Combining handmade botanical inks and textiles, artist Dana Lawrie creates a new installation reflecting upon permanence and impermanence. This textile-based artwork will incorporate both photosensitive and indelible flower and botanical inks that have been handmade by the artist from a range of plants. The process of making and using these natural inks and dyes creates […]
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Thcat is a socially conscious and political artist whose work is heavily influenced by society’s pop and consumerism culture. New to the art world, Thcat is a manufactured identity whose work uses the street-scape scene as a source of inspiration as well as a resource to build and create art that reflects the cultural landscape
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WHY LISTEN TO PLANTS? A plant knows and makes worlds. It communicates. When we regard a plant, we usually only see what’s above the surface: stems, trunks, branches, leaves, buds and flowers. But there’s so much more below ground – intricate nets of roots, radicles and fungal bodies through which water, nutrients, knowledge and community
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The mythical power of love is the theme behind Sydney Peace Prize WinnerGeorge Gittoes latest exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. In a complete stylistic shift from his figurative documentation of conflict, Gittoes revisits an abstract style in his new exhibition. Opening September 19th,‘Lovers’ explores the mystery of love. For decades George Gittoes work has documented
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Towards the end of each year, the Queensland College of Art (QCA) hosts a number of showcase exhibitions featuring the work of graduating students from the disciplines of fine art, photography, design and digital media, contemporary Australian Indigenous art, film, animation and games design. Many of the works exhibited will be available for sale, kick-starting
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Cyclical Patterns and Burning Lights presents a mixture of new and some previously exhibited works which builds on the ideas and methods explored in Greer’s previous solo exhibitions. This exhibit will feature a combination of two dimensional works in mixed media and collage, and assemblages of found object sculptures. Cyclical Patterns and Burning Lights includes objects and artefacts
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The IMA will be transformed into a one-night-only club by artist Anastasia Booth in this First Thursdays event not-to-be-missed. ‘Preaching to the Perverted: Club Issue’ is the collision of Booth’s interests in fetish culture, Freudian psychoanalysis, and classical ideas of desire. Booth will make over the IMA Screening Room as a dungeon-like venue, bathed in
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For his inaugural solo exhibition with Jan Murphy Gallery, John Nicholson will present a new body of works that extends his interest in technology. Drop Downs will feature colourful, layered sculptural acrylic works with matte, gloss and mirrored surfaces. The use of advanced technology is an everyday occupation not only in my interaction with the
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In the historic setting of the Spring Hill Reservoirs, an experimental listening session tracing root systems of botany, psychology, language and colonisation. Artists use voice to unearth subterranean threads, tapping chambered memories and generating new echoes within this former artificial body of water. JAYE CARCARY’s spoken word meditation will open a ground for individual and
Julian Meagher’s latest exhibition ‘Tidelines’ came from three unusual sources of inspiration: a National Park location, a visually impaired student, and the impending birth of his first child. The result is a departure for the figurative painter into landscape, free brush-strokes and memory. ‘I haven’t painted landscapes for over a decade,” says Meagher. “I wanted
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‘Unselfconsciously playful, my work examines a process of art making devoid of stringent conceptualism. It is about the physical act of painting, exploring the role of play, intuition, improvisation and the potentiality of paint. A strong desire for freedom results in paintings which differ greatly from one canvas to the next. They are at once
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In a discussion inspired by renowned artist James Turrell’s architectural light commission ‘Night Life’ 2018 at GOMA, a panel of cinematographers and designers will explore the role of light and colour and its importance in the creation of story and space. Join panel chair and cinematographer Erika Addis, alongside cinematographer Mark Wareham and architect and
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Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Tiatia’s work has been included in a number of important institutional exhibitions, including After the Fall, National Museum of Singapore (2017/2018); Personal Structures, 57th
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Pairing the age-old salon hang with new media and contemporary techniques Scroll explores the analogue digital boundary through a variety of media and artists. While curatorially drawing a connection between the salon hang and its digital counterparts, e.g. the Google image search or Pinterest wall, the works that have been selected engage with the boundary
An exhibition of performance and video narrating power dynamics, pop culture, gender performance and sex. “Sheila is a gagger, a twerker, a consumer. She is a performer, a gazer, a spectacle. Sheila is a response, an agent, an initiator. She is the subject, the object, the action.” Opening Event: Thursday, 18 October, 6pm – 8pm
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KAKA NALI – ‘I Am’ is the debut solo ‘ShareSpace’ exhibition by Brisbane Artist Hannah Gutchen. KAKA NALI offers a neutral environment that encourages self-expression through the emergence of traditional & contemporary Torres Strait Island weaving practices. It is an experience that provokes an innate “inastanding” through life’s adverse experiences, transferable to all. It is
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A crowd formed more or less the same stares at you, yet each is carefully considered, none a cynical replication of the last. This is true to the extent that you could see the ugliest one alone on a termite-ridden wall and appreciate that, “That’s one of Bobby’s paintings.” That human fits in with the
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of George A Romero’s landmark zombie film ‘Night of the Living Dead’ 1968, composer and artist Lawrence English has created a new audiovisual work titled ‘The Visitors’. Drawing on the film’s iconic imagery, English melds a montage of moving images with a distinctive live soundtrack. This ticketed event will be
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“From Latvia to Malta, we were mostly children of the displaced, born to migrants on Ngunawaal land, in Canberra. Only fifty years earlier, the local people had been removed, or worse. The past is still close even as it hides behind road signs and billboards. I have worked with positive and negative because that seems
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The exhibition presents ritual object works by Anastasia Booth in Carpark. There will be a performance at 5.30 pm. It will open concurrently with an exhibition by Rosslynd Piggott. Opening event: Saturday 6 October, 4 – 6 pm IMAGE: Anastasia Booth, Anasyrma, 2017, documentation of performance at ‘Netherworlds’, courtesy of the artist.
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To close Rossylnd Piggott’s exhibition Rose, rose and a shadow of violet, Primitive Motion will perform in Gallery 1 in response to the works. IMAGE: Primitive Motion (Leighton Craig and Sandra Selig) playing within Ionospheric Community of Last Rays at Milani Gallery, May 2016. Photo credit: Bryan Spencer.
Join us for an ARI Round Table discussion addressing the role that ARIs play in supporting the professional development of emerging and early career artists. We’ll be joined by representatives from Brisbane’s past and current ARI landscape including Boxcopy, Accidentally Annie Street Space, Cut Thumb, and Wreckers Artspace, but all are welcome and encouraged to
“The only thing I know, is that which I do not” Apophatic theology: “Apophatic”, Ancient Greek: απόφασις (adjective); from απόφημι apophēmi, meaning “to deny”. “That there is a God is clear; but what He is by essence and nature, this is altogether beyond our comprehension and knowledge.” Saint John of Damascus Apophatic theology, also known
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‘Visible’ surveys the work of Tony Albert, one of the most exciting young Indigenous Australian artists working today. All aspects of his practice — from object-based assemblages, to painting, photography, video and installation — provide a powerful response to the misrepresentation of Australia’s First Peoples in popular and collectible imagery. The title of the exhibition
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Featuring Stephen Bird, Charlotte Le Brocque, Dai Li, Joe Furlonger & Errol Barnes, Brett Stone, Noel McKenna, Stephen Mok, Milton Moon. Please join for opening drinks on Saturday 20 October 1-3pm at our pop-up space 255 Gregory Terrace (cnr Union Street) Spring Hill Image: Stephen Bird, Saturn eating another man’s leg 2017, glazed earthenware, 66x33x25cm
A collaborative exhibition of emerging Printmakers from the Queensland College of Art. Hong Heo | Summa Shing | Sarriah Tamiyajal | Rebecca Hlodik | Emily Joliffe | Shannon Camden | Ruth Cho | Maria Bourgard | Summa Hiskins | Jacqueline Aldis | Helana Bond | Kanitha Ly | Grace Cuell OPENING TIMES: OCT 17th |
Prosperity is the first publication on Brisbane artist Ryan Presley, following his exhibition at the IMA earlier this year. It features Presley’s own writing on the history of the Australian colony’s first currency—the holey dollar—with essays by Tina Baum, Daniel Browning, and Suvendrini Perera, exploring different manifestations of currency as a tool of the colonial project. Join Presley and the publication’s editor Madeleine
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An annual exhibition that profiles new and emerging artists. It explores a broad range of vibrant contemporary art making, from new media and installation to more traditional mediums. A short list of 35 artists, crossing a broad range of disciplines, have been selected as finalists for the 2018 prize from over 1000 entries. The 2018
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Bryan Ricci is a US born contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally from South Korea to China and is now returning to TWFINEART for his second solo exhibition in Australia, Harmony in the Key of Linen. This series continues the artist’s established body of work which documents Ricci’s exploration of both medium and canvas to
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Following the screening of ‘[CENSORED]’, join film historian Frances Bonner and Caroline Ashworth, Assistant Director Audiovisual Preservation, National Archives of Australia, in a discussion on the history of film censorship in Australia and changing attitudes to sexual themes and violence on screen. The film draws on the massive amount of censored material held in the
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Moreton Bay penal colony was established by the British Government to “…reinstate transportation as an object of real terror to all classes of society”. It succeeded. Life in Irons provides a vivid insight into daily life in the settlement using original documents, personal accounts and contemporary art, alongside immersive new technologies. Life in convict Brisbane was unrelentingly
Join ‘The Commute’ artist Carol McGregor for an evening of talks, demonstrations and hands-on making centred around the tradition of possum skin cloaks. McGregor (Wathaurung, Scottish) revives the traditional possum skin cloak as an art form, and as a way to strengthen community and individual identities. Her work featured in ‘The Commute’, ‘Skin Country’ (2018)
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Following her recent survey exhibition at the Museo del Vetro, Murano, this exhibition presents a suite of new paintings, drawings and glasswork. It will open concurrently with an exhibition by Anastasia Booth in the Carpark. Opening event: Saturday 6 October, 4 – 6 pm IMAGE: Rosslynd Piggott, Rose, rose and a shadow of violet, 2017-18, oil on
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This project is a part of Leen’s development of a pedagogy focussed on studying physical and social configurations generated in and by art institutions. The pedagogy uses self-experimentation as a method to study experience. This method is influenced by queer studies of experience which make visible and also obscure contingencies of participating in social and
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The UQ Art Museum presents ‘Women IN … Indigenous Women in the Arts’. Presented in conjunction with our current exhibitions ‘Shirley Macnamara: Layered threads’ and ‘Judy Watson: concealed histories’. Join women artists, writers, performers and curators in a conversation about Country, well-being and cultural heritage. Born in northwest Queensland, Shirley Macnamara was raised in Camooweal
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Outer Space is launching two new art exhibitions in their freshly renovated West End warehouse: Class Act and Hailey Atkins: What’s Good for You. CLASS ACT Dissecting the insidious nature of class issues within Australian society, Class Act brings together works by seven artists whose diverse practices agitate and complicate the ideas which underpin our
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