Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival, UNBUTTONED is an electrifying four day program of performance, visual art, film, and party. With affordable prices and promised surprises, book tickets to a show, or just turn up to see what’s on and wind your way through Metro’s six-storey heritage building. ¬¬Improve your technique in the Wank Bank […]
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Title Optional, as a group exhibition, critiques prevailing representations of gender variance in wider culture. With commonalities such as self-imaging and humour, the works release gendered identity from archetypal narratives, and reframe the queer body as an instrument of experience, agency, exploration, and of living. Exhibiting Artists: James Barth Kinly Grey Alex McGovern M’ck Mckeague
This is an $8,000 annual acquisitive award and exhibition, which plays a pivotal role in the ongoing growth of the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection. Fifteen artists are invited to submit work that reflects our art collection’s focus on culture, identity, spirit and sense of place. The judge in 2016 will be Dr Pat
GUAN WEI was born 1957, Beijing, China. In 1989, three years after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University, Guan Wei came to Australia to take up an artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Art. He was invited to undertake two further residencies: one at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
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Curated by Tiffany Atkin and featuring twelve local artists, the exhibition is a mash-up of pop culture, desire and eroticism juxtaposed against traditional Japanese art and iconography. Sparked by a classic Japanese tale of dominance and desire, HANAKO – Art Inspired by the Performance is a bold, visually dynamic group exhibition curated by local multidisciplinary creative
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Preaching to the Perverted presents a new series of sculptures and digitally mediated performances by Anastasia Booth. Employing the material sensuality of Baroque sculpture and the humour of goddess ritual performance, the exhibition poetically investigates Freudian fetishism. Taking its cue from the anthropological objects in Freud’s studio, Preaching to the Perverted considers the gendered rhetoric
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Persona non kata is the first solo exhibition by photo media artist Emma Wright. An exploration of stereotypes, Persona non kata considers the ease with which we use such social shortcuts, and the misunderstanding they facilitate. Using constructed scenes and performance, Wright responds to stereotypes, turning them into absurd self-fulfilling prophecies, challenging the viewer to label her.
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Tessa Bergan, Deborah Eddy and Alicia Hollier are undergraduate students in their final year at QCA. They represent three different experiences of feminism. One Size Fits Most is an exhibition of installation and video works. The artists work in a playful manner using humour to express what feminism means to them at a time when
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‘I kind of hope that history may see me as some sort of bridge between…cultures’ Lin Onus 1990 Jan Manton Art and Mossgreen Gallery Melbourne are excited to announce the first international exhibition dedicated to leading Australian contemporary indigenous artist, Lin Onus (1948-1996). Yinya Wala (Light/Water) will feature 15 extraordinary works by one of Australia’s most successful and influential
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Jugglers Art Space Inc. is pleased to host ‘Drawing Breath’ the first solo exhibition of works by Brisbane based artist, Leonie Chinn. The human subject, in states of spiritual exaltation, expansion and contraction, is the primary object of fascination in these larger scale drawings and paintings. Combining elements of gestural, tonal and figure describing contour
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High Rise Low Rise is a contemporary art Contiki Tour: artworks packed in suitcases, curators on flights to far-flung locales and artists emerging from airport terminals to the sea air of the Gold Coast. It is a touring exhibition of artists from Canberra and the Gold Coast whose disparate practices share regional connections, architectural references
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Lynden Stone’s parody, Sacred Gaia Healing™, examines how capitalist positioning of over-valued services and products targeting New Age gullibility mocks the feminine, nature and ecology as well as ridiculing and devaluing possible underlying merit in the metaphysical, the intuitive and consciousness. Lynden’s alter ego, new-age guru Angelica Leight, is the conscious presence behind Sacred Gaia
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Missing One Another is a special Brisbane Festival commission – an invitation to one of our most exciting visual art duos to create a performative work for Theatre Republic’s big space ‘The Block’. Brisbane-based artistic collaboration Clark Beaumont take aim at the greatest obstacle in our quest for authentic connection and mutual understanding – the
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Re: Out and On is a collaborative project between Queensland poets and jewellers. Running off the back of the Queensland poetry festival, and interested in collaboration and connecting creatives, BUSYBRICK has coupled poets with jewellers. Poets were asked to submit one poem, written and recorded, which the paired jeweller has responded to in the form
AV is a short film and video art festival that will showcase works from local artists. AV is an all ages event so join us from 7pm for popcorn, baked goods and drinks. Entry is $5 at the door. The films will start rolling from 7:30pm and after all the works have been exhibited there
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In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the parliamentary lawns in Canberra to challenge the status, treatment, and rights of Aboriginal people in Australia. As a direct quotation of this activist strategy of protest, Richard Bell’s own Embassy (2013–) is a public space for imagining and articulating alternate futures and reflecting on or
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Investigating perceptions of ideal beauty and femininity, ~VENUS~ aims to reconsider representations of female purity and perfection in popularised western art and film. Kevill-Davies uses humour as a vehicle to challenge the illusion of feminine perfection and mythology, toying with the viewers’ sense of reality through digital manipulation and scale distortion. Kevill-Davies creates staged environments
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Curated by Katherine Dionysius and Amy-Clare McCarthy, FUTURE PROOF showcases new work by four recent Queensland graduates: Holly Bates, Spencer Harvie, Annie Macindoe and Matthew Sneesby. This exhibition is part of the 2016 BARI program. Image: Annie Macindoe ‘Prepositions of Time and Place’ 2016.
HyperHyper brings together a diverse body of work from several Brisbane-based artists. Across a range of mediums the work interrogates themes of material supremacy, new media, gaze, perception and visibility. Process and product map a perspective in turn sympathetic and critical. ARTISTS : James Atyeo James Blake Nicholas Brocchi and Kat Martian Nicola Scott VENUE:
Yonder is a collaborative multi-arts warehouse event curated by three Brisbane based arts organisations featuring performances from a number of emerging Brisbane bands, visual art exhibitions, live painting activations and physical performances. Each of the contributing organisations have a history of producing innovative events supporting the emerging arts in Brisbane with a focus on inclusion
Part of Peter Breen’s life narrative is his unavoidable attraction to silence, stillness, thresholds and liminal spaces in the pursuit of mystery and spiritual realities. This exhibition of working drawings and painted sketches represent his exploration of silence through two media: the writings of Thomas Merton – mystic and Trappist monk and, Peter’s recent holiday
‘Unique Forms’ is an exhibition showcasing artists who explore the abstraction and reduction of the human form through continuous line work, photography, collage and paint. The exhibition encourages the audience to create their own interpretation of the artworks, to connect with and discover organic shapes not often promoted in our modern society. Featured artists include
Guy Maestri will present a new series of paintings and sculptural works in his exhibition, Unearth, at Jan Murphy Gallery. The much-admired artist has exhibited widely nationally and won numerous awards, including the 2009 Archibald Prize. Known for his bold en plein air paintings, the landscapes in this exhibition are the result of a three
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In this workshop, established maker Lisa Guy will teach you the skills to make your very own contemporary hand woven wall hanging. You’ll use a weaving loom and beautiful wool and cotton yarns to create your own unique design. Because the class size is small you’ll get plenty of one-on-one assistance from Lisa. You will
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“I’m trying to be a realist but it’s unrealistic,” Coleman muses before considering the turn of phrase. She and I laugh, but the quote brings to mind an earlier theme of our discussion, the minimalist sculptors of the mid-to-late twentieth century, and specifically Carl Andre. “They’ve had their time,” she twinkles, and though I agree,
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Call for applications for Archisle for the position of Photographer in Residence 2017, based on the British Channel Island of Jersey. The residency runs for 6 months. Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise (Jersey Society) in the British Channel Island of Jersey aims to promote contemporary photography through an ongoing programme of
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Currently completing his honours degree in Digital Media, Jason Haggerty has a multidisciplinary practice that spans sculpture and sound, generative and live video, interactive installation and performance. Based on the Gold Coast, Haggerty has a multidisciplinary practice that spans sculpture and sound, generative and live video, interactive installation and performance. He has exhibited across Australia in
crosseXions is an exhibition where feminist and environmental concerns can be said to cross over. Though nothing is quite as obvious as this may suggest. Beth Jackson the curator of this quiet and somewhat diffident exhibition speaks of the “cooperative investment” and the “flux of the interpersonal” through which it developed. “Involved and evolving”, Jackson
What’s YAJA? YAJA gives journalism, media and art students the opportunity to showcase their talent in capturing art and culture in a creative way. YAJA connects students and fresh graduates with media opportunities and audiences in the art industry. YAJA offers industry recognition and mentoring. Yes we think globally. We love to experience your culture.
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Frontier imaginaries is a new multi-platform project that explores the condition of the frontier with the era of globalisation, conceived by guest curator and QUT alumnus, Vivian Ziherl, through a one-year Institute of Modern Art (IMA)Curatorial Fellowship. The exhibition will take place across two Brisbane contemporary art venues; No longer at ease at the IMA
Kirra Jamison’s latest body of work is a continuation of her exploration into large scale botanical shapes and forms. Currently based in Melbourne, Jamison hails from Byron Bay and is graduate of the Queensland College of Art at Griffith University in Brisbane. She completed further study at the world recognised California Institute of the Arts.
Jenny Watson is a Melbourne born artist with a career spanning over 30 years of art practice. She received a diploma of Painting from the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in 1972 and a Diploma of Education from the State College of Victoria in 1973. Her first solo exhibition took place at Powell Street
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From targeted espionage to automated spyware and data retention, the common idea of spying has morphed alongside the capabilities of government agencies and global businesses to widely harvest large amounts of data. Spying is no longer primarily associated with targeted identification of individuals, but rather the continuous monitoring of citizens. This increase in sample size,
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Artist – David M. Thomas I have exhibited my work for a quarter of a century. I have seen the idea of art change a lot in this time. This exhibition will map the shifts in my attitudes along the way. For me the job title “Artist” was a synonym for freedom…now it would seem
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Liquid Architecture Brisbane 2016: Puce Mary Johannes Kreidler Thembi Soddell Tralala blip Listening at the Edge of a Knife: a tension and a balance between a sense (that one listens to) and a truth (that one understands) Presented in association with Room40 FRI 26 August 2016 Puce Mary (Denmark) Precision industrial noise music from Copenhagen’s
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Artist: Athene Currie These performative videos act as a rite of passage, the desire to find the true or whole self in the transformation through midlife. Jacques Lacan used the term méconnaissance to designate an imaginary misrecognition, reflecting ones mistaken identity. This transition through midlife where self is thrown into question, can be described as a time of reflection,
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