Life Art Worldwide hosts the call for artists’ interpretation of the meaning of life. This broad creative brief promotes diversity in artform and practice. The rigorous size parameter of 40 x 40 cm provides an artistic challenge. The winner of the Brisbane Art Prize will take home $10 000 to put towards their art practice. […]
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During 1988, with the financial assistance of the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the Galley commissioned six photographers to produce a portfolio on the theme of community life in Queensland entitled ‘Journeys north’. Last exhibited January 1988 it is an ideal time to re-examine this portfolio which highlights how Queensland has changed in the intervening 28 years
Split between old and new Robert Andrew explores his Australian Indigenous history with the use of contemporary technology. Water, ochre, and oxide dominate his choice of materials as he combines the personal and the local with the global technological narrative. Andrew’s work is concerned with the uncovering, revealing and re-presenting aspects in Australian indigenous history
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Each of my days blur into the next. I’m not sure what to do with each one anymore. I like to wander up and down the hallway for some reason it makes me feel good. I don’t know what people mean anymore, not even the ones I know. I their out there. Paranoia and sadness
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Rosângela Rennó and Fiona Pardington, artists based in the southern hemisphere (Brazil and New Zealand), take a reparative approach to this topic. Their powerful portraits are not, however, redemptive or restorative in the straightforward way one might suppose. For them, reparative aesthetics signals the capacity to assimilate the consequences of destruction and violence. Image: Portrait
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Artisan is inviting practitioners, groups, curators and organisations to submit exhibition proposals for our 2017 Ivory Street Window Gallery exhibition program. We are looking for fresh ideas and an innovative approach to this highly visible 24 hour exhibition space at artisan. Exhibitions must pertain to craft and design or explore the intersection between art, craft
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Zoe Knight’s practice is shaped by her interest in the materiality of objects, discovering and abstracting found malleable and repurposed industrial materials, as well as relationships between object, exhibition space, and viewer. Currently, her practice seeks to draw the viewer’s attention to an awareness of their body in space and the features of the gallery.
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‘Reveal’ showcases a mixture of surreal, abstract, pop, botanical and hyperrealist artworks. Featuring 7 artists of immense talent, this exhibition has been carefully curated over the past 15 months and will display some of the artist’s most recent and compelling works. Whilst the majority of the artists are considered as emerging they are accruing countless
Tender Turf explores the bonds between delicate, organic forms and industrial constructions in an urban environment. The choice to exhibit at Hassell Architects studio space in Fortitude Valley emphasises the relationship between the creative team behind QUT’s new Creative Industries Precinct and the QUT’s Visual Art students by displaying work brought to life in the
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Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition A suitable distance by emerging Brisbane artist Michelle Gilbert. “There are times when standing in the right place, at the right time, a subtle shift occurs causing a normally ordinary view to instead feel slightly strange or elusive.” A suitable distance is the first solo exhibition for Michelle
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The IMA is seeking a part-time Public Engagement Manager. We are looking for a committed individual to support the IMA in developing and delivering a growing program of events and educational activities. The new member of this dedicated team must be self-motivated, goal-oriented, and able to work in a collaborative working environment. Candidates should possess
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Director and visual artist Sara Jordenö is currently in Australia as part of the “Ten Women Directors to Watch” section at the Sydney Film Festival, where she is screening her new documentary KIKI. Join her for a talk about her method of collaboration in documentary cinema and social practice public art projects. Sara Jordenö, born
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Oxiana is an attempt to reposition oneself in relation to our past. It started with the use of relief sculpture as a response to an in-between space and has been a journey negotiating dualities including the process of carving and casting. The space between China and Europe represents the unknown. Between Alexander, Darius and Mao,
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Kyoto Art Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program offers support to emerging artists and art researchers who wish to pursue creative activities in Kyoto. We call for applications from the artists/researchers in performing arts and visual arts alternately. In 2017, the program is open to the artists and researchers working in visual arts. NOTE: applications must be sent
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Sonic State Queensland Week Microfestival brings together nationally significant musicians who have each been leaders in their field, setting up spaces and contexts for audiences to connect to the latest work by experimental music makers. These artists include Lawrence English, Nicola Morton,Andrew Gibbs and Chris Perren, along with invited guests, curated by sound artist Luke
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Join us this Saturday for the first iteration of HOMEGROUND with FAKE Estate – with a forum discussion at 4pm, followed by drinks. HOMEGROUND addresses the local context of artist run culture in Brisbane. The gallery at Boxcopy will become a site for process-based and dialogic exchange between six local ARIs, emphasising collaborative and speculative
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“All eight images exhibited detail a direct relationship between the analogue capture of light, and the representation of time. Bending, melding, mirroring and reflecting, the images are carefully constructed using traditional practical effects or manual double exposures. They play to continual underlying themes in my work, where expected realities are challenge by new-very possible – reinterpretations
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This exhibition presents two bodies of work by Gordon Bennett: his last paintings and his 1992 installation Self portrait (Ancestor figures). The exhibition commemorates the second anniversary of Gordon’s passing. Image: Gordon Bennett, Home Décor (After M. Preston) #21 2013, Acrylic on linen, 182.5 x 152 cm.
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Live the dream of being a professional curator. Be introduced to the role of the curator and the principles of planning, developing and implementing exhibitions, under the guidance of experienced curator Simone Oriti. Over one weekend intensive (Saturday and Sunday) and three Saturday follow up sessions you will cover foundation principles coupled with practical components
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Open call to photographers and multimedia artists to submit work for selection in the Festival Programme of the 12th Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, to be held this year from 3rd – 10th December 2016 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The longest-running photography event in Southeast Asia, the annual Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops is a free international
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Learn to make traditional Japanese fabric flowers to decorate anything from clothing to cards to jewellery in this new workshop. Paper artist and jewellery designer Mabina Alaka will show you how to make the flowers using Japanese fabric, and use them to create a brooch and earrings. All materials are provided, and you can purchase
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The Ambience Store Project, now in its fourth instalment, celebrates the natural world with its latest exhibition. Headlining show #4 is Sunshine Coast artist Amica Whincop, a star well and truly on the rise after being featured on Channel 9’s The Block. Inspired by a childhood in England and an adult life spent traveling through
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In this workshop, experienced arts accountant Brian Tucker will help you understand your tax basics as an artist, what paperwork you should keep and how to organise it before you visit the accountant. He will also help you recognise what expenses you can claim and how to claim them, why you need an ABN and
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Experienced leatherworker, Eleisha Nylund, will teach you the basics of working with vegetable tanned leather, including oiling, dyeing, saddle stitching, stamping and hardware fitting. You’ll walk out of this workshop with not only the purse and keyring you’ve made from scratch, but with the traditional leatherworking skills and tools to start your own leather projects
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Contemporary Art Awards is an annual online art award, based in the district of Brisbane. The aim of this award is to support emerging artists in their early careers. The award does not restrict entries by category and welcomes all mediums including painting, works on paper, new media, photography, ceramics, sculpture, illustration, installation, and many more. In addition
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EYES ON GOA is a 2 volume book on the work produced by QCA students who undertook an infield intensive to Goa, India. The book is an online printing publication and will be launched at Maud Gallery on June 15 @ 6pm, supported by an exhibition. Volume 1 Volume 2 Eyes On Goa Stories are us. From
Apomogy is a community art project that invites people to anonymously apologise through a handmade pom pom. In this workshop, founder Rachel Burke will tell you about the fascinating stories behind some of the more shocking, hilarious, and often emotional, apologies that have come to light through the Apomogy project. Rachel will then teach you how
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The Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards is an opportunity for you to become involved in Brisbane’s cultural life by celebrating images that reflect Brisbane’s creative lifestyle. The Photographic Awards invite Australian photographers and photographic artists to submit original images that represent an expressive, energetic and enthusiastic Brisbane. Cash prizes are awarded to category winners. The three
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You’re an artist – how do you let the world know what you’re doing, how, when and where? What works in marketing and public relations NOW with the explosion of social media? Can you manage your own marketing and PR? How do more traditional methods like press releases work? Come and dive into the world
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The City of Ryde proudly presents the sixth annual Women’s Art Prize. Artists and members of the community are invited to apply for the prize and exhibition with artworks that respond to themes surrounding women. Be inspired by the 2016 International Women’s Day theme Pledge for Parity. Eligibility The exhibition is open to either gender
In the second half of the year, the IMA’s Green Room will transform into a space dedicated to the moving image. We are seeking a range of moving image works that have a connection to Queensland, with an Open Call running from now until 1 June. Eligible works include video art, short film, performative screenings,
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The Research and Creation Fellowship programme is designed to host one international artist and researcher of extraordinary talents in the area of new media art in order to conduct research and creation at Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai. Call for applications. This Fellowship is a chance for international artists and researchers to engage and learn from
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Sunshine Coast artist and facilitator Alison Mooney is fast making a name for herself with her vast mixed media murals and installations throughout Southeast Queensland. On canvas, her works merge elements of graffiti, art activism and sugar pop, to create a series full of energy, riotous colour and huge gestural abstractions. Joining Mooney are two
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Enticing and confronting in equal measures, SX+ is a visual and performance art exhibition brought to you by SX+ Collective and Brisbane’s Anywhere Festival. Through a diverse range of traditional, contemporary and conceptual art forms, the exhibition seeks to open up dialogue and discussion surrounding contemporary experiences of sex and sexuality. A one-night only event,
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This exhibition features works from current QCA Honours students. ‘Something like this, but not this’ is an in-between stage. A stage of still trying to work it out. A stage of kind of knowing what you want to do. A stage of not quite knowing what we want things to be. “…we often mistake coincidence
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Surface. Texture. Shadow. The play of light on fabric, the transparency of glass, the softer structures of draped silk and the pure contours of ceramics, eggs or a pear. Painting the unique in the commonplace is Claire Stening’s obsession. Her compositions approach a calm, almost weightless monumentality, and her natural inclination toward a neutral palette
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