SKIN SOFT FLESH. The body. It is a fleshy, visceral, organic living host, a life support for experiences and emotions. This exhibition seeks to expose the embodied/physical character of experience/emotions and how it manifests the sensing body. Anchoring back to the body in it’s vulnerable, broken and exposed states. We are seeking works that offer […]
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The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery and Abbotsleigh are pleased to announce the Grace Cossington Smith art award has returned as a biennial award. Submissions are invited from Australian artists, aged over 18, for original work in any two dimensional media in response to the theme Making Connections. The award theme is inspired by the work of
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In this class you will be shown many different techniques for making your own folded books (single-sheet books, pop-ups, concertina books, flag books, tunnel books, origami books, and more). The books you make in these classes are great for storing your photos and memorabilia or for recording your thoughts. You will be shown lots of
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In this full-day workshop with SCAP finalists Monica Rohan and Dana Lawrie, participants will use flowering plants, patterns, fabrics and materials as inspiration to create paintings and drawings in a way to quietly reflect, find solace and re-imagine. Workshop attendees are encouraged to bring along flowers or materials that they find interesting or that hold
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We are excited to announce a new $50,000 scholarship to be presented to an Australian painter, male or female under 45. The Award will be given to support a young Australian painter by furthering their art education both in knowledge and artistic practice internationally or in Australia. Enter the Award Here
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Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious local government art award. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in Australia and the community had very little support and few opportunities to
The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists. The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive prize is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit, ‘…for
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Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from accross the world. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience, and further their engagement with the international art world. The award attracts thousands of entries in a range of
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Brisbane Festival is Australia’s major international arts festival and Queensland’s largest cultural event, which attracts an audience of over one million people every year. Running from the 8th to 29th of September 2018, Brisbane Festival is renowned and celebrated for connecting local and international artists and audiences through a captivating program. Under the Artistic Direction
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Returning home to Brisbane for the first time in over 13 years, landscape painter Amanda Penrose Hart will exhibit a series of new works for her inaugural exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art. Predominantly a landscape painter, Penrose Hart travels extensively in search of inspiration. Painting in situ and later referencing from memory, Penrose Hart aims
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Hey friends! Wanna work with us? Here’s how! we have two ways you can come hang out with us. 1 //Application form for House Conspiracy Emerging Artist Residencies Program available now at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k30lrlv061lqq7m/House%20Conspiracy_AIR_EOI%20%281%29.docx?dl=0 *Available to emerging artists who have not yet attended a residency at House Conspiracy The Emerging Artist Residencies Program is House Conspiracy’s flagship
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Returning to the Brisbane Powerhouse after a sell out first year in 2017 is the Australian Virtual Reality Film Festival (AVRFF)! From August 21-26 the festival will showcase virtual reality (VR) films guaranteed to whisk audiences away with diverse storytelling and to abstract worlds. The 2018 program includes titled works: Inside Manus (2017) Biidaaban (2018)
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Make yourself the perfect sketchbook or journal, created with buttery-soft leather covers, your choice of papers inside, and hand-stitched using coloured thread using a fancy criss-cross Longstitch binding technique. The books we make in this workshop are approx A5 in size, and can include an optional elastic closure and/or paper lining to the inside of
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Unfolding Surfaces; An exploration into memory and impermanence is Tiel Seivl-Keevers’ investigative series into the artist’s memory-based and site specific nostalgia of found objects. Tiel accumulates collections of botanical and fibrous items from natural surroundings and builds layers upon layers of marks and etchings which resonate with the object’s form. Impermanence as a concept mirrors a
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Join us for a discussion introducing two classic feminist texts: Linda Nochlin, ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ (1971) Linda Nochlin, ‘Women, Art and Power’ (1988) Reading materials will be provided on booking, and beginners to art history are also very welcome. Time: 6pm Cost: Free, bookings essential Location: Griffith University Art Museum RSVP
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Sophie Bottomley uses humble materials to handcraft stunning sculptural objects. Focused on the body and all of its sensations, Slip of the Tongue tells an intimate story of sensuality, desire and intimacy. Devoted to grouping simple objects and repetitive process, Sophie pieces together each form with immaculate detail. Common elements like rubber tube, wire, textile and paper
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Life Drawing at the Art Museum ‘Get Real’ with Nat Paton WHEN: Thursday 16 August, 6-8.30 pm WHERE: Griffith University Art Museum COST: $15.00 per person, including light refreshments With a cache of personas in her arsenal of photographic self-portraits, artist Nat Paton is pulling a couple of these larger-than-life personalities out of the dress-up
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The Songkhla Heritage Trust and OXLAEY cultural heritage travel magazine have developed a new artist residency programme. Artists of any discipline are invited to apply. The residencies will take place in the historic town of Songkhla in southern Thailand during late 2018 and early 2019 for between 4 and 8 weeks. The organisers are offering four
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Open call for an innovative artist residency in Odate, Japan. ‘Artist In Family’ is an opportunity for touching with local people and culture! Support is offered for the flight, per-diem and production costs. The residency is for the month of October 2018. With the initiation of “Artist In Family”, the ZERODATE Art Project will invite two overseas artists.
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Master the art of developing your own exhibition and how to pitch your proposal to galleries. Join experienced industry professional Elysha Rei in an intensive weekend of workshops to design, plan and manage your solo or group exhibition. Participants will receive course study materials prior to the workshop and will have the chance to gain feedback
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In his latest exhibition titled Theory of Flaw, local artist Matthew Cheyne is taking his work in a new direction. After graduating from Queensland College of Art in 2001, Matthew exhibited in Brisbane and Melbourne which led to his first European show in Berlin presenting a commissioned series of works created in collaboration with his wife
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Starring the children of Warakurna, ‘We Can Be Heroes’ explores how we can all be empowered, by overcoming our fears. Tony Albert collaborated with children and artists from Warakurna to create a number of the artworks for display in the exhibition space, including the photographic series Warakurna – Superheroes 2017 and illuminated paintings featuring the Mamu,
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Salon de Fleurus is an artwork, a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein’s Parisian salon that existed at 27 rue de Fleurus from 1904–34. It is a work that displays and references a story of modern art’s beginnings through one of the first gathering places for burgeoning young artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Stein
Leading Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie will be onsite at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) this month to create Map of Utopia 2018, an enormous ink painting that will be a major highlight of ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9), from 24 November, 2018 to 28 April, 2019. Announcing the full list of artists for APT9, Queensland
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Variegated is a word we often associate with plants, but it also means multi-coloured, kaleidoscopic, patterned and intricate – so it was the prefect choice for Brisbane based artist Jennifer Bells solo exhibition that celebrates the simple beauty of leaves. Through the meditative process of making these often fluid pieces she creates varied and elaborate compositions that
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“In an increasingly globalized world, we are experiencing an unprecedented degree of cultural exchange through global migration and digital technologies. Whether it is positive or negative, most societies around the world have already become multicultural environments. My paintings Trans-Ramayana regards as one small contribution – perhaps a bridge – towards a shift in the way
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Jugglers Art Space is pleased to announce the Finalists of the 2018 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing, and invite you to join us for the opening of the Finalists Exhibition: Opening: Friday 3rd August: 6 – 9pm PROJECT GALLERY: Queensland College of Art 226 Grey St, South Bank, Brisbane 4101 The Major Prize winners
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Abstraction is one of the most influential developments in art history. Female artists have been at the forefront of its development and yet, until recently, their contribution has been obscured from the art-historical narrative. This exhibition resurrects and examines the myriad of ways that Australian women artists have championed abstraction and kept it alive in
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The IMA will present the first solo exhibition in Australia by the celebrated Korean artist Haegue Yang. Known for her complex and sensorial blind installations, sculptures, and video, Yang translates her research and reflections on historical figures and concrete, domestic phenomena using her meticulous language of formalist abstraction. The show will bring together a selection of works
Heidi Yardley eschews the vast panoramas of contemporary painting in favour of intimately scaled compositions. Her oil paintings feature figures and settings that recall film noir or the eerie magic of the occult. And just like these influences, Yardley’s paintings are elliptical and infinitely suggestive – we, the audience, are called upon to complete the
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Emerging in the late 1980s, a new wave of vocal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activism placed Brisbane at the forefront of an urban art movement. Drawing on the Museum of Brisbane Collection, Voice in Actionexplores the city’s unique socio-political climate during the 1980s and its impact on the rise of strong new artistic voices. Visual artists
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Come enjoy art, science and drinks at the Ecosciences Precinct! The evening includes a presentation, Q&A, drinks and nibbles, plus time to view the seventh Art meets Science Exhibition. Art Lab will feature Madeleine Kersting Flynn as a guest speaker. Madeleine is an artist specialising in medical and scientific illustration, digital and traditional media, 3D
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SITE, SAMPLE, SIGN: A CASE STUDY is an exhibition composed by TRISTAN EYLES, HELEN HARDESS and KIERRA-JAY POWER. Their collaboration documents a series of recursive interventions into the fringes of New Chum, a suburb of Ipswich about 34 kilometres from Kangaroo Point, and the site of the proposed Austin BMI “Super Dump.” Experiential inquiry into
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‘11 Rarely Seen Images of Princess Diana‘ is an exhibition of new work with an accompanying essay by Caity Reynolds. Jessica Enkera has been developing her practice during her residency at Outer Space ARI for the last four months. The resulting works contemplate a formal and thematic comparison of photographs of her mother at her
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Join feminist art historian Louise Mayhew and artists Jill Orr, Francesca da Rimini (VNS Matrix) and Jay Younger in a discussion inspired by exhibition themes of self-representation, (cyber)feminism and materiality / technology. Presented in association with the exhibition ‘Dark Rooms: Women Directing the Lens 1978-98’, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane. Biographies Louise R Mayhew is an Australian
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Hakanaï is an mesmerising performance weaving together digital technology, visual arts and movement. From French company, Adrien M & Claire B, experience their Australian debut. Energetic and performed in real time, the performance is a conversation between light, music and the body, with live animations based on physical movement modelling and an original live music score.