NAVA in partnership with Museum of Brisbane and independent writer and curator Tess Maunder present Independent publishing now: a public forum which discusses the opportunities that independent writing and publishing that present for artists and curators. Australia is at a crossroads in the publishing sector. On the one hand we have key magazines closing down […]
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Join us for a dynamic life drawing event facilitated by contemporary Australian artist Camilla Cassidy. Date: Wednesday 27 June Time: 6 – 8.30pm Cost: $15.00pp (includes refreshments and drawing media) Location: Griffith University Art Museum Drawing materials will be supplied, however participants are also encouraged to bring their own journals and/or media. Brisbane-based Camilla Cassidy’s
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Down Here is an ongoing series focused on presenting local, inaccessible experimental/noise/etc projects. A Natural Low is a small, fiercely independent artist-run initiative founded & operating in Brisbane, Queensland | Australia. With a focus on experimental audio & visual performance our aim is to provide an outlet for artists to showcase their works without constraint. Presented by
Central Station is a new exhibition by Narrm/Melbourne based artist Tim Woodward. Woodward’s practice engages with the lineages of conceptual art, initiating a range of negotiations, conversations, proposals and collaborations. His projects typically introduce an unlikely social contract or materialise specific relationships to power. Recent projects by Woodward include Ring Around the Dowser (presented at Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Screen Space, QAGOMA), Ear in the afternoon (Ruang MES56),Cosmo’s (Darren Knight Gallery), Plus Solids (Bus Projects).
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Budgerigar Dreaming (Ngatijirri Jukurrpa) is a new series of paintings by Karen Napaljarri Barnes, a Warlukurlangu artist based in Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. The series of works refers to the Budgerigar Dreaming story. The Jukurrpa (Dreaming) sites shown in these paintings for Ngatijrri (Budgerigar) are at Yangarnmpi, south of Yuendumu. Ngatijirri are small birds
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We are pleased to announce the inaugural highland art workshop High Time to be held on the 29th June – 1st July 2018 at our 60 acre property Haneena Hill in the Granite Belt near Stanthorpe, Queensland, altitude 1100 metres, approximately 3 hours drive from Brisbane. High Time is the first in a series of workshops offering an immersive experience
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The Search for Warrajamba is the culmination of Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins’ Doctor of Philosophy research in Indigenous Perspectives (Creative Arts) at the Batchelor Institute. Through installations, prints and ceramics, Cockatoo-Collins explores identity and artistic mediums as part of an inquiry into a generational oral story of a mermaid named Warrajamba – a cultural figure
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Inhabit a fantasy world of feminine eroticism and of absent bodies. A field of translucent textile sculptures, Fantasies is about connection and dissolving, curiosity for new sensations, and the strangeness of being in a body. Salvaged everyday textile items of bygone eras are transformed to accentuate their imbued cultural significance as objects of material culture. 1960s-70s fabrics,
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Onespace Gallery is delighted to present the impressive work of two of Queensland’s finest photo-media artists, Kim Demuth and Henri van Noordenburg. Their joint exhibition, tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, was first shown at Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville in February/March 2018 and has now returned to Brisbane for its first showing here. These two high-calibre bodies of work are distinct
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Conversation in Two Parts approaches reenactment as a tool for emotional processing. Clay busts of family members, animation software and crudely constructed sets are used to revisit situations, offering alternative and imagined outcomes that consolidate experiences of shame with methods for self-empowerment. The work is motivated by a desire for self-improvement and a need to regain
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Applications to exhibit at Alternating Current Art Space are now open for July to December 2018. We welcome applications from emerging/established artists, interstate and overseas artists, curators, arts collectives, organisations, independent launches and festivals, for solo or curated group shows. Alternating Current Art Space is an artist-run-space in Melbourne operating four main gallery spaces plus
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On the occasion of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (June 9 – September 9, 2018), the curatorial team has invited curators Antonia Majaca and Sohrab Mohebbi to rethink and expand the format of the Curators Workshop. After a number of successful, theme based workshops held in relation to the 4th–9th editions of the
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Learn how to screen print in a comprehensive 2 day course by ArtWorld Studio. Day 1: Saturday 12th May, 10:00am – 2:00pm Use of negative and positive space Cutting detail into the positive stencil The 4 Rs of Design: Repetition, Rotation, Reversal, Reduction Producing sketches on paper, and cutting out with blades from light-weight easy-cut paper
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“Love Sharing” 2018 international festival in Sardinia, Italy will focus on Migration. The Festival is open to all contemporary artists and also to researchers and scholars on the theme – open call for submissions. Organized by “Theandric”, a drama company taking an innovative and experimental approach to political theatre, “Love Sharing” is the first International Festival
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Are you wanting to start a new Artist Run Initiative? NAVA is offering is a unique mentorship program to a group of South East Queensland based artists who are wanting to start a new Artist Run Initiative. Artists will mentored by directors of Cutthumb ARI to develop a project plan to launch their new space. This free program
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Grant Stevens is an Australian artist based in Sydney. Working predominantly with video, as well as photography, sculpture and installation, his art practice explores how the verbal and non-verbal languages of popular screen culture interface with contemporary subjectivity. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as in
Are you a local emerging arts writer interested in exploring the future of humanity? As part of ‘Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection’ (24 March – 5 August 2018) you have the opportunity to enter the ‘Propositions on Imagined Futures’ writing competition, and win the chance to be published on the QAGOMA blog and receive free tickets to Up Late! We are
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For professional artists, as well as art collectors and enthusiasts wanting to present their two-dimensional artworks in the best possible way. This workshop will involve an introduction to hanging framed and unframed artworks under several conditions. Learn the correct hanging height, handling protocols, and other tricks of the trade in the IMA gallery, with special
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We are extremely excited to invite you all to our first mous magazine INFORM discussion panel of 2018: Working for Free in the Creative Industries. Navigating the world of internships, residencies, freelancing, collaborations and creative business can be a very daunting task, particularly when it comes to the issue of being paid for your creative
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The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and exhibition platform offering a series of individual artist grants totaling $5,000.00 USD administered through an open call juried by leading curators. Program Highlights – Total Awards: $5,000.00 USD in grants for visual artists – 5 artists will each receive $1,000.00 USD in unrestricted grant awards – 30
Media and video artists from all over the world are invited to send videos for the sixth edition of the Facade Video Festival, which will be held in Plovdiv in Bulgaria between 28 and 30 September 2018. Facade Video Festival is an annual video art exhibition, where videos are projected onto the walls of houses
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International call for entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2018. Professional photographers may apply for this award. Emerging photographers aged under 25 can apply for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer. The winner of the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” will receive a cash prize of EUR 25,000 as well as a Leica M camera and lens worth
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In this introductory workshop, you will learn the skills of Linocut printmaking, in order to create your very own hand printed works on paper. This versatile and accessible technique can be applied to the creation of artist’s books, textile design, poster design and limited edition prints. This class will cover the steps of transferring your
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Reflect on ideas of what ‘home’ means by exploring the works of Mika Nakamura-Mather. The artist has spent much of her life away from her homeland of Japan, living, working, and travelling extensively in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Nakamura-Mather draws together the present and the past to explore the role memory plays in ideas of
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“My paintings are the result of travel within Australia and New Zealand, I aim to make paintings that combine something of the texture and energy of the place with a sense of its broader geology and geography.” “I’m not trying to make paintings that solve world problems or hold out a mirror to society, but
Rodeo Romance is a new body of work by HOLLY BATES, which explores the artist’s personal fascination with the aesthetics of the Western genre in combination with its lack of queer & especially lesbian representation. In order to ‘destroy the monolithic heterosexism of conventional narrative cinema’ the works aim to reimagine the genre by inserting
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Lincoln Austin’s sculptural and multi-media works playfully explore the poetics of geometry, pattern, optics and scale. Created while the Museum’s artist-in-residence, Lincoln’s exhibition, Topography – place writing, references Brisbane’s unique sub-tropical architecture and landscape. Lincoln Austin was Museum of Brisbane’s Artist-in-Residence from 5 – 27 February. During his residency he created 10 sculptural works using flyscreen to
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The Strip Show examines the influence of comic strips on the work of Australian artists Stephen Bird, Sharon Goodwin, Chayni Henry, Shin Koyama, Jonathan McBurnie, Brian Robinson and Charles Street. The accessibility and mass consumption of comic strips ensures an ongoing interplay of mythology within contemporary culture. These artists utilise the subversive nature of the comic medium to unveil universal
Claire Fulton Art and Amelia K Fulton Art present an exhibition exploring their sisterhood and upbringing through their vastly different artistic styles. Though having lived together for most of their lives and having such a close bond, the two sisters have developed shockingly different styles reflective of their individual experiences but ultimately underpinned by the
An Exhibition with: Belinda Sinclair Dan Denton Jon Weber Kit Mason Leonie Chinn Opening night from 6 PM, Friday 4 May 2018 Live Performance by The Steady As She Goes Bib’n’Brace Collective 95 Commercial Road Teneriffe 4005
Join us on May 18, 7:00pm for Boxcopy’s Artist Relay series. Artists Chantal Fraser, Hannah Gartside and Parallel Park will discuss their art practices in dialogue with our current exhibition by Caroline Phillips. The artists will come together for a thrilling relay discussion – questions will be thrown to each competitor for a critical race
One Million Stars public art installation in King George Square Inspired by artist Maryann Talia Pau, and united in their hope for a peaceful future, thousands of people from across the world have woven the one million stars set to feature in this stunning public artwork created by artists Lumen Cloud and the Museum of
FireWorks Gallery is excited to be presenting its forthcoming exhibition Anthony Lister: The Flower Show. Born 1979 in Brisbane, Lister studied fine art at Griffith University Queensland College of Art and later in New York City under mentor Max Gimblett. Lister explains, “The first rule of painting is to take everyone else out of the
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Brisbane-based artist Ryan Presley has produced new work as part of his ongoing project, Blood Money (2010–present), which deals with representation and exchange. In his richly layered watercolour paintings, he reimagines our figureheads on Australian banknotes as the heroes and warriors of Aboriginal history, including Pemulwuy, Dundalli, and Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Alongside these paintings, Presley is staging a participatory currency
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Queensland sculptor Jason Fitzgerald’s latest series of ceramic and timber works will comprise a new solo exhibition, Shaky Ground, at Jan Murphy Gallery. Until recently, Fitzgerald was solely known for geometrically formed timber sculptures made of salvaged timber shards and off-cuts, but of late he has been working in the ancient medium of clay. Shaky
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Botborg is an international audio-visual performance group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-colour synesthesia. Using a complex array of custom electronics, Botborg create totally live multi-sensory assaults of interdependent colour and rhythm, pushing the limits of technology to invoke the maximum possible stimulation of their audience’s mind