Launch of Queensland’s Largest Art Prize will be launched at Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane on Sunday 24 February. More than 200 artists and guests are expected to attend the Artists’ Launch of the Brisbane Portrait Prize which will showcase prize money of more than $70,000. Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk will officiate at the event. The […]
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Taking place within Dale Harding’s (Bidjara, Garingbal, and Ghungalu peoples) exhibition ‘Current Iterations’, this event brings together the community embedded within Harding’s practice and the exhibition itself. You are invited to join Harding, his family and friends to enliven and “wake up” the exhibition space through an evening of music, dance, and performance. After having
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Less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women, and this gender imbalance has a profound effect on Wikipedia’s content. Join us for an afternoon of raising our digital voices and changing the stats. Not in Brisbane? Show your support by editing from around the world. Steps for participating: 1. RSVP to Louise Mayhew: l.mayhew@griffith.edu.au. 2.
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An ongoing open call for the What About Art? international artists residency (WAA) in Mumbai. This is a paid residency which offers studio space, accommodation, professional networking and more. WAA was launched in 2013 with the aim to facilitate and support art practice. There is no set deadline – the date published is purely indicative. One of
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Mitchell Fine Art launches its 2019 exhibition calendar with a group exhibition, ‘Director’s Choice’. Showing from 30th January the exhibition is curated primarily from the gallery’s collection. A highlight of this year’s exhibition is the focus on two artists – Ann Thomson andPeter Hudson. Whilst Peter has exhibited at the gallery in the past, this will be the
Outer Space acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Meanjin and their continued sovereignty over the land on which this project is carried out Please Join us on February 8th from 6pm for the opening of A Set of New Skills by Sarah Poulgrain and Eager Beaver by Graham Mathwin. Exhibition dates: Saturday 9th February – Sunday
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Join designer and creative Sam Parsons to create a modular, patchwork art piece inspired by the colour and techniques of Easton Pearson. Design, stitch, embroider, render, bead and compose a textile artwork infused with your own sentiment using a variety of contemporary and everyday materials. Sam has developed this workshop to help you explore a
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Join artist Vernon Ah Kee in conversation with producer and director of photography, Griffith Film School’s Faramarz K-Rahber, to discuss the conceptualisation and making of Ah Kee’s new video work The Island 2018. Prison islands: Vernon Ah Kee and Faramarz K-Rahber in conversation Date: Tuesday 19 February 2019 Time: 6pm for refreshments with conversation to
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Featuring highlights over the past 30 years, High Rotation will reveal a snapshot of how popular music in Brisbane exploded from the local scene onto national and international stages. Get a backstage pass to three epic decades of Brisbane’s incredible music scene from 1989 – 2019, as Museum of Brisbane’s High Rotation exhibition takes centre stage from 30 August
BrisAsia Festival showcases traditional and contemporary Asian arts and cultural events. From Saturday 9 February – Sunday 3 March 2019 enjoy events across the city and in the suburbs. See an array of diverse live entertainment including music, performance, food, workshops and visual arts events. BrisAsia Festival is one of thousands of festivals, events and markets Council
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For the first time Museum of Brisbane is partnering with the prestigious Asia Pacific Screen Awards and BrisAsia Festival to present contemporary Indonesian masterpiece The Seen and Unseen as part of a suite of films celebrating Asian Cinema for BrisAsia Festival. One day, 10-year-old Tantri realizes she does not have much time left with her critically ill
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Get excited Brisbane! Only a few more weeks until another excellent contemporary Asian art exhibition is in town – Lunar Down Under: Asian Art 2019. To coincide with the BrisAsia Festival hosted by the Brisbane City Council, Art from the Margins presents a unique show of creativity and intercultural art created by Australian artists and
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On the surface, Anne Wallace’s figurative paintings might seem conventional, however they are anything but ordinary. Her meticulously painted canvases satisfy our visual habits and conform to our expectations of paintings, leading us to expect a narrative; however, on a deeper level, they conspire to deny us the satisfaction. They exude a strangeness derived from
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2010 marked a revolution in Indian cinema with independent filmmakers are at the forefront of the transformation. ‘New Bollywood: Currents in Indian Cinema’ profiles new and dynamic films that are arising from a cross-pollination of India’s mainstream (Bollywood), regional and independent cinemas. The rapid social changes in contemporary India is sparking a resurgence in independent
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Featuring the work of contemporary Australian and international artists, ‘Boundary Lines’ explores a variety of contexts and iconographies to consider how boundaries control and dominate individuals and communities. Artists: Vernon Ah Kee (AU), Daniel Boyd (AU), Carol McGregor (AU), Rosângela Rennó (BR), et. al (NZ). Curator: Angela Goddard Official opening of ‘Boundary Lines’ Date: Sunday
A Powerful Photographic Exhibition that depicts almost four decades of the turbulent history of Irish society in conflict and the arduous path to peace by Frankie Quinn & Sean McKernan. Acclaimed Belfast Photographers Frankie Quinn & Sean McKernan have primarily worked as independent documentary photographers over the past 35 years nationally and internationally. In 1983
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Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages is a free thought-provoking exhibition about the survival and revival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Over 125 Queensland languages were once spoken, now approximately 50 of these remain spoken daily. Join the journey of six Queensland communities saving their traditional languages. Spoken presents an alternative retelling of the prevailing
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The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an annual prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established female artists in Australia. There are two prize categories, including a $35,000 prize — the richest professional art prize for women in Australia. Artwork judging will be overseen by Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art
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Established in 2015, the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize is a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today. The annual prize is an important opportunity for
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ANAT is calling for applications from artists and scientists for our prestigious Synapse Residency program, which since 2004 has supported creative research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists. Background Synapse involves Australian science organisations hosting artists in residence, leading to profound artistic and professional development for the participants, as well as building a sustainable support base
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Brisbane City Council offers a range of creative and history grants, awards and fellowships for artists, arts workers, creatives, historians, and local organisations. Visit Creative Brisbane to find out what else Council has on offer to creatives in Brisbane. From artist and producer opportunities to performances, events and more. For more information please visit the – Website
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Paul Milburn Art Prize 2019 ‘Landscape as a space of creative discovery’ I see pictorial space as an inner landscape for the mind’s eye to roam; so it is not surprising if my paintings evoke the feeling of landscape. (I) know it is a mental projection but it is inherently delightful. While painting, I am
The Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with USA-based Directory of Illustration, announces that the World Illustration Awards 2019 are now open for entries. Following WIA’s most successful year ever in 2018, we are delighted to announce an array of brand-new prizes for 2019, giving more chance than ever for winning illustrators to gain recognition
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The Third Quarter is proud to launch ‘Tendrils, Strings’ by Brisbane Emerging Artist Holly Anderson. In ‘Tendrils, Strings’ Anderson explores the strangeness of tendrils, floaters, and strings as an emergent and recurrent motif across her recent work. The tendril form recalls something earthy or bodily – a floater seen in one’s vision presents a disconcerting
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In Marcus Boelen’s second solo show with the gallery, the artist will present seven new paintings made with his signature energy and ‘savage’ gusto. While the paintings draw compositional inspiration from the landscape, Marcus works to deconstruct the reference by rotating the canvases and coating the surfaces in a gritty, plastic colour palette. Boelen strikes
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95% OF ARTISTS LEAVE BRISBANE. WHY DON’T YOU?’ was cheekily graffitied on the newly-built Cultural Centre back in 1982. This biting satire still stings in 2019, speaking to the inevitability of change and its intersections with travel, perception, and opinion. In 2017, twenty-one students from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University embarked on a European study
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The IMA and Room40 present MONO 31 with France Jobin and special guests. Jobin will present ‘Intrication’, a work inspired by quantum entanglement, seeking to discover the relationship between sound and observing sound. Jobin is a sound and installation artist, composer, and curator based in Montreal, Canada. Her sonic work has been described as sound
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Play On: The art of sport presents a selection of key works from 10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize, a biennial exhibition of commissioned artworks that reflect upon sport and sporting culture. One of Australia’s richest and most prestigious art awards, the Basil Sellers Art Prize has inspired innovative and complex explorations of the
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‘Posy’ is a series of paintings exploring the role that the landscape plays in Australian identity. Through still life paintings of indigenous flowers, birds, and insects, Guthleben uses the traditions of vanitas and its messages of the transience of life to present a painted vernacular that spans humour, kitsch, and historical and environmental themes. She reinterprets the delicate
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A rambling picaresque exhibition of works that venture into the fairytale, the absurd, masquerade, animal/human transformation, theatre, satire, anti-fashion and parody. Beyond Reason exudes whimsy, improvisation, spontaneity, humour, gesture and intuition whilst exploring ideas of cultural identity, popular culture, and sexuality. Karen Napaljarri Barnes, Karen Black, Amber Boardman, Sally Bourke, Angela Brennan, Matthew Clarke, Aleks Danko, The
Join us for Jordan’s open studio event and artist talk. We’ll be chatting about the work he has been developing at THE WALLS over Summer for a forthcoming major solo exhibition hosted by HASSELL Architects Brisbane Studio as part of the Asia Pacific Architecture Forum in 2019. Refreshments will be provided. Jordan will be using the
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Contemporary arts recent focus has primarily been on global trauma, rather than that experienced in the home. Unlike these globally publicised trauma’s, domestic trauma is “part of the everyday, domestic in that it is hidden, secret, and protected from public view”, which is why the artists in this exhibition feel so compelled to reveal the
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prospect. provides an opportunity for early career researchers at the Queensland College of Art to share their art-practice. Turning POP Gallery into a site for experimentation, the mixed media exhibition consists of work that has not been presented to the public before. Featured artists include Abraham Jr Garcia, Ana Paula Estrada, Annelize Mulder, Athene Currie,
The IMA is pleased to present an in conversation with leading contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu, on the occasion of her first retrospective, ‘Impossible Dialogue’, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Xiao Lu will be dialogue with exhibition curators Claire Roberts and Xu Hong to view and discuss videos of some of the
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Brisbane Artist Rachael Bartram has considered the origins of collage in contrast to how we as consumers, process and re-process imagery today via the Internet, social media and fast evolving A.I. technology. At the same time, the Artist contemplates her continued use of images as both a modern woman and practicing Artist. By experimenting with
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Adorn examines the motivating factors behind the selection of objects used to adorn oneself and what these objects reveal about ourselves. The objects in this exhibition defy the phenomenon of fast fashion and relentless consumption; their importance lingers. Ten selectors have been invited to present objects they use to adorn themselves and their surroundings. Through selection