An exploration of the painting process, On Painting, draws together new paintings that investigate the working methods of some the world’s artistic greats, including Velázquez and Sargent. “In 1435 the Italian architect and art theorist Leon Battista Alberti published his pioneering treatise on the theory and practice of art called ‘Della Pittura’ (On Painting). It […]
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“Our relationship to clothing is intimate, something intuitive and deeply established within cultures all over the world. However, our understanding of how we form meaningful relationships with what we wear is ambiguous and inadequately discussed.” The exhibition examines the face of throw-away fashion culture and cyclical, trend-driven clothing production, focusing on the notion of the
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Six experimental paintings that investigate an awareness of an ‘artificial horizon’ and the consequences of spatial disorientation when a smartphone screen is used to view landscape. I question if no horizon line or perspective exists within contemporary landscape painting then where are we and what defines landscape? Artist: Karen Stephens Opening: Friday 4th May, 6pm
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As we are confronted with the realities of a future in which artificial intelligence, robotics and advances in biotechnology are commonplace, how do we navigate our ethical obligations to both our fellow humans, and our creations? The lively evening discussion program GOMA Talks returns during ‘Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection’ #PiccininiGOMA. Across two events, join special guest
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“In the sonic network series I use a set of mathematical intervals to compose the paintings which are relative to a symmetrical grid on each of the four canvases. This drawing that I use as a reference point to compose my paintings, is akin to an algorithm or “musical score”. This allows me to improvise
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Lix North’s eccentric, hyperrealist self portraits explore her own internal landscape and its reflection in the world around her. Laced with metaphor, augmented with ornate detail and a hint of satire, her portraits juxtapose the commonplace with the wonderfully strange. Ever technically explorative, Lix is particularly fond of the interplay between elements of intense detail
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TWFINEART is pleased to announce the opening of The Post Digital Mark, featuring works by Fran O’Neill, Chris Trueman & Carlson Hatton. In 20 years digital technologies have significantly altered our reality. Retina displays, generative programming, interactive algorithms and web interconnectivity have added remarkable sophistication to our entertainment, work & communication devices and this technological
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Join Milani Gallery for a premiere performance of new open piano and waveform sound work by Ross Manning.
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Crush this City is a group showcase of exhibitable works by local graffiti/street artists, along with a number of interstate and international artists with connections to Crush City and the Brisbane street art festival. It will run for two weeks at Urban Paradise Gallery in Annerley and will be opened with BBQ Burners; an afternoon
Born at Titjikala with parents from Erldunda and Aputula (formerly known as Finke) regions, Sally Nangala Mulda went to school at Amoonguna when her family moved there. She married and had her only child as a young woman but tragically lost both her husband and baby daughter. After losing the use of her left arm in a
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Light Conversation is an exhibition of new work by artists Victoria Wareham and Fiona West. Taking light as its primary focus, this exhibition aims to create narratives between the studio outputs of these two practitioners to investigate haptic relationships to light, space and the moving image. Consisting of large perforated static cling window vinyls, a
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Liberté explores both real and imagined connections and disconnections between French high-wire artist Philippe Petit and sculptor Auguste Rodin. Across painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, the works draw parallels between the two creatives, while simultaneously exploring their use of framing, the body and strategically creating specific viewpoints to experience their work. Libertépresents seemingly disparate fragments which work to create new
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Emerging Brisbane based artist Claudia Greathead will present a series of new paintings in her upcoming solo exhibition, Round and Round. Painterly enigmas and strange narratives characterise her imagery, which has emerged from old and recent family photographs, travel, and her singular journey. Round and Round refers to Greathead’s recent period of self-reflection and her
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Using a range of media, including works on paper, video, light and sound, Sandra Selig creates subtle works from commonplace materials such as paper, string, sewing thread and phosphorescent paint. Her work often investigates concepts of intangibility and the unseen, with her evocative site-specific installations in particular revealing a myriad of nuanced complexities around the
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The exhibition Trajects surveys the past six years of prints by Honolulu based printmaker Charles Cohan. The title refers to the various visual and conceptual routes that Cohan has investigated since 2012, and reflects an interest in a specific range of content developed though traditional hand printmaking media. The prints are composed as differing sets
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Nine female artists/artist collectives challenge visual tropes of Asian women. The works playfully examine race, gender, and societal expectations, and their continued objectification and exoticism in popular media. Artists include: Mihyun Kang Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau Pixy Liao Janelle Low Andy Mullens Ma Quisha Sancintya Mohini Simpson Sad Asian Girls Zoe Wong and Curated by
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Join Tom Nicholson and Dale Harding in conversation as they discuss their respective practices, histories present in their work, and their shared exploration of methods of wall drawing. In Nicholson’s work, the line is a tool for writing, drawing and redrawing borders, evoking little known histories and intersections, and expanding into the space of possibility
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The phrase “lucky country” is the base-point from which these works grew. I was grateful and relieved to find that Donald Horne, the man who first coined this famous phrase in 1964, was ironically condemning Australia for its complacency and failure to acknowledge its history. The work comprises three parts: The first part, entitled Unlucky
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In the largest solo exhibition of his career to date, leading contemporary Australian artist Archie Moore will present a new commission at Griffith University Art Museum from 8 March – 21 April 2018. Curated by Griffith University Art Museum Director Angela Goddard, Archie Moore: 1970 – 2018 takes the form of a multi-room installation based
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Painting provides a medium for the narratives of our thoughts and experiences, feelings and emotions, to become visible o ering opportunities for re ection. Drawing upon the traditions of still life and portraiture this exhibition brings together two artists who celebrate looking as a method for understanding life. As visual artists they record, interpret and
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Pablo Picasso’s ‘Vollard Suite’ is a set of 100 etchings, engravings and aquatints created by the artist in the 1930s and named after Ambroise Vollard, his sometime art dealer and publisher. It contains several themes that were close to Picasso’s heart – principally the classically derived subjects of the Minotaur (the man–beast) and Pygmalion (the
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An exhibition of new work. Courtney Coombs makes art, writes, facilitates and collaborates to try to make sense of the world and their place in it. They respond to the cis-heteronormative, patriarchal structures of both the art world and society using strategies such as subjective voice, personal narrative, vulnerability, humour and metaphor. Coombs is suspicious
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Ross Manning creates kinetic sculptures made from everyday unpretentious materials such as domestic fans, fluorescent lights, household twine and electronics. Revealing both the construction and materials in his installations, Manning playfully dissects overlooked technologies to produce hypnotic exchanges between light, sound and movement. Opening event: Saturday 24 March, 11am-1pm IMAGE: Ross Manning, Ambient Painting (detail), 2018, acrylic, stainless
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Join internationally acclaimed artist Danie Mellor as he reflects on his Natura Pacifica series for Life in Irons in conversation with Museum of Brisbane Director Renai Grace. His work delivers us vignette-style glimpses of lush idyllic subtropical landscapes. But all is not well. Shadows of colonisers and the colonised haunt these landscapes. The familiar blue
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Brisbane Street Art Festival returns in 2018 bigger and better than ever before with over 55 pieces being created by some of the best street art talent from Australia and beyond. Running from March 31st – April 15th, the festival will bring some serious wow factor in the form of live murals, exhibitions, workshops, live
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The Conspirator is a professionally-printed, full-colour, 272-page book by House Conspiracy. The anthology features every single one of the 90+ artists we’ve hosted as residents throughout our first year of programming. All their work is beautifully displayed through an array photographs, interviews and essays that come together to form a holistic image of what happened
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This free screening, ‘Memory Jackets’ draws on three studies of terror forensics to examine how both media and society are steeped in voyeuristic tendencies and narrative bias. Presented in partnership with Queensland Film Festival, see three short films introduced by Dr Suzannah Fay-Ramirez of the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. Fay-Ramirez’s
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in a city full of concrete that never misses a beat do we really understand what is beneath our feet? beside a river that shapes us to do what it pleases, do we really know what to do with all of life’s pieces? on a small patch of grass beneath a bridge’s lanes, do we
Onespace is very excited to present our latest exhibition by nationally acclaimed artist Brian Robinson. Elixir – blended cosmologies comprises a selection of recent linocuts, and etchings, in addition to a major work – a four-metre wall sculpture, Containment of the seven seas. Elixir – blended cosmologies is presented in association with Mossenson Galleries (Subiaco). Robinson is a highly celebrated Indigenous artist
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A solo exhibition showcasing Aboriginal artworks that portray stories relating to the ancient ritual of the spear straightening ceremony will open at Mitchell Fine Art on April 4th, 2018. Mitjili Napurrula, a Pintupi artist from Central Australia paints ‘Watiya Juta’ the Desert Acacia, a source material for Aboriginal spear making and the central motif in her father’s dreaming – the
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Surprising, vivid and revealing. The Ground Truth immersive media exhibition brings to life satellite imagery of the Greater Brisbane Region, the Channel Country and Cape York to show us how humans and nature are changing the environment we live in. Step forwards and backwards through time and sound for an interactive journey through some of Queensland’s most cyclical and
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The IMA and Room40 present MONO 26, with Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh, with Aki Onda. Between them both, Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh chart out the most ferocious and compelling aspects of improvised music. Their union of Tenor Sax and Pedal Steel Guitar is a thing of great beauty, intensity and physicality. They are joined by
hard light aims to look at how reductive forms and un foreclosed aesthetics could be used as an open field to enact queer politics. Alongside this there is a focus on the performativity of large works and the idea that scale can initiate bodily relations with objects. The work takes from conversations held at the
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Un/comfortable Bodies proposes art as an in/hospitable space for female embodiment, drawing on manifestations of the uncanny, the shadow, and the ghostly. Through inquiry into the sensorial field of clay, distinctions between artwork and the artist are blurred. Interior and exterior, animate and inanimate, body and corpus no longer solidify into common everyday reality. Un/comfortable
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Recombinant Images presents work from Blair Coffey’s PhD candidature from 2015-2018. The sequencing of Coffey’s genome in 2015 has provided a catalyst to explore important correspondence between the visual image and genetic technologies. The exhibition will open on Friday, 4th May at 10am with the official opening event taking place later that evening. Webb Gallery, QCA, 226
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SBS’s Untold Australia VR immerses audiences at the heart of Torres Strait Islander stories SBS’s Digital Creative Labs have today released the final Untold Australia VR (virtual reality) immersive experiences, Every King Tide and A Thin Black Line, which bring to life two diverse Torres Strait Islander stories. Every King Tide explores the community of
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