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Amanda Penrose Hart: Beautiful One Day, Perfect the Next

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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Applications Open: Residencies Round 04

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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Criss-Cross Longstitch

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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Tiel Seivl-Keevers: Unfolding Surfaces

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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Feminist Reading Group

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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Songkhla Thailand Residency

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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Tony Albert: We Can Be Heroes

  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

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

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Qui Zhijie Announced for APT9

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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Jennifer Bell: Variegated

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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Abstraction: Celebrating Australian Women Abstract Artists

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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Haegue Yang

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

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Heidi Yardley: Drifters

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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Panel Discussion Dark Rooms: Women Directing the Lens 1978-98

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

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.

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Book Launch – Absolute Humidity

Absolute Humidity is a new limited-edition volume featuring over thirty conversations with contemporary artists practicing in the Asia-Pacific region. The publication, edited by Brisbane-based curator and writer Tess Maunder, addresses the conditions that many artists are working under today; trans-national relationships, ecological threats, exploitation, anxiety, sovereignty, politics, identity, disputed territories and the shifting weather. Join

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Parallel Park: Into Another

nto Another is a new video work by collaborative duo Parallel Park. In 2015, Parallel Park sacrificed their personal double-ended dildo to make a mould for 101 concrete clones, resulting in ‘Boneyard 101′. Unfortunately, the much loved toy did not survive. Into Another documents the loss, celebration and moving on from an object that exemplified the co-dependency and tunnel-vision nature of the artist’s

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Simone Hine: Picture

Picture is a new work by Brisbane-based artist, Simone Hine. Édouard Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) and Jeff Wall’s Picture for Women (1979) act as precursors for this work. Picture is a public intervention that utilises the context of the Kuiper Shop Front, as a retail site, to re-imagine both works within the context of late capitalism. This work will be on display

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The Wrong Kind of Beauty

The Wrong Kind of Beauty is the Bloom Collective’s embodied, experiential response to the fragility of the landscape produced by the gullying process. The harrowing and ongoing drama of the landscape, simultaneously reveals moments of delicate sculptural beauty, explored here through poetry, movement, sound and visual documentation. The photographs and videos presented are from site at

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Kay Watanabe: Echo

Brisbane-based printmaker Kay Watanabe will show her new works, which are rich in black and texture, in her solo exhibition on Saturday 1 September 2018 at The Wag Bar of The Woolloongabba Art Gallery in Brisbane (613 Stanley St., Woolloogabba, QLD, Australia. +61 7 3891 5551). Entitled “Echo,” the show will be themed around Kay’s

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Keynote Lecture: Julie Rrap

Julie Rrap’s involvement with body art and performance in the mid-70s in Australia continued to influence her practice as it expanded into photography, painting, sculpture and video in an on-going project concerned with representations of the body. A major retrospective and publication Body Double was curated by Victoria Lynn at the MCA, Sydney in 2007 and in

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