Water Stories, an international exhibition of images from 31-year-old intertnational photographic artist Mustafah Abdulaziz is coming to Brisbane. Water Stories has toured through Stockholm, London, Hong Kong, New York and Vancouver – it’s just been in Sydney and the next stop is South Bank. Mustafah was working for the Wall Street Journal as a photographer when he decided to drop […]
Panel discussion – The fashioning of identity: bodies, politics and performative strategies with Dr Nadia Buick, Luke Roberts, Gerwyn Davies and Chantal Fraser. Christian Thompson’s photography, video and performance works often utilise the armature of his own body, focusing on the exploration of identity, sexuality, gender, race and memory. In his live performances and conceptual portraits he
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CLUTCH Collective in collaboration with People’s Pride BNE Presents: ‘Alone, Together’ – facilitated by Courtney Coombs. ‘Alone, Together’ presents the writing practices of Brisbane-based artists Anastasia Booth, Kinly Grey and Kate Woodcroft. Anastasia Booth is a Brisbane based artist that works across sculpture, moving image, photography and poetry. Booth’s practice interrogates the portrayal of femininity
Catherine Parker’s solo exhibition, Parallel Worlds, presents a new body of paintings which continues her exploration of human relationships with nature, time and place. The works meld the familiar with the utterly ethereal, through echoes of ancient landforms, and vibrant colour schemes from neon pinks to deep indigos. Parker invites us to traverse the landscapes
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J Valenzuela Didi’s latest exhibition ‘Life Below the 27th Parallel’ is an unconventional exploration of Brisbane’s urban environment. The works in this collection portray familiar Brisbane landmarks in deserted, unearthly dreamscapes. “This town has an enchantingly peculiar atmosphere. If you look closely enough you can sense eternity in its unassuming streets and forgotten buildings. Where ghostly monoliths silently
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Born in Wangaratta, Australia, Fran O’Neill lives and works between Newcastle, Australia and Brooklyn, New York. O’Neill attended Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, earning a BFA. Her post-graduate work was at the New York Studio School’s Certificate Program, and her MFA was completed at Brooklyn College in 2012. In 2007 she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation
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Jason Benjamin’s exquisitely rendered oil paintings, with their careful distillation of light and space, invite contemplation and emotional engagement. While his memory and experience of particular locations may ignite each new body of work, Benjamin’s paintings are rarely literal or precise. Elusive and prophetic titles invite a narrative and an attachment between viewer and painting,
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Angela Goh / Scum Ballet, The Movie ‘Scum Ballet, The Movie’ is a film produced by Sydney based dancer and choreographer Angela Goh while in residence at Campbelltown Arts Centre during a creative development for a commissioned dance piece called ‘Scum Ballet’. Considered less a film reproduction of ‘Scum Ballet’ and more a sister
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‘Arms on the Brain’: Virtual Reality and a New Era of Storytelling and Immersion Angela Ndalianis Professor in Media + Entertainment, Department of Media and Communication Swinburne University of Technology “Entertainment media have always engaged audiences – in varying degrees – through combinations of storytelling practices, emotional and sensory experiences, cognitive processes and bodily impact.
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Can You See Me Now? interrogates the phenomena of the invisibility of women once they reach a ‘certain’ age. Feminist artist Deborah Eddy presents a celebratory warts-and-all challenge to engage viewers in what it means to live in an ageing woman’s body. The sculptural elements in this exhibition display abstract versions of women of all shapes
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Humans have spent thousands of years crafting and creating objects. From sharpened rocks to roman antiquities, our history and identity as people has been mapped through the objects we make. How do we define the value of an object? By its material? Function? Historical significance? Monetary value? Five artists explore the material and making of
Based in Osaka, Japan, Tetsuya Umeda’s work focuses on the creation of profoundly dynamic environments, through the combination of architectural structures, sound and light, and considers their impacts on human behaviour. This event takes place against a backdrop of Ross Manning’s largest sound sculpture to date in his exhibition Dissonant Rhythms, where both artists will perform their own custom instruments. This
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apart & a part is the result of a long-term dialogue with individuals who spent time in institutional and out-of-home care in Australia in the twentieth century. The resulting artworks create an ‘expanded archive’ of visual responses and narrative fragments that address the felt experiences often absent from institutional records and historical accounts. Drawing on the notion of trauma as
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Public Forum: Ecstasy: Art, Literature, Religion, History 8:30 am – 1:00 pm Saturday 16 September 2017 UQ Art Museum 8:30 am – 9:00 am Registration and coffee 9:00 am – 11:00 am Session One Andrea Bubenik The University of Queensland ‘Curator’s talk: Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond’ In this opening presentation, exhibition curator Dr Andrea Bubenik will share some
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Showcased as a performance PUSH, PULL, PUSH, PULL, considers failure as a queer aesthetic to explore an opportunity for re-thinking, re-imagining, and re-embodying a queered identity in fashion. In an attempt to undo the lasso of binaries around queerness in fashion, the collection explores the construction of material and multivalent identities. Trained in fashion design,
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Other People is a 30 minute single channel video by Benjamin Crowley consisting of appropriated footage from predominantly western horror and thriller movies. In collaging the footage, the artist followed a strict material approach, resulting in a work which undermines the potential for a semiotic approach to narrative. With no meaningful linear narrative the video
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Brisbane Festival and Wesley Mission Queensland present ART FROM THE MARGINS. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Art from the Margins (AFTM). Brisbane Festival has been a proud partner since the beginning. AFTM has been instrumental in bridging the gap between artists living in isolation, the public and the wider community. AFTM supports and
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Launching September 16, An Intimate Distance is an online group exhibition displayed on the SGAR website. It will feature new works from four emerging local artists: Holly Anderson, Jessie Lee Nash, Kristian Fracchia, and Bennett Gordon, all working in the area of figurative painting. The paintings in the exhibition centre on a recurring dichotomy of distance
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Carolyn Craig’s work reflects her research within the coded construction of subjectivity and relates this to ideas of the performance of self and the sustenance of gendered typologies. These investigations focus on inscriptive performance as an active form of power and social control. Craig deconstructs particular gestural actions which she has identified as demonstrating specific power
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A major exhibition celebrating the work of Bidjara artist Christian Thompson opens at Griffith University Art Gallery next month. One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Thompson made history as one of the first two Aboriginal Australians accepted into the University of Oxford as a Charlie Perkins Scholar, where he completed his Doctorate of Philosophy (Fine
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‘From a Northern Canopy’, showcases work by artists Daniel O’Shane (Kuku Yalanji, Miriam Mer, and Kulkagal) and Michael Boiyool Anning (Yidinji). This exhibition represents an exciting point of alignment between two artists at different ends of the professional career spectrum, one emerging and one established. Anning’s boldly patterned rainforest timber shields and fire-makers and O’Shane’s
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Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre present a selection of watercolours and prints by descendants and kin relatives of Albert Namatjira. To coincide with the Queensland premiere of Namatjira Project (a documentary created by Big hART with the Namatjira family), renowned members of the Hermannsburg School of Art, Lenie Namatjira and Gloria Pannka are in Brisbane as
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Post Datum presents: Little Secrets / Little Lies a one night only exhibition exploring what you hold the most true. Exhibiting artists: Bayley Hegerhorst Mahony Jessica Enkera Kathleen Morrice Phoebe Kelly Shane Pace Siena Hart Tayla Hyndman Publication artists and writers: Abby Rutter Anna Litwinowicz Gwan Tung Dorothy Lau Georgia Means Madelyn power Reina Takeuchi
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Presentism looks back at ten years of Boxcopy’s history, through the lens of current practices of Brisbane-based artists who have participated in the program over that time. The title of the exhibition describes a tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts. While often used negatively to critique particular accounts of history,
Aaron Butt’s Master of Fine Arts (Research) graduate exhibition Missed Encounter II explores disavowal and apophenia as studio processes, presenting a system-based salon of seemingly disparate objects to facilitate a space for unexpected, subjective and affective (missed) encounters. Exhibition venue: Frank Moran Gallery (Z11) Creative Industries Precinct 7 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove Opening Hours: Monday
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The vivacious and vibrant collages of SIMPLE FUTURE consolidate photographer and visual artist James Hornsby’s exploration of our digital and ‘real’ lives. Through his first solo exhibition Hornsby deconstructs the presumed ‘truth’ of photography and the industrial processes behind the advertising and media photographic industry. His practice incorporates photography, painting, found objects and other media
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Presenting the work of 16 Brisbane artists, Mirroring Minjerribah is an exhibition that brings the stories and landscape of Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island into focus through photographic projections and prints coupled with a live music performance. This one night only event features site-specific work by emerging artists from Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art and Queensland
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Away From Home The story of the transnational diaspora from Burma is significant to further our understanding of the world, as people fleeing conflict is an increasing dominant story of our time. Because of the complexities of their repeated movements, these narratives disclose an ongoing negotiation of their inner self with the external world across time
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Artist and well-known story book illustrator Philip Blythe will give a weekend workshop at The Petrie Terrace Gallery. Philip’s many commissions include publications for HM Queen Elizabeth 11, British Telecom, Little Hare Books and many others. Philip has lectured at the University of Ulster, James Cook University and Griffith University. Philip will demonstrate the procedure’s
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Alongside commercial and public galleries, as well as artworks commissioned for public places, unconventional exhibition spaces are part and parcel of Brisbane’s visual arts community. Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) exhibit out of dilapidated Queenslanders, the back of trucks, underneath houses, and give impromptu performances in public spaces. Approaching the Spring Hill house of Dirk Yates
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The ArtWorld Studio Gallery Landscape Prize offers both beginning and experienced artists the chance to have their works exhibited this year, with a monetary prize on offer. Any medium is permitted including painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, photography and digital. Submissions for the Landscape Prize, along with the $30 submission fee, must be made online. The
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$1000 cash up for grabs in the Embracing Life wall mural design competition Calling all studying and emerging artists! Collins Food Group has partnered with QUT Creative Industries in a competition to design a wall mural for a new restaurant brand opening in Brisbane later this year. Collins Foods is seeking a design that celebrates
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OPEN CALL: Science Gallery Dublin is seeking proposals for up to 20 works for FAKE, a free exhibition that asks if life is better when we embrace the artificial. From fake meat to fake emotions, if faking it gets the job done, who cares? In both the natural world and human society, faking, mimicking, and copying
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Arts Queensland is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from individuals and arts organisations to provide Creative Producer services for the development and presentation of new performance work at Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. This Creative Producer services role will work closely with Arts Queensland in managing the use of Judith Wright Centre space and equipment
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In co-operation with KulturKontakt Austria, the Austrian Federal Chancellery makes available 50 residencies in Austria (Vienna and Salzburg) for the Artist-in-Residence programme for the year 2018. The residency is designed to offer an opportunity to artists aged under 40 to familiarise themselves with the Austrian art scene and cultural environment and to make contact with
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‘Entangled’ is an experimental installation by Los Angeles based artist Chris Trueman with overlapping displays or ‘superpositions’ in Los Angeles, USA (Superposition 1), and Brisbane, Australia (Superposition 2). This will be an exciting opportunity to meet with the artist, who will be flying out from LA to attend this event. ‘Entangled’ references Quantum Entanglement, a
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