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Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize

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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 : History of the Landwehr Canal

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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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Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder LKV Residency

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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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A Lecture -Workshop by Sabine Rittner

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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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Art & Protest Poetry Workshop

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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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Window commission sparks conversations about future cities

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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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Aaron Perkins: At the still point, there the dance is

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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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Leah Emery: Still Lyfe

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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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Sonic Event: Incursion #2

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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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Directors Choice Exhibition

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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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Monster Creative

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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

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Sound Offering VIII: Robert Curgenven

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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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Natalie Lavelle: Flatform

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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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First Thursdays: Sancintya Mohini Simpson – Women’s History Month

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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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rightNOW

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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

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Lab.15 art contest

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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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Prisma Art Prize

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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

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AIRspace

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Ten local Artist-Run-Initiatives (ARIs) are taking up residence at Metro Arts’ level 3 studios. Step into level 3 for a snapshot of Brisbane’s local ARIs, a chance to explore the studios, and space to come together for talks, discussions, performance and more. Metro Arts has been home to many ARIs over the years, with Boxcopy

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The Kaya Sulc Studio Residency

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The Kaya Sulc Studio Residency is a BFAC intiative to honour the life’s work of internationally collected, Cooroy-based artist, Kaya Sulc. At home on our Mezzanine Level, this residency offers artists a studio space, informal mentoring and concept development towards an outcome of their choice, at the conclusion of their residency. Applications for our 2020 program are

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SWELL Sculpture Festival

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Artists are invited to be creatively daring, brave and bold and apply to exhibit in SWELL 2020, Queensland’s largest and best outdoor sculpture exhibition taking place along Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast. SWELL is a 10-day manifestation of conceptions and visual commentary and presents small, medium and large scale sculpture, installations and digital works

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The Alice Prize

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In 2020, the Alice Prize will celebrate its 41st incarnation with the award for the winning artwork of $30,000. The Alice Prize is an acquisitive national contemporary art prize, welcoming entries from around Australia, in any medium or theme. Significant among regional art prizes, the Alice Prize contributes to one of the largest regional collections of

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