Small Black Box brings you ‘Winter’. Enjoy eclectic electronic DJ sets from 4pm and live electronincs from 6pm till 9pm. Food and Drinks available. Small Black Box is a quarterly experimental music night, with an electronic/ambient/noise bend. In 2017 this will happen at the East Brisbane Bowls Club. Facebook Event
Upper Partialism presents: ARE [singapore] Ben Marsten [canberra] Jive Canyon Feet Teeth Singaporean mixed-media duo Are bring their swirling soundscapes and dreamt out narratives to Australia for the first time this July. The duo (Frank and Li Shuen) invites the Listener to psych-art arrangements that sway between loud guitars, colourful electronics, and lyrical tales in impossible time.
For the Temple investigates female agency through personal narrative, mysticism, astrology and mythology. Gesturing towards her interest in using the materials from fetish wear Booth’s new banner sculptures use leather and chain to evoke the abstract compositions of Hilma af Klint and the astrological entities – the moon and the Pleiades – used to date
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We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We share a dream and sing with one voice I am, you are, we are Brave Girl. Please join for Home of the Brave II. A performance with 28 women starts at 6:30pm on Thursday 3 August in the
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CLUTCH Collective presents: Sally Molloy: Memorial To All The Animals We’ve Ever Had To Kill. Have you ever taken an axe to a kangaroo half-dead on a remote bush road, washed a dragonfly down the sinkhole, smeared PB-and-J on a rat trap, or ‘put down’ a beloved family pet? Ever hit a possum on the
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The IMA is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Australia by Céline Condorelli, Corps à Corps. Condorelli will treat the IMA spaces, both indoor and outdoor, as case-studies in what an exhibition can be, creating diverse environments where everything from climate to furniture are integral features. Visitors will feel the wind on their faces,
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A group exhibition featuring work from four Brisbane artists: Mitchell Donaldson, Ally McKay, Cosima Scales and Karl Shoobridge. Cut. Paste. Repeat. A contemporary look at the 20th century’s contentious means of art creation, Pieces features new works from four artists originally based in Brisbane who all, in some way shape or form, engage in collage. Often associated with poorly
William Robinson was born in Queensland in 1936. Initially training as a primary school teacher, he was awarded a scholarship to study art at the Central Technical College from 1955 to 1956. After Graduating, Robinson began work as an art instructor, a career he would continue until 1989, when he retired as head of the
Michael Muir’s latest collection of paintings have a distinctly ‘Queensland’ feel. Inspired by the coastal landscapes, regional towns and rolling hills of the Sunshine Coast, Muir’s latest exhibition, Disappearing Act, is an amalgamation of various landscapes observed during his recent travels through the towns of Montville, Maleny and Noosa Heads. There is often a feeling
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Orbit is a mid-year showing of works by QUT Visual Arts students currently undertaking honours research. Artists included are: Briony Law Torin Francis Olivia Lacey Tess White Tayla Hyndman Open this week, 11-3pm, today until Thursday. Image: Orbit (installation view) Photo: Briony Law.
This exhibition is an artistic homage to Aboriginal artist Kathleen Petyarre and the legacy that she has created via her only child and daughter, Margaret Loy Pula and her granddaughter, Abie Loy Kemarre, daughter of Margaret. The name Petyarre represents one of the greatest family Aboriginal art dynasty’s that Australia has seen. The Petyarre sisters – Ada (dec), Violet, Myrtle (dec), Gloria,
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From Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22 July 20, Brave New Worlds will see a series of 40 flags, printed with new works of art, flying proudly along the familiar bright red staircase of Jacob’s Ladder, connecting Brisbane CBD’s Edward Street with Spring Hill. Turning silk flags into canvases, artists were asked to design a flag for the
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See the world’s most compelling, controversial and intimate moments as captured by award-winning photojournalists from around the globe. The annual World Press Photo exhibition profiles the world’s top press photographers who captured an event or issue of great journalistic importance in the last year. In its 60th year, the contest saw 80,408 images submitted by 5,034 photographers
Spencer Jackson Postdoctoral Research Fellow UQ Node, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions A scandal has befallen the world of Jane Austen scholarship: its author has been embraced by Nazis. The global white supremacist movement has begun to cite Austen’s novels as portraits of the polite, tradition-bound society that they believe would
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As a diverse and dedicated group of artists, River St Studios reflects the growth of seven undergraduate Interdisciplinary Sculpture students from the Queensland College of Art. Each artist’s practice is primarily focused on spatial concerns as Sculpture students, drawn together in a singular exhibition through shared experiences and links to one another as they have developed through their
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‘Where the Green Ants Dream’, Werner Herzog’s sole film set entirely in Australia, is a drama centred on a dispute between a mining company and local Aborigines whose sacred land will be irreparably disturbed by the miners’ uranium excavations. Herzog was inspired by the first Australian native title court case in 1971, which ruled against
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Louise Hearman, winner of the 2016 Archibald Prize, is best known for her dark, dream-like paintings where things may, or may not be, as they seem. It is up to us to imagine what is glimmering in the half-light or lurking deep in the shadows, as she offers no written clues to the evocative contents
Presented as a partnership between Queensland Film Festival and the Institute of Modern Art, this free screening, Historical Bodies, charts Portugal’s relationship with itself and others, using the body to mark sexual and political dynamics. Find out more on the IMA website here: http://www.ima.org.au/event/qff-screening-historial-bodies/. — On the Dragon’s Flake Ivo M. Ferreira, 2012 | 23
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Onespace Gallery is excited to present new works by Leecee Carmichael in ‘Connecting Waves: A saltwater woman living on desert country’ – an exhibition proudly featured in the 2017 Quandamooka Festival, running from July – September “Celebrating culture, country and people”. Elisa is a Ngughi woman from Quandamooka Country (Stradbroke Island), and currently Gilimbaa‘s Artist in
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Up Close With Distance explores contemporary representations of space in painting. Drawing on the history of the window in painting as a point of departure, Michelle Mansford engages with ideas of interiority and exteriority. This collection of paintings makes use of such visual phenomena as the ambiguous space of reflections and up-close views of historical
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Jo D’Hage’s current art practice investigates the metaphorical interpretation of the female body. ‘Humanising the Abject: Metaphors for the Female Body’ is an exhibition that contributes to the feminist critique of female representation. By delving more deeply into the materiality of both form and content in her work D’Hage intends to make visible her interpretation
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Founding Fathers explores monuments and questions the truth of these ‘messengers from the past’. It ruminates on the way objects emulate culturally-specific narratives and contribute to memory-making. This exhibition presents 10 renovated monuments that consider the possibility of incommensurable historical and human realities; that idealisation and demonisation are not so far apart, and the faults,
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The saying ‘once the dust settles’ is essentially optimistic. It assumes that present difficulties will be resolved and that a better future beckons. However, not all difficulties diminish, while some lie dormant only to reappear. This exhibition centres on works by contemporary artists who probe at cultural, environmental and psychological histories that remain unresolved. Others
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Robert Andrew: Our mutable histories gives voice and form to the disconnection between Anglo-European and Australian Indigenous history, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures. Robert Andrew is a Brisbane-based Indigenous artist and descendant of the Yawuru people of the Broome area in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Through his art practice and cultural duality
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Sydney-based Samoan, queer writer and performance maker Brian Fuata will perform a durational structured improvisation, Brian Fuata Will Most Likely Die From Suicide or “Minibar”. Fuata is known for his improvisational performances, made up movement, conversation, and text–often derived from emails and text messages. Fuata creates intimate narratives, with dead-pan humour he plays with the
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ARTISTS: Ally Walker Anna Litwinowicz Benjamin Dutton Finn Jones Dillon John L. Hammer Madelyn Power
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From my quiet studio in Redland Bay I construct complex paintings and modular sculptures. I have long been fascinated by the underlying order of things, the sense of pattern that lies beneath the chaos of life and a belief that everything is somehow connected within that pattern. My work is both an investigation of the
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The art of Bruce Earles and Kristian Williams projects an enthusiasm that is infectious. Both presenting a different response to urban environments, their works pulsate with life, light and colour. The two artists create different perspectives of energy; with Earles generating external, environmental energy while Williams captures an internal chaosthrough bold colours and shapes. “Urban
It has long been theorised that fundamental tensions exist between time, space and our sense of self. A liminal space is formed when these entities intersect, creating a narrow, temporary field of uncertainty. It is these slim margins of intersection that artists Victoria Wareham, Adam Anderson and Jacinta Giles explore in their group show ‘Performing
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Joe Furlonger is one of Australia’s leading landscape painters. He began showing with the Ray Hughes Gallery in Brisbane in 1984 and won the prestigious Moet & Chandon prize for emerging artists in 1988. He travelled soon after this in Epernay, France and exhibited in Troyes and London on this seminal expedition. The important Madonna
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What is Environmental Art, and who are its main proponents? Learn about the history and current practices within this fast growing contemporary art form. Be inspired to work with young people to encourage them to make Environmental Art across multiple disciplines, including drawing, storytelling, recycled art, printing and performance art. Time: 10:00 am – 4:00
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The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to provide a platform for further professional development. In 2017, the QRAA theme is ‘Iconic Queensland’. Queensland is rich with iconic structures, people, locations, events and lifestyles
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Bonjour! Nicky Ginsberg, Founder of the Chippendale New World Art Prize and President of the Chippendale Creative Precinct invites you to embrace your international arts community and join her global art movement. Australian and International artists are invited to submit a painted landscape for the fifth annual Chippendale New World Art Prize, re-imagined this year as the
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The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (JUWSPA), introduced in 2002, is considered one of the most important annual surveys of contemporary Australian photographic practice. The exhibition showcases a selection of finalists, in a stunning display where established photographers are presented alongside emerging talent. The resulting exhibition is a reflection of contemporary practice that
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This year the winner of the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize will take home $30,000 in prize money – $5,000 more than previous years. And, for the first time in the history of the prize, Monash Gallery of Art will acquire the winning entry. Established by the MGA Foundation in 2006 to promote excellence
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Call for entries from artists worldwide working on themes of art and environment for the COAL Prize 2017. In seven years, the COAL Prize became an international meeting place for artists who take up the main universal issue of our time: ecology. The prize-winner receives an award of € 5,000 and is invited for a