Two major artists, Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, were ‘re-united’ in 2001 at the Winn Street Studios in Fortitude Valley; in the month of July they completed their first collaborative work Nature Speaks Y / Confused Possum. Since then an additional twenty paintings have been completed, of which five will form the centrepiece of the FireWorks […]
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‘Robert Smithson: Time Crystals’ is the first exhibition in Australia dedicated to the work of American artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973). Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Smithson is now widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Inspired by ideas of crystalline geometry
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HOTA, Home of the Arts is the home for all things creative. A home that brings people together where ideas are transformed into real life experiences. A place where art makes the world a better place. We’re opening our doors to artists. We believe art thrives when there is collaboration, mentorship and shared ideas. Our
As Brisbane grows we reflect upon the elements of our city that nurture and connect us. BRISTOPIA invites you to contribute your voice to this conversation by exploring the values you hold in relation to community, the environment and well-being. Blending interactive technology with whimsical illustrations by Megan McKean, this playful installation places community at
It’s almost 12 months since we announced that Museum of Brisbane was the recipient of the largest textile donation from a single fashion house to an Australian museum. The donation by Brisbane philanthropist and contemporary art patron, Dr Paul Eliadis, of the complete collection of internationally acclaimed Easton Pearson, comprising more than 3,300 signature garments,
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Fiona Lowry undertook a residency at the Tweed Regional Gallery’s Nancy Fairfax Studio in 2017 to develop a new series of works: “Initially what was interesting about doing a residency in Murwillumbah was the opportunity to revisit a landscape that I spent some time growing up in. My work often explores my own memories of
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Regional Queensland audiences have an opportunity to experience key video works from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Collection, when the exhibition ‘Physical Video’ tours extensively across the region from 4 July 2018 to May 2020. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said ‘Physical Video’ focused on performance and theatricality in video art from the
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Queensland College of Art doctoral candidate Anna Carey will join the ranks of artists like Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, and Claude Monet with the acquisition of two of her works by the renowned Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). LACMA is one of the world’s premiere art institutions, boasting a collection of more than 100,000 works by the greatest
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As part of ArtAsiaPacific’s 25th anniversary celebrations, we are inviting young writers from across the globe to write a 600-word piece about the magazine’s archival material. Entries will be judged by our editors, and writers will have the chance to be published in the magazine’s pages, as well as receive valuable feedback from established experts in
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We invite students interested in Arts, Culture and Journalism to join the YAJA PUBLISHING TEAM. YAJA’s newsfeed is there for students to publish as many articles as they like. Every article is also published on Art News Portal and automatically considered for our annual awards, conducted in November. Best of all, your articles remain published
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The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to provide a platform for further professional development. From dirt roads to rock pools, luscious rainforests to local festivals, Queensland is a state that inspires exploration. It’s
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Call for applications for New Settings – international programme dedicated to the performing arts. With New Settings, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès supports each year the creation and diffusion of new performance works. The chosen projects all feature crossovers of some kind or another: playing on the porosity of the boundary between performing arts and visual arts, their creators experiment
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he Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists. Established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, the Prize supported the artistic development and production of new works of over 84 artists in exhibitions at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv
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Hosted by the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects (TDPA) is the only international tapestry award for architects. The TDPA invites architects from around the world to design a tapestry for a hypothetical site. Boullée’s mooted building that inspired the Pharos Wing, MONA, has been announced as the TDPA 2018 hypothetical
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An international open call for artists engaged with digital technology. Welcoming submissions from March 15th, The Lumen Prize is an international award that celebrates artists working with digital technology. The competition offers a prize fund of $11k. Now in its 7th year, The Lumen Prize has already awarded over $50,000 in prize money and has
Now in its ninth year, this exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit 2D artworks up to 61cm (24 inches) in height or width. The judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and skill with $10 000 awarded to the winner. We are pleased
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Are you a young cultural manager/practitioner looking to develop and strengthen your cultural leadership skills? Are you excited to be part of a growing international network of young cultural professionals? The third edition of our Global Cultural Leadership Programme (GCLP) is made for you! For the third edition of the GCLP, the Cultural Diplomacy Platform is looking
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The Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration is one of three programs of the Japan Foundation Asia Center and is designed to generate new cultures together within Asia. Grants are provided to successful collaborative projects conducted by organizations and professionals in Japan and ASEAN countries. Applications are invited from organisations based in Japan and the 10 ASEAN countries of Southeast Asia. Eligible Projects Collaborative projects ―― the majority
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The Festival Les Instants Vidéo is an event held in Marseille, France dedicated to video art and electronic poetry with its multiple forms, monobands, installations, performances, multimedia… International call for participation for 31st festival, dreaming of May 1968 and its resonances in 2018. In France, and not only as the events were global, the year
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Lab.10 art contest, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks in September 2018 and much more.
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Enjoy untutored & tutored life drawing on Saturday 16 June, 2018 at our Norman Park studio. Coffee & tea is provided with biscuits and the studio is fully air conditioned for your comfort. Starts at 2pm and finishes at 5pm. The model will be asked to pose for tutored participants within the times, but this will not hinder the self
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Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open for QUT The Cube’s Artist in Residence program. The program is a unique opportunity for creatives to further their practice by designing, developing and delivering an innovative digital project at The Cube. This 12-week residency is suited to established creative practitioners across a broad range of disciplines including visual art, interactive design, science
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Marie Corella Ellis OAM (1918-2003) was a dressmaker and long-term resident of Fortitude Valley. Born in the Valley in February 1918, Marie was named after the Victorian-period celebrity author Marie Corelli. For 60 or more years, Marie resided at 101-103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, where Jugglers Art Space is now situated. Marie contributed a lifetime
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Established in 1987 the churchie national emerging art prize is a highly regarded prize dedicated to supporting, encouraging and profiling the work of artists in the early stages of their arts careers. Artists from all Australian states and territories are selected as finalists for the exhibition at one of the country’s prestigious university art museums,
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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art fosters excellence and innovation in contemporary Asian and Australian culture through research, documentation, development, discussion and presentation of contemporary visual art. We believe that Asian cultural thinking will have an important impact on the future. 4A’s aim is to ensure contemporary visual art plays a central role in understanding
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Para Site is pleased to announce the 2018 Workshops for Emerging Art Professionals, alongside the annual International Conference, which will take place on November 29 – December 1. In this fourth successive edition, we will work with a group of emerging curators, writers, critics, researchers, and other arts professionals from Hong Kong and abroad, through a series of
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The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize is a biennial prize. Now in its 6th year the prize started as The Northern Rivers Portrait Prize, a painting and drawing prize open to artists Australia wide whose artwork depicted a person from the Northern Rivers. It has since expanded to include portraits of any subject in any medium
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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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