“My paintings speak of a desire to create sanctuary for the self” says Miranda Skoczek. In her work, combined energies of gestural freedom, opulent colour and the physical qualities of paint emanate from the field of the canvas, extending to the viewer a sensual immersion within a haptic, temporal space. Further playing on a connection to […]
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Kate Barry is a Brisbane based artist with over 25 years graphic design experience in the publishing industry before a natural progression to create her own artworks arose. Working as an abstract painter, Kate’s works explore layering, vitality of pattern, gestural mark-making and colour through instinctive responses to landscape and form. Composition and balance arise
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A lazy stroke. A deep fist. Dry Hump, Wet Dreams engages with the body as a site of exploration and play, reinterpreting childhood and adolescent mastubatory experiments as awkward and comedic initiations into pleasure and sexual agency. Responding to the corporeal as a playground of ecstatic fluids and grotesque comedy, Amanda Wolf’s latest offering
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Artists are always falling prey to something or other. Censorship, curators, bad lighting, jet lag, bigotry, cultural prejudice, institutions in particular, and The Institution At Large. Never are they complicit in any of these things. The goal of this lecture is not to trace examples of when victimisation is real or imagined. The aim, rather,
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Ambling through the art gallery we are continually aware of our surrounds and by association with the ever present sounds that emanate from both artworks and the everyday goings-on of the gallery. This paper will discuss these sounds and look to the practice-based research that emerges when walking becomes a means of knowledge transfer in
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The IMA has teamed up with the Queensland Film Festival to curate a selection of recent and rarely seen screen-based works connected to Queensland. From a diverse and exciting mix of practices and projects, we have put together an event in three acts. The first act features a short film by Emily Avilia and a
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Join Brisbane-based artists and finalists from this year’s The churchie national emerging art prize as they discuss their work and being involved with the Prize, featuring: Aaron Butt, Brooke Ferguson, Elizabeth Willing, Kate Woodcroft (Catherine or Kate), and Katherine Clayton. The exhibition is open for viewing until 4pm following the floor talk. Image: Elizabeth Willing, ‘Pink Poles’ 2016. Icy
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One of our final Transition workshops for 2016 will explore the offerings of artists with disability and the trends, ideas and innovations in access in the arts. Speakers Sarah Houbolt and Leanne Beer will discuss leadership, the concept of inclusion, benefits of providing access and the new methodologies that result from the need to provide
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A showcase exhibition of exceptional artworks from QUT’s third year, Honours, and Postgraduate Visual Arts students. This curated exhibition serves as a snapshot of the distinctive and diverse outcomes that are developed out of the university’s unique Open Studio model. The course encourages both the creative and critical aspects of art making, enabling an open,
Artist, art historian, and Professor of Global at Art Birmingham University, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll launches Art in the Time of Colony at the IMA. She will be in conversation with Dr Amelia Barikin, Lecturer in Art History at the University of Queensland. Art in the Time of Colony examines the politics of material culture,
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The Skin Team brings together the work of two artists, Rhiannon Dionysius and Peter Kozak, and considers the juxtaposition and underlying links – or lack there of – in their works. Dionysius is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in sculpture, and Kozak’s current practice focuses on video and installation. This collaboration was founded through
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Shida is a multidisciplinary artist, hailing from strong Brisbane roots. Running simultaneously with this years Valley Fiesta, Shida will launch his latest exhibition ‘Rights of Joy’. The Opening event will be on the 28th of October (6-9pm) and will be held at TMBTP (680 Ann St Fortitude Valley). Located between venues Laruche and APO it will be a
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For the last five years Nigel Lendon has been working on a series of three- and four-dimensional objects each carrying the generic title “model”, sometimes with a subtitle. The concept of understanding each new work as a model enables each piece to be seen as an element in a continuum stretching from the distant past
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‘Moods and Muses’ is a series of paintings by Margaret Ingles exploring the emotional qualities of the human experience. Some are simple and classical portraits with a contemporary twist, whilst others convey more of a narrative. The paintings were inspired by the artist’s models, her muses. “My models are more than bones and flesh. They
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Ladies of Oz is a contemporary portraiture project by CAMILLE SERISIER that explores the lives of Australian women. This exciting project uses the language of theatre to create fantastical still and moving images that critically engage with the intersection of art history and women’s history. Camille Serisier is a visual artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Trained as a scenic painter for Opera, Theatre
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BORN OBSELETE – an exhibition of plein air paintings by Karen Stephens that form a commentary about automation and the end of work by investigating the discarded object in the urban landscape. Opening: Friday 7th October, 6:30pm – 8pm @ Woolloongabba Art Gallery (Upstairs) Location: Woolloongabba Art Gallery 613 Stanley Street Woolloongabba Q 4102. Image: Skull and Coke
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Philip Aitken is a sessional arts tutor and doctoral candidate with the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. In his upcoming solo show, Aitken explores the relationship between cultural orders and material objects, posing the question: Is the empty promise of a life everlasting being subsumed into history by the process of mechanisation and the ego
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This visual art research project responds to the sculptural and social phenomenon of the Stećak (pronounced steh-chuck, pl. Stećci, pronounced steh-chtzi), a type of monumental tombstone that was prolific in medieval Bosnia (later Bosnia and Herzegovina) and surrounding areas at the time. Addis is a doctoral candidate at the Queensland College of Art. Opening Event:
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Kenneth Beck investigates the events that bring people together but can also isolate like picnics, playing music, workplaces and technologies. Connect/Disconnect explores the tensions that lie between people and objects and the spaces they inhabit. Kenneth lives and works in Fortitude Valley and his art is a social commentary on life in this zone However Beck is
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Split Screen presents a curated arrangement of new and existing video installations by Simone Hine. Across these works the borders of the screen, as both a conceptual and material limit, are explored, ruptured and tested. Playing the protagonists in all of the works, Hine multiplies herself between and within works: an identity constructed through screens. Here,
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Rising to prominence in the last decade, Italian artist Fabio Giocondo quickly achieved national and international recognition for his art, winning numerous prizes throughout Europe. His thought-provoking work is classic, oil on canvas with a sixteenth century colour palette and predominately portrays the human figure in theatrical and often distorted ways. Giocondo has been exhibited in the Vatican
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to announce Juz Kitson’s exhibition, You are here; right here, right now. Her first solo exhibition in Queensland, this body of work is ‘quintessential Kitson’ and combines an array of materials, including porcelain, wax, bone, silk, animal pelts and hair, to create works of great beauty, skill and creativity. Since
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Find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about ARIs with two panel discussions in one night, featuring some of the most experienced – and some of the newest – members of the Brisbane ARI scene. Session One – ARI: What, Why, How? This panel will explore what an ARI is, why they exist, how they
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Walking into a gallery of Hew Chee Fong’s work evokes an immediate sense of reflection; a moment of quiet contemplation. Don’t dive shallow in deep dark water is a meditation on Hew’s more than three decade sculptural practice. Working predominantly with found natural materials like granite and petrified timber, Hew’s sculptural practice is one which
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Traverse: one island. twenty+ artists. one night only. Showcasing new works from more than twenty emerging photographic artists, Traverse is a collective response to the physical and metaphorical landscape of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) explored through projection, print and performance. In those explorations are the artists’ responses to the moments where human and non-human meet.
Between You and I presents an excerpt of the artist’s current exploration of video installation work that investigates themes of personal narrative surrounding loss and trauma and how these experiences can be poetically reimagined. The work utilises language, moving image and sound to fragment and disrupt traditional linear narratives in order to conflate the spaces
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‘Disalienation: ownership, performance, repatriation’ Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Artist, art historian, Professor of Global Art University of Birmingham, UK This lecture reflects on a process of disalienation that drives repatriations, the performances, replications, and provenance research involved. How and why do the things collected during colonization want to return from museums in Europe? This problem
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LIGHTENING FIELD brings together, for the first time, the diverse and fluctuating practices of performance drawer Kellie O’Dempsey, installation butoh artist Megan White and sonic artist Luke Jaaniste in a new collaborative work. The Laundry Artspace is proud to present the premiere performance of LIGHTENING FIELD as part of BARI Festival, within a disheveled warehouse
Zoe is a Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist exploring primarily a drawing practice, which also extends into painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. ‘Tactilus Umbravi’ will consist of a live collaborative performance bringing together drawing, sound, installation, video projection and contemporary dance. Depictions of animal-human hybrid’s and non-human figures blur the boundaries between the
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The Pile is a work emerging from two weeks spent studying a mass of dumped rubbish in a Reservoir shopping centre car park. During this time video, writing, performance and public readings were employed to contemplate the pile as a living abject body that was in a perpetual state of re-write as things were added
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Julie Fragar was born in Gosford, NSW in 1977. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney in 1998 and returned to the university three years later completing her Masters in Visual Arts. She is currently undertaking her Doctorate of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith
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A raucous and rollicking journey through the wild frontiers of Pop culture “Wasteland’, is the exhibition of new works from Australia’s leading Pop artist, Johnny Romeo. Opening at Mitchell Fine Art on September 23rd this exhibition offers a fresh new spin on Romeo’s signature brand of bombastic Neo-Expressionist Pop. Blending elements of painting, sculpture and
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The Immediate Past is a series of 8 oil paintings that employ two key themes of the Romantic landscape – sky and sea. Here, these two motifs are characters in a play about time. Newey’s works feature the highly saturated palette of the computer screen and evidence of of digital filters. The source of these
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The BARI(Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives) festival is a biennial event aimed at providing a fresh creative platform and promoting audience development for Brisbane based ARIs. BARI has been running in Brisbane since 2008. Running for approximately two weeks in October 2016 the BARI Festival will allow the public to witness and engage with some
Session One – The Climate of ARI’s: Politics and the Environment This discussion will focus on the space in which Artist-run initiatives in Queensland have evolved and the impact that our unique climate has had on local visual arts culture. Brisbane was once said to be a cultural backwater, as the graffiti on the South
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In this new work I have created abstract landscapes through layers of colour. The landscapes represent the imaginary worlds of my childhood. Worlds I imagined and played in. Worlds that were inspired by things around me: rivers, creeks, trees, plants and animals. On top of the layers of colour, I have painted the little things I
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