Recycled Narratives is an exhibition of contemporary jewellery and objects created by Elizabeth Shaw between 2012 and 2018. Many of the pieces have been exhibited internationally and this is the first time they have been shown together. Individually and collectively the works trace Shaw’s interest in simple mechanics, repair, found objects and the narratives evoked […]
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Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced by undergraduate students in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Photography and Fine Art. These artists and works have been nominated for invitation by Academic Staff and Program Directors as exemplary of QCA’s high standards of material inquiry
In this extra special drawing event, Archie Moore will be joined by his former life drawing teacher Nameer Davis to explore the human form within the domestic environment. With Moore as model and Davis as facilitator, participants will be encouraged to experiment with environment and negative space. This class will begin with a guided tour
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Please join us for the restaging of Clive Murray-White’s ‘Smokework’ (previously titled ‘Smokebomb sculpture’) 1971 on the lawn in front of the Forgan-Smith Tower, adjacent to the UQ Art Museum. ‘Smokework’ was originally presented at The University of Queensland in an event sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society of Queensland. The artwork was an early
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Experience a one-of-a-kind live magic demonstration that conjures up the sleight-of-hand routinely used by actors on the financial market, performed by magician Malin Nilsson. For the past seven years artist duo Goldin+Senneby has worked with Swedish magician Nilsson to produce work that helps us recognise that financial trading is analogous to magic– indeed the mechanisms
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‘In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance’ by Professor Amelia Jones. Feminist curator, theorist and historian of art and performance ‘In Between Subjects’ performs a critical genealogy of how “queer” and “performance” have interrelated since the 1950s in art discourse and practice in US and other Anglophone cultures. The paper (and the forthcoming book
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Less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women, and this gender imbalance has a profound effect on Wikipedia’s content. Join us for an afternoon of raising our digital voices and changing the stats. We will provide assistance and refreshments. Please bring your laptops, power cords and ideas for entries on women artists that need updating.
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See a live performance in the gallery of Amalia Pica‘s work, ‘In alphabetical order (Catalogue of great ape gestures)’ (2018), choreographed with and performed by dancer Michael Smith. In this piece, dancer Michael Smith interprets gestures used by great apes to intentionally communicate to one another. Taking the ‘St Andrews Catalogue of great ape gestures’
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Queensland State Archives welcomes the first ever Artist in Residence, Matt Mawson, on Thursday 1 March 2018. The Queensland cartoonist and illustrator has been invited to create new works in response to the upcoming exhibition surrounding the release of the 1987 Cabinet Minutes, Sunshine Rebooted: the final Bjelke-Petersen Cabinet Minutes. Matt is a Gold Coast
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Absolute Humidity is a volume that aims to re-position conversations about the climate, weather and the environment by placing artist’s voices at the centre of the discussion. The publication focuses on contemporary artists from the Asia-Pacific region, including twenty-eight new conversations and other contributions that form a new constellation of inquiries. Through this project, contributors
International artist James Turrell’s major architectural light installation commissioned to illuminate the façade of Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), will launch from 7pm on Friday 20 April, 2018. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines today confirmed the eastern and southern façades of GOMA – one of Queensland and
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Protégé represents a fresh initiative, extending representation of young or emerging artists, while maintaining the gallery’s aesthetic, to provide a new level of opportunity for clients. Gallery director Jan Murphy has selected artists on the basis of their achievements and the potential in their developing practices. The gallery will offer work by selected artists through
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On behalf of the European Commission, Ars Electronica in collaboration with BOZAR and Waag Society is issuing an open call for entries to a competition that will determine the third recipients of STARTS Prize, prestigious and—with two €20,000 prizes—highly endowed awards. Expressly encouraged are innovative projects at the interface of science, technology and art. Science, Technology and Arts (=STARTS) form a nexus
The Moreton Bay Region Art Awards is a permanent event in the cultural landscape of the region, and has featured many prominent and emerging artists. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the event. As an annual exhibition proudly presented by the Moreton Bay Regional Council, the art awards offer two acquisitive prizes of $7,500
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One of the many aspects of the contemporary art world that goes unspoken is what artists do for ‘work’. Unless an artist is in a professional or academic position in a university, a full-time practitioner or their work directly relates to their practice, details of what they do when they’re not making art are rarely
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Artists, Collectives & Curators: Applications are now open to exhibit with First Coat Studios in 2018. Spaces are available in the Main Gallery and Project Space between April – September. To apply for a three week exhibition, please provide: • Exhibition bio (no more than 500 words) • Artist CV • Examples of previous work
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Applications are currently being invited for Ignite Studio @ NRCG 2018 Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program Ignite Studios @ NRCG is an extension of the Northern Rivers Community Gallery (NRCG), a community-engaged cultural hub in the Northern Rivers region, owned and operated by Ballina Shire Council. The Ignite Studios @ NRCG AiR program provides a single artist time and space to expand on
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Each year, the World Illustration Awards invite entries through an open call. Projects in any media can be entered into eight categories and can be submitted as either Professional entries, or as New Talent for work by students or recent graduates. The Awards receive over 2,000 entries from 60+ countries, showcasing the breadth of illustration being made around
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Eyeline is a contemporary art magazine which publishes criticism and analysis of contemporary art, craft and related media. It is recognised for the quality of its writing, ideas and visual style, its extensive coverage and wide readership. In a unique content mix, Eyeline brings together exhibition and book reviews, artist interviews and monographs, specialist columns
Since 1993, FireWorks Gallery has been located in four spaces throughout Brisbane: George Street, CBD 1993-1995; Ann Street, Fortitude Valley 1995-2001; followed by Stratton Street 2002-2007 and later Doggett Street 2007-2018 (both in Newstead). Director Michael Eather comments that “the ongoing curatorial theme underpinning the gallery’s exhibition program and associated projects remains the desire to
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Utilising handmade dyes and pigments from natural materials, Lawrie’s experimental and naïve works are a dialogue between permanence and impermanence, creating a quiet personal engagement with mortality. Subtleties of flowers and natural imagery, such as scent and symbolism, are harnessed to express the vulnerability of the body to time; represent comforting or familiar greater forces;
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Amalia Pica’s two-part exhibition will begin with recently made works that respond to the artist’s 2014 residency at the Gashaka Gumti National Park in the rainforest of Nigeria. Pica’s practice often explores communication, misunderstanding, translation and listening. This trajectory takes on a new subject through her experience observing the lives of chimpanzees in Nigeria. Pica’s fascination
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Discover one man’s incredible journey from poverty to world-famous artist in this exclusive Museum of Brisbane exhibition. Features never-before-seen interviews, performance footage and personal artefacts in an intimate portrait of a contemporary Australian icon. Born into bitter poverty during the height of Mao’s Communist China, Li Cunxin grew up in a world few of us
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Mitchell Fine Art launches its 2018 exhibition calendar with the annual group exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’. Curated from the gallery collection, Director Mike Mitchell has carefully selected artworks from various artists, showcasing some of the galleries finest works. Comprised primarily of artworks by represented artists, the exhibition includes new paintings from two artists recently added to the gallery’s
Join us for the second of our Drawing at the Art Museum events. Date: Wednesday 21 February 2018 Time: 6 – 8.30pm Cost: $15.00 per person Location: Griffith University Art Museum Face off against your drawing buddy in this special class facilitated by Dr Julie Fragar—one of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists. Participants will be paired
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Chiaroscuro is the renaissance term for the contrast of light and shadow and is the theme used to celebrate World Bipolar Day at RQAS. This exhibition which will raise awareness for Bipolar Disorder and mental health, will include speech from Anne Naylor author of “Art from Adversity: a life with Bipolar”, live music and nibbles. There will
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WE’RE OPENING OUR INBOX TO EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO WORK WITH THE CULPRIT CLUB IN 2019. THIS INCLUDES EOIS AND PITCHES FOR EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS, LAUNCH PARTIES AND BRAND COLLABORATIONS AS WELL AS OUR IN-HOUSE ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM. TO MAKE THINGS EASY FOR YOU, WE’VE MADE A QUICK, SIMPLE ONLINE FORM THAT YOU CAN FILL OUT TO
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The Brisbane Portrait Prize is a new and distinctive cultural offering for Brisbane with a $50,000 first prize, showcasing the best in contemporary portraiture and celebrating the character of the city and those who make it what it is. The winning portrait every year will be acquired for the permanent collection. A new opportunity for
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Artist Anne Scott Wilson draws on 30 years of live performance and exhibitions to explore the relationship between movement and meaning. Her works meditate on the years of strenuous practice and endurance dancers undertake relative to their brief moments of glory as a performer. Scott Wilson studied ballet as a child in Brisbane. Her first
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For the past ten years, Goldin+Senneby has used methods and tools inspired by the financial sector to illuminate and subvert our late-capitalist system. The IMA is pleased to present the second iteration of their mutating retrospective, Standard Length of a Miracle, which premiered at Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, last year. Responding to the challenge of mounting a retrospective in Australia
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For the very first time, Noel McKenna’s fifteen-year project of large ‘Map’ paintings are presented in full. The series takes a marvellous approach to ordering the contents of Australia along ingenious themes such as public swimming pools, dangerous animals and butterflies. With a wonderful wit, these works overlook the redundancy of physical maps in our
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UQ Art Museum is pleased to present two film works, drawn from large-scale multimedia installations, that explore new possibilities in literary and art criticism. Creative, collaborative, and highly experimental, Simon Palfrey’s Demons Land: a poem come true (2016) and Mieke Bal’s Reasonable Doubt (2015) take up the traditional tasks of arts criticism and scholarship – to interpret and evaluate
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Onespace is pleased to commence our 2018 Program with Penumbra – an exhibition comprising recent works on paper, artist’s books and photographic documentation of recent live collaborative performances by Zoe Porter. Penumbra brings together a curated selection of works on paper produced over the last twelve to eighteen months. These intriguing works explore various in-between
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The National Self-Portrait Prize is a $50,000 invitation only, biennial prize. Previous winners include Ben Quilty (2007), Julie Rrap (2009), Domenico de Clario (2011), Nell (2013) and Fiona McMonagle (2015). 2017 ARTISTS Davida Allen | Robert Brain | Vicky Browne | Scott Chaseling | Karla Dickens | Julie Fragar | Will French | Helen Fuller
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Join Jane Milburn in store as she shares her approach to thoughtful clothing choices, as written about in her self-published book: ‘Slow clothing. Finding meaning in what we wear’, soon to be available at Artisan. Jane calls us to create our own clothing from the resources we have on hand by repurposing, sewing and hand
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is an international phenomenon. Her beguiling creations and unique perspective, irrepressibly expressed across a career of more than 60 years, have made her a pre-eminent figure in 21st century contemporary art. A focused survey of Kusama’s vast body of work since the 1950s, ‘Life is the Heart of a Rainbow’ explores
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