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Queensland Screen Industry Practitioners – Creative Hub

Applications are open for Queensland screen industry practitioners and creative businesses to join the vibrant co-working space and targeted business incubator program run by Screen Queensland at sqhub in Teneriffe, Brisbane. Fifteen subsidised co-working spaces are available at sqhub for early to mid-career individuals and companies looking to take the next step with their career […]

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Ann Thomson

A solo exhibition by Ann Thomson, one of Australia’s iconic female artists is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from March 25th. Thomson, who is originally from Brisbane, has been painting for over 50 years and has taken her art around the world. After periods in New York and London Thomson is now based

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Sam Cranstoun: To Speak of Cities

In the second of UQ Art Museum’s window commissions, Brisbane artist Sam Cranstoun has rendered a phrase that conflates futurist typography, Ed Ruscha-style lettering, and 1990s Microsoft Word art. The phrase ‘to speak of cities and present them only as buildings’ is drawn from a 1967 essay written by the accomplished Greek town planner, architect and engineer Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1913 –

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Simon Degroot: Constructive

Simon Degroot uses painting to make sense of the world, translating forms from the digital realm, magazines and architecture. He creates abstract works tied to contemporary life, playfully exploring our everyday surroundings. Constructive traces Degroot’s exploration of abstract forms through painting, collage and public murals. Degroot is a two-time winner of the Moreton Bay Regional

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Curiocity Brisbane

Curiocity Brisbane will again challenge and inspire visitors of all ages in 2020 following its trailblazing debut in March 2019. A celebration of creativity, innovation, science, technology and art, Curiocity Brisbane returns to the city, bigger and bolder, from 20 March to 5 April 2020. Over three weeks, Curiocity Brisbane will deliver a program of immersive, interactive

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Jacinta Giles: Flux

Jan Manton Art is pleased to present Jacinta Giles, a Brisbane-based artist whose conceptually driven photographic practice explores the complex relationship between perception, memory and temporality within contemporary culture. In using unconventional photographic processes—which take their cues from how memory operates—the images oscillate between movement and stillness and the seen and unseen. Through the cutting

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Gallipoli Art Prize

The Gallipoli Art Prize Competition commenced in 2006. The Gallipoli Art Prize will be awarded to the artist who best depicts the spirit of the Gallipoli Campaign as expressed in the Club’s “Creed“. The Club’s Creed is: We believe that within the community there exists an obligation for all to preserve the special qualities of loyalty, respect,

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Artists to watch

Lethbridge Gallery’s annual group exhibition of ‘artists to watch’. Featured are artists Kay Kane, Michael Simms, Louise Thomas and Jacqueline Butterworth. Jacqueline Butterworth Jacqueline’s Gate-crashing Wildlife series is, in some ways, intended to be a playful subversion of the human impact on natural habitats, wherein her carefully constructed still lifes might be overtaken and picked

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Jo Lankester Mind’s Eye: Mapping the Landscape

Onespace Gallery is pleased to invite you to Mind’s Eye: Mapping the Landscape, an exhibition of contemporary prints by Townsville-based artist Jo Lankester. The images in these prints are created from memories associated with the physicality of experiencing the landscape. They tell stories of the journey both in the landscape and through the act of printmaking in

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Margaret Olley

Margaret Olley is one of Australia’s most significant still-life and interior painters. She drew inspiration from her home and studio and the beauty of the everyday objects she gathered around her. Many of her paintings feature arrangements of fruits and flowers, set amid the pottery, art and exotica of her travels. A widely-recognised figure in

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Susan Lincoln: Listen

‘Listen’ is a short meditative performance developed from Untitled (Time 2011 –) a unique ongoing abstract drawing project by Susan Lincoln. This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland; the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments; and the Australian Government through the Australia Council,

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Brook Andrew: SMASH IT

Brook Andrew is one of Australia’s leading Indigenous artists and the Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN. His interdisciplinary practice frequently subverts dominant narratives through interventions into colonial archives and their embedded ideologies. Ethnographic photographs, newspaper excerpts, film footage and other cultural objects are often co-opted and reframed to dismantle racist stereotypes of

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Jason Fitzgerald

Nature’s apparent chaos is ultimately deceptive: oceanic tides are orchestrated by powerful astronomical helixes, and the bee-swarm returns to a hive of mathematical precision. Jason Fitzgerald works on similar principles, creating labyrinthine sculptural reliefs that resonate with the minutiae of nature whilst distilling a universal rhythm. A professional cabinet maker with a compulsive drawing habit,

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Natalya Hughes: Maybe I was painting the woman in me

In March we are presenting new paintings, sculptures, and cyanotypes by Natalya Hughes. The exhibition presents work made over the past three years exploring the representation of women in Modernist painting, in particular, Willem DeKooning’s Woman series. More information online Natalya Hughes acknowledges the support of Australia Council for this project. Image: Two Women IV,

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Gina Athena Ulysse: Performance Lecture

Join us for a performance lecture by 2020 Biennale of Sydney participating artist Gina Athena Ulysse, whose interdisciplinary practice integrates her interests in Black diasporic conditions, ethnography, pedagogy, performance, and representation. Ulysse will then be joined in discussion with Michael Aird – photographer, curator and Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, to be hosted by Carol

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IMA School

IMA School is a new professional development series that seeks to help emerging artists navigate the world of contemporary art. In this hands-on workshop series key artists, academics, and artsworkers will share insights, resources, and offer practical advice on how to build a sustainable art practice. Enrol now for the first semester! IMA School Semester

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Queensland Memory Awards

Applications are now open for State Library of Queensland research fellowships and awards totaling $75,000 as part of the Queensland Memory Awards. Use State Library’s vast resources to uncover and share your stories. People from all backgrounds and disciplines are encouraged to apply. For more information and to apply now, visit slq.qld.gov.au

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Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants: Bushfire Renewal Round

The 2020 Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program (ACDGP): Bushfire Renewal Round will focus on supporting the building, rebuilding and promotion of the creative industries in bushfire-affected areas of Australia. The ACDGP: Bushfire Renewal Round opened for applications at 9am (AEST) on 10 February and closes 2pm (AEST) on 16 March 2020. Applications must be submitted online

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Gertrude Street Projection Festival

Are you an artist experimenting with the possibilities of projection? Curious to explore a challenging new medium with your existing or developing practice? Expressions of Interest for the year’s contemporary and cutting-edge light projection festival are now open! Our 2020 edition – PAST PRESENTs FUTUREs – will propel artists and audiences forward 500 years, asking artists across disciplines to

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Kate Barry: Source

In true Kate Barry style, the work emphasises free, spontaneous, and emotional expression with the mark-making techniques she uses, and a killer colour palette which nods to her background in design. The works in SOURCE are a refreshing reference to the source of inspiration, or the source of Kate’s personal expression, and emphasises the unstudied and intuitive

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Christus Nóbrega: Labirinto

Labirinto, is an exhibition by Brazilian artist and academic Christus Nóbrega, and refers to a technique of lace-making traditionally practiced by the women of Paraíba. The exhibition reflects Nóbrega’s heritage and the enduring role of cotton in an economy with roots in the 16th century. It is an exhibition that reveals the story of Ingá,

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New Woman

New Woman recognises the lives of Brisbane women artists over the past 100 years from the independent  and adventurous to the often overlooked, exploring the trailblazing women who have continued to take the lead in Brisbane art. The exhibition presents a snapshot of the art, personal stories and enduring legacies of Brisbane’s most significant and ground-breaking

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Conscious – Art Call

Murze is looking for artists creating artwork exploring our consciousness; the mind – mental health, and mental health activism or artwork created by artists living with mental health issues. Murze Issue Eleven will be looking at artists responses and experiences with mental health and wellbeing – we are looking for artists and creatives to help

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Michelle Hobbs & Dale Harding

gamu gulindubayi / deep water, deep time is a collaborative exhibition by Michelle Hobbs (Bidjara) and Dale Harding (Bidjara, Ghungalu, Garingbal) to share new water stories. Water drawings echo old forces of water, time and gravity, while incorporating new elements of contamination, climate change and loss, all of which leave an indelible record and legacy

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66th Blake Art & Poetry Prize

The Blake Prize is one of Australia’s longest-standing and most prestigious prizes which encourages conversation about religion and spirituality through art. Hosted by Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Liverpool City Council since 2016, The 66th Blake Prize will return in 2020. Entries for the 66th Blake Art & Poetry Prizes are now open. Submissions exploring

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Forecast Open Call

Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. Forecast transcends neatly defined disciplines and genres to provide insight into creative production processes, and carve out space for the questions on the minds of the next generation of trailblazers. Creative

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