Still life painting – alongside portrait and landscape – is one of the best known and loved of all painting genres. Still life: Reanimating the inanimate celebrates the perseverance of the still life and its ever-relevant concern with human existence. These contemporary artists revisit the heart of the tradition, exploring ideas of stillness and movement, […]
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The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is awarded biennially to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. This includes realist, figurative and representational styles. The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life,
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The National Indigenous Arts Awards were established in 2007 to recognise and celebrate the outstanding work and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. These prestigious national awards consist of the Red Ochre and the Dreaming Award. In 2017 the 10th annual awards will celebrate the achievements and artistic creativity of exceptional Indigenous artists
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Enjoy cheese and champagne while you dive into the eccentric world of Brisbane-based ceramist, Clairy Laurence. Clairy will give you insight into the creative process and inspirations behind her signature quixotic, spirited ceramic characters. Then watch her in action as she demonstrates her incredible hand-building techniques. About Clairy Eccentricity characterises the ceramic work of Clairy
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MuseumNext is a global conference series on the future of museums, taking place in the world’s cultural capitals since 2009. MuseumNext is a catalyst for innovation, transformation and collaboration in museums, galleries and heritage sites, with more than 800 individuals from 32 countries joining us in 2015. We are now inviting proposals for MuseumNext Melbourne on the theme
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Applications for the Asialink Arts 2017 Residency Program are open, inviting Australian arts professionals to apply for a range of residencies (different models, hosts, arts disciplines, countries etc.) across Asia. The aim of Asialink’s Arts Residency Program is to create meaningful and enduring relationships between individuals and organisations in Australia and Asia. Asialink works in
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Tartu Artist in Residence in Estonia is launching an Open Call for the year 2017. Artists of various disciplines will have the opportunity to work, live and find new inspiration in the scenic city of Tartu for a period of one or three months. TAiR is a unique artist in residence program in that it
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The National Portrait Gallery has opened the Call for Entries for the annual Digital Portraiture Award, where an artist will win $10,000 cash and an artistic residency valued at $10,000 with The Edge. Now in its fifth year, the Award seeks to extend the traditional notion of portraiture to the digital realm and encourages creative thinking.
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The contemporary Japanese term nerikomi refers to patterns achieved by laminations of coloured clays. The patterning becomes integral to the clay body rather than a topical decoration. Anne will demonstrate and teach you her incredible nerikomi forming technique. Using layers of coloured porcelain, you’ll practice this amazing technique to create your own unique, delicate Nerikomi buttons
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The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) announces today the launch of two exciting new $20,000 fellowships supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, aimed at assisting exceptional mid-career Australian visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. This Fellowship will address the ‘mid-career desert’ where
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The WMA Masters (formerly WYNG Masters Award) welcomes photography submissions from all over the world on this year’s theme of MOBILITY. Images must relate to the theme and be made in or relate to Hong Kong. From now till 30 September 2016 the WMA Masters invites both international and Hong Kong artists and image-makers to
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Ambience Store and Cultural Flanerie are hugely excited to announce the lineup for The Ambience Store Project #7, opening Friday 9 September 2016. Now entering the final leg of the 2016 series, The Ambience Store Project is getting bigger and better with show seven, a monster exhibition of abstract expressionism, imagined landscapes and raw intuition. When legendary
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Snatches of conversation and the sounds of cars are rising from the street to be funneled into this space. Passersby may look up and see—through the second floor window that Marnie Edmiston’s exhibition A Plant is a Plant hinges on—the unusual sight of a black, imposing parabolic dish staring down at them. It looks comically
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Master Queensland ceramicists Mollie Bosworth and Virginia Jones share their decorative ceramic techniques in this hands-on Masterclass. In the morning, you’ll learn laser decal techniques, including how to design, print and apply laser decals for porcelain with Mollie. Mollie will demonstrate how to prepare images, how to print your designs onto decal paper, how to
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Shown across three galleries at the IMA, Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition of conceptual sculpture and film binds together three projects that mark the first five years of the artist’s work. The exhibition as a whole is conceived as a time lapse rather than a retrospective, as all the works simultaneously mine an enduring colonial legacy
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Disappearing Landscape – Passing II 2011 is three-channel HD video installation by Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang-Ming. Yuan often draws on personal experience in creating his works, and this powerful installation reflects on the relationships and links between his own past, present and future. This work was created at a time of great emotion in Yuan’s
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William Robinson: Genesis explores the rich experimental spirit and inimitable mastery of Robinson’s works on paper to show that rather than being a minor interest, this medium has contributed greatly to the development of his contemporaneous canvases. Since the 1960s Robinson has produced hundreds of works in watercolour, graphite, gouache, and ink, as well as
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Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 3rd Annual International “Abstract” Online Art Competition for the month of September 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 Gallery
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ARTISTS Aishla Manning Angelica Roache-Wilson Callum Galletly Jaden Gallagher Naomi O’Reilly Patrick Zaia Rhiannon Dionysius Saara Roppola S & M PERFORMANCE TIMES 7:00pm – S & M Star Cryogenics institut-ov Mortality Prolongation (SCiMP) Celebrity Time Capsule: Cher and Pete Burns Episode 1 8:00pm – Saara Roppola MA MA MA Address: The Sword in the Shell
In 2015 my entire genome was sequenced from a vial of my blood. The genetic information contained in my DNA (some 3.2 billion letters) was delivered to me on a cloud-based server where it is stored, ready for viewing, possible analysis, or predictive diagnosis. My current artistic practice seeks to negotiate viewing the body in
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‘Time of others’ is a curatorial collaboration between four of the Asia-Pacific region’s leading institutions for collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting contemporary art. An exhibition project evolving as it travels between each venue throughout 2015 and 2016, it is an attempt to create a platform for reflecting on social and cultural relations in the Asia-Pacific today.
This new video work explores feminism, Indigenous issues and the changing role of young women within today’s society through the mechanism of rap. Through densely loaded visuals Brontë explores an alternate universe where the governing body is comprised of strong women all from diverse ethnicity, demographics and ages, inviting audiences to expand their dreams and visions of what the
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The exhibition presents new paintings examining representations of “the female form”. Opening event: Thursday 15 September 6.00-8.00 pm Image: Natalya Hughes, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 2016, acrylic on poly cotton, 200 x 200cm
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“In Chinese, the written language and art are one. With each character the calligrapher’s line encircles, summarises and so defines the subject.” Murray Bail, ‘Fairweather’ The exhibition will present a new body of drawings by Luke Roberts alongside his 1983 videowork Nazissus. To make the Fairweather drawings Roberts has applied Indian ink on watercolour paper with
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MUSIC LINE UP: A dynamic line up of international, national and local, all-female musicians in the heart of GOMA 9 September: Double bill with Sarah Mary Chadwick and Summer Flake. 16 September: Sydney’s Sampa the Great reveals her penchant for poetry and lyricism in songs from her 2015 debut studio album. 23 September: Award-winning Melbourne
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Jugglers’ Annual X Show celebrates the work of artists in residence, staff, volunteers, board, friends and family. Artists: Aaron Micallef | Aaron Veryard | Adam Buchanan | Alex Freitas | | Bohdi Gardner | Carmel McGregor | Dominique Chen | Giuseppe Filardo | Guy Lobwein | John Fitz-Walter | Jon Weber | Kat Donald |
SWELL facilitates high quality outdoor art and cultural events, connecting people, art and place. Our signature event is the SWELL Sculpture Festival held annually on Currumbin Beach in early September. Now in its fourteenth year, the ten-day festival brings over 50 works by nationally and internationally renowned artists to a free public exhibition on the
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In conjunction with Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition Misadventure, we present a free screening of Ken Fero’s Injustice (2001), a film that The Guardian called ‘one of the most powerful and despairing films ever to have been made’ in the United Kingdom. Threatened by police censorship and banned on television in the United Kingdom, Injustice is one of the UK’s most politically
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A dark, foggy, ethereal installation with a curated listening session. The Coven meets to embrace the act of listening. Blind Coven III is a response to Blind Coven II, which was held last Wednesday at PICA Time Based Arts festival in Portland, Oregon. This Thursday in Brisbane a new installation and specially curated listening session
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Ross Booker – Mapping Location: Ross River, Central Australia My current art practice is the result of many years spent camping, walking and drawing in central Australia. Walking is pivotal to my experience of the country. As I walk my daily treks, the land takes shape like a map. I also study satellite images of
An off-site experimental film screening and audiovisual performance with Caitlin Franzmann, Dale Gorfinkel and Ross Manning. The short films (co-curated with John Edmond) and performance will offer insight into the artists’ process and thinking in relation to the historical artefacts and materials uncovered at The Foundry, a 19th century warehouse located in the residential slopes
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Fragments II: Belgrade is a series of artworks that depict vignettes of the architectural cityscapes of Belgrade, one of the oldest European cities. Remembered images of the city are overlaid with a map that describes Belgrade’s imprint on Klačar-Nedimović. They represent artist’s historical presence and her reconnections, but also note the reality of her disconnection with this place.
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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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