or the fourth edition of the Crystal Ruth Bell Residency, Red Gate & China Residencies invite applications for a funded residency in Beijing for November and December 2017. The call targets people of all types of creative practices, of all passports, ages, gender-identities, abilities, and interests to send proposals for projects to pursue in Beijing this […]
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Impakt is calling for curatorial proposals for the Impakt Festivals in Utrecht in 2018 and 2019. The Impakt Festival is the annual culmination of Impakt’s activities as an organisation that focuses on critical media culture: a five-day, multi-media festival with film screenings, conferences, talks, performances, exhibitions and presentations. Founded in 1988, the Impakt Festival takes
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Open call for the 2017 Frieze Writer’s Prize. Aspiring art critics are invited to submit one unpublished review of a recent contemporary art exhibition, which should be 700 words in length. The Frieze Writer’s Prize is an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics. This year the prize will be judged by frieze
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Make your mark on Toowoomba, the street art capital of Queensland! Join us at the University of Southern Queensland for a contemporary street art program with a difference. Design and create a large mural and explore an extensive outdoor gallery of public art. This program is open to young artists aged 14 – 18. Download
REDSEA Gallery is thrilled to present the premiere solo exhibition, “Torn” by Roman Longginou. Queensland University of Technology graduate, Roman Longginou was discovered through REDSEA’s 2015 “Young Blood” exhibition, which helped launch the careers of outstanding emerging artists. Since then, Longginou’s work has thoroughly captured Brisbane’s attention. Roman Longginou’s latest collection interprets contemporary Vanitas through
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Jun Chen was born in China in 1960 and migrated to Australia in 1990. He trained in painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and later the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. In China, Chen was a brush and ink painter; in Australia he reinvented himself as an oil painter using paint thickly applied
To be Poly Penitent is an installation by Brisbane-based artist Chantal Fraser that considers the ritual of penance through the presentation of an ifoga ceremony (a Samoan ritual of public humiliation, forgiveness and exchange). Through this work Fraser asks us to consider our artistic, social and cultural penance in an attempt to highlight contradictory social
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Chase Archer is a Brisbane based artist working across painting, drawing and printmaking. Receiving his Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art in 2016, he is currently completing Honours. Archer’s works are layered composite scenes created from imagery ranging from painstakingly replicated Dutch masters, through to iPhone photos and images appropriated from mass
Curators’ Agenda is a networking/training/practical residential program for international emerging curators, organised in Vienna with talks, lectures, studio visits, practical project etc. over 6 weeks in September/October 2017. Applications are invited for the fee-based program. Part-subsidy offered for travel and accommodation costs. Want to gain first-hand curatorial practice in one of the most vibrant art hubs
The Hermès Foundation launches the 8th call for projects of the New Settings programme. This programme is devoted to the performing arts and is directed both to live performance artists (of all disciplines) and to visual artists who wish to create for the stage. Indeed, collaborations between performing artists and visual artists are encouraged. It concerns
2017 ASIAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE at Objectifs, Singapore – call for submissions from Asian women photographers worldwide. Slideshow Projection curated by Yumi Goto (Reminders Photography Stronghold) and Emmeline Yong (Objectifs) In collaboration with Objectifs’ Women in Film & Photography Showcase Submission Deadline: 10 July 2017 Asian women photographers are invited to submit work for inclusion
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The annual ‘Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art’ showcases the outstanding achievements of senior visual art students from schools throughout Queensland. The exhibition includes works that hold a quintessential Queensland flavour, whilst exploring cultures and identities from around the world. The artworks invite conversations, stir feelings, and embody ideas not easily expressed in words. The
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Award winning NSW artist John Caldwell is one of Australia’s master landscape painters. Renowned for his dramatic and atmospheric paintings of an often rugged Australian landscape Caldwell’s paintings begin with drawings and general impressions made on location later to be transformed in his studio works. John will demonstrate the procedure he follows in his own
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FRANZ EHMANN displays objects in precise ways to simultaneously create and resolve humanistic concerns whilst accentuating collaborations between the natural and the man made. He deconstructs the meaning of language, material and imagery to construct a series of questions – questions about the meaning of a word, the embodied meaning for a material or the investigation
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A body within a body of water, Jaala Alex’s most recent performance piece After Shock sees the artist adrift in the space. Performance to start promptly at 6:45pm with no admittance after this period. Join on Sunday evening in an act of endurance of both artist and audience. Text by Courtney Coombs. Outer Space: Facebook / Website
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Established in 2001, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize attracts strong support from artists, collectors and critics and is the first national acquisitive prize for an original, freestanding sculpture of up to 80cm in any dimension. Over 500 entries from Australian and international artists are received annually and approximately 45 finalists’ works are exhibited at the
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For ten years, artist and musician Masato Takasaka’s unique art practice has been propelled by one question: “How can you make something new by recycling and re-exhibiting old works, treating them as a found object or a ready-made?” In this special event, Takasaka will accompany guests on a tour of his work’s latest iteration in
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We are now calling for proposals to be a part of our 2018 Performance and Exhibition Program and Expressions of Interest for our 2018 Takeovers, developing and presenting new work. Metro Arts welcomes proposals from early career through to mid and long term practitioners – Brisbane-based, interstate and around the world – ready to engage
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Some of the most compelling artists and composers working with electronic and electroacoustic music will feature in this new series of live projects. Join us in June for a weekend of intimate performances that combine projection, lighting and spatialised sound. Program 2: Klara Lewis & Sarah Davachi Klara Lewis is a Swedish composer who creates
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This free screening of The Unity of All Things is presented as a partnership between Queensland Film Festival and the Institute of Modern Art. Could See A Puma Eduardo Williams, 2011 | 17 minutes The accident leads a group of young boys from the high roofs of their neighbourhood, passing through its destruction, to the
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The Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards is an an opportunity for you to become involved in Brisbane’s cultural life by capturing and celebrating images that reflect Brisbane’s creative lifestyle. The Photographic Awards invite photographers and photographic artists to submit original images that represent an expressive, energetic and enthusiastic Brisbane. Categories Cash prizes are awarded to category
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Elysha will be working in the Museum from 10-18 June to create a new installation work in her practice of paper-cutting – a practice which is inspired by her mixed Japanese-Australian heritage. During the residency, visitors to the Museum will have the chance to watch her at work, ask questions, and try their hand at
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Life Art Worldwide hosts the call for artists’ interpretation of the meaning of life.This broad creative brief promotes diversity in art form and practice. Entries: Now Open Entries Close: 30 June, 12 pm International Acquisitive $10 000 Award Open to artists working in: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture Exhibition: Thursday 5 October to Saturday
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An exhibition celebrating the iconic work of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and pioneering Australian artists Margaret Preston (1875–1963) and Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984) opens at the Queensland Art Gallery from 11 March to 11 June 2017. ‘O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism’ includes 90 paintings, 30 by each artist, and considers the distinguished contribution
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“…the artworks in ‘Torque & Crease’ represent a freedom from constraints, yet within each of their individual practices are self-imposed limits that may fold in on themselves, transformed in the process.” – Louise Martin-Chew Onespace Gallery is delighted to present new works by Kylie Bickle, Jennifer Marchant and Matthew Tobin. Well-known in public art and
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Join us in celebrating the launch of Homejob and Kaomoji Ceramics’ new collections. Kaomoji will be unveiling their latest ceramic collaboration with Homejob, alongside a showcase of Homejob’s latest accessories and homewares. There will be free sparkling wine flowing, plenty of dancing, and DJs, Buff Girls, on the deck! About Kaomoji Wendy Ma is a
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Artist Chantal Fraser invites you to join her for an afternoon of subversive adornment making. Fraser uses material culture and adornment in her installation, performances, and digital media works as a method of understanding and exploring her Samoan heritage, politics, culture and identity. During her workshop, Pariah Protection Adornment Making, Fraser will guide you through
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You are invited to ‘Girl Practice’, a new installation by Brisbane artist Siena Hart, presented by KUNSTBUNKER. ‘Girl Practice’ considers dialogues surrounding memory and identity, performances of the feminine, and the real and imagined. In attempting to reconcile the expectations placed upon the body/self, with intuitive urges, discretions, and natural processes, ‘Girl Practice’ highlights the
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An intimate show featuring works by: Callum Galletly Henry Mills Lalita Marguerite Mark Cutler Raum Exhibition Address: 32 A Archibald Street, West End, Brisbane.
The 8th annual Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing is now open for submissions. The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing aims to encourage excellence in drawing as an important foundation for any arts practice. The Prize was established to help perpetuate the memory of Marie Corella Ellis OAM (1918-2003) – a long-time resident of
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Gemma Smith’s work takes the form of both painting and sculpture. Through her explorations of colour theory, pictorial depth and sculptural form, Smith has developed a body of abstract work that both playfully and seriously investigates the shifting pictorial plane. Her early work was based on abstract paintings of crystalline forms exploring geometric and spatial
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Jeff Raglus is one of a unique group of contemporary artists who divide their practice equally between music and the visual arts. Encompassing all that is pop, Jeff’s work constantly blurs the boundaries between fine and graphic art. Jeff is a multi instrumental musician, who has toured overseas and around Australia many times with various
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F I N D I N G F R E E D O M celebrates a positive vision of what we want to create for people seeking asylum – freedom, fairness and safety. Works displayed offer a different perspective on the conversation about people seeking asylum. We all share common values of family, freedom, fairness
Ben Quilty’s exhibition, The Last Supper, features new works that reflect upon the confusing and often confronting state of humanity. After a number of recent international exhibitions, The Last Supper gives Queensland audiences the opportunity to view Quilty’s latest work. A boldly expressive painter, his rich impasto works grapple with pertinent social and cultural concerns.
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Delicate yet robust, large in scale but intensely intimate; the works in Social Structures have an inherent duality. The exhibition brings together artists who use industrial materials, common hardware supplies and found objects to make works that explore social concerns and personal relationships. Integral to each is a precarious balance and tension, in the meeting
The exhibition, Lapsed, investigates the material properties of weather balloons, and how their intrinsic and potential forms can complicate our sense of time. By installing the balloons in both inflated and deflated states, an ‘in-between’ experience of spatial and sensory ambivalence is created. In doing so, Lapsed rejects definitive static forms, instead engaging sculptural strategies
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