‘No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016’ presents work by artists from Papua New Guinea created from the mid-1960s, through Independence in 1975, until today. The exhibition focuses on the vibrancy of contemporary artistic expression, a direction that is unique in Australia. A key conceptual thread within ‘No.1 Neighbour’ is the importance of the […]
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Both Erika and Louise, circle around a certain simulated quality of reality, their works are stand-ins for something else, for intimacy, interiority or domesticity, but also perhaps for something real-ish where the redundancy of the cliche would have ordinarily sufficed. They speculate on the different shapes that personal space can take and what each of
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Brisbane Street Art Festival presents ‘1 DEGREE’, this first night of ‘1 DEGREE // 2 DEGREES’, an exhibtion series presenting work by Brisbane’s female artists and creatives in an live, two night event. At 1 DEGREE all artists will be within one degree of separation from the curator, whilst 2 DEGREES will be comprised of
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Experiencing the ebb and flow of life in a capital city, it is easy to become consumed by the gurgling hum of activity. It sparks and pulses like an amped-up generator. We slip from one task to the next, leaving ourselves behind in the process. The lights flicker and the air vibrates warmly around us.
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‘Quadrat’ explores the relationship between a scientific way of seeing the world by measuring, quantifying and collecting and the inherently subjective nature of human endeavour. It demonstrates how art and science can inform each other in order to create meaning and further knowledge. Both artists are facilitating and brokering unique flashpoints between the disciplines of
The Curve of Sensations considers the mediation of perceptual experience by technological apparatuses such as cameras, screens and viewing devices. The works in the exhibition foreground the role of technology as both generator and mediator of everyday experience, subjecting domestic technologies, such as televisions, digital photo frames and media players, to d.i.y. interventions and deconstructions.
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Twenty-two artists will showcase their work in the inaugural ‘Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting’ finalist exhibition. Featuring the best watercolour artworks from across Australia, the exhibition opens Thursday 9 February at Griffith University’s Webb Gallery, located within the Queensland College of Art South Bank campus, Brisbane. Special guest judge, artist Michael Zavros
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The Intimist’s Garden Stella Rosa McDonald Sally Anderson paints like a writer: treating every picture as if it were a phrase, butting one arrangement up against another to form a single painted line. Sometimes the painting forms the sentence, as when LJ’s Mum’s Hydrangeas completes Bendalong With Luc Tuyman’s Black Heath. At other times language
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An exhibition of Creative Pastels, Paintings Sculptures. Opening Night: 6-9pm Friday 17th February 2017 http://www.terrysummers.com
What is Environmental Art, and who are its main proponents? Learn about the history and current practices within this fast growing contemporary art form. Be inspired to work with young people to encourage them to make Environmental Art across multiple disciplines, including drawing, storytelling, recycled art, printing and performance art. Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Many of the online definitions for ‘mote’ relate it to a perceptual impediment, a speck of dust in our eyes. The dynamic nature of perception, constantly reshaping the reception and evaluation of an artist’s creative output, remains an integral concern within contemporary art practice. That our perception changes as contexts change is now commonly understood,
Registration and submission for the International Design Competition Designpreis Halle 2017 is online. Call to submit concepts / projects / products / etc. on the topic of “time” – designers and students aged under 40 years are invited to participate. It is about time. For the fourth time the Designpreis Halle is awarded with a total
The Other Art Fair provides a unique platform for artists to showcase their work to gallerists, curators, critics and collectors. In addition to artwork sales, these four days enable artists to launch their work in the contemporary art world, gauge the public’s response to their pieces and meet fellow artists for potential future collaborations. There
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The 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (from 18th to 21st of May 2017) is launching the call for entries for 2017 and invites you to look together with us towards the #PostFuture. #PostFuture / Can you imagine the future? In the late 90’s Negroponte stated that “the digital revolution is over”. Almost two decades later and
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The Muswellbrook Art Prize is an acquisitive art competition held biennially (during odd-numbered years). This competition is launched early in the year, with entry forms usually becoming available towards the end of the previous year.We recommend you subscribe to the Art Centre’s Email newsletter, or follow us on Facebook for announcements of the Muswellbrook Art Prize competition launch.The Muswellbrook
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Council invites Brisbane artists to submit an expression of interest for the Recycling Art Competition 2017 by 30 January 2017. This competition explores the creative potential of reusing and recycling household items and furniture. It also aims to inspire people to see the possibility in items that may have otherwise have been thrown away. The
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Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 4th Annual Themed International “All PAINTINGS” Online Art Competition for the month of January 2017. Contemporary Art Gallery Online encourages entries from all painting medium artists regardless of their experience or education in the art field. A group exhibition of all entrants will be held online at Contemporary Art
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In the Balance featuring paintings by Californian artist Kimberly Rowe and Denver based artist Paul Owen Weiner. Paul’s recent works deal with the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, which occurred in the community the artist grew up in and lived in at the time of the shooting. This disaster, in which 82 people were killed or
Mote: a tiny piece of a substance; a speck: the tiniest mote of dust. QCA Galleries warmly invites you to the opening of “mote”, an exhibtion by QCA alumnus Ally McKay, Tess Mehonoshen and Naomi O’Reilly at the Webb Gallery Venue: WEBB Gallery, QCA South Bank Campus, 226 Grey Street Opening Event: Friday, 13 January
As 2016 draws to a close we would like to take a moment to look both ways – back at the successful year gone by and forward to the exciting road ahead. This year we launched our inaugural residency with two up and coming artists, hosted a range of vibrant online exhibitions, and delivered a
This collection of recent work by Cladius and John ruminates on past relationships, processing the loss, grief, and anger into objects of reflection; reflections of times, places, and people they can no longer visit. Free / All ages / Equal rights and freedoms. Beer / wine (sugg. donation $5) / BYO friendly. Vegan food available
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We’re kicking off 2017 with a celebration of our artistic program and we want you to join us. This year we’ve programmed something for every taste including tantilising contemporary art from around the globe and unique experiments that put the cherry on top. Collect a drink, grab a bite to eat and get insider goss
We are very pleased to present our first exhibition of the 2017 exhibition program: Hillary Green + Friends: Born to Be Alive, a fundraising benefit for artist Hillary Green, curated by Jay Younger. In mid-2016, Hillary was diagnosed with Leiomyosarcoma which has since spread into her pelvic wall. This is a crucial time in Hillary’s
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QCA Galleries warmly invites you to “Erehwon”, curated by Associate Professor Donal Fitzpatrick. Artists: Sara Irannejad, Piyali Ghosh, Doyoung Lee, Vanghoua Anthony Vue, Yoko Lance, Thirawut Bunyasakseri, Tingting Li and Sha Sarwari “With reference to Samuel Butler’s book ‘Erewhon’ and its particular influence on Giles Deleuze’s construction of ‘nomadism’ and his concept of ‘difference’, the
Cut Thumb Laundry warmly invite you to our first collaborative event for the year, Gimme Gimme More! A fundraising night full of beer, punch, snags and ART, all to raise funds for our collaborative efforts as the new ARI in residence at Metro Arts. Borrowing from Britney Spears’ 2007 single, Gimme Gimme More! will feature
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“The works in this exhibition are an exploration of the governmental process forced upon the Murrie, Koorie, Noongar, Nunga, Anangu, Palawah and Yamatji peoples from contact until today. These works explore the fundamental approach to the Murrie, Koorie, Noongar, Nunga, Anangu, Palawah and Yamatji people’s humanity being a reflected ideology of Eurocentric construction. Human beings
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Celebrate with five full days of artist workshops, talks, performances, films and tours for kids, adults and everyone at the GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival. Other highlights include a bumper-size edition of Up Late across Friday and Saturday evenings, and an adults only workshop event ‘Arts & Craft After Dark’. Download the Summer Festival Guide
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Janet Laurence is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. Her evocative and lyrical works often reference architecture and the natural environment, and engage with the interconnections between art, science, imagination and memory. Join the artist and Kyla McFarlane (Acting Curatorial Manager, Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art), for a discussion on
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Created to celebrate the diversity of the LGBTI+ Community, the MELT Portrait Prize is an opportunity for Visual Arts across the globe to celebrate their heroes in the LGBTI+ Community. During MELT a selection of shortlisted artworks submitted by artists from Brisbane and beyond will be exhibited in the annual MELT Portrait Prize, with the overall
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As a special feature of the GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival, join comedian Tim Ross and artist Sam Cranstoun for the most ridiculous art class of all time. Why should the kids get to have all the fun with egg cartons and pipe cleaners? Who hasn’t been jealous when their kid has made a spaceship
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House Conspiracy is Brisbane’s newest artists’ residency space opening February 3rd, seeking to empower artists through provision of free residencies, workshop, and showcase spaces. More than one hundred artists will receive support from House Conspiracy in 2017. At least 68 of these artists will participate in the ground-breaking Emerging Artist Residencies program. This program supports
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Aaron Butt’s practice is concerned with unexpected, affective and apophenic responses to found images, objects and text which are then contextualised in psychoanalytic and neuroscientific frameworks. Working across a range of media, affective responses are recorded yet abstracted in order to promote new connections and experiences, both real and imagined. Aaron Butt is an artist
Vyksa-10000 invites international artists to take a part in a contest for the largest mural in the world. The Vyksa-10000 international contest is organized by the Art-Ovrag festival in Vyksa, Russia. The mural painting contest celebrates the 25th anniversary of the United Metallurgical Company (OMK) and the 260th anniversary of the metallurgical plant in Vyksa. Vyksa
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CLUTCH collective is now accepting proposals for our 2017 exhibition program. The program will consist of one-night shows in the back of a three-ton truck. CLUTCH is especially interested in supporting new work by emerging Brisbane based artists. CLUTCH is seeking both individual and collaborative visual artists working across all mediums as well as writers
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Involving Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, writers and songwriters, East Coast Encounter re-imagines the 1770 encounter by James Cook and his crew with Aboriginal people. This project has been developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast and assisted by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Australian Government through the Ministry for the
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Artists are invited to submit works in the 2017 Cambridge Studio Gallery (CSGallery) WHO is LOOKING at YOU? Portrait Prize from August, 2016. WHO is LOOKING at YOU? is for works depicting the human face as its subject matter. All mediums accepted and unique approaches encouraged. Entries close midnight 31 January, 2017. For more information
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