The John Fries Award is an annual $10,000 non-acquisitive art prize recognising the talents of early career visual artists. Since its humble beginnings in 2010, the Award has established itself as a platform for some of the most engaging and experimental works from the next wave of contemporary artists from across Australia and New Zealand. […]
This 2 hour school holiday silkscreen printing workshop introduces the fun of screen printing. Participants are able to screen print a multi coloured deign onto a tote bag or t-shirt using pre-prepared screens. all materials are included. Suitable for ages 6+. Class size is limited to 6 people. Workshop runs Wednesday 19th December 10am -12pm. For more information
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Join us for a special life drawing event facilitated by one of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists Vernon Ah Kee. Known for his large-scale charcoal drawings, agitprop wall texts & video projects, Ah Kee’s new work The Island 2018 currently features in Boundary Lines. Date: Tuesday 5 February 2019 Time: 6-8.30pm Venue: Griffith University Art Museum Cost: $20.00
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Following on from the successful In Anna’s Garden Australian Cyanotypes exhibition that we coordinated with the Monash Gallery oy Art in Melbourne last year we now we bring our updated knowledge of the process to our latest Maud Street Photo Gallery workshop. Topics will include: Sourcing and mixing up your own chemicals Selecting suitable subjects to image Selecting
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Next Wave is inviting artists from across Australia to form a government. This is an opportunity for early career artists, curators, producers, writers, musicians, choreographers, thinkers and makers from all creative disciplines to propose their most ambitious projects for presentation at Next Wave Festival 2020: A Government of Artists. Next Wave creatives receive tailored project
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In 2019, the Institute of Modern Art will bring visionary new works by artists to Brisbane audiences and give global context to important questions of our time. Next year’s exhibition program includes the first survey exhibition of Brisbane-based artist Dale Harding’s practice; the first Australian solo exhibitions by Ana Mendieta, Christopher Kulendran Thomas in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, and Lawrence Abu
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Caroline Austin is an artist whose socially engaged practice spans a diverse range of media including sculpture, performance, sound and large-scale installations. Through the projects and programs Austin has initiated globally, she has illustrated that art can be used as a tool for generating social engagement, civic pride, and economic development. Austin is also the
The */ 15th Athens Digital Arts Festival invites you to submit your proposals for its next edition that takes place in spring 2019 in Athens, under the theme “The World is a Hologram”. Deadline for submissions is on 15 of January 2019. Dating back to antiquity, theories which want us living in a hologram, apart from science fiction can also
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OPPORTUNITIES AT THE WALLS IN 2019 – OPEN CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST – DEADLINE: Sunday 3 February, 5pm. LOCAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE The local artist in residence program is open to local emerging artists who are living and working on the Gold Coast or who can demonstrate a solid connection to our regional landscape.
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Melbourne! We’re back for our 3rd edition of The Other Art Fair and applications are now open. “A festival for discovering mind-blowing work by emerging artists” — Time Out Our next edition will again take place at The Facility – an old converted wool store in the heart of Kensington, from 2-5 May 2019. APPLY NOW Stands range
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artisan has been invited by Arts Queensland to host an evening with craft and design professionals to help shape the vision for arts and culture in Queensland over the next ten years. If you are a craft and design practitioner or worker we value your input and thoughts about our sector, and we would like
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With a background in Industrial & Interior Design – and industry that linked the creative and commercial – the vision of Aspire Gallery’s director, Donagh Mengel, was to create an award that encouraged and rewarded artists that looked at their art as a business. Now in its fifth year, ‘Petite Pieces’ has been re-launched to
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Safe Space: contemporary sculpture is curated by Christine Morrow and features art works by Adbul-Rahman Abdullah, Alex Seton, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, David Cross, Franz Ehmann, Karla Dickens, Keg de Souza, Michelle Nikou, Rosie Miller, Tim Sterling and Will French. The exhibition brings together three-dimensional art works that explore psychological aspects of physical space.
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A space that explores both traditional and contemporary approaches to weaving. This exhibition embraces textiles and basketry, the use of recycled materials in weaving, and other disciplines with a focus on weave – woven ceramic objects, or a painting or perhaps drawings that depicts a strong woven element. Visitors are invited to get busy and try their hand at the growing collaborative work or learn
A diverse mix of great art. A fantastic celebration. Featuring Nick Ashby, Ali Bezer, Ross Booker, Maureen Hanson, Domenica Hoare, Peter Hudson, David Jones, Chris McKimmie, Robert Mercer, David Nixon, Stephen Nothling, Clare Purser, Elizabeth Shaw, Ian Smith & Karen Stephens.
We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with the Inspired AIR art-partners VERGE Collective, Jugglers Art Space Inc and artist Therese Flynn-Clarke. Inspired AIR has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. VERGE Collective is an all-female collective formed
WE INVITE ARTIST APPLICATIONS FOR THE 17TH SWELL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION TO BE HELD ALONG CURRUMBIN BEACH WALKWAY ON AUSTRALIA’S GOLD COAST FROM SEPTEMBER 13-22 2019. HIGHLIGHTS Artist submissions can comprise of completed works, works in progress or concepts Entries close 31st January 2019 Exhibition dates for our 2019 exhibition are September 13th – 22nd on Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast,
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Are you an emerging or early career designer, crafts practitioner or artist with plans to complete an overseas residency, mentorship or other professional development opportunity? Then you might be eligible for a Cultural Trust grant. The Ian Potter Cultural Trust offers grants of up to $10,000 to assist talented early career artists to gain experience,
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The Outback Regional Gallery in Winton, Qld is currently calling for entries for our annual art prize – The 2019 John Villiers Outback Art Prize, supported by the John Villiers Trust. This is our signature prize that is a highlight on our annual calendar and we are looking to promote the prize as widely as
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The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a $25,000 acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country. To be eligible to enter the 2019 Perry Prize for Drawing, artwork submitted must be the artist’s original work that has been produced within 12 months prior to 9 January 2019. The judge for the 2019 Adelaide Perry
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Punch the Clock brings together five Queensland artists in a provocative exhibition that highlights some gritty issues and a range of perspectives on our communal histories including racial stereo-typing and social divisions. Ultimately it advocates the contemporary artist as a frontier fighter in the world of popular culture and considers their artwork as a documented
Artists in residence: Nevin Howell, Julie Purcell, Georgia Pierce Partner artist: Marta Larzabal Awarded partner artist: Amy Conlon Feature artists: Drew Flaherty, Mulan (DJ) The modern term for ‘technology’ comes from the Greek word ‘techne’ meaning art, or craft. As a showcase of artworks, Techne seeks to explore intersections of technology, art and imagination. Through
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Heat Politics takes form through a gentle and extended conversation between the artists Lantian Xie (Dubai), Map Office (Hong Kong) and the exhibition curators – centring on the role of research-based practice. This project was formed on the basis that responsible curatorial practice should possess a specific set of parameters, goals and ethics. For this
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The exhibition presents a suite of new paintings by Richard Bell. The opening will coincide with the launch of a new site specfiic work by Robert Andrew. Opening event: Saturday 1 December, 5 – 7 pm IMAGE: Richard Bell, For Alan, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 240 cm
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Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. More recently her work has been influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and and the abstracted surface possibilities these objects can show as they begin to age. Kirsten Coelho trained in Adelaide at the
VERGE Collective members, Vanessa Bertagnole, Julia Scott Green, Christine Ko, Lisa Kurtz, Tamara Whyte and Emma Wright, joined by mentor artist Marian Drew, present their first collaborative Brisbane exhibition, Super Natural. For this inaugural event, curated by drew, VERGE are working with Vacant Assembly, a new art and design space and creative hub in West
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition by Michael Doolan. Using a combination ceramics, aluminium, fibreglass and high gloss automative paint Doolan creates sculptures relating to childhood memories from his mother’s ornament cabinet. Doolan states, “The works in Stories with Endings Changed embody the unsettling sensations that I unexpectedly experience when encountering certain images and objects.
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An annual group exhibition showcasing small works from the collective artists who have showcased at Side Gallery in 2018, as well as a selection of 2019 artists. Come along to the opening night to see what your favourite artists have been up to since their solo shows, sneak a peek into 2019’s program and consider
Torres Strait stories, song and dance are powerful – like the waves, tide and wind that surround their island homes. Erub (Darnley Island) in the far north east of Torres Strait, Queensland is home to 400 Erubam le (people). Erub artists present the exhibition ‘Yumpla – everybody together’, highlighting their stories and connections to the
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Space Pixels is an interactive light installation, made of mirrored stainless steel and intelligent pixels. The shapes and patterns are formed through reflections, changes in light, colour and intensity. The installation explores methods for creating volumetric displays, using techniques found in kaleidoscopes. Multiple three-sided mirror kaleidoscopes allow the image to be viewed from multiple angles,
The first big group show in our new space celebrates the end of a creatively productive 2018. Featuring a plethora of local artists and designers, many of whom we have had the pleasure of collaborating with this year. New Stuff by: Amy Vowles, Ania Ganowicz, BrouHaHa, Bush Brother, Clinton Barker, Debra Hood Art, David Seth,
“In Far Western Queensland lies a landscape composed of a heady mix of mesas, red stone bluffs, spinifex and gibber plains, and tortured trees, which rivals Arizona’s famed Monument Valley. Never before photographed, this is The Untouched Canyon.” From December 5–15, 2018, Aspire Gallery is proud to be hosting The Untouched Canyon, an exhibition by award winning
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John Young (Young Zerunge) was born in Hong Kong and moved to Australia in 1967. His first solo exhibition was held in a hamlet in the fishing village of Rosroe, Connemara, on the west coast of Ireland. Since then he has had more than 70 solo exhibitions and over 160 group exhibitions, including representing Australia
Australian Artist Lincoln Austin investigates the blurred boundaries between Ideal and physical realities.Through geometry, pattern, systems and repetition Lincoln Austin engages with the formality of mathematics, the poetic of metaphor and the potential of material.Austin’s works range in scale and process markedly; from mammoth public art projects through to delicate, intricate constructions. Image: IMPERFECT PATTERN
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Natalie Ball, Hannah Brontë, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Chantal Fraser, Lisa Hilli, Carol McGregor, Ahilapalapa Rands, and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss. Commuting between centres and edges, between cities and countrysides, and between worlds is increasingly normal— necessary even. A commute or regular journey of some distance to and from one’s workplace is something many of us engage in on a daily basis. A commute as
Kinly Grey’s artistic practice is a series of experiments. Grey’s works are activated and transformed by their context: a gust of wind, the movement of the sun, or the hand of the viewer, becomes a part of the work, not a disturbance of it. Culminating in a solo exhibition at Metro gallery, Grey’s year in
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