Join us for the launch of Steel: art design architecture at QUT Art Museumwith a panel discussion hosted by Exhibition Curator Margaret Hancock Davis, Senior Curator at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide. Dating back 4000 years, the era of mass steel production began in the 19th century and today steel is one of the most pervasive materials in […]
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Love and Other Crimes proudly brings you the first installment of LaOC community arts events. This fundraising exhibition is a cultural conversation of queer arts in contemporary Australia and as a response to our current political environment. Featuring the artworks, zines plus more of over 30 Australian artist plus a very special live performance by
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The Culprit Club is excited to announce our first exhibition of 2018, ‘ALPHABET SOUP’. This highly anticipated A-Z art show will feature 26 local, interstate and international artists, each selected for their style, strength and skill in typography and letter formation including: MERDA, SCOTT MARSH, JOEL BIRCH, PHIBS, MAIDE, CALLUM PRESTON, JIMMY NICE, MUCHOS, KISS,
Iranian artist, Moji Khakbaz invites us to consider: “You are reading her story.She is seeing it through your eyes.You watch her expressing herself, she sees you being you, you are she, and she is you. You are reading her story from your face. You are a part of her story and you can influence and
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The rationale driving the work in this exhibition is a consideration of the effects of human-induced global warming on the environment. Both artists approach their investigations through an interest in the nature of the ‘material’ and through conceptual processes that explore ways in which to visually respond to the subject matter. The meeting point for
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Mieke Bal: Standing Outside the Center: Ecstasy as a Political Act Taking my starting point from the dialogue between Louise Bourgeois’ bronze Arch of Hysteria and Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, I will argue that ecstasy, especially in response to artworks, is a political act in the sense in which I propose that
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Self Storage and the Really Real looks at ways we authenticate experience and store memory in object and place. The work’s hero items and landscapes, which hold significant memories from a specific place and time, such as hydrangeas from my childhood home or my friend’s mother, shells from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Norfolk Pines from
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The realities we have are diverse. Defining and describing it will depend on who you talk to at any given time. This group of postgraduate adventurers are delving deep into themselves to bring you visions of realities that are as distinctive and individual as a fingerprint. We want our visitors to leave questioning their own perception, engage
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Wreckers Artspace proudly presents: TOBACCO ROSE/COW ITCH by Sally Molloy. “fold up horse – I mean crocodile – person on dunes is floating not-really-running in a blank space, and the glowing eyes of feral felines peer out over prickly shapes in the middle distance that gesture toward a deflated bunyip tail, it is sturdy tho’
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United by a passion for painting, twelve artists respond to the exhibition theme, Green, according to their own personal style and interpretation. Green, as a word, has a variety of connotations including growing, developing and flourishing. Artwork in the exhibition may be inspired by colour, environmental or metaphorical associations with the word. Join us at
Maverick Art Space is proud to present an exhibition by Andy Harwood titled; Incremental Structure. Andy Harwood is a Brisbane based artist focusing on non-representational mathematical geometric painting. Opening Night: Saturday 17th February / 6-9PM Maverick Website: www.maverick.net.au/art-space
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Twin Palms is a culmination of William Mackinnon’s experiences over the past year. Currently based in Australia and Spain, Mackinnon and his partner undertook architectural pilgrimages to the USA, including Fallingwater (a Frank Lloyd Wright designed residence) and Palm Springs. These encounters were followed by intense studio time in regional Spain, where Mackinnon created his
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Contemporary Sculpture in Context is an online exhibition of three sculpture practitioners whose works, when presented as images, take on graphic, formal qualities. Exploring this translation from object to image, the exhibition aims to extend and transform our material and visual comprehension of sculptural works. JORDAN AZCUNE ZOE KNIGHT FAIRY TURNER CURATED by MITCHELL DONALDSON
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‘All the World’s Memories’ brings together a collection of celebrated documentaries, film-essays and artist videos that present cinema as a repository of past knowledge. The program features works that reflect on humanity’s engagement with the natural world and built environment; portraits of public and private personalities made from home recordings; visual essays and compilations that
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Local Solutions to General Anxieties is an exhibition concerned with the value of art as determined by a specific social function. The work is influenced by the advanced state of contemporary institutional critique, focused on challenging or revealing the social and cultural conventions of institutions and the subject. Text interview by Joseph Breikers. OPENING: Friday
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Join UQ Art Museum for quick-fire talks about ecstasy and catch our ‘Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond’ exhibition in its final days. Be here in person or stream it live on Facebook. Speakers include: • Dr Melissa Harper on ecstasy in sport • Artist Anastasia Booth on St Teresa • Emeritus Professor Philip Almond on enlightenment and
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We’re kicking off our 2018 Program with a special panel discussion inspired by our current exhibition ‘Angelica Mesiti: Relay League’. Featuring contemporary artists Eric Bridgeman, Kinly Grey, and Tintin Wulia, and chaired by Griffith University’s Dr Laini Burton, ‘Reinterpreting the Senses’ will explore how each artist’s practice challenges our perceptions of the world by reinterpreting
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Marcel Desbiens aims to initiate a dialogue with the observer, to offer a subtle reminder of our fundamental task, a search for happiness. By painting a representation of a real object and achieving the illusion of reality, he leads the viewer towards an emotional reaction that is soothing and inspiring. Communicating through a complex assemblage
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Join UQ Art Museum for a No Lights No Lycra event and catch our ‘Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond’ exhibition in its final days. Immerse yourself in the ecstasy of dance. Spend two hours dancing like there’s no one watching while listening to music selected by artist and DJ Chris Bennie. The lights are low enough
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SUPERCELL: Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane is co-curated by Kate Usher and Glyn Roberts. Two colleagues who became friends, drink too much coffee and commiserate about Brisbane’s humidity, share a mutual a love for dance. Joining forces they co-founded Supercell with aspirations to create critical mass around the exciting things happening with Dance in Queensland and,
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Farsh-e-Parandeh (Flying Carpet) is an interactive exhibition of projection-based animation inspired by 19th century optical toys, Persian carpet patterns, and Attar’s “The Conference of the Birds” by Leila Honari, who is an illustrator, animator and carpet designer. Her practice-based research melds her experience in Persian traditional arts with her current role as an animator and
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BrisAsia Festival showcases traditional and contemporary Asian arts and cultural events. Now in its sixth year, the festival is held over three weeks from Saturday 10 February through to Sunday 4 March with more than 80 events across the city. Enjoy Chinese Lunar New Year, Kisaragi-Sai, food discovery tours and more. See the full BrisAsia 2018
Almost four centuries after its creation, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa(1652) remains the supreme emblem of religious visionary experience and the Baroque sensibility in art. Understanding ecstasy to encompass states of exaltation beyond the sensuous suffering of Bernini’s sculpture, Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond brings together older depictions of ecstasy with more recent works focused on the
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Brisbane artist David Don works with multiple disciplines to examine physical and virtual spaces and time. In this new series of paintings, Don creates forms by building layers of spray paint on the canvas with meticulously perfect lines. The forms represented are locations in and around Brisbane, rendered in a highly abstracted and precisely considered
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FLOATING featuring Yoshiteru Asai (Japan), Glen O’Malley (Australia), Yayu (Japan) FLOATING is an exhibition, of diverse media including photographs, photo silk screens and drawings by artists from two cultures, Japanese and Australian. It is also a celebration of an ongoing association between a group of artists over a long period. Asai and O’Malley met over
“Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.” This message sent by Morse code in 1997 was the poetic starting point for artist Angelica Mesiti as she embarked on creating her exciting new work ‘Relay League’. The message was not, as one may assume, a desperate transmission sent from a sinking ship,
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During this first First Thursdays event of 2018 artist Warraba Weatherall asks “how can we better invest in our communities to develop a collective consciousness, towards unity and change?” The pressure to survive forces many of us into an individual mindset, deepening the divide between work and private time and limiting opportunity for self-reflection and
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The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is an annual festival of theatre, dance, music, visual arts and mixed media created and presented by Singaporean and international artists. Themed differently each year, the Festival aims to bring the best of contemporary, cutting-edge and socially-engaged works to the Singapore audience. The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is set to
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ENESS’ interactive installation between shared instrument and public art reminds us we’re not alone. New media design studio ENESS is about to reveal a walk-in sculpture that redefines participation in public art. JEM is a ten metre-wide meditative interactive installation that people can virtually ‘strum’ by moving. This is the first sculpture of its kind
In the wake of the highly popular milestone year in 2017, SWELL Sculpture Festival is inviting submissions from artists, art collectives and collaborators to exhibit at the 16th annual exhibition. SWELL is Queensland’s premier outdoor sculpture exhibition, and presents 50 Australian and international artists to captivate the hearts and minds of an audience of 275,000. Set
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ANAT is calling for applications from artists and scientists for our prestigious Synapse Residency program, which since 2004 has supported creative research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists. Background Synapse involves Australian science organisations hosting artists in residence, leading to profound artistic and professional development for the participants, as well as building a sustainable support base
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Burnie Arts Council Inc is calling for entries to the 4th biennial wearable paper art competition, paper on skin. Inviting artists and designers ready for the challenge of creating wearable art made from at least 80% paper and $7000 in prize money on offer. For more information please visit the – Website Image 1: 2016 paper on skin finale
Applications are now open for Shepparton Art Museum’s 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award (ICA). As a $20,000 acquisitive prize, the 2018 ICA is open to Indigenous Australian groups and individual artists to propose an exhibition concept to be realised at SAM. Eight shortlisted groups or artists will be supported with an exhibition development fee of $2,200 each to produce new work from
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Entries are open for the Hutchins Australian Contemporary Art Prize 2018. ‘The Hutchins’ is a highly regarded $20,000 acquisitive biennial prize for Australian artists, awarded for excellence and innovation in contemporary art. 2018 sees a new iteration of the event with the introduction of new prizes, an exciting contemporary exhibition space, an ‘opening up’ of
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Take a more of a business-like perspective of your career development, and learn about a range of introductory topics to get your thinking started. The workshop begins with an overview of the arts business world. Participants will then look at some of the preliminary work required to establish a business. A number of business models
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Every year, Aspire runs an Open Call Photography Exhibition – ‘SNAP- to give Photographers a space and chance to showcase their unique styles and skills with Photography. This year we are doing things a little different, however, where each exhibiting artist has the chance to win a 12 months membership to The Aspirant Collection. ‘SNAP