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
‘Femel_Fissions’ traces the historical influence of women on scientific discovery and research through newly commissioned works from leading Australian and international artists. Featuring seven contemporary female art/science practitioners, ‘Femel_Fissions’ will showcase works that have been created in response to groundbreaking discoveries by female scientists from the last three centuries, exploring the fields of neurology, biology,
Please join us at Jugglers Art Space for the opening of the Finalists Exhibition for the 2016 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing. Now in its 7th year, this year’s prize attracted over 200 entries from all over Australia and our judges have worked hard to select the 25 Finalists from a strong and diverse
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To inaugurate the IMA’s Green Screen project, which focusses on moving image works with a connection to Queensland, Judy Watson‘s film ‘the names of places’ will be shown at the gallery from 10 September–8 October. Join us on Saturday 10 September for the launch of this important work, which presents research-based mapping of Aboriginal massacre
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Featuring: Adrian Robertson, Chase Archer, Clare Cowley, Clare Purser, David Fenoglio, David Jones, Domenica Hoare, Euan Macleod, Henri van Noordenburg, Ian Smith, James Watts, Jewel White Stone, Jonathan McBurnie, Jude Roberts, Katina Davidson, Kym Barrett, Leah Thiessen, Nick Drake, Pat Hoffie, Peter Hudson, Roland Nancarrow, Ron McBurnie, Ross Booker, Sally Molloy, Sam Fermo, Saskia Gilmour,
The opening night of GRAIN‘s Against The Grain Festival is from 6:30pm Friday 19th August and is a free event, with the following 2 nights being ticketed. There will be a video program and installation curated by Jacob Warren of CORFLUTE, live music and This Must be the Place (just around the corner on Ann
Strung tells the stories of fibre from a diversity of cultures within our region. It celebrates the translation of techniques honed in ancient weaving crafts into contemporary forms: the weaving of new narratives through fibres looped upon themselves. The exhibition brings together works from diverse locations and differing sensibilities, from the steamy pandanus forest of
Blood Generation is a retelling of Bougainville’s recent and complex history. In 1964, the Moroni people in Bougainville were subjected to harassment and exploitation and stripped of their land rights under Crown Law. Australian-owned mining company Conzinc Rio Tinto sent in geologists and, in 1972, Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) was formed. The Moroni valley was
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“A few years ago I found something I had been searching for – a sailing boat of a certain type. Large enough to paint on and set up well enough to stay out on in all sorts of weather and yet small enough to manage on my own with shallow draft to move close along
Cindy Sherman is renowned as a chameleon; her own image is at the centre of an astonishing gallery of character studies, developed over decades. Sherman has positioned photography as one of the most important contemporary art forms, expanding on contemporary society’s recurrent fascination with female appearance, narcissism, cults of celebrity, aspirational culture, and emotional fragility. She
Curated by The Brisbane Collective and showcased at Crowbar Brisbane as a part of the BIGSOUND live music showcase, we have enlisted some of the best live music photographers / videographers for a 4-day showcase of their work. From festivals to small venues, they have captured your favourite musical acts and an assortment of prints will be available for
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Bold expressions of vibrant colour feature strongly in the upcoming exhibition ‘Colour Masters’ at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. On display from Wednesday 24th August this striking exhibition showcases a range of Aboriginal artworks from Central Australia. Reflections of country and culture are portrayed through artistic design and contrasting colours. These exquisite artworks have been
As an artist Julie revels in the perfection of nature and the harmony of the perfect circle from seed to compost back to seed. Utilising natural and manmade objects through her artworks, Julie highlights the use of raw materials taken from the ground and crafted into enduring objects that can be reused, cherished and handed
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Volcanic Bloom explores imaginative minerals in strange environments and possible futures. Ari Athans plays with concepts of physical variables such as atmospheric conditions, planet core composition, temperature, sun exposure, gravity, mineral composition, rotational energy, magnetic field and radiation. “I like to imagine worlds where there might be acid yellow sulphuric seas’, she says. ‘Many of these
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In the fourth lecture in our year-long series The Artist As… co-presented with Curatorial Practice at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Associate Professor Tara McDowell will focus on the ‘artist as initiator’. Lately artists have initiated, and even aimed to sustain, organisations that could be called, or at least loosely resemble, NGOs, bakeries, multi-national corporations, schools, cinemas, magazines, archives,
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Flawed is a new installation work by Jasmin Coleman that responds to FAKE estate’s East Brisbane exhibition space. Coleman’s interest in exploring how inanimate industrial process and materials can be used to articulate human attributes will form the foundation of the work. Jasmin Coleman is an emerging visual artist from Brisbane. Since undertaking a Bachelor
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Time is a fundamental and axiomatic philosophical concept that has long been a chief subject in several areas of study. Numerous different values, meanings and ideologies can be linked to it, which makes defining time in a universally acceptable manner quite difficult. This is never more true than in Australian Indigenous culture, where their concept
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The story goes: As a child, D discovered a Zero fighter plane crashed in the bush behind her house. The wings were beat up, the nose was crumpled and banksias had started growing through the cockpit. The plane was practically pungent with history; a skeleton cast from the bombing of Darwin Harbour, a relic from
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The Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with London Transport Museum (LTM), is delighted to announce that submissions are now open for The Prize for Illustration 2017. This year the theme is Sounds of the City – an illustrated interpretation of urban sound. We are surrounded 24/7 by sound in our cities. It shapes our experiences and
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Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 4th Annual International “Cityscapes” Online Art Competition for the month of August 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
A vital part of making a career as a visual artist is securing grants and funding, as well as residencies and exhibitions. Being able to discuss and pitch your work are crucial skills. In this session get application tips from artists Elizabeth Willing and Daniel McKewen in discussion with Amy-Clare McCarthy, Exhibition Program Curator at
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OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS AND CURATORS RESIDENCIES – visual arts focus. The Thalie Art Foundation’s mission is to support various forms of socially-engaged contemporary art with artistic practice as a tool of emancipation and social link. Based in Brussels (Be), the Thalie Art Foundation is a non-profit organization. The Thalie Art Foundation’s missions are: – to support various
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Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz Art Award. The Award offers a $10,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to Queensland-based artists or artists with a strong connection to Queensland. For more information please visit the – Website Image: 2015 WINNER – Liam O’Brien ‘FOE. High definition single
2017 Rijswijk Textile Biennial will take place in the Netherlands 16 May – 24 September. A call for entries is open for the international exhibition of contemporary textile art. The Rijswijk Textile Biennial is an international exhibition of contemporary textile art that is organized every two years in Museum Rijswijk. Artists who would like to participate in
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Call for artists across disciplines to apply to join CRACK INTERNATIONAL ART CAMP (CIAC) 2016 taking place in Kushtia, Bangladesh in December 2016. CIAC focuses on promoting young artists & thinkers by giving them space & momentum for flourishing their talent on an international basis. Camp Date: 25-30 December 2016 Who can attend? CIAC is open for
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The fourth edition of The Future Generation Art Prize worldwide competition established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Ukraine opens for entries today. All artists up to the age of 35 of all backgrounds, working in any medium, anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply. Supporting the application process, more than 600 correspondents all
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The 49th National Competition and Exhibition will be held at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre Gymea NSW from 16 to 28 September 2016. This competition is open to any potter or pottery student residing in Australia. The work entered must have been completed since the last competition in September 2014. There are six prizes
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Join Brisbane artist Sam Cranstoun for a hands-on workshop utilising vintage and found photographic images as the foundation for collage-based artworks. Sam Cranstoun lives and works in Brisbane. Cranstoun has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His work is held in private and public collections including University of Queensland
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Apply now for this two week Artist in Residence opportunity available only to financial members of Flying Arts. This residency is presented by Flying Arts Alliance and Blackall Cultural Association. The residency will comprise of a 50-50 mix of community and professional development activities. The successful artist will receive a $2,000 stipend; airfare and accommodation at the
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Facilitated by John Stafford News, views and interviews with your host John Stafford via Flying Arts Web TV. In this Viz Arts Tonight session John Stafford will interview Artistic Director of CIAF, Janina Harding. About Janina Harding Born in Carlton, Janina Harding grew up in Melbourne where she has lived and worked most of her life.
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