Join the launch of IMA Belltower at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, a new program dedicated to Queensland contemporary art. The first exhibition in the new gallery space is a solo show by Brisbane-based artist and palawa woman, Mandy Quadrio. The Country Within presents a series of large-scale sculptures using a natural material rich with spiritual and cultural […]
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Early-career Queensland artists are invited to submit proposals for IMA Belltower at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. There are two opportunities: Exhibition as part of IMA Belltower Artwork projection on the façade of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts Applicants are invited to apply for either one or both of these opportunities. IMA Belltower
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Hone your skills in writing about sound in this workshop with renowned artist, musician, and writer, Seth Kim-Cohen, presented in partnership with Liquid Architecture. Workshop participants will read music criticism and sound studies texts, looking closely at the process of listening, thinking, and writing. Together with Kim-Cohen, you will examine texts in intellectual and poetic
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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
Don’t miss your chance to enter Art from the Margins’ (AFTM’s) National Biennial Outsider Art Awards, now open to all artists across Australia. AFTM encourages all artists living with disadvantage to enter, including new and emerging practitioners. Entries close Friday 19 July and cost $10 per artwork entry. For more information and entry forms, please
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Chase Archer’s new series invites viewers to engage in a sense of visual glossolalia, transcending the confusion that is deliberately at play. Glossolalia is a phenomenon where a person speaks a language unknown to them. “Glossolalia is like the moments when you are lying in bed trying to get to sleep and your consciousness slowly
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The Ipswich Art Gallery presents the only South East Queensland showing of the Bundanon Trust National Touring Exhibition “Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul” spanning the life of one of Australia’s most significant modern artists. From light-filled early landscapes to tormented figures in the bush, more than 60 paintings, prints and drawings drawn from major
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Tools are the key to understanding humanity. As a society develops, so too does its use of tools. We’re wholly dependent on them, and use them from each moment to the next. Whether you’re popping in a nail, stitching up a hole, or just tightening a few bolts, thousands of years of human evolution has
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Grace Blake’s exhibition will be comprised of predominantly new work that considers a future dominated by non-human and hybridised beings. Blake will model formative anatomies and ecologies through the use of digital modelling software and 3D printing combined with 2D elements. OPENING / 6pm, 24th July 2019 The gallery is free to visit. Visiting hours
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Flash Lights in Low Visibility investigates the detachment of incarcerated members of our community, who are never returned to full citizenship. The exhibition is concerned with the way that the legal framework and isolation of prison reproduces specific individualizing and moralizing systems. Heightened rates of Indigenous and Transgender incarceration undermine the validity of these systems.
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Birdcage of the Bay is a recreation of the St Helena prison stockade, using plans from the collection of the Queensland State Archives and other historical sources to show the extent of the prison establishment and its myriad of prisoner stories. From unique island records and objects through to discoveries and a virtual reality recreation,
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Join sonic artists RAUM, Amateur Childbirth and Slupr for a free performance at Griffith University Art Museum, programmed by Ross Manning.
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Altered explores the idea that moments of recognition do not entail a direct correspondence between a subject and an object but can occur aesthetically in moments of strange familiarity; in which neither consciousness nor the object discovers its place. These strange murmurings an uncanny origin-less memory that appears displaced, fragmented and incomplete. Reveries able to
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Bringing together a selection of recent acquisitions from the QUT Art Collection, Vis-ability has been conceived as a project to broaden understanding of the lived experiences of people who are blind or with low vision. Drawing on research in QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty, Vis-ability proposes alternative ways of engaging with the Art Collection, considering how technologies can deepen our
The second in our Portrait of an Artist series for 2019 offers a unique insight into the life and the politically-charged work of Queensland artist Gordon Hookey. A proud Waanyi man, Gordon was born in Cloncurry in north-west Queensland. He is an oil painter and sculptor whose art is located at the interface where Aboriginal and
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In 1935, Walter Benjamin published The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. He argued that although art maintains its distinction from the reproduction, it is nevertheless irrevocably changed by the existence of reproductive technologies. This exhibition updates Benjamin’s enquiry, asking what is the impact of selfie culture on contemporary practice? The Work
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Visit the World Press Photo Exhibition 2019 on its world-wide tour showcasing the stories that matter with photography from the 2019 World Press Photo Contest. The 2019 exhibition features the World Press Photo of the Year, and for the first time, the World Press Photo Story of the Year. The winners were chosen by an
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Boxcopy’s ‘Sound Offerings’ is an ongoing monthly program that invites sound artists and experimental musicians to produce an evening of listening. Each performance will be followed by a critical discussion with the artist as a way to generate discourse around contemporary sound practices. For this instalment, titled ‘I am engulfed, I succumb’ artist Rachael Archibald
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This lecture will consider curatorial practice and responsibilities in relation to questions of diversity and inclusion in exhibition programming and collection acquisition and display in museums of modern and contemporary art. Taking as a model for study one of a number of categories of creators routinely marginalised in modernist theory, self-taught and folk artists, it
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In this edition of First Thursdays artist, musician, and writer Seth Kim-Cohen invites you on a morbid joy ride through the physical and financial violence of late-stage capitalism. Careening like a tech stock IPO from krautrock to investment banking to Marxist terror, this investigative performance titled ‘Bargeld ist die neue Liebe (Cash is the new
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“Perceiving colour is like exercising a muscle that is enhanced by use. I feel that one can become attuned to perceiving colour in a more nuanced way.” Gemma Smith Join artist Gemma Smith and exhibition curator, Director of UNSW Galleries, José Da Silva, for a conversation about Smith’s art practice and survey exhibition ‘Gemma Smith:
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Thomas ‘John’ Lee Hammer (Thomas Lee Hammer) is a Brisbane-based emerging artist, of Gubbi Gubbi descent. House Conspiracy wishes to invite you to spend some time with his current work and in conversation with John for ‘The Falls’ showcasing work in development from John’s time as Artist in Residence at House Conspiracy. Showcase 4pm –
Conversations: Realities of War 6.30–7.30pm, Tue 30 Jul Cinema A, GOMA | Ticketed $19 | QAGOMA Members $16 Ben Quilty’s portraits of Australian war veterans are imbued with their complex experiences of war and its aftermath. In 2011, Ben witnessed this firsthand when he toured Afghanistan as an Official War Artist with the Australian Defence
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Responsibilities to Time is a new research-based project by Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist Callum McGrath. Stemming from McGrath’s research into public memorials dedicated to queer subjects and communities, this exhibition presents a selection of LGBTQIA+ memorials arranged into an anonymous family photo-album. Referencing museological presentation, Responsibilities to Time works against the grain of linear archival
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2019 marks the 10th Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing competition and as such is a significant milestone in this now national prize, founded in consultation with the Hopkins-Weise family in memory of their aunt, Marie Ellis. Marie was the former owner of 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley – the home of Jugglers Art Space from 2002-2018. The prize
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At first glance, Gold, silver & rough diamonds – the second exhibition of Donna Marcus’ work to be held with Andrew Baker Art Dealer – continues her exploration of the overlap of domestic and industrial aesthetics, but there is something exceptionally distinctive at play here. The exhibition includes a series of new artworks that feature vibrant as found pigments, only
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Entering the space at Dumb Dumb, Jefferies’ audience is met with a sort of anti-wonderland, an inverted fairytale, in which the characters — who have, for the most part, emerged from the local urban environment of East Brisbane — take the form of plaster-cast construction weights, image-covered chipboard and casts of the ARI architecture itself.
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‘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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