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Gerhard Richter: Questions for Painters Postgraduate Symposium

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To coincide with the opening of Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images at QAGOMA, Dr Rosemary Hawker, Dr Julie Fragar and Griffith University Art Museum Director Angela Goddard present this exciting opportunity for artists, postgraduate students, early-career researchers and academics throughout Australasia to contribute to a dynamic dialogue on art practice as framed through Richter’s example.   Gerhard Richter: Questions for […]

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ASPIRE GALLERY CALL OUT

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To run alongside a brilliant exhibition by local pop artist, Craig Dalton, we are hosting an Industrial and Urban Art Exhibition. Our Industrial and Urban Art Exhibition is all about the unexpected, the uncommon and, often, the underappreciated. It is only in recent years, that street art has been taken as a serious art form

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John Waller

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Encountering the Australian landscape can lead to all sorts of experiences. John Waller’s abstract paintings transport us into a soft, abstracted world of sunrises and misty mornings. After spending time on Tasmania’s King Island, Waller’s observation of the land and sea directed his hand to soft layering, creating a velvety glow. Other works in the

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Picasso Today

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Art Exhibitions and Performances Brisbane (APE BRISBANE) would like to personally invite you to our next art group exhibition. The exhibition at Jugglers Artspace – Gallery in The Valley, offers original artworks at affordable prices, for the discerning art collector. Eight artists are responding to the Artworks and life of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. A unique

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Nicola Hooper: Hosts

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Hosts by Brisbane artist Nicola Hooper presents her study of the concept of the animal body as a host or vessel for disease through the medium of lithography. Her works reference people’s often contradictory perceptions of animals in the context of fear of disease. Hooper explores the dichotomous concept of animals as demonised or revered,

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An Intimate Distance

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Traditional notions of portrait painting have typically involved some degree of interaction between painter and subject. Even if the subject was a stranger, a level of intimacy was often formed through the process of observing, being observed, and the time and labour involved in the painting process. In An Intimate Distance, four emerging artists obscure the

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Jeremy Hynes Award: Lu Forsberg

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In their Jeremy Hynes Award presentation, Lu Forsberg will probe our psychologically distanced relationship to mining and the Earth. In their presentation, Forsberg will take viewers on a virtual birds-eye tour of Bauxite mining locations scattered across Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Northern Queensland. Brisbane-based artist, Forsberg, graduated with a BFA (Visual Arts) honours

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Opening Weekend – Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images

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Join us to celebrate the opening weekend of ‘Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images’ at GOMA. Exclusive to GOMA, ‘The Life of Images’ is the German artist’s first major Australian exhibition, with loans from public and private collections in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including the artist’s own collection. Find out more about the

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First Thursdays: Mariam Arcilla

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Writer, curator, and researcher Mariam Arcilla, along with her friends, will present an evening of performance riffing on the word SKIRT. SKIRT features artists, writers, and musicians whose practices ‘skirt around’ art-form conventions to shape new approaches for sound, visuals, taste, words, and fashion. To begin the evening, Arcilla invites you to drink a concoction

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Still in My Mind: Gurinji Location, Experience and Visuality

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Inspired by the words of revered Indigenous leader Vincent Lingiari, ‘that land … I still got it on my mind’, this exhibition reflects on the Gurindji Walk-Off, a seminal event in Australian history that reverberates today. The Walk-Off, a nine-year act of self determination that began in 1966 and sparked the national land rights movement,

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Leonie Chinn: MATRIKA

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In Tantra, the letters and corresponding sounds of the alphabet are considered to be infused with the power of the divine mother. In certain combinations, the matrikas (little mothers) are said to exert magical powers. Drawing techniques which bypass conscious control allow us to access the power of the unconscious, maybe even the supraconscious! “Matrika”

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Philipp Gehmacher: my shapes, your words, their grey

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Philipp Gehmacher is a choreographer, dancer and visual artist whose works on gesture, space and touch have featured in numerous festivals and venues around the world. He has collaborated regularly across art forms, most importantly with the choreographer Meg Stuart. Since 2008, Gehmacher has been developing the lecture performance series walk+talk, which investigates language, address

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World Scapes

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Helle Cook and Paula Payne explore personal visual language through an ongoing engagement with paint. In this exhibition, the iconography of landscape and responses to environment are engaged. Meaning can be symbolic and elusive, yet evoke personal narratives. Myth and memory are embedded in environments and may present as beautiful or threatening, revealing stories of

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Max Manning: Language Game

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Fresh from TX★17, the 2017 TEXAS BIENNIAL, artist Max Manning’s solo exhibition ‘Language Game’ opens at the gallery October 14th. ‘My work is a culmination of stolen ideas, isms, and a great appreciation for the history of painting. Combinations of starkly contrasting visual elements melt together to form images of imperfection. This anarchic visual dialect that I have

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Talk: Learning from Venice

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Join us for an informal talk with Amy-Clare McCarthy, our Exhibition Program Curator, as she shares insights from working at the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for Tracey Moffat’s My Horizon. Amy-Clare spent the month of July working in the Pavilion as part of the Australia Council for the Arts’ Professional Development Program. Amy-Clare

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Alrey Batol: Études

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ÉTUDES – Étude (Fr. for ‘study’): technical material for a player of a musical instrument. A composition known for its considerable rigour and difficulty, intended to teach the player the fundamental idiom of the instrument. ALREY BATOL presents a new work from a series that critiques the aura of brand and corporate identity. Opening: Friday

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Ryan Presley: Terror Island (Wish You Were Here)

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The Northern Territory Emergency Response, colloquially known as ‘The Intervention’ has, as of this year, been inflicted on communities for the past decade. During these ten years rates of displacement, incarceration and suicide have risen categorically. Xenophobic actions of the Australian nation state have also continued in similar trends; activities that include the continued operation of

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Another Way Up

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Another Way Up showcases creative works developed by the 2017 QUT Visual Arts Honours candidates. Exhibiting artists: Janni Cox Michaela Cronan Torin Francis Tayla Hyndman Mick Keast Moojhan Kheiri Olivia Lacey Briony Law Ben Trail Tess White The creative practice research undertaken by these Honours candidates examines concerns of living in the contemporary world –

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QCA Graduation Show

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The Queensland College of Art (QCA) will host a number of showcase exhibitions featuring the work of graduating students from the disciplines of fine art, photography, design and digital media, contemporary Australian Indigenous art, film, animation and games design. Many of the works exhibited will be available for sale, kick-starting emerging artists on their way

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West End Street Art Festival

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The West End Street Art Festival is Australia’s first dedicated festival and market celebrating urban art and design. From early October, artists will paint large-scale murals along Boundary and Russell Streets. The WESAF Arts and Design market will celebrate the end of the festival on Sunday the 22nd of October. Come get your culture on

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Ross Manning: Dissonant Rhythms

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The IMA is excited to be presenting Dissonant Rhythms, the first-ever survey exhibition by Brisbane-based artist and musician, Ross Manning. Best known for his use of everyday materials, his show features sculptures that repurpose fluorescent tubes, ceiling fans, and outmoded technology for exquisite interplays of light and sound. In a major new commission supported by

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Unspecified Soilings #2

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Unspecified Soilings is a series of events at a green space in Kelvin Grove facilitated by Kate Woodcroft and Caitlin Franzmann. The project explores the causal links between soil health and human health. Unspecified Soilings #1, involved a meditation for a group of soil curious folks, a journeying through the layered histories of the area.

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Neil Degney: YOU ARE HERE

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  An exhibition of camera-phone images taken on the streets of Brisbane from 2014 to 2017 by Neil Degney. This body of work explores the relationship between camera-phone connectivity, photography, art and populism Camera phones have democratised image making creating the most significant immediacy of image making since George Eastman produced the first Kodak ‘Brownie’

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