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Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power

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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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Rethink Documentary Photography with Exchange Value

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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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Finding Fashion Forum: Talking identity, place and style in Australian Fashion

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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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Artisan Workshops

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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

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Footscray Art Prize

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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

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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

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NICOLA MOSS: Greenspace

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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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Bellmouth

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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

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Undergrowth

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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

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Triple AAA

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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

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Andrew McNamara – Surpassing Modernity

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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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Exchange with Dr. Leah King-Smith

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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 x QFF Screening: Luke Fowler

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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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Boxcopy: Closing Party

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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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In Conversation: Dale Harding

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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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Jodesa Donley: Rice Skin

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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: Belonging

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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 F Word

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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

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First Thursdays: Dale Harding

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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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Director’s Choice

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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

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Prison Islands: Vernon Ah Kee & Faramarz K-Rahber in conversation

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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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High Rotation

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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

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