Mitchell Fine Art’s final exhibition for 2018 showcases Aboriginal paintings which explore connection to country and the influence of the rich landscape of Central Australia. Australian Aboriginal art depicts various elements of traditional culture. Connection to country holds a particular significance to Aboriginal people.This exhibition echoes the almost metaphysical relationship to country and its place within Aboriginal society […]
No Bodies Perfekt features selected outcomes of David Sargent’s Doctor of Visual Arts research project. Exhibited work explores the use of hand-lettering and augmented reality to communicate body shape diversity and disrupt physical advertising spaces. Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am to 4pm Closed Sunday & Monday Opening Event: Friday 30 November, 6pm – 8pm
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The PolArt2018 BRISBANE VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION OPENING celebrates another sumptuous gathering of artistic endeavour by a broad collection of talented artists of Polish extraction from across Australia. Please join the PolArt 2018 Brisbane Organising Committee, the Patron of this PolArt Festival – His Excellency Mr Michal Kolodziejski – Polish Ambassador to Australia, along with our
One of Brisbane’s most loved arts venues is to be sold off and the CBD will lose its last bohemian bastion. Metro Arts, at 109 Edward St, is housed in a multi-level 129-year-old building that has been central to Brisbane’s creative life for decades. Buyers are now circling this desirable piece of real estate while
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Visual artists, designers and photographers, the City of Sydney is calling for submissions for its creative hoardings program. They’re seeking art and design concepts to be used on construction site hoardings. This is an opportunity to see your work large-scale across inner Sydney. Selected artists will be paid $11,400. Entries close 5pm, Friday 14 December.
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Museum of Brisbane’s major summer exhibition The Designers’ Guide: Easton Pearson Archiveis now open. Featuring 200 garments selected in collaboration with designers Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson, The Designers’ Guide: Easton Pearson Archive reveals the artistry, techniques and demi-couture practices that placed this iconic Brisbane label at the forefront of Australian fashion from 1989 – 2016. The storytellers of Australian fashion, Pamela Easton
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Museum of Brisbane’s Artist-in-Residence for November Gerwyn Davies will guide your creation of the ultimate self-portrait in a unique workshop combining elements of costume and sculpture. Be inspired by the colour-drenched, constructed characters in Gerwyn’s photographic works and create an image where you transformed into a sculptural masterpiece of your own making. About Gerwyn Davies
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New Brisbane art collective VERGE are re-invigorating the Brisbane art scene with their first collaborative exhibition Super natural, opening Friday 30 November 2018 from 6pm at Vacant Assembly in West End, exploring the underlying tensions that stem from urbanite ambivalence to the ‘natural’ world. VERGE Collective members, Vanessa Bertagnole, Julia Scott Green, Christine Ko, Lisa Kurtz, Tamara
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Young Queenslanders aged 13 to 25 are invited to submit their creative vision capturing the spirit of Youth Week 2019. The winner’s artwork will be used as the primary creative across the event’s promotional materials. Along with setting the creative direction for the week, all entrants have a chance to win great prizes. Queensland Youth
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A $100,000 national art prize supporting contemporary Australian artists under 40. Entries for the 2019 Ramsay Art Prize are now open. Held every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize invites submissions from Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Finalists will be selected by an international judging panel: Russell Storer, Deputy Director (Curatorial and
In 2019 Hordaland kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway continues its themed artist-in-residence programme focusing on the various incarnations of writing in connection with art and art publishing. Although art criticism has dominated the canon of art-writing in the 20th and early 21st century, non-expository, ‘involved’ forms of writing have long existed alongside the plastic arts. In
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Large Format Camera enthusiasts, we are dedicating a whole weekend to this niche in analogue photography and bringing all the like-minded people together. We would like to organise this event sometime in February 2019, and it really depends on how much interest we raise. So if this is something that appeals to you, please register
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Applications from artists are invited for the FARM Studio International Art Residency 2019, taking place in two centres in Rajasthan, India – an urban hub in Jodhpur and a rural hub in Andore. Artists are provided with accommodation, studio and other support and contribute to the running costs. FARM Studio International Art Residency is an open platform where
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Museum of Brisbane’s 2019 Artist-in-Residence program invites visual artists, designers, poets, writers, curators, musicians and performers to respond to the Museum environment, the city of Brisbane and its community. Creatives may also choose to respond directly to our dynamic exhibitions program and collection. Proposals that are socially-engaged, participatory, and engage with site and place, are
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Join the Romero Centre & Refugees Welcome Australia for their next Make Your Own Passport (Tintin Wulia) workshop on Saturday 24th November. During this workshop you will be guided through a process of making a passport whilst having conversations around migration, citizenship, statelessness, borders and refugee issues. This workshop is free and is open to
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Professor Massimo Banzi will speak on his specialty areas of innovation, hardware, open source, internet of things and all things Arduino. Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool,
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This residency will host 6-8 local and national/international artists to develop creative projects and public programs that explore and expand the possibilities of print-focused projects and public programs. Selected Artists will be awarded a $1500 honorarium, paid travel to and from New Orleans, a month long stay in the Paper Machine residency space, and assistance
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If you are an artist or creative professional based in the Moreton Bay Region and interested in expanding your practice, looking for a public space or shop front, wanting to test your market or connect further with the local community, then this opportunity is not to be missed! Moreton Bay Regional Council’s Cultivate the Arts
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Open call to visual artists for NordArt 2019, a large scale annual exhibition featuring around 200 artists from around the world, taking place in Germany at Kunstwerk Carlshutte on 1 June – 6 October 2019. Artists with proposals for large-scale artworks may also apply to join the international NordArt symposium. Kunstwerk Carlshütte is a non-profit
You might have heard (or seen) that we have a laser cutter in the Fabrication Lab. This piece of machinery is one of our favourites; it’s fast, incredibly precise and can (with some imagination) create beautiful items, from jewellery and wallets, to lampshades and signage. In this four hour workshop we’ll show you how to
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Book and use the soldering irons for free, once you’ve successfully completed your induction. State Library of Queensland open access Makerspace and Fabrication Lab at The Edge provides the equipment and tools for your curiosity and imagination to come alive. In the basement you’ll have access to a range of resources and equipment including: CNC
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The newest addition to the QCA Galleries portfolio, our Grey Street Gallery is located at the front of the South Bank campus, 226 Grey Street. The space will present a dynamic exhibition program including work by students and staff of QCA as well as external exhibitors. Applications are open to practitioners of the visual arts, digital media, performance,
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QCA Galleries are now accepting proposals to exhibit at one of our five exhibition spaces between January – June 2019. QCA Galleries will accept proposals from QCA students, staff and external applicants. Please take the time to read through the information listed on the QCA Galleries website, including the Terms and Conditions prior to applying.
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To celebrate the launch of the exciting new Paper Snax Zine Hub! we will be hosting a Zine Fair for all of Brisbane’s Zine makers and zine lovers!! The Zine Fair will be taking place on Saturday November 17 from 12pm. Registration will close Nov 14 at midnight. Register for a table here For updates
Join Amber Boardman in an artist-to-artist workshop during the ‘Beyond Reason’ exhibition at QUT Art Museum. Amber will run one-on-one sessions with artists and offer her experience as a fellow artist, university lecturer and PhD student. Amber started running artist-to-artist workshops during an exhibition in America last year as a way of rethinking what it means
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artisan is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of Mona Ryder Lone Star, the most significant solo exhibition by artist Mona Ryder in Brisbane in over 10 years. Mona Ryder (b.1945, Brisbane) is nationally and internationally respected, and one of Australia’s most recognisable and evocative artists. For almost half a century, Ryder has challenged audiences with her
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The 70s and 80s were a turbulent time in world history, with the Vietnam War, Cold War, civil rights movements in the United States America and here in Australia rights and social justice were high on many people’s agendas. This time followed the landmark referendum of 1967 where 92% of Australians voted for Aboriginal and
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A collection of paintings featuring the ongoing theme of birds and flowers, a celebration of natures most vivid colours. Bright, beautiful abundant blooms quickly pass, but do live on, captured in time in oil paint. Australia boasts over 830 species of birds, providing an abundant source of inspiration. Concentrating on colourful birds, I wanted to
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Judy Watson: concealed histories presents a selection of the artist’s etchings and paintings held in The University of Queensland Art Collection. Watson is a prolific Brisbane artist, who belongs to the Waanyi people of North-West Queensland. The works selected demonstrate Watson’s research-driven practice, which allows her to reveal concealed histories by exploring scholarly research, archival records
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TWFAx2 is an interactive pop-up located in the BRISBANE QUARTER, part of the W Hotel, Brisbane’s first 5 star hotel in 20 years. TWFINAERT have teamed up with artist Matt Sheridan to present a stunning installation of ‘Noodles for Tony’ – Sheridan’s latest painting-in-motion. Referencing the advancement of television from early black and white to
The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space invites proposals for Augmented/ Virtual Reality Proposals as part of a larger installation of the project 36Q° at PQ 2019, taking place at the Prague Exhibition Ground 6-16 June 2019. Applications are accepted from artists at all stage of their careers, including emerging/student artists. PQ is an
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As the title suggests, ‘Debra Porch and Friends’ brings together a group of artists who were protégés or students of Porch at some stage of their and her careers, at the Queensland College of Art or Western Sydney University. Works on paper, paintings, objects, sculpture and video have been selected and presented by the following
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To Whom It May Concern, As brand ambassador for Brave Girl, I would be delighted if you would attend #SoBrave: an exhibition of Brave Girls. ‘Brave Girl’ is inspired by cosplay and comic strip characters and is clad in mock super-hero/medieval battle costume. She performs as the literal embodiment of what it means to be an
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Queensland College of Art presents the 2018 Honours Graduate Exhibition. Be inspired by the work of our 2018 graduating honours students from CAIA, Fine Art, Design, and Photography. Many of the works exhibited will be available for sale, kick-starting emerging artists on their way to professional careers in the diverse and exciting artforms mastered during
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Stefan Dunlop considers himself apprenticed to a mysterious craft, with a paradox at its heart: to make great art you’ve got to be on the edge of what you know; otherwise it is illustration. Dunlop’s aim is to make great paintings, whose grand gestures seek to push the medium progressively forward. It is not what
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Keith Burt was born in Sydney, educated in Melbourne and lives and works in Brisbane. Mostly recently he was awarded Finalist Archibald Portrait Prize 2017. In 2015 he was included in the 15 Artists exhibition at Redcliffe Art Gallery and was commissioned to paint the head of the Australian Medical Association Dr Christian Rowan in
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