‘What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives’ is a new publication that brings together texts from leading theorists and practitioners in the field, creating an extensive critical archive documenting Australian performance art’s first fifty years. Join a conversation with publication contributor Laini Burton and featured artist Simone Hine at the IMA. Burton and Hine will discuss […]
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The Third Quarter are honoured to host a full gallery takeover by Brisbane based multimedia artist James Hornsby. ___ ‘Don’t Get Your Hopes Up’ is the apt title of this multifasceted body of work by James Hornsby. His images prophesise an imminent visual apocalypse with the manic temperament of our digital age. Hornsby’s imagined doomsday
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‘Quilty’ Conversations: A World Without The Death Penalty 6.30–7.30pm, Tue 23 Jul Cinema A, GOMA | Ticketed $19 | QAGOMA Members $16 Ben Quilty is known for advocating for change through his socially-engaged art practice. In 2015, Ben was profoundly affected by the execution of his friend and fellow artist Myuran Sukumaran. How can we
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\You are warmly invited to join artist Charlie Donaldson and architect Hamish Lonergan in conversation with curator Sophie Rose about the history and conspiracies behind the current exhibition ‘Bathroom Gossip.’ ‘Bathroom Gossip’ reinstates rumour in architecture. Bringing together the work of architectural graduate Hamish Lonergan and artist Charlie Donaldson, the show includes a 1:1 model
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New works by Brisbane-based artist/printmaker Kay Watanabe. Kay Watanabe solo show “Fiori e stelle ci connettono (Flowers and stars connect us)” Side Gallery (7 Emma St, Red Hill, Brisbane) 1 – 16 August (Opening on the evening of 1 August) Kay’s works are inspired by interconnectedness between the humans and the natural world.
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The works in this exhibition are acts of ‘Meaningful Mischief’, humorous craftivisms which comment on women’s unrelenting, thankless and invisible labour. Statistically women perform the greater amount of home duties and Deborah Eddy is railing against it. The artist is drawing on her own lived and inherited domestic experience by making playful sculptural objects. Her
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Jason Benjamin resists the dominance of ideas in contemporary art – he prefers to champion art as experience. Benjamin’s exquisitely rendered oil paintings, with their careful distillation of light and space, invite contemplation and emotional engagement. Despite now being based in Sydney, this country’s largest city, Benjamin engages with the visual language and tradition of
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“A few years ago I found something I had been searching for – a sailing boat of a certain type. Large enough to paint on and set up well enough to stay out on in all sorts of weather and yet small enough to manage on my own with shallow draft to move close along
‘Bathroom Gossip’ Charlie Donaldson & Hamish Lonergan curated by Sophie Rose ‘Now That You’re Here’ Olivia Lacey Opening event Friday 12 July 2019 6-8pm Exhibitions run 13-27 July 2019 16 Merivale Street, South Brisbane ‘Bathroom Gossip’ reinstates rumour in architecture. Bringing together the work of architectural graduate Hamish Lonergan and artist Charlie Donaldson, the show
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Celebrate the launch of our creative program ‘Unlearning’ with new artworks, exhibitions, artists, creative thinkers, food, drinks and music by DJ Dameeela. https://art-museum.uq.edu.au/unlearning ‘Unlearning’ brings together new and recent artworks, commissions, collection exhibitions, artists and creative thinkers. Running for an extended duration, ‘Unlearning’ considers the ways in which artists gain, shed and unravel internalised learning
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Various Objects pulls together three loose strands of the artist’s studio practice, the first of which being figurative paintings made in response to a research trip and residency undertaken by Butt in Amsterdam in January 2019. Additionally, the exhibition also presents works made immediately prior to this trip, as well as works from as far as
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Lisa Christensen’s new series evokes a sense of fragility and the sublime, with a strong focus on light. Picturing lifeless birds amongst iconic Australian wildflowers focuses attention on how we relate to imagery of our natural environment. Idealised scenes of native birds frolicking and feeding from the flowers, are turned on their end by depictions of soft,
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PARADE is facilitated by Boxcopy and hosted at Outer Space. In 1988 I was wheeled off a train in Brisbane, strapped to a rickety pram, my eyes were wide at the crush of people that surrounded me. I was rolled along a boulevard toward a monolithic kangaroo, and as my creaky carriage was pushed past
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Vernon Ah Kee will present a suite of recent life drawings.
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From humble beginnings in Western Australia’s resources heartland, the Cossack Art Awards have grown in size and stature over the years to become the most unique acquisitive art award in regional Australia. Now in its 27th year, the Cossack Art Awards continue to grow both within the region, as the highlight of the cultural calendar
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Do you have an exciting idea for a small-scale public art project? Banyule City Council is looking for smalll, original and inventive site-specific creative projects to take place within a public space in Banyule. Funding of up to $1000 is available for successful proposals. Projects can be in any creative form from visual arts to performance to digital
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Established in 1972, the biennial Stanthorpe Art Prize is the second oldest art competition in Queensland and is open to both emerging and professional artists and one of the top 10 art prizes in regional Australia. The Stanthorpe Art Prize is open to Australian artists who have the opportunity of winning one of eleven categories,
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New work by James Barth. Image: Studio Self-Portrait, 2019. Oil on dibond, 80 x 61 cm.
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Bold and colourful interpretations of the harsh Australian desert feature in the upcoming exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art. Showing from 26th June, Mitchell Fine Art presents a collection of 17 spectacular artworks by internationally recognised Aboriginal artist Patrick Tjungurrayi. Shown for the first time in it’s entirety, ‘Kallianku’ celebrates Tjungurrayi’s immense cultural knowledge and innate artistic talent. Born pre-contact, circa 1935, in one of the most remote
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Peter Booth is an Australian figurative and a surrealist painter, and one of the key late-20th-century Australian artists. His work is characterised by an intense emotional power of often dark narratives, and esoteric symbolism. Image: Painting,2018, Oil on linen, 152.5 x 243.84 cm
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Expressions of Interest are now open for QUT The Cube’s 2019 Artist-in-Residence program. The program is a unique opportunity for creatives to further their practice by designing, developing and delivering an innovative digital project at The Cube. This 10-week residency is suited to established creative practitioners across a broad range of disciplines including visual art,
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Visual Thinking helps audiences to build observation skills, improve confidence talking about art, and inspire new ideas. In this session you will form a small group and a trained facilitator will lead a discussion about the artworks on display. You are encouraged to look closely at the artwork and to share what you see. There
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Seeing Country celebrates Aboriginal ecological understandings by highlighting resilient relationships with the lands and waters. This exhibition brings together artistic practices and experiences from saltwater, freshwater and rainforest Country to share insights of place across time. Curated by Freja Carmichael, Seeing Country includes works from the RAG Collection, loaned works and new commissions. Exhibiting artists:
In Gradual Change, Caitlin Franzmann and Man Cheung present works resulting from their explorations of Logan parklands and nature reserves. Over the past year, the artists have joined bushcare groups, attended tree-planting events and listened to stories from local residents that are advocating for the environment. This exhibition highlights how a sense of wonder and
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The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to provide a platform for further professional development. Artists currently residing in Queensland outside of the Brisbane City Council boundary are eligible to enter the Queensland Regional Art Awards.
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RFQ have officially launched their ‘Call for Artists’campaign, inviting artists with a lived experience of mental illness to register to display their artwork at the 2019 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition. Registrations are also open to artists who are carers or family members of someone with lived experience. The art exhibition will feature during Queensland Mental
Applications for the Megalo International Print Prize 2020 are now open. – 1ST PRIZE $12,000 2ND PRIZE $6,000 LERIDA ESTATE ACQUISITIVE AWARD $2500 PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD $1000 – ENTRIES CLOSE: 31 JULY 2019 – The Megalo International Print Prize (MIPP) is open to all artists 18 years of age and whose work can be classified
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Aspire’s second annual small pieces competition, ‘Foot Square’ is back for 2019! With only 30 x 30 cm to work with, ‘Foot Square’ challenges artists to make an impact in ways other than size. We ask every artist, how do you make your work stand out – is it through style, subject, medium, technique or
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Support from the MGA Foundation and Sotheby’s Australia brings the prize pool for the 2019 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize to a total of $35,000 – an exciting prospect for Australian artists working with the medium of photography. The Bowness Photography Prize has become an important survey of contemporary photographic practice and one of
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Held every three years with a changing theme, the R & M McGivern Prize is a $25,000 acquisitive painting prize. In 2019 the theme is the ‘Anthropocene’ and calls for artists across Australia to consider the impact of human habitation on the environment, including colonisation, industrialisation, geology and sustainability. Rose Nolan was winner of the
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The biennial Naked & Nude Art Prize (previously the Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude) commenced in 1990 with entries open to Australian artists. The Art Prize is a partnership between Friends of the Manning Regional Art Gallery and the Manning Regional Art Gallery. After 29 years, the Naked & Nude Art Prize has become
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This initiative has been commended by Sir David Attenborough. Artists are invited to submit a 2D work on the theme “Mega Fauna, Fossils & Caves – an Artistic Exploration”. A wide range of artistic expression and mediums is being encouraged. The opening of the exhibition and announcement of the winners will be staged in
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The Banyule Award for Works on Paper is awarded biennially to an outstanding contemporary work on paper. It is an acquisitive prize, with the winning artwork entered into the Banyule Art Collection. The Banyule Art Collection is a contemporary collection of art works by leading and emerging Australian artists, including the likes of John Wolseley,
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Mid-career artists are invited to take part in this unique program designed to explore and map out the next steps for your creative practice and arts business. Facilitated by Dr Cathryn Lloyd, it will use creative approaches to reflect on the provenance (origins and motivations) of your professional practice before delving into ideas for ways
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Following the joint acquisition by the MCA, Sydney, and Tate, London, of Richard Bell’s on-going work Embassy, the Tate have produced a short documentary on Richard Bell which has just been released. It can be viewed online here. Image: Richard Bell, Embassy 2013- on-going. Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art, Biennale of Sydney, 2016. Photo by Document Photography. Collection of
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“The Art Museum possesses a beautiful architectural structure but the enormous windows can be a little austere and foreboding for some,” Gray said. “Elizabeth’s artwork helps to fracture this membrane, encouraging visitors to think differently about the building and prompting a questioning process that leads them inside.” According to Willing, the structural qualities of the