‘Present Tense’ curated by Belem Lett features the work of DAN HOLLIER, GENEVIEVE FELIX REYNOLDS, GREG HODGE, PAUL WILLIAMS, SALLY ANDERSON and WILL COOKE. Present Tense looks at the contemporary vernacular of abstraction present within the practices of the participating artists. Each artist has been selected as their works explore methods of production which interrogate […]
Within a city, gardens are places of escape, play and relaxation. However the idea of the manicured garden is a relationship that is riddled with desires, expectations and anxieties. In Illuminated McKay is able to tease out these underlying tensions, and give us a new way of thinking about these little pockets of paradise that
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From the publishers of Das Superpaper comes Oberon, a new periodical on art in the world. After publishing Das Superpaper in Australia for 6 years, Das Platforms is proud to announce the launch of Oberon, a new international, bi-annual magazine. Oberon presents the best of contemporary art in the world of literature, philosophy, economics, politics,
Dale Harding was born in 1982 in the coal-mining town of Moranbah, Queensland, and grew up on his parents’ nearby cattle property. The son of Kate and David Harding, he is a descendant of the Bidjara, Garingbal and Ghungalu people, and also acknowledges the Gungari people of Central Queensland. Harding’s artistic talent was recognised early
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Ilma Savari is the daughter of venerated elder and pre-eminent Ömie artist Sarah Ugibari. In recent years, Sarah (the oldest living Ömie at approximately ninety-seven years of age) has begun the crucial task of imparting her store of ancient wisdom to daughter Ilma. Among other things, this has involved Sarah teaching Ilma to paint and
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Belem Lett has been a finalist in several prizes including the The Fisher’s Ghost Award and the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship which he won in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Bang Bang at CHASM Gallery in New York, solo shows at Firstdraft and MOP Projects in Sydney and group exhibitions at The Digital Art Centre in Taipei and Campbelltown
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Wendy Sharpe is acclaimed as one of Australia’s most significant and awarded artists. She has won the Archibald Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Prize (twice) and the Sulman prize (judged by Albert Tucker). She has received major commissions including Australian Official Artist to East Timor, the first woman painter since World War II. Image: Wendy
Daniel Boyd will speak about his Green Room exhibition and artistic practice on Thursday 24 March, at 6pm. Daniel Boyd is a descendant of the Kudjla/Gangalu peoples from Far North Queensland. Boyd’s acclaimed practice deftly layers colonial history, European modernism and its connections to the Pacific, and the subtle interplay between lenses and techniques of
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Bleach* Festival illuminates, reflects, beams, focuses and most importantly connects art, with community…come with us and challenge the conventional as we strive to change perceptions at Bleach* Festival 2016, 4 – 20 March. With sophisticated, contemporary and innovative artistic programming, Bleach* Festival is an expression of music, theatre, dance, visual arts, outdoor events and much
Presented as part of ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ Lav Diaz is one of the leading figures of contemporary cinema, celebrated for his intensely poetic and beautiful works exploring the social and political history of the Philippines. His films have dealt with the era of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos (1965–86); the revolution
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You’re invited to engage with APT8 Live through a series of monthly event days exploring performance and the body in APT8. Monthly on Sundays, APT8 Live will feature artist performances, drop-in workshops, curator’s tours and an APT8 Live discussion forum in which performance art specialists, academics and artists consider the breadth of contemporary performance
Stephen Nothling: Peintures florales qui ne changeront pas le monde, mais peuvent paraître belles sur un mur de salon (Floral paintings that won’t change the world but might look good on a lounge room wall).
Adolphe Piche will be the first artist in 2016 for Bosz Gallery. This exhibition showcases his skill in figurative drawing, watercolours and oil paintings. Opening night at 6:30pm on the 26th February.
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“Blanks for when words gone. When nohow on. Then all seen as only then. Undimmed. All undimmed that words dim. All so seen unsaid.” – Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho Opening Event: Thursday, 3 March 2015, 6 – 8 pm Venue: POP Gallery, 27 Logan Road, Woolloongabba Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-4pm, Thursday, 12pm-8pm
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Four artists use diverse media to explore the traces, impacts and qualities and relationships of water. Nicola Hooper investigates Zoonoses (infections/diseases transferred from animal hosts to humans). She explores the animal body as a ‘host’ and the role ‘water’ and these animals play in the origin and spread of potential pandemic diseases. The mechanism of
Public lecture and panel discussion. In the history of art, classical antiquity has always had an important place. But its uses and abuses vary widely at different times and contexts. What is the status of classical antiquity in contemporary art today? In a global world crisscrossed by hybrid traditions, what is at stake in engaging
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Shape Of Words brings together three visual artists working with text, influenced by a common origin; twenty five years ago they met as students at the QUT Painting and Sculpture studios. They’ve since developed independent practices in various fields of the visual arts while retaining links with their original disciplines. David Parker is a jeweller
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Since 2013, LEVEL has presented an annual International Women’s Day forum for robust discussions on art and feminism, seeking ways to create change through dialogue and activism. This forum will address the often problematic connections that have historically been drawn between women and nature, but also how artists, curators, and writers critique exploitation of earth’s
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Every photograph is a document. A photographic document may be about a friend’s smile, a family event, a dramatic storm cloud or a dent in a car door – but what about documents that tell us about the greater aspects of life in our times? These photographs that may be about the tragedies of human
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On a Roll is an exhibition and portfolio of fine art prints created in 2005 commemorating and celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights and the 40th anniversary of Indigenous people’s voting rights in Queensland. The folio was curated by Moreton Bay regional printmaker Debra Russell for Brisbane based Impress Printmakers Inc. Twenty prints
Sha Sarwari is a multidisciplinary visual artist who came to Australia as a refugee. In 1999 he had to leave his home country Afghanistan. Since then he has called Brisbane home. In his work Sha aim to explore the contemporay discourse of refugee and sylum seeker. His work is influenced by his personal experience of
Now and Then presents new video and installation artworks by Clark Beaumont. Clark Beaumont is the Brisbane-based artistic collaboration of Nicole Beaumont and Sarah Clark. Through both live and mediated performance works they investigate ideas and constructs surrounding identity, female subjectivity, intimacy and interpersonal relationships. Clark Beaumont are the subjects of their work, and their
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‘Less’ is a group exhibition that explores the commonalities and differences between ten early career Brisbane-based artists working within the field of post-minimalism. Traversing issues of affect, perception and beauty, as well as medium and art historical reference, the exhibition celebrates abstract post-minimal practice and aesthetics. Curated by Lisa Bryan-Brown Artists: Helen Bird Courtney Coombs
Join Boxcopy on Saturday afternoon at 4pm for a discussion about artist run activity as a potential site of resistance that can challenge ways of thinking and doing, with Brisbane based artist Danielle Clej and Adelaide based artist Brigid Noone. Following on from the discussion will be a screening of Keg de Souza’s work ‘If There’s
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Self portraits tend to record a moment, less than a second in the case of photography, but only marginally longer in traditional art media. Yet the idea of ‘becoming’ might be useful in considering self portraiture. Movement and change, reflected in the individual as development and aging, is difficult to summarise visually. For many artists, looking to the future is appealing,
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“For the vast majority of people, work offers no meaning, fulfillment or redemption – It is simply something to pay the bills.” – Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Work can be framed in contrast to leisure when examining the unseen labour that lurks beneath the surface
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Landshapes is an exhibition of new work by amy commins using light, motion and video to creatively inquire into the tensions at work within the concept of landscape. Amy commins is a visual artist currently based in brisbane, working across a variety of media including painting, installation and video. commins is interested in the experience
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SGAR is excited to announce we are hosting a summer residency program in the gallery with Brisbane artists Dana Lawrie and James Barth. The intensive month long studio residency will culminate in a group exhibition opening February 27. Lawrie and Barth explore notions of the physical body and self in paint. Both artists are figurative
John Waller’s abstract design represent the next step in a pictorial tradition that underpins much of Australian art. After an extensive career in Victoria, this exhibition will be Waller’s first in Queensland, as REDSEA Gallery proudly brings to you Transcendental Plains; an exhibition that will prove Waller’s sophisticated and timeless aesthetic. John Waller’s colour-dominated fields
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Under the Surface: New Work by Joseph Breikers. Of Satan, satin, l’inferno and the subterrane. 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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“I have been told truck-stop blow jobs are a thing.” PS. Dad’s a Trucker. Callum McGrath is an emerging Brisbane artist currently completing his Honours in Visual Art at the Queensland University of Technology. Through video and installation, Callum’s work seeks to transcend the heterosexual and masculine constructs of the screen. In this project the
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In this talk, Daniel Barber will discuss the role of image making and distribution as a central arena for rethinking the relationship between architecture and climate in the 1940s and 1950s. Drawing on discussions from numerous fields, he will emphasise the complicated role of academic institutions and non-governmental organizations in reframing the relationship of
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In partnership with LEVEL, Metro Arts presents FEMIOKE – a DIY style, feminist karaoke event as part of International Women’s Day and an after-party to LEVEL’s We Need to Care forum. Are you going to tell us what you want, what you really, really want? Is it R-E-S-P-E-C-T and no scrubs? Will you survive, do
Featuring ROSS MANNING (SOLAR SOUNDS) (BRISBANE) CHERIE NOBLE (PROJECTED ENVIRONMENTS) (PALM BEACH) ALICIA HARVIE (PERFORMANCE ART) (BROADBEACH WATERS) UNWAR (EARTH-FRIENDLY AMBIENT DRONE NARRATIVES) (NORTHERN NSW) + RE-CYCLED, UP-CYCLED, BI-CYCLED BEATS + PEDAL-POWERED LIGHTING & PEOPLE-POWERED BRILLIANCE + SOLAR POWERED DISCO INFERNO SUNNY GOOD TIMES BANANA SUNDAYs are The Walls’ social sound series where we present
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Urban Strolling presents new work stemming from a recent one-month residency in Cadiz, Spain. In Cadiz, Courtney explored the possibility of walking as a strategy for unlearning, where unlearning involves the process of moving forward and backward to find a new center. The resulting works are but a small offering from this new line of
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As Brisbane establishes itself as an important city in the Asia-Pacific, what do our buildings say about life here? Living in the city will explore nine new architectural projects in Brisbane currently under construction alongside one project from each of our nine Sister Cities in the Asia-Pacific: Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Auckland (New Zealand), Chongqing and Shenzhen (China), Daejeon (South Korea), Hyderabad (India), Kaohsiung (Taiwan), Kobe (Japan) and
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