Two of our community’s most skilled studio potters – Pru Morrison and Sharon Muir – will be celebrated in Artisan’s two upcoming exhibitions, Yesterday’s Favourite and Scenes for Hearts and Flowers, opening 16 June. Yesterday’s Favourite honours the two decades of making that have made Pru Morrison’s ceramic work instantly recognisable. With strong technical ability […]
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THROWIN’ A BIG ROCK is an exhibition of new work by ALEX PYREN (www.alexpyren.com). The work draws from Queer Theory and reconstructs lived experiences in order to interrogate the visibility and interferences of queer identities in public space. Essay by Nicholas Brocchi OPENING Friday 27 July 6 – 9 PM CONTINUES Saturday 28 July 11
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This exhibition emerged out of conversation about Australian feminist performative artworks and embraces conversation as a curatorial method. Each curator suggests an artwork, that the other responds to with another artwork. A printed conversation accompanies the exhibition and documents this exchange. The conversation ranges from questions of how to define feminism today and how it
Bimblebox Nature Refuge is situated 1,120 km northwest of Brisbane in the heart of cattle and coal country. The fourteen-hour drive to this remnant semi-arid woodlands transforms an artist’s eye along the way. One leaves behind the city and the suburbs, the lush green gardens and rainforest, the endless malls and carparks: to Dalby, Roma,
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Simon Degroot translates small details from the built environment into abstract shapes that are useful for painting in Capricious Forms. In this exhibition of new paintings, details are collected, re-formed and re-arranged as flat abstract shapes on the canvas. Degroot focuses on strategies of collecting and organising, recasting and recombining forms in order to reinvent
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Elisa Jane Carmichael has curated an evening to celebrate saltwater resources through gathering, feasting, storytelling, yarning, and weaving. Carmichael is Ngugi woman from Quandamooka Country (Moreton/Moorgumpin and Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah, Queensland), whose practice draws inspiration from her cultural identity and heritage to preserve her connection to the sand and sea (Yoolooburrabee). We welcome you to partake in
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Ground breaking advances in neuroscience imaging are the primary inspiration for Internal Landscapes. The exhibition explores parallels of terminology and meanings shared by biological science and my chosen media. Interactive sculptures, encased objects and images collectively express the sameness and simultaneity in nature on the micro and macro scale. Opening Event: Thursday, 5 July, 6pm
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Micro-plastics and ocean currents are mapped-out in a multi-channel video installation that links our love affair with plastics to the health of ocean environments and the evolution of marine ecosystems. “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that
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A major architectural light installation by internationally renowned artist James Turrell (United States, b.1943) is set to transform the face of GOMA at night. The commissioned installation will dramatically illuminate GOMA’s eastern and southern facades from within. An evolving pattern of light, created by the artist specifically for the location will be visible from within
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This group exhibition is a trans-disciplinary conversation between three Indigenous and three non-Indigenous women, who find themselves coming together for the first time through the commonality of the ‘she aspect’ of humanity, the feminine. Presenting new works are Kim Ah Sam, a proud Kuku Yulanji and Kalkadoon woman, Yorta Yorta woman Glennys Briggs, Debbie Taylor
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See the world’s most compelling, controversial and intimate moments as captured by award-winning photojournalists from around the globe at World Press Photo Exhibition 2018. The annual exhibition profiles the world’s top press photographers, photojournalists and documentary photographers who captured an event or issue of great journalistic importance in the last year. The 2018 Photo Contest drew
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For the ninth year, Lethbridge Gallery has supported artists and held the Award offering $10 000 prize money to the winner. The exhibition will showcase a variety of artworks all measuring less than 60cm in diameter, by emerging and mid-career Australian artists and are priced to be very affordable to the buyer. It creates a
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n o t i o n s brings together the collaborative works of Brisbane based artists Glen Skien and Michelle Wild. Within the collision of discarded materials and the use of collage and assemblage, their small handmade objects evoke a continual desire to retrieve and re-present new narratives. The outcomes are a series of wearable
Callum has been making new work in the space for the last month. Come join us for the opening on 18th July. Exhibition is open by appointment from the 19th – 27th July. For more information visit the – Facebook Event
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“As human beings, sometimes we want to simply escape, whether that’s through different uses of technology, what we eat, see and/or feel, everyone conjures their own version of escape.” ‘Escapism’ is a group exhibition curated by the QUT Student Art Collective, Post Datum, which aims to survey the creative outcomes of personal escapisms. How do
The exhibition title references the popular children’s game known as ‘Telephone’, in which a message is created and whispered one child to the next around a circle. The ‘aim’ of the game is for this message to circumnavigate the group intact. However, errors inevitably accumulate as the message is misheard, misunderstood and misrepresented (sometimes intentionally),
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Palawa artist Mandy Quadrio exposes Australia’s historic and continued denial of the existence of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. In Quadrio’s sculptural installation, Holes in history, abrasive steel wool becomes a metaphor for the erasure and ‘whitening’ of black women, and the scrubbing out of Indigenous histories. These, alongside other works, pay homage to the knowledge and
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Knitting Know-How with Tawny Threads Thursday 5 July, 6.30pm-8.30pm $55 Work-Shop Brisbane, 16 Austin St Newstead Knitting is one of the most versatile, practical and fun textile crafts to learn. Not only is it super easy to learn and build your skills, but its also a great social activity. Once you’ve learned the basics and
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Sharon Muir’s ceramic sculptures are a surrealist reinvention of artefacts from the shelves of yesterday. Found mementos having lost their owners and the sentiments that once attached to them, are alchemically reborn into a contemporary world where nostalgia and the kitsch have found a new cache as strange, coral-like, high art construction. Her sculptures are
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“We defy: By existing; By determining our identity; By asserting our histories; our culture; our language; By telling our stories, our way; By being one of the oldest continuous living cultures in the world.” – Tina Baum, NGA Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Bringing together works by 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country, Defying Empire: 3rd National
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A $30,000 National acquisitive prize for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape, now in it’s 15th year. In addition, UNSW Art & Design will offer a selected artist the opportunity to create a limited edition print and a $3,000 prize will be presented to the Honourable Mention recipient. A $1,000 gift certificate from the
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Passion for Freedom independent art exhibition opens once again in London on Monday, 1st October 2018, at its new home in the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery & La Galleria Pall Mall. This year’s venue is located within 5 minutes’ walk from Sotheby’s, Christie’s, The National Gallery and The West End Theatres, and only 3 minutes from Mall Galleries where
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The competition funded by Warsteiner brewery offers young artists from all around the world the possibility to gain a foothold in the international art market. Who can apply? Visual arts, Design, Urban art or Video – the artistic potential has no limitations at BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER. We are looking for artists who knowingly work
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The degree of ecological unraveling now underway has no precedent in human experience. Due chiefly to habitat loss, invasive species, human overpopulation, pollution, and overharvesting, experts fear that nearly half of all species currently living on earth may be extinct in thirty to forty years. What does it mean to watch species disappear? What does
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Make your own zine in the IMA Gallery Shop with DIY publisher and photographer Charlie Hillhouse. With a background in photography and design, Hillhouse will share his extensive knowledge and insight into the independent publishing industry, along with his process and techniques for producing books and zines. Bring along photographs you would like to include
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Meet with Metro Arts staff and speak directly to us about your 2019 proposals at our information session. Do you want to be part of the Metro Arts family? Do you have a story to tell? Now is your chance to be involved! From 30th July – 20th August we are calling for proposals to
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The contest is held annually by the International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź, Poland. Organized since 1991, this prestigious short comics (up to 8 pages) competition features the following prizes: the Grand Prix, 3 main prizes and 3 special awards. All winners get cash and in-kind prize. The grand prix winner additionally get the Komiksus
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This year’s Photobook symposium brings us exciting events over the weekend; exhibitions, presentations, key note speakers, one-on-one consultations and a lot more. DAY 1 – Friday 3.8. 2018, 5.30 – 8pm The launch of the Australian and New Zealand Photobook of the Year finalists. DAY 2 – Saturday 4.8.2018, 10.30 – 3.30pm – Australian and New
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CCP is now calling for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for the 2019 Artistic Program. EOIs are accepted from artists, curators and collaborators from all career levels. CCP welcomes applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTQIA+ practitioners and people with lived experience of disability. CCP is Australia’s premiere space dedicated
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The Hornsby Art Prize is an annual art award and exhibition organised and sponsored by Hornsby Shire Council and delivered in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society. The Hornsby Art Prize is aimed at encouraging the creative talents of people and providing a showcase for their works. The prize is open to artists from across
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Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to all Australian artists, presented by Redland Art Gallery. Redland Art Awards 2018 features four prizes, totalling over $20,000. The primary award will be an acquisitive prize of $15,000. There will also be runner up awards of $4,000 and $2,500 as well as The Meredith
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The Black Swan Prize is one of Australia’s richest Portraiture Prizes, featuring the: $50,000 Lester Group Prize $7,500 People’s Choice Prize; and the NEW $10,000 Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize. Showcasing and promoting Australia’s top artists this is an exhibition/competition not to be missed. Entry forms for 2018 are now available online. Click below to enter the: Adult Competition Youth
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These awards are Brisbane’s most significant showcase of artwork from disadvantaged and marginalised artists – those living with adversity, social isolation, mental-health issues, physical or intellectual disabilities, or homelessness – with over $3000 in prizes on offer. AFTM supports and recognises these talented artists where they are often overlooked by the mainstream. See Facebook here: www.facebook.com/artfrommargins/outsiderartaward Visit AFTM
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Join The Un-Material Girl and the UQ Art Museum for a DIY Upcycled T-Shirt Tote Bag workshop. Leah Musch, AKA The Un-Material Girl, will help you transform a pre-loved T-shirt into a bohemian tasselled tote bag with barely more than a pair of scissors. Fashion chats included! Slow fashion blogger Leah is a former fast fashion addict
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Join us for a dynamic life drawing event facilitated by contemporary Australian artist Anastasia Booth. Led by Anastasia Booth, Frot Tage is a life drawing collaboration between artist and model. In this class Booth uses the model’s body to re-interpret costumes previously utilised in her live performance works. The class will focus on the alienating potential of these eroticised
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Expressions of Interest are now open to Artists, Creatives and Arts Workers aged 18-30 from across Australia, who are passionate about the future of the arts, and want to meet other like minded people, to become delegates for the first Arts Front Under 30 Symposium. The AFU30 Symposium, led by independent artist Sara Strachan, is
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