“If you say to me, master, it would seem, that you were not very wise in writing to us these flimflam stories, and pleasant fooleries; I answer to you, that you are not much wiser to spend your time in reading them. Nevertheless, if you read them to make yourselves merry, as in manner of […]
Dobell was one of 27 guests flown by Hallstrom from Australia to Port Moresby and on to the central highlands of New Guinea. For the following three months he drew and painted watercolours of the landscape, village life and the highlanders themselves, adorned with magnificent bird of paradise plumes, intricately constructed jewellery and elaborately painted
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Each task in Leena’s ‘Body Information Workshops’ originated through self exploration and private experimentation before Leena completed the task with other people. Leena’s works in ‘Making it easier’ consider the personal process she uses to develop the workshop tasks. ‘Body Information Workshops’, is an ongoing project where Leena hosts one-on-one and group activities which promote
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Karmic Imprints – Liberation through seeing brings artworks from some of the most prominent, sought after and sometimes controversial contemporary Tibetan artists from around the world to the Festival of Tibet in 2016. This unique exhibition will open a window into the minds of these artists, some of whom have experienced censorship during their careers,
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Borrowing from the aesthetics of Internet conspiracy theories, Memory Foam Never Forgets is an investigation into associative-thinking as a strategy for creating alternative stories about our reality. This collaborative exhibition by Charlie Donaldson and Spencer Harvie pulls together hundreds of disparate images sourced from the Internet into a cohesive installation that attempts to uncover the
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The Proliferation of Nows explores the transportive capabilities of outdoor streaming webcams, not only in regard to vicarious travel but also in relation to how spaces of the imagination and the virtual can overlap and interweave. Alannah Gunter’s photomedia works and installations engage with the formal characteristics of the webcam’s relayed digital images and investigate
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The exhibition Utopia For A Day investigates some of the products and foundational ideologies that are part of contemporary society used to achieve happier states of being in the service of a better society. The abundance of food and shelter, highly advanced communication modes, and our desire for a better life often means that someone or something
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KUNSTBUNKER, a new Brisbane-based artist-run initiative, is opening with a bang, and that bang is called KUNSTBUNKER_01 [JANUS]. At our brand-spanking new basement space in Ashgrove, we have invited the Greek god Janus (god of new beginnings) and will be adopting their frame of mind for our first exhibition, which will explore concepts of ‘the
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Public lecture and discussion with the curator of ‘We who love’ Professor Chris McAuliffe and Dr Nancy Underhill. Moderated by UQ’s Dr Amelia Barikin. Followed by the openings of: ‘We who love: The Nolan slates’ and ‘Barjai and Miya Studio’ To be opened by: Dr Emily Bitto. UQ alumnus and author of ‘The Strays’ (2014), awarded the
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Katie Porter: Catharcissism (save me make me keep me take me) ‘Catharcissism’ is a portmanteau of the words catharsis and narcissism, and is an attempt to both explain the reason for the work and apologise for its self-centred nature. The subtitle (save me make me keep me take me) acts as instructions for the work
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Join us for a talk by Hong Kong-based curator Inti Guerrero on Saturday, 30 April, at 2 PM. Guerrero (Colombia, 1983) is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate in London. From 2011-2014 he was the Associate Artistic Director and Curator at TEOR/éTica, an independent not-for-profit art space founded in
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The Artist As… is a year-long lecture series co-presented with Curatorial Practice at MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture), Melbourne, examining the multitude of roles artists occupy and adapt today. Curator Emily Pethick will speak about the artist as collaborator through examples from The Showroom, a non-profit independent contemporary art space in London, UK. She
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After approaching Jeremy to be a storyteller at the Failure:Lab Sydney event as part of Vivid Ideas, he suggested creating an extra element to the event by travelling from Brisbane to Sydney on his bicycle, which will also allow him to create new work based on the subject of failure. POSITIVE FAILURE DISCUSSION TOUR DATES:
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Teagan Ramsay is a Brisbane based artist practicing independently across a range of mediums including sculpture, performance, installation, video and sound. Her practice currently interchanges between playfully cross-examining her personal narrative of sexuality and interest in fetishes against the cultural produced narrative of women’s desire and cultural stigma raised in taboo fetishes. On the other
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Michael Cook is an award-winning photographer who worked commercially in Australia and overseas for twenty-five years. In 2009, Cook began to make art photography, driven by an increasingly urgent desire to explore issues of identity. His photographic series are unique in their approach, and evocatively recreate incidents from Australian colonial history uniting the historical with the
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New work by Sandra Selig. Image: Sandra Selig, untitled 2016, digital video still
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Obsessions: Elizabeth and Arthur Bach Obsessions is an exhibition of painting and sculpture that explores the human tendency to hoard and collect items that may be useful in some way. Painting, woodworking and design elements are utilised to make a statement about the lives, actions and habits of both the artists themselves and the greater
The IMA Reading Group is a monthly assembly held in the Motto IMA bookstore designed to further activate local discussion surrounding contemporary art. The initiative is aimed at university students and recent graduates, and aims to provoke conversation in an open, participatory environment. Public Programs and Publications Officer, Tess Maunder, will lead this session and
Boxcopy is hosting an event on Saturday 16 April to raise funds in support of our future gallery program. Boxcopy alumni have generously donated small works, which will be available for a silent auction on Saturday afternoon from 3-6pm. All works have a reserve price of $250. The proceeds from this event will be utilised
I’m Asking for A Friend presents a new series of works by Sienna Hart. Siena Hart is a multidisciplinary artist from Brisbane, Australia. Her work investigates the nature of the body, memory and personal identity through a process of recontextualisation weaving across technology and media Address: 42 Mount Street, Toowong, QLD 4066 sienahart.net The exhibition
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Like a Log presents a new body of work by Mitchell Donaldson that continues his examination of the relationship between the material and immaterial. The title might be a misnomer. Though the objects presented may be considered sleeping, this sleep is restless, waking even. Through a collage process that both dissolves and assembles physical and
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Queensland Faces is a survey of varied, unique portraits from SLQ collections across time and cultures seeking to uncover the stories and lives of Queenslanders. Take a closer look at the people who make this state. Some subjects are famous (or infamous) though most are everyday people whose portraits, for some reason or another, have
Imagine stepping inside an artwork. Imagine stepping inside a camera. Imagine seeing your world turned upside down. Welcome to Robyn Stacey: Cloud Land. Robyn Stacey is one of Australia’s preeminent contemporary photographers. Her new body of work for Museum of Brisbane reveals some of our city’s most familiar places, buildings and landmarks in a completely
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The IMA presents a major new film commission by Lebanese artist Rana Hamadeh, her first solo exhibition in Australia. The Sleepwalkers is a filmed play re-dramatising the story of Raya and Sakina, the infamous Egyptian sister serial killers, who in 1921 became the first women to be executed by a legal court in the modern history
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Join us in the early evening of Friday 1st April as our artist in residence Alrey Batol will show you through new works he has been developing as part of his MAAP Residency Award. Don’t miss out on a great opportunity to see first hand how artists develop their works. 5:00pm – 7:30pm Artist
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Kunstvereins Villa Arte is hosting the 6th International Marianne Brandt Contest, inviting young designers and photographers to participate with works based on the theme for 2016 – Material Effects. The Marianne Brandt Contest is a non-commercial competition, supporting works that ask: What can we, what should we create these days? Works that aim to explore
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Zoe is a Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist exploring primarily a drawing practice, which also extends into painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Zoe has a Doctorate in Visual Art (QCA) and has exhibited regularly in Australia and overseas. Her work frequently depicts the animal-human hybrid in an attempt at crossing the boundaries between
We are taught to think of time as a resource, that we can manage and sort into useful allotments. We are taught to determine the value(s) of our actions, and how to categorise the various forms of value attributed and action performed. We are taught to articulate an ends, and seek a means. We are
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IS ART NATURAL? The question concerning Art’s relation to Nature is one central to Aesthetics and is bound up with associated problems regarding subject formation, differentiation and freedom. Via F.W.J. Schelling’s 1807 lecture On The Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature, the task here is to attempt a conceptual illumination of this question that
Make a delicious bowl of tea: Lay out the wood charcoal to heat the water. Arrange the flowers as they are in the fields. In summer, evoke coolness; in winter, warmth. Anticipate the time for everything. Be prepared for rain. Show the greatest attention to each of your guests. Japanese tea master, Sen no Rikyū
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“I am the self portrait of my father” – Saeed Jones It is important to inaugurate this piece of writing by mentioning that the artist’s father is a truck driver, specifically a transporter of tanked chemicals. By quirk of fate or maybe direct sarcasm, the artwork will accommodate itself in the rear container of a
Meagan Streader is a Brisbane artist currently residing in Melbourne. Constructing site-specific installations, Streader draws visual cues from futuristic and natural atmospheres and systems to engulf the viewer in a sensory experience. Through multifaceted transformations her artworks redefine conventional spaces, objects, and materials. Employing the repetition and replication of light, form, and textiles en masse,
Art fairs are a transient space for commercially motivated consumption. The material-semiotic messages transmitted by Marilyn Schneider’s sculptures and paintings communicate a complex interrelationship between architecture, the designed object, the art object, the environment and its inhabitants: actants that complete a circular capitalist narrative. This artwork, like the art fair environment, is a venue for experience: not just
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The theme for the 2016 R & M McGivern Prize is Text. “I used language because I wanted to offer content that people – not necessarily art people – could understand.” — Jenny Holzer Exhibition dates: 22 September 2016 to 11 December 2016. Location: ArtSpace at Realm in Ringwood Town Square, 175 Maroondah Highway, Ringwood.
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Seven local emerging contemporary jewellers and makers of small objects use their art to interpret the perpetual inheritance of social, political, environmental and cultural conditions that occur in our everyday lives. The artists use precious and semi-precious metals, wood, enamel, photographs, prints and found objects to make works around themes of climate change and environmental decay, local and national political concerns, cultural identity and evolving traditions, ideas of
from side to side to side to side to side to side in possible positions evaporate in the humidity hanging in the entrance wear left insults write remedies for knotted necks ORAL ARI: 57 Victoria Street, Red Hill, Brisbane, 4059
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