In 2016, the UQ Art Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary. Over its history much has changed: four directors have guided the institution’s core cultures; the Art Museum, first established in the top two floors of the University’s Forgan Smith Tower, moved to the repurposed Mayne Centre – formerly the University’s Graduation Hall; and the University’s […]
This series of work continues Hoffie’s ongoing focus on the nature of work, a focus that has continued for three decades as part of the Fully Exploited Labour theme. In this new body of work the artist has constructed and painted a small ‘hi-vis’ army of men, fifteen hand-made and hand painted, each of them
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2016 Finalists: Aaron Butt (QLD) Alinta Krauth (QLD) Anna Louise Richardson (WA) Anna Madeleine (ACT) Anthony Bartok (NSW) Brooke Ferguson (QLD) Catherine or Kate (QLD) Charlie Donaldson (QLD) Cyrus Tang (VIC) David Greenhalgh (NSW) Dean Cross (NSW) Elizabeth Willing (QLD) Harriet Body (NSW) Jack Mitchell (QLD) Katherine Clayton (QLD) Kenny Pittock (VIC) Leo Coyte (NSW)
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Outside In gives artists the opportunity to show their work in a unique way to a wide audience, impacting directly on the quality of life for patients, visitors and staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane (SVPHB). Every day, the Outside In exhibitions transform the entire hospital environment. Now in its third year, Outside In
This prize is for drawing in either traditional drawing media and techniques, or non-traditional works that extend understanding of what drawing may be within contemporary art practice. M16 Artspace is a community-based, not-for-profit art organisation that seeks to provide an inclusive space for the practice and exhibition of art within the Canberra art community and
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Calling all artists of various expertise and levels in the 2D visual arts field. The 4th round of KAAF Art Prize is officially open. Download entry forms directly from our website to submit entry via email or postal entries are also accepted. This art prize is only for visual artists in the 2D field and excludes artworks
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Comprising new work, ‘from ideas of tending’, explores the artists’ ongoing interest in material with an essential focus on the time-based aspect of art-making, where labour intensive process and consideration of material is paramount. Official opening: 10 September 2016 Time: Monday – Friday: 9.00am – 4.00pm Saturday: 9.00am – 3.00pm Location: Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
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Entries are now open for The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting. This is a unique triennial art prize that aims to celebrate excellence and innovation in the watercolour medium. This non-acquisitive prize is open to all Australian artists and selected finalists will be exhibited in the Webb Gallery, located within Griffith University’s
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This is an exhibition about material transforming, from a lump of dirt into a myriad of forms. Clay is an expressive material, from the belly of a bowl to the gestural marks of an abstract sculpture there is something seductive about clay, it calls out for human touch. The making of an artwork in the
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We invite you to enter our 4th annual Emerging Talent Awards, which are dedicated to discovering the best emerging photographers from all over the world. Our international jury will select 50 outstanding photographers — from all cultures, all points of view, with no age limit. Awards will include a digital gallery exhibition at the International
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We are looking. Seeing. Peering, through the two skin-wreathed holes in our skull. The two holes situated slightly apart from each other, each containing an evolutionary feat. An eye. Together they make our stereo vision. They give us a sense to perceive depth. I’m looking at a flat surface and It reflects this depth of the space
Fiona West uses handcrafted animation techniques including ink drawings, cut-outs, sand and pigments to interrogate portability as a narrative construct and to express her responses to movement, displacement and topical events. Image: Fiona West Out, damned spot 2016, Video still.
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Philip Wolfhagen’s landscape paintings lead us in different directions simultaneously. On the one hand they offer quintessential glimpses of a potentially infinite terrain. On the other hand, these painterly depictions of earth, sea and sky engage us with their tendency towards minimal abstraction. In Wolfhagen’s paintings, mood and feeling transcend detail. His is a landscape
Photographer and filmmaker Alana Potts reflects on growing up in Byron Bay through a new series of analogue photographs, Salty. Unedited and raw, the photographs exuding youthful recklessness and freedom, set to the backdrop of the north coast New South Wales bush. Salty is summer on film – salt, sand and surf. Potts took to
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‘Plenty’ is an exhibition that explores our interconnectedness and dependence on the natural world. Featuring Artists: Davida Allen, Chris Bennie, Renata Buziak, Felix Cehak, Daniel Della Bosca, Alana Hampton, Kelly Hussey-Smith, Kay Lawrence, Donna Marcus, Merete Meggarity, Daro Montag, Bruce Reynolds, Peter Thiedeke and Marian Drew. For most of human history, the natural world appeared
Taking its title from an artwork by Destiny Deacon, ‘Over the fence’ features the work of 18 Indigenous artists engaged in the field of photography. Indigenous art is often political, and these artists address various contentious issues, including identity, representation, racism, religious influence and the exploitation of land. The artworks in ‘Over the fence’ are
Bridie Gillman completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours Class 1 at the Queensland College of Art in 2013. Her practice is focused on the nature and process of negotiating cross-cultural experiences. By drawing on time spent in Indonesia as a child and her extensive travel as an adult, Bridie’s interdisciplinary practice articulates experiences of existing between
Khadi, India’s national fabric, crafts a compelling narrative linking it inextricably to the country’s history and to Mahatma Gandhi. Hand spun and hand-woven, the making of khadi today provides livelihoods to people spread out in the vastness of rural India. In a world that is increasingly directing its attention to things sustainable and eco-friendly, and
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Performing Cinema presents a range of video works by Australian artists that turn to cinema as a method through which to interpret performance. Each work focuses on human performance, and harkens to histories of performance art. However, instead of attempting a stark documentary recording of an ephemeral gesture, the works turn to cinema, its history
For one night only, SX+ Collective presents ‘Real Live Nude’, an immersive installation and performance art exhibition where you are invited to enter an otherworldly dreamspace inspired by the oft-maligned, but mostly misunderstood realm of strip clubs and sex-work. Exploring the good, bad, beautiful and in-between bits of a profession rarely promoted for its feminist
The vanishing point where sky and sea connect seems such a familiar concept, yet when gazing into the hazed atmosphere of a seascape we tend to lose all sense of space, resulting in an experience that is indescribable and awe-inspiring. When living in the remote islands of the Torres Strait I spent many hours lost
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UNSEEN is the second collaborative effort from Brisbane photographers Justin Ma and Thomas Oliver. This instalment at Bean. is a selection of street photographs, taken by Justin and Thomas, from in and around Brisbane’s CBD during the last two years. For many of us, spectacular moments flutter past our eyes at a hurried pace and
This exhibition is part of the Year of Print Celebrations to commemorate the Print Council of Australia’s 50th year anniversary. Disrupt 2016 at Jugglers Art Space features 30 Artists engaged in Print as a democratic and diverse medium. Join us on opening night for what will be an eclectic show featuring some of the freshest
REDSEA Gallery is delighted to present the much anticipated solo exhibition, “SPECTRUM” by Gary Winfield. With a fresh collection of vivid splashes and the uncertainty of colour mixing, Gary’s work is unique and distinct in style. The scale of his paintings is necessary to capture Gary’s ideas of philosophy, reality and states of consciousness. With
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Now What? is the 2016 Visual Arts QUT Graduate Exhibition Please join us for the opening night on Thursday, November 10 at 6:00pm at Z13 Gona Parade, Kelvin Grove QUT. Now What? will be the first Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition held in QUT’s new Creative Industries Precinct, showcasing the diverse practices of 26 emerging contemporary
Horizon is a celebration of QUT’s graduating Interactive and Visual Design students. These fresh graduates are prepared for their ever-changing roles as creatives within the design industry. Please join us as they draw on their learning, creations and achievements to showcase a real world perspective of applied creativity. Graduate website: https://horizon16.com/
Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 4th Annual International “ALL Colors” Online Art Competition for the month of October 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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Join renowned opera singer Conal Coad to hear insights into the art collection of him and his partner, Colin Beutel, where he will discuss his fascination with printmaking, early modernism and abstraction. Alongside his successful international opera career, Coad’s long-held passions include collecting the work of little-known Australian women artists such as Dorrit Black and
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Suss It Out is Post Datum’s second exhibition of 2016 to be held at Hassell Studio. The show will survey student work responding to the phrase and theme “suss it out” through sculpture, video, print, painting and photography. Suss is a term often used in Australian slang meaning “to investigate or figure out”. Sussing out
In conjunction with Brisbane Artist Run Initiaive (BARI) Festival and Arts Queensland, In Residence presents Home 2. In Queensland, we are encouraged to subscribe to an ideal mode of living, one that involves working hard in order to one day own a home. The development and persistence of this shared mentality has resulted in the
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We are faced with interconnected disruptive events driven by rapid changes in the environment, industry, technology and migration. Emerging is a perspective where the future is no longer something we shape through positive insights or choices, but rather something we confine to narrow perspectives or threats. However, we have an opportunity to create new spaces
Walking to the edge of a small cliff is a video installation by Brisbane-based artist Benjamin Crowley presented inside the CLUTCH Collective truck for BARI Festival, 2016. The work will be a reiteration developed from previous works created during Crowley’s 2014 Iceland residency. The video documents a gesture in which the artist kicks rocks off
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James Street RESORT is back for its third instalment from October 12–15 after a hugely successful showing last year. Take a hike through this year’s urban vacation as we travel headfirst into nature’s own utopia – the James Street National Park. RESORT celebrates James Street as a creative hub for fashion, lifestyle, art and design influenced by
Clay Mahn received his BFA in painting from the University of Montana’s College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2012. He has since been living and working throughout the Pacific Northwest, from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, and currently resides in Chicago. Mahn’s paintings utilize pattern and repetition to emphasize visual effects and compositional simplicity. By fracturing
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Presented by Architecture Australia in partnership with Living Edge, AA Roundtable is a free public forum presented in the new Living Edge showroom. Join a discussion about the new urban precincts shaping Brisbane, chaired by Michael Keniger, contributing editor to Architecture Australia. The Panel: Ingrid Richards: co-founded Richards & Spence Architects in 2018 with
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Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art bring you 40 years of contemporary visual art from the young and dynamic nation of Papua New Guinea – with works focusing on the country’s relationship with Australia. Join the opening weekend for colourful live performances, artist talks, curator tours and more – all free, no bookings required.
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