Have you ever wanted to own a personalised pair of drinking glasses? Join glass artists Jo Bone and Aaron Micallef as they guide you through the processes of stenciling, masking and sandblasting, to design and create your own matching glassware. You will be shown how to realise your design as a permanently etched and durable […]
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The first stage of APT9 Kids launches this weekend with the unveiling of Purple Reign 2018, an immersive ‘secret garden’ populated with images of jacarandas and interactive experiences by Australian artist Gary Carsley. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said Purple Reignat GOMA was the first in a series of eight artist-led projects to
Brisbane Open House is a free event, providing residents and visitors with the rare opportunity to discover the hidden wealth of architecture, engineering and history in buildings and places around Brisbane city. Held annually in conjunction with World Architecture Day, selected buildings are opened for the public with guided and self-guided tours to encourage them
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We are seeking artists for Outside In 2019 – art exhibitions that transform the hospital environment at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane and Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital. We invite proposals from artists that wish to show their work in a unique way to a wide audience, impacting directly on the quality of life for patients, visitors
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Want to see your name on the glossy pages of Vogue, worn by an influencer on the world stage or just want some local recognition in your neighbourhood newspaper? Then this is the workshop for you. In our 2-hour DIY PR workshop we’ll take you through the ins and outs of kickstarting your own media
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The Email Marketing Summit Australia (EMSA) is Australia’s premier email marketing event, designed by email marketers for email marketers. Featuring an international keynote and 11 email marketing experts from around Australia, this is THE event for any business that uses email as part of their marketing strategy. Why attend? EMSA will appeal to both new
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In honor of VisArts patrons, Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four month residency at VisArts at Rockville. This residency provides a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual artist or collaborative artist team to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work
Get your entries in for the National Photographic Portrait Prize! Over $50,000 in prizes goes to the creator of the most outstanding photographic portrait. There will also be prizes for Highly Commended as well an Art Handlers’ Award, and the ever-popular People’s Choice Award! Entries close at 9:00am on Tuesday 23 October 2018 (Australian Eastern Standard Time). For
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The LOEWE Craft Prize seeks to acknowledge and support international artisans of any age (over 18) or gender who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value. By identifying work that reinterprets existing knowledge to make it relevant today while reflecting its maker’s personal language and distinct hand, the LOEWE FOUNDATION aims
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Further your professional skills, while experiencing the world’s biggest visual arts event, with the Australia Council for the Arts’ Venice Biennale 2019 Professional Development Program. We are currently seeking applications for three opportunities: Exhibition Team Leaders, who assume a senior role in managing the daily operations of the Australian Pavilion during the Venice Biennale 2019. Volunteer
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The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and ACMI are now calling for submissions from practicing Australian artists for the 2020 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission. A joint initiative of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission is a biennial award designed to enable
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RESORT is an iconic annual event series celebrating the James St precinct and its community as a leading cultural hub on both a local and national level. The series showcases James St’s retail, art, design and food communities and is driven by the precinct’s cultural trailblazers. Having established itself as a landmark event for the
As part of Artist Hannah Gutchen’s debut Solo Exhibition ‘KAKA NALI – I AM’ at The Third Quarter, Gutchen will be facilitating an inclusive basket weaving workshop at the gallery. Using Traditional Torres Strait Island weaving practices, Artist Hannah Gutchen invites participants to stimulate a converastion centred around narratives of self reflection, empowerment & sovereignty.
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Join former Outer Space studio artist, Peter Kozak for a personalised badge making workshop. Peter will share with you how he uses drawing and badge making as a process of expressing his deepest fears and intimate experiences with the world. This workshop is an opportunity for you to take your insecurities and literally turn them
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Expressions of Interest invited for The Platform, Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha Brisbane City Council is now inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified artists to create a temporary artwork for The Platform, located in the idyllic setting of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha. About the opportunity The Platform is a temporary art platform
Learn about the Arts Law Artists in the Black program, including the different services that are offered as part of the program. The different types of clients and creative sectors helped through the AITB program the and the common types of problems that they have will be discussed. Specific examples and case studies of the
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Learn how to build experimental microphones with the artist and musician Ross Manning. Over the past decade, Manning has developed what could be described as his own world, animated by light and sound. He is an obsessive creator of systems that are driven by their own logic, and of moving objects propelled by electricity and their
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Susan Lincoln is an established contemporary visual artist with a rich connection to regional and rural Australia, and the women in Lincoln’s family who have shared experiences of these landscapes. It is the nostalgia, unique environment, and familial connection to these places of importance that has left a signature mark on the majority of Lincoln’s
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Malu Mabaigal – Seafaring People is the latest exhibition from Moa Arts (Ngalmun Lagau Minaral). The exhibition, a collection of works on paper and woven objects, showcases the cultural stories and unique way of life of the Mualgal people from Moa Island in the Torres Strait. The Mualgal people, known by locals as Italgal, are
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With Heart & Hand: Art Pottery in Queensland 1900–1950’ is the most comprehensive survey of the art pottery produced in an Australian state. It includes over one hundred potters from Brisbane and regional areas, whose practices during the early twentieth century significantly influenced art and craft movements throughout Australia. The exhibition takes as its nucleus
Hands are as unique as faces not just in their physical characteristics, but in their tremendous capacity to express feelings and emotions, communicate ideas and tell stories. Margaret’s new collection of paintings aims to put the spotlight on hands in a variety of compositions that convey both narrative and emotional qualities. In many of these
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FireWorks Gallery is excited to announce the second exhibition in the new Bowen Hills gallery, WELCOME TWO. This wide-ranging show comprises works by Joanne Currie Nalingu, Kudditji Kngwarreye, Glen Mackie, Yvonne Mills-Stanley, Fiona Omeenyo and Alick Sweet and will open on Saturday 22nd September. It builds on our previous group exhibition, once more including small,
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) will present the 2018 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) from 11 to 21 October. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines today announced BIFF 2018 would launch on Thursday 11 October at GOMA with the Queensland premiere of Celeste, a compelling love story by Brisbane-born film director Ben Hackworth set in the
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Dark Rituals, Magical Relics is an exhibition of the work of seven contemporary women artists from Australia and abroad. What links the work of Amalie Atkins (Canada), Margaret Baguley (Australia), Beata Batorowicz (Australia), Linda Clark (Australia), Ellie Coleman (Australia), Lisa Reihana (New Zealand), and Susan Shantz (Canada) is the place of ritual in their practice. From
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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition harnesses the power of photography to promote the discovery, understanding and responsible enjoyment of the natural world. Brisbane Powerhouse is excited to present this world-class exhibition for the first time in 2018. Founded in 1964 and organised and produced by the Natural History Museum, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is one
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Established in 1987 the churchie national emerging art prize is a highly regarded emerging art prize dedicated to innovation and excellence across contemporary, traditional and new media genres. Artists from all Australian states and territories are selected as finalists for the exhibition in a professional public gallery space. The overall winner is rewarded a $15,000
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Join Brisbane-based contemporary jeweller Bianca Mavrick for a hands-on workshop, bringing together recycled materials to create eclectic contemporary jewellery assemblages. Using diverse post industrial waste materials sourced from Reverse Garbage, learn how to bring new life into discarded everyday objects. Mavrick, who is known for her pairings of offbeat colour combinations with bold shapes, will help guide
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The call for applications is open for the Camargo Core Program for residencies in Fall 2019 and Spring 2020. The deadline to apply is October 17, 2018. Every year, the Camargo Foundation supports an international group of 9 artist and 9 scholars and thinkers in the Arts and Humanities by offering residencies of 6 to 11
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Aarhus Center for Visual Art (Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, AaBKC) invites international visual artists to apply to AaBKC Residency’s Fall 2019 program. The aim of AaBKC Residency is to introduce international artists and curators to the visual arts scene in Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark. Emerging and established artists are welcome to apply. The successful applicant
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Iconic Australian Houses, curated by Karen McCartney and presented in partnership with Architecture Foundation Australia is a behind-the-scenes exploration of 30 of the most important Australian homes of the past 60 years. The exhibition explores the design and building of these houses, as well as the experiences of those who live in them, and illustrates the
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Scott Breton’s new series of paintings range from simple plein air watercolours and compositional sketches to larger canvases and panels. “Technically, I have been experimenting with varying paint application to a larger degree than previously, using a variety of tools and techniques in an attempt to amplify the feeling of space, light and movement. I
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Surge by Brisbane based artist Michelle Gilbert. “This series continues my investigation of landscape as a means of self portrait. The works consider personal encounters I have had with the everyday sublime where the landscape has suddenly appeared to surge with subtle energy. While it is often the more
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In England, he was noted for his huge murals. In Australia, however, James Guppy is known for his exquisitely executed, small, evocative paintings. His art displays courage and honesty in the way it explores human emotions, identifying and commenting on the cultural and emotional legacies with which we live. Guppy portrays people in moments of
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Justin Garnsworthy’s inaugural solo exhibition at POP Gallery comprises of large-scale digital print works on aluminium composite panels. Blurring distinctions between process and product, analogue and digital; Garnsworthy confounds viewer’s certainties about optical perception. Each work in the exhibition has undergone a series of actions that are thought of as methods of Alchemy pertaining to
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Video killed the radio star, and the internet brought it back from the dead! The tyrannical grip of the internet incites rebellion against cold and passive interactions, leaving humanity searching for places to be touched and for artworks that move them. In a world where all is shared, from our breakfast to our relationships, where
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Join contemporary painter and ceramicist Karen Black and Griffith University Art Museum Director Angela Goddard for a discussion on Black’s practice, exploring her expressive approach to painting aon canvas and how it translates across to her ceramic works. Date: Tuesday 16 October Time: 6pm for refreshments with discussion to start at 6:30pm Cost: Free. Bookings
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