Fancy yourself as a poet, but unsure where to start? Cue the ekphrastic poem! Art and poetry combine in The QUT Literary Salon‘s intimate workshop, where you will write and read a poem exploring an artwork of your choice featured in the exhibition ‘Anne Wallace: Strange Ways’. Be guided through the process of interpretation, analysis, […]
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Writing in Times of Crisis with Jennifer Boyd This workshop will focus on writing through fragments, montage and alchemic mixes of source material – methods that stand in opposition to linearity (either because it’s impossible to think straight, or doing so isn’t desired). It will look to painters such as Hilma af Klint and Charlotte
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we are delighted to present our first exhibitions of the year with luciana smith and charlie hillhouse on thursday 13 february. please join us to celebrate with the artists from 6-9pm at 22 ross st, newstead qld. luciana smith: mortadella moments luciana smith is a sydney-based artist. drawing from her own observations and a range
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A day for all creatives, educators, community workers and those who work in the GLAM sector to be part of the important conversation about the future of Indigenous language and its place as a human right, while gaining skills and tools to incorporate Indigenous language into your craft. Coinciding with International Mother Language Day, the
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Please join us for a panel discussion with Rachael Haynes, Jeanelle Hurst and Amy-Clare McCarthy, facilitated by Simone Hine, as part of AIRplay: Metro Arts, With Love. The festival Metro Arts, With Love, celebrates 40 years of Metro Arts as a site of independent creative activity, at the same time that Metro Arts is leaving its iconic 109 Edward Street
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As a child I had little exposure to fine art. The only still lifes I encountered were the ones on the lids of biscuit tins. One could admire the beautiful tins whilst enjoying their contents! In our house, the biscuit tin was only bought out on the weekends for afternoon tea. A humble suburban ‘high
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For our first exhibition of 2020 we are presenting new work by Sandra Selig developed over the past two years. Drawing in Time Floes will present new works on paper, a new sound installation, and the first display of Returning Eye, a floor based salt drawing. Gallery 3 will feature a new video and sound work by Primitive Motion (Leighton
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Join us for a special screening of ‘No Love Lost’ (2006) and ‘Pennie’ (2018) by filmmaker Lola Clavo as part of ‘DEATH DRIVE’. Artists Rebekah Bide, Jennifer Boyd, Azadeh Hamzeii and Madeleine Stack will introduce the films via an in-conversation. ‘Pennie’ is a documentary portrait of Pennie, a 29 year old art student from Athens
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Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced by undergraduate students in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Photography and Fine Art. These artists and works have been nominated for invitation by Academic Staff and Program Directors as exemplary of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith
Aden Sargeant is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based visual artist, musician and graphic designer. Through installations of sculpture, audio and video Aden’s work responds to their disillusionment with the dysfunctions of the Australian political establishment by reframing the elements of political spectacle. Aden deploys the Situationist method of detournement to de-stabilise motifs from mainstream politics, activist
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Join artist and educator Daniel McKewen for a timely discussion on the broken promises of late capitalism and resulting imminent threats to society. Taking some of the themes in McKewen’s work like economics, politics, and popular culture as a starting point, you’re invited to join an open discussion to unpick the meaning of late capitalism
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present Phony Games, a collection of new paintings by Melbourne-based artist, Claudia Greathead. Painterly enigmas and strange narratives characterise Claudia Greathead’s imagery, which has emerged from old and recent family photographs, travel, and her singular journey. Her paintings speak to the mysteries of family, nature, and animals, and
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Farm Studio has just announced the Open Call for 2020-21 International Artist Residencies at Farm Studio in Rajasthan, India. Farm Studio hosts an international artist residency that accepts applicants from India and from all over the world. Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theatre, music, sound, performance art, writing,
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The IMA and Room40 present MONO 37 with Merzbow at The Old Museum. For the past four decades, Japan’s noise sound artist Merzbow has reigned supreme as the undisputed king of noise. The project is the brainchild of avant-garde musician and writer Masami Akita, who has released hundreds of recordings that chart a cosmos of
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the opening of our latest exhibition with Sebastian Helling ‘Godspeed for Pete’s Sake’. Sebastian will be joining us from Norway for the opening and we will also be hosting an artist talk on the evening. It’s a thrill to have Sebastian present and we are very
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While artist-in-residence at Hope Street in February, Rachael Haynes has been making new works that address the polyvocal nature of contemporary feminism in the ongoing Project for the Affirmation of the Voice. Taking as a starting point the provocation that ‘small acts of resistance can create change’, these text-based works draw specifically on contemporary protest
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Celebrate the launch of Nextdoor ARI. The first exhibition, ‘Hey Neighbour’, will consist of works from all co-founding directors; Ella Callander, Joaquin Gonzales, Amelia McLeish, Abby Rutter and Kimberly Stokes. The directors will formally introduce themselves to the community as Nextdoor ARI. Join us on the 27th of February from 6pm – 8pm for a
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Vaudeville was the revolutionary first anthology of Australian poet Ronald McCuaig. Printers refused to print the work for fear of imprisonment so he printed a limited edition himself. The rare book reveals the sex, violence, despair, ennui, and tenderness of 1930s Sydney characters and was the start of a long and colourful literary career. Documentary
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‘With Love’ seeks to consider how photography and sculpture can be used to relay the implicit vulnerability and intimacy of shared early adult experience. By observing the way intimacy is conveyed through the interaction between the body, space, and the self, the work investigates modes of personal storytelling and aspects of the lived experience by
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A series of major exhibitions, commissions and projects by artists and collectives on the theme of ‘union’ will be presented at The University of Queensland Art Museum throughout 2020. Art Museum Director Dr Campbell Gray said ‘union’ offered a complex and layered context for the Art Museum to think publicly about a range of urgent issues. “While
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Love acrylic earrings? Love native flora and fauna? Native florals are beautiful in acrylic, complemented by the dusty tones and earthy colours. In this workshop, you’ll create beautiful earring made from laser cut acrylic, customised by you. This workshop features hand-drawn illustrations of flora engraved into acrylic and wood – protea flowers, gum nuts, leaves,
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People have complex relationships to the buildings and structures they live in and around. The spaces we inhabit bear witness to not only extraordinary events, but also regular life. As the Redcliffe Art Gallery anticipates a new location in 2020, Built Forms explores other important landmarks and buildings we interact with. Drawn entirely from Moreton
From the Hill represents Mills-Stanley’s 7th solo exhibition over the past 15 years at FireWorks gallery. This title reveals something of the artists daily outlook, looking down at Brisbane from the mountain, as seen in the work of the same title. This impressive collection of 23 delicate oil paintings, depicting real and imagined landscapes, each
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Art from the Margins (AFTM) launches its 2020 exhibition program with Serenity: the art of John Fu Chong, a retrospective collection from artist John Fu Chong, a Brisbane Chinese-Australian immigrant. Featuring landmarks and rural landscapes from across Australia this exhibition is a nostalgic record of Fu Chong’s exploration of his adopted homeland over the last
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After an open call for applications across Queensland, Courtney Coombs and Daniel McKewen have been selected to exhibit as part of the IMA Belltower program. Field of Vision by Courtney Coombs presents new works which engage with the horizon as a starting point, and a metaphor, for discussing the human condition—specifically connection, disconnection, and longing. As an artist, writer and facilitator,
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Jumaadi: House Of Shadow is a captivating new solo exhibition at artisan by the internationally-recognised Indonesian Australian contemporary artist Jumaadi. On show from 16 November 2019 to February 2020, the installation, sculptural and painted works in the exhibition are an intimate reflection into Jumaadi’s most recent works, over the last five years of creative practice. A
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MURZE – 2020 PHOTOGRAPHY CALL This open call is seeking photographers looking to the decade ahead. We want you to send in a portfolio of your work, up to six images. These images can be themed around travel, landscape, cityscape, portraiture, nature or cultural – essentially a documentation of life and change. This is an
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TapeScape is a massive sculpture and indoor landscape by US-based artist Eric Lennartson, inspired by the installations of European design firm For Use/Numen. This latest and largest TapeScape is a unique, tri-level, multi-sensory STEM play environment made entirely from over 115 kilometres of clear packing tape and a scaffold support. The landscape created is an
Neither Here Nor There revisits several of Seth Ellis’ installations from the past five years, including one new Brisbane-based work. These installations emerged from residencies and habitations in different parts of the globe, from Brisbane to Russia to several towns in the US. Each work springs from a peripatetic American’s deep engagement with, and research
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MATTER OF FLAT – The Third Quarter are hosting an end of year group exhibition, and we’ve invited a primo selection of previous exhibitors to create limited edition prints. Benjamin Hale Andy Harwood Gary Abkin Emily Devers Jeremy Plint Kitty Horton Des Skordilis Michael Bell Typically sitting outside of the print realm,
This exhibition reframes the way we view the changing face of nature, a multimodal exploration of elemental phenomena – evoking memory, emotion, and physical responses through the familiarity we have with our natural world. Over centuries of change, elements like the sky remain inherently unchanged by the passage of time, evolving yet ever present. Utilising
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Gallery One: Debbie Taylor Worley ‘Whispering Walls: Herstory recalled, recounted, retold’ In ‘Whispering Walls: Herstory recalled, recounted, retold’ Debbie Taylor Worley investigates what it is to be powerfully feminine in today’s male dominated society. Employing ritual and ceremony she embraces natural, earth-based materials and draws power from the ocean, the earth and the sky. Utilising
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Join us for our first event of 2020, our Summer Residency Showcase. While Outer Space has been closed for the festive season, Brisbane-based artists Anastasia Booth and Briony Law have been utilising our galleries as their studio. Come along and see what they’ve been making. Anastasia Booth works across sculpture, moving image, photography, performance and
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Vincent Serico was born in Brisbane and was separated from his immediate family at the age of four. His mother was a Palm Island woman and his father was from Carnarvon. During the 1950s, he grew up on the ‘mission’ at Cherbourg, Queensland. Vincent’s stories are about living in different parts of Queensland, working, travelling,
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This survey exhibition brings together two major works by Australian artist Bonita Ely, documenting darkly humorous dystopian futures wrought by environmental degradation and genetic engineering. ‘We Live to be Surprised’ 1989/2019 is Ely’s latest iteration of ‘snabbits’ – half snail/half rabbits. Engineered as a food source for an over-populated planet by a futuristic agribusiness regime,
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In January Practice Studio is moving. We’ve been invited to take over a huge new space on Ann St and will be stepping up our combined studio/ store concept by evolving into a co-working space, shop and gallery. Our mission remains the same: to engage people in a more creative, ethical and sustainable fashion model,