Don’t you worry! Its gonna be alright ‘cause I’m always ready, I won’t let you out of my sight. I’ll be ready (I’ll be ready) Never you fear (no don’t you fear) I’ll be ready Forever and always I’m always here. – “I’ll be ready” David Hasselhoff (chorus) Cigdem Aydemir is a Sydney-based artist working […]
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Jon Cattapan is an extensively exhibited visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He first began exhibiting in 1979 and his works deal primarily with ways of representing urban topographies and narratives. He is known for panoramic layered city vistas and figurative groupings and has a long held preoccupation for the way human
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UQ Architecture invites you to CROP’15 the end of year public exhibition showcasing the best work of our students from the Masters and Bachelors degrees. The opening night is a free, public event, please bring your family and friends. The exhibition installation is designed and built by UQ Architecture students with the generous support of
Please join writer and curator Rachel O’Reilly for a screening and discussion titled ‘Prefigures of Divestment in the Feminist Cinemas of Extraction’, which traces different periodizations of mining’s labour image through the exemplary ideational and projective work of feminist artists, activists, and theorists. O’Reilly is a poet, critic, independent curator and researcher whose work explores
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From November 19 – 27 , A-CH Gallery presents ‘Life, Death, Miscellaneous’. The exhibition features works by Amanda Wolf and Joeseph Breikers. Please join us from 6pm on Saturday November 21 to celebrate the opening of the exhibition *** Amanda Wolf and Joseph Breikers are two Brisbane-based artists whose work shares an interest in the
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The IMA is pleased to present work by the Brisbane-based duo Clark Beaumont in The Green Room. Clark Beaumont will be showing their recent work, The Descent (2015), which has never been presented in their home city of Brisbane. This is the first of three presentations by artists who have been shortlisted for the 2015 Jeremy Hynes Award,
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The Gallery on Level 2 will be taken over with bodies joining together to discover what ambitious plans are in store for us in 2016. Get a cheeky look at the artistic program for the new year, collect a happy snap and free drink, then spill champagne over the floorboards. On the night you’ll have
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Queensland College of Art’s 2015 graduating print media cohort presents ‘yeah, yeah, nah.’, an exhibition showcase of the final works from each artist varying in all mediums across the print making and drawing disciplines.
decorating for integrated lifestyles The color pink may be named after the flower, coming from the frilled edge of the flowers: the verb “to pink” dates from the 14th century and means “to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern”. WIKIPEDIA An important part of Rachael Archibald’s practice involves playing with the conventions of artistic
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The IMA is pleased to present work by the Brisbane-based duo Catherine or Kate. Catherine or Kate have been collaborating for 8 years. Last year they went to comedy school in Chicago to try to get funnier. The experience was more fraught than they expected and when they got home they stopped using phone and
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This exhibition presents the 2015 graduating Honours students from Fine Art and Photography. It is in the environment of Honours study that intensive intellectual and emotional journeys take place with creative leaps leading to artwork of a very high quality. Students from both these disciplines have worked across media areas making for highly individual artworks.
New work by Sebastian Moody. Opening Saturday 24 October, 5-8pm. 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
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Retrospection, an exhibition features new works from five Brisbane female photographic artists who often look to the past to make sense of their place in the world. Simultaneously methodical and melancholic, the artists reinvent and play with interpretation and memory through their respective photographic practices. Insights are deeply personal and the works demand considered reflection.
Scott’s new paintings are a collection of small stories of comings and goings and new directions – moving on in life and the taking of new paths towards the unknown From the weather-worn timber houses and abandoned sheds in the rural Australian landscape left to the elements as families have moved on. This theme correlates
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Ömie Artists (Inc.) is a cooperative of Ömie tribeswomen barkcloth painters from Oro Province in Papua New Guinea. Paintings on barkcloth, also known as ‘tapa’, are the customary textile of the Ömie. Women wear nioge (skirts) while men wear givai (loincloths). Ömie barkcloths are still worn today by men, women and children during traditional ceremonies
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Beginning in 2002, Compact Prints is Umbrella Studio’s trademark biennial exhibition showcasing North Queensland’s printmaking talent alongside national and international artists. Compact Prints 2014 is the 7th incarnation of the exhibition showcasing 176 artists from 14 different countries across the globe. Image: Stephen Coutts, How It Works (2014) Exhibition Opening: Thursday 22 October, 2015 at 6 pm
The 2014 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, or JADA, is a drawing exhibition toured by Grafton Regional Gallery that promotes innovation and excellence in Australian drawing and features a who’s who of Australian contemporary artists. The winning work and acquisitions join the Grafton Regional Gallery JADA Collection which contains an impressive selection of contemporary Australian drawing
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Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art chronicles the development of modernism in Australia from 1940 to 1980 and showcases significant artworks which have rarely been seen outside Rockhampton. This exhibition was developed by Rockhampton Art Gallery and supported by an Australia Council Visions of Australia Touring Grant. The project has also received financial support from
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Emma Lindsay is a fine artist currenlty based on Brisbane, Australia. Lindsay graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons 1) degree. Her art explores critical contemporary issues regarding extinction, globally endangered species and their habitats, climate change and the human activities connected to the global loss
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Poly Gone Cowboy is pleased to present it’s latest exhibition, a group show featuring new collage based works by local artists: Justin Stenton-Dozey, Katy McHugh, Harley & Händen, Geoff Monk and Angela Hughes. The art show complements the album launch of Seamus Kirkpatrick’s spoken word/improv act ‘Extinction of Animals’ Opening night reception: Friday 23rd Oct, 6pm
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Nicola Moss’s upcoming exhibition Synergy explores how we connect, develop, and conserve the earth’s natural ecosystems. Moss’s latest body of work has evolved both in the studio and on site across a variety of natural Australian landscapes. With an air of optimism, Moss investigates the myriad of ways we connect and respond to our natural world. Nicola Moss’s work is highly
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Senior Warlpiri artist Michael Nelson Jagamara will make a lightning visit to Brisbane to promote and celebrate the successful 2015 launching of Lightning Strikes sculpture series. Michael Nelson Jagamara, (MNJ), was born in 1946 at Vaughan Springs, in Central Australia. In 2014, MNJ completed an angular ‘lightning’ sculpture design derived from his age old Rain +
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Poly Gone Cowboy presents ‘Rush 2 Relax’, recent artworks by Poly Gone Cowboy resident artists Samuel Tupou & Clinton Barker. The recurring theme within this exhibition is the phenomenon of accelerated workload to gain time off. The eternal tug of war with the hyper-speed of our modern day lifestyle’s in a quest to achieve a
The Burning is an exhibition of new work by Benjamin Crowley made during his year as Artist in Residence, focusing on the existential concerns of living with truth and sincerity and avoiding ‘bad faith’. Coined by Sartre and related to self-deception, living in bad faith is to adopt false values and to disown innate freedom
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“My mother wanted marble columns in our family home. My father cut some thick cardboard tubing to fit around the pre-existing rectangular archway into the rumpus room, plastered the outside, then had an expert marble painter come over to create a marble effect. This is Marble Realness, an attempt at passing a kind of class
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“The vertical and the horizontal, the landscape and the portrait, the figure and the ground—these frictions are subtly manifested in the behaviours of sleeping and the behaviours of waking. Ghosh’s works occupy an uncertain space, and although she has described it as a space of death and rebirth, it seems more apt to describe it
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Artists: Alex Cuffe, Libby Harward, Nicola Morton. Curated by Rebecca Ross and Danni Zuvela. This project asks three contemporary artists to respond to the concept of the headland in its many forms, with specific reference to the distinctive Burleigh headland, which has been important for placemaking since time out of mind. The Kombumerri people, a family
As 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the attempted coup in Indonesia on 30 September 1965, Dadang Christanto will undertake a restaging of his moving 1979 performance work at the opening of ‘Nineteen Sixty-Five: Dadang Christanto’. RSVP to the opening: bit.ly/1965christantorsvp MORE INFO: bit.ly/amprograms Image: Dadang CHRISTANTO, Tooth Brushing (1979) Performed at 4A Centre for Contemporary
Artworks by members of the blind communities of Seoul and Brisbane are described, not displayed, in this unique new exhibition. Each artwork is locked inside a cabinet, never to be seen. You’ll listen to audio recordings from each artist describing their work or sharing an insight into their lives. This way you’ll form your own impressions
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A reconstruction of the first Conceptual art exhibition in Australia sent by Ian Burn, Roger Cutforth and Mel Ramsden in 1969 to Pinacotheca gallery, Melbourne. Their work –Xerox Books, Six Negatives and photo-documentation – sent from New York proved influential on a generation of Australian artists. The reconstruction will be accompanied by video, journals, paintings
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Text is commonly understood as the written medium of human communication that represents language; however, in literary theory a text can be any object that can be ‘read’, such as an artwork, a song, a film, a building. In other words, it can be any coherent set of signs that conveys some kind of message
We often talk about design in terms of end products, but sometimes it’s better to think about design as a process, as a way of thinking. Design thinking is becoming increasingly recognised as a powerful process for creatively exploring the challenges of the 21st century, beyond the traditional realm of designing products. Think Outside is
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Every region has its own unique feel and aspirations. So how does a Council’s Art Collection represent this? The Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection reflects the vision, diversity and character of the region. Focussing on culture, identity, spirit and sense of place, the Art Collection is an important source of reference and inspiration, which
M16 Artspace invites artists to submit work for the annual M16Drawing Prize. This prize is for works on paper or other surfaces using either traditional or non-traditional drawing materials and techniques, including digital media. Finalists’ work will be exhibited in the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize 2015 exhibition. Judges: Deborah Hart, Curator of Australian Art, National
2016 ARTIST AS ACTIVIST TWO-YEAR FELLOWSHIP The online application to the Artist as Activist Two Year Fellowship program is now open. See below for details on how to apply. This is the only open call for grant proposals the foundation will announce in 2015. THEME
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Open Call / Think Tank lab Triennial, the International Festival of Contemporary Drawing is an open competition addressed at artists living in Poland or abroad. The contest motto and theme is A DRAWING AS AN OBJECT CONTAINING KNOWLEDGE. The aim is to present various forms of acts of drawing and actions related to drawing. It is a competition
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