Sebastian Moody is an artist known for creating some of Brisbane’s most memorable public artworks using text. His works, KEEP THE SUNSHINE at the Brisbane International Airport and THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THE BIGGER IT GETS in the McLachlan Street underpass in Fortitude Valley, have become part of our city’s icons. Pause is an exhibition of black and white […]
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Since first launching in June, Making Art Work has engaged 24 artists and writers to respond to the tumultuous times we find ourselves in through their work. Today we launch the second round of commissions, share the details of exciting new co-commissions with Brisbane Festival, and invite you to visit the physical Making Art Work project space at IMA Belltower. Now
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Brisbane Open House reschedules, goes digital, launches year-round cultural tours. Hugely popular local offering Brisbane Open House (BOH) is rescheduling its free weekend to July to align with the winter school holidays starting in 2021. Following more than 35,000 visitors to Brisbane Open House 2019, the BOH 2020 Program will be going digital, changing the way audiences can participate, and creating
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Amid the current global pandemic, the Ekka and many regional shows around the country have been cancelled for 2020. The photographic exhibition, Showtime explores how the Ekka grounds look today through the eyes of the AFTM Foto Group members in contrast to artist Sylvain Minier’s bustling Ekka extravaganza snapshots. AFTM Studio & Gallery, 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley 4006 View Map Image:
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Aaron Butt’s recent series of work ‘Foreign Language’. Within the exhibition, Butt navigates three journeys; his residency in The Netherlands in 2019, Ian Fairweather’s 1952 raft journey to Indonesia and documentation of remote 1970s Land Art in America. Through the medium of paint, Foreign Language explores photography and the
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The objects in Beasts of Intimacy’s Burden recline at the cross-section of wounded desire and lavish materiality. Their lustrous surface a facade that conceals their structural weakness and an ephemeral disposition. As assemblages of Baroque sensibilities, fetish labour and contemporary sexuality they are chimeras. Some think they are furnishings, some sex toys and others architectural
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Australian mining researcher and QLD based artist Amelia Hine premieres her latest work, Insect Futures. This new collaged animation work that sits between sci-fi and post-anthropocene ASMR. Have you signed up for your Prototype Care Package yet? Get new video works from artists in isolation direct to your inbox every Friday over the next three
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Rite of Passage is a group exhibition curated by Shannon Brett, a descendant of the Wakka Wakka, Butchulla and Gurang Gurang clans, as a response to the significance of the year 2020 – 250 years since James Cook first arrived on our shores. Reframing the way that we perceive this year in our history, the exhibition showcases
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The project is dated 14 February 1947. Robert Pene has an obsession: he endlessly catalogues boss drovers in portraits that vividly evoke the resilient, determined spirit of the rugged individuals responsible for moving thousands of livestock and teams of stockmen and cooks along the great pastoral stock routes of Australia, travelling over vast distances from
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CREATURE is the first exhibition in Australia by London-based artist Marianna Simnett. Surveying the last six years of Simnett’s practice, the exhibition presents three of her most significant film and installation works; Blood In My Milk (2018), Faint with Light (2016), and The Needle and the Larynx (2016), together for the first time. Simnett has gained global attention for her visceral and theatrical
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Tasmania; the final destination of a curtailed journey wandering Australia. With a world pandemic enforcing travel restrictions, I retreated home to Northern New South Wales. ‘Painting Tasmania’ evolved as a vicarious pleasure when the world was sent into lockdown and isolation. Reliving my time in the endemic wonderland became an antidote to states of chaos, infecting society.
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Interior Form is the latest series of work by Kitty Horton, which is predominantly using a muted black, white and green palette, flattening further the objects we have placed decoratively in our homes, such as ceramics and plant life. In this new colour palette exploration, Horton delivers a textural, semi abstracted glance into the three dimensional forms
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To coincide with her exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery, Edwina Corlette Gallery is delighted to present a series of new paintings by Sally Anderson. Sally is a past winner of the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and a finalist in this year’s Portia Geach Award for female portraiture, with her painting of Claudia Karvan
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Logan Art Gallery is currently open to the public for 45 people at a time. Contact tracing and social distancing rules apply. The In Her Words exhibition recognises the significance of female photographers whose work is held by Horsham Regional Art Gallery. Guest curator Olivia Poloni was invited to draw works from the collection alongside key figures in
Interested in increasing the visibility of women on the world’s most popular online research tool, but don’t know where to start? The Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon is a global event that addresses the under-representation of women, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. Across four virtual sessions in August, join Dr Louise R Mayhew for a special
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Deliberate Pictures is part of a continuing inquiry into concepts that explore surface relationships where visual perception prompts a tangible awareness of painting’s objecthood in relation to our own body and the natural world. These works retain a connection to the ‘thereness’ and ‘thingness’ of a painting, instead of contemplating it as ‘neither being nor nothingness’.
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Cynthia Breusch survey exhibition and 2020 exhibition ‘Dreaming in Metaphors’ Lethbridge Gallery is delighted to present Cynthia Breusch’s first major survey exhibition to celebrate 40 years of exhibiting. Revisiting work and archival materials from 35 solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, the show features 24 artworks capturing pivotal moments from her career. The survey shows alongside a
Ella and House Conspiracy acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and create. We pay our respect to their Elders and their cultures living through time and space. Ella Callander is a Meanjin based artist who creates diagrammatic representations of intangible thoughts, memories, and feelings in relation to Australian suburbia and
This new work, presented as a site-specific and sensory experience, explores the complex intersection between optimism and pessimism at a time when change is the only constant. Like many others, Kinly Grey’s experience of mass global uncertainty is one of both possibility and sufferance. Embodied in a single word, ‘endless’ will reflect on an afternoon
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Join ONExchange Conversation between catalogue essay writer, Tim Riley Walsh and Sebastian Moody. The pair will delve into the inspiration behind Pause, the timely nature of this exhibition and Sebastian’s process when it comes to public artwork. We are delighted to have the opportunity to invite a larger number of guests to further celebrate this exciting exhibition. We will be offering refreshments
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Please follow the ticket link to register for this FREE online program . A livestreamed, participatory performance that incorporates ritual, plant knowledge, movement, listening, and response-ability. This program is part of the digital residency “Ensayos: Passages.” Ensayos collaborators based in Eastern Australia, Dr. C.F. Black, Amaara Raheem, and Caitlin Franzmann each bring unique interpretations to
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New Museum artists in residence Ensayos premiere Act I of their experimental ecofeminist drama Cucú and Her Fishes. Ensayos’ play Cucú and Her Fishes casts undisciplined research methods into cyberspace. The play develops as a shared passion for ocean advocacy draws nine women together. In Act I, the women plan a second expedition to the
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AboutFace is the result of conversations that occurred on the artisan at home Facebook group in March/April 2020. It takes as its departure, the highly evocative symbol of COVID-19, the face mask. In these extraordinary times, the iconic image of the surgical mask has emerged as a symbol for COVID-19 and the era of social distancing. To document
This exhibition by Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling) contains narratives of adaptation, survival and reinvention. The title, Still. Living is a word play on the French ‘nature morte’ or still life. The form of painting, which depicts objects, emerged in Egyptian tombs during the fifteenth century BCE. The exhibition is entirely comprised of papercut installations. The
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In response to the dramatic effect COVID-19 has had on artists, artisan exhibitions staff have curated a selection of artists who work with legacy craft skills but whose work sits beyond the functional. These are collectable crafted artworks that challenge and reposition what craft can be. This exhibition is accompanied by advocacy messaging for the wider community
Outer Space is pleased to present the first exhibition as part of our online program, ‘Into the Ether’, res[on]ance [off]. This exhibition is a collection of intimate works, developed as a natural response to our social and historical climate. With global enforced lockdowns due to a pandemic, followed by international dialogue surrounding racial prejudice, the
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What
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Expressions of Interest are open now until 20 August 2020 for Curiocities that reflect the intersection of art, science and technology through large-scale, interactive physical and digital installations. This is a global call-out. Individuals, collectives or organisations may submit an EOI. Curiocities will be exhibited at public spaces in Brisbane from 12 to 28 March 2021 as part of Curiocity
Matt James is a Brisbane–based artist primarily interested in landscape painting and drawing. His studio and en plein air work aim to capture the movement and energy of the environment. Having grown up in rural west Wales, his love of the outdoors drives his work. The work on show at Wild Canary in Brookfield will
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The spectacular ranges of Central Australia, known for their dramatic change in colour are the inspiration for the latest exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane, showing from July 22nd. ‘Napaltjarri Sisters’ is an exhibition of paintings by sister duet – Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri and Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri. Their paintings reveal the complex spiritual knowledge and
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Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online, a major UQ Art Museum exhibition investigating how the internet shapes social relations and ideas, while also functioning as a surveillance device, will ‘go live’ on 21 August. In a UQ Art Museum first, the exhibition will be presented and experienced entirely via a dynamic online platform that features recent and newly
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The reimagined Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Ceremony is set to be announced online for the first time in the Awards’ history at 6pm AEST on Friday 7 August. 65 Telstra NATSIAA artist finalists will discover if they are one of the coveted award winners of Australia’s most prestigious and longest
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In 1960 architect Robin Boyd wrote critically about the “satisfaction with veneer and cosmetic effects” he found in Australian suburbs. In Heretofore Christopher Zanko finds great value in the shifting textures and features of mid-20th century homes. Blond brick, aggregate, masonry veneer, stucco; his surfaces remind us about the facades applied during this period in Australian architecture.
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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. Key dates for 2020 23 February >> Entries Open 16 August >> Entries Close 20 September >> Finalists Announced
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As part of the RQAS Biennial we are delighted to host The Fourth Queensland Figurative Award again in 2020. The QLD Figurative is a non-acquisitive Art Award open to Queensland Artists for 2D works in which the human figure is integrated in the composition. Please note exhibition information is subject to change. For more information please
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The Aesthetica Art Prize was launched in 2007, five years after the launch of Aesthetica Magazine, as a way to support the next generation of talent across new visual media. It welcomed both established and emerging practitioners to submit pieces on any theme, celebrating innovative works from a range of media. These works were published in the Creative
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