Join Brisbane-based performer Phantom Chips, for the fourth edition of ‘Sound Offering’, Boxcopy’s monthly program that invites sound artists and experimental musicians to produce an evening of listening. In this instalment at the IMA, see a performance by Phantom Chips, the alter ego of Tara Pattenden, followed by a discussion of her practice. Phantom Chips […]
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This exhibition presents a new body of sculptural and painting work by Max Athans and Lachlan Mckee. Engaging with the ambiguous yet dynamic state of images in the 21st century, 20XX seeks to upend surfaces, mutate iconography and warp its own substance. From their origin points in the digital they splinter and embed themselves in
Murze artist call ‘Reality’ is seeking artists exploring ideas surrounding escapism, fantasy and surreal reality. Breaking away from traditional methods this artist call is seeking artwork that incorporates digital technology; either using digital methods for image creation or using technology as a means to display and exhibit the piece; i.e. projection, either way, including the
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“Blue You Sea Sky explores definitions of blue in relation to intimate personal experience. The paintings draw on past and present experiences of domesticity, the sea, motherhood, childhood, relationship undercurrents and memory held in place. The works deliberately dance between abstraction and representation, gesture and form. They feature marks made with my son’s outgrown clothes- used
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We are starting to press up against the material limitations of linear economies. Physical waste, some of it created from matter that will long outlive generations of human life, is returning to haunt us. Cultural waste — when beheld, reapproriated, celebrated — is sometimes called ‘camp’. These paintings reflect the strange and imperfect construction of
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Nicholas Harding was born in London in 1956 and migrated to Australia with his family in 1965 where he quickly embraced the Australian love of sun, surf and sand. He studied for his Bachelor of Arts in 1975 and travelled to Europe and U.K. in 1977. Harding now lives, works and regularly exhibits in Sydney.
The Culprit Club, BAM – Brisbane Art Matriarchs, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and Brisbane City Council proudly present the Women’s Work’ panel discussion – Creating Change: Women in the Arts in Brisbane. To coincide with Women’s Work: Outdoor Gallery Exhibition this panel discussion will bring together key women in the Brisbane art scene
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Please join us to celebrate the opening of two exhibitions by Chris Howlett and Peter Kozak Technique Beyond Principle | Chris Howlett “My most recent investigation, Technique Beyond Principal showcases an ongoing series of machinima works, New Media (2019) that remixes internet culture with pop culture magazine cover cum political screen-poster designs. New Media, focuses
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Join us for ‘I Object’ panel discussion at GOMA. The ‘I, Object’ exhibition considers the relationships Indigenous Australian artists have to objects, from the histories informing their creation to the social and cultural consequences of their collection. Historically, museums have housed large collections of anthropological material relating to Indigenous Australians, from photographic archives to unreturned
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Join Dr Jacquie Chlanda for a close reading of the text ‘Death in America’ by Hal Foster, October, Vol. 75, Winter, 1996. In this highly engaging essay Hal Foster unsettles established readings of Andy Warhol’s “Death in America” images, arguing that the works can be understood as “referential and simulacral, connected and disconnected, affective and
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United by their sensitive approaches to materiality, Harriet Body, Ally McKay and Monique Tregenza’s new exhibition “Subtle” brings together delicate and precise work. These process driven pieces embrace a pared back logic that finds elegant simplicity in poetic unions of substance and space. Through a range of installation, assemblage and paper based works, “Subtle” explores
Gallery 1: ‘Cats Do Not Go to Heaven’ In her essay, “Shakespeare’s Sister”, published in the eminent feminist text, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929), Virginia Woolf critiques the words of historian G. M. Trevelyan, who asserted that cats do not go to heaven, and women cannot write the words of Shakespeare. In 2013, Knighted
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The Alien Show | Charlie Donaldson, Loki Groves, Spencer Harvie and Sally Molloy This group exhibition is the sequel to The Alien Show held at Fake-Estate Ari in 2016. In this previous show, this group of artists (Charlie Donaldson, Loki Groves, Spencer Harvie and Sally Molloy) mounted works that explored the theme of “the alien”.
Montsalvat is proud to announce the forthcoming Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize 2019 sponsored by prominent Australian artist, Rick Amor. $20,000 prize non-acquisitive. Applications open: 9am July 30 2019 – 11.59pm September 12 2019. Please read through the Terms and Conditions before entering. Online entry form will available at commencement of application period. Eligability: The
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Efflorescence takes its aesthetic cues from street furniture and the infrastructure of outdoor advertising: public spaces managed by private interests. As an increasingly central component of the urban streetscape, these sites leverage the design and visibility of commuter shelters for use as commercial advertising space. The maximisation of the advertiser’s message is integral to the materials
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The Third Quarter are honoured to host Brisbane artist Kate Barry‘s second exhibition with the gallery: ‘Brood & Bloom’. ___ Kate Barry’s painting process is entirely physical; always standing, crouching and circling around her works. The energetic act of painting itself emerges as both spontaneous and confident. Following on from Kate’s 2018 exhibition with The
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Occupied Landscapes: Evidence of Drones poses questions about how landscape is mediated in the age of the drone, the era of persistent surveillance and the epoch of increasingly autonomous systems. Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox pays particular attention to making visible the invisible signals that operatively enable militarised technologies and militarise-able technologies. She ‘sees’ nets of signals as
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Brisbane illustrator Eri Yamaguchi presents a new collection of artworks and merchandise at Poly Gone Cowboy from 22nd August to 5th September. The exhibition titled ‘HOPE – 希望 – ‘ will feature a series of Whale illustrations aiming to highlight the importance of protecting ocean and marine animals. ‘No matter how small, I hope that
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Featuring Karen Stephens, Jeanette Stok, Clinton Barker, Kenneth Beck and Justin Stenton-Dozey Consumables goes from 27th August to 7th September (Upstairs). “In a fast paced world that we live in, it would seem the definition of consumables is becoming increasingly inadequate as experiences and interactions are also becoming commodified. 5 artists look at, and offer
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Gyre comprises site responsive installations that repurpose and re-contextualise objects that gauge and harness weather-related phenomena. Francis reconstitutes the relations of these objects through their spatial and temporal positioning within the gallery space to explore the way in which the passing of time is perceived. OPENING / 6pm, 21st August month 2019 METRO ARTS GALLERY,
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In this work ‘movement at the edge’ 2019, Mandy Quadrio is talking about movement and more specifically, the movement of forced transportation. Three vessels speak to Quadrio’s palawa history and the forced transportation of family members. While historically family members were pushed to the edge literally and metaphorically, Quadrio now addresses the vulnerable edge of
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Miniature is an exhibition of new work that continues Kinly Grey’s study of light phenomena as metaphysical inquiry. Developed for Boxcopy, this body of work plays with the mutability and enchantment of the world through its optical image. Through the lens, Miniature explores magnification as fodder for imaginative perception, offering a world released from its
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Charlotte Tegan is a PhD candidate and sessional academic at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane and is currently researching Ambivalent Entanglement and the effects of digital connection and isolation on creative capacity in contemporary photomedia practice. Often working with analogue photographic methods, film, plastic cameras and experimental processes, Tegan investigates and explores methods of seeing
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For Marisa Purcell, paint acts as a medium between the empirical world of knowing and a release into the unknown. As she works, her method stretches paint’s physical qualities by combining thinly veiled layers of colour, allowing paint to pool and dry slowly. Through this she builds strange relationships of shape and scale while marking
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present a new exhibition of paintings from the Tjala Arts centre in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Seven Sisters will feature large scale paintings by Sylvia Ken and Tjungkara Ken, the Ken Sisters Collaborative (Tjungkara Ken, Yaritji Young, Freda Brady, Maringka Tunkin and Sandra Ken), plus an individual collaboration
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In Matches 5 Indigenous Kurtjar artist Ian Waldron from the Atherton Tablelands and English born, Melbourne based artist Matthew Johnson have been linked through their celebration of colour, pattern and the Australian bush. This exhibition includes paintings by each artist as well as an immersive collaborative installation including sculptural works by Ian, digital prints and
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March to a different drum, as artist Naomi Blacklock performs Breathing, Humming, Drumming as part of the New Woman exhibition. In Sanskrit, ‘pot’ also means ‘body’, and in turn, images of clay pots symbolise the womb, plenitude, bounty and substance, as well as a communication of sacrifice and offering. During the ritualised performance, multiple clay
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Priscilla Beck’s exhibition Unnamed questions the meaning of art-making and experience within a gallery space. The installation is created by repairing the gallery with porcelain clay, which, over time, shrinks, cracks and falls away. The work contemplates and critiques medium, material and site. OPENING / 6pm, 21st August 2019 METRO ARTS GALLERY 2, level 2
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Please join the opening of two exhibitions by Jenna Lee and Courtney Coombs: Another type of distance (between object, body and place) | Jenna Lee Jenna Lee is a Larrakia, Wardaman and Karajarri woman. She identifies as a queer, mixed race, Asian, Aboriginal woman, with her art practice strongly influenced by these overlapping identities. She
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Brisbane City Council is growing your Brisbane lifestyle by helping deliver thousands of markets, festivals and events each year. First held in 2018, Botanica – Contemporary art outside is quickly establishing itself as Brisbane’s premier outdoor contemporary art event. Now, for the first time, Botanica is calling for expressions of interest from suitably qualified artists, designers, architects,
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This exhibition is about the same-sex marriage story told through a Thai popular folk tales of Sang Thong. Sang Thong is a story of a couple who go through extraordinary lengths to declare their true love in public and get acceptant. The story mirrors the situation of same-sex marriage in Australia, Thailand and around the
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2018 Pollock Krasner Grant Awardee Matt Sheridan will present a fresh body of paintings and paintings-in-motion in ‘Schemattitudes’. A Schematic Attitude or ‘Schemattitude’ exemplifies Sheridan’s recent choice to strip his process down to its core elements by severely limiting his colour palettes and working on raw canvas. The raw canvas works which Sheridan refers to as
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Wei’Num (we num) – this word embodies the amalgamation of the experiences of the peoples of the Western Cape Region covering the areas of Weipa, Mapoon and Naprunam. The artists of Wei’Num present a pictorial departure perhaps associated with Australian Indigenous Artmaking entirely due to the fractured and traumatic history of the stolen generations of
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Master the art of developing your own exhibition and how to pitch your proposal to galleries. This is a weekend intensive of workshops to design, plan and manage your solo or group exhibition. Participants will receive course study materials prior to the workshop and will have the chance to gain feedback on completed proposals following the intensive.
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One of Asia-Pacific’s leading contemporary art galleries, Sullivan+Strumpf is excited to announce Brisbane Brief – a new pop-up exhibition at Festival House in Fortitude Valley. Showing over 10 days, Brisbane Brief presents a selection of new and recent works by celebrated Brisbane artists Tony Albert, Karen Black and Lindy Lee, as well as some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, including Gregory Hodge, Alex Seton, Joanna Lamb, Gonkar Gyatso, Eko Nugroho, eX de
With over 15 year experience and having created some of Australia largest public artworks, local artist Dan Templeman shares his learning, in the hope of encouraging more artists to step out of the confines of the gallery and into public space. Dan Templeman has worked predominately in Public Art since 2004, with over 15 large-scale
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