The Fresh Blood Festival is a pop-up frenzy of experimental theatre, visual art, short films, live music and liberal drinks, hidden in a loft studio above the streets of Fortitude Valley. Presented by Vena Cava Productions, Fresh Blood is a showcase of original, independently produced artwork. Across two days, Fresh Blood will present six brand new […]
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Lawrence Daws’ career spans more than six decades. His works are held across national and international collections, both public and private. There are some works however that Daws has retained – those that he has chosen to hold closer. Daws was born in 1927, grew up on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia and studied
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Fred Fowler’s exhibition, Home / Visitors, features new paintings by the Melbourne based artist in his first solo presentation in Queensland. His distinctive paintings are landscapes – physical, cultural or psychological – that expose the hidden and imaginary, described as wormholes or portals to alternative realities. He uses abstraction to eliminate background noise and convey
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We are not the place you used to know, we are not what you think. We are Gold Coast. The Gold Coast is often misjudged and scorned by out-dated beliefs that it’s just surf, schoolies and theme parks. But we know ‘The Goldie’ is driven by youthful and infectious energy; incredible natural wonders and a talented,
Come along to the second talk in the Portrait of an Artist 2018 series and gain a unique insight into the life and works of one of Queensland’s most celebrated artists, Judy Watson at a special event at State Library of Queensland. Watch a screening of an interview with Judy filmed for the James C
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Showing from 27thJune ‘Women of Utopia’ is an exhibition showcasing significant artworks by some of Australia’s most recognisable female Aboriginal artists from the Utopia region in Central Australia. Approximately 230kms north east of Alice Springs in Central Australia, Utopia is the traditional land of the Alyawarre and Anmatyerre people. This region has been and still is
Stitch Cult is an exhibition that investigates the social significance of embroidery and its practice. This dynamic exhibition presents an Australian perspective on the contemporary uptake of embroidery by a new generation of artists whilst acknowledging the practices and virtuosity of the past. The artists in this exhibition are telling personal and social stories through
Katarina Vesterberg explores her intimate relationship with the sky, land and vast oceans surrounding our continent. She allows us to experience the environment the way she does; feeling its power, beauty, and fragility. Image: GLASSHOUSES 2018, Oil on canvas, 152 × 204 cm
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This single night exhibition presents Civil Landscapes, a new body of work by Tristan Eyles. Eyles’ interdisciplinary practice opens up contemporary relationships between the personal, the urban, and the natural landscape, with a focus on uncovering alternative experiential encounters. This exhibition runs in tandem with the Civil Landscapes exhibition presented by S0S0. Explore Civil Landscapes at S0S0.org from
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José María Peña was born and lives in Seville, Spain. He earned his Fine Arts degree in Conservation and Restoration from the University of Seville. His background as an art restorer has allowed him to have a deep knowledge of the painting materials and of the techniques adopted by the great Masters. “My passion is to tell stories
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Please join Brisbane-based artist Simon Degroot as he speaks about his practice and current exhibition, Capricious Forms, with Jan Manton. All are welcome. In his current exhibition, Degroot translates small details from the built environment into abstract shapes that are useful for painting in Capricious Forms. In these new paintings, details are collected, re-formed, and
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The IMA and Room40 present MONO 28 with Beatriz Ferreyra. Argentine-born, French-based composer Beatriz Ferreyra is a musique concrète pioneer. Now in her eighties, her works presented in an octophonic sound array typify an intensity of sonic practice that exemplifies this music’s deepest concerns. Don’t miss Ferreyra’s first ever appearance in Australia where she will
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two artists, two bodies of work, one space. Onespace is pleased to host QCA Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Honours students, Di Hall and Debbie Taylor (Worley) throughout July 2018 for their Onsite Project. The project will provide a platform for practitioner and community engagement, as well as an opportunity to investigate installation in the space.
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People often migrate in pursuit of a safer life. The commotion of the move abroad is followed by a sense of relief, breathing a bit easier. Except, what if past experiences hinder a complete surrender to this newly found refuge? In Peculiar Freedoms, Mulder uncovers the power of memory to recoil her, and many South
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Over the past four months, Aishla Manning, Jess Enkera, Monica Rohan, Kat Campbell, Kate McKay, Peter Kozak and Rhiannon Dionysius have been diligently working away above the gallery while walls were being erected below. With us these artists have hosted public programs, collaborated with In Residence, enjoyed frequent studio critiques, mourned the loss of Princess
Sam Kidel and Susan Schuppli perform at Institute of Modern Art as part of Eavesdropping, a major project by Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Law School and The Ian Potter Museum of Art exploring the politics of listening and being listened-to. MATERIAL WITNESS A lecture performance by Susan Schuppli. The material witness — an entity (object or unit) whose physical properties or technical configuration records evidence of
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On Saturday the 11th of August at 2pm the Queer College of Art are pleased to present a panel discussion alongside dark rooms: women directing the lens, currently showing at Griffith Art Museum. The panel will consist of Brisbane based artists Kate Woodcroft and Kinly Grey who will present an introduction into their practices before
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Every winter, Aspire Gallery hosts it’s second annual small pieces competition, ‘Foot Square’. Much like it’s big sister competition, ‘Petite Pieces’, there is no limitation on medium, theme or skill for artists looking to enter. The one restriction – work must fit within a foot square, as the name suggests. This August, Aspire’s walls are
Please join us for a discussion with Courtney Pedersen and Rachael Haynes about the current exhibition Affirmative Action. This exhibition is part of Haynes’ ongoing Project for the Affirmation of the Voice, and addresses the polyvocal nature of contemporary feminism. The works draw on revisionist strategies to address the broader aim of the project: how can creative practice offer a
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The Wait is a stop motion animation by artist Clare Rae. Constructed from a string of photographic stills, The Wait is one of a series of videos that explore female identity via a persona that appears continuously throughout her work. In The Wait, Rae navigates and defies the limitations of the everyday environment of the train station platform, portraying
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Following her residency at the Wool Factory in Barcelona, Kimberly Rowe will return to Australian shores with her new body of work. Notable for her highly experimental approach, the artist’s return to the canvas is filled with influences from the streets of the cosmopolitan capital of Spain. Known for its robust and vibrant street art
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Rachael Haynes is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Her art practice engages with feminist ethics and activism by examining the social and personal constructs of language and gender. This exhibition is part of the ongoing Project for the Affirmation of the Voice, and addresses the polyvocal nature of contemporary feminism. The
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Hear from South Korean-born artist Haegue Yang, in conversation with IMA Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh. 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. Yang’s exhibition ‘Triple Vita Nestings’ is on
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Join us for a conversation with Vernon Ah Kee, Patricia Piccinini and Luke Roberts about their early lives as artists. About this Event Join us for a conversation with Vernon Ah Kee, Patricia Piccinini and Luke Roberts about their early lives as artists. The conversation will be held in the exhibition, Starting Young, at the
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Join artist Eric Bridgeman for an interactive evening titled ROT BÜNG (Crossroad), dissecting the sounds and texts of Tok Pisin (Pidgin English) from the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Bridgeman, from the Yuri Clan of the Chimbu Province in Papua New Guinea, is joined by Aunties and collaborators to present performance, spoken word, text, video,
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moment & method provides an opportunity for early career researchers at the Queensland College of Art to share their art-practice. As a collective, the group exploration illustrates the multitude of ways in which artists use method to capture expressive intent. The moment/s selected by each artist speak to risk, experience, opportunity, connection, alienation and or
Please come along and join the third installment of the Makers Take exhibition series. For this show we’ve extended our reach to find 20 leading furniture and home-ware designers from South-East Queensland and New South Wales. For one night only, these designers will be exhibiting some of their newest works. UAP will host the evening
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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