Charlie Donaldson’s installation Aarnivalkea research society is based upon the Finnish myth of the will o’ the wisp. Created in the guise of an anonymous researcher, the laboratory-style set-up of the installation feeds unrelated information into a narrative structure and allows the viewer to create their own story out of the images at hand. This […]
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The Collector is a survey of Brisbane artist and printmaker Jonathan Tse. This exhibition is an insight into the fascinating world of a collector with a diverse body of work spanning over 20 years, whilst working at the Queensland College of Art. Opening Event: Friday, 5 August 2016, 6 – 8 pm Venue: WEBB Gallery, QCA, 226 Grey
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KUNSTBUNKER_02 [TOENAIL CLIPPING MOON] – a solo show displaying works by Ursula Larin. Ursula Larin is an Australian visual artist currently completing her Honours in Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology. Ursula Larin draws from her absurd and inane everyday encounters in order to highlight the comedic and poetic potential in the
This exhibition delicately addresses the uncomfortable subject of illness and death. Grief and bereavement are universal feelings and this exhibition explores this stage of human existence which due to its personal and sensitive nature is not often discussed. Drawing from her personal experience of living through her mother’s illness and untimely death and the stories
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This exhibition explores the varied approaches to portraiture, from traditional to non-figurative and informal approaches to the genre. The exhibition features artists Donna Davis, Ryan Fraser, Nic Plowman, Leanne Sauer, Kaye Stuart, Bianca Beetson, Michael Cook, Julie Fragar, Oscar Fristrom, Karla Marchesi, Leonard Shillam, William Platz and Nan Paterson. Historically portraiture has focused on capturing
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FABLE IN BRIEF presents the most recent collection of works by Glen Skien that extends the artist’s exploration of ‘mytho-poetic’ narratives in the form of etchings, artists’ books and assemblage pieces. Artist Talks: Wednesday, 24 August 2016, 12:00 – 12:30 pm Saturday, 27 August 2016, 10:30 – 11:30 am Saturday, 3 September 2016, 10:30 – 11:30 am Venue: Project Gallery, QCA, 226
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Chromophilia will feature new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Bryan Ricci. Ricci has exhibited his work extensively in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Pennsylvania and internationally in Seoul, Korea, Xinzheng, China, and Australia. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles recently presented a solo exhibition of his paintings entitled, “A Closer Look”. His
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Expanding Print Media – Recent Prints from The School of Art and Design at Alfred University American Print Media Artist, Joseph Scheer, will be exhibiting some of his recent prints along with student works from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University. The prints demonstrate how technology has influenced traditional print media and printmaking
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This first solo exhibition in Australia of Maryam Jafri‘s work presents fifty-seven photographs from her project Independence Day 1934–1975 (2009–ongoing) form an installation that documents the first independence day ceremonies in former European colonies across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, between 1934 and 1975. Sourced by the artist from twenty-nine archives housed in countries such as Syria, Kenya, Senegal,
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Headland by Brisbane artist Keith Burt. Keith Burt loves to painting en plein air. Standing on a headland, buffeted by wind and sea, he puts to canvas the subtle colours of a cloudy day and approaching storms. Painting with swift and deliberate strokes he captures the movement
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Eight Embarrassed Males takes its starting point as a misremembering of the work, Ten Embarrassed Men by Swedish artist Annika Ström. Featuring the collaborative work of Joseph Breikers and Timothy P. Kerr, this exhibition will draw upon a shared interest in humour, text and semiotics. Realised as a large-scale installation encompassing drawing, sculpture, sound and
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There is nothing unusual about the creative tendency to make pain the catalyst for great work, but there is something unique about the unflinching brutality depicted in Tom Phillips’ expressive imagery. An artist who refuses to shy away from difficult subjects and discussions his work may inspire, Phillips takes a thematic approach to his work
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Continuing her interest in the relationships of medium, process and metaphor, Ree’s work investigates the physicality of ‘slowness’ via remote-site video performances and studio processes of collecting, making, painting and waiting. Ree’s work is innately a kind-of storytelling that explores a curiosity with the potential for art to engage the viewer in an experience of
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‘Home of the Brave’ presents a new body of work by Karike Ashworth continuing her exploration of social discomfort as a strategy in contemporary art. This exhibition developed in response to her recent experience with assisted reproductive technology (ART). There will be a performance with 28 women starting at 6pm sharp and will run for
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Step into another dimension of light, sound and virtual reality. Artists, Game Designers and Theatre Technicians have collaborated to make an amazing playful space full of new technologies and magical interactions. This installation will be part of QUT’s CreateX Launch event.
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Tim Andrew remembers a time, as a child, studying the wallpaper in the hallway of his childhood home. He imagined a timeline in the busy patterns of baroque scrolls and bouquets of flowers that stretched up from the floor – the ‘events’ of posies and scrolls recurring one after the other and one above the
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This retrospective of the work of the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori celebrates the life of the senior Kaiadilt artist from Bentinck Island in Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria. The exhibition includes the artist’s early paintings, her large collaborative works with other Kaiadilt women, and her almost monochromatic recent paintings and works on paper. Sally Gabori’s depictions
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Join Dr Sally Butler (Associate Professor in Art History, University of Queensland), Dr Julie Fragar (Fine Art Program Advisor and Lecturer in Painting, QCA) and Professor Andrew McNamara (Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology) as they discuss the art historical links to the autobiographical and confessional aspects of Jenny Watson’s practice. Chaired by Dr
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A collection of portrait and landscape works from artist Michael Simms. Opening night drinks between 6-8pm on Saturday the 27th of August. Michael Simms is an award-winning artist based in Sydney. After completing a psychology degree in Adelaide, his quest to understand people led him to the Sydney art world where he won a scholarship to study
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Elysha Rei is a Japanese-Australian artist who draws upon her mixed heritage to explore the transition between places, cultures and communities. She uses paper cutting techniques derived from traditional folk art to create works that respond to her cross-cultural experiences. The King’s Confidant is a large-scale paper cut inspired by Elysha’s experience of the stainglass
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This travelling exhibition, unique in its kind, is the result of the World Press Photo Foundation’s worldwide annual contest on photojournalism and documentary photography. The annual photo contest awards photographers for the best images contributing to the past year of visual journalism. It is the world’s leading contest for professional press photographers, photojournalists and documentary
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Bright colours, camp objects, and familiar scenery dominate the picture plane for GERWYN DAVIES upcoming exhibition Subtropics. Akin to leisure and recreation postcards, the series of photographs is informed by the aesthetics of the Australian lifestyle. Rife with contrivance these consciously constructed sets and elaborate costumes become a site for Davies’ to perform obscure narratives in a process of self-imaging. Subtropics is a tribute to Australian
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Please join Associate Professor Sally Butler, Research Fellow Michael Aird and exhibiting artists Brenda Croft and Vernon Ah Kee in a conversation about photography and Indigenous visual politics. Image: Vernon Ah Kee ‘wegrewhere #2’ 2009 digital print on Fujiflex paper, ed. of 6 76.0 x 115.0 cm. Corrigan Collection. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and
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“You and I, we’ve got the same blood running through us” said my uncle as he greeted me one afternoon in Christchurch. I was struck by how odd this statement felt – such a physical, visceral description of an intangible relationship. Are we meant to feel something because we have the same blood? An exhibition
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Presenting new work developed over the past two years, We Kill You includes a five-channel video installation, photo-collage and a video mapped sculpture. The exhibition continues Sabsabi’s enquiry into contested geographies, selective histories and ideological movements affecting all of us. Its title refers to the poem by the late Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, written in
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Mitchell Fine Art will host a solo exhibition of the artwork of artist George Gittoes. Represented in some of Australia’s most prestigious collections this will be Gittoes first commercial exhibition in Brisbane. For nearly 4 decades Gittoes has documented the best and worst of some of the world’s most notorious human conflicts in Somalia, Rwanda,
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CLUTCH Collective invites you to move with us through Kat Nancy’s immersive installation work ‘Wading Space’. This exhibition has been developed in direct response to the CLUTCH truck. Inspired by elevator silences and the predicament of waiting, Wading Space is a participatory installation that explores how elements of space affect our perception of time passing.
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Liang Luscombe’s exhibition derives its name from Table Talk, the weekly magazine published in Melbourne from the 1885 until 1939, which covered politics, arts and social gossip of the time. She presents a series of paintings that speak to the historical narrative that looms over the Heidelberg School artists of the 1890s and the nostalgic
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From a very young age I’ve been afraid of flying, plagued by the notion of being trapped in a vessel in the sky. On a recent flight to Los Angeles the pilot announced he was turning the plane back, there was a bomb threat. My heart stopped. Luckily the threat was a hoax. This experience gave me a
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In the fifth lecture in our The Artist As… series, co-presented with Curatorial Practice at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Brook Andrew will reflect on his collaborations and interventions in museums both within Australia and internationally. Andrew will examine the important role his own extensive archive has played within these works, and what led him
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Two Piece is a dream of the summer envisioned while Yvette Coppersmith was basking in the weak rays of Melbourne’s winter. Reclining in her garden with a book on Sonya Delaunay and a foreboding sense of the cold days ahead – the line ‘Woman Clothed by the Sun’ resonated – not for it’s religious references
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This exhibition draws on the multisensory encounter Pamela Travers had with the surroundings in her early childhood in Queensland forming the significant elements of folkloric figure Mary Poppins. The exhibition title, taken from the biography of the same name, considers Pamela’s escape into the fear and excitement of the huge Allora Sky as a prominent
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An exhibition that explores both the aesthetic qualities of objects and contrasting forms as well as the unique compositional interplay that are revealed through the very nature of darkroom processes. A key focus throughout the exhibition is the observation of shape and how simplistic form, within the darkroom context can highlight the hidden aesthetic and
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In Residence is excited to announce our third exhibition, moving on from the Shift series to the Home series. Home 1 will investigate the relationship that exists between the physical structure of the house and the concept of the home. This exhibition will showcase the work of eight emerging photographers connected by a common domestic
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Artists: Sara IRAN NEJAD / Alicia LANE / Carol McGREGOR / Sally MOLLOY/ Mika NAKAMURA-MATHER / Vanghoua Anthony VUE. These six artists use a range of approaches to stretch the idea of what Australia was, is, and could be; re-presenting it collectively as a shared place alive with the dynamics of failed dreams, ancestral stories, transcultural
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We summon you to GORGEus. To sample our earthly bodies and transcend into the feast. You are hereby welcomed into the mixing pot of life, a stirring circle enhanced by the lores of love and inclusiveness. A feast for the five senses in the company of the fantastical. Shatrick is a collaborative art duo made up of Brisbane-based