Join sisters, artists, curators, and Ngugi women belonging to the Quandamooka People of Moreton Bay, Freja and Elisa Jane Carmichael, for an afternoon of weaving and yarning. Workshop participants are invited to join the weaving circle, learn basic techniques, and share stories. Freja and Elisa Jane come together to share their knowledge and experiences surrounding […]
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Our 2017 lecture series In Colour looks at the often-neglected topic of colour in contemporary art. Throughout the year, a distinguished and diverse line up of speakers will connect colour to a variety of issues, including race, politics, history, religion, technology, and gender. The series opens with a debate that will help us find an
Politics, football and hummus collide in Melbourne-based artist Phil Soliman’s new performance work Together. Beginning with a big fat Egyptian party, Together explores the power dynamics between individuals and groups in a deeply personal yet timely and relevant work. Combining food, dance, sacred hymns, actual football, found video and news reports,Together charts the artist’s navigation through the various spheres
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Value of Temporary Art in Public Space For many (especially in the art world) the term ‘public art’ conjures disdain and a sense that precious public money is being used to purchase an oversized object that has little or no connection to the community amongst which it
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Continuing our commitment to supporting local emerging arts practice, Spiro Grace Art Rooms (SGAR) is excited to announce our gallery will reopen for 2017 on February 18 with Around, a group exhibition developed by Lisa Bryan-Brown during an intensive, one-month curatorial residency over our summer closure. Around considers the relationship between the dual concerns of
Perhaps the most famous Japanese work of art, Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape print ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ (1831) brilliantly illustrates the transformative power of technology on aesthetics. The contrasting blues of the Great Wave capture a complex tale of scientific revolution, shifting socioeconomic power, and a world shrinking as influences travelled ever faster from one
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Alchemy by emerging artist Gatya Kelly. “Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding”. Marcel Duchamp Gatya Kelly’s Alchemy is a new body of work exploring the Australian gold rush from a humanist perspective through themes of gold, transformation, alchemy and
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IMA Co-Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh will give a tour of our current exhibition, Ebb Rains, by renowned Berlin-based Dutch artist Willem de Rooij. Burns and Lundh will provide an insight into this expansive exhibition that reflects on the Dutch colonial presence in the Asia Pacific region, and makes subtle reference to more recent
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On Screen is a gallery focused by-product of The Print Bar. Through a series of exhibitions hosted in various locations around Brisbane, On Screen shines the spotlight on local printmakers and creates a new platform for print mediums. Growing Features is the debut exhibition for On Screen, presenting the work of eight local artists; Ellie
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The humble studio dog has played confidante, silent critic and muse to the artist for centuries. Many of these dogs sit quietly on studio floors while their owners paint, sculpt and produce work. Dog Days is a simple ode to these special friends. It is an opportunity for their owners to honour their companions, to
Sydney-based artist Debra Phillips’ practice focuses on how systems of knowledge influence our understanding of the world. Working primarily in photography, and using both digital and analogue techniques, Phillips explores the medium as an imperfect form of record keeping and its role in everyday history making. Join Griffith Artworks Director Angela Goddard and the artist
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Come along for a fascinating evening with Queensland Indigenous contemporary artist Fiona Foley as part of the Portrait of an Artist 2017 series. Watch a screening of an interview with Fiona conducted by Louise Martin-Chew, filmed for the James C Sourris AM Collection of contemporary Australian artist interviews, part of the Australian Library of Art
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The IMA and Room40 is pleased to present MONO23 featuring crys cole and Mike Cooper. Crys Cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, improvised performance and sound installation. Generating subtle and imperfect sounds through haptic gestures, she creates textural works that continuously retune the ear and delicately seek to both reveal, and obscure
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A post-midnight visual essay, Jarrod Van Der Ryken’s most recent work captures the transitory shift of light and the accompanying change of mood in an introspective navigation of the familiar and prosaic setting of suburbia. Adopting an almost but not quite fly-on-the-wall voyeurism, the feature length video work occupies the intermediary zone between human absence
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Presenting a three day show of new watercolours by Luke Roberts. The exhibition will also present new work from the Pope Alice Xorporation (PAX) PAX VOBISCUM. Opening event: Thursday 9 March, 6-8 pm IMAGE: Hadrian (2017), watercolour on paper, 20.9 x 29.5cm
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This exhibition features a series of brooches that draw on the modern day survivalist movement and Ron Edwards’ popular book series from the 1970s and 80s from which the exhibition takes its name. Jeweller Rebecca Ward imagines a situation where the maker has nothing but sticks from the forest, a recycled length of fencing wire
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Artisan is hosting a series of architectural discussions in celebration of the 2016 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects. Join us for a glass of champagne and gain insight about the prize from Architect and 2015 joint prize winner, John Wardle; 2016 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects judge, Alice Hampson; and 2016 prize finalist and Architect,
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Poetics of Identity presents the work of four graduate printmaking students, together with lecturer and artist Dr. Glen Skien, as they explore the correspondence between personal narratives and the often fixed collective community notions of identity, belonging and historical awareness. The underpinning concept of mythopoetic dialogues deals with the blending of personal stories and the
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The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Australia of renowned Berlin-based Dutch artist Willem de Rooij: Ebb Rains, opening: 11th February, 5–9pm. De Rooij is a highly influential artist and educator, through his long-time role at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, and a practice that spans two
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‘Empathy Toward Plants’ explores the potential for the gallery space to act as a greenhouse for subtle activism. Connection to place, ecology and conceptions of a nature/culture rift are explored via interdisciplinary practices of sculpture, painting and assemblage. With these varied methods, three emerging Australian female artists will employ motifs of flora and other natural
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My work is extremely physical, each painting has layer upon layer of marks, painted out colour and re-worked imagery. The works are all created out of a need and desire to see work that personally satisfies me as a painter. I like the idea of finding a new form of expression, an original language with paint that is
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The talismanic qualities of the reused, the resourceful, and the strange come together in Hannah Cutts’ work to celebrate an inseparability of life and art. In a truly Duchampian twist on evaluating what is unique, finding is the creative act for her, and thus she amasses carefully chosen, commonplace objects to suggest a poesis of
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REDSEA Gallery is excited to announce Katrina Read’s solo exhibition, ‘The Prosperity Collection’ will be featured in the gallery this March. With over 20 years’ experience in fine art, Katrina’s work has been exhibited across Australia, Singapore, New York and the Caribbean. Inspired by the elements and aspects of nature, Katrina’s surroundings captivate her. She
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RENDERED: An Analogue Exploration of the Digital aims to investigate the 21st century digital phenomenon through the vessel of analogue contemporary art. This exhibition will address questions of technology, robotics, digital platforms, augmented reality, social media, and other realms of digital culture through tangible mediums. ARTISTS: Billie Rose Bailey Earnest & Son Gwan Tung Dorothy
. 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 are photojournalism from developing nations and one-third evidence commercial work, which Skelton likes to think, ‘bucks the
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COLLIDE International Award welcomes proposals from artists from any country who are inspired by the ground-breaking research environment at CERN. From all the applications received one artist will be selected to receive a prize of CHF 15,000 and a two-month residency at the lab during 2017. Moreover, the prize comprises a following one-month residency at
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Piemonte Share Festival, the Italian art fair of electronics, digital art and new media, announces the theme for its 10th consecutive Share Prize: Sincerity. International open call for submissions responding. The competition jury will award a prize of Eur 2,500.00 to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies. The candidates for the prize (a short list of 6 competitors) will be guests at the twelfh edition of the Share Festival, taking place in Turin at the end May 2017. This twelfth edition of the festival will be led by artistic director Bruce Sterling, American author,
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In this workshop you’ll learn the techniques to create your own gorgeous sterling silver earrings with renowned Brisbane-based silversmith, Renata Fojtikova. Renata will teach you key jewellery design concepts and the basic techniques for hand working in silver. What you’ll get: All tools, materials and safety equipment you need to make your own sterling silver
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One of Australia’s most prestigious sculpture exhibitions is calling on local and international artists working across all mediums to submit proposals to exhibit at the 15th annual SWELL Sculpture Festival. Held on the iconic shores of Currumbin Beach from September 8 to 17, SWELL has evolved into Queensland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition, with 275,000 visitors
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Folds of Belonging, curated by Tess Maunder, is an exhibition of lightbox images in Brisbane’s CBD. It runs concurrently with the BrisAsia Festival (27th January – 19th February, 2017), and features works by both emerging and established artists from Asia: Fahd Burki (Pakistan), Motoyuki Daifu (Japan), Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thailand/USA), Shilpa Gupta (India), and Slavs and
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The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory has hosted the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) since 1984. The aim is to recognise the important contribution made by Indigenous artists from regional and urban areas throughout Australia, working in both traditional and contemporary media. It is an important showcase for both established
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Are you interested in gaining experience in the visual arts? The UQ Art Museum is committed to offering opportunities for student involvement throughout the year. These include internships, paid casual positions and volunteer roles in the areas of front of house, registration, curatorial, education, exhibition management and finance. Positions are open to currently enrolled UQ
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This week the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) launched its Fair Pay for Artists campaign calling for industrial fairness for artists and other art professionals. The campaign has three components: $5 million for artists’ fees; superannuation for artists and other art professionals; and an artists’ income supplement pension scheme. NAVA is the national peak
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The Footscray Art Prize is a biennial non-acquisitive visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines. It contributes to Footscray’s reputation as a thriving cultural hub that supports and fosters the arts, and provides an opportunity to celebrate this artistic vibrancy and creativity. Categories: The Footscray Art Prize has four categories: Footscray
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HIDDEN is an outdoor sculpture exhibition that takes place amongst the gardens and graves of Rookwood Cemetery. The Trust is interested in exhibiting artworks that respond to themes surrounding the Rookwood site, such as history, culture, remembrance and love. This could include grief, loss, mourning, spirituality, the environment, and different cultural beliefs around burial and
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Young Blood is an exhibition seeking to introduce new artists to Brisbane city, forecasting a selection of our city’s young and talented, fine art creatives. It will prove to uncover the forefront of the budding contemporary art scene of Brisbane. By utilizing the gallery’s position as an established international art gallery, REDSEA aims to help