Artworks and artefacts are paired with buildings by six of Brisbane’s most exciting architectural firms in Micro Histories, an exhibition exploring the relationship between architecture, art, people and place. Co-curated with Cameron Bruhn, Head of Architecture at The University of Queensland, Micro Histories celebrates the work of Brisbane architects and the inspiration that they find in the […]
Families come in all forms and belonging to one is a basic need for most of us. These still life works demonstrate the symbolism of family relationships through flower and plant groupings, crafted in Bronwyn’s unique technique with oil on canvas. We may relate to our own situation or to those of others as we
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To roll in the summer, in style we are looking for artists and photographers whose work breaths colour and imagination. We are asking artists to submit a portfolio of up to six images that reflects the spirit and celebration that summer, love and colour bring. Issue six (May/ June) will signal the beginning of summer,
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‘Artist As…’, explores the implications surrounding the cultural landscape, symbolism, and particularly the masculine, tropes of artists in Australia. Utilising a visual vocabulary and stereotypical symbolism to exploit the idea of the valued Australian landscape artworks; the crushed beer can becomes a cultural landscape. Sherington adds humour, self-deprecation, philosophy and stereotype by means of crudely-sprawled statements
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This course is a brief four-week introduction to how to approach drawing. It is designed for the absolute beginner or more experienced artists wishing to re-examine the fundamentals, all in a relaxed atmosphere. We will work from still life and concentrate on processes of visual enquiry, asking basic questions about shape, proportion, depth, and perspective
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The Hopper Prize is offering multiple individual artist grants totaling $5,000.00 USD awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators. Program Highlights $5,000.00 USD in total awards for visual artists + 5 artists will each receive $1,000.00 USD in unrestricted grant awards + 30 artists will have their work archived at
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Embracing the legacy of the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, BEAUT activates the Brisbane artistic community to host and engage with local, national and international artists and artist run initiatives, and consists of exhibitions, a publication, and public programming. BEAUT 2019’s curatorial premise emphasises the principles of presence, convergence, and resistance, offering a localised accompaniment
International call for submissions for the 32 Festival Les Instants Vidéo, an event held in November 2019 in Marseilles, France, dedicated to video art and electronic poetry with its multiple forms, monobands, installations, performances, multimedia. 32 Festival Les Instants Vidéo November 2019 – Marseilles (but also elsewhere) In 1969, Neil Armstrong set the first mankind foot
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With an annual prize pool worth $12,000, the 2019 Waverley Art Prize is open to painting, drawing print & mixed media. Entries open on Monday 18 February 2019 and close on Friday 17 May 2019. This year’s Judges are Mitch Cairns (artist), Philjames (artist) and Fiona Lowry (artist). 2019 Prizes include; Waverley Art Prize: $6,000
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Jonathan Lightfoot is an emerging visual artist who ventures into the realms of both paper collage and sculpture. Carefully examining the human condition through witty aphorism, Lightfoot works primarily with paper to coax those nuances that usually arise from the third party tools and materials, amplifying the variables that occur between the maker and the
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This group exhibition from both emerging and established artists from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University explores a tendency in contemporary painting toward invisibility; a mode of painting that uses very little paint or creates a sense of a painting emptying out. That emptying of painting is a strange contradiction. The intentional act of
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Tamworth Textile Triennial, held every three years, showcases the best of textile art from across the country, attracting artist participation from all states in Australia. The 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennial has been curated by Glenn Barkley using an Open Housetheme. “Open House: Tamworth Textile Triennial celebrates the open-ended, porous nature of textiles practice today. It introduces a group of
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Exchange Value brings together the works of 11 Australian and international photographers in an exhibition that offers rich and challenging insights into the world of documentary photography. The collection explores close-up accounts of those on society’s fringes – skinhead subculture in 1970s London, poor Egyptian neighbourhoods during the Arab Spring, the sterile confines of a mental
Channels Festival is dedicated to showcasing fresh, innovative and experimental video art. We are looking for recently created, short, single-channel works that are of a high artistic calibre. We are interested in works that push formal, conceptual or political boundaries; works that are risky and experimental; works that are critical, engaged and relevant to our
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This exhibition is presented in two parts allowing for a diverse studio presentation and new works from, ‘Painted Landscape # Whispering the Flame’. Through an expanded painting practice Payne continues to investigate the way human inhabitation in the 21st century has dramatic effects on the natural environment. In a time of global warming and much
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For over thirty years Paul Ryan’s practice has been defined by three pillars: Landscape, Portraiture and the Figure in Landscape. The escarpment and sea of the northern Illawarra have been his muse. It is where he lives, surfs and has raised his family and has been one of the constants in an ever-changing life. It is a
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Motion Pictures’ was inspired by the most familiar of scenes – cliche in a way. The cinematic seascape / landscape dotted with a waning sun. The works are abstractions of this iconic sequence, one that plays out in an infinite number of compositions and arrangements every day – always on the move. The aggressive and competing
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Under the influence of advancements in technology, heightened social and environmental turbulence, a revolution in media and a seismic recasting of business and commerce, design and the design industry is staring down the barrel of some monumental change. What threats and opportunities do these changes represent – today, tomorrow and over the next 20 years?
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The work of painter Sam Fullbrook (1922 -2004) is characterized by a child-like technique of simple forms and broad, bright colour. Fulbrook joined the National Gallery of Victoria School after the Second World War and later worked in Queensland and the Northern Territory, where he painted local Indigenous communities. He held many exhibitions in Brisbane,
Transforming the IMA into an immersive baroque-grunge stage, Williams will present live performances in the gallery amidst video of her opera’s original staging at the 20th Biennale of Sydney in 2016, edited in her signature psychedelic style, with a soundtrack by the Sydney Chamber Opera. Williams’s reimagining of ‘Victory over the Sun’ recasts the opera
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House Conspiracy, as a part of the Brisbane and Elsewhere Art UnTriennial, presents ‘Glossopteris: Black Beyond Coal’, featuring works and performances by: Thaj Backer Vaishali Oak Raju Sutar Leah Barclay & Monica Gagliano Seamus Kirkpatrick, a.k.a. Wake the Mountain (Sing the Mountain Back to Sleep) Greg Reason Meredith McLean Omegachild & Danny McShane ‘Glossopteris: Black
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Bringing together major video works by the collaborative duo, ‘Architecture Makes Us’ explores craggy geographies, territorialisation, surveillance, exhausted systems and future philosophies. In this landmark survey commissioned by Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Leber and Chesworth offer a rich exploration of the way society is impacted by the geographical, technological and the architectural influences that
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The Institute of Modern Art, Australia’s oldest independent contemporary art space, has appointed Liz Nowell as its new Director. Ms Nowell is currently CEO of Adelaide’s ACE Open, a position she has held since that organisation’s founding in 2017. Prior to this, she was the Executive Director at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia and oversaw its amalgamation with
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Marina Strocchi’s upcoming exhibition, Terra Firma, reflects on her time spent on a residency in Kangaroo Valley NSW at the Shark Island Institute in 2018. Featuring new paintings comprising of acrylic paint and oxides on linen or hand-made recycled Indian rag paper, her works are an intuitive response to nature. Originally from Victoria, Marina Strocchi
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Capture, Torture, Kill, Throw by renowed Indonesian artist, Dadang Christanto and Chronicle by emerging Brisbane-based artist, Aaron Perkins. Christanto’s new series of works consists of graphic, imagined portraits of victims tortured during the mass killings in Indonesia between 1965 and 1966. These atrocities are of immense personal trauma for Christanto, as his father who was
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GREENBACK explores Sebastian Di Mauro’s recent experience of relocation (from Australia to the United States), a move which echoes his grandparents’ earlier emigration from Sicily to Australia (1900-1920). In this new work, Di Mauro has appliquéd and embroidered green US-military issue blankets with representations of the culturally significant buildings used on US ‘greenback’ dollar notes.
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THERE THEN HERE NOW by Peter Kennedy presents work across five decades of practice. The earliest work, Snare, was first presented at the Sydney conceptual artspace Inhibodress in 1972 and can be considered one of the first examples of sound installation in Australian art. In Gallery One sculptures from Kennedy’s 1993 exhibition ‘Chrous for the
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The IMA is excited to announce a partnership with one of Australia’s leading prizes for emerging artists, ‘the churchie’ in 2019. Since its inception at Anglican Church Grammar School in 1987, the prize has sought to identify and profile the next generation of contemporary artists from across Australia. The IMA and ‘the churchie’ partnership will continue to
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Brisbane will welcome a plethora of acclaimed local, national and international street artists from around the globe this May, as the city opens its door to Australia’s biggest street art festival program – Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) from May 4 – 19. The free public art event has 46 commissioned artworks across Brisbane CBD
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FRAMED exhibits work from Brisbane’s growing underground art community through monthly solo exhibitions at Fortitude Valley’s cocktail hotspot, Barbara. Featuring wide ranges of mediums, styles and artists, the series aims to display an accurate cross section of our local forward thinking artists. Running for one week of each month with a focus on collaboration and
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Renowned figurative artist Bernard Ollis returns to Brisbane with his latest exhibition documenting his intrepid journeys within Australia and overseas. In his recognizable quirky style, Ollis has captured the feeling and emotion evoked of the plethora of places he has visited. Living between Paris and Sydney, Bernard Ollis has travelled to various destinations in search of inspiration
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The first major retrospective celebrating the life and work of artist and Lardil man Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey (1920–1985) opens at Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) from 30 March until 18 August. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said ‘Stories of this Land’ would recognise the artistic and social contributions of Roughsey, a
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Calling all artists engaging with technology. The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology celebrates and promotes artists working with technology globally through its annual juried competition and exhibitions. Now in its 8th year, The Lumen Prize has already awarded over $70,000 in prize money. Through our parent, Lumen Art Projects, we have staged over 45
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Robert MacPherson is one of Australia’s most highly regarded contemporary artists. The exhibition comprises of approximately 200 drawings from the complete set of 2400 portraits that make up his largest ever work, titled Boss Drovers. Viewers are encouraged to see this work as MacPherson’s lament for the disappearance of the specialised knowledge, language and history
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The National Portrait Gallery and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia proudly present a new star-studded exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits. Starstruck explores the striking portraits emerging from 100 years of Australian movies. It features famous Australian actors and iconic films, as well as highlighting the lesser-known early years of our film industry. Many items are available for
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Soft Core presents artistic practices that explore the many facets of ‘softness’ – from large-scale inflatables and forms made from soft materials to those materials that simply look soft. Soft Core investigates these practices by presenting existing and newly commissioned works from 12 Australian and international artists who question the fluctuating meaning of what it means to be