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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A $30,000 National acquisitive prize for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape, now in it’s 16th year. In addition, UNSW Art & Design will offer a selected artist the opportunity to create a limited edition print and a $3,000 prize sponsored by Chris Antico will be presented to the Honourable Mention recipient. Defiance Gallery
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Acclaimed New York-based artist, Denise Green AM, explores collage, painting and photography in her practice. Born in Melbourne, Green studied in Paris at L’École des Beaux-Arts and La Sorbonne before moving to New York to study under artists Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell. Her most recent retrospective exhibition was held at the University of Queensland
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jessie nash – when i was your age jessie nash is an emerging artist based in brisbane whose practice is primarily rooted in oil painting. many of her expressive works feature self-portraits and document uncanny moments, alluding to everyday experience. she explores the push and pulls between the contemporary practice of a female artist and the expectations
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Sydney based painter, printmaker and drawer, Mirra Whale uses her artworks to explore the aesthetics of everyday objects in her exhibition ‘Fodder’. “I want to find beauty in the simplest of objects” says Whale. “To chase shadows that reach across the walls with fleeting light”. Alluding to objects sometimes considered to be of little significance, for Whale, ‘Fodder’
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Entries are invited for the 2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Australia’s richest art prize. Now in its 31st year, the prize invites entries of original works from Australian artists capturing Australians from all walks of life, whether a public figure or someone from their own circle of experience. The winner of the 2019 Prize
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Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is an annual art prize inviting artists to submit works in a variety of artistic categories and mediums. With a total of $38,000 in prize money to be won, the Open section is acquisitive to the Campbelltown City Council collection and is valued at $25,000. The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award coincides
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Noosa Regional Gallery invites contemporary Australian artists to submit works for entry into the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize 2019, dedicated to the memory of the late Lyn McCrea (1944 – 2015); contemporary visual artist, art educator and art collector. The Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize was established by John McCrea in 2015 to honour Lyn’s passion for drawing
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The Hornsby Art Prize is an annual art award and exhibition organised and sponsored by Hornsby Shire Council and delivered in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society. The Hornsby Art Prize is aimed at encouraging the creative talents of people and providing a showcase for their works. The prize is open to artists from across