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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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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