A public forum presented by NAVA, QCA Griffith University and QUT Art Museum, supported by ACUADS. NAVA recently launched a new campaign for artists fees. In this forum we want to discuss issues of precarity: when it comes to artists fees and labour especially given the casualisation and changing nature of arts work. Contemporary curating and […]
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Four incredible and dedicated photographers, an adventurous off-road 4WD trip and four charter plane flights above Lake Eyre, deliver stunning results.When you take to the air its [Lake Eyre] true complexity, variety and immensity is breathtakingly revealed. Salt deposits, eroded channels and inlets, layers of sediment and algal blooms provide endlessly subtle variations of texture, lines, pattern and
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Material: Concrete explores the diversity and potential of concrete across all creative fields from the handmade to the industrially manufactured. It brings together architecture, design, art and jewellery to break the moulds of expectation we often unknowingly hold for the material. This exhibition is part of the Asia Pacific Architecture Forum, an initiative of Architecture
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The British Council is inviting artists who are migrants, living anywhere in the world, to dream about the future in Imagine 2037. Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase in this new project exploring place and migration. We’re excited to announce a new opportunity open to artists who are
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Hot off exhibitions in both Germany and England, showing alongside the likes of Gerhard Richter, Sol Lewitt, Daniel Richter, and David Hockney. Cont-Exis (Contemporary Existentialism) explores an evolving approach to the dichotomy between the individuated loneliness and alienation of Existentialism when an atheistic response is introduced, which supplants the loss of any God from the discussion, with
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Bronwyn Hill is recognized by her hyperreal figurative paintings. Her new collection Lost for Words follows a narrative, a single figure leaving a house, representing a change of state of mind, scene, and of new beginnings. This new series take a new turn in to the interior, expressing the personal and intimate, and moving forward
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Questioning how a culture reliant on rapid production and consumption can shift to address the environmental realities facing it, The Remainder is an exhibition of Susan Hawkins’ latest work. A battle demonstrating struggle for agency, Hawkins uses sculpture, installation and sound to unravel the complex dynamic between [wo]man and material. Drawing upon the philosophies of
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Abbey McCulloch holds a Masters in Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Named as one of Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists by Art Collector magazine, she has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize three times (with portraits of Toni Collette [2007], Nell Schofield [2009] and Naomi Watts in 2013). She has
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Naomi Blacklock is a Brisbane based artist who has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Working primarily with sound installation, text works and performance, her artworks involve an exploration and examination of mythologies regarding the witch archetype and harmful histories of gender and cultural identity. She is PhD candidate at QUT and is a Co-director of
Artist Hannah Brontë is hosting a playful afternoon of banner making. Choose from vibrant fabrics and patterns, and toy with words to create your own powerful or humorous message to display proud. Brontë is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brisbane who explores female empowerment in music videos, banners, performance and weaving, to challenge current societal
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This is a talk about the relational qualities of colours. Colours as palettes—those marauding squads of socially and culturally recognised hues—which get what they need by working together. We live in a more highly chromatic world then ever before in human history. Colour is a major component of capitalism. Perhaps erroneously we think of colour
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“Subject to Change Without Notice” is the name of Stephen Nothling’s upcoming exhibition at Woolloongabba Art Gallery. A collection of paintings that explore ideas and representations of beauty and nostalgia. Stephen paints memories and impressions of his life in Queensland; playfully commenting on how time, technology and commerce have influenced the way he half-sees the
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RICK AMOR was born in Frankston, Victoria in 1948. In 1965 he completed a Certificate of Art at the Caulfield Institute of Art and from 1966 to 1968 studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. He has been the recipient of several Australia Council studio residencies which have allowed him to work in London, New
Mika Nakamura-Mather has spent much of her life away from her homeland of Japan, living, working and travelling extensively in Europe, Asia and Australia. Her work draws from the present and the past to examine the role memory plays in our notions of home, and traces how it may influence our emotional responses to geographical
Beginning with a two week performance residency, the aim of this exhibition is to highlight the parallels between matricentric and sex-positive feminist frameworks. The title is taken from Carolee Schneeman’s ‘Interior Scroll’ monologue, acting as an homage but also a challenge: to imagine a world where it doesn’t make sense, where ‘object’ and ‘subject’ lack
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This must be the place is a respite for the doubtful, a breather for the disheartened. A place to feel good and remember laughing is good stuff – especially when it’s at your own self. It’s somewhere where all the niggly, unsure, sore bits can hang out without getting a hard time. A place full
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New Collage features contemporary collage works by Rachael Bartram and Warren Handley. While each body of work complement each other they also stand in contrast to each other. They both incorporate and reinterpret existing imagery, however one set is analogue and the other is digital. Bartram’s handmade assemblages combine imagery of women collected from nonfiction
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Aishla Manning is a contemporary visual artist with a focus on site-specific, performance-based practice. Her work is primarily concerned with failure, tension and absurdity of the everyday. Manning’s videos engage viewers using absurd humour as a tool to subvert everyday objects, gestures and settings. Tensions arise when the familiar becomes strange through repetitive futile sequences
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In today’s world of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ and bestselling books on the Japanese art of decluttering, this exhibition delves into the artist’s pursuit of nothingness–or at least the next best thing. Reductionist techniques–repetition, limited or monochrome colour, seriality and plain-spoken materials–have been used by artists working in geometric abstraction, colour field painting, conceptualism and minimalism
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In her performance To Be Humble, artist Chantal Fraser invites you to take part in a mass act of artistic, social, and cultural penance. For this First Thursdays experience, she draws on the Samoan ritual tradition of ifoga, which is a ceremonial practice of forgiveness. Fraser uses material culture and adornment in her installations, performances, and digital media works. Her interdisciplinary practice
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gcbrv is the embroidery project of Canberra based artist Astrid Barta. Her current work uses found fabrics in an easily-installed textile and sculptural context. Expression through the process of making and subject of the works, Dirty Laundry is a showcase of the artists’ acquired skill as an art form. gcbrv (good Canberra vibes) Mount Address:
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The University of Queensland Art Museum will celebrate the value of arts patronage in a new exhibition opening on March 11. Philanthropists and Collections will feature 61 artworks donated over more than 160 years. UQ Art Museum Director Dr Campbell Gray said philanthropy had played a vital role in the growth and evolution of the
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Áine O’Dwyer makes multi-layered works that celebrate chance choreographies, acoustic phenomena, acts of listening and the search for alternative scorings through instruments, drawings, space, time, memory and the body. In recent years she has developed a unique specialisation for improvisation with pipe organs, culminating in the albums ‘Locusts’ and ‘Gegenschein’ which follow her acclaimed ‘Music
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Inspired by the sub-tropical beauty and terrain of Queensland, Richard Dunlop’s luminous and layered paintings transport viewers to the lush depths of the rainforest. An established Australian painter, Dunlop has long explored the botanical world in his skillfully textured oil paintings. The natural cycles that are integral to life inform his practice, with the artist
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“Watering a Flower” is the latest photographic series by Charlie Hillhouse since returning from Japan. This body of work focuses on the impervious visual language of distinctly Australian settings. These scenes, furnished with the sculptural forms of twisted and refashioned barbed wire, highlight an otherwise inconspicuous aspect of urban locations. Marrying these oftentimes dismissed or
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On again by popular demand – this is our third Platinum/ Palladium workshop this year. Learn the gentle art of hand-crafted platinum/palladium prints in a one day workshop on Satrurday 20 May from 9.30am to 5.00pm at Maud Creative, 6 Maud St, Newstead. A minimum of two registrations is required to run the workshop. Maximum registrations
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The first in a series of lasts. Join us on the last thursday of the month for a double feature screening of new video work by michael candy and jarrod van der ryken. LAST thursdays is an ongoing series of movie nights, presenting screen based work by emerging visual artists. —- Michael Candy: Ether Antenna
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Join the @BIGSOUND Festival design team for #BIGSOUND17 . Be mentored by the best and kick start your career in Festival Design. Call out for disciplines include: animation, design, digital media, architecture, installation and performance. For more information please visit the – Website
Young Portfolio is a program organized by the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K*MoPA) in Japan to support young photographers from around the world by exhibiting and acquiring their works for the permanent collection. Anybody under the age of 35 is welcome to submit their works. The organisers are looking for works by devoted photographers
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Open call from I AM KARACHI for artists to submit design concepts for transforming public space walls and facades in the city of Karachi, Pakistan and further develop the Peace Walls concept initiated in 2015. I AM KARACHI currently works on different elements of a robust program where public facades, walls and pathways are being
—Betwixt and Between— In general understanding, the term ‘liminal’ refers to the ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a ritual. It is a term for the threshold between the way one previously structured their identity, time, and community, and a new way once the ritual completes. In contemporary sociology, the term
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Every year, Aspire runs an Open Call Photography Exhibition – ‘SNAP- to give Photographers a space and chance to showcase their unique styles and skills with Photography.‘SNAP is an open theme group exhibition for anybody who manipulates or captures photographs. The only requirement is that a camera needs to have been incorporated sometime before the
Sydney-based Tim Johnson presents ‘Metamodernism’, an exhibition of new paintings alongside selected works from key periods of his practice. These will include paintings from Johnson’s influential punk period, portraits of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, conceptual works, photographs from Papunya, and paintings from his Vietnam series. Opening Event: Saturday 29 April, 3 – 5pm IMAGE: Tim Johnson with
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Discover the gentle art of Japanese paper cutting with designer Mabina Alaka. Mabina will show you techniques to make beautiful cut-outs and silhouettes. You can use your paper ‘paintings’ and cutouts to create cards, bookmarks and mobiles. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to your workshop to register with the facilitator and secure you
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Noel McKenna was born in Brisbane in 1956. After studying architecture at the University of Queensland in 1974 and 1975, the artist continued his education at the Brisbane College of Art, attending the College between 1976 and 1978. In 1981 the artist studied at the Alexander Mackie College, Sydney. In the late 1970s the artist
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Entering into Robert Andrew’s exhibition “Our mutable histories” at Museum of Brisbane, I am immediately confronted with a warping mechanical sound. This is coming from Andrew’s most recent work, “Data Stratification.” Combining the sleek aesthetic of modern technology with natural materials, Andrew has developed a number of kinetic installations which speak of his Indigenous Australian
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