SBS has today released a new 360° immersive film, Storm Riders, which explores the creative collaboration between acclaimed Australian video artist and ex-pro skater Shaun Gladwell and two female Muslim skateboarders, Chadnee Shah and Farhana Hussain. Following a chance meeting in East London, Storm Riders follows Shaun, Chadnee and Farhana as they plan and recreate Shaun’s iconic video artwork, Storm Sequence. Filmed […]
Brisbane-based artist Callum McGrath utilises screen based media to ‘disidentify’ binary representations of queer male sexuality. His practice disrupts queer representations of sexuality by exploring the in-between space in queer male identity. McGrath looks to queer historical and family narratives to explore the complex relationship between his identity and queer cultural/ lineal inheritances. His practise
Weaving is the act of using loops and knots, warps and wefts, to turn simple strands into vessels, mats, bags, adornment and cultural objects. Join us for a series of hands-on workshops for young people aged 15–18 years. Learn how to weave from a group of respected artists, who will share incredible techniques and cultural
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Between November and December 2018, Kyber Teatro organises in Cagliari (Italy) the Fifth Edition of International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival called “Le meraviglie del Possibile”. LMDP Festival is the first of this kind in the whole Italy. Its aim is to promote the interrelation between artistic and technological languages. Kyber Teatro – spin
Griffith University Art Museum is proud to present the first museum survey in 30 years of distinguished contemporary Australian artist Davida Allen. Admired for her expressive style and her brutally honest depiction of domestic life, Allen is one of Queensland’s favourite painters. ‘Davida Allen: In the Moment’ encompasses over 40 works from the artist’s five
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Experience GOMA after dark at Up Late during ‘Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection’. Enjoy live music from cutting edge performers and guest DJs in the heart of GOMA. Melbourne-based punk band Cable Ties comprises three friends who weld punk ferocity with kraut rock and boogie, summoning frenetic lead lines tethered to a hypnotic rhythm section. Their songs form
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Outer Space presents the first two exhibitions in its new Montague Rd home. Join us for the opening on June 22nd for Mitchell Donaldson’s ‘Worm Runner’s Digest’ and Tyza Stewart and James Barth’s ‘Assuming A Surface’ WORM RUNNER’S DIGEST: “The catalyst for this body of work was the experiments of biologist James V. McConnell on
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‘Focus Points’ consists of four documentaries on Robert Smithson and his work. Whether engaging with his life, criticism, entropy, or cosmic time, each documentary is marked by form precisely tailored to the content, whether in Jennifer West’s hands-on destruction-as-construction of film, or James Bennings’s sympathetic attendance to our own sense of duration. Focus Points is
The IMA and Room40 are pleased to present MONO 27 featuring William Basinski and WPH. Basinski, possibly the 21st century’s most important voice in ambient work, debuts a brand-new work On Time, Out Of Time in celebration of his 60th birthday. Best recognised for his affecting Disintegration Loops series, his work typifies subtle states of
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Footsteps on the back path is a new work made in collaboration with Thomas Kidd. Drawing on childhood experiences of auditory hallucination, this exhibition considers processes of crossmodal perception, as well as the spaces between objective truth and fiction. Fragments of memory, both real and constructed, will be reimagined in a physical space to be
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Jan Murphy Gallery will present an exhibition featuring artwork from the acclaimed Tjala Arts centre in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. In a first for both organisations, the upcoming show will solely focus on artists from Tjala Arts, providing a platform for their works in Queensland. Seven Sisters will feature new works by the Ken
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Please join Kuiper Projects for a conversation with Baden Pailthorpe, alongside local artist and academic Daniel McKewen , scholar Paolo Magagnoli and Kuiper co-director Kyle Weise. Pitch Deck, the current exhibition at Kuiper Projects, presents a humorous, yet darkly dystopic vision; an artwork that co-opts the corporate form of the startup ‘pitch’, which itself has already co-opted the lessons of the
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Join Juliane Lorenz, President of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and editor of several of Fassbinder’s major films, as she discusses the role of women in Fassbinder’s life and work at this free talk. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–82) has been described as many things: prodigious to the point of folly; a homosexual who loved men
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In conjunction with Louise Bennett’s ‘Light Between Our Oceans’, hear a spoken word poem by the artist that shares some of her idiosyncratic experiences living in Lima. Filmed in Peru, Louise Bennett’s ‘Light Between Our Oceans’ highlights the physical and psychological space between ourselves and others. The camera becomes Bennett’s ears and eyes as she
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Join the IMA for the event ‘Water Mirrors’ organised by Vivian Ziherl of Frontier Imaginaries in conjunction with the opening Karrabing Film Collective’s exhibition ‘The Mermaids: Mirror Worlds’ at the IMA. Moderated by Ziherl, the event will include contributions from artists Delvene Cockatoo-Collins, Karrabing Film Collective, and Rachel O’Reilly. Inspired by a central motif in Karrabing’s latest
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Join us on June 23, 4:00pm for Boxcopy’s Artist Relay series. Artists Charlie Hillhouse, Annie Macindoe and Martin Smith will discuss their art practices in dialogue with our current exhibition by Stephen Palmer and Utako Shindo. The artists will take the baton in turns to discuss their practices before coming together for a thrilling relay
The Queer College of Art will be joined by Lu Forsberg as we have the chance to collectively engage with their practice. Focusing on Lu’s recent exhibition Transparency and other worries alongside their work shown as apart of Transboundaries. The conversation will take place at Outer Space ARI (1/170 Montague rd, West End) at 6pm
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Combining photographic self-portraiture and costume making, Gerwyn’s work is an ongoing inventory of selves that are assembled, worn and performed for the camera. Through the layering of dress, the body is used as a platform for reinvention, concealing the body in order to reveal new articulations of self. Prioritising the excess and artifice of Camp,
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Affirmative by Brisbane based artist Jane James. Signalling the word ‘equality’, the eight paintings from this new body of work, Affirmative, examine the layers of meaning and visual symbols, and our ability to decipher them. The title of the exhibition is a reference to the same-sex marriage postal survey conducted in Australia in
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On Saturday the 24th of June 1978 the first ever Mardi Gras parade was held in Sydney; simultaneously at the Sydney Cricket Ground, a Rugby League match between Australia and New Zealand was played. POOFTA is an exhibition that extends Callum McGrath’s ongoing body of work, which addresses his biographical relationship with binary representations of
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Onespace Gallery is very excited to present Night Blooms, our first opportunity to showcase a stunning new series of paintings by Brisbane artist Benjamin Werner. Werner has developed a world of dark forest interiors that are influenced by the ‘bokeh’ photographic technique, an approach which selectively creates blurriness in certain areas. These forests are inhabited by
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Marking 50 years since Ian Burn’s groundbreaking xerox works, this exhibition centres around working copies of the Systematically Altered Photographs,made at the Speed Copy Centre Inc. on 32nd Street, New York in 1968. These are exhibited alongside other key works from the period. IMAGE: Ian Burn, Systematically Altered Photograph: Kangaroos 1968. Black and white photograph (reproduction from ‘Australian
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Simon Gende: Gilas bilong lukim papa graun (Mirror to the world) My name is Simon Gende. I was born on the 17th of September 1969. I was born in the village called Gere in the Gembogl District, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea. My Language is Kuman. I am married with three wives and twelve children and have
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“If there is one reputation in Australian art that is surely unassailable, it is the reputation of Fred Williams. He died in 1982, and it is now clear, if it was ever in doubt before, that he was the most compelling, the most inventive and the most disciplined of the many Australian artists who tried
Artists: Kiera Brew Kurec, Dana Lawrie and Sarah Poulgrain. Curated by Bridie Gillman and Alexander Kucharski [STABLE] unSTABLE brings together the work of three artists whose multimodal practices exploit materiality and foreground the instability of their subject matter. Brisbane-based Dana Lawrie and Sarah Poulgrain and Melbourne-based Keira Brew Kurec share the use of humble materials
Born in France, Franck Gohier has an extensive portfolio as a painter, sculptor and printmaker. His artwork is steeped in his political and social consciousness. Satirical, politically and socially motivated his work is a reflection of society and its faults, frailties and triumphs. In the past Gohier’s works have employed many aesthetics within the comic book genre
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Baden Pailthorpe’s Pitch Deck (2017) explores the potential application of financial analysis and machine learning in contemporary art. Combining elements of high quality 3D animation, custom gaming PCs, liquid cooling, roman armour, web scrapers, champagne and startup chic, Pitch Deck is conceived as a pitch to potential investors in a business based on cultural capital. The central form of this body of
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Louise Bennett‘s Light Between Our Oceans focuses on the measurable and immeasurable space between ourselves and others, as well as the distance between the artist’s current and past experiences. Recorded in Peru, the camera lens becomes Bennett’s ears and eyes as she gazes across the South Pacific Ocean towards her homeland, Australia. The work is on display
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You are warmly invited to the opening event of a new collaborative exhibition project by Stephen Palmer and Utako Shindo on Friday 8th June. postscript/追伸is a collaborative project between Melbourne-based artist Stephen Palmer and Tokyo-based artist Utako Shindo, developed out of a long running dialogue related to shared interests in translation, displacement, gesture, and the
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Queensland Museum will host its first ever 18+ Blackout event on Friday 22 June, in celebration of Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islanders culture, history and heritage. Featuring talented young artists from Digi Youth Arts and Queensland Museum‘s unsettle program, be inspired by panel discussions, poetry, weaving, live music, roving performances, visual art and short films. This is
Through gestural painting and sculpture, Claudia Greathead’s exhibition dwells on familial relationships. For Greathead, making and painting is marked by isolation, and this series of works emerges from the process of uncovering its potential for kinship and connection. Exhibition Opening: 13th June, 6pm
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Portals is an exhibition of landscape paintings which engage with Romantic sentiment for nature, yet at the same time, interrupt this sentimentality through painterly means. Picturesque gardens, mountains and shoreline are represented through hurried brushstrokes, unnatural colour and cropped compositions, offering representations of nature which gently unsettle the idyllic vision of landscape of our imaginations.
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Presented in partnership with Room40, the Australian Cinémathèque welcomes two of the world’s leading exploratory musicians to Brisbane for one unique evening of transcendental performance. Drawing on the vast tonal and dynamic abilities of the Gallery’s 1929 Wurlitzer theatre-style organ, New York-based iconoclast Charlemagne Palestine offers a celestial exploration through voice, bells, organ and more. A contemporary of
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Artists: Rachael Wellisch and Emma Gardner Wild Remembering features new work from Emma Gardner and Rachael Wellisch. The exhibition is a dual exploration of vulnerability and strength. Both artists curiously explore their positions as global and highly conscious citizens, simultaneously learning from and contributing to the multi-narratival histories of textile production, image construction and intricate
A 2 hour presentation including a short audio-visual and followed by Q&A, covering the topic of ‘what is the base of every good design’. From this presentation, you will take home the understanding of why some designs look better than others, and how to make a sound aesthetic decisions before you press the shutter. These
Featuring Madeline Holt, Quincy Raw and Black Mannequin A purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level. Ontogeny is a multimedia exhibition that celebrates all forms of art; a platform for collaborating creatives of different mediums to explore the common thread within their art forms. We