Paul Ryan knows how to move paint around. He can make a surface glossy or sculptural; as inviting as a lolly shop or scary as an Ozploitation horror movie. Sometimes both at once. Ryan’s skill with paint, and his interest in art historical subjects, can mislead the unsuspecting viewer. We see a recognisable landscape, familiar […]
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Three exhibitions open the 2018 program for FireWorks Gallery – now in its 25th year. Renowned Indigenous artist Rosella Namok (Cairns, Far North QLD) displays her gestural strokes in her Nature’s Way acrylic on canvas paintings; Sharonne Solk (Uki, NSW) presents her Violet Indigo Moss Series II oil paintings; and, Lyell Bary (Brisbane, QLD) exhibits
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Preview Outer Space’s new premises and bid on artworks by Australian artists, to help raise funds for this exciting new project in Brisbane’s West End. All funds raised will help open the doors of Outer Space’s three gallery spaces, six artist studios, and community space. The converted warehouse space also boasts an all-ages music program.
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Ryan Presley creates large watercolour paintings formed from detailed drawings and sketches. His ongoing project Blood Money (2010-current), on display at the IMA now, reimagines Australian banknotes with the figureheads of Aboriginal history. Learn how to skilfully compose an image, considering light, shadow and colour using traditional sketching materials like colour, graphite and watercolour pencils.
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UQ Architecture lecture with James Legge. Are you passionate about all things architecture and design? The UQ Architecture lecture series will bring together cutting-edge architects and leading design thinkers who will bring new knowledge and challenge existing paradigms in the world of our built environment. In this invaluable lecture series you will think, learn and
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A DUEL “I am quicker than you.” “I am smarter than you.” “But I am stronger than you.” “I make better art than you and you know it.” JORDAN AZCUNE & LIAM MARSDEN fight for honour, comparing art, each attempting to out-show the other. Whose body of work will be voted ‘crowd favourite’? Text by
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Next Friday locals and tourists in South Bank can experience a free, family-friendly contemporary art performance thanks to the launch of Co-MMotion, Brisbane City Council’s new Temporary Art Program – a year-long series of live art activations taking place in public spaces across Brisbane in 2018. Produced by people+artist+place, the inaugural program will ignite conversations
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A monthly one night only showcase of handmade products from local Artists, Designers and Makers. Bib’n’Brace Collective: 95 Commercial Road, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
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Perfect your skills in professional studio visits, artist talks, artist statements, and communicating your practice to a variety of audiences. In this course, you’ll learn how to write about yourself and your practice, and become equipped with the skills to write an artist statement, bio, and exhibition proposal. Gain insights in to how to talk
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THE END OF THE WORLD is an exhibition of new multimedia/multidisciplinary work by Madeleine Stack and Romii Fulton-Smith. Consisting of sculpture, text, and installation, TEOTW brings art objects from both artists’ practices to a space of post-world remnants, of mourning and celebration of what was and what can never be again. Unpacking the end of
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The Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2018 is a national contemporary acquisitive award presented by Sunshine Coast Council. The award is open to any artist who is an Australian resident, working in a 2D medium. Forty finalists will be selected for exhibition at the Caloundra Regional Gallery and the winning work will be added to the
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“To begin to hurt” is an exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Jarrod van der Ryken. Jarrod completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at the Queensland University of Technology in 2015 and has presented solo exhibitions at Metro Arts and Outer Space in Brisbane, Firstdraft and Galerie Pompom in Sydney, and Screenspace
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This In Conversation event, facilitated by Museum of Brisbane Director Renai Grace, is an opportunity to hear these artists give insight into what has shaped their respective artistic practices. Join us from 5:30pm to enjoy a selection of wine, cheeses and a guitar set by Kahl Monticone. Sam Cranstoun is a Brisbane-born and based artist
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WHAT IT IS SITEWORKS is Bundanon Trust’s annual spring event that brings together artists, scientists, scholars and community voices in a unique annual gathering to share knowledge and experiences arising from responses to our properties. It attracts up to 1000 people each year. See here for more information on previous Siteworks. Bundanon Trust is an engine room
SOFT BLOW brings together new works by Kozak and Manning who both use everyday materials to explore complex emotional states and experiences. Using video and kinetic sculpture, the exhibition examines the potential for each works’ affection of the other through installation and sensory invasion. PETER KOZAK is a Brisbane based artist who works primarily in
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Digi Youth Arts (DYA) takes over the IMA with performances responding to historical stories in the work of Ryan Presley and Fiona Foley. DYA Artistic Director Alethea Beetson constructs a series of roving performances, reflecting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories. Performers draw inspiration from costumes seen in Foley’s recent body of work, ‘Horror
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Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most successful international artists, known for her film, photography and video works. Drawing on cinema, television and the media, her art is equally inspired by popular culture, recollections from her childhood and art history. This exhibition is drawn from the collection of the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), and
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Channels Festival is the only festival in Australia dedicated to showcasing contemporary video and moving image by some of the most outstanding Australian and international artists. Now approaching our 4th Biennale, we’re on the hunt for our next Artistic Director to develop and deliver our 2019 edition. We seek someone who is passionate about video
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International call for entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2018. Professional photographers may apply for this award. Emerging photographers aged under 25 can apply for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer. The winner of the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” will receive a cash prize of EUR 25,000 as well as a Leica M camera and lens worth
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The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts takes place in Austria from 16 July – 25 August. It comprises a range of short courses/professional development workshops, supported by numerous grants for artists, curators and writers to participate. Some 80 grants, usually covering participation fees only, are available for participation in one of the classes at the Summer Academy. Applications
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The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper was established in 1998 and incorporated the former Spring Festival of Drawing and the Prints Acquisitive which began in 1973. National Works on Paper is one of Australia’s most prestigious awards and acquisitive exhibitions. A biennial exhibition, its role is to support and promote contemporary Australian artists working on
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Entries are now open for the 2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize. The Stanthorpe Art Prize, established in 1972, is the second oldest art competition in Queensland and is open to both emerging and professional artists. Artists have the chance of winning one of the several categories, with prizes totalling $40 000, including the $25 000 major
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To mark the closing of the first Green Screen presentation of 2018, hear from artist Hannah Brontë as she discusses her video work ‘Umma’s Tongue–molten at 6000°’, 2pm Saturday 10 March. The work is currently on display in the IMA Screening Room, 13 January–10 March. Hannah Brontë’s recent video work ‘Umma’s Tongue–molten at 6000°’ pairs
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AUCTION Sunday 25th March 2018, 5.00pm The Johnson Hotel 477 Boundary Street, Spring Hill Qld 4000 VIEWING Thursday 22 March 11.00am – 5.00pm Friday 23 March 11.00am – 5.00pm Saturday 24 March 11.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 25 March 11.00am – 3.00pm ADDRESS Jan Manton Art 1/93 Fortescue Street, Spring Hill Qld 4000 Auction enquiries: Jan
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Black Power posters created in the mid-twentieth century by Emory Douglas are among the most powerful and enduring visual images of protest and solidarity in the past century. They helped define a symbol of African American solidarity and have influenced protest symbolism across the world into the 21st century. The University of Queensland Visual Politics
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Join the IMA Gallery Shop from 6pm for the launch of local jewellery designer Laura Armstrong’s latest collection, ‘Submerged’. Laura Armstrong is a Brisbane-based silversmith and artist in residence at Bib’n’Brace Collective. From her studio in Teneriffe, she makes each unique piece by hand. Following sustainable and ethical design principles, her wearable collections stand the test
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“His art is one of enduring and recurring themes, absorbed in a brooding and turbulent romanticism the origins of which are in many respects, traditional. It is possible to see Shepherdson’s vision as having a foundation in a nineteenth century genre of nature as catastrophe – a threatening and shapeless world, allowing only for an
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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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