Kenji Uranishi is a Japanese-born ceramic artist who relocated to Brisbane more than a decade ago bringing with him ancient Japanese ceramic techniques and a deep understanding and respect for the surrounding environment. Inspired by his Japanese and Australian experiences, Uranishi’s delicate artistry draws on patterns and forms found in both the man-made and natural worlds and responds to their constant state of change. […]
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Snakes and Bends presents new works by Heidi Cutlack, Skye McNicol and Glen Schaneu. Individually, they have performed in an exhausting list of bands, produced works on paper, paintings, sculptures, shirts, records, videos and everything in between; together they are Bent – a wonky post-punk, three-person band from the heat of Brisbane. Friday May 27,
Aishla Manning takes a page from the book of Rihanna and work work work work works in Making Puddles. Desperately futile and futilely desperate, Making Puddles reads as a modern retelling of the ‘Myth of Sisyphus’. Instead of a boulder, Manning struggles to carry the hefty weight of a balloon filled with water. Instead of
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The Absolutely Calculated Risk That Something Can Go Wrong: New work by Joseph Breikers. http://josephbreikers.tumblr.com One night Exhibition :: Friday May 27, 6-8 PM This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. This exhibition is presented as part of the 2016 Metro Arts Artist in Residence Program.
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Road Trip is a group exhibition featuring the work of significant Australian artists Juz Kitson, Fiona Lowry, William Mackinnon and Guy Maestri. The show considers the long held presence of the ‘road trip’ in the Australian psyche and how it shapes our experience of the landscape. The utterance of the phrase ‘road trip’ immediately conjures
A unique exhibition showcasing innovations in 3D technology and their applications within museums will be on display for one night only at The University of Queensland. The Real to Relic: Museums in 3D exhibitat UQ’s Anthropology Museum is curated by postgraduate students and will allow visitors to explore virtual artefacts on screen and watch 3D
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In the Creative Industries, women have been at the forefront of art and technology creation and have played a central role in the development of new media practice. ‘Geek Girls’ presents experimental and cutting edge works by female creative practitioners that demonstrate innovative uses of technology and resonance with ‘geek culture’.
‘If you drop a stone into a quiet pond, waves spread out over the surface of the water…A scientist would say that a tossed stone has energy, and that water waves can carry some of this energy to a floating stick. Energy has many forms, but it is not something that you can see or
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SUPER ART celebrates a collection of important works from legends of the Indigenous Art Movement including a seminal painting by deceased artist Lin Onus; watercolours from the Central Desert; classic dot and circle composition by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, natural ochre works by Queenie Mackenzie, and timeless acrylic works by Dorothy Napangardi, Minnie Pwerle and Vincent
Robert Dickerson is one of Australia ‘s best known painters. Born in Sydney , Australia in 1924, he is the son of a tinsmith. He worked as a boy fashioning tin funnels and scoops in the father’s workshop, and in his leisure hours would hurry to the museums to draw and read and look at
NO INPUT considers moments of stasis and futile circulation in information transfer. What stasis looks like and the apparent failure of the (in)action, but then also the constant energetic transduction in both stasis and movement. The decipherable language of information “failure” exists as colour, object, machine. Machines looping back on themselves, projecting feeds of inner
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How it works Nipple Net is a user-generated, internet artwork. Anyone can submit a photo of their nipple and a short comment or story about their experience of their body to add to the work. The photos and stories are combined to create an interactive, collage-style artwork in which users can click the nipples to
The origin of astrology is universal, through both ancient and modern times. Almost every culture has its own astrology: a large group of systems, beliefs and traditions unique to places, time and people. The manifestations of such myths and popular culture provide a confirmation of real life. Based on the exact position of the stars
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crosseXions draws together the work of 12 early-career artists who are inscribing feminist and environmental concerns within their art practice. This project rejects the cadaverous relationships of patriarchy and capitalism which continue to represent the world as known and conquered, and the gallery as a mausoleum for dead objects. crosseXions deploys the gallery as an incubator for living, ongoing
You are invited to an exhibition of new artworks by David Creed and Jamie Mumford done during their recent residency at Fjúk Art and Design Centre in Húsavík, Iceland. Our works were inspired by our exploration of Iceland by driving around the country on the Ring Road accompanied by cute Icelandic horses, the aurora and
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This popular festival is named in honour of prominent sculptor and St Margaret’s Old Girl Daphne Mayo, one of Australia’s finest sculptors. Throughout her life, Mayo was an energetic and tenacious advocate of the Arts in Queensland. The MAYO Arts Festival has, since its inception in 2008, built a reputation for showcasing emerging local and
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Join kuril dhagun for an engaging panel forum to conclude our latest ‘A night by the fire’ conversation series. The discussion will continue to explore the practice of cultural expression through fashion as it evolves and expands over time. Hosted by Nadia Buick, author and co-founder of The Fashion Archies, the panel features previous speakers
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Artist Gordon Hookey will be in conversation with curator, publisher, and historian Michael Aird to discuss the visual language of Hookey’s major new painting ‘HISTORY is his story, MYSTERY is my story (A History according to me)’. A commission of Frontier Imaginaries, the work is part of an ongoing series of 10-metre long canvasses that
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Motion Picture considers art’s relationship to the cinematic through the work of six contemporary Australian artists. At first glance, the content and style of these works are seemingly familiar, however any initial sense of familiarity is quickly undermined as narratives are confused or completely dismantled, well-known scenes are removed from their intended contexts, and common
Refrain/Reprise is an exhibition showcasing Brooke Ferguson’s abstract drawings on paper that use chance based strategies and simple everyday objects to form the basis of the compositions. The works form part of an ongoing series that explore drawing as inscription, notation, and score. Accompanying these works will be Scott Ferguson Volume 1, a vinyl record featuring collaborative
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Themesong is a body of work that explores deeply embedded links between religion, economics and power in colonial societies of the ‘West’, with a particular focus on Australia. Themes of power and dominion – in particular, how religion and economic control served colonialism and empire building over time – have become the foundation for the primary outcomes
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In Dreams You’re Mine explores intimacy, loneliness and sexuality in a domestic context. The works speak to the presence and absence of the body, dignity and abjection, in digital image-based culture, and to the warm anxiety that these tensions may incite. The exhibition confronts the physicality of sexual fulfilment through the uneasy disjunction of visual
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As a part of University of Canberra’s “UNIFi Creative Student Symposium” Forum Speakers: Jenny Watson, Julie-Anne Milinksi, Zoe Porter, Naomi Evans and Mary Letain. Chaired by Grace Herrmann What: An insight into the firsthand experiences of women in the art industry. When: 10:00-10:50 am Where: H Block Auditorium H2026 (South Bank – TAFE Queensland Brisbane)
SELF is a group exhibition showcasing 6 artists responding to the concept of self. SELF explores themes of identity, gender, perception, documental and material through a range of practices that engage with performance, process-driven work, intimate bodily gestures, photography and digital mapping. Artists: Adam Buchanan Ursala Cooper Jenna Green Daniel Sala Rachel Sedgmen Olga Rubio
Walking to work. Walking home. Walking to a place. Walking from a place. Walking mindfully. Walking and observing. Walking for the sake of walking. Walking for the sake of art. The artist often makes the same journey while walking. Places become significant or just become overlooked, details become amplified whilst others become ignored. A nondescript
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Discover timeless connections to Brisbane’s early histories through the Sara Irannejad and Sally Molloy, at Newstead House, as they explore themes of cross-cultural exchange and legacies of exploration. Resonance features the work of Sara Irannejad, Natasha Lewis Honeyman, Mandana Mapar, Sally Molloy and Camille Serisier. The three participating historical houses are Newstead House, Miegunyah House
Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012) is widely regarded as the greatest Greek filmmaker, having crafted an epic vision of modern Greece and the Balkans through allegories of its turbulent social and political history. His films are celebrated for their poetic and elliptical style, choreographed sequences and haunting cinematography. Angelopoulos’s career was marked by a number of loosely
Raquel Ormella (b. Sydney 1969) is an installation artist working at the intersections of art and activism, investigating the means by which critical reflexivity in contemporary art encourages processes of self-examination regarding political consciousness and social action. Ormellaʼs practice is grounded in exploring the nature of the relationship between humans and the natural environment, with a
Contemporary Art Gallery Online Announces an International Call for Artists to Participate in the “ALL Botanical” Art Competition & Exhibition Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 3rd Annual International “ALL Botanical” Online Art Competition for the month of May 2016. Contemporary Art Gallery Online encourages entries from all 2D and 3D artists regardless of their
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Do you suffer from the 31st Century’s Sickness? Am I suffering? I don’t want to believe what comes next. Perhaps it’s too late to find myself beyond clickbait retrovirals eating up cartilage across all known index fingers and thumbs granting access and pertaining by all appearances to activity. The agricultural method behind my personalised
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Catharcissism (save me make me keep me take me) dredges Katie Porter’s creative and written past to resuscitate and release words frozen on a hard-drive by the anxiety of sharing one’s creative production. Each of the work’s 200+ assorted poems – from random haikus, to tween love poems and abandoned and forgotten works-in-progress – is
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“The body is our general medium for having a world.” ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Interdisciplinary art practice facilitates multiple forms of engagement. By expanding the boundaries of medium specificity the attention shifts from its inherent limitations to the possibilities. Dominic Byrne’s 2016 exhibition, BUST THIS FLESH PIT, celebrates this crossover by drawing attention to
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A major survey show by Aboriginal artist Barney Ellaga will open at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley on April 6th. The exhibition ‘Place of Stones’ is a collection of artwork never exhibited in its entirety, with the most recent painting completed in 2004. Barney Ellaga was a senior Aboriginal law man and until his
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Dis-order brings together the works of six artists: Vanghoua Anthony Vue, Carol Mac, Caitlin Halsall, Kevin Foo, Mark Feiler and Chris Kunko. This exhibition will explore the themes of order and disorder from different perspectives, and the exhibition will feature a variety of mediums and artistic strategies, such as video art, painting, drawing, ‘painting booths’
‘Brutal Truths’ presents preeminent voices in contemporary Australian art: Vernon Ah Kee, the late Gordon Bennett, and collaborative artists Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser. Grounded in debates relating to Australia’s Indigenous histories, these artists present provocations that also relate to global contexts of displacement and oppression. The earliest works in this exhibition are by the
Dark Hour is an exhibition of works, found items & projections inspired by symbology, the occult, black metal, xeroxed posters, horror films, and all forms of dark matter. The collection of works explores our fascination with death across history and pop culture, channeling inspiration from everything from the medieval grim reaper, to the 1970’s film