QCA Galleries warmly invites you to join the artists of ‘Expanded’ for a series of artist talks, to be hosted by Sally Molloy at POP Gallery on Thursday 1 February. Seven artists, working collaboratively, consider the materiality and nature of paint itself as they explore the concept of expanded painting in an open and interdisciplinary […]
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Currently at the Museum of Brisbane – the final works of Arryn Snowball, Mammoth, created during his time as Artist-in-Residence. Snowball is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings and new media works often begin as meditations on simple phenomena such as sheets blowing in the wind or steam rising from a kettle. Recently his works have
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Up Late returns for a one-off special event over summer. Cool down and chill out in the surrounds of GOMA with DJs, bars, talks and performances from Laurel Halo (USA) and Lupa J (Sydney) live on the River Room stage, and explore summer exhibitions ‘Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow’ and ‘Gerhard Richter: The Life
Seven artists, working collaboratively, consider the materiality and nature of paint itself as they explore the concept of expanded painting in an open and interdisciplinary way. Expanded painting may or may not involve paint or the act of painting and is a broadening of the boundaries to include any work that relates to or responds
Outer Space presents two new works by Parallel Park In Time is a performance installation that is comprised of a durational dance piece and looped video. The work employs cliché romantic imagery and humor in an effort to explore queer futurity in the current Australian political climate. PDA is an outdoor installation consisting of two
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MAAJAAM artist residency in Estonia is seeking proposals for a 10-day production residency aimed towards an exhibition/festival (festibition), taking place in July 2018. The works are to be installed/performed in the landscape spread out around MAAJAAM. The aim of the residency is to explore the idea of digital natives and digital immigrants. 3-5 projects will be
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STABLE is now accepting proposals for its 2018 exhibition program. If you’re interested in exhibiting with us, please collate into one PDF file a short proposal outlining your practice, intentions for an exhibition, CV and examples of your work and send to stableartspace@gmail.com by 11:59 PM Friday 5 January 2018. For more information, see the proposals
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We are now welcoming exhibition proposals from emerging to mid-career artists, collectives and curators, including both group and solo shows to exhibit at Church Brisbane in 2018. Exhibition proposals should include: – Statement about your exhibition concept (400 words). – 3 to 5 images of proposed or previous work. – Artist or Curator’s curriculum vitae.
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Janni Cox is a Brisbane based artist who recently completed Honours in Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology in 2017. As both an artist and skateboarder, he explores the creative potential of skateboarding. Rather than dealing with skateboarding as a subject or subculture in contemporary art, he explores his personal creative processes involved in
Kinly Grey is a Brisbane-based artist who engages with embodiment and expanded poetics in exploration of art’s affect. Their practice includes instructional, performance, installation, and experience-based works that mostly occur outdoors. Placing viewer experience at their centre, Kinly’s works require participation or enactment for their realisation. Intuition, understandings of queerness as a state of possibilities,
The Forecast International Platform for Pioneering Ideas has an open call, inviting creative pioneers and innovators in various arts disciplines a chance to work with internationally renowned mentors to develop their projects. Forecast project is in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin. Forecast encourages interdisciplinary exchange and public discussion on
Farm studio is a non-profit art space in Rajasthan, India. It has an open call for artists residencies in both urban and rural areas of Rajasthan. The aim is to promote and celebrate the community’s artistic and cultural identity and support community-based open platform where creativity can unfold free from accustomed distractions. There is an OPEN deadline
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SINGULARITY NOW – Tales form the Event Horizon Event Horizon is the conceivable surface of a black hole, a place where gravity curves space-time so much, there is no escape, not even by light itself. Its core is the singularity, a zero point, where space and time are discontinued and is unknown what exactly happens further.
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The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018 will be awarded to artists that show significant potential, interesting ideas, a relevant message and skillful execution. We understand that talented artists exist in many forms, so endeavour to appeal to emerging artists of all ages and career paths, whether student, graduate, full-time or part-time, and from any country. Ashurst’s
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Want to be part of Brisbane’s best collection of growing and emerging artists? The Aspirant Collection is an online platform that promotes a small handful of Brisbane’s emerging artists. It willl be the one stop shop for art collectors and art lovers looking to support Australian artists and find Brisbane’s next undiscovered talent at
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We are seeking artists for Outside In 2018 – art exhibitions that transform the hospital environment at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane and Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital. We invite proposals from artists that wish to show their work in a unique way to a wide audience, impacting directly on the quality of life for patients, visitors
The Collie Art Gallery has launched an ambitious biennial major art event, with the largest single art prize to be awarded throughout regional Australia. The acquisitive first prize of $50,000 cash has been made possible thanks to the generous commitment of Collie & Districts Community Bank Branch of the Bendigo Bank. Two non-acquisitive prizes of
The John Fries Award is an annual $10,000 art prize recognising the talents of early career visual artists. Since its humble beginnings in 2010, the Award has established itself as a platform for some of the most engaging and experimental works from the next wave of contemporary artists from across Australia and New Zealand. The prize was
Wreckers Artspace proudly presents: THE BARNACLE LOVERS by Erika Scott. Join us for the opening of our last exhibition of the year. Erika Scott is interested in vertiginous definitions, ambivalence, confusion and allusion in her installations. In the marks from collage; tearing, binding and layering, she superimposes spaces and ideas; making and eluding meaning through
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Join us for an evening of reflection on artist Arryn Snowball’s month-long residency at Museum of Brisbane as he chats with friend and muse poet Nathan Shepherdson. This is a free event – please RSVP through our website for catering. For the duration of the residency Arryn has been working on a continually growing artwork
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Learn how to work with Fimo, a type of polymer clay, to make accessories with Brisbane-based jewellery-making duo Homejob. During this workshop learn techniques for working with Fimo using different tools and with your hands. Homejob will teach you how to create marbling effects with a summer colour palette and then assemble components using jewellery
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Join artists Caroline Garcia and Athena Thebus and their friends and family for a very special ‘Filipinx Edition’ First Thursdays event. Enjoy a Kamayan dinner, served in the traditional way on banana leaves, then join Garcia, Thebus and the Titas (Aunties) for storytelling and karaoke. Biographies: Caroline Garcia works across live performance and video through
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China Residencies, I: project space and The Neighbourhood are calling for DJs, producers, artists, and performers to work in Beijing for a fully-funded two month residency in February & March 2018, in the ever-growing and increasingly idiosyncratic nightclub and electronic music communities in Beijing and China. China Residencies, I: project space and The Neighbourhood will connect the resident with key protagonists
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Brisbane based photographer, print maker and plant collector Jessie Webb collects and uses images as a way to document her transitions between adolescence into adulthood – focusing on the interaction between the body and nature. After living in rural communities from an early age she spent her child and teenage years in boarding school, hence
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the churchie national emerging art prize (‘the churchie’) has developed as one of Australia’s ‘to watch’ prizes, promising a glimpse into the future of the nation’s contemporary art scene. Established in 1987, ‘the churchie’ is now 30 years old–the average age of its finalists. ‘the churchie’ is dedicated to supporting a new generation of artists
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‘Petite’ rounds off the 2017 exhibition year presenting a collection of small, beautiful Aboriginal and Contemporary artworks from the gallery’s stable. The exhibition incorporates diverse art styles, themes, mediums and frames in an eclectic and harmonious salon style hang. With all works under 1m in width and height the exhibition showcases works by artists on a small scale. A
‘My recent works explore the concepts and methodologies of tronie or ‘character-head’ painting, a genre of painting that originated in the Netherlands during the 1630s. The term tronie is derived from Old Dutch and simply means ‘head’, ‘face’ or ‘facial expression’. A tronie is a typically half-length or bust-sized depiction of a non-specific individual, with compositional emphasis
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Kenneth Macqueen (1897-1960) was a modernist watercolour painter. After serving in World War I, he completed most of his works while he was a farmer on the Darling Downs . He exhibited in Australia and London. Image: Kenneth Macqueen, Pebble and poddies (1936). Watercolour, 38 x 46 cm
Nick Santoro is a Sydney based artist whose work is inspired by personal experience and social media trends. Santoro studied a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales, 2017 and has had a number of group exhibitions. Most recently Santoro was a finalist in the prestigious Brett Whiteley Traveling Art Scholarship
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To celebrate our first year, Onespace Gallery is excited to launch Onespace Afterimage Editions – a new platform in which we collaborate with artists to create limited edition digital fine art prints. For the inaugural collection, Onespace has curated an exciting print range which includes a diversity of imagery and concerns by artists: Michael Boiyool
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‘Modernism and Decay’ follows on from Yuen’s continual fascination with the concepts of angular forms present in modernist contemporary architecture and the beauty in the continual degradation of steel exposed to the natural elements. Yuen plays with ambiguity and tension between positive and negative space. These works are a study of light and shadow, the
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Collective Origins is an exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the J&SO Collective. The exhibition highlights the lineage of the Collective and the success of current and past members ARTISTS: Alicia Lane, Amelina Trainor, Andy Lowrie, Annelize Mulder, AON Objects, Avena Osborn, Bianca Mavrick, Bridgette Shepherd, Solve Coagula By Kippax, Chloe Healey, Clare Poppi, Ingrid
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Born in Far North Queensland, Vernon Ah Kee is a conceptual artist and a founding member of the Brisbane-based proppaNOW artists’ collective. He has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane. Vernon’s work critiques Australian popular culture, particularly the dichotomy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal societies and cultures. His art
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This is the exhibition for the Art in Soil Initiative: “Let’s Get Dirty” Our 6 fantastic artists/artist groups will be exhibiting their work and on site to discuss the journey. This is the official opening and the exhibition will run for a week. Please come along and learn more about the commonalities of Art and
Riding along the undercurrents of Turner Prizes and Archibalds, #PRIZENOPRIZE is an exhibition that champions and democratises art across all media and levels. Think of it as a soft power alternative to the head-churning, nail-biting process that comes with applying for art awards – or being shortlisted for the coveted Bachelor rose of the artworld.
The creative impetus for the artworks featured in Open Space stemmed from my experience during an ongoing residency at St Andrews War Memorial Hospital, where I had the rare opportunity to see directly inside the human body. The operating theatre was a portal into an otherwise inaccessible world similar to how the telescope reveals the
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