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A Fan Art Exhibition

Crowbar invites you, the community – to participate in our first FAN ART EXHIBITION celebrating our universal love for TV shows, music and movies. You can submit anything from your favourite TV shows, bands or movies from ‘Rick & Morty’ to ‘Jimmy Barnes’, ‘Stranger Things’ to ‘Violent Soho’. The original artworks will be hanging for […]

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The 35th Telstra NATSIAA

As Australia’s longest running and most prestigious Indigenous art awards, Telstra NATSIAA captures the attention of the nation. Each year sees an increasing variety of art forms and mediums, collectively demonstrating the richness and diversity of current contemporary Indigenous artistic practice. The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), with the support of

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HIDDEN: Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk 2018

HIDDEN – A Rookwood Sculpture Walk is an outdoor sculpture exhibition that provides artists with the opportunity to showcase their work in Australia’s most historic and culturally significant cemetery. Rookwood Cemetery is interested in exhibiting works that respond to the themes surrounding the Rookwood site, such as history, culture, remembrance and love. We are also

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The Night Watch

Check out an exciting collection of contemporary screen-based artworks that playfully depict life on the Gold Coast. Taking its name from a famous 16th century Rembrandt painting, THE NIGHT WATCH is a modern rekindling of the much-loved Gold Coast tradition of the Sunday night beachside gathering.   The project explores the act of ‘night watching’

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Steel: art design architecture

Today steel is one of the most ubiquitous materials in the world. It inhabits the landscape of our bodies, our domestic spaces and our built environments. A material that ranges from raw and functional to lustrous and decorative – steel blurs the boundary between utilitarian and precious. STEEL: art design architecture explores innovative and outstanding

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Justin Garnsworthy: Smashed Tack

Justin Garnsworthy’s inaugural solo exhibition at the Webb Gallery comprises of large-scale digital print works on aluminium composite panels. Blurring distinctions between process and product, analogue and digital; Garnsworthy confounds viewer’s certainties about optical perception. Each work in the exhibition has undergone a series of actions that are thought of as methods of Alchemy pertaining

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Side Gallery: Artist and Curators Call Out

Side Gallery is currently seeking applications from artist and curators to exhibit as part of the 2018/19 program. Side Gallery is a small curated space adjacent to design agency Designfront, in Red Hill, Brisbane. The owner, Designfront Director Leesa Hickey, is passionate about providing opportunities for emerging and established artists, illustrators, photographers and designers to show their work as

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The Beautiful Game

Two giant footballs, a roaming field and a surreal landscape of boulders and cakes: step up Brisbane and play The Beautiful Game. With a nod to the unruly, medieval origins of the world’s most popular sport, this participatory game invites women and non-binary people to get fierce and step onto the field. In celebration of

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World Science Festival

Hailed by The New York Times as ‘a new cultural institution’, the World Science Festival – founded by renowned Physicist Professor Brian Greene and Emmy award-winning journalist Tracy Day – has been held annually in New York for a decade. World Science Festival explores and celebrates the entanglement of science and art through a curated program of

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The Commute

In 2018 the IMA has invited five Indigenous curators from across the Great Ocean to develop a series of exhibitions and programs in collaboration with indigenous artists. The group will share recent work, discuss their project, ‘The Commute’, and announce the commissioned artists featured in the project this September-December. The Commute is developed by Sarah

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Artiz Innovation at The Edge

Join us at The Edge, State Library of Queensland for this unique art intensive! Explore areas of cutting-edge artistic practice blending art, science and technology. Learn about innovative materials, and experiment with groundbreaking approaches to art making. Participants will take a guided tour of The Edge, State Library of Queensland before delving into an exciting

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J Valenzuela Didi: Shrine of the Lost Suburban

J Valenzuela Didi uses urban spaces and metropolitan landscapes to explore the transience of life.  A detached sense of isolation and impermanence is discovered within his portrayals of Queensland houses in his latest exhibition, ‘Shrine of the lost suburban’. “Houses tell stories.  They stir memories of days long-forgotten.  They serve as functional monuments, solitary observers

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Judith Wright: Reminiscence

Reminiscence reflects on Judith Wright’s inspirational life in this centenary year of her birth by bringing together a new body of work by mixed-media artist, Fiona Rafferty, and ceramicist, Frances Smith. After a year in their respective studios, with abundant inspiration from time spent at Wright’s former home on Mount Tambourine, the resulting work is focused

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Callum McGrath: River Torrens

Callum McGrath’s River Torrens, was filmed on the banks of the Torrens River in Adelaide, at the exact site where gay academic Dr George Duncan was murdered in 1972. Duncan’s alleged murder by three police officers—who were never charged—was a catalyst for homosexual law reform in Australia. McGrath uses his work to mediate his cultural inheritance of

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RePAINTING

Artists : Barbara Penrose, Nameer Davis, Sally Cox . Three artists who have been discussing art and art making for many years while working in different mediums come together with an exhibition exploring  paint and the values of its transformative possibilities. Commonalities in their work include an interest in repetition and its rupture, a play of

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Ross Manning: Dissonant Rhythms

Dissonant Rhythms is the first survey exhibition from Brisbane-based artist and musician, Ross Manning. The exhibition features sculptures that include repurposed ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead projectors. Propelled by electricity and their own kinetic forces, Manning’s sonic and luminous works have put him at the forefront of national and international art. A travelling exhibition organised

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Home: The art of Ian Strange

Attend this special viewing of the film Home: The Art of Ian Strange and afterwards be part of an intimate conversation with Ian Strange. Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home, alongside broader themes of disenfranchisement within the urban environment. His practice includes large-scale multifaceted projects resulting in

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Exhibit with QCA Galleries

QCA Galleries are now accepting proposals for exhibitions at POP Gallery, Webb Gallery, Project Gallery and the White Box Gold Coast Gallery from September 2018 – January 2019. All related documents, including the application form, can be found online at http://griffith.edu.au/qcagalleries Please take the time to read through our terms and conditions before applying.  Submissions will close on

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IMA Talks: David Elliott

Hear from British art historian, curator, writer and teacher, David Elliott, at the IMA as part of the 21st Biennale of Sydney’s ‘Biennale Archive Stories’. Elliott will share his experiences as a prolific director of galleries and biennales, including the 17th Biennale of Sydney. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain an insight into how some

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Art Handling Workshops

Join Art Museum staff for a fun and informative workshop for art students and art-loving members of the public. Our Art Handling Workshops will cover a range of basic art work installation and transportation methods, including: – Basic art work handling, including works on paper, sculptural objects, and framed art works. – Industry appropriate tools

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Ally Mckay: Taut

Systems of support make for precarious object interactions in Ally McKay’s exhibition Taut. Objects are assembled in tentative arrangements, expected – somehow- to support each other against inescapable physical forces. Taut invites us into a beautiful balancing act between tension, failure and endurance. It’s an act we have all at some point been familiar with.

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Queer College of Art + SOSO

S0S0 ♡ QueerCollegeOfArt A collaborative collection of essays on artistic intersections with queer culture + tech + futurism + intersectional feminism + digital agency.  The aim of this project, and it’s collected library of texts, is to improve the accessibility of catalytic works and ideas, and to help foster an open and nuanced dialogue through safe,

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Bulgaria – CLICK international residency for curators

Art Affairs and Documents Foundation, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria and Credo Bonum Gallery are pleased to announce the launch of CLICK – an international residency programme for curators. The programme provides 5-weeks-long residency in the city of Sofia to emerging curators. The residency covers accommodation, a fee and budget for the production of an exhibition or other

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Critical Animals

Callout for artist proposals from individuals and groups to participate in Critical Animals 2018 – this year our theme is Give & Take. Critical Animals is a festival celebrating emerging and experimental practices that is part of THIS IS NOT ART (TiNA) held from 27-30 September in Newcastle, NSW. In the past, we’ve held panels, workshops, installations, roving performances,

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C A B A L

C A B A L is a group of artists united in the creation of art driven from the urban perspective, distilled in the outer zone and tempered by the inner storm. This show will include a truly varied mix of painted, drawn and printed imagery from makers who are known in underground circles for

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Michael Cook: Invasion

I NVASION As a small boy [Woorrady1] had been transfixed by the sight of the French ships floating in from the ocean, and disgorging onto the land strange creatures just like the returned dead who had been drained of colour by the rigours of their journey. He watched as they walked about to collect water

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Grania Kelly: Ground Truth

Ground Truth – Fire, Flood and Human Endeavour, is inspired by the science of remote sensing: using data from satellites, airborne sensors and ground-based platforms to map and monitor vast landscapes and how they change over time. This exhibition is a unique collaboration by new media artist Grania Kelly with Queensland Government remote sensing scientists and visualisation experts

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