles of discarded garden tools with meticulous replicas of native Australian plants that she makes using found materials. While Cosima Scales’ paintings are frank depictions of utilitarian and domestic objects. Displayed together the works invite
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This exhibition has been brought together to challenge both artists and the viewing public to embrace the less serious side of the serious business of art. This set of works superimposes triangles within other significant art contexts and in doing so, uses triangles as a cultural metaphor for current contemporary art practices across a range
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This exhibition is Crookes’ first solo show at QCA Galleries and brings together a collection of works created through a sustained investigation over three years of familial domestic life. Painting persists as a highly relevant means through which we understand our own ontology and Crookes uses painting to make visible, the often overlooked, sometimes funny,
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Odd Bedfellows brings together the work of six remarkable Queensland artists held in the QUT Art Collection, with works spanning over five decades, a time when Brisbane was transitioning from that place ‘out woop woop’ to the cosmopolitan city that it is today. While the artist’s practices are visually disparate, they are all drawn together by
‘Crit Sessions’ provides early career artists the opportunity to receive feedback on work-in-progress. Join us for the fifth event in our suite of Crit Sessions, led by artist, Gemma Smith. Bring along your works-in-progress for feedback in a safe and generative environment. Due to COVID-19 restrictions and time limitations, capacity is limited, so please only
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Onespace is pleased to present SOOKii by Helen Miller which celebrates 20 years of her fashion label. This exhibition showcases soft sculptures, including textile-rich theatrical masks and costumes, limited edition digital prints. It also includes a collection of signature ready-to-wear silk dresses from the SOOKii archive. Garments as well as theatrical pieces created using recycled textiles will hang from the ceilings and
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When Paul Ryan paints the landscape, it’s not the scenery so much as the forgotten histories of his local area that he seeks to explore. Never straying far from his home base in Thirroul, a suburb of Wollongong noted for post-colonial industries including whaling, logging, and mining, Ryan repeatedly finds himself searching for the footprints
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This Saturday 10 October, Onespace will host a ONExchange Conversation between current exhibiting artist, Nicola Scott and catalogue essay writer, Lisa Bryan-Brown. You will hear directly from Nicola and Lisa as they delve into more detail about Ocular Drift, the process behind this body of work and where Nicola’s practice is heading next. We will be offering refreshments as
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Wading in the shallow tides of youtube temporalities, insipid comments sections and momentary media fads, React Video (2020) explores a meditative consideration upon the vast and vacuous space of internet video fodder and the banal territories of youtube culture. Through a series of unfolding moments shared between collected moving image materials, React Video (2020) extracts and collapses video content
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Delivered as part of Brisbane City Council’s Temporary Art Program 2020. Other Offering, presents a series of sculptural and floral interventions at the Toowong Cemetery over two days. Considering Cemetery offerings and the iconographies of spiritual displays, artist Jordan Azcune shares contemporary variations on the obelisk, burial preparations and public memorials. These temporary memorial-like artworks made
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Contemporary art can sometimes be challenging, intriguing and confusing, but don’t let that intimidate you. In this 3-part virtual talk series, unpack the big ideas and ‘art speak’ behind contemporary artworks, including artworks from the QAGOMA Collection. Hosted by Dr Louise R Mayhew. Session 3:My brain tingles | Sat 31 Oct What makes your brain
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Join us for the fourth event in our suite of Crit Sessions, led by art historian and writer, Tim Riley Walsh. Facilitated by a different artist or arts worker each event, Crit Sessions takes place in the communal space of our new studio facilities in Fortitude Valley. Bring along your works-in-progress for feedback in a
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Arrival marks a moment of being, aligning a time and place in an eternal coming and going. Ari Athans sculptural and painting works are engaged in a lithic relationship of human and geologic interaction, in which landscapes and human lives are inseparable and impressionable. The stacked cairn-like forms appear as both markers and interventions, precariously stacked
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Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its renowned internship program, which is now running online for the first time. Over the past decade, more than 40 Griffith students and alumni have completed the 12-week program – an experience which has helped them start careers at leading institutions in Australia and internationally.
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The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. Internationality and networking make YICCA a huge opportunity for the artists, which can: • Win a cash prize: – Euro 3000,00 money prize to the first selected – Euro 1000,00 money prize to the second
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Look to the future, imagine a new surreal world. We want to see your imagined perceptions on what life on planet earth will look like in years to come. Embracing artististic mediums such as painting, drawing, digital, photography and film, capture your wildest imaginations of a surreal future. Selected artwork entered to this artist call