Steffen Tuck’s photographic exhibition, Bylines, delivers a dynamic and compelling collection of an urban environment’s unseen and sometimes overlooked detail. The ordinary is celebrated in an unpredictable acquisition of light, colour and form. Tuck’s architectural vocation is evident in this series; we see the materials and hard lines of buildings and construction that represent the manmade […]
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Mortality and Fluoro is a materially based investigation of mortality. Emanating from Fracchia’s personal near-death experience in the ocean, this body of work visually articulates feelings of impermanence, fragility and the precariousness of human life. This is expressed as the dichotomous opposite to the culture of machismo and bravado amongst young male surfers. Acknowledging
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You are warmly invited to a talk event and screening to be held Tuesday April 2nd at 6pm: “Art Skills, Life Skills: How to Cope” 2 April 2019 6-7:30pm Frank Moran Memorial Hall (Z11 Building) Gona Pde, QUT Kelvin Grove campus https://goo.gl/maps/kk4SGRxFFUR2 “All We Can Do is Pray” was an exhibition held at the Frank
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Outer Space acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Meanjin and their continued sovereignty over the land on which this project is carried out Working with sound artist Joseph Burgess, Susan Hawkins has brought sounds from her studio to make a simple composition into something quite extra ordinary. The Speaker comprises three large drums, one speaker and
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Join DJ, writer, and curator Kōtare (fka DJ Sezzo) as she takes over the IMA with a one-night-only experimental club night, Ngāti Kangaru (Māori in Australia), bringing together music, performance, and visual art. Kōtare is a proud Ngāpuhi woman, whose work explores what it is to be modern Māori. The evening will feature Kōtare on
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For nearly two decades, A.J Taylor has regularly exhibited in Australia in solo and group shows. In 2018, he was the People’s Choice Winner for both the John Leslie Art Prize at Gippsland Art Gallery and the Sunshine Coast Prize at Caloundra Regional Gallery. Taylor’s paintings reflect a sustained engagement with the Australian landscape. In
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Join members of the Redcliffe Art Society for artist demonstrations in the gallery. This demonstration series is in conjunction with the exhibition RASart Exhibition of Excellence, celebrating the rich artistic community that exists within the Redcliffe region. Thursday 9 May 2019, 10.30am – Pastel with water with Tricia Reust Thursday 23 May 2019, 10.30am – Acrylics
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The Speaker by Susan Hawkins In an Industrial site on a Sunday, listening to all the sounds outside the studio. The wind whistling through pipes, then hitting plastic strapping and birds singing on barbwire. What is basic sound? And how do these sounds put together make a composition? When music is made, a composition is
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Following Susan Best’s curator’s talk, ‘Ana Mendieta’s emotional ties’, see a program of films exploring the life and work of the artist. These varied films include reflections from Mendieta on her own practice, a revisionist exploration of her tragic final moments, a journey undertaken by the artist’s niece, and filmic works by artists who draw
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This discussion will look at the role of Art Awards, in developing an artist’s career. Hear from fellow artists and industry professionals on their experiences and pick up some handy tips on how to navigate the world of art awards. The panel will include artists Simon de Groot, Nadine Sawyer and Jim Edwards, each exploring different
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Born in 1938, Madonna Staunton is an artist and poet who lives and works in Brisbane. Very early in her life Staunton was encouraged to make art by her mother who was also a painter and poet of repute. Her father was a book trader, and she grew up in his store surrounded by literature. From
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Melbourne based artist Jordan Kerwick will present his latest body of work in a solo exhibition titled ‘Micro | Macro: Paintings of Love and Hate’. Largely autobiographical, Kerwick’s paintings represent what he deems the duality of his life as a father and an artist. The words “love” and “hate” also draw upon this idea of duality and
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WAIVE PROGRAM | WORKSHOP: CREATE YOUR OWN DIGITAL CONTENT AND PRESENT WITH PURPOSE Partners in life and creative crime for the last 25 years, NADIA SUNDE and JEFF LICENCE join forces to present this workshop for the very first time. PRESENT WITH PURPOSE With a 25 year career behind the microphone as a performing artist,
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This exhibition in a part of the Pacific Arts Association 13th Symposium being hosted in Brisbane from 24th March – 28th March. The exhibition showcases the artwork of delegates and the local Brisbane community with first nations connections to Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, and Vanuatu. This
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As a part of both artist’s current PHD candidature, this exhibition unites practices that explore notions of self and metamorphism through the corrupted and unruly body. This exhibition uses interactivity with new-media interfaces to ponder the philosophical implications of enactive perception, the relationship between environment, the body and consciousness. Baker and Reid-Singer mock the notion
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See ‘Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present’, a documentary examining the pioneering life and works of filmmaker, musician, artist, and educator Tony Conrad, presented by MONO and Queensland Film Festival (QFF), in association with Burning Bridges. Since the early 1960s, Conrad’s films and compositions have given him a legendary reputation. A driving force in the
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The Call for Entries for the 2019 Voies Off Awards is open. The Voies Off Awards are open to talented photographers across the world and offer an opportunity for your work to be seen at the prestigious international photography event in southern France, Les Rencontres d’Arles. From July to September, the Voies Off Festival proposes an alternative programme focused on the
A survey exhibition of one of the famous ‘Petyarre’ sisters is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from 27th February 2019. Nancy Kunoth Petyarre was an Anmatyerre women and senior artist. She was also one of the acclaimed seven Petyarre sisters, all artists of note and internationally renowned. Featuring paintings created over a decade
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“Considering the gradual shifts around contemporary female culture right now, it feels necessary to turn up the truth on the things that scare us and anger us and make our big feelings bigger. In this new body of work; colour, clay and glaze, overlapping characters and repetition of line and form create a sense of
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Join current Outer Space studio artist, Courtney Coombs, as they unpack their strategies to get the most out of self directed residencies. This discussion is suited to artists of all levels seeking to undertake residencies locally and internationally. Courtney will cover some of the ways they have undertaken residencies; reviewing the process of applying, seeking
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Join Minneapolis-based curators Sara Cluggish (Director of FD13 residency for the arts) and Pavel Pyś (Curator of Visual Arts, the Walker Art Center) for a curatorial masterclass informed by experience working with performance and interdisciplinary contemporary artistic practices. Drawing on the breadth of their professional experiences—from the context of the small-scale public institution and independent
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Join UQ Art Museum to piece together stories through small books in our pop-up zine, artist, and comic book fair. Meet local and independent publishers, artists and writers, pick up your favourite small-press publications, participate in workshops. Check out UQ Art Museum’s current exhibitions ‘Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power’ and ‘Summer Mixer: New Shows, New
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This exhibition presents a fragment of lived experiences of Nepal, through visual investigations into values, current social issues and politics. For three weeks in December 2018, eleven students from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University who are studying various disciplines joined the infield project Doing Visual Politics with fifty-five other Australian, Bangladeshi and Nepalese
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The first in our Portrait of an Artist talks for 2019 offers a unique insight into the life and work of accomplished Queensland artist Sebastian Di Mauro. Sebastian’s work has risen to international prominence via exhibitions, residencies and art prizes throughout his career. Born in Innisfail in North Queensland to an Italian–Australian family, Sebastian’s art
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Join us at GOMA during World Science Festival Brisbane for a APT9 Talk: The Hive Mind & Driverless Technology 🐝🚗 Zara Stanhope, Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, is joined by Jack Wilson Stone, founder of Bee One Third – Neighbourhood Honey, and Professor Srini Srinivasan, Professorial Research Fellow, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of
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Learn how to make your very own wrap-around soft-leather journal, hand-stitched using a Longstitch binding technique and featuring a magnetic closure. In this workshop all materials are provided, and you can choose from a variety of eco-friendly upcycled leathers, an assortment of different papers for the book’s pages, and a colourful range of waxed-linen threads, all coming
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Art from the Margins (AFTM) presents our second Inspired AIR (Artist-in-Residence) exhibition Woven and Tied: Women’s Work? a showcase of fibre and textile artworks from Artist-in-Residence Therese Flynn-Clarke and AFTM Outsider Artists. AFTM, a creative initiative of Wesley Mission Queensland, supports, exhibits and promotes the work of artists living with adversity, mental health issues, physical or intellectual disabilities, or
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Stripped Back, by Brisbane-based artist, Dylan Jones. In this exhibition of new paintings, Jones depicts the nude human form as a vehicle to express his ongoing obsession with the textural qualities of paint. Painted from life, these works reconsider the formal qualities of the human body, rather
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This collection of work represent a selection of still life compositions created over the last few years. They explore the various simple constructs I have used as a framework for my arrangements – suspending various household items with twine; confining them in a box; or lining them up on a shelf. The relationships between these objects,
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Why do we need to decentre modernism? Art history and avant-garde art from the periphery. Professor Partha Mitter Modernism seems to have become an inclusive global concept in our time, causing anxiety among art historians about the end of art history. At international biennales and triennales, select artists from the periphery, namely, from central and
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The Third Quarter are so pleased to share our first March exhibition ‘Permission to Belong’ by accomplished Photographer and Visual Storyteller Tammy Law. ___ The images and photobook launched in ‘Permission To Belong’ explore the dualities that surround the idea of home: the space between presence and absence, permanence and impermanence and belonging and displacement.
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A treasured private notebook responds to Ella Sowinska, and Thea Jones’ shared childhood experience of discovering the secret writing practices of their mothers. Both Sowinska and Jones actively engage with their mother’s creative practices for this exhibition. Sowinska’s film, 80 Ways, is an observational video work documenting the on-set collaboration between the artist and her mother
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Love Me, Love Me engages with romantic dialogues as examples of intersubjective language that are repeatedly played out across pop cultural formats. The central work in the exhibition, Give Me All Your Love (2019), consists of an appropriated lyric from a love song, re-presented as an installation of hand-punched confetti suspended between clear acrylic letters. Installed alongside balloons
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Olivia Lacey employs processes of transcription and translation to explore the ambiguities, slippages or humour that can arise in interpersonal interactions. Her works combine referents appropriated from art historical texts, pop music lyrics and everyday conversations in order to examine romantic dialogue as an intersubjective space of exchange. These explorations are primarily realised as multi-
This is a fascinating time in history to be alive. I want to make paintings that show the way the world looks now and the way the people live in it. What is it about this age that is different to the past? The urban landscape is here now. The story of our civilisation is
We are encouraging artists to respond to the topic of Climate Change. We want to see responsive, expressive artwork that explore opinion, urgency and solution to this global crisis. We are interested in artists creating responsive, challenging work that addresses the direct causes and the push pull factors at hand. Often described as the greatest
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