Mitchell Fine Art presents a solo exhibition by award winning Indigenous artist Margaret Loy Pula. Hailing from Utopia in Central Australia Pula continues a legacy that dates back through millennia. Painting traditional stories handed down from her father she depicts her homelands, bush foods and ceremonial designs using intricate dot work. Margaret Loy Pula paints […]
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In 1945, at the close of the Pacific war, a group of young Brisbane artists formed Miya Studio, named after an Aboriginal word for ‘today’. Founding members Pamela Seeman, Laurence Hope and Laurence Collinson, together with Cecel Knopke, organised studio space and encouraged artists to respond to the challenges of the contemporary world. In Collinson’s
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‘ICEdust’ is a solo exhibition of new work by Melbourne-based Christian Capurro. The seven large-scale photographs stage found commercial scenes cleaned, corrupted and rerendered by maverick electronic dusting. Opening Event: Thursday 30 June, 6 – 8pm Image: Christian Capurro, ICEdust 71 2016, C-Type photograph, 160 x 115 cm.
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Brett Leavy is an Indigenous artist, immersive heritage specialist, inventor, and the driving force behind Virtual Songlines. In consultation with historians and custodians of First Nations knowledge, Virtual Songlines is an immersive virtual landscape with 3D characters based upon historical counterparts from Australian history before first settlement. Using applied research and development along with Unity
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Davida has said she works in episodes. This is through personal necessity, and because the life of the painting when wet, finishes quickly. There is a very strict technical limitation to make any changes. Whereas other methods of painting allow for changes to be made, Davida’s direct hands on caressing of the paint, the substance
Dust. Ashes. is the result of a recent residency at Sunday Morning@EKWC in Holland, and marks a new direction in Phoebe McDonald’s practice. The title of the exhibition refers to the craft of ceramics – a new medium for Phoebe. ‘Dust’ alludes to the material of clay, refined in riverbeds over thousands of years and combined
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Now in its second year, Queensland Film Festival seeks to re-energise local film culture by providing a stimulating environment for thinking and talking about the best contemporary international cinema. As a prelude to the full program (15 – 24 July 2016), QFF and IMA have partnered again in 2016 to present a free screening on
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MONO continues at the IMA this July with a very special appearance from Room40 Stalwart John Chantler. Back in Australia for the first time in too many years. Chantler will present a brand new Quadraphonic modular synth work based on a series of recent and soon to be announced recordings. His performances in Europe during Room40’s
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Digital Empathy Device [2016], utilises open source technologies to monitor Livemap; an online, citizen-run mapping service that correlates live information on bombings, hazards and attacks in war zones around the world. A foreign air raid or bombing triggers a mobile phone activated device mounted on a public statue, causing it to weep every time an
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The Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Queensland have a history of presenting work that connects with issues and ideas of the landscape. Since 2009 JMGQ has held a number of group exhibitions exploring these notions, in particular responding to Queensland’s unique climate, the 2011 Brisbane flood, facets of the natural world and questioning ethics of
The Institute of Modern Art and QUT Art Museum present the launch edition of roaming art platform Frontier Imaginaries across two exhibitions: No Longer at Ease (IMA) and The Life of Lines (QUT Art Museum). Frontier Imaginaries is founded by QUT Alumnus Vivian Ziherl through the IMA Curatorial Fellowship. Across the IMA and QUT Art Museum, local and international artists address the
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This exhibition brings together a selection of emerging, established and significant Australian artists who engage with the complex range of emotions that we classify as love. The exhibition showcases both historical and contemporary artworks over a range of media to trace how artistic notions of love have changed over time. The language of love embraces
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In celebration of National Reconciliation Week 2016 and NAIDOC Week 2016 Redland Art Gallery in partnership with Redland Libraries presents works by 15 Quandamooka artists from the Redland Art Gallery Collection, spanning a 35 year period (1981 – 2016). The works cover a diverse range of themes and mediums relating to Quandamooka country. Exhibiting artists
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WHAT IS MODIFYRE? Modifyre is an annual event and a year-round community dedicated to art, self-expression, and self-reliance. It is an immersive experience created by its participants – individuals and groups just like you – for the benefit of other participants. So it really is up to you. Unlike many events, Modifyre is not created by a
Call for entries for the COAL Prize 2016 – responses from artists to current environmental issues. It is open to artists from all over the world who deploy their creativity to devise and experiment with solutions and bear witness to the transformation of territories, lifestyles, organizations. The COAL Prize will reveal the wealth of responses
Video artists from all over the world are invited to submit their works on the theme ‘Ecology without Borders’ for the sixth edition of International Video Art Festival Now&After to be held at The State Darwin Museum in Moscow, one of the largest natural science museums in Europe, from October 29 till November 29, 2016.
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Zoe Knight is an artist based in Brisbane. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at Queensland University of Technology. Zoe’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. Since the
Michael Cook is from Queensland’s Bidjara people. Adopted as a baby by a non-Indigenous family, he was later encouraged to find his Aboriginal birth mother and to explore his Indigenous heritage. Originally a successful commercial fashion photographer, Cook’s expertise in digital image-making and post-production techniques lends an ethereal quality to his re-visioning of Australian history.
Sebastian Moody was born in Sydney, New South Wales (1979). He currently lives and works in Brisbane where he has completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Queensland University of Technology (2001) and a Master of Museum Studies at The University of Queensland (2009). Moody ’s text works have appeared in swimming pools, personals
Brisbane is bright with artistic activity however changes in support, funding and services can be a hindrance. This small salon session allows artists to voice concerns, challenges and share ideas for future opportunities. A free participatory event open to all artists at any career stage. All welcome, NAVA members are encouraged to attend. Facilitated by
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When you move away from a home, a place that feels so familiar, almost part of your identity, I knew everything, I had entered into it, I bore it within me, I made it live[1], it feels like you are finally able to see it clearly[2]. Somehow not being there or with the people there,
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About the workshop Get crafty in this introductory paper cutting workshop with Brisbane-based artist, Elysha Rei. Elysha will introduce the history of this intricate international folk artform and how it has emerged in the contemporary art scene. Elysha will also teach you all the essential design and paper cutting techniques you need to know you
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In this workshop you’ll learn the techniques to create your own gorgeous sterling silver earrings with renowned Brisbane-based silversmith, Renata Fojtikova. Renata will teach you key jewellery design concepts and the basic techniques for hand working in silver. What to bring: Closed in shoes What you’ll get: All tools, materials and safety equipment you need
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We are excited to announce that entries are now open for the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) 2016. In celebration of our 45th year, the QRAA theme is ‘Colours of Queensland’. Artists are asked to consider what brings colour, vibrancy and life to their local community or region, drawing on personal experiences and observations. The
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The Black Swan Prize is one of Australia’s richest Portraiture Prizes, featuring the $50,000 Lester Group 1st Prize. Showcasing and promoting Australia’s top artists this is an exhibition/competition not to be missed. For more information please visit the – Website Image: 2015 Lester Group Prize Winner – Detail from Marcus Callum’s portrait of Abdul Abdullah
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The Young Artist Award is an initiative of RQAS Brisbane and is open to all Queensland residents aged 17 to 30. This Biennial exhibition will be held at Petrie Terrace Gallery following the Queensland Figurative Art Prize. The award is designed to encourage and support young artists in the pursuit of excellence. RQAS promotes engagement
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Welcome to S/tick! We want submissions of your feminist art and creative writing. Tell us your stories and challenge the status quo. Try odd or forgotten writing forms, like haibuns, on us. Or, if none of these red dresses fits you, simply ensure you redress something of interest to women. About S/tick’s publication process: S/tick
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Fraction Magazine is an online venue dedicated to fine art, contemporary photography and brings together diverse bodies of work by established and emerging artists from around the globe. Fraction is published on a monthly basis, and has shown portfolios from more than 300 photographers. The concept of Fraction was born in 2007 on Route 66 in
Professionally run, untutored, with professional models, at a studio in Sherwood, 37 Quarry Rd. Life Drawing Sessions: Tuesdays, 6.30 pm Fridays, 10 am Friday 1.30, (first Friday of the month) All run 3 hours. Easels, tables and paper available. Cost, Non members $15 Members $12.00 We are a not for profit community arts group and
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Contemporary Art Gallery Online announces their 3rd Annual International “Water / Seascapes” Online Art Competition for the month of June 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
An artist, a baker, an architect, choreographer, dinner host, scientist, designer, child playing with their food – these are all descriptions that seem applicable to Elizabeth Willing in her on-going examination of gastronomy, the rituals of consumption and the aesthetic qualities of food. At once methodical and whimsical in her manipulation of the structural possibilities
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Transversing is the act of extending across and through something. While to transverse is to weave across, a through line is the invisible thread which interlocks a story together. In search of the through line, each artist addresses the agency of materiality within their work. This exhibition brings together the research of Rachael Wellisch, Rebekah
Every so often Jan Murphy Gallery invites one of its represented artists to curate an exhibition featuring artists selected especially by them. This year Lara Merrett has curated, Studio Wars, which will present work by seven of the artists she shares her studio with in Birmingham Street, inner Sydney. Merrett has been based in the
Tailgater is an exhibition of jewellery objects by Megan MacKenzie. Made predominantly from car plastics found on or alongside Brisbane roads since 2013, each piece is a material documentation of a collision in time and space. By using collected pieces of broken car plastics in her work, Megan investigates the environmental and social impacts of
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Welcome to The Other Art Fair, Sydney’s favourite fair to meet and buy art direct from 80 of the very best emerging artists. An international platform for emerging artists, The Other Art Fair connects buyers directly with top undiscovered artistic talent, hand picked by a committee of art industry experts. This 27-30 October the fair returns
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The Apprenticeship exhibition celebrates the work and stories of thirteen artisans, from blacksmiths and shoemakers to sign-writers and furniture makers, all striving to preserve traditional crafts and trades that have declined at the hands of mass production. This exhibition reveals how these artisans have pioneered pathways to gaining these skills, reinventing ‘the apprenticeship’ for today. The
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