Boxcopy is looking for a number of enthusiastic and motivated volunteers to fill a gallery assistant role in our exciting new South Brisbane gallery space. We are looking for students, artists, curators, arts workers and anyone that loves art to help us deliver experimental and emerging practices to Brisbane’s arts community. Boxcopy offers volunteers the […]
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Blak Dot Gallery, in partnership with Channels Festival, are commissioning four First Nations artists to create new screen-based work to exhibit in the 2019 Channels Festival. Applications are now open! We encourage proposals from First Nations artists that encompass all new media, including single and multi-channel video works, Virtual Reality and experimental formats. We seek
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Sal J Edwards’ ‘The Great Masculine Renunciation’ presents a menswear collection that responds to the contemporary call for the redefining and diversifying of gendered identities. Their work interrogates the unspoken line that divides acceptable masculine aesthetics from the transgressive, identifying playful ways to challenge that line through fashion practice. This exhibition is titled after J.C.
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Edwina Corlette Gallery has moved to a new location. Further along Brunswick Street in Brisbane, the new space is housed in a landmark heritage building originally constructed in the 1920s. Award-winning architect David Gole from Conrad Gargett has designed the new Gallery, maximising the proportions of the original building to provide a state of the art,
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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, begun 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 and the home of Jugglers Art Space from 2002-2018. We see
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Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery is now inviting entries from all Australian artists to Still: National Still Life Award. The award is biennial, acquisitive and open to all mediums. Still: National Still Life Award takes a fresh and contemporary approach to still life and its themes; memento mori, life and death, observation of and reverence for
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Wonderful Things is an exhibition of new work by Tim McMonagle, who through whimsical compositions, has considered the curious lifecycle of Australia’s majestic native gums, magnificent pavlovas and the personalities of the duck-billed platypus. Concurrent to his propensity for quirky imagery is McMonagle’s abiding respect for painting. Each canvas is a testament to his commitment to technique and
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Join us for a lively life drawing workshop facilitated by contemporary artist Abbey McCulloch. Suitable for all ages and abilities, the class will foster different ways of seeing, drawing and thinking, using observational and intuitive methods to learn and investigate ways to express their own mark making. Drawing materials will be supplied, however participants are
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Lara Merrett’s exhibition, Flip side, reveals an intimate, intuitive and playful approach to painting. It features delicately layered and coloured works that evoke a sense of depth and translucency. Merrett produced these new works using acrylic based inks on canvas, and at a smaller scale than her recent larger installations, these allow for a more
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Please join us at the gallery on Saturday May 11 for the opening of Joseph Daws’ exhibition,Paintings & Ceramics. Based in South East Queensland, Daws’ exhibition presents a selection of new landscape and abstract paintings, as well as ceramics. The ceramics, which take the form of “chawan” or tea bowls, are used in tea ceremonies throughout South
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Highly acclaimed landscape painter Jeff Makin returns to Brisbane with a series of works celebrating the lush surrounds of his own backyard in Central Victoria. After 50 years depicting grand vistas, waterfalls and iconic landscapes, Makin has moved closer to home for his latest subject matter. Literally painting the view from his home studio, Makin explores
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Meagan Streader’s work pushes the limits of light within sculpture and installation. Streader manipulates, reinterprets and extends upon the boundaries of constructed spaces. Through site-specific interventions, her multidimensional use of light re-orientates the viewer’s relationship to the pre-existing architecture and scale of a given space. In this way, Streader’s work reveals the pervasive role of
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Born in Guangzhou, China, Jun Chen emigrated to Australia in 1990 and currently lives and works in Brisbane. He trained in painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China, and later the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Chen’s impasto oil paintings are textural observations of the landscape, nudes and still lifes with the paint thickly applied using
As part of an exchange with Melbourne-based gallery MARS, Metro Arts will present the work of three innovative Melbourne video artists: Stephen Haley, Hannah Raisin and Diego Ramirez. In November 2019, a selection of Brisbane artists, curated by Metro Arts, will be exhibited in the Black Box, the dedicated video projection space at MARS, Melbourne.
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Explore your consciousness within these bricks and bars. Boundless Reflections is a site-specific Installation of sculptural work, audio and digital visual art which invites the audience to contemplate their cognitive processes which construct the self. To contemplate how sensory stimulation, spatial navigation, bodily awareness attribute to consciousness. We invite you to this installation as the
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‘Stories of this Land’ is the first major retrospective celebrating the work and life of Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey (1920-1985). The exhibition brings together seventy works including barks, paintings, ceremonial and historical objects, draft illustrations from his children’s book and three story book films. Roughsey was a figurehead and pioneer of Indigenous art and culture, throughout
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There’s a fundamental need to allow ourselves the time to slow down, observe and reflect. It’s this process that is at the heart of what motivates the painting practice of local Brisbane artist David Fenoglio. ‘Cleaning Out the Closet’ is a response to Fenoglio’s personal attempts to slow down and locate meaning and significance through
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‘Listening to Country: Exploring the Value of Acoustic Ecology with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in Prison.’ ‘Listening to Country’ is a pilot project exploring the value of acoustic ecology, yarning and participatory audio production with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison. Drs Sarah Woodland, Leah Barclay, Bianca Beetson and Vicki Saunders
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Distinct Perspectives: The work of Joe Furlonger and Bill Yaxley Please join us for opening drinks on Saturday 11 May 1-3pm at our pop-up space 255 Gregory Terrace (cnr Union Street) Spring Hill. Entry via Union Street. We are pleased to present this exhibition as part of the Brisbane Art Design (BAD) Festival. Image: Bill
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This exhibition is an exchange exhibition of contemporary jewellery by students, staff and graduates from the Jewellery and Small Objects Department at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Australia and the Jewellery Department at Hong Kong Baptist University. The biennial exhibition is opening at QCA before touring to Hong Kong in September. The works offer
The overall effect of Lyndal Hargrave’s work is ethereal and otherworldly with compositional studies that drift between cloudy dreamscapes and underwater worlds. Devoid of representational forms and fixed-point perspectives, emotion is conveyed via subtle nuances of colour, tone and shape, akin to music’s ability to evoke feeling and sentiment. There is progression and impermanence across
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The murmur of faded landscapes – marginal sites within the urban fringe Dennis McCart’s first solo exhibition at QCA Galleries interprets and contextualizes marginal landscapes. Consisting of three parts; a series of static representational oil paintings; an atlas of source photos from locations and animations projected on to static drawings. Using expanded painting and drawing
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This exhibition of works by Fiona West consists of large scale photographs paired with intimate objects for projection. With reference to the South African diaspora, the works follow the development of a key motif of a modified dashboard doll that acts as a metaphor for implied journeys, displacement and transformation. This exhibition highlights the culmination
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Panel Discussion: Artists as Educators: Examining relationships between art practice and learning in museum contexts Join Paul Bai, Dale Harding and Judy Watson in conversation with Shannon Brett to discuss their wide-ranging art practices, whether museums can be conceived as sites for democratic dialogue, and the potential for art to break down hierarchies of knowledge
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Brisbane Quarter plays host to a FREE art exhibition of digital and sculptural artworks by six contemporary artists who all have a connection to Queensland from 15 April – 8 May 2019. Brisbane Quarter, in collaboration with Innerspace Contemporary Art, present the Brisbane Quarter Queensland Art Showcase, titled Interior Views. Everywhere you go, the light
BRISBANE ART DESIGN (BAD) 2019 is where art, design and the city of Brisbane collide over a 17-day festival of dynamic exhibitions, performances, talks, art tours, workshops and open studios. Held from 10 – 26 May 2019, BAD showcases more than 150 Brisbane creatives, from emerging talents who are carving their mark locally, to trailblazers
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The application period for SomoS Berlin Artist-in-Residence Program Winter/Spring 2019 is now open. Inquiries for specific periods are welcome and residents will be accepted on a rolling basis. Earliest availabilities are December 2018 and January 2019. Visiting Researchers/Academics/Writers residency periods are minimally 1 month; artists residency periods minimally 3 months. We are looking forward to
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A Wider Sphere – ITHINK ISEE IDEA is Glen Henderson’s visual exploration across media which coincides with her investigatory interest in major cultural change. With the internet being the most transformative technological development in human history, machines can now provide different channels of communication when it comes to visual art. Glen Henderson will engage the audience
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In an age marked by mass migration, technologically accelerated dislocation, and rapid urban development, notions of home and belonging need to be imagined anew. At once located and displaced, how to live together is one of the crucial questions of our time. These ideas have even greater urgency in settler-colonial contexts where notions of ownership
With the concept of ‘home’ as foundation, Helle Cook explores liminality and light in translucent layers of paint on canvas and sheer textile. Drawing on a heightened awareness of the difference in Nordic and Australian light and environment, Suspended Light lingers ambiguously in an illuminated threshold between sense of place, memory, abstraction and figuration. With
Art and science intersected on the top of mountains in Nepal for Brisbane based urban artists The Brightsiders, Sarah Sculley and Lara Furst. Now, they are bringing their findings, and their art, home in a group show at Brisbane’s newest Gallery, Artists Alike in Albion. The group represented Australia at an International Arts Incubator Program,
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For all its supposed familiarity, our built environment has long fascinated artists working across disciplines and decades. This talk will look at how artists have used the banality and beauty of the buildings that surround us to inspire new creative works. Hear from architects Müge Belek and Frederico Fialho from [f]FLAT, artist and designer Jennifer
Boxcopy is excited to announce our new home, 16 Merivale Street, South Brisbane. To open the new space, we will be hosting The Annual, our yearly silent auction, on Saturday 8th June. All proceeds raised will go directly to paying artist and writers fees for the forthcoming program. Artworks have been generously donated by: Vernon
Join members of Brisbane’s leading Aboriginal art collective, proppaNOW, for an afternoon of artist talks, workshops, and demonstrations at the IMA. Hear from artists Vernon Ah Kee, Jennifer Herd, as well as Megan Cope, who will discuss her work RE FORMATION (2019), currently on display as part of the group exhibition Haunt. Take part in a hands-on banner making workshop with Gordon Hookey in
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Roman Longginou’s new series of drawings examine the idea of fragmented mythologies and their association with our current image/media-saturated environment. Referring to both the past and present, these works remain open to interpretation, allowing space for self-reflection. Image: Grace, 2019, Charcoal on Paper, 42 x 59cm
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New Eelam is a long-term artwork in the form of a start-up—a real estate technology company founded by the artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas to develop a flexible global housing subscription based on collective co-ownership rather than individually owned private property. Originated in collaboration with curator Annika Kuhlmann, the venture takes as a starting point the art field’s involvement in
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