The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait painting competition in the world and represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £30,000, and a total prize fund of £61,000, the Award is aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop portraiture in their work. The competition is […]
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a $25,000 acquisitive art awardamong the most significant of its kind in the country. Inaugurated in 2006, the Prize is generously supported by the Parents and Friends’ Association of PLC Sydney. Named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman,Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry who taught Art at PLC
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For xCoAx, the 5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, to be held in Lisbon in July 2017, a call for submissions – exploring the intersection where computational tools and media meet art and culture. Since 2013, xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and exchange ideas, in search of interdisciplinary synergies among
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Meet the Makers showcases what is unique to Artisan: Queensland makers and their stories. With a festive marketplace atmosphere and makers in residence throughout the exhibition, visitors will be able to witness makers at work and have the opportunity to hear about and buy their creations. The exhibition also launches the Meet the Makers page on
Every February, Aspire runs our favourite and most popular competition – ‘petite pieces’ – to kick off another year of amazing exhibitions. ‘petite pieces’ is a 40 cm x 40 cm x 40 cm, open theme, open medium competition with numerous prizes to be won. For more information please visit the – Website
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Carrie McCarthy of Cultural Flanerie is calling for all early and mid career unrepresented artists to submit work proposals for an exclusive series of exhibitions with Queensland design institution Ambience Store. All styles and formats will be considered (unless you’re a performance artist who rolls around in ketchup or something. That’s unlikely to work here,
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Creative Workshops Available at The Burrow Art Gallery Every Tuesday and Thursday night 4:30-6:00pm and 7:30-9pm (1 hour 30 minute sessions) Classes start September 22 For more information please visit the – Website
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The Stock Exchange Hotel is calling artists wishing to showcase/sell their work in our humming function rooms. We have two beautiful rooms that are constantly filled with Brisbane City corporate clients. This is a rare opportunity to present your work to a vast quantity of clients and if your art is sold, you will take 100%
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88 Gallery is a newly established contemporary art space – which is part of the Mindful Origins Hub, located in the Redcliffe Peninsula, Queensland. The gallery is a unique arts platform focused on supporting local and emerging artists. Our exhibitions support an array of emerging talent from diverse creative disciplines including but not limited to –
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Little Wonder is a body of ten works about the Karakoram Highway. The highway connects China to Pakistan and due to its high altitude, stunning natural surrounds and extreme construction, is often referred to as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World”. From jingle trucks (aptly named because the US troops thought they jingled due to the high level of
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Rising artist Maaret Sinkko will hold her first Brisbane solo exhibition at Woolloongabba Art Gallery on Friday 9 December. Titled ‘moon of suburbia’, the exhibition explores the transient nature of people in Queensland regional towns – in this case, Yeppoon – on the coast near Rockhampton. Sinkko’s work has become well-known and popular in Central
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Join Lisa Guy from Made In Lisa Land to make your own linen string bag using beautiful European linen string and 100% leather. Learn how to crochet this gorgeous bag using hand carved hooks in a relaxed, creative environment. Absolutely NO crochet experience is needed and you are guaranteed to finish your bag in the
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‘Dr Seuss’ is the pseudonym name created by editorial cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel. Theodor began his career as a little-known editorial cartoonist in the 1920s, his artwork became the platform from which he delivered forty-four children’s books, more than 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds of advertisements, and countless editorials filled with wonderfully inventive animals, characters,
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At the height of the Italian quattrocento, the prosperity of Venice was considerably strengthened by the sale of oltremare de venecia (Venetian overseas goods). Imported products such as pepper, ginger, nutmeg and cloves found themselves combined with local ingredients that re-invigorated culinary and medical traditions. Importantly, the trade of spices provided an entry point for
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Four emerging curators and five Flying Arts Queensland artists have come together to present Shift, an exhibition that investigates the transience of change and its capacity to be both transformative and destructive. Featuring artists working in differing mediums, this exhibition is set to investigate and interpret the meaning of Shift through video installations, photography, works
AWOL at Vung Tau Beach is a project by Isaac Brown that aims to create new dialogue in the artist’s relationship with his father. The project explores the use (and limits) of contemporary documentary photography storytelling practices to construct visual letters. The first section, “sent letters”, contains letters that have been specifically made and delivered
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Supported by Canon Australia, Wilkinson presents her first photographic exhibition comprising powerful portraits of ten Australian women who have inspired her and influenced modern Australia. She shares their stories through this series of images that, for her, represent the beauty, strength, diversity and absolute resilience of Australian women. In her own words, Lisa reveals why
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Turn! Turn! Turn! Reconsidering Art as Historiography In this lecture, co-presented with Monash University Museum of Art, international curator Dieter Roelstraete considers his past notions of art as an historical or historiographic tool using retrospective exercises. Reflecting on what was once a powerful trend in contemporary art during the first decade and a half of
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Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 1st Annual International “Open-No Theme” Online Art Competition for the month of November 2016. Contemporary Art Gallery Online encourages entries from all 2D and 3D 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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An Evolving Thesis is an online exhibition residency program set up in 2016 (and lunching in January 2017) to celebrate developments in digital art. The program aims to encourage wider interest in new media and born digital content and to provide a free platform for Australian-based emerging artists to showcase their work. The exhibition space
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Onespace’s second exhibition profiles recent work by celebrated Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson. It is also Robinson’s first ever solo show in Brisbane. Robinson’s exhibition, Myth & Marvel, a series of dramatic linocut prints, describes the unique cultural fusion in which he works. This lively and imaginative aesthetic has marked Robinson’s mature artistry, which
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Created to celebrate the diversity of the LGBTIQ community, the MELT Portrait Prize returns in 2017 as an opportunity for visual artists to celebrate their heroes and document figures in the community. During MELT a selection of shortlisted artworks of the LGBTI+ community submitted by artists from Brisbane and beyond will be exhibited in the second
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An International Platform for Pioneering Ideas As an international platform for knowledge transfer, Forecast offers pioneers from anywhere in the world working in various disciplines the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition, and to present them to the public. Forecast transcends the boundaries of disciplines and genres to provide
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The House of Mirrors is a grotesquely fascinating walk-through installation composed of a labyrinth of seemingly endless mirrors. Since the 19th Century, mirror mazes have been trapping and reflecting participants, challenging those that venture into them, both physically and psychologically, resulting in delight, amazement and sometimes, fear. The House of Mirrors includes Kaleidoscopic like chambers,
With a focus on local artists, writers, artist-run initiatives and independent projects, BNE ART publishes essays, reviews and news associated with Brisbane’s visual arts sector. BNE ART is opening applications for the following opportunities: BNE ART Writing Editor (Internship) Emerging Arts Writers (Reviews, Essays and News) BNE ART Writing Editor In 2017, BNE ART
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We are currently seeking proposals for our inaugural fashion exhibitions program happening in 2017. Born out of a lack of spaces in Brisbane for fashion practitioners to show work outside of blockbuster exhibition spaces or commercial showcases, our exhibition program is based on the foundations of public engagement, rigour and experimental practice. It seeks to
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Side Gallery is reflecting on the first year of exhibitions. We’ve gathered together a selection of artworks by artists who participated in our 2016 program. Some of these works may be familiar while many of them are new and all are small and intimate: affordable gifts for the festive season. Shown together they generate a
Limits to Growth is the first survey exhibition of Melbourne-based artist Nicholas Mangan. Bringing together five major projects made between 2009 and 2016, the show has been co-developed by the Institute of Modern Art, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; and the Kunst-Werke Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin. Together we have also co-published the first monograph
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William Mackinnon will present his first solo exhibition in Queensland at Jan Murphy Gallery in November. Known for his large scale landscape paintings, Mackinnon’s richly textured and evocative works are as much a portrayal of his internal world as they are of the physical world. A well recognised Australin painter, he was a finalist in
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The Arrivals’ is an exhibition of new work by Sydney-based artist Khadim Ali and features sculptural installation, large-scale rugs and the artist’s distinctive paintings made in the miniaturist tradition. Opening Event: Friday 25 November, 6 – 8pm IMAGE: Khadim Ali, The Arrivals #6 2016, Gouache and goldleaf on wasli paper, 75 x 55 cm, Courtesy of the artist
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“Black Geometry is produced as a primary investigation into drawing, done with the traditional approach of utilising graphite on paper. The act of drawing can represent a fluid and immediate articulation of thought and being in the world. My drawing practice explores a position where existential aesthetics, usually associated with literature, can be placed and
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A live sonic-cinema event, fusing the surround sound atmospherica of HHAARRPP (Luke Jaaniste) with the stunning ambient landscapes of JNXYZ (Jona Nalder). A vast golden sky. A dazzling ocean shore. Music that drags your heart to the heavens. An infinite dawn. So much time to dissolve. Premiering the extended versions of two mesmerising music-films “Blood
“The exhibition Repetitious Rituals brings together current work from 12 students in the Jewellery and Small Objects Studio at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. The exhibiting artists have utilised repetition and the empirical knowledge gained through the acquisition of skill through repeated actions as a stimulus for their work. Whilst these actions can seem
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The DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence programme (BKP) is one of the world’s most renowned programmes, offering grants to artists in the fields of visual arts, film, literature and music. Applications are invited from writers, composers and filmmakers. Visual artists will be by invitation only (no applications!). This is an award scholarship: the scholarships are granted to extraordinary
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Vacationer is a small exhibition of paintings and sculptures produced by Ben Landers over the past 10 years. Images of mainstream pastimes, such as mini-golf, video games and table tennis, feature in many of these works coupled with a home-grown aesthetic characteristic of skate culture. As an artist who often uses materials and techniques commonly
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Peter Kozak is an emerging artist whose practice focuses on representations of human fragility and vulnerability in video and video performance art. In this exhibition Kozak looks at our relationship with objects, marked in some way by human activity, that have been discarded, lost or intentionally left out in the elements. As opposed to the
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