Do you suffer from the 31st Century’s Sickness? Am I suffering? I don’t want to believe what comes next. Perhaps it’s too late to find myself beyond clickbait retrovirals eating up cartilage across all known index fingers and thumbs granting access and pertaining by all appearances to activity. The agricultural method behind my personalised […]
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Catharcissism (save me make me keep me take me) dredges Katie Porter’s creative and written past to resuscitate and release words frozen on a hard-drive by the anxiety of sharing one’s creative production. Each of the work’s 200+ assorted poems – from random haikus, to tween love poems and abandoned and forgotten works-in-progress – is
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“The body is our general medium for having a world.” ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Interdisciplinary art practice facilitates multiple forms of engagement. By expanding the boundaries of medium specificity the attention shifts from its inherent limitations to the possibilities. Dominic Byrne’s 2016 exhibition, BUST THIS FLESH PIT, celebrates this crossover by drawing attention to
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A major survey show by Aboriginal artist Barney Ellaga will open at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley on April 6th. The exhibition ‘Place of Stones’ is a collection of artwork never exhibited in its entirety, with the most recent painting completed in 2004. Barney Ellaga was a senior Aboriginal law man and until his
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Dis-order brings together the works of six artists: Vanghoua Anthony Vue, Carol Mac, Caitlin Halsall, Kevin Foo, Mark Feiler and Chris Kunko. This exhibition will explore the themes of order and disorder from different perspectives, and the exhibition will feature a variety of mediums and artistic strategies, such as video art, painting, drawing, ‘painting booths’
‘Brutal Truths’ presents preeminent voices in contemporary Australian art: Vernon Ah Kee, the late Gordon Bennett, and collaborative artists Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser. Grounded in debates relating to Australia’s Indigenous histories, these artists present provocations that also relate to global contexts of displacement and oppression. The earliest works in this exhibition are by the
Dark Hour is an exhibition of works, found items & projections inspired by symbology, the occult, black metal, xeroxed posters, horror films, and all forms of dark matter. The collection of works explores our fascination with death across history and pop culture, channeling inspiration from everything from the medieval grim reaper, to the 1970’s film
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce Fixed by Brisbane artist Bruce Reynolds. “The notion of the passage of time and the fixed or ‘set in stone’ notion is one of my interests in the making of this new series of works. This notion was born from the desire to respond with immediacy and comprehension to
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Between Blue is, at first glance, a simple series of blue circles. As your eyes scan each disc you are drawn into their unique textures and layers. The fibrousness of the fabric, the subtle irregularities that are symptomatic of hand dying fabrics, and the grain of the custom plywood mounts makes each work individual. The history
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Objects & Energies features three artists from different generations and backgrounds who are inspired by natural phenomena and who use drawing as a way to make visible the invisible. Joyce Hinterding, Agnes Martin and Linda Matalon are interested in non-objectivity and their works convey physical, temporal, scientific and transcendental ideas and experiences. The power of their
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À Rebours is a major survey of one of Australia’s most important and influential photo-based artists. The first extensive gathering of Pat Brassington’s 30 years of practice, the exhibition explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography. Brassington was one of the first artists to recognise the potential of the digital format, and has used it
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International artist Stephen Johnston’s new collection explores the relationship between our humanity and the items we use every day by juxtaposing hyper-realistic figures with banal objects, creating unusual contexts and intriguing compositions. Johnston’s body of work is a continual experimentation of this concept, putting the focus back onto things that might ordinarily have been overlooked.
Detail and manner investigates the work of architecture practice Vokes and Peters, renowned for its unique exploration of the Queensland house and its aesthetic of austerity. Through a focus on their design of furniture and objects, which often accompany their architectural projects, Detail and manner will explore the reciprocal relationships between architecture and design practices
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Virescence is the final exhibition by Julie-Anne Milinski for examination of her PhD in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art. The works explore everyday urban encounters with the botanical world, highlighting the entanglement of living and non-living entities that make up the built environment and proposing flora as a vital cohabitant. Closing Event: Saturday, 16
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Melbourne based painter Rhys Lee is known for his richly coloured and mysteriously evocative portraits. A well-recognised contemporary Australian artist, Lee has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and has made frequent appearances in exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. Lee’s work is highly collectable and held in
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“My Butchulla, Dalungbarra heritage informs the process and work and is the resolve that drives my visual practice. Unable to follow my father’s path into law, my art practice has become the vehicle through which I can pursue critique of institutionalized, political and everyday racism in Australia.” Artist: David Jones Address: Shop 4A/9 Doggett Street, Brisbane
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Hard Graphics is an online exhibition of new paintings by SIMON DEGROOT exploring tensions between drawing, painting, and computer techniques. These works capture a process of translation as hand drawn sketchbook shapes are made into vector files before returning to the hand made in contemporary painting. This process is emblematic of a larger and more accelerated contemporary
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Interdisciplinary artist Zoe Porter has combined forces with Ben Ely (Regurgitator) and Olivia Porter (Circus Oz) to create a collaborative performance and large-scale video projection (in collaboration with Ali Cameron & Olivia Porter). The exhibition explores mythology, hybrid forms and ritual through drawing, sculpture, installation and performance. These works present a personal mythology, which features
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“My paintings are the result of travel within Australia and New Zealand, I aim to make paintings that combine something of the texture and energy of the place with a sense of its broader geology and geography.” “I’m not trying to make paintings that solve world problems or hold out a mirror to society, but
Aaron Hill’s work hovers in a space between creation and destruction. It teaches us to be present in the fragile space between dichotomies—expansion and contraction, light and dark, physical and emotional, and ultimately life and death—reminding us that power and clarity can be found in the acceptance of this fragility. Like an image of a
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This is Dylan’s second exhibition with Bosz Gallery. Dylan continues the journey through the city back blocks and suburbs capturing the mundane and the ordinary vestiges of life such as abandoned shopping trolleys, council street signs and road cones, all captured with a discerning eye, deft hand and loads of lush, thick brush strokes.
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Artist – Damien Mountain Woods My journey began in London, UK. Arriving at Heathrow at 4:45am local time, I finally made it to the other side of the world. It was a well overdue trip I had always wanted to take. Opening up my eyes to new places, new experiences. With my bag and camera
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PhotoVoice Australia’s project: Focus on Domestic Violence is an exhibition of photographs and stories by six women who are survivors of domestic violence. This exhibition is proudly supported by Soroptimist International of Brisbane to advocate for victims of family violence in their struggle to have their voices heard. This exhibition is presented with the support
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Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s flagship exhibition focussed on the work of Asia, the Pacific and Australia. This eighth edition emphasises the role of performance in recent art, with live actions, video, kinetic art, figurative painting and sculpture exploring the use of the human
Lisa: Cheer up, Dad. Did you know the Chinese use the same word for ‘crisis’ as they do for ‘opportunity’? Homer: Yes. Crisitunity. The Simpsons, Fear of Flying Through drawing, schematics, illustration, painting and installation, Nice Stories About Good People intends to capture moments of personal deficiency and unmet social expectations. Utilising intimacy and relying on
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‘Return to Beauty came about from a simple idea, i.e I wanted to see a beautiful ceramic exhibition. A show that would give me great pleasure and satisfaction. As an artist whose preferred medium is ceramics, I have selected artists who create work that pleases my aesthetic both visually and cerebrally. The work in the
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Catacoustics III builds upon previous projects and Robb’s ongoing self-portraiture assemblages that explore ideas of the nature of objects, structures and provisionality. Central to this body of work is the Ian Fairweather memorial rock. As a memorial device, the boulder has a paradoxical quality, as it simultaneously unites the material and the metaphysical. Robb was
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Join us on the final day of Tyza Stewart’s residency in The Green Room at the IMA. Reflecting on the residency, Tyza Stewart will be in conversation with IMA Executive Directors Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh, at 3pm. This project builds on the artist’s ongoing exploration of non-binary gender identities through self-portraiture. After a month
MONO.21 Thursday April 14 Norman Westberg (USA) + special guest Norman Westberg’s guitar playing with SWANS has influenced a generation of musicians across genres. Creating tightly bound slabs of sound with the legendary ensemble, he has become recognised as one of the most provocative and focused guitarists emanating from New York today. Similarly, Westberg’s solo
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House of Breath is a Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection in Perspective exhibition that showcases the quiet monochrome works that have defined the career of Arryn Snowball, an artist with a significant presence in the collection. This exhibition explores the form and formlessness that characterises Snowball’s painting and explores the way a painting can
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Game Plan is the first in a triennial exhibition series leading up to the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Local artist and academic Chris Bennie is the inaugural curator for the Game Plan series, bringing together four emerging Queensland artists at The Walls. Chris lives and works in Mermaid Beach on the Gold
Tara Spicer has a gift for immersing the viewer into a world of simplicity and harmony. Tara’s new series The Pioneer Heart evokes a sense of innocence and contentment exploring themes of childhood play contrasted with deeper adult intuitiveness. The surreal and charming exhibition will surely capture your heart. “I believe that painted images have
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Working across a range of mediums, including sculpture, sound and photography, this solo show explores the alternative, intimate, and involuntary experiences of mediated space that challenge established concepts of presence and absence. The contemporary nature of these questions, that is our ability to be absent and present or to be transported or displaced within the
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This exhibition of the Petyarre women can be seen as a spotlight shining on the virtual centre of Australia, in the middle of an old cattle station called Utopia, Northern Territory. At a place where two ancient tribal lands intersect: the Alyawarre and the Anmatyerre tribes share much more than divides them. Two groups of
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BUST THIS FLESH PIT is an exhibition of new works by Dominic Byrne that expands on his investigation into the performing artist’s body and its location in video performance. Comprised of video, sculptures and sound installations, the exhibition is centred around the visibility of the body in the context of current digital technologies, examining the
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Please join us for the VIP opening of our new gallery exhibition space on Robertson Street. We will be launching the gallery with an exhibition titled Elegant Brutality, featuring paintings and prints derived from Matt Sheridan’s latest body of video work. The gallery will be ablaze with work that reflects the hyper sensationalized 21st Century aesthetic, pushed to the limits of abstraction.
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