The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is calling all portrait painters to enter works in the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize valued at $75,000. Prize entry is open to Australian citizens or residents who are over the age of 18 years. Portraits can be of any Australian citizen or resident and/or a person or persons who have […]
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Submissions are open for the first issue of ‘code :: art’, a new art journal that publishes code, exploring the relationship between code and art. Any kind of art where code is the medium is invited, the artistic qualities can be aesthetic, technical, emotional, or whatever else you can come up with. Any programming language may
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Bus Projects is now accepting proposals for our inaugural open call at our new venue, the Collingwood Arts Precinct (CAP) for projects from July 2020 – July 2021. Due midnight Monday 30th September. Bus Projects welcomes applications from a broad constituency of cultural producers including artists, collectives, collaborators, writers and curators at all career levels.
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From controversial cyborg performances like Stelarc’s Exoskeleton, to immersive video games contemplating the spirituality of poetry or ancient civilization, such as thatgamecompany’s Flower (2007-19) or Journey (to be released), art has long been considered a valuable platform for engaging audiences with experimental and futuristic technologies on emotional, physical and cognitive levels. The forward momentum of these technologies has not waned,
Onespace Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition, Umiama, by Zoe Porter. Porter is a Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist exploring primarily a drawing practice, which also extends into painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Her work frequently depicts the animal-human hybrid in an attempt at crossing the boundaries between the animal and
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In these new works Madeleine Kelly takes images of local flowers and seed pods as a starting point and interweaves them with disparate images drawn from a variety of sources. The finished paintings present a complex realm where references from mythology, politics and art history intersect with and the artist’s concern for the environment. IMAGE:
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Our first Life Drawing group show here at TQ. Submissions are now open to contribute to this exhibition coming up on Sept 27. Conditions of entry: – Submissions deadline: August 30. – Artists applying must attend TQ weekly life drawing or have previously exhibited with The Third Quarter. – 2 x artwork submissions max per
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Prizes in the 2020 Western Sydney University Sculpture Award and Exhibition: Western Sydney University Acquisitive Sculpture Award – valued up to $30,000 Landcom People’s Choice Award – $5,000 (non-acquisitive) Janice Reid Site Specific Sculpture Award – $5,000 (non-acquisitive) Entries for the 2020 Western Sydney University Sculpture Award are now open. Download entry form here. Entries close Friday,
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BIG Sculpture @ Veg Out is an outdoor sculpture exhibition and competition presented by the Veg Out Community Gardens St Kilda Inc (Veg Out), in association with Mariella Del Conte, and Adrian Spurr (referred to as BIGSculpture@VO). Veg Out is a not for profit volunteer community organisation that runs a community garden next to Luna Park
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The Gosford Art Prize is a hotly contested event with local and national artists vying for $25,000 in prizes. With no restriction on artwork medium, the exhibition of finalists includes a wide variety of art forms from painting and sculpture to textiles and photography. In 2019 we proudly introduce a new Aboriginal Art Prize sponsored
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Join us for a special life drawing event facilitated by noted Australian artist Luke Roberts. Luke will guide participants through a formal life drawing class focussed on the importance of foundational drawing practices. Refreshments and drawing materials will be supplied, however participants are also encouraged to bring their own journals and/or media. WHEN: Wednesday 28
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We are WILD with excitement to be launching Brisbane’s largest display of women’s street art through our debut Outdoor Gallery Exhibition, ‘WOMEN’S WORK‘, showcasing August 12, 2019. The exhibition features the work of twelve local artists, designers and practitioners including Courtney Brims, Claire Tracey, Dominique Falla, Emma Wright, Lusid Art, Mosessa, Nicola Holly, Rachael Sarra, Rae Cooper, Sarah Hazlehurst, Tori-Jay Mordeyand Zoe Porter.
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Moreton Bay Regional Council is now inviting applications from local artists and creative industry professionals to access low cost studio space at the Caboolture Hub. Four studios are available, each specially designed to act as a business incubator giving local artists an opportunity to develop their creative business in a professional and supportive atmosphere. Studios
Being an artist or facilitator requires more than creative skills. We’ve got you covered! Join us on Sunday 25th August for day of administrative workshops facilitated by Outer Space Management Committee extraordinaires, Katherine Dionysius, Amy-Clare McCarthy and Sara Laborde. SESSION TIMES: 10-11 Preparing Artist CVs and Exhibition Proposals with Katherine Dionysius 11:30-1:00 How to get
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With the capacity to elicit simultaneous experiences of pleasure and disgust, binding the sublime to the puerile, artists have employed strategies to generate schisms in the psyche: those moments where understanding is stalled, language fails, where chimeras or monsters are registered, and where taboos are challenged. Legacies of boundary-challenging artists are resonant in the context
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The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) is proud to present the 2019 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) from 3 to 13 October. The patrons of this year’s Festival are Academy Award-nominated writer, director, and producer Baz Luhrmann and his collaborator of over 30 years, Academy Award-winning costume and production designer Catherine Martin. QAGOMA Director
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Today, ‘the churchie’ Committee and the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), announced the finalists for the churchie national emerging art prize 2019. From over 450 entries submitted, 19 artists have been selected to exhibit in this much-anticipated finalists exhibition, presented at the IMA (Brisbane) for the first time. ‘the churchie’ now offers a lucrative $25,000
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Salzburg Global Seminar invites young cultural innovators globally to apply for the 6th annual session of the Young Cultural Innovators Forum. The YCI Forum offers an opportunity for participants to be part of an intensive program taking place at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, from October 22 to 27, 2019. The Young Cultural Innovators (YCI)
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Drawing parallels between the degradation of the dying human body and the way sentimental objects shed meaning with time, Lucy Quinn’s ‘The Residue’ explores grief via objects and plants inherited due to her father’s passing. This new body of work translates these heirlooms into solemn reflections on the inevitable demise of flesh and memory, questioning
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A group exhibition from students of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University featuring Holly Anderson, Chase Archer, Kahli Budd, Emmalyn Hawthorne, Danielle Milne, Sally Molloy, Annie O’Rourke, Aaron Perkins, Kirk Radunz, Darcy Williams and Natalie Wood, with Timothy Fairless. This exhibition puts to each artist this one seemingly simple challenge: to paint a glass
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Onespace Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition, Foto-Metafisica: The Archive as Object-Poem, by Glen Skien. Skien is a Brisbane-based artist who trained as a printmaker in Townsville. In 2018 he was the recipient of the State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship. His residency adopted a poetic gaze towards the library’s archive of unnamed
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his solo-exhibition brings together a number of energetic strands of Australian artist Agatha Gothe-Snape’s practice: visual and spatial interventions, score-based improvisation, and collaboration. Text, sculpture, moving image, and performance are organised in into a series of ambient spaces that merge with the artist’s internal monologues, producing a kind of psychic architecture. Acknowledging the performative interplay between
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Learn photoshop the way it was designed by the software engineers! There are many different ways how to do any single task in Photoshop. Confused and not sure which is the right way to edit and enhance your images? This course is all about how to drive photoshop the way the software engineers designed it
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The Brisbane Portrait Prize is a new and distinctive cultural offering for Brisbane, with a $50,000 first prize (the Lord Mayor’s Prize), showcasing the best in contemporary portraiture and celebrating the character of the city and those who make it what it is. This is a new opportunity for artists. Entries open in February, and
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Entries are now open for the 2019 Mosman Art Prize. Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious local government art award. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in
The Georges River Art Prize showcases a range of the finest paintings and sculptures produced from artists nationwide and gives local young artists a platform to display their works. This prize, hosted by Hurstville Museum & Gallery, offers over $20,000 in prize money. Exhibition dates: 26 October 2019 – 30 January 2020 Georges River Art
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Margaret Olley and Ben Quilty were excellent friends. How does friendship, mentorship and collaboration influence and nurture your creative practice? Hear from award-winning Mununjali author Ellen Van Neerven and Megan Cope, Quandamooka artist as they discuss how creative exchange, influences their work. For more information please visit the – Website Image: Left: Megan Cope in
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present, ‘While the sun burns behind the islands’, a solo exhibition by Sydney artist Fiona Lowry. Lowry’s new exhibition demonstrates the artist’s continued use of haunting subject matter. Drawing upon the Australian landscape, archetypal dramas play out in dreamlike visions of the wilderness. Fiona Lowry’s instrument of choice, the
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Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art is an exhibition that expresses the disconcerting and delightful world of the digital age. Both playful and challenging, each artwork asks audiences to immerse their senses into a ‘thinking’, ‘feeling’ and ‘doing’ contemplation of what it is to be human in the digital age of technological acceleration. Biologist
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The upcoming solo exhibition by Lesley Kendall depicts selected watercolour and ink paintings of plants and insects, gathered from Brisbane gardens. Lesley used local gardens to sit in, draw specimens and collect samples to paint in her studio. The watercolour and ink paintings juxtapose with 3D paper models of plants, moths, bees and birds reflecting
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Artist Nicola Hooper explores the darker side of the natural world in Zoonoses. Drawing from a range of historical and popular literary references, Hooper investigates zoonotic diseases – illnesses carried by animals that can be transferred to humans. Hooper uses lithography and drawing to create immersive experiences through which visitors can explore their relationships with these
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Teo Treloar (b 1974) lives and works in Austinmer, NSW. For the past decade, he has focused on the development of his intensive drawing practice, which continually tests the discipline’s behavioural and emotional limits, examining the possibilities of minute gesture and trace. Much of his work is about the act of mark making itself, however
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Please join us on Saturday, 31st August 2019 for an afternoon of making and talking to celebrate the launch of Discipline’s fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos (https://ensayostierradelfuego.net/ensayos/). 12:30–2:00pm ‘Felting/Feeling’, a wool felting workshop led by Christy Gast Open process-ing (making and
Camie Lyons is a Sydney-based artist that works across a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting and drawing. Themes of movement, extension and repetition in Lyons’ works can be traced back to her earlier career as a professional dancer. Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present, The Humming Space, a pop-up exhibition of bronze sculptures
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Jarred Wright is a scientific glass blower working in the chemistry, nano-technology and microbiology industry. He is influenced by the organic forms that arise in the imperceptible microcosm of nature and how the amorphous solid/fluid that is molten glass can accurately portray it. Breathing life into the glass, pushing and pulling with subtle movements –
touching in the all’ is an exhibition of new work by KINLY GREY developed during a month in residency at The Walls Art Space. During this time, Kinly has continued their study of light phenomena, this time as an experimental embodiment of ideas inspired by hermetic philosophy. The work is situated as a visual aid
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