Home: a suburban obsession is about the allure of home and the stories found within, inspired by one of the largest digitised photographic collections of Queensland houses. It explores the social and emotional foundations of our houses through ephemera and artistic responses capturing the places we call home. During the 1960s and 70s, Frank and Eunice […]
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Helen Wyatt uses narrative jewellery to explore edges, walls and fences as the material expression of transitional sites – places where nature and culture intersect. Consequently, she has been walking through landscapes, studying ordinary elements that define ownership and use of land. I Walk the Line will showcase a selection of new wearable objects that
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Regional Arts NSW is extending a call for papers as part of the speakers program at Artstate Tamworth. Responding to the themes of On Country – In Country or Arts in the Age of Uncertainty, your proposal may take the form of a panel, a presentation or hands-on workshop. Sessions will be one and quarter hours in length
The annual MELT Portrait Prize gives visual artists the creative license to celebrate heroes in the LGBTIQ+ community; whether it be a local icon or an internationally acclaimed personality. We are delighted to announce that the 2019 recipient of the Judge’s Choice Award is: Dan Molloy for Silenced in the Shadows. The judges nominated three works for Highly Commended recognition: Seamus Platt
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Moho Art Prize awards the best international talents in contemporary art. Awarded categories are painting, sculpture and installation, photography, new media. Applications are split into two categories: single project (Must consist of a minimum of 3 works. All the works must belong to the same single project or series. There are no limits to the
Aspire Gallery is calling for artists whose work explores the social constructs of ‘feminine’ and/or ‘masculine’ – either in a positive or negative light. Artists of all medium, skill level and style are welcome to enter. IMPORTANT DATES: Exhibition Dates: 19 – 29 June 2019, Wed – Sat Applications Close: Sunday 11 June (Midnight) For
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Join Dr Victoria Lawson for a discussion on the writing of Claire Bishop – art historian, critic and Professor of Art History at Cambridge University. Participants will consider Bishop’s text ‘Pedagogic Projects: How do you bring a classroom to life as if it were a work of art’, from her publication ‘Artificial Hells: Participatory Art
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A group show featuring: ZOE YOUNG, VIPOO SRIVILASA, TIM McMONAGLE, TARA MARYNOWSKY, STEFAN DUNLOP, SALLY ANDERSON, PAUL RYAN, MIRANDA SKOCZEK, MARISA PURCELL, LYNDAL HARGRAVE, LUCY O’DOHERTY, JULIAN MEAGHER, JUDITH SINNAMON, JOHN BOKOR, JAOHN ASLANIDIS, JANE GUTHLEBEN, ELIZA GOSSE, DAN KYLE, CLARA ADOLPHS, CHRIS ZANKO, CHARMAINE PIKE, BUNDIT PUANGTHONG, BRIDIE GILLMAN, BELEM LETT, ARI ATHANS, AMBER WALLIS
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Learn how to create your very own A5-sized sketchbook/journal in landscape format, with five fat sections filled with your most favourite papers. Hardboard covers wrapped with a special feature paper (or even your own art!). A leather spine with a choice of stitching styles, either criss-crossed with five stacks of ‘X’s in a wide choice
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Inaugral Du Rietz Art Awards, with over $13,000 prize monies. Major Prizes – 2D $6,000. Budget Steel 3D Award $3,000 (acquisitive), Bendigo Bank Locals Award $3,000. Five sub awards – Roy Skinner Memorial Works on Paper Award, Bryan Moore Memorial Ceramic Award, Ceramic Encouragement Award, Locals Encouragement Award, People’s Choice Award. Finalists pre-selected. Awards presentations
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‘Catacoustics IV’ continues the Robb’s interest in a system of self-portraiture that has strayed far from its origin in the sculptural bust. In the fourth and final version of this body of work, Robb presents a sequence of objects, images and videos all of which are derived from a single sculptural portrait: the Ian Fairweather
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Childhood is synonymous with imagination, play and curiosity, yet as we age these qualities dissipate. I Remember You is a body of work devoted to this inimitable period of innocence, freedom, and naivety. A time when the schoolyard felt expansive, skin was flawless, hearts had not yet been broken, remembering the times tables was a
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Robert Andrew is one of Australia’s most compelling contemporary artists. In this special life drawing class he will be joined by harpist Donald Hall who will be both model and musician on the night! WHEN: Wednesday 3 July, 6-8.30pm WHERE: Griffith University Art Museum, 226 Grey St, South Bank COST: $20.00 About Robert: Robert Andrew’s
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Common Knowledge and Learning Curves is the first Australian institutional solo exhibition by Keg de Souza, touring to Griffith University Art Museum from Artspace, Sydney. The exhibition explores de Souza’s ongoing interest in the ways we teach and learn, and how place and social status can affect both. The exhibition seeks to redress traditional systems of
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Nicolas Molé’s immersive animated installation embodies the forest environment of his ancestral home, Lifou in New Caledonia. Pulsing natural life forms found in this environment are symbols for the forces of nature. They also stand in for complex human emotions and relationships including with those that the living have with an ancestral realm.
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Sally M. Nangala Mulda lives at Abbott’s Town Camp, near the riverbed of the Todd River in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Born in Titjikala, 130 km south of Mparntwe, she went to school in Amoonguna. Her childhood wasn’t stable because she had difficulties with her vision and lost the use of her left arm due to
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artisan’s Agency by Design exhibition explores how design for disability does not follow a one size fits all model and is not only about functionality. New design is now being tailored to physical and expressive individual needs. Many of the designs profiled in Agency by Design allow the wearer to project a powerful image of how they
This exhibition features graphic, geometric paintings reduced to line and hardedge colour fields that have been produced from mathematical code. Using notions of Bayesian probability or the ‘beholders share’, it becomes the task of the viewer to mentally scan and process the sensory data to reveal the image structure. Judith Duquemin is a constructive, geometric
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Peter Boggs and mysterious realities. Giorgio de Chirico once famously observed that “Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” Peter Boggs is an artist who discovers realities beyond those which first meet
A retrospective celebrating forty years of works by local artist Dean Cogle, including paintings, designs and illustrations that capture the Gold Coast’s iconic lifestyle. Synonymous with coastal culture, his work embodies themes of place, memory, and identity. Dean’s photo-real representations of 50s fibro-culture and 70s walk-ups, breezeways and tessellated brickwork are born of astute observation
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Women’s Wealth focuses on the closely connected matrilineal societies of Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, and the art forms made by women — from cane and pandanus weaving, to shell ornamentation and earthenware pottery.The project explores ideas of value and the role of these art forms as a kind of wealth or currency. Women’s Wealth
You are invited to celebrate the beginning of the new financial year by attending the participatory installation ‘Work Party’ by Aishla Manning, upstairs at Outer Space on Friday 19 July. When: Friday 19 July 6-8pm Where: Upstairs at Outer Space, 1/170 Montague Rd, South Brisbane QLD 4101 What to Expect: There will be a party
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Christopher R. Inwood’s career sits on a foundation of autodidactic painting that examines the nature of art through our histories and extends into an examination of the social and political realms of this temporality. His paintings draw concepts and imagery from his personal experiences, the scientific frontiers, art history, and the digital world. Inwood refined
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For our 2019 – 2020 exhibition program Outer Space encourages artists & curators to engage with the programming team to develop new and ambitious bodies of work. There is no fee to exhibit at Outer Space. The exhibition period is six weeks including install and de-install. Artists who exhibit with Outer Space receive the following
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Assuming a Surface expands upon James Barth’s and Tyza Stewart’s existing painting and image making practices. Both artists produce ongoing series of self portraits that critique constructions of (trans)gender narratives, visibility and image production. Their joint exhibition arose from a desire to consider more abstract and non-figurative aspects of their respective practices; to seek open-ended,
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This exhibition presents new work by Judy Watson exploring Indigenous strength and resilience in the face of climate change and other pressures. In Gallery 1 and 2 she will exhibit new paintings, drawings and video works addressing ecological themes, inspired by bodies of water, snow melts and natural forms. These will be presented alongside works
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We Koppel, We Dala reflects upon South African Apartheid history to consider adjacent histories of colonial oppression and their ongoing impacts. The exhibition presents archival documents and new video works that together focus on land, representation, identity, loss, migration, memory and the importance of resistance and self-determination. OPENING / 6pm, 26th June 2019 The gallery
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Carol McGregor’s focus in her visual art practice is to contribute to the “untelling” of Australian Indigenous community histories and heritage. Untelling is McGregor’s term to describe the personal and political acts needed to undo colonial structures and thinking. A part of this undoing or decolonising, has been to share knowledges and to pass on
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“Affect, at its most anthropomorphic, is the name we give to those forces—visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing, vital forces insisting beyond emotion—that can serve to drive us toward movement, toward thought and extension …” (Gregg and Seigworth, 2010, p. 1) Empathic Gestures II is the second creative iteration from a
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‘the churchie’ is a contemporary emerging art prize offering a lucrative total prize pool of $25,000 with the overall winner receiving a $15,000 cash prize (non-acquisitive). Entry to this annual prize is open to artists of all ages (over 18 years) and disciplines who identify as early career and are Australian citizens or residents. KEY
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UNESCO will be accepting proposals for innovative projects that aim to strengthen the cultural and creative sectors in developing countries, in the framework of its 10th IFCD call for applications. The International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) is a multi-donor fund, established by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
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The Third Quarter is pleased to share an upcoming solo exhibition with established Brisbane multidisciplinary artist Sam Eyles. ___ Eyles has traversed the Brisbane art landscape for many years, contributing to rich arts collectives such as Jugglers Art Space Inc, and community arts groups through Micah Projects. The artist is also one third of the
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“Heavy industry once defined the Illawarra. Squeezed in a narrow strip between the coast and a towering escarpment were coal mines, coke and brickworks peppered across the coastal suburbs. Miners cottages, postwar brick and fibro dwellings housed the workers and their families who operated and serviced this domineering industrial complex throughout the 20th Century. These
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This full-day workshop will explore various tools and vocabularies used when writing for contemporary performance. Participants will explore various methods for story telling through performance, using group and individual writing tasks, improvisation, screen writing, found materials and autobiography. Techniques and methods will be drawn from Emma and Vidya’s own work and learned from their time
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Boxcopy is excited to announce the first exhibition in our new space will be by Sydney based artist Zoe Wong. Please join us at the opening for food and refreshments. Oriental Futures is an exhibition exploring the oriental setting that is apparent in sci-fi cinema, particularly that of Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049
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INTERSECTION by Warren Handley is a new limited edition print series produced exclusively for The Third Quarter. Following on from the artist’s previous print series ‘Subvert Systems’, INTERSECTION shares Handley’s digital collage process of combining analogue glitching and abstraction techniques with graphic design methodology – creating a lucid, hybrid visual language. This process of sampling,
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