Come to the yum cha table to discuss ‘Where Are You From?’ An interactive installation by artist Shelley Cheng, this work explores experiences of otherness as collected from people who grew up Asian in Australia. Location: QUT Gardens Point, Lawn (Near entrance to the Goodwill Bridge and Riverstage) Timing: 4 – 7pm Thursday 21st March […]
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Shivanjani Lal’s exhibition Yaad Karo looks at the history of migration that links her personal history to the indentured labour communities of India and the Pacific. It consists of 140 hand stitched maps and images from the artists’ grandmother’s archive. The exhibition creates a visible link between Lal and those communities by stitching together both
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Felix Palmerson is originally from Melbourne and currently lives, works and calls Brisbane home. Felix is an emerging contemporary dance practitioner and choreographer, having recently completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2017. Felix has professional performance experience in contemporary dance, theatre, roving performance and site-specific work.
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‘Abstraction’ our abstract exhibition and competition is coming up in May and we want you to challenge yourself and create a beautiful work for this competition. First Prize is $500 Follow the link to find out more. https://rqas.com.au/event/abstract-2019/
The Third Quarter is proud to be partnering with Dr William Platz to present a 4-part Life Drawing Masterclass experience. Life drawing is a peculiar theatre. Commonly, an audience of artists sits quietly to study the inert body of a poorly paid and naked performer. It is one of the only performing arts in which
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Through reproductions of imagery sourced from old diaries and sketchbooks, the work in ‘Violence in Romantic Fairytale theme’ explores themes of violent social/human communicative drama. Focusing on its more worrisome aspects, Hlodik reflects on past plutonic and romantic relationships to gain insight into human interaction, particularly between two people. The drawings, which are reprinted here
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Obscura- Griffith University Photography Club, invites you to our first film night of the year. Come to a screening of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry in the comfort of cushioned chairs and a big screen! Snacks and Drinks will be provided. Meet us outside the QCA Lecture Theatre (s05) at 5:30pm March 12th. Membership sign ups
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When first introduced, the camera was hailed as the ultimate mimetic machine, perfectly capturing reality. However, this was never the case. Photographers have always been masters at manipulating reality, be it through framing, lighting or in the darkroom. In Departures from Reality, members of the Fine Monochrome Print Group, through a range of techniques, challenge and confuse
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Visual Arts researchers Athene Currie, Deborah Eddy and Sonia York-Pryce are currently investigating the ageing body and psyche through contexts and mediums that address similar questions about how society views ageing women. Athene Currie’s work specifically deals with transformation at menopause and how this time can be made visible as an acknowledged celebration of women’s
Over twenty years ago ‘woven shibori’ was launched onto the world stage by Catharine Ellis of North Carolina, USA and Kay Faulkner of Birkdale, Australia. Their research occurred independently and simultaneously. At Convergence 1998, an international weaving conference in Atlanta USA, Ellis taught the first workshop on woven shibori and Faulkner had the first article published in Weavers magazine.
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In Impossible Conversations, Brisbane artist Sam Cranstoun examines cultural identity across centuries and continents in a stunning new watercolour series. Inspired by Vanity Fair’s bitingly satirical 1930s series ‘Impossible Interviews’, nine Brisbane residents shared the conversations they would like to have with their chosen figure from Italian history. Sam has interpreted these conversations through a
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Marian Drew is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Queensland College of Art. An internationally recognized artist, she has held over forty solo shows and numerous group shows in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Germany, France, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Peru. Her work is held in collections that include
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Alannah Dair, Annie O’Rourke, Vicky Satchwell and Natalie Wood present ‘Self-Dissection.’ This exhibition considers women in a host of unfamiliar and familiar roles: as rage-driven destructive force, as victim of the frailties of the female body, as weekend feminist or weekday slave to domestic ritual. The resulting works offer an insight into the complexity of
On Way Core is an exhibition combining new and experimental works by Queensland College of Art, Griffith University doctoral candidates Ree Hegh and Anthony Baker. Using raw materials, digital technology, found and industrial objects, both artists are interested in how material combinations uncover connections between the physical and psychological experience of the body. This exhibition
‘Umbra’, a term for the fully shaded inner region of a shadow, is the title of Kitty Horton’s upcoming solo exhibition. Beautifully, the title captures the duality of using malleable, build-able oil pastels and paints, teamed with the impermanence and dusty quality of mark making with charcoal. Kitty’s works consistently explore materiality, while positioning social
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Wendy Sharpe is acclaimed as one of Australia’s most significant and awarded artists. She has won the Archibald Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Prize (twice) and the Sulman prize (judged by Albert Tucker). She has received major commissions including Australian Official Artist to East Timor, the first woman painter since World War II. This exhibition
MoB’s Slow Fashion Weekend will shine a spotlight on slow fashion, artisanal skills and a make-and-mend approach to fashion consumption. Presented in partnership with Brisbane-based design collective The Stitchery, the Museum will be taken over by makers, menders and the mindful to give you the skills to lighten your fashion footprint. Drop into Museum of
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Scheduled to coincide with International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March, this exhibition explores the semiotic value of clothing, labelling practices and egalitarianism. Many theorists have discussed the way clothing and dress function as systems of signs or as a kind of language, among them Barthes, Eco, Hebdige, Entwistle and Wilson. As traditional stereotypes and
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All We Can Do is Pray is a group exhibition and public programs to be held at Frank Moran Memorial Hall 8-16 March 2019. The artwork of three Japanese artists focus on the perspectives of marginalised people, including women, children and the elderly, in times of great loss. It features spoken, text and visual stories from
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Please join us for the opening event of Xiaohui Yang’s Doctoral of Visual Arts examination exhibition at the Project Gallery on Friday, 8th March from 6pm. “The jewellery objects attached to our skin, not only decorate the body but also affect the wearer’s body space, physical behaviour, physical attitude and body culture. My research focuses
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Dust over Eldorado is an exhibition of new works by Brisbane artist Julie-Anne Milinski. Objects and vessels suggest disparate influences of archetypal pottery forms, ancient Egyptian feline divinity idols, cinerary urns and familial turned wooden objects. Milinski interprets these historical references in her idiosyncratic ceramics with a focus on play, process, form and surface. This
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Under the canopy of ‘Corps à Corps’ in the IMA Courtyard, architects Ashley Paine, Susan Holden (University of Queensland), and Dirk Yates (Speculative Architecture) will discuss the widespread fascination with architectural pavilions and their proliferation in the Australian context, ranging from high-profile public structures to institutional commissions and urban interventions. While these structures often share
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Wild Remembering brings textiles, weaving and performance to ideas about the body and nature. This series of works by Brisbane-based artists Rachael Wellisch and Emma Gardner and Vienna-based Claudia-Maria Luenig express sensitive spatial relationships in their form. An earlier exhibition of this work seen in Vienna in December 2018 was applauded for its ability to
SO LONG CRYPTIC ERA invokes a re-acquaintance with uncertainty in regards to the world and its continuing formation. Similar to automatic drawing, its compositions start with shapes cut randomly from plywood. Painting and arranging these shapes acts as a form of divination, generating meaningful relationships through colouration and layering. While the shapes remain physically discrete,
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The IMA is pleased to present an exhibition by Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), guest curated by Prof. Susan Best, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Connecting to the Earth brings together two series of works that are about connection to land: the Silueta series and the Rupestrian Sculpture series. Rarely considered together, the two series powerfully demonstrate Mendieta’s idea of feminised nature.
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After having exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, Current Iterations will be Dale Harding’s (Bidjara, Garingbal and Ghungalu peoples) largest exhibition to date. The exhibition brings together new and recent works by Harding, focusing on objects dislocated by museum practices, as well as living culture activated in and outside the confines of art. The show carefully addresses the dislocation
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Artists are invited to submit an application to exhibit their work in the exhibition Play with paper. In Play with paper artists are encouraged to exploit the medium of paper, pushing the medium to its limits. Moving beyond understanding paper as a surface on which to create, artists in this exhibition will reinterpret its functionality
‘palimpsest’ is a cross-institutional, grass-roots, student-run exhibition. It aims to relay the interlaying effects of time, history, place, and experience. The exhibition considers the archaeological term “palimpsest,” meaning “something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.” This commonly refers to a manuscript which has been erased and reused. In this
This exhibition presents a selection of works as part of my Doctor of Visual Arts final assessment. Over the past three years I have used practice-led research to analyse Eurocentric and anthropocentric ideologies about nature, tracing them back to the eighteenth century invasion and colonisation of Australia. Based on this research, I have created a
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Christine Morrow will exhibit new work that aims to complicate the traditional relationship between painting and architecture. The artist uses a new technique of creating structures out of paintings which zip together, constructing walls and partitions to occupy a space between painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. OPENING / 6pm, 27th March 2019 EXHIBITION / 27th
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Learn how to design and construct your own handmade photobook with photographers and photobook-makers Ana Paula Estrada and Louis Lim. Estrada and Lim will share their experiences making photobooks as part of their respective practices, discussing different design possibilities and the sculptural potential of books as art objects. Learn how to design with the experience
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Former Outer Space studio resident Peter Burgess will share how he uses drawing and badge-making as a process of expressing his deepest fears and intimate experiences with the world. This workshop is an opportunity for you to take your insecurities and literally turn them in to badges of honour. The workshop is free to attend
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Join Brisbane-based contemporary jeweller Bianca Mavrick for a hands-on workshop, bringing together recycled materials to create eclectic contemporary jewellery assemblages. Using diverse post-industrial materials sourced from Reverse Garbage, or from your own home, learn how to bring new life into discarded everyday objects using lo-fi techniques. Mavrick, who is known for her pairings of offbeat colour combinations with
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Every Day brings together the work of Hailey Atkins, Loki Groves and Iabadiou Piko, artists who work prolifically and experimentally. Every Day highlights the ongoing and developmental nature of their practices, while their outcomes are anything but everyday. Striking in colour and form, their work embraces the unexpected and unpredictable, and showcases freedom across a variety of media.
The show is: – a decorative panel substrate offering improved acoustic performance. It also im- proves speech intelligibility, concentration and wellbeing. It is thermal insulating and flame retardant. – an aluminium lung of normal distribution. It is the lung of card carrying profession- als, each a relic of the expertise age, each embracing a respiratory
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Anya Swan’s pictorial and sculptural practice uses hand made materials, strict methodologies, and emotive figuration, as tools for understanding and navigating being in the world. Scrub is a new large-scale sculptural installation that negotiates a crisis of art making – is the environmental cost of production, in the service of art, justifiable? Process-driven methods, and