“While we may talk back to the empire, we can’t talk to each other.” Join Lana Lopesi, one of the Visiting Curators of ‘The Commute’, for the Australian launch of her book ‘False Divides’. Lopesi is a critic of art and culture based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand. “Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa is the great ocean […]
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See a screening of moving image works with a connection to Queensland as part of the IMA’s Green Program. The screening, presented in partnership with the Queensland Film Festival, brings together a selection of works by Shannon Brett, Charlie Hillhouse and Sebastian Moody, Sarah Poulgrain, Umi Ishihara, Erika Scott, and Jarrod van der Ryken. With a distinctly Australian vernacular, each film employs portraiture and landscape
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines a seed as “The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant” another meaning of the word is “the cause or latent beginning of a feeling, process, or condition.” Sarah Rayner’s latest work in porcelain encompasses both these meanings. Delicate, pure white porcelain pods
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Bloodlines tells the untold journey of women taken from South India to South Africa as indentured labourers. Bloodlines remembers these women, and the generations that follow. How are memories and trauma passed down, along with culture and tradition, to each generation? Bloodlines addresses the unacknowledged history and experiences of women taken as indentured labourers from South India
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The tedious old adage about art, about painting, being the marriage of form and content is just that old adage because it’s true. What is Tim’s content? All art, and painting too, is essentially autobiographical if it is to have any value, any meaning, any credibility, any authenticity. Art is the exploration and manipulation of
A SYSTEM OF OBJECTS aims to create new relationships between everyday objects to explore how they can operate outside of their intended purpose, broadening our understanding of how they exist. Using kinetic sculpture and video installation, various systems are set up to generate playful interactions between reality and illusion, making ordinary objects appear to do
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Slowly, Subtly is an exhibition of paintings by two emerging artists, Laura Horrocks and Rachel Farlow, whose work embodies the materiality of the ephemeral through dynamic use of colour, line and form. Each painting holds within it a visual tension between the familiar and unfamiliar, and between form and formlessness. Horrocks explores the idea of
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To open our new premises in West End, Milani Gallery is hosting Richard Bell’s Embassy alongside a major exhibition of new work by Gareth Sansom. Also featured is a new installation by Sandra Selig, A Thin Black Line by Douglas Watkin with Vernon Ah Kee and projects by Tintin Wulia and Naomi Blacklock. We shall also inaugurate the installation
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To, “Human”, To human as a verb crosses borders between the behaviors of human and animal. In a world at the frontier of globalization, technology expectation have increased, forcing mankind to rapidly or forcefully adapt to these changes. To “human” in an anthropological context means to ‘humanize’ and antonym is to ‘dehumanize.’ So understandably to
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Robert Andrew’s three-dimensional, mechanical devices question and resist the dominant narratives of colonisation in Australia. His machines visually articulate and give authority to an Australian Aboriginal experience. Combining text, organic materials, and technology, Andrew scrapes back layers of colonial control and concealment to reveal the hidden, forgotten, denied and ever-changing histories of Australia’s first people.
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Warraba Weatherall explores notions of buoyancy within the city’s landscape in a public artwork on the Brisbane River. Strategically placed near the cultural precinct, Weatherall questions the museum as a disciplinary institution where it’s archives reaffirm the rhetoric of colonialism. As an institution which retains a large collection of Indigenous artefacts and ancestral human remains,
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FireWorks Gallery is very excited to announce that the exhibition WELCOME TO THOMPSON ST! which comprises almost 40 works by Laurie Nilsen, Rosella Namok, Tommy Watson and Ronnie Tjampitjinpa will open this Saturday. The event will run all day at the new warehouse space in Bowen Hills. Laurie will officially open the exhibition at 2pm.
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After a seven year hiatus, Unleashed: Emerging Craft and Design is back. Artisan is set to once again capture some of the buzz being created by emerging craft practitioners and designers. Drawing together a cohort of early career practitioners, the exhibition will explore the convergence between craft and design. Each practitioner is proudly pushing the
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Join 2017 Mittelheuser scholar in residence Tess Maunder as she discusses the role of the archival in creative and curatorial practice with artists Sam Cranstoun, Lu Forsberg, Ryan Presley and Elysha Rei. Many Brisbane-based artists are actively using archives in a variety of creative ways — to challenge ideas, to use historical research, and to
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Summersong is a collection of interactive sculptural work emerging together as a single cacophony. Inspired by the many deathly overtones arising from my own last summer, this installation unapologetically re-represents the same monotone crisis staring at the sun is believed to cause. It might even be why bats emerge out of the sunset. This might
Join Heinz Riegler and Sandra Selig for MONO 29, a free program of sound at the IMA presented in partnership with Room40. United in their interest in spatial practices, Riegler and Selig each independently create works that resonate between space, time, and sound for this evening of performances. Austrian born artist Heinz Riegler creates an
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The UQ Art Museum presents screenings of ‘Occupation: Native’ and ‘We don’t need a map’. These powerful and entertaining films interrogate Australia’s history. From film writer and director Trisha Morton-Thomas’ perspective, ‘Occupation: Native highlights’ what has been missing from Australian history books. ‘We don’t need a map’ explores the history and meaning of the Southern
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Artists : Darcy Williams and Rose Manning “Breaking up and Breaking down” is the first show that combines Manning and Williams’ work in one space and exhibits previously unseen work from both artists. In this exhibition the state of the individual post break-up is examined through the lens of painting. Williams explores coping mechanisms and
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The exhibition presents selected works produced since 2014 as a result of Sara Irannejad’s research for a Doctorate of Visual Art. Comprising of various materials and visual forms, the works draw upon the artist’s experiences of living between two cultures. Merging traditional imagery and poetry of Iran with historical artefacts and natural fragments from Australia,
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Edwina Corlette Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works, one by each of its represented artists, to mark the tenth anniversary of the gallery. Opened in 2008 at the beginning of the Global Financial Crisis, the gallery set about offering Brisbane a fresh space to view the work of up and coming artists
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oin artists Sonja Carmichael and Shirley Macnamara at the UQ Art Museum for a circle weaving workshop. Using natural fibres, ghost nets, and reclaimed materials, you will learn new skills and create your own work of art. Working expansively in the medium of fibre, Sonja Carmichael’s basketry and woven sculptures reflect her family’s spiritual connections
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Join Archibald Prize winning artist Ben Quilty as he sits down with ABC Radio’s Sarah Kanowski to discuss his new book, Home, a collection of drawings by Syrian children. Ben Quilty has assembled this heartbreaking and awe-inspiring collection of drawings by the most vulnerable victims of a brutal civil war, the children of Syria. The
The Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize was established by John McCrea in 2015 to honour Lyn’s passion for drawing as fundamental to visual arts practice. The prize is a national award held annually and is open to all practicing Australian contemporary artists. The aim of the prize is to promote excellence in contemporary Australian drawing.
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Milani Gallery’s new premises at 270 Montague Road, West End, will open on 8 September 2018. The gallery will open with Richard Bell’s Embassy, an exhibition of new works by Gareth Sansom, and projects by Tintin Wulia, Sandra Selig, Naomi Blacklock and Douglas Watkin with Vernon Ah Kee. Milani Gallery specialises in contemporary Australian art. For
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Linde Ivimey was born in Sydney, Australia and obtained a Diploma of Fine Art in both printmaking and sculpture at the Claremont School of Art in Perth. She taught at the school from 1993 to 1995 and also lectured at the West Australian School of Art from 1996 to 1998. In 2003, her debut exhibition at Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art proved financially successful. Since her debut,
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The By Request Program Lead effectively and efficiently fills requests from a diverse range of clients/customers and coordinates a wide variety of visual arts workshops, professional development and projects into schools and creative communities in metropolitan, rural, remote and regional Queensland. An excellent communicator, you will coordinate a team of 50+ visual artists, arts educators
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Work closely with designer Sharka Bosakova to learn how to design and apply your own embroidery patterns on garments. Sharka will guide you through the process of gathering your ideas and inspiration, making concept sketches and translating them into an embroidered product. You are welcome to bring your own clothing or choose from some textiles
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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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