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Pride and Prejudice: Gender Realities in the 21st Century

GENDER—perhaps the most essential aspect of one’s person— has transcended the binary ideas of the past, evolving into complex conceptions about identity and sexuality. While contemporary gender expression has created space for empowerment and freedoms for many, it remains confusing for some, wrong-headed for others, and a topic that is continually fascinating to the media. […]

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Waverley Art Prize

Entries in the 2018 Waverley Art Prize are open until Friday 18 May, with prizes totalling $12,000. Categories include oil, acrylic, mixed media, drawing, print making, the People’s Choice, Mayors and overall Waverley Art Prize. This year’s Judges are Adam Simms, Curatorial Director, Liverpool St Gallery & Marisa Purcell, artist. More details and application form here.

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Backspace Gallery

The Backspace Gallery is now accepting exhibition and curatorial proposals for the first half of 2019. An initiative of the City of Ballarat, Backspace Gallery offers space in the heart of the CBD Arts and Heritage Precinct, hosting exhibitions in all visual art mediums. We are seeking seeking proposals for exhibitions involving local / regional

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Maiwar Guided Art Tours

Explore the Maiwar outdoor Exhibition with the Maiwar curators on these 90-minute guided walking tours through Brisbane’s CBD! Tour starts in the Museum foyer at 10:30am on 4, 11, 14, 18, 21 and 26 April 2018. Free tour – booking required through Brisbane City Council website. Maiwar is a contemporary art program of First Nations’

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Levallois Prize for Young Photographers

The Prix Levallois jeune creation photographique internationale (Levallois Prize for young photographers) is an international competition open to young photographers under 35 years of age, of any nationality, organised each year by the city of Levallois in France. Call for entries for 2018 contest. Description The City of Levallois, France, organizes every year the Levallois Prize to

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ARCUS Project 2018 IBARAKI

The call for the Artist-in-Residence Program of ARCUS Project 2018 IBARAKI is now open!  The Artist-in-Residence Program of ARCUS Project aims to support the artistic activities of emerging artists from outside Japan, invited to develop a process-based project in Ibaraki during a residency from mid-August to mid-December 2018. The project was launched in 1994 by Ibaraki Prefectural

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PATRICIA PICCININI UP LATE

An eclectic line-up of musicians including Zola Jesus (USA), Lydia Lunch Retrovirus (USA) and Xylouris White (Melbourne) will take to the stage for the Patricia Piccinini Up Late program at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from 8 June to 6 July 2018. Across five Friday evenings, the Up Late experience combines the exclusive-to-GOMA exhibition ‘Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection’, with DJs, bands, bars, and

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Gentle Northerly: The Reimagined Queenslander

Gentle Northerly: The Reimagined Queenslander presents four much-loved homes in the Brisbane suburbs of Auchenflower, West End and New Farm, which have been thoughtfully reimagined by award-winning architects. The interiors of the original houses have been opened up and adapted to suit a contemporary lifestyle, resulting in bespoke dwellings that are intrinsically connected to the landscape.

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New Artists APT9

Major new works by artists Jonathan Jones (Australia), Aisha Khalid (Pakistan) and Iman Raad(Islamic Republic of Iran), as well as two projects involving more than 30 women artists from the Pacific, will be among the highlights of ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9) when it opens at the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) on 24

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Wells Art Contemporary

Artists are invited to submit works for the WAC Awards 2018 The Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) Awards is an international open competition for contemporary visual art which has already established a strong presence in the London art world and which is drawing artists from places as diverse as Australia, Azerbaijan, India, Italy, Korea, Japan and the United

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Visions in the Nunnery

Visions in the Nunnery is returning for its 11th edition to the Nunnery Gallery. A renowned showcase of recent moving image and performance work, Visions aims to offer an international overview of the challenging and thoughtful uses of these ever shifting mediums. Shown across three monthly programmes, each led by an invited artist, this is an opportunity to

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La Wayaka Current

La Wayaka Current, artist-led initiative will offer a fully funded place on one of our our upcoming expeditions into one of the richest biomes on our planet. This is an opportunity to research + develop a new project through our program at TROPIC 08 º N, our isolated base immersed in nature alongside rainforest +

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people+artist+place

people+artist+place is a new arts initiative that aims to stimulate and support the production of socially-engaged, participatory and site-specific art in Brisbane. Facilitating projects that expand community perceptions of art in public space, we embrace the ability contemporary art has, to enhance, critique and celebrate the places we live in. Producing innovative and accessible projects in the public realm,

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Athene Currie

Athene Currie’s most recent video work RED (2017) screened at The Queensland College of Art’s (QCA) White Studio, February 2018. Currie’s move toward video installation developed in her final years as honours student in photography at QCA (2000). Currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Currie has developed a broad portfolio of exceptional still and

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PhotoX Awards

PhotoX 2018 is produced by ArtGemini Prize, a global art prize promoting international contemporary art by emerging and established artists worldwide. For the past 5 years, we have been organsing art competitions with huge success. The 2017 edition attracted over 1200 entries from 39 countries worldwide. For more information please visit the – Website

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Derwent Art Prize

Derwent, internationally renowned fine art brand, are proud to announce that the fourth instalment of the Derwent Art Prize is now open for entries. The Derwent Art Prize was conceived in 2012 and aims to reward excellence by showcasing the very best artworks created in pencil by British and International artists. From the submitted artworks, approximately eighty

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Archibald Prize

The Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales invite artists to submit paintings in competition for the Archibald Prize 2018. The prize will be awarded, in the terms of the will of the late JF Archibald dated 15 March 1916, to the best portrait ‘preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art,

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Intellectual Property Masterclass with Alana Kushnir

This masterclass on intellectual property for arts professionals focuses on the basics of copyright protection, licensing and enforcement in Australia. Led by Director of Guest Work Agency, freelance curator and lawyer Alana Kushnir, the session has been specifically designed for those who work within arts organisations. Art-related legislation and court judgments will be discussed, as

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WAKE UP SCREAMING #9

The next edition of Wake up screaming will invite artists to respond to the theme “The Great Outdoors. The edition will celebrate the arrival of the Equinox and Spring, in the Northern hemisphere. We will celebrate the outdoors in all its forms: Nature, space, flora, fauna, walking, landscape, blossom, bark, bugs, exploration, discovery, learning, walking

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Paul Guest Drawing Prize

Image: Peter Grziwotz, Study as St Jerome for a self-portrait 2016, charcoal on paper, Courtesy of the artist. Winner Paul Guest Prize 2016 The Paul Guest Prize is a non-acquisitive cash prize of $15,000 which is held biennially, highlighting contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge and Olympic rower, the Honourable

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PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE

PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE was born with the purpose of investigating the most interesting ideas in international contemporary art. The name COMBAT draws its conceptual inspiration from combat films, videos shot by American military cameramen during World War II battles. Combat films, often shot on the frontline and live, filmed the horrors of the war to

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Artlands Victoria – Call for Papers and Presentations

“Sharing knowledge, trading resources and exchanging gifts at a time of ceremony and gathering…” Artlands Victoria, Australia’s largest regional arts gathering, will be located in the heart of central Victoria in the City of Greater Bendigo and Mount Alexander Shire from 10 – 14 October, 2018. Designed as a multi-art, cross industry, inter-generational event, Artlands Victoria

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Textile Art of Today

Triennial of Textile, without borders, the civic association announces the 5th edition of the international art project Textile Art of Today 2018. Call for submissions of textile artworks for the event, opening in Bratislava, Slovakia in September 2018. The exhibition will tour to venues in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in 2018-19. Textile Art

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MMCA International Research Fellowship

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea (MMCA) hosts an international research program for museum professionals aged 25-45, including curators, conservators and educators. Call is open to eligible applicants (including professionals from Asia and Eastern Europe) for the July-November 2018 fellowship. This program was initiated as a part of the Cultural Partnership

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Brisbane Airport Awards

Queensland College of Art (QCA) Master of Visual Art student Michael Phillips has won a commission to create an epic 90 metre floor to ceiling art work for the expansion of Brisbane Airport’s International Terminal northern departures concourse. Believed to be the most lucrative student art prize ever offered in Australia, Brisbane Airport’s competition was

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MELT Portrait Prize

Now in its third year, the MELT Portrait Prize is an opportunity for visual artists across the globe to celebrate their heroes in the LGBTI+ Community. During MELT a selection of shortlisted artworks submitted by artists from Brisbane and beyond will be exhibited in the annual MELT Portrait Prize, with the overall winner to be

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FlockArt Call Out

Hands on Art is piloting FlockArt this year. It intends to give small groups and individuals an affordable platform to explore and present concepts of interest. Please contact us at artistregistry@handsonart.org.au for an application form. For more information please visit the website – www.handsonart.org.au

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Australian Collection

An exciting reimagining of the Australian collection opens this spring.  Our curators, along with Director Chris Saines, have taken this rare opportunity to re-present the Gallery’s Australian art holdings, collected for more than 120 years, in new and innovative ways. The reconfigured spaces capture major historical moments from first contact to colonisation, and exploration to immigration.

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