Tingting Li is from a new generation of Chinese artist, who is studying in Australia. Through the looking glass is based on this dual zone between China as her home and Australia as her current abode. Tingting’s research focuses on cultural dislocation and how it impacts on a sense of the fixity and disrupts identity. […]
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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 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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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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“When I paint it feels as though the verbal part of my brain goes quiet. Its like the pre-frontal cortex wakes up. What emerges usually surprises me. The painting unfolds itself as I watch on. Every action connects like a spider web or a network of fungus linking an entire forest. One thing affects the
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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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TWFINEART is pleased to announce the opening of Same Hero, New Boots by Jonni Cheatwood. Born in California, USA in 1986, Brazilian-American artist, Jonni Cheatwood currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He began painting while studying secondary education and film & media production at Arizona State University. Cheatwood describes his paintings as ‘Scumbags’, an
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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
Street artists from around the world gather in Brisbane to create 50 new large scale murals for the city. Street artists from near and afar will gather in Brisbane from 31 March to 15 April to transform walls into canvases and redefine the way people engage with public art during Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF)
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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 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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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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‘I carry your heart’ – is a new collection of urban artworks by Sarah Sculley. Jugglers Art Space will be taken over by a range of colourful and emotive artworks that explore a number of muses from the inside out. The collection aims to unite people from across the globe, from different backgrounds and beliefs
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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,
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
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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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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Since the early 1980s Carchesio has built a reputation for producing small-scale watercolours and minute sculpture. Playing with geometric patterns and figurative symbolism, through his subtle images Carchesio attempts to create an ontological space emptied of the clutter of everyday life, in which imagery from the subconscious can emerge. His considered placement of interlocking shapes
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A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist in Brazil. Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process. The route is comprised of poignant encounters with healers and sages from the Brazilian countryside, exploring the limits between art and spirituality. This external trip triggers
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Kenji Uranishi is a Japanese-born, Australian-based artist whose work draws upon the longstanding traditions of ceramics in Japanese art and culture. Kenji studied at the Nara College of Fine Arts and upon graduation, worked mostly with stoneware clay, exhibiting throughout Japan—from small gallery spaces to large municipal museums. Since moving to Australia in 2004, Kenji’s
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Painting and drawing from life, Ann Maree incorporates a contemporary aesthetic with a naturalists approach to realism and classically structured compositions. Conceptually she has an interest in classical philosophy, particularly the classical ‘transendentals’ – truth, beauty, goodness and unity. Echoing genre painting of the 17th century, this collection of contemporary still life and ‘domestic virtue’ paintings is
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Figurative artist Michael simms was awarded the Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, as well as the Cliftons Sydney Art Prize and the Cliftons People’s Choice Award. He has been a finalist in several major art awards, including the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, the Emerging Artists Award, the Calleen Art Award, the Contemporary Art Awards
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Conceptually driven, A Series of Predicted Events and Peculiar Statements (2017), draws inspiration from cassette and digital recordings of psychic readings held between 1993 and 2013. The works in this series offer allegorical interpretations of accurate predictions that came to fruition and statements that resonated with me. Highlighted predictions mark significant turning points in my life, while
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Leigh Schoenheimer lives and works in Brisbane and is a former long-term art educator. Iterate I Elaborate completes a trifecta of exhibitions on her current theme of interrogating ‘representation’ – the two prior shows being held at the Redland Art Gallery and more recently the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery. These connected exhibitions include both 2D paintings and
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The thing was that, not for the first time, I was away from someone I wanted to be with. The difference this time was that my feeling was not always that I wanted to be with this person. some days I wanted to be with them very much, and ached a little at their absence,
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Become a pro at setting up single- and multi-channel video and sound installations. This hands-on workshop covers the most common technical set-ups and practice know-how, including safety protocols and equipment maintenance. Join us to gain first-hand industry knowledge from artist and IMA Events Technician David M Thomas, who will run you through the insight required
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