The Hopper Prize is offering 5 individual artist grants totaling $5,000 USD awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators. The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists’ careers by providing them with unrestricted financial […]
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VIRTUAL EVENT | Confronting Contemporary Art: My Child Could Have Done That! Contemporary art can sometimes be challenging, intriguing and confusing, but don’t let that intimidate you! In this 3-part virtual talk series via Zoom, unpack the big ideas and ‘art speak’ behind contemporary artworks, including artworks from the QAGOMA Collection. Hosted by Dr Louise
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Gallery One A: ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ by Callum McGrath ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ presents a new two-channel video installation and photographic series. The exhibition follows the aesthetic trajectory of memorialisation and a de-linear reorganisation of queer protest. Organised around two memorials – the Frankfurter Engel and Buchenwald Memorial to all Inmates – the project questions the
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Brisbane-based art historian, Dr Louise R Mayhew, is now offering writing, editing and mentoring services to artists. Louise offers: One-on-one tips for writing artist statements, exhibition proposals and grant applications, etc; Proofreading and practical advice for improving exhibition catalogue essays and postgraduate theses; Face-to-face meetings for working through writing hurdles. Louise has 10+ years’ editing
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The Farm Margaret River is located in the south-west of Western Australia, a region of ancient soils and flora, bounded by the Indian Ocean. The Margaret River region is an international destination for those interested in the arts, wine growing, surfing and its natural beauty. In the age of the Anthropocene, our relationship to the environment and
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This art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit paintings, drawings and 2D artworks up to 60cm in any direction. The judging criteria is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and skill. $20 000 will be awarded to the winner. Prizes The winning prize (acquisitive) – $20,000
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With an annual prize pool worth $15,000, the Waverley Art Prize is open to painting, drawing print & mixed media. Up to 60 finalists will be selected and exhibited in the Finalists’ Exhibition. Prizes: Prizes include; Waverley Art Prize: $10,000 acquisitive The Mayors Prize: $2,000 acquisitive People’s Choice Prize: $500 non-acquisitive Oil Painting Prize
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The American-Australian Arts Fund (AAAF) provides support of up to US $20,000 to emerging Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander artists to study or undertake artistic development in each other’s countries respectively. The American Australian Association awards more than 15 arts scholarships and grants per year and has overall awarded more
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In November 2020, Kyber Theatre organises in Cagliari (Italy) the 7th Edition of the International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival called “The Wonders of Possible”. LMDP Festival is the first of this kind in the whole Italy. Its aim is to promote the interrelation between artistic and technological languages. Kyber Teatro – spin off
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Il Varco is glad to inaugurate the second year of Prisma Art Prize, a quarterly award for artists from all around the world that will become a collective exhibition for the first time in september 2020 in Rome. Organized with the goal of creating a space for visual artists to share their work with hundreds
Artists Antoinette J. Citizen and Courtney Coombs are compiling a list of things that would not exist without creativity. Join in for 5 minutes or for the whole session to extend the conversation. This work accompanies the ‘Artist* Led Economy: Basic Income & the Case for a Freed Future’ online symposium. For more information head
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Come explore, click and play on Lemonade Stand ARI’s online exhibition House Warming. You can View and interact with works by emerging artists Georgia de Koning, Jasmine Megson, Lili Mikami and Abby Rutter. Click on everything, and have fun. Lemonade Stand is an online Artist Run Initiative comprised of four emerging artists who are collectively exploring
Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present a new exhibition of paintings from Tjala Arts, in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia. Each of these artists paint, in different but related ways, the Seven Sisters creation story. This is an ancestral narrative of the Pleiades constellations (the sisters) and a sinister man (Orion)
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Queensland in the sixties: a time for the sunshine state to enjoy its time under the sun. A time for weekends spent licking Gaytimes by the Centenary Pool. A time for mini skirts and Mini Mokes. As with the rest of the nation, Queensland experienced a post-war housing shortage with architects needing to turn to
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A multi-award winning and highly acclaimed photographer, best known for his outstanding wedding photography, ranking him one of the best in the world. Marcus’ original passion for the grandeur of landscapes and story-telling of documentary photography saw him defy scope and create something that had never been done before; placing couples in expansive, dramatic landscapes,
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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. Join us from home for session 2: The Cleaner Threw It Out Have you ever accidentally vacuumed up a valuable artwork? Find out what makes objects art.
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Watch films at home and then join us online to discuss! Guest selectors will offer their response to the film to get the conversation started. — Join us for our forth fortnightly film club, hosted by Chari Larsson. Chari has selected Faces Places (2017) (1hr 29mins) directed Visages Villages Jr and Agnès Varda. Please register
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Expressions of interest are now invited for the inaugural Prize from artists working across a range of mediums, including, and not limited to, painting, mixed media, works on paper, digital, video, photography, sculpture, and textiles. Botanical art in Australia has undergone somewhat of a renaissance in the last 10 years; however, unlike other botanical art prizes, we’re
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HOME | Digital Residency A continuation and evolution of our Initial digital residency ‘Isolation’ We are launching our next seven day residency ‘Home’ to allow more artists to share their work and help tell their stories of what life in isolation as an artist is really like! From the 1st-7th June Murze will be holding
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The biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards has long aimed to increase public exposure to a high standard of pottery from around the nation. A showcase for both well-known and emerging artists, this competition displays the diversity of ceramic art currently being produced in Australia. The City of Townsville Art Collection Award of $10,000 continues to
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The Luxembourg Art Prize is an annual international prize organized by the Pinacothèque, a private museum in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Every year the Prize aims to discover talents, amateur or professional, regardless of age and nationality. The ambition of the Prize is to accelerate the careers of little-known artists through a group exhibition
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In 1987, artist Jack Kilgour bequeathed funds for the creation of a major figurative and portrait art competition to be run in perpetuity at Newcastle Art Gallery. Today, the KILGOUR PRIZE is one of Australia’s major art prizes and awards $50,000 for the most outstanding work of art as determined by a panel of three judges, and $5,000 for
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Unleashed 2020: Emerging Craft & Design brings together six exciting emerging Queensland artists whose practices take us beyond the worn and utilitarian to a more complex and challenging conceptual realm. What might appear initially to be an exhibition of a disparate range of fashion, textiles, jewellery and ceramics are, in fact, a challenging group of objects
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Tara’s new collection ‘Wild Hearts & Skies’ is a call to the wild at heart, the daydreamers and the escape artists. A message to revisit feelings of ease, of simplicity and the lost art of connecting with and embracing a slower paced way of living. Tara has a gift for immersing the viewer into a
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A rite of passage is an event that marks an important stage in someone’s life, or death – a transition. During a time not so long ago, the Aboriginal population of this country transitioned from a free civilisation to a nation conquered. In the process, thousands of years of ecological and spiritual power and cultural
‘A Sign of the Times’ explores creative cultural identity in tumultuous times. Facing political and meteorological chaos, and the end of life as we know it by 2050, this group of artists will explore their diverse approaches to cultural and gender identity through a variety of media — including painting, performance, digital media, sculpture, installation
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Each year, Artbank staff travel to each state to meet with unrepresented artists to view, and potentially acquire their work for the Artbank Collection. The IMA is excited to host the South East Queensland stop on the 2020 Artbank Roadshow, Friday 3 April. We are pleased to announce that one successful artist from the Roadshow will be awarded a
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This series of works continues Jane Guthleben’s fascination with c17th Dutch still life paintings and how to reimagine them in an Australian context. Through extravagant arrangements, small studies of birds and flowers and groupings of ornaments, Guthleben aims to build on Dutch traditions with contemporary Antipodean subject matter. Concerns about threats to Australia’s flora and
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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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
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 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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‘Cognitive Dissidents: Reasons to be Cheerful’ explores the development of Australian video art from the 1970s to the 1990s. Comprising over 20 works, the exhibition has been curated by respected Sydney curator, artist and conservator Stephen Jones, who has worked with video since the early 1970s, and includes influential artists ARF ARF, Debra Beattie, Joan
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Centre of the Centre, Mel O’Callaghan’s new exhibition, traces the origins of life and its regenerative forces. The catalyst for this new body of work is one small mineral given to the artist by her grandfather, renowned mineralogist Albert Chapman. The mineral contains a small pocket of water, possibly millions of years old, which holds
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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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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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