Sit. Pose. Snap. at Museum of Brisbane is an exhibition curated by Philip Manning consisting of photographs from the extensive collection of Marcel Safier, amassed over nearly four decades. Considering the enormity of the collection, some 40,000 images, the exhibition represents a relatively small scope, predominantly consisting of studio images made in Brisbane from 1850-1950. […]
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Painting from personal sites of communication – emails, social media, game spaces, inner dialogue, scripture, and fragments of conversation – both artists express the different ways they deal with a craving for connection, acceptance, and love. Image details: (Top) He said she said a conversation between God and myself, Adele Grobler Dellit, oil on linen,
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Attunement to light – how it flows over, plays upon and defines structure, shape and colour – is Judith Sinnamon’s primary concern. Her carefully crafted studies of Australian native flora capture each plant’s singular gesture and presence, compelling the viewer to engage with a unique species as well as to witness the artist’s dialogue with
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Coming to the gallery this April is fine artist Scott Breton, winner of the 2016 Lethbridge 10 000. Inspired by renaissance thinking and aesthetics, Scott’s interest in contemporary classical artists is evident in his new body of work ‘Paths to the half-remembered’. His new exhibition explores a mysterious and personal landscape of the family property
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Jeanette Stok is a Brisbane-based artist who is influenced by her work as a research scientist and the traditional crafts introduced to her by mother and grandmother. Stok’s wire embroidery installation, Mutagenesis, is created using Hardanger embroidery techniques, which traditionally employ repeated motifs to create symmetrical, geometric designs that share much in common with the
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Continuing our partnership with the Queensland Film Festival in 2017, QFF X IMA will bring the best of contemporary international cinema to the IMA. With a dedicated program of free screenings, QFF X IMA seeks to re-energise local film culture, providing a simulating environment for thinking and talking about the moving image. For more information please
Artists: Matthew Johnson, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Rosella Namok. Matthew Johnson‘s artistic apprenticeship has been an eclectic if not a modernist one. A Melbourne-based painter, Matthew’s diverse travel and cultural experiences are distilled through the archetypal filter of oil and pigment. The underlying compositional structures of his paintings are repetitive – grids, geometric patterns, stripes or sequential
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Helga Groves’ solo exhibition Tremor of Form, held at Woolloongabba’s Milani Gallery, consists of artworks which represent geological or cosmic objects whose timelines verge on the incomprehensible. These include minerals and stones which form underground over thousands, if not millions, of years, or meteorites whose genesis, trajectory, crash landing, and human rediscovery cover similarly immense
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Submissions are now open to local and international artists for our flagship screening program, Video Visions at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI). Channels Festival showcases contemporary moving image by the most exciting Australian and international artists. Presented from 1 – 10 September 2017, Channels will present a diverse and inspiring festival of exhibitions, screenings,
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Boxcopy was founded in 2007 and DECADE celebrates ten years working with artists, writers and curators. Our anniversary provides a pivotal point to consider our future and possibilities for artist run culture. Boxcopy provides a space for artists to play and test ideas; a space for projects that are process-based, speculative and collaborative – our anniversary project DECADE
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Melbourne artists Lyndell Brown and Charles Green invoke illusory worlds that disrupt the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction. Intertwining the mediums of painting, photography and digital reproduction, the artists layer and recreate images from different cultural periods and contexts. However, as the viewer deciphers the images one comes to the realisation that
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As part of the IMA’s ongoing commitment to Queensland experimental art practice, we will be hosting the fifth bi-annual Jeremy Hynes Award. Since 2009, the IMA has had the honour of presenting the $10,000 prize to an experimental Queensland artist, made possible by a bequest made in Jeremy Hynes’ name. The 2016 recipient, Liam O’Brien, will
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“…sculpture on a small scale offers creative freedom to the artist and an intimacy with the viewer that traces a fresh and diverse path…” – Louise Martin-Chew Onespace Gallery is very pleased to present the next exhibition of our 2017 program – Public Aspirations: small sculptures/big ideas. Public Aspirations will exhibit an array of over 25
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Night Letters is a new series of intimately scaled oil paintings by Heidi Yardley. The work forges a romantic and mysterious link between the female figure and evening landscapes. Both exist in a liminal, erotic space, as if somewhere between waking and sleeping. Moonlight is seductive as it reflects off subterranean waters; a place where
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Yesterday I dreamt of a voyage to the desert. When I woke up, I turned to Pamela and said “I don’t know why, this town is really isolated but whenever we arrive by bus they always drop us at the door of a Lacoste store”. In the zone, match practiced and competitive. Courts, fields, demarcations
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Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art, Chapter 2 Launch. In conversation: Beth Jackson. Join former Griffith Artworks Director Beth Jackson and current Director Angela Goddard as they discuss the history of video art in the context of Griffith University’s Art Collection and approaches to moving image within contemporary Australian art. 5.30 pm
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Join artists Jemima Wyman and Zach Blas for their First Thursdays event Patterns-of-Life-Resistance, as they ask: How can we create and imagine patterns that engage resistance? Wyman and Blas invite you to collectivise and resist through patternmaking and camouflage, and use technology to explore what might be a visual pattern of resistance for today. The
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Please join Jan Murphy Gallery for a one night exhibition preview of Jewellery by Olesya Zolotaya and Ceramic Objects by Alexandra Standen & Jason Fitzgerald. Exhibition Event: Wednesday 26 April, 6:00 – 8:00pm In conjunction with Crossing the Rubicon River: New paintings by Richard Dunlop. Image: Jason Fitzgerald – Blockade part 1 and 2 (2017). Earthenware and glaze, 13.0 x 25.0 x
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The IMA and Room40 are pleased to present MONO 24 featuring Terre Thaemlitz. Terre Thaemlitz (1968) is an award winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. Her work combines a critical look at identity politics – including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race—with
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An exhibition of new paintings and a recent film by Richard Bell. Richard Bell (b. 1953) lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. He works across a variety of media including painting, installation, performance and video. One of Australia’s most significant artists, Bell’s work explores the complex artistic and political problems of Western, colonial and Indigenous
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Hinterland is a German word literally meaning ‘behind-land’, that is used to describe an inland area adjacent to the coast. Queensland artist A.J. Taylor’s latest exhibition contains paintings inspired by the unique hinterland environment of the Sunshine Coast. Just north of Nambour, Parklands Conservation Park is a large area of bushland with an extensive network
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Anastasia Tyurina’s visual art project involves aesthetic approaches to scientific photography made by a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), a tool that has expanded the boundaries of observation and representation of the micro world since it was introduced to scientific research in the mid-1960s. Scientific photography is commonly perceived as a way of recording scientific data through
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GOMA. A place where people come together to be inspired and imaginations spark. A place where ideas meet. This summer will be packed with even more excitement as GOMA turns ten. So come along and help us celebrate from 3 December 2016. This milestone for GOMA and Brisbane is being marked by a new public
The IMA is pleased to present film installation Nellie (2013) by artist Fiona Tan. Nellie takes its point of departure from the imagined life of a forgotten woman, Cornelia van Rijn, who was the daughter of the famed seventeenth century painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. At the age of 15 she emigrated to Batavia, present
“Less is more”, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s oft-quoted and appropriately sparse mantra goes. In contemporary art practice especially, it seems that sophistication is the result of simplicity. The current exhibition at QUT Art Museum Less Than: Art and Reductionism primarily explores art made from 1960 that takes a visually reductive approach to image
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A central focus in this exhibition is the relationship between lived experiences, fresh explorations and yet to come possibilities. The art works explore the interconnection of spatio-temporality of the past, present and future, the patchy effects of memories and nostalgia and also the ever-shifting connection with the surrounding environment. These are seen from the perspective
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Folds of Belonging is an exhibition of international contemporary art. The work aims to interrupt your daily life as you walk the busy streets and laneways of Brisbane City. Displaying the works of internationally celebrated artists, Fahd Burki (Pakistan), Motoyuki Daifu (Japan), Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thailand/USA), Shilpa Gupta (India) and Slavs and Tatars (Eurasia), the exhibition
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sub-urban is a collection of recent paintings and prints by Chase Archer. Archer describes his work as painted collages assembled from a bank of iPhone images, childhood photographs, drawings, mass media and the historic art canon. These images provide the framework for scenes exploring the suburban condition. “With these works, the inter-relationship of the images
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This exhibition of Ian Howard’s triptychs brings together fifty-four ‘skins’ of our time. Eighteen are profiles of boats at sea, eighteen are direct impressions (lost wax rubbings) from television screens, and the final eighteen are up close views of the paraphernalia of a secure life. We variously deal with such relationships formed between disparate but
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Join artist Hannah Brontë as she takes over the IMA courtyard with a tropical neon-lit wonderland titled The Venus Fly Trap. Brontë is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brisbane who explores female empowerment in music videos, banners, and performance, to challenge current societal structures and imagine matriarchal futures. The evening will include performances by fierce
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Mumu Mike Williams’s protest paintings, which confront Australia’s devastating history of British nuclear testing at Maralinga and Emu Field from 1953 to 1963, provide impetus for a broader conversation. How and why do visual artists, playwrights, filmmakers and choreographers keep returning to this history and its lasting impact on Aboriginal people and the land? This
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Initially, Waterbeds and Burial Grounds was intended as a response to the plight of the refugee and as a performative testament to those who have lost their lives at sea (waterbeds) and those who have made it to distant shores or across borders only to be detained and left in limbo inside detention facilities (burial
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EXPOSED presents a rare opportunity to experience an insightful and inspirational array of images by photographer Mike Skelton. A ravishing exhibition of rare photographic diversity by a master craftsman compiled over years. The work offers a glimpse into altogether fascinatingly evocative and contrasting worlds. EXPOSED is primarily an exhibition about contrasts; two-thirds of the works
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Mood Swings presents new work by Gold Coast artist Chris Bennie. Having examined the affect water has had on a caravan after floods in Bundaberg (The Kissing Swans 2013) and nuclear reactor control rooms (Control Rooms 2014) after The Great East Japan Tsunami, Mood Swings localises Bennie’s gaze to explore his own relationship to the medium of water. Bennie’s desire
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1. Charles Blackman Drink me 1956 tempera and oil on board 121.5 x 134.5 cm 2. Margaret Olley Pear, daisies, and terracotta pots c. 1980 oil on board 75 x 120 cm 3. John Olsen Lake Eyre landscape 1975 watercolour 190 x 98.5 cm 4. Sam Fullbrook The recital 1979 oil on canvas 107.5 x
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Traditional and contemporary expressions of Tibetan painting and sculpture will grace the walls of Brisbane Powerhouse during the entire festival. Traditionally trained, cutting edge contemporary master Tibetan artist, Karma Phuntsok (Australia), versatile contemporary artist Tashi Norbu (Netherlands) and traditional Thankgka painter, Thupten Gyatso (Australia) will take patrons on a journey from the highly formulaic traditions of
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