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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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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