Festival Belluard Bollwerk International and Migros Culture Percentage are looking for new or nascent artistic projects happening in unexpected places. The selected projects will be realized at specific or unspecific in- or outdoor spaces in the city, in the countryside or in the nature. The inner space of the Belluard fortress is not available this […]
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Open call for artists for the NordArt 2017 at Kunstwerk Carlshütte in Germany, an annual art exhibition NordArt, taking place since 1999, with about 250 selected artists from all over the world. Artists may submit works and also apply for the international NordArt Symposium, where approximately 10 artists are invited to attend the symposium and create
Come on a journey with Bridie Gillman at SGAR as she discusses her current online exhibition ‘From here’. The slide night will allow you to peak behind the scenes of these still yet enigmatic photographs captured by Gillman’s discerning lens. The quiet moments that permeate this series are filled with signs of life but devoid
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‘Suburban Rituals’ In my family home when I was growing up we had a small room filled with dollhouses that my Grandpa Jim had meticulously crafted in his old age. I had my own fake suburb to play with, and my first real exercises in imagination involved pushing furniture around stage-like rooms to tell a
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Application form available now at: houseconspiracy.org House Conspiracy is the first dedicated residency space of its kind in Brisbane. Over the course of a year we will be curating and facilitating dozens of Brisbane’s emerging creatives in undertaking valuable collaborative and experimental residencies within the space. Everything that is created or that takes place will
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BRIDIE GILLMAN‘s From here is a collection of photographs that reflect the ambiguities which exist within our notions of place. Filled with signs of life, but devoid of any people, Gillman’s scenes of in-betweenness revel in their enigmatic nature. Displaying evidence of human trace in this way is an intrinsic element of the series, making
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‘Beginning to think again – to grasp, to connect, to put together, to remember… Only to remember to remember, or at least remember you have forgotten…. Each forgetting a dismembering. I must never forget again… the terrible danger of forgetting that one has forgotten. It’s too awful.’ – R.D Laing[1] It moves you. Watching Annie
The Visual Art Open [VAO] is a NOT FOR PROFIT event and is administered by a panel of experienced accredited independent art experts. The competition is open to both amateur and professional artists, working in one or more of the following media: drawing, printing, painting, photography, digital art and sculpture. The aim is to give
The City of Gold Coast is searching for an artist to deliver iconic gateways to the Gold Coast that are as visually bold, expressive and memorable as the city itself. The major public artwork will “bookend” the city. Due for installation before the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, this is the latest instalment of arts
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Don’t dive shallow in dark deep water by Hew Chee Fong and From ideas of tending… by Judith Kentish are simultaneous exhibitions at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery that juxtapose the work of two mid-career artists. Like Yin and Yang, the artists’ work share key differences and yet deep similarities. Hew Chee Fong’s exhibition consists of
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YANNICK BLATTNER aligns Australian cricket and art histories for his upcoming exhibition Contrived Circumstances. Blattner’s paintings interrogate cricket’s colonial past and its impact in defining Australia’s cultural characteristics and masculine ethos. Recreating imagery from the culturally and historically engrained sport, Blattner’s work is laced with ambiguity and visual allegories. His reconstructed and anachronistic cricketing scenarios
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An exhibition featuring artists: Rosella Namok, Sharonne Solk, Yvonne Mills-Stanley. Rosella Mamok Rosella Mamok first appeared on the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s to become the most successful artist to come out of Far North Queensland’s renowned Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. Her paintings revolve around several narratives relating to social, physical, and natural
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Griffith University Art Gallery presents Poetic Licence, a special exhibition exploring the role of the auteur in contemporary video art. Poetic Licence draws together six internationally renowned artists who explore the productive and problematic dynamics of artist and subject as well as the ethical lines of investigation and response. Featuring moving image and installation across the disciplines of
The Devise It Yourself Festival (The DIY Festival) is a Brisbane-based, multi-arts festival held in November. Each year, The festival gives over 80 of Brisbane’s brightest emerging artists a platform to present fresh, original work. DIY encourages artists from all backgrounds to create and present new art, which is brought together by a common theme.
The Laundry Artspace is proud to present INDICATE Featuring new work from Holly Bates Jaala Alex Tayla Haggarty Using humour as a gateway to seek deeper contemplation from their audience, the works within the show negotiate various positions of the body through a variety of different mediums including: performance, installation, sculpture and video. Accompanying essay
Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years and has often explored the idea of an innocent and sacred personal world. The fragile ecosystem of human nature and its relationship to the wider natural world is a related and
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Stephen Bird initially trained as a painter but now works across a range of mediums. Bird studied Fine art at Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and post graduate studies at Cyprus Art College. He has made ceramics and sculpture since early 1990’s. Bird has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom, Australia and the
Courtney Coombs has spent the year as Metro Arts’ 2016 Artist in Residence unlearning. Adopting Irigaray’s ‘The Ethical Gesture towards the Other’ as gospel, she has been looking out, looking in and conversing wherever possible to better understand her position in this world and the connections/disconnections that occur as a result. Looking Out will present a small
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“The day capitalism is forced to tolerate non-capitalist societies in its midst and to acknowledge limits in its quest for domination, the day it is forced to recognize that its supply of raw material will not be endless, is the day change will come. If there is any hope for the world at all, it does
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paradise is exactly like where we are right now… 20161203, -27.484338, 153.007804 Join us for the end of Civil Twilight at 6.57pm and Nautical at 7.29pm. Jake Sun is a Brisbane based artist who investigates the intersections of our private and shared experiences of popular culture, art, and lived space. He predominantly works with site-specific,
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In advertising, it is commonly accepted that the voice of the [educated – middle aged] male will produce the most sales. Historically, a similar rhetoric could be applied to sculpture. For her exhibition ‘Show Room’ Herbert will attempt to occupy this role, bringing together an absurd mix of forms and materials spanning from sixties minimalist
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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
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Which I Notice In My Mind is a duo exhibition by Stewart Worthington and Jared and has been the natural collaboration of father and son working through separation and familiarity. Both artists lead entwining journeys sharing in conversation of art, photography and the common interest of social chaos. Reflecting their different personalities both artists are
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Riding along the undercurrents of Turner Prizes and Archibalds, #PRIZENOPRIZE is an exhibition that will champion and democratise art across all media and levels. Think of it as a soft power alternative to the head-churning, nail-biting process that comes with applying for art awards and being shortlisted for the coveted Bachelor rose of the art
Join artist Nick Cave in conversation with Geraldine Barlow, Curatorial Manager, International Art, QAGOMA, in this special event in the lead up to GOMA turning 10. Cave’s HEARD 2012 will feature as part of ‘Sugar Spin: You, me, art and everything’ during GOMA Turns 10, and will be activated in a spectacular performance as part
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Is reality really real or icloudy? Enigmatic, celebrated, and fabulously fugacious curator Denise Foveaux brings together seven artists to uniquely respond to the zeitgeist of wifi-Skype-able transience, of instantly-connectable evanescence, of digital-bitcoin snapchat-ability, of bandwidth-twittering conjecture. What now, they ask, is the nature of reality? Might reality exist without material objects? If so, how does
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‘Lost in Aegean’ is the title of a new ceramics show by Brisbane artist Julie Smeros opening next week at Ari Jewellery Gallery Workshop in New Farm, Brisbane. Smeros is primarily interested in the experience of the first generation Greek Australian. This is expressed in cobalt stained porcelain in the form of plates and amphoras.
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Tyza Stewart will open her Metro Arts studio to the public for a short viewing of her current work on Saturday 26th November, between 3:30pm – 4:30pm. Metro Arts: 109 Edward St, Brisbane City. Tyza’s Studio: studio 3.7 Metro Arts, Level 3 Tyza Stewart experiments with perceptions of their gender identity through an ongoing project of self-portraiture.
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Please join us for the opening event of MINT: QCA Fine Art and Photography honours graduate exhibition 2016. Exhibiting artists: Adam Anderson Hailey Atkins James Barth Jocelyn Boyle Laura Burstow Debbie Bennetts Rebekah Evans Heather Fitzpatrick Emma Gardner Jenna Green James Hornsby Kymberley McElroy Marc Pricop Annelize Mulder Rachael Wellisch Andrew Willis POP Gallery: 27
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Born in Seoul, Korea in 1973, Young-sung Kim is a Korean and New York City based artist. Young-sung Kim creates hyperreal paintings exploring contrasting subject matters to illustrate the differences between the living and the material. Since graduating in 1997 from College of Fine Art, Hongik University, Youngsung Kim’s paintings critique the level at which
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Reprographica is an installation by Poly Gone Cowboy, a creative screen printing business and studio, featuring visual artists Samuel Tupou, James Bourbon and Geoff Monk. This collaborative installation creates new imagery by manipulating graphic materials using outdated modes, from analogue cut-and-paste to 8-bit computer graphics software. The imagery in Reprographica will also feature in the
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Natasha Bieniek will present her latest series of miniature landscape paintings at Jan Murphy Gallery in November. Her award winning work has been widely exhibited nationally and she is currently a Highly Commended finalist in this year’s Archibald Prize with her portrait of Wendy Whiteley. Bloombox continues her recent exploration into landscape painting and is
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Sebastian Moody is under-recognised, but destined to occupy a significant place in the contemporary Australian lexicon. Moody is not constrained by a gallery space, a particular medium, concept or even language, but utilises all of these to present his work. Wit and language have been harnessed in his seminal public art projects, notably at Brisbane
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Tim McMonagle There is something eerily familiar about the trees that have begun to sprout up in Tim McMonagle’s work in recent times. An artist who has spent almost two decades disseminating human nature’s foibles and absurdities through his whimsical compositions, McMonagle has increasingly found himself compelled to consider the curious lifecycle of our majestic
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Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Graduate Exhibition ‘ContiUnity’ showcases major art works by the third year graduates of the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. The theme ‘contiUnity’ contextualises the artists belief in living continuous Australian Indigenous cultures . Together these works amalgamate a diverse range of conceptual and creative works that can be viewed as
Artists: Rachael Sedgman Janet Osborne Christine Houston Nick Lawrence Robert Andrews Chris Macpherson Belinda Giddins Tessa Brown Jac Dyson Xiao Deng Katie Cornell Julie Birks Erena Mercer Mark Sherwood Gabrielle Tucker Margot Tidey About Us: Reframed is a Brisbane-based collective of emerging and mid-career artists working across a diverse range of media and individual art
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