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Venice Biennale Professional Development

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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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RESORT

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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

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Basket Weaving Workshop

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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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The Platform

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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

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With Heart & Hand

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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

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Margaret Ingles: These Hands

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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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Welcome Two

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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,

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Dark Rituals, Magical Relics

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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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Jewellery Assemblage Workshop with Bianca Mavrick

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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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Aarhus Center for Visual Art – 2019 residency call for visual artists

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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

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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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Michelle Gilbert: Surge

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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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Justin Garnsworthy: Smashed Tack

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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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In Conversation: Karen Black

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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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Dana Lawrie: Deathfest 2.0

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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: Beautiful Lie

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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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A Plant is a Community

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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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George Gittoes: LOVERS

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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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Robin Greer: Cyclical Patterns and Burning Lights

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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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John Nicholson: Drop Downs

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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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Nature’s Right

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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

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