Try your hand at making a hardcover journal with Secret Belgian Binding, featuring paper-wrapped covers and hand-stitched with a distinctive thread pattern across the spine. In this workshop all materials are provided, and you can choose from a variety of interesting and decorative papers to cover your book boards, plus an assortment of different papers for the book’s pages […]
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Innovate Grant is now accepting submissions for Fall 2019. Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Photographer and one Visual Artist. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented visual artists. For more information and to
Now in its 24th year, the Blacktown City Art Prize is a highly valued art prize, with cash prizes of $20,000 and acquisitive awards. Local, regional and national artists are invited to submit entries in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and mixed media. Entries for the 2019 Blacktown City Art Prize are now open. Read the
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The 10th anniversary presentation of Art, Not Apart returns to Canberra on 14 March 2020 with a showcase of site-specific and diverse projects across NewActon, The Shine Dome, National Film and Sound Archive, and Albert Hall with a curated outburst of performances, exhibitions, film, projection, installations, interactive experiences and two after-parties. Over $60,000 is available to support the development and presentation of artistic
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I grew up in the bayside suburbs of Brisbane, Australia with a speech impediment. My teenage years were spent watching and observing, as I was too embarrassed to speak. My inability to express myself during this time left an indelible mark on my personal history and has provided the impetus for my artistic enquiries. Therefore
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A spectacular couture collection designed by QUT fashion students with textiles created by artists from the Cape York community of Hopevale will be launched for the first time outside of far north Queensland. ‘Wubuul Buii’ (meaning ‘together’) is an exciting exhibition showcasing stunning, one of a kind garments made from unique bush dye silk, and
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Three clusters, FireWorks Gallery’s sixth Matches exhibition for the year, showcases 47 works by 17 artists (both remote and local Indigenous, as well as non-Indigenous) in groups of varying subjects. A combination of paintings, sculptures and works on paper will form part of this first group show for 2019. On entering the gallery through the
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‘Quilty’ is the first major survey exhibition in a decade of one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Ben Quilty. The exhibition extends from Quilty’s early reflections on the initiation rituals performed by young Australian men to his experience as an official war artist in Afghanistan and his campaign to save the lives of Bali
As Australia’s only national Still Life Painting Award, EMSLA is celebrating its thirteenth consecutive year with a non-acquisitive First Prize of $20,000. Closing date for entries is Friday 27th September 2019 Visit our How to Enter page for more information. Enter Now
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Join us for a special life drawing event facilitated by contemporary Australian artist Natalya Hughes. When: Wednesday 25 September 2019 Time: 6-8.30pm Where: Griffith University Art Museum Cost: $20.00 per person All drawing materials are provided however participants are welcome to bring their own journals and materials. ABOUT NATALYA HUGHES: Natalya Hughes works across painting,
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Michelangelo – Endless is the first ever art film made about the Renaissance creative genius Michelangelo Buonarroti. A must for the big screen, this astonishing documentary combines the most advanced filming technologies to examine his most famous pieces and portray the immortal personality of one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen. Here the
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After an open call for applications across Queensland, two artists have been selected to exhibit as part of the IMA Belltower program. Courtney Coombs will present an exhibition in the gallery space, while Daniel McKewen will present a temporary public artwork, to be projected on the façade of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. Both projects will
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“I think it’s important to share my family’s stories, life and other cultural aspects with others so they can gain knowledge of the past and celebrate our ways of life.”Elisa Jane Carmichael As the sun goes down, the pavement along King Street will light up with new artwork created by Ngugi woman Elisa Jane Carmichael,
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A $10,000 OPPORTUNITY FOR QUEENSLAND ARTISTS WITH DISABILITY Access Arts has issued a callout for all Queensland artists who experience disability to push the envelope when applying for this year’s Access Arts Achievement Award. The annual Award gives artists a huge career boost with $10,000 to put towards a project, program, or performance. Access Arts
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The Australia Council National Arts and Disability Awards 2019-21 celebrate the work and achievements of both established and emerging artists, and the significant contribution of artists with disability to the vibrancy of Australian arts. The Council’s research has highlighted the importance of profiling, celebrating and acknowledging the achievements of trail blazers and leading lights at
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Polish up your drawing skills with help from Brisbane-based artist Christopher Bassi in this special life drawing class in the IMA Belltower gallery. Bassi will guide you through different approaches to sketching the human figure, capturing poses created by dancer Gara Doola from the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA). The lesson will draw
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This month in CARPARK we are presenting an exhibition by Ensayos, a nomadic collective research program initiated in Tierra del Fuego in 2010. The artists, scientists and scholars who partake in Ensayos meet intermittently to cross-pollinate and share their experiences on archipelagic intersections of identity, history, geography, language and law. In the weeks leading up to Everything
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Between Dystopia and Utopia presents a suite of new work by Sam Cranstoun that explores the history of C.A. Doxiadis in Brisbane. Doxiadis was an accomplished town planner, architect and engineer who after arriving in Australia from Greece failed to have his qualifications recognised. After three years spent in Queensland farming tomatoes, Doxiadis returned to Athens
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Street Art in the context of these Awards is: Outdoor visual art that is sanctioned, permanent (except in relation to the Festival and Event category, which can include chalk art and temporary installations), and publicly visible from or in a street, laneway, park or other public or publicly-accessible space. This includes wall and utility murals, permanent audio-visual
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‘A Generous Life’ examines the legacy and influence of much-loved Australian artist, Margaret Olley (1923–2011) who spent a formative part of her career in Brisbane. A charismatic character, she exerted a lasting impact on many artists as a mentor and friend and was also a muse for artists including William Dobell and Jeffrey Smart. The
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The 2019 Art from the Margins (AFTM) National Biennial Outsider Art Awards and Exhibition features 60 artworks by new and emerging practitioners living with adversity and disabilities. AFTM currently provides exhibition and professional development opportunities for artists living in the greater Brisbane region and wider Queensland community. A key part of the awards was to
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Touch Lab reimagines the Grey Street Gallery as an active, participatory art research space, a social space for the artist and audience to interact and collaborate in making embodied, multi-sensory works. Through a series of experimental objects, propositions and materials, Michelle Vine explores how touchable installations can affect participants; she investigates what feelings and body
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A selection of paintings documenting one of America’s bloodiest battlefields will be shown at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley for a two week period only. Legendary director and artist George Gittoes presents a first-hand account of the people and politics of Chicago’s deadly gangland in his new documentary ‘White Light’. Gittoes has filmed in some of the world’s most fierce
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What are the complex factors that influence women’s participation in architecture? Join Professor Sandra Kaji-O’Grady (School of Architecture, The University of Queensland) and prominent Australian female architects for the first in a series of talks focusing on female-to-female collaborations, and the ways in which these relationships shape their respective practices. Women in Architecture extends the
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Join artist Sarah Poulgrain and collaborators for an extension of her project, ‘A Set of New Skills’ at the IMA. Through the project, Poulgrain prioritises skill-sharing as both process and outcome, inviting four other artists to work together to learn how to make welded chairs of their own design: Samantha Axiak, Angelica Roache-Wilson, Tyza Stewart,
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Sophie Bottomley’s Shy Love is a new body of work featuring sculptural objects that capture moments of physical tension between two bodies. The exhibition will explore the bodily sensations we experience when we desire someone, highlighting the encounter between the masculine and feminine. OPENING / 6pm, 18th September 2019 EXHIBITION / 18th September – 5th
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“The works in Murky Sex Paintings jostle between interior spaces, exteriors, landscape and sexual figuration. They have been slowly tendered and much mused-upon in the same way that becoming a parent has slowly made me reflect on what it meant to be parented. Growing up in New Zealand’s counter culture communities while living in handmade houses on
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Alexandra Spence’s The cities, they tremble is a three-part audio-visual installation that traces the connections between place, identity and sound. The exhibition presents three works that consider the dynamic nature of the world, using sound as a way to reveal vibrancy within ‘inanimate’ domestic objects. OPENING: 6pm, 18th September 2019 METRO ARTS GALLERY, level 2
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Following on from his first sell out exhibition, Hayes focuses on the influences of our rapidly shrinking global village in his second solo exhibition showing from September 18th. In this exhibition Hayes explores what it is that makes us human and how that is being altered or manipulated. In this period of incredibly rapid social, political and
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#FLOWERS is an ongoing online and physical exhibition, exploring the implications of art existing as cultural commodity. Drawing historical parallels between the first speculative economic bubble — Tulip Mania (1637) — and contemporary image culture, Sherington recontextualises Instagram images of flowers through a randomised image generator, over his freehand drawn artwork. Gathering images from #flowers
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Marisa Veerman is a Brisbane based mixed media artist. Marisa’s work is recognised for its emotive quality fusing opaque, flowing, photographic images with earnest detail through embroidery and painterly wax. With sensitivity to her subject evident, Marisa’s purpose is to make visible the abstract human emotion as the viewer is invited to draw upon a
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Get creative by spending Sunday at GOMA, exploring the ‘Margaret Olley. A Generous Life’ and Ben Quilty exhibitions through pop-up performances, hands-on workshops, curator tour, talks and more. Everything is free! WORKSHOP: DRAW ALONG WITH ME! 12.30–1.15pm | GOMA Audiences of all ages will discover tips and tricks for approaching portraiture, and take inspiration from
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The third in our Portrait of an Artist series for 2019 we pay tribute to the late Gordon Shepherdson – one of Queensland’s most celebrated expressionist painters – at a special event at State Library of Queensland. Gordon was regarded as the artist’s artist and is best known for his dark figurative paintings that have
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Across 11 days, BIFF celebrates contemporary international and Australian screen culture with new release features and documentaries, shorts programs and retrospectives, alongside screenings with live music, conversations, panel discussions and more. BIFF is presented in conjunction with cinema and venue partners throughout Brisbane. For more information please visit the website – biff.com.au
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Contemporary Melbourne painter, printmaker and political cartoonist. Image: Rick Amor: The magician, 2019, oil on canvas, 102 x 131 cm.
Major new group show at Griffith University Art Museum considers the role of contemporary art in confronting issues of desire and repression. Featuring the work of 25 contemporary Australian and international artists, The Abyss explores the push and pull of seductive and repellent images. The exhibition includes international luminaries such as performance and film pioneer