I see pictorial space as an inner landscape for the mind’s eye to roam; so it is not surprising if my paintings evoke the feeling of landscape. (I) know it is a mental projection but it is inherently delightful. While painting, I am issuing an open invitation for these illusions – or allusions – to […]
The John Leslie Art Prize is open to all artists living and working in Australia for landscape paintings that have been completed since 1 July 2018. Inaugurated in 2000, the Prize is named after John Leslie OBE (1919—2016), Patron of the Gippsland Art Gallery. The continuation of the Prize is made possible by the generous
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Australian Art – Any Medium – All Women The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an annual prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established female artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia. We are excited to announce a new
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Articulate is calling for proposals for projects and exhibitions for our 2020 program. Articulate is an artist-run initiative formed in 2010 to support experimental contemporary art that emphasises installation, performance and related spatial and temporal practices. Articulate has two spaces, Articulate project space on the ground floor and ArticulateUpstairs on the mezzanine. These spaces are suited to different types of work—the
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We are pleased invite you to enter the 2020 Stanthorpe Art Prize. Established in 1972, the biennial Stanthorpe Art Prize is the second oldest art competition in Queensland and is open to both emerging and professional artists and one of the top 10 art prizes in regional Australia. The Stanthorpe Art Prize is open to
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The Percival Photographic Portrait Prize returns for the fourth installment since it first debuted in 2014. The Percival Photographic Portrait Prize was started to coincide with the highly popular Percival Portrait Painting Prize and to ensure a city-wide celebration of portraiture. Selected works will be on display at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery from 22 May-19
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‘Landmarks’ stand as points of reference establishing a connection to place – locating us. Whether they are man-made or natural; iconic or arbitrary; repurposed, anonymous or unclaimed, these artworks present as an eclectic summation of a navigation through a localised urban environment. They serve as signifiers of a quasi-archaeological paradigm that fluctuates across
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Lethbridge Gallery believes in the power of art to understand, interpret, and explore the place we live. We are proud to establish the Landscape Prize to celebrate and develop this important genre. We look forward to seeing the entries and to select an annual exhibition that displays the finest landscape artwork in the country. For more
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Now in its fourteenth year, the prize is an annual favourite for audiences and Portrait Gallery staff alike, drawing captivating photographic portraiture from Australia’s professional and aspiring visual artists, and providing a diverse national image in composite. MARKING THE EXTRAORDINARY Accepting photographs taken after 23 October 2019, this edition of the prize incorporates a year
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Jonathan Kopinski is a Brisbane-based artist with a focus on psycho-scenographic paintings that capture very particular and often peculiar moments of both personal and collective history. Each scene is painted from memory (whether experienced firsthand or informed through learned events), without the use of photographic or reference material. This recording occurs sometimes moments after the incident
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Gallery One A: ‘In us our dead, so no-one is left behind’ Pamela Arce I have so many siblings that I can’t count. The valley, the mountain, the field, the sea. Pamela Arce (b. 1986, Perú) primarily combines ceramics and video to create experiences that investigate the body and the relationship between architecture and human
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‘the churchie’ returns to the IMA once more in 2020, debuting a new look and new approach. Since its inception at Anglican Church Grammar School in 1987, the prize has sought to identify and profile the next generation of contemporary artists from across the country. Today it is one of Australia’s leading prizes for emerging
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Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder is a an artist’s workshop located in a former school building in the east of Trondheim in northern Norway. In addition to 41 studios and shared workshops, we also run and international trans-disciplinary artist residency to facilitate international mobility and collaboration opportunities with the local art scene. Who can apply The residency is open
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Entries are now open for paper on skin – Burnie Wearable Paper Art Competition 2020. paper on skin is a biennial wearable art competition first held in 2012, taking place in Tasmania. The Design Eye Creative Major Prize is $5000, making it one of the single richest wearable art awards in the country. In 2016 the event attracted entries
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GOMA.Water.Camrip is an installation by Amelia McLeish, which pirates elements of the blockbuster exhibition ‘Water’, currently showing at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). McLeish has recreated works from the exhibition in the style of a CAMRip, which are low quality bootlegs of movies that typically display audience silhouettes and bad audio. The low-quality recreations
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‘Practical theory of altered states of consciousness’ and ‘The art of breathing’ A Lecture-Workshop by Sabine Rittner UQ Art Museum presents a lecture-workshop by Sabine Rittner in conjunction with Mel O’Callaghan’s exhibition, Centre of the Centre . This workshop will be led by Sabine Rittner, Associate Researcher and Music Psychotherapist, Institute for Medical Psychology, University
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Join artist Rachael Haynes and Brisbane poet Sarah Holland Batt to explore connections between poetry and protest. Through conversation and inspiration, co-create a large-scale collective banner, incorporating fabric techniques and playing with pattern and colour! The completed banner will be displayed at the WOW Australia 2020 Festival. This series of creative workshops draws together multiple
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Turn paper into an intricate masterpiece for protection and good luck. Papercutting is a tradition that emerged from the agricultural region near the Yellow River in China between the fourth and sixth centuries. One of its primary functions was to bring good fortune or ‘Fu’. Learn more about the traditions and artistry of this centuries-old
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A large-scale, text-based artwork by Brisbane artist Sam Cranstoun spanning the façade of The University of Queensland Art Museum has been unveiled, providing a thought-provoking statement about how we occupy our cities. Cranstoun came across the phrase ‘to speak of cities and present them only as buildings’ in a 1967 essay by Greek town planner,
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‘At the still point, there the dance is’ continues Perkins’ exploration of history painting as a means to critically engage with the current affairs of contemporary society. Using an abstracted combination of text and image obtained from various online news services, the works resist an all-at-once perception (and reproduction) to privilege subjective interpretations made in
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Working with traditional cross-stitch techniques, Emery chooses imagery that achieves maximum contrast to the restrained, traditional female craft she employs. Emery’s works can be seen as points of collision, where social history and material culture meet to investigate and reflect social conditions. Through its reclamation and use of the domestic-private sphere, Emery’s practice takes female
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Sha Sarwari is a multidisciplinary visual artist who came to Australia as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2000. Like a moth to a flame is a collection of Sha’s most recent work. His work speaks of a place that exists between two worlds, longing and belonging, with a pointed reference to the political discourse around
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A group exhibition including artists: ALEXANDER BEECH ALAN IBELL EMILY IMESON BRONTE LEIGHTON-DORE SASSY PARK NELL PEARSON THEA ANAMARA PERKINS JULIA SIRIANNI MYLES YOUNG VIEW EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Image: MYLES YOUNG, Beach Therapy 2020
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In the second event of our Incursion sound series, local artists and sonic explorers Primitive Motion (Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig) will be joined by experimental sound makers Amanda Terry and Michael Louttit to perform live musical responses to our current exhibition Cognitive Dissidents: Reasons to Be Cheerful. RSVP
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Mitchell Fine Art begins its 2020 gallery exhibition calendar year with the personally curated exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’. Gallery Director Mike Mitchell has selected artworks from the galleries collection featuring a mix of Australian contemporary and Aboriginal art. The exhibition showcases the gallery’s diverse stockroom and highlights artists that will be exhibited in 2020. There are
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You are invited to a curated Pop Up shop showcasing quality designers, makers & artists from around south east Queensland. Monster Creative is passionate about building networks, creating community and supporting local small businesses who are working hard to create product, art and homewares that are ethical, often handmade and support environmentally friendly practices. Please
Join Ireland-based, Australian-born artist Robert Curgenven for the eighth edition of ‘Sound Offering’, Boxcopy’s monthly program that invites sound artists and experimental musicians to produce an evening of listening. “upon a threshold, where bodies corporate stand, Spectres’ vapours stood” [Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa (1) . Alles Ständische und Stehende verdampft (2) …] From
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Flatform 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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The exhibition takes its title from the sentimentalist and absurdist poetry book of the same name, authored by Gertrude Stein, a 20th century queer figure in modern art and literature. This new body of work is a culmination of the inexplicable love and longings prompted by a cancer diagnosis of someone close to the artist.
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Join IMA Belltower artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson and her collaborators as they take over the IMA courtyard with an evening of performance that brings together language, gesture, and ritual to invoke the stories of women forgotten by colonial histories. See performances by Joella Warkill, Manisha Anjali, Shivanjani Lal, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, and Isha Ram Das,
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As the first exhibition of our 2020 program, we are delighted to present rightNOW 2020 – a selection of works fresh from the studios of four exciting Australian artists. Jordan Azcune Michael Barnett Fintan Magee Nicola Scott This second iteration of rightNOW brings recently completed works straight from artists’ studios to our gallery walls. rightNOW
With the Sun in My Eyes developed from a residency in Kedewatan in Bali in 2019 with each of the paintings based on personal observations and experiences of the area. These were often fleeting moments viewed from a motorbike or glimpses caught in the corner of my eye, or everyday observations that could easily be overlooked
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Lab.15 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 chance to exhibit their artworks in a gallery in Milan (Italy)
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The Moreton Bay Region Art Awards are currently open. The Art Awards offer an acquisitive prize of $8,000 to an overall winner, four category prizes of $2,000 each and two supplementary $1,000 prizes for a Local Artist and People’s Choice Award. Held annually, 2020 will mark the 27th year of the Moreton Bay Region Art
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Il Varco srls creates and organizes the first edition of the Passepartout Photography Prize, a six-monthly online photography prize with cash prize, which will end with an annual exhibition of some of the finalists artists chosen by the art director. The date of the exhibition at 28 Piazza di Pietra gallery in Piazza di Pietra,
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Il Varco is pleased to announce the opening of the call for artists for the fourth edition of the Prisma Art Prize, an exhibition entirely organized by artists for the artists. A painting competition with more than € 2000 in prize money and € 1000 in service awards per year, which will be held seasonally