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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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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