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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Opening Event – No Transaction No Miracle by Azadeh Hamzeii. (Finalist, 2019 National Graduate Show at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA). The performance was filmed on a dried salt lake on the outskirts of Qom, Iran. Referencing the local practice of using coins as votive offerings, the work speaks to social and religious structures of
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In Reflect (Refract), Wilkes admires the “astonishing creations” formed by the natural world and reflects on the artist’s relationship to nature. Inspired by the glacial regions of Alberta and British Columbia in Western Canada, the artist focuses on depicting the elements of water and the intoxicating landscapes which encompass them. Wilkes’ is currently based in Brisbane and works
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Honing his studio skills through formal studies in painting and design, Muir has departed from traditional plein-air painting to describe more ambiguous visual puzzles derived from the urban landscape. In our digitally redolent culture, his exclusive use of the palette knife acts as a kind of universal leveller, flattening and de-pixilating his high-key canvases. Inspired
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The Station is opening its doors to the public, come down and celebrate with us and see our new space! Live music, art, installation and photography. Drinks will be available by donation. Music by Jeremy Hindmarsh + Sebastian Moody Floral installation by Bloodwood Botanica and Fiflar Floral. Art and Photography by local artists. Entry to
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Jelly Heart presents a new series of small paintings by Holly Anderson; like postcards from a beach holiday. In these pictures, surface tensions between soft and hard, squishy and crisp, jelly and ice, juicy fruits and glazed crystals, plastic sandals and squeaky sand are investigated with paint. The contrasting textures of these subjects – their
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The exhibition recreates intense personal encounters with other species in National Parks, World Heritage sites and museum archives. The work connects human narratives to disappearing biodiversity, a perspective often edited out of the nature documentaries and their images of an apparently ‘untouched’ nature. The exhibition will present these inter-species encounters via painting, digital media, and
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QUT PhD candidate Chris Howlett will present his thesis exhibition New Statements (2016-19) at the Creative Industries Precinct in Kelvin Grove 15-17 May, 2019. New Statements is a new media exhibition that showcases an installation of interactive and screen-based Machinima works. This practice–led research project explores the operations of a ‘techno-stice’ that demonstrates digital technology’s capacity to generate dissensual space and forms of
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Continuing FireWorks Gallery’s Matches 2019 series of paired solo exhibitions, Matches 3 will present Brisbane-born artist Anthony Lister alongside Brisbane-based artist Scott Redford under the banner BAD Boys. New (individual & collaborative) artworks displayed will showcase a diversity of mediums including printmaking, photography, sculpture, painting and installation. Lister and Redford, who are friends as well
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yoke. is a collaborative exhibition from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Doctoral Visual Arts Candidates Adam Anderson and Andrew Willis. Photographic portraiture frequently attracts discourse about the real and the artificial. It often pertains to the fidelity of the image to the represented identities; a complex and unstable negotiation that occurs between the subject,
Art from the Margins (AFTM) presents our third exhibition this year, Black Dog, Blue Butterflies. The exhibition, developed by Moreton Bay Regional Council, is coming to AFTM Gallery & Studios in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane this April and includes artworks created by artists from Brisbane, Southeast Queensland and Northern New South Wales. AFTM, a creative initiative
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