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Unlearning Opening Party

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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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Aaron Butt: Various Objects

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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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Dean Cross: PARADE

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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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Cossack Art Awards

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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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Art in Public Spaces Program

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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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2020 Stanthorpe Art Prize

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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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Patrick Tjungurrayi

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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 Paintings

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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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The Cube Artist-In-Residence

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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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Seeing Country

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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:

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Queensland Regional Art Awards

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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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Recovered Futures

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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

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R & M McGivern Prize

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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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WHERE TO NEXT…? BUSINESS INTENSIVE FOR MID-CAREER ARTISTS

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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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RICHARD BELL: TATE DOCUMENTARY

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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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UQ Art Museum unveils large-scale window commission – Elizabeth Willing Through the Mother (2019)

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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

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UP LATE RETURNS TO GOMA THIS AUGUST

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Up Late returns to Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) every Friday night in August with live music from The Herd, Clare Bowditch, Custard, Pub Choir, Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie and more. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said Up Late would activate the Gallery’s two major winter exhibitions, ‘Quilty’ and ‘Margaret Olley:

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Matches 4: Rosella Namok Sand Scribe & Merryn Trevethan Floating Cities

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Indigenous artist Rosella Namok and non-Indigenous artist Merryn Trevethan will be displaying paintings and sculptures in Matches 4. These artists, although demonstrating very differing and distinctive styles, both celebrate a pronounced passion for vibrancy of colour. Tropical locales of both Namok’s Lockhart River/Cairns and Trevathan’s Singapore have influenced this. Lockhart River is a remote beach

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ART NEWS PORTAL

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YAJA is a new innovative news feed giving journalism, media and art students a global platform to publish their articles. YAJA – ’embracing mobile and online journalism’ YAJA provides media opportunities, industry mentoring, work experience, networking opportunities, a large audience reach, as well as awards recognition. Yes we think globally. Articles from anywhere in the

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Pivot

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Pivot is a group exhibition that seeks to highlight the connection between artists’ 2D wall works and their forays into artist books. This exhibition comprises artists whose practice is mostly ‘wall-based’, but who frequently shift their platform from 2D works to something more personal and experimental in the form of an artist book. Wall works

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Jeanette Stok + Michelle Vine: Quadrat

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QUADRAT is an art-science exhibition by Jeanette STOK, a research scientist and practicing artist, and Michelle VINE, a contemporary artist and self-taught naturalist doing ‘citizen science’ projects. The exhibition explores the relationship between scientific way of seeing the world by measuring, quantifying and collecting and the more inherently subjective nature of human endeavour. It demonstrates

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Story Bank Art Collection

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Story Bank Art Collection Commissions Fraser Coast Regional Council invites expressions of interest from Queensland-based artists and designers, both emerging and established to be a part of this exciting new cultural and community asset. Successful applications will contribute to Council’s diverse collection of visual art, craft and design and be housed in the Story Bank, first open

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UNLEARN, RELEARN.. REPEAT

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UNLEARN, RELEARN.. REPEAT ARTISTS: Ricardo Passaporte Jorge Galindo Sami Korkiakoski Taylor A. White Jonni Cheatwood Michael Scoggins Unlearn, Relearn.. Repeat unites artists from multiple continents who are exploring materiality, scale, representation and abstraction in a way that uniquely questions and re-imagines the present known. We have an entire cannon of art and social history that

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