Weave a dilly bag or sculptural piece with palm inflorescence. You will take home so much more than what you expected – connection, calm, groundedness and new friends.Experience the healing, nurturing and centering forces that emerge as you weave with awareness, intention and mindfulness. Rene will facilitate a journey through the creative energy of the […]
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Everyone knows that BIGSOUND is the place to be for musicians wanting to be seen by the music industry – but did you know that we’d like to create that same opportunity for visual artists? BIGSOUND Festival seeks 15 leading emerging artists from South East Queensland to join the Festival Design team and contribute to a precinct wide activation
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Internationally renowned sound artist Lawrence English will talk about the nature of sound, listening and his artistic process as he reveals a journey that has taken him from the Amazon to Antarctica. To compose his soundscape for Life In Irons, Lawrence recorded sounds across Brisbane, seeking memories of a time passed. The layers of sound
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Punk had become a major subculture that included a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film. Alex Buckingham’s PUNK exhibition is a personal recollection of the very beginning of the Punk era in London’s Beaufort Market, in Kings Road, in the early 70’s. These images were taken
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Stewart MacFarlane is a figurative artist whose work is saturated with contrasting blocks of colour and exaggerated angles. In his return to Brisbane, Mitchell Fine Art is hosting a solo exhibition from the 2nd – 26th May 2018 in Fortitude Valley. MacFarlane’s paintings are dramatic narratives – uncertain and unsettling. With his implied scenarios and visual clues, his works raise
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Through the physical act of stitching, Marisa seamlessly paves the way for fusions between contemporary and traditional arts. A discerningly subtle application of warm brushed wax reflects and absorbs the light, changing the tones of the spaces throughout the day, bathing the figures through greens, cyans and caramels. Timeless motion occurs in these spacious solitary
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Each year 4 x $5,000 scholarships are awarded to artists under 30 to assist with the cost of overseas travel to: • undertake formal study or • undertake a residency or mentorship (planned program with a professional artist) or • undertake informal study for a planned research project. ** NB: informal study means independent travel
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Using objects and photographs, Caroline Phillips is interested in reconfiguring relationships of power, sexual politics and embodied experience to (re)present the relational art object as a feminist object. Through modes of connection and inter-relation in both her methodology and outcomes, Phillips (re)imagines an ethical feminist future. This current body of work, there’s something happening here…(extended remix),
Taylor White is a rule breaker, leading the current movement of artists bored with the traditional methods of constructing a painting. Almost anything is fair game: construction tools, a drywall knife, broken wood. Sometimes, White will hit the canvas with paint in total darkness, then solve for whatever the results were. That could mean cutting the canvas
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Pear Shaped is an ephemeral public artwork by Clare Opatra inviting passers-by to anonymously share an experience of failure. The work arises from an encounter with the writings of queer theorist Jack Halberstam in 2014 and the artist’s personal exhaustion with forms of agency fixated on negation and transcendence. The work makes space for ‘ordinariness’,
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Drawing on science fiction tonalities and aesthetics, ‘Against Entropy’ explores our prurient interest in entropy as something to be thwarted and as part of human nature. Against Entropy is the first in a series of three film screenings in conjunction with the ‘Robert Smithson: Time Crystals’ exhibition. Curator: John Edmond ‘The New Monuments’ Conor Bateman
Historical and contemporary depictions of the Australian landscape are a core interest of Lu Forsberg’s practice. Transparency and other worries engages with the landscape of central and north Queensland: home to rugged bushland, cattle stations, the Great Barrier Reef, and the proposed Carmichael Coal Mine. Another central focus of Forsberg’s work is access: access to information, access to
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Transboundaries features a number of QUT-trained artists whose practices cross over many disciplines. This triennial exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of interactions between the social and political, ecological, and psychological. It encompasses the larger vistas of economics, science and nature as well as contemporary subjectivity and language. ARTISTS Keith Armstrong Kim Demuth Lu Forsberg Alice McDowell
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Skin. Our largest organ, our greatest sensory membrane, and how we perceive and receive the intimacy of the world. Skin is for touch. To touch and be touched. And yet, the pressures of contemporary life have produced an aura of distance around what otherwise longs for contact.Maybe art can also be for touch. To touch
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Tom Nicholson’s solo exhibition surveys the central role drawing plays in his engagement with contemporary political realities in Australia and beyond. The show presents works from 2005 to 2018, focusing on both the histories and possibilities of drawing, and its relationship to writing. The exhibition will feature the final chapter of Drawings and correspondence: a new commission
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University of Canberra, Bachelor of Visual Art Graduate Exhibition. “Liminality can be understood in the anthropological sense to be a temporary transition through which identity is reconstructed, and/or it can be thought of as a more longitudinal experience of ambiguity and in-between-ness within a changeful context.” (Liminality and the practices of identity reconstruction by Nic
Kyoto Art Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program offers support to emerging artists and art researchers who wish to pursue creative activities in Kyoto. Each year the program switches between hosting visual artists and performing artists. In 2019, the program is open for visual artists / researchers. Kyoto Art Center Artist-in-Residence Program 2019 for Visual Arts Kyoto Art Center (KAC)
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We are looking for a savvy and enthusiastic Marketing Intern to join us as we grow for the rest of the year! This is a fabulous opportunity to work with the team during an integral development period, and contribute to some really exciting projects coming up over the next six months. Applications due on the
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Other Worlds is a collection of works heavily inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology. Delta Venus engages with paint and sandstone to explore the concept of mythical and historical worlds through shape and form. For the artist, the works represent a cumulation of sensory experiences that cannot be tied to a specific language or time. The
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Presenting a body of work that continues the artist’s critical exploration of place, presence and the entangling of racial and cultural identity. In a practice the oscillates between representation and material concerns, history and heritage become the foundation of a personal cosmology that attempt to blur the limitations, and demonstrate the fluidity of the boundaries
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Join Boxcopy on Saturday 26th May, 3pm for our In Conversation series, where artist Caroline Phillips will discuss her new exhibition with Australian feminist art historian Dr Louise Mayhew. Louise Mayhew is the Foundation Theory Convenor at QCA, Brisbane and completed her PhD at UNSW Art & Design in 2014. Her thesis investigated a history of women-only art
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Boxcopy is hosting a one-night exhibition and silent auction on Friday 1st June (6-8pm) THE ANNUAL, to raise funds to keep Boxcopy running and to support our exhibition program in 2018. For this event Boxcopy alumni have generously donated small works for a silent auction, with a set reserve price of $250. Artists include: James & Eleanor
Intimate knowledge of colour frames the foundation for Carla Hananiah’s balancing act between nature and artifice. Her paintings depict vast stretches of mountain and sky most often at the “magic hour” – at dawn or dusk when unreal and powerful, dramatic slanting sunlight moves fleetingly across the landscape, creating tonalities and hues to dazzle the eye.
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Artmossphere is the only Russian biennale that introduces general public to the most prominent street artists from all over the world and boosts the development of the local street art scene. The first two biennales took place in Moscow in 2014 and 2016, showcasing world-wide famous artists and collectives, including L’Atlas, The London Police, Miss Van, as well as Russian artists and
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The Chiaroscuro Effect: In film, photography and painting is the second public program facilitated by one of Outer Space’s current studio artists, Kate McKay. Join us on Thursday June 14th from 6:30pm for a screening of Carol Reed’s film noir classic, The Third Man which alters, through the juxtaposition of light and dark, everyday streets
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Kat Campbell presents the first in a series of public programs by current Outer Space studio residents. Show and Tell invites you to bring an object of significance to share in an intimate, vulnerable but safe group setting. PLEASE READ BEFORE AGREEING TO ATTEND Your show and tell object should “remind you of someone you
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The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) is delighted to announce 67 works have been selected from 308 entries to be part of the country’s most prestigious national Indigenous art awards, the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). Significantly this year Telstra NATSIAA has attracted residential entries from every
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Dark Mirror by Brisbane based artist Carl Warner. In the Eighteenth century it was the height of fashion for tourists to venture out into a landscape turn their back to the scene and view it in a dark pocket mirror known as a Claude glass. Nature was better understood
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Hear activist and writer Clare Land in conversation with activist Bogaine Spearim, presented in conjunction with Tom Nicholson’s exhibition at the IMA ‘Drawings and correspondence’. Land is the author of the book ‘Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles’ (2015). She is a non-Aboriginal person who has been an active supporter of
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NETHERWORLDS: NAOMI BLACKLOCK, ANASTASIA BOOTH, CAITLIN FRANZMANN, CHANTAL FRASER, CLAY KERRIGAN, & BLAKE LAWRENCE NETHERWORLDS brings together the work of six artists, exploring the relationship between magic, mysticism, and artmaking. Drawing on ideas of communitas and of perceived and actual power, NETHERWORLDS presents overlapping and intersecting spaces for queer spiritualities, feminist mythologies, personalised cultural ritual, and new ways to
You’re invited to an evening of meditative breath work led by artist Naomi Blacklock and her mother Charlie Blacklock. Take part in participatory meditation and ritualised body practice, blending the yoga practice of Charlie with daughter Naomi’s sound practice. Both use breathing techniques as a method of grounding and as an expression of agency and sovereignty. Perform Ujjayi
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The masterclass provides you with an opportunity to build on your skills as a watercolour painter with renowned artist Sam Cranstoun. In this small and focused class, you will be guided through the process of taking pixelated images and rendering them in watercolour on grid paper. You will learn how to layer colours subtly, mixing
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OCT 2018 – MAY 2019 PROPOSALS Wreckers Artspace is made up of studios, workshop and gallery in the former Brisbane Bike Wreckers building. We are currently looking for proposals for the downstairs gallery, with a preference for solo or collaborative shows. If you’re interested in working in the space please email us a pdf document
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After launching in Sydney and Melbourne in March, the IMA is proud to host the Brisbane launch of The Artist As, edited by Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, and Tara McDowell and published by Sternberg Press, Curatorial Practice at MADA, and the IMA. Join the editors as they introduce and read excerpts from the publication. Light refreshments will be provided. How do artists
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Join us for an afternoon of lectures and discussion in conjunction with our current exhibition Robert Smithson: Time Crystals. 1:00 – 1:10 pm: Welcome and Acknowledgments: Dr Campbell Gray, Director, University of Queensland Art Museum 1:10 – 2:10 pm: Curators’ Lecture: Dr Amelia Barikin and Professor Chris McAuliffe, curators Robert Smithson: Time Crystals 2:10 –
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‘Crystal Constructs’: an evening of films in conjunction with ‘Robert Smithson: Time Crystals’ Tuesday 12 June 6.30 pm Shifting from the microscopic to the macroscopic, ‘Crystal Constructs’ builds a model of the world, paralleling chemicals crystallising under pressure with the geometries of human constructs. ‘Crystal Constructs’ is the second in a series of three film
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