Unlearning brings together new and recent artworks, commissions, collection exhibitions, artists and creative thinkers. Running for an extended duration, Unlearning considers the ways in which artists gain, shed and unravel internalised learning about bodies, memory, culture, art, and social interaction, by embracing the idea of ‘not knowing’ through empathy and curiosity. Unlearning is not about forgetting. It is […]
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Ben Quilty’s upcoming body of work, The Accident, is largely possessed by images of torment. Predominantly featuring new etchings, the bulk of these works were created in the weeks and months after the artist dislocated his right shoulder and left knee. Immobilised, the artist went to farcical lengths to make work, inventing various rigs and
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Bridie Gillman’s Wide eyed has been made in response to her studio surroundings – the Tarragindi Recreation Reserve. Surrounded by gum trees and scrub, this is the first time she has experienced this type of landscape on a day-to-day basis. It is at once serene and beautiful to be isolated and surrounded by trees, but with isolation
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Micro Histories is Museum of Brisbane’s latest exhibition exploring the relationship between architecture, art, people and place. In this sophisticated exhibit, artworks and artefacts and paired with buildings by six of Brisbane’s most well-known architectural firms. Exhibiting architects include Marc&Co., Baber Studio, PHAB, Bureau Proberts, Anna O’Gorman Architects, M3 Architecture and Kevin O’Brien Architects alongside artists
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The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) today paid tribute to leading Australian artist Mrs Waal-Waal Ngallametta who passed away on 28 January at her home in Aurukun, Cape York. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said Mrs Ngallametta (b.1944) had made a profound contribution to arts and culture nationally and particularly in Queensland, her home
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On the last Sunday of each month, art lovers gather at the Petrie Terrace Gallery to enjoy an address or demonstration by visiting artists, industry professionals or RQAS members. This April Brisbane based Artist Robyn Bauer will be delivering a talk on the Dutch Master Artist Rembrandt, with the artistic highlights from her recent trip
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The 40th annual Rotary Art Spectacular. Queensland’s largest annual art exhibition, which has raised almost $2 million for Brisbane Rotary community projects and local charity partners. Our theme for this year is Art Giving Hope and our 2019 beneficiary charity is the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section). Now open to all Australian and International
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We’re delighted to announce that the call for proposals for Forecast’s fourth edition is now open. As an international platform for knowledge transfer, Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. Forecast transcends neatly defined genres to provide insight
The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2019 will be awarded to artists that show significant potential, interesting ideas, a relevant message and skillful execution. We understand that talented artists exist in many forms, so endeavour to appeal to emerging artists of all ages and career paths, whether student, graduate, full-time or part-time, and from any country. Ashurst’s
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Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power brings together artists who conjure ideas related to witchcraft, sorcery and magical practices. The exhibition offers a space for intuition, rituals, collective happenings, incantations, and peripheral activity — practices recurrently dismissed as mere magical phenomena. A series of renowned historic etchings counterbalance new artworks that depict or disrupt ‘witch iconography’ and
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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 exhibition 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
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Presented in collaboration with Brisbane-based design collective The Stitchery, this seminar invites Brisbane’s fashion community to explore how bold style can create identity, bring communities together and advocate for change towards a brighter future. Join us for three conversations with Brisbane’s leading fashion designers, makers and academics as they explore fashion’s role in shaping a
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BLUE JEAN SISTERS Rag doll making day with Belinda Smith Saturday 2 March HARDANGER EMBROIDERY with Jeanette Stok 9 March 10:30am WOODEN EARRINGS with Kirralee and Co 14 March 6:00PM PUNCH NEEDLE RUG MAKING with Bec Andersen (Sold out join waitlist) 16 March 10:30am PUNCH NEEDLE RUG MAKING with Bec Andersen (Sold out join waitlist) 16 March 1:30PM SCREEN PRINTING ON LINEN with Rebecca
Come and try this rug making taster session that mimics hand tufting without all the infrastructure. A simple hand-held tool, a backing cloth stretched tight onto a frame, and some hand dyed wool, is all you need to catch the bug. Bec calls this “rug making for the modern maker”. It is simple, fast and
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The Footscray Art Prize is a biennial non-acquisitive visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines. It is open for entries nationally and does not have a theme. Established in 2016, it contributes to Footscray’s reputation as a thriving cultural hub that supports and fosters the arts, and provides an opportunity to
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‘Setting the Stage’ looks at artists who reflect on the theatrical stage within their work, drawing on its construction, aesthetic language and purpose. The exhibition accompanies the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF 2019) and brings together works across various media that use sets, props, costumes and staging. More info Image: Hetain Patel, United Kingdom b.1980
Most artists spend years working on their craft but when it comes to the business side of art they feel lost. Join us for two days of speakers and workshops to take your Art Business to the next level. Learn from international expert Cory Huff, founder of the ‘Abundant Artist’. Learn to tell your story
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What value do plants and green space provide in our everyday lives? What may the future of green space in Brisbane look like? February 2019 heralds the inaugural exhibition for Onespace Gallery by impressive Gold Coast artist Nicola Moss. Moss brings her longstanding City and Nature project to the gallery, examining a changing ecology –
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The part and the whole explores parts, wholes and processes, in particular, the use of repetition as both a visual device as well as a process. These recent works highlight the formal properties of glass beads; their form, texture and geometric qualities, their pattern and repetition, as well as their ability to be assembled and
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ELIZABETH GOWER: COMPILATIONS GALLERY 1 MADELEINE KELLY: SPIN OUT, SPUN IN GALLERIES 2 & 3 TORIN FRANCIS: TRANSVERSE CARPARK In February we will be presenting Elizabeth Gower’s Monochrome Compilation an ambitious new collage work 21 metres in length and Delineations a suite of smaller recent works. Madeleine Kelly’s exhibition Spin out, spun in expands painting
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XYZ ARI presents ‘Bellmouth’ at Ipswich Community Gallery via Brisbane. Featuring work by: Kate Den Otter, Moozhan Kheiri, Doyoung Lee, Merrin Pratt, & Jacob Ryan-McInally. Bellmouth is XYZ’s inaugural group exhibition. We hope you will join us for drinks at the opening event on Saturday 2nd March from 4 to 8pm. The gallery will be
Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced by undergraduate students at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. These artists and works have been nominated for invitation by Academic Staff and Program Directors as exemplary of the University’s high standards of material inquiry
Triple AAA Architecture of the bones Archaeology of the flesh Archetypes of the psyche A showcase like no other at House Conspiracy. The house will transform into a labyrinth of exploration featuring live and interactive art that will cut to the bone. Deconstructing typical frameworks, Triple AAA reconstructs an intuitive and immersive exhibition experience that
Join Andrew McNamara for the launch of “Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society”. For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion is stranded in an impasse between those who view the term modernity with automatic disdain-as deterministic, Eurocentric or imperialistic-and
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In my window of vision, I arrange objects within the landscape as still life compositions. I invite my viewer to experience the traces of vibrancy and fleeting moments of joy created by the gradual change in environmental conditions and sunlight across the Tweed Valley, NSW. Painting gives substance to this movement in the landscape, a
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Mis-understood – what does the term ‘community’ mean today? “Using the word community is difficult. I am not sure what it really means or if they categorically exist. While community can designate those who are a part of something, it can also all too easily describe the equal and opposite: those who are excluded, unwelcome,
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Celebrate the launch of Issue 25 of VAULT Magazine at the IMA with a discussion titled ‘Forgotten Female Artists’, led by VAULT editor Alison Kubler. Kubler will be joined by special guests Professor Susan Best, curator of the exhibition Ana Mendieta: ‘Connecting to the Earth’, on display now at the IMA, and Naomi Evans, Curator,
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1950’s Australia, the days when Sunday mornings meant Dad was washing the Holden, the kids were playing in the backyard under the Hills Hoist and Mum was effortlessly preparing a roast lunch in her modestly appointed kitchen. It was a time of stability and innocence. The standard of living was high, unemployment low and cultural
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Birrmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha was born 1942 on Bentinck Island, Queensland, at a place on the northern side called Bilmee. She is proudly one of the predominant senior artists at Mornington Island Arts, where the bright tropical palette in her works capture the essence of island life. “I paint the story places, all different places,
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Join artist Dr. Leah King-Smith for a lunchtime talk in association with International Women’s Day about her recent body of work ‘Dreaming Mum again.’ In this series King-Smith has employed her unique photographic layering technique that utilises a mirror, camera, scanner and photo-editor to weave images together. These works feature photos of King-Smith’s Aboriginal (Bigambul)
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MONO and Queensland Film Festival (QFF) co-present a screening of films by British artist, filmmaker, and musician Luke Fowler. Fowler will introduce this screening of a number of his works, including the acclaimed ‘Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett)’ (2017). ‘Electro-Pythagoras’ pays tribute to the work and musical ideas of Martin Bartlett (1939-93), a proudly
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From under a house in New Farm, to Metro Arts and Margaret Street in the city, to Petrie Terrace, to… For the past seven years, Brisbane’s longest-running ARI, Boxcopy, has been based in a shopfront at the corner of the Normanby Fiveways, supporting artists to develop and present new works in a critical context, through
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Join artist Dale Harding in conversation with IMA Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, discussing Harding’s survey exhibition at the IMA, ‘Current Iterations’. ‘Current Iterations’ brings together new and recent works, focusing on shared languages permeating landscape, bodies, and objects. This conversation will address the works on display at the IMA, as well as wider
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RICE SKIN is a body of work that stems from the artist’s cultural identity, personal history and her associated challenges. As a Filipino-Australian migrant, Donley uses rice as her medium of choice in order to nostalgically connect to her upbringing. Donley’s mother would burn rice to make a substitute for milk, such that the cooking
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BrisAsia Symposium 2019 – Belonging, is an intimate and thought-provoking day designed to inspire and connect individuals passionate about the drive for cultural change. The Symposium includes a range of interactive panel discussions and artistic performances. Topics of discussion include intercultural arts practice, cultural heritage and diplomacy, philosophy, creativity and wellbeing. Sadly, Lee Lin Chin has had
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The Print Bar is proud to present The F Word, an exhibition celebrating International Women’s Day. Every year, International Women’s Day highlights the many achievements of women the world over. A call to action for gender equality, it’s an opportunity to unite, support and empower the women around us. In 2019 The Print Bar is