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Jacqui Shelton: Something Like Dancing

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Intimate performance and filmmaking are fused to explore embodied communication, familiarity and gesture; looking to the breaks between and hiding behind, the words uttered aloud. Jacqui Shelton’s work emphasises the unspoken: the rules, anomalies, proximities and movements that inhere within our everyday conversations and interactions.   PARTICIPATORY SESSIONS / with Jacqui Shelton / throughout exhibition […]

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Peter Churcher

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 “Since graduating from art school, I have been primarily concerned with the painting of the human figure in a narrative context and the depiction of the human presence – tht is the Portrait. This focus all stems from my devotion to the great figurative masters such as Velasquez and Rembrandt and my firm belief and

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Ari Athans: Remains

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“Science underpins all my work,” says Ari Athans. Geography, geology, and topography combine in her paintings to resonate with a sense of the earth and its timeless processes, to explore the fuzzy boundary between organic and inorganic. The physicality of her creative process – building up and sanding back layers of enamel paint, oil pastel

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Future Proof

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Future Proof 2018 brings together new work by five recent Queensland graduates: Christopher Bassi, Briony Law, Torin Francis, Olivia Lacey, and Peter Kozak. Curated by Tim Walsh, Future Proof provides an opportunity for emerging artists to develop and exhibit new work post-graduation. In 2018, alongside the exhibition, each artist has been mentored by an art world professional relevant

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Bodies

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An group exhibition featuring some of Brisbane’s leading underground artists and their exploration of the theme “Bodies”. ‘In creation the body is a tool to express the mind; and according to Aristotle, the hand is the “tool of tools”. Our hands have the power to excite and to prohibit, to greet and to neglect, to

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Jay Younger: Demagogues and Megalomaniacs

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Jay Younger’s first solo show in Brisbane for some years includes two series: Demagogues and Megalomaniacs (2018) and Queensland (2017). Her exhibition is a powerful return to earlier concerns in image making and both photographic series take politicians as their subject matter. Younger uses ‘smoke and mirrors’ to comment on spin, chance, deception, reflection, and obscuration – albeit in

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Ningura Napurrula Gibson

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Ningura Napurrula Gibson was born 1938 in the remote desert of Western Australia. As a yougn women she helped her husband artist Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi in infilling the backgrounds of his canvases. She did not begin painting in her own right until the mid 1990’s and had her first solo exhibition with William Mora

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CURIO

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This group exhibition brings together four talented oil painters: Chase Archer, Selway Lampard, Lukifer Aurelius and Ryan Daffurn. With no brief or boundaries, each artist has been allowed to wander freely through their own subconscious.  Drawing on experiences, memories, dreams and fears, they collect their imagery and build their narratives. The result is a collection of dream-like

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First Thursdays: Léuli Eshrāghi

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Artist, writer, and IMA Visiting Curator, Léuli Eshrāghi, who is currently working on upcoming exhibition ‘The Commute’ will present a new performance work, ‘paper/s/kin gesture’, for First Thursdays. Eshrāghi has developed this work for the context of Bloodlines by Sancintya Mohini Simpson | Metro Arts, an exhibition by artist and IMA Curator of Public Engagement, Sancintya

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Bernd Oppl: Substanzaufnahme

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Sterile spaces, white walls, black doors, no people. A fluid in shiny black swashes in, slowly spreads out on the floor, swallows the white and forms into a sculptural shape. Space-grasping substances, alien, inspirited, puzzling and eerie. Using magnets, Bernd Oppl and Bogomir Doringer form sculptural entities from iron-containing ferrofluid in miniaturised three-dimensional displays. Bodies created

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Silver & Gold: Unique Australian Objects 1830 – 1910

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The Ipswich Art Gallery is delighted to present a National Gallery of Australia Exhibition. Silver & Gold: unique Australian objects 1830–1910 showcases exceptional nineteenth and early twentieth century Australian silver and gold objects drawn from the National Gallery of Australia’s significant collection of colonial decorative arts and design. The theme of this exhibition is celebration, with

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Dark Rooms – Women Directing the Lens 1978-98

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Group exhibition featuring artists: Maree Cunnington, Destiny Deacon, Linda Dement, Marian Drew, Bonita Ely, Fiona Foley, Elizabeth Gertsakis, Lesley Goldacre, Janina Green, Fiona Hall, Leah King-Smith, Lindy Lee, Anne MacDonald, Ruth Maddison, Wendy Mills, Tracey Moffatt, Jill Orr, Nat Paton, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Julie Rrap, Robyn Stacey, VNS Matrix (Virginia Barratt, Francesca Da Rimini, Julianne Pierce, Josephine

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Sebastian Helling: Then Play On

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 “My paintings are neither abstract nor figurative, neither gestural nor compositional. Layers of artistic languages overlap and deny each other. In the same spirit, my wish for communication (or anti-communication) is trapped within the relevance of the artwork.”   Helling’s paintings are conceived by building, erasing and re-working the surfacein an entangled dance back and forth

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GOMA CINÉMATHÈQUE

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The Australian Cinémathèque at GOMA provides an ongoing program of film and video that you’re unlikely to see elsewhere. Screenings take place Wednesday and Friday nights and Saturday and Sundays matinees. We offer a rich and diverse experience of the moving image, showcasing the work of influential filmmakers and international cinema, rare 35mm prints, recent

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Jay Younger

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Jay Younger is a Brisbane based artist, curator and academic with over 30 years of practice. Generally Younger’s artworks take form as photomedia, public art and installation with the purpose of interrogating the position and status of women within physical space, spatial politics, and the invisible socialised barriers that contain and deny access to other

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BIGSOUND Festival 2018

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Now in its seventeenth year, BIGSOUND Festival is your annual opportunity to discover the future of Australian music. Running over four September days and nights, Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley comes alive with a global gathering of musicians, industry, brands, media and music lovers. BIGSOUND continues to cement its place on Australia’s cultural calendar as the place

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Arts Grant Writing Workshop

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Hone your grant-writing skills and take your practice or creative project to the next level. Take part in our two-part grant writing masterclass, developed specifically for arts professionals, artists, curators, and writers. Attendees will benefit from in-depth guidance from IMA Assistant Director Madeleine King, who has extensive experience working in the arts and the not-for-profit

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Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award

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Entries for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2018 (JUWSPA 2018) open Friday 2 July. Presented by Gallery at HOTA and supported in perpetuity by the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts, the photography award is an exciting platform for established and emerging Australian photographers to showcase their work. Introduced

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A night by the fire with Delvene Cockatoo-Collins

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Designing the Commonwealth Games medals with Delvene Cockatoo-Collins. Learn about the people and places woven into the work of this local artist. Date: Thursday 16th August  Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm  Where: Talking Circle, kuril dhagun, State Library of Queensland Delvene Cockatoo-Collins lives and works on Minjerribah with her family.  She acknowledges that this is the

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Queensland Figurative

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Now in it’s third year the Queensland Figurative is a major non-aquisitive competition offering Queensland artists an excellent opportunity to participate in a major art event, entrants are invited to submit paintings containing the human figure contextualised as an integral part of the composition, this year’s judge Archibald winner Lewis Miller will join the ranks

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Young Ones

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‘Young Ones’ features works from six artists who are 35 or younger: Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (also known as Hahan), Tyza Stewart, Abdul Abdullah, Liam O’Brien and Vincent Namatjira. These artists were children at the turn of the twenty-first century, their work draws from various facets of contemporary life while remaining grounded in art history,

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THE PLATFORM 10

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A group exhibition featuring: TIM ALLEN, LIAM AMBROSE, JOHN BOKOR, BRIDIE GILLMAN, JANE GUTHLEBEN, DAN KYLE, CHARMAINE PIKE, VANESSA STOCKARD, CHRISTOPHER ZANKO. Dan Kyle’s CV Christopher Zanko’s CV Bridie Gillman’s CV Tim Allen’s CV John Bokor’s CV Vanessa Stockard’s CV Liam Ambrose’s CV Charmaine Pike’s CV Jane Guthleben’s CV Image: Christopher Zanko

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Stanthorpe Art Prize

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The winners of the 2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize will be announced at the Gala Opening on Friday 15 June.  Established in 1968, the biennial Stanthorpe Art Prize is the second oldest art competition in Queensland and is open to both emerging and professional artists. Artists have the chance of winning one of the several categories,

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