About the workshop In this workshop you’ll learn the techniques of coiled basketry, from weaving to stitching, with experienced visual artist and weaver, Casselle Mountford. You’ll pick from a variety of colourful ropes to create your own coiled vessel to take home. Suitable for ages 12 years and above. No prior experience necessary. What to […]
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“By the time I got to the racks, half of the range was already gone.” Stella McCartney for Target is a group exhibition looking at selection of artworks by emerging Brisbane artists. The works involved in the show span a range of media and reflect the diverse outcomes of experimental art being produced in Brisbane.
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Ali Bezer is a visual artist and researcher based on the Gold Coast whose PhD (2016, Griffith University) investigating the visual and psychological effects of hearing unfamiliar sounds, including computer generated cosmic noises and Musique Concrete. Her art practice expresses these abstract recorded noises through sculpture and installation pieces in which she materialises sonic timbres,
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Gathering Strands is a multi-layered exhibition project celebrating the vitality of Indigenous fibre work by bringing together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander weavers, visual artists and community groups from across South East Queensland. Curated by Freja Carmichael, recipient of the 2014 Australia Council Emerging Curator’s Fellowship, Gathering Strands has been the culmination of a two
A showcase of emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Including a range of paintings, prints, sculpture, mixed media and jewellery pieces by featured artists: JEREMY ANDERSON, JORDANA ANGUS ANDREW GALL, TORI-JAY MORDEY MANDY QUADRIO, MELISSA STANNARD KEVIN WILLIAMS, KIM WILLIAMS & VENESSA POSSUM WILLIAMS STARZYNSKI. Chance to win lucky door prizes. Tickets for raffle available upon
CLUTCH collective warmly invites you to join us in experiencing Louise Bennett’s new spatial video work, ‘The Sun From Your Past’. This exhibition will be site specific and has been developed in direct response to the CLUTCH truck. Louise Bennett is an artist from Brisbane, Australia whose practice negotiates tensions between day-to-day experience and its
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Disqualifications and fortuitous crashes paved the way for Australia’s first Winter Olympics gold medallist, Steven Bradbury. Contemporary art, as a rank outsider to sport itself in the conscious of the wider public, Bradburys its way through the Australian cultural landscape, beset by the likes of Sportsbet ads that cry “that’s not art” at abstract sculpture
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In Trueman’s newest work he has developed a process of painting on large scale Yupo, a synthetic paper that is mounted to aluminum. The unique interaction of the smooth Yupo surface and various types of acrylic paint application both sprayed and directly with brush and squeegee allow for marks and forms to be made as
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Branding is like a fingerprint. It shows your customers how your creative business is distinctive from all the rest of your competition. Branding isn’t advertising, but it does help you sell more and market your products and business more effectively. It’s about packaging up what you stand for, in your own style, with your own
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‘ephemeral traces’ provides the first comprehensive analysis of artist-run practice in Brisbane during the final decade of the conservative Joh Bjelke-Petersen government. The exhibition focuses on the scene that developed around five key spaces that operated in Brisbane from 1982 to 1988: One Flat, A Room, That Space, The Observatory, and John Mills National. Drawing
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A renowned showcase of recent performance and moving image works by emerging and established artists, Visions aims to offer an international overview of the challenging and thoughtful uses of these ever shifting mediums. We are now inviting artists from all over the world to submit moving image and performance works for Visions 2016, which will
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Frontier Imaginaries: No Longer at Ease contains two works by artist Ryan Presley which traverse many of the themes and histories he has been investigating for the past several years. The new painting ‘Crown Land (to the ends of the earth)’ (2016) appropriates Christian iconography to address the ongoing issues of the Northern Territory intervention.
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Inhouse ARI will be presenting a new project as part of Boxcopy’s Homeground Brisbane ARIs. Addressing the Artist Run Initiative (ARI) activity in Brisbane, the accumulative exhibition will present 5 ARI’s in succession: FAKE estate, CLUTCH Collective, The Laundry Artspace, Cut Thumb ARI, and Inhouse ARI. Responding to the accumulative nature of Homeground, Inhouse’s project will
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Deadline extended! Artists from all countries are invited to apply for a residency at the European Space Agency in the framework of the European Digital Art and Science Network. This call is open to digital artists to propose innovative concepts and ideas in the field of art, science and technology. After three successful cycles of
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A Practical Curatorial Workshop with GOMA curator and artist, Mat Dabrowski. “Pick Up Your Tape Measure and Throw it into the Sun!” Join GOMA curator and Brisbane artist, Mat Dabrowski for a 3 hour practical and hand- on evening covering everything you need to know about handling, installing and archiving your artwork to a museum
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Residential fellowships in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems, Germany are awarded to international visual artists. The 2017 residential fellowships focus is CERAMICS. Furthermore a curator fellowship is awarded to a junior academic graduate. Since 2013, fellowships are offered in one artistic genre or one theme each year which is announced at the beginning of the application period
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Charcoal Home is a new residency based at a health resort and charcoal production kiln in Zhanjiang, a coastal city in Guangdong. The first residency session, led by artist and former artistic director of Da Wang Culture Highland Tom Hayes, will host eight artists for two months in September and October. Charcoal Home is a health resort formed
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Sarah Mitchell: Digesting 50 Thousand Years, and George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi, are two solo exhibitions showcasing the recent works from both artists. Both exhibitions are comprised of a collection of acrylic paintings, each holding vastly different artistic aesthetics and focuses. Mitchell’s works tell the story of white settlement and influence through the representation of diet, whilst
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Join us for this closing event for our exhibition The Apprenticeship featuring a panel of craftspeople and industry experts exploring how learning pathways can evolve to better serve craft practice today and into the future. Following the panel discussion will be a live performance by The Apprenticeship artist, drummer and drum maker Pete Bosworth, drinks
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Marisa Purcell holds a Master of Visual Arts from the Sydney College of Art, University of Sydney and a Master of Art Administration from University of New South Wales, College of Fine Art. She has received numerous prizes, awards and residencies including the University of Sydney Post-Graduate Award in 2006, the Waverley Acrylic Art Prize in 2015
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The life studio is an obscure area of tolerance, a zone of sexish work, which cannot utterly escape the regimes of power that circumscribe it, but which can slowly corrupt them from within. In the life studio, malfunction serves as a countermeasure to power, and is signalled by a reflexive and socially immodest behaviour—the yawn. The
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Tom Alberts was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1962. In 1970 Alberts and his family moved to Perth where he later completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in painting at the Western Australia Institute of Technology in 1983. In late 1990 the artist moved to Melbourne, Victoria where he continues to live
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The Laundry Artspace invites you to ‘Smoke Filled Room’, an exhibition of zine, illustration, animation, interaction, conversation and dialogue. ELLISE BOURNE ANNA CARLSON LAUREN EDMONDS BRONTE MARK Image: Ellise Bourne ‘Stockades: Destroy’ 2016
On the final day of Untitled #5 join Zoe Knight from 1pm for a drawing session after FAKE estate’s ‘Critical Brunch’ for Sean Kenny’s exhibition ‘Woomb’ in Metro Arts Gallery 2. This will be open format with the aim to figure out your way of seeing objects, the installation and gallery space. You could draw the
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Brisbane Artist Run Activity, Today and Tomorrow 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 methods of working. HOMEGROUND is an accumulative exhibition project, with each artist run initiative in residence at
“Smart’s work may be understood as evoking the energy and hope and the intellectual ambition of the Renaissance, only to show us simultaneously how the humanist adventure that began five centuries ago has led to an anonymous and inhuman contemporary environment. One may even detect in the unquiet skies of some of these pictures a
Between November 2015 and January 2016 Australian and Peruvian artists Kiah Reading and Pamela Arce worked at torna, Istanbul, to develop an online piece ‘In Each Other’s Lectures’. The project focussed on a collection of found images documenting the life of a woman living in Turkey in the 1970s. To coincide with the launch of
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The space alien is an immediately recognisable icon of otherness in western popular culture. Alien visitors are frequently depicted as culturally and technologically advanced throughout the science fiction canon but are also frequently shown to be brutal, cruel, and anaesthetic simultaneously. Free from gender, sexuality, ethnicity and social caste, space alien visitors represent the absolute
Join visual artist Lucy Irvine in this Spatial practice and experimental weaving workshop as part of our Strung exhibition. Lucy will teach you a series of basic weaving techniques and how to use everyday materials to create site-specific woven sculptures. The aim of this workshop is to further your understanding into the potential complexities of
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The 7th annual Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing is now open for submissions. Entries close at midnight on Monday June 13th, 2016. The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing aims to encourage excellence in drawing as an important foundation for any arts practice. The Prize was established to help perpetuate the memory of Marie
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REDSEA Gallery is delighted to announce the return of New Zealand artist, Ross Jones, for a solo exhibition. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Ross’ recent body of work is created to tell stories. Ross constructs a mixture of seemingly perfect places and events, but like all good stories, not everything is as it seems. He
Brisbane-based photographer, Dane Beesley, will release his third collection of photographs, SHADES on Friday June 10 at This Must Be The Place, Bakery Lane. In SHADES, morning seems to originate in the stillness of a parked car. A leaning smoking woman in a striped shirt has less a shadow more a shadow self – it’s
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The Lethbridge 10 000, Australia’s largest small scale art award shows from 11 until 19 June. Now in its seventh year, the award supports emerging Australian artists, announcing the winner of the $10000 prize on Saturday 11 June. All artworks are available for sale at lethbridgegallery.com Image Credits: Carley Cornelissen Buck Richardson Tahira Sabeen Glenis
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Facilitated by Brian Tucker This free online web session will introduce you to tax and money matters for artists. Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Venue: Your own Personal Computer Cost: FREE BOOK NOW This webinar is presented as part of our Arts Professional Development program.
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As part of the CORIOLIS EFFECT PROJECT: MIGRATION AND MEMORY Khoj Artists Association in New Delhi invites applications for its International Residency Program, to be held August-October 2016. The theme of Migration and Memory addresses currents across India and Africa and applications are open to artists worldwide and for a critic/writer-in-residence. Call for Applications: International Residency
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Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association (MCASA), based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia has launched an international call for the engagement of a curator and an artist for the visual performance art project, NOMAD SPIRIT. The project aims to raise public awareness on potential threats to vital environmental and cultural resources in rural areas of Mongolia caused by
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