At least one Australian woman dies a day as a result of ovarian cancer. It could be your mum, your aunty, your grandma; it could be you. In 2014, there were 974 deaths from ovarian cancer in Australia. In 2017, it is estimated that this will increase to 1,047 deaths. There is no early detection […]
An international open call for artists engaged with digital technology. Welcoming submissions from March 22, The Lumen Prize is an international award that celebrates artists working with digital technology. The competition offers a prize fund of $10,500, plus inclusion in Lumen’s annual programme of exhibitions and events which take place globally for shortlisted and winning artists. Now
Entries are now open for the KILGOUR PRIZE 2017, Newcastle Art Gallery’s national art prize recognising the finest examples of Australian figurative and portrait painting. Artists are invited to submit their entries for this year’s prize, valued at $50,000, by Friday 28 April 2017. This year, the Gallery has introduced a new online entry process,
As part of the IMA’s ongoing commitment to Queensland experimental visual art practice we will be hosting the fifth biennial Jeremy Hynes Award. Since 2009, the IMA has had the honour of presenting this $10,000 prize to an experimental Queensland artist in the earlier stages of their career. This major direct support of artists is made
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2017 now open for entries. Now in its eighth year, this exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit paintings, drawings, photographs and all 2D artworks up to 61cm (24 inches) in any direction. The judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and
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By Way of Navigation places our scientific modes of understanding landscape in direct intersection with the terrain of a Norwegian island. This is a landscape where light is an integral form of measurement and locals navigate through sightlines. Using as a starting point a found diagram depicting the distortion of landscape through photography, By Way
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The b.creative challenge is an international competition designed to encourage young artists, cultural and creative entrepreneurs to work for social innovation. The purpose of the b.creative challenge is to support artists, cultural and creative entrepreneurs and to encourage collaborations between them with a view to address different stringent social issues. We are very keen on rewarding
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Call for the Artist-In-Residence Program of ARCUS Project 2017 IBARAKI, Japan, open to artists worldwide. The residency is process-oriented, aiming to develop temporary, site-specific work and engage with the local community. Three emerging artists from contemporary visual arts or other related fields will be selected for 110 day residencies starting at the end of August
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Calling all early career curators, applications are now open for The Freedman Foundation International Scholarship for Curators. This scholarship provides assistance for curators towards the cost of overseas travel to undertake: a residency, internship or mentorship (planned program with a professional curator) a self-initiated curatorial project which may include establishing valuable contacts, conducting studio visits, and
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Perfect your skills in professional studio visits, artist talks, artist statements, and communicating your practice to a variety of audiences. In this course, you’ll learn how to write about yourself and your practice, and become equipped with the skills to write an artist statement, bio and exhibition proposal. Gain an insight in how to talk
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Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM) announces the open call for “Visiting Artists, Researchers and Curators in Residence – Support Program 2017.” This program provides various supports for grant-aided artists from Asia and researchers/curators on Asian art who wish to produce artwork or conduct to research by staying in Fukuoka on their expenses. The Fukuoka Asian
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For professional artists, as well as art collectors and enthusiasts wanting to present their two-dimensional artworks in the best possible way. This workshop will involve an introduction to hanging framed and unframed artworks under several conditions. Learn the correct hanging height, handling protocols, and other tricks of the trade in the IMA gallery, with special
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Mailbox Art Space is currently seeking exhibition proposals from local and international artists, curators, writers and creative practitioners for our July – November 2017 exhibition program. Mailbox is an alternative public art space that supports artistic experimentation and the exhibition of new, site-specific work. Located in the heart of Melbourne’s Flinders Lane arts precinct, artists are
The Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2017 is a national contemporary acquisitive award presented by Sunshine Coast Council. The Award is open to any artist who is an Australian resident, working in a 2D medium. Forty finalists will be selected for exhibition at the Caloundra Regional Gallery and the winning work will be added to the
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In 2015, Willoughby Council implemented its inaugural Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial. This consisted of five simultaneous exhibitions in various locations and 17 public engagement programs. Over a 16 day period, it attracted well over 2,500 visitors. In 2017, the Biennial promises to drive further creative community engagement by inviting artists to transform public spaces such as lane ways and parks,
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Creative Queenslanders invited to make their mark on Australia’s #startupstate Queensland startups, entrepreneurs and creative thinkers with a keen eye for design are invited to submit a logo concept to brand the Office of the Queensland Chief Entrepreneur in a competition that opened this week. The office, led by Australia’s first chief entrepreneur Mark Sowerby,
In 2017 a new Countess editorial group has been established and we will be designing a new website for Countess, we will continue to publish timely and in-depth posts about gender representation in the art-world as well as expanding the blog’s platform to include regular reviews and creative responses from artists and writers. One key
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Lilith Performance Studio is now welcoming visual artists to apply to Lilith Commissions with a proposal of a new major performance work, which will be realized in Malmö, Sweden, during 2018-2020. Open international call. Lilith Performance Studio is a non-profit arts organization and an independent arena for visual art performance. The Studio initiates new exceptional
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The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation are pleased to announce the 16th annual Inge Morath Award, a $5,000 grant given to a female photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One Awardee and up to two finalists are selected by a jury composed of Magnum
‘Happy Days in the Colony’ is the latest instalment in an ongoing body of work that explores notions of colonisation. The show is divided into two parts. Firstly portraits of actor David Field, aka Fieldsy, dressed in colonial military uniform. As an actor and master storyteller, David has become something of a muse to me. His highly expressive and animated face provides endless
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Brisbane City Council’s Creative Communities team is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) for a creative individual, creative collective or cultural organisation to program and deliver two (2) innovative temporary artistic winter activations between June-July 2017 in the Brisbane CBD. Laneways is an urban activation that transforms the city’s laneways and public places through a program
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Body of Voice gathers themes of baptisms, the witch archetype, and the female scream together in a participation based installation. Oscillating and occulting between speaker, water and air the artist’s scream is free of form, a ghost in and of itself. Here the scream in absence of body becomes a disembodied voice, a sound that
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This is a fascinating time in history to be alive. I want to make paintings that show the way the world looks now and the way the people live in it. What is it about this age that is different to the past? The urban landscape is here now. The story of our civilisation is
Balancing on the threshold of abstraction and figuration, Helle Cook uses painting as language to investigate a sense of home identity. Her enquiry embodies the aesthetic vernacular of an entrant; the endless activity of query and wonder on finding oneself in a new place. In ethereal, bold fields of colour emerges a sense of imagination
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A major collection of artworks by Australian-born artist Denise Green AM was donated to The University of Queensland in 2013. Denise Green’s husband Dr Francis X. Claps MD gave the substantial group of works, which span the artist’s career, through The University of Queensland in America, Inc. Foundation. Dr Claps’s gift of 80 works on paper
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At 5.30pm on Saturday 11 March 2017 Lethbridge Gallery will be hosting our fifth fine art auction. The afternoon will be a fun and entertain affair featuring a selection of well-known Australian artists and also a range of artworks from their own gallery artists. Beautiful pieces at low reserves, up to 50% of retail value.
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Join artists and academics Marian Drew and Ross Gibson, musician and academic Dolly MacKinnon and exhibition curator Michele Helmrich in a conversation exploring emotional geography. How does place, memory and the personal influence contemporary art? What role does emotional geography play in Denise Green’s work currently on display? Associate Professor Marian Drew is one of
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Natacha Arena works with the language of abstraction with an interest in the dialogue between suggestion, perception and representation. Arena’s paintings reveal different territories such as melancholy, struggle, fear and joy – they are personal landscapes where colours, forms and movements create intense sensorial experiences. Arena’s process is instinctive, spontaneous and fast, creating “controlled accidents”,
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Simon Degroot explores abstract forms in relation to a contemporary context of image sharing and exchange in Familiar Beyond Recognition. This collection of works makes use of pre-existing visual elements from diverse sources such as art history, technology, and the built environment. The exhibition investigates varying degrees of viewer recognition of these reused visual elements
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The 2016 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects (TDPA) invited designs for a hypothetical tapestry to hang in the National Gallery of Australia. There is a long-standing historical connection between architectural space and tapestries. The Tapestry Design Prize for Architects is a platform to strengthen this connection between architects and the tapestry weaving practice. On display at Artisan are the designs by
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We are extremely excited to invite you all to our second mous magazine INFORM discussion panel of 2017. Each month we will host a panel where industry professionals will answer questions and provide insight into their field. This month our panel will be about the importance of diverse sexuality representation in media and art. Our
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The impression of our arteries is an exhibition that questions how the heart and the mind convey significant and revealing impressions and intentions through objects, images and the senses. It reflects the circulatory patterns between those one loves, and the feelings, senses, intuition, perception, influence and the impressions that are formed from these bonds.
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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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