For a decade Paul Mumme’s work has explored the absurdities of contemporary life, the dead ends that we encounter and their various causes. Sometimes ridiculous, sometimes banal, his works usually take the form of simple visual jokes that deepen with consideration. For various reasons, Paul Mumme has decided to end his artistic career with this […]
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The exhibition ‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ acknowledges Daniel Crooks’ significant contribution to new media art in Australia and traces the emergence of this recent transition into sculptural forms from his early works in video art and photography through to the present day. Working across digital video, photography and now sculpture, his practice explores the elasticity
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Those accused of witchcraft during the European witch-hunt were generally understood to be extremely malicious and aggressive. As a moral and social threat, they had to be excluded from the benefits and protections of church and state, if not wholly exterminated. For this reason they were made to appear alien and other, and emotions were
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To coincide with the inaugural Drawing International Brisbane Symposium at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University), three artists from different backgrounds collectively share a synergy of core ideas around drawing, photo-media and performance/installation. Artists: Piyali Ghosh, Robert Mercer, David Nixon. Image (part) © David Nixon, Muse 2014, 40 x 33 cm, Archival inkjet print
‘Leave (Get Out)’ is a selection of new work that investigates how the body can process emotions in ways which the heart or mind cannot. Groenenboom’s performance and audiovisual installations reflect submission to the indulgence and pathos associated with heartbreak. Erin Groenenboom is a Brisbane based artist working with video, performance and installation. She completed
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In Future Ruins, Reichelt has produced a series of skillfully crafted paintings that continue her investigation into society’s shift from the analogue to digital. For this series, she considers the abandoned, haunting interiors of library and archive spaces, as a way of looking at our most recent past and thinking about our digital future. Her
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The mission of this film festival is to inspire, entertain and most importantly, pay tribute to all wonderfully talented, inspiring kick-ass women out there. The Berlin Feminist Film Week presents a week of films made by women mainly about other females. We seek to increase visibility for all femtastic filmmakers out there and highlight films with
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The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) is now in its fifth year and open for entries in the 2015-2016 competition. Innovative photographers from around the world are invited to submit their best work on the main theme “Happiness“, as well as on three other themes: Wildlife, Father and Son
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GREETINGS FROM… is an exhibition of postcards and small works by local Aussie artists. It is a lighthearted look at the beautiful places, people and animals we are surrounded by. Whether it be the ocean, the outback, an Aussie icon or their favourite band, artist will be looking outside the normal constraints of the postcard
Add your vision to a major exhibition about Peace State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is presenting an exhibition titled Peace and Quiet from 28 November 2015 until 14 February 2016, which will explore personal, social and political ideas of peace. Peace and Quiet is an opportunity for the community to explore and present a range
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The Zucker Art Collection is looking to acquire contemporary artworks by international fine artists. This new private contemporary art collection is composed of works by emerging artists from around the world. By discovering and working with professional artists we learn about their work and open up opportunities for their career development. The jury for the open call is
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Ann Street Gallery is currently accepting submissions for science inspired artwork from artist-scientists and scientist-artists in all medium for a curated group exhibition. The focus of the exhibition is to provide an opportunity to explore similarities and the intersections between art and science, while also creating a dialogue where artists, scientists, and the public can
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Project Outline: Container is a unique artist residency that will invite artists to travel on commercial container carriers to worldwide destinations along existing shipping routes. The selected shipping line will host artists, providing them with a unique studio space in available cabins, as well as the exciting opportunity to travel internationally. Through a selective application
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The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries that reflect the distinctive vision of Australia’s aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects. The National Portrait Gallery offers a prize of $25,000 for the most outstanding photographic portrait. For more information please visit the –
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Paul Mumme is a multidisciplinary artist born in Brisbane. His work deals with the paradoxical aspects of human thought and behaviour, often articulated in terms of the philosophical absurd. Usually performative, it stresses the presence of a protagonist that is sometimes present as a suit-clad figure. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including the Institute
The IMA’s Art Teachers Day is an annual professional development event for Queensland Art Teachers. The event is an immersive program, which aims to engage participants with peers, educators, curators, and artists working today. The program will begin with a welcome and contextualising overview of our current exhibitions by IMA’s Operations Manager Madeleine King. The
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This month The Walls have combined their monthly Make Space and Banana Sunday events to bring you a super snap happy photo workshop that will guide you in the development of your photography skills. Join local ABC Open Producer Jeff Licence for an afternoon of photography and fun, and share your pictures with a national audience through
Outside In gives artists the opportunity to show their work in a unique way to a wide audience, impacting directly on the quality of life for patients, visitors and staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane (SVPHB). Every day, the Outside In exhibitions transform the entire hospital environment. Now in its third year, Outside In
With an opening on 10 September 2015 at POP Gallery Woolloongabba, Indirect Response is a selection of new works by Simon Degroot PhD candidate at the Queensland College of Art. This exhibition is a chance for Degroot to display new painting and sculptural work that has emerged from his doctoral research thus far. Degroot’s research interest
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Influenced by her mixed Finnish and Australian cultural heritage, Michelle Eskola explores the intersection of polarities of light, space, abstraction and formation. Employing these elements and processes she considers the role of painting in contemporary digital culture. Highlighting the correlation between traditional painting methods and digital image construction, Eskola continually shifts between physical and virtual
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Conceived as part of Charles Robb’s ongoing self-portraiture project,Catacoustics is informed by his twin interests in figurative and incidental form – especially the tension between highly refined, modelled forms and the mundane objects and materials that accumulate in the studio during the modelling and casting process. He combines these elements into provisional arrangements: composite sculptural
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The highly recognisable sculptures of Linde Ivimey will be presented in a new solo exhibition, Cross My Heart, at Jan Murphy Gallery. Using an extremely diverse and distinctive range of materials, her creatures are comprised of bone, hair, teeth, fabric, gemstones and metals, amongst other things. Cross My Heart is a masquerade ball of sorts,
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The City of Sydney seeks Request for Quotation from artists with experience in community engagement and an interest in textiles, weaving or other unique artisan applications for an innovative, functional, site-specific artwork. We are looking for a high quality, permanent public artwork that will take the form of a large scale artwork curtain or textile
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Element is a bright new exhibition featuring three local landscape artists; Pat Hall, Wayne Malkin and Raelean Hall. Pat Hall Pat Hall is known for her watercolour paintings with a difference. Her new collection does not follow ‘traditional’ watercolour ideals; featuring intense colours on oversized paper, stretched over large frames; giving new life to the
Wabi Sabi profiles Australian and Japanese artists that explore traditional Japanese techniques such as Ikebana, shibori, woodblock printing, ceramics, irogane and tsumami zaiku. The works are fabricated using traditional Japanese processes and techniques but are inspired by the Australian landscape and way of life. The works are designed to push the boundaries of Japanese tradition,
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Gary Winfield’s work focuses on the current thinking on consciousness – what it is and where it is. His unique artwork endeavours to visualise the abstract notions of consciousness through splashes of vivid colours that organically fall and spider onto the canvas. Not trying to interpret science, Winfield’s artwork instead illustrates the sheer and ungraspable
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We often forget that our natural world exists in an endless state of evolution and transformation. While human beings are also a creation of the natural world, we tend to exude an arrogant superiority over our environment. That is, until we encounter nature’s true and unpredictable power. As Queenslanders, we are repeatedly reminded of nature’s
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Blak features artworks by students enrolled in the QCA – Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Program and was coordinated by Art from the Margins (AFTM) in celebration of Blak History Month. Australian Blak History Month has been held in July each year since 2008 and seeks to promote, celebrate and remember the history of Australia’s Aboriginal
Attitude As Form presents the work of 22 practitioners from Australia and New Zealand exposing a diversity of ideas and approaches to the creation of contemporary jewellery. The exhibition reflects current thinking in the fields of fashion, art, craft and design as they are explored and responded to within the field of adornment. The exhibition
An evocative exhibition integrating models, photographs, drawings and plans, Straddie Stylesurveys the unique and distinctive design of the North Stradbroke Island beach house. A holiday and fishing destination for those seeking escape, Straddie’s contemporary beach architecture emerged from the humble origins of the 1930s fibro beach shack and earlier traditional shelters. Curated by Dr Robert
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This world premiere exhibition of fine art will connect you with nature via a stunning visual odyssey. After forging a long career as a publisher, naturalist, teacher and photographer, As One celebrates Steve Parish’s career with his first ever exhibition of his fine art collection. The exhibition encapsulates the diverse beauty of our land, shown via a wide range of styles and image techniques. He
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2016 The 22sqm space features a street level window front, and is $300 per three week exhibition. Costs include promotion via social media, website, and mailing list, a listing in Artguide, 200 printed gallery invites, facilitation of an Opening (Friday 6-8pm), and assistance and consultation
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‘We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989’ surveys the art of Heisei, the current era in the Japanese imperial calendar, through the presentation of around 100 works by over 40 contemporary Japanese artists, drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection. Increasingly cosmopolitan in character and operating with an unprecedented level of international mobility,
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‘Gallipoli’, is an exhibition by celebrated Australian artist and writer Steve Lopes. It commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, also known as the Dardanelles campaign. This work was painted primarily in Turkey during a trip with a number of Australia and New Zealand’s finest artists. The aim was to travel to what has
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Over the past three decades John Young has continuously negotiated with the definitions and concepts surrounding the question: what is the role of the artist? Throughout his long artistic journey Young’s practice has responded to and been shaped by the seismic shock waves that initially introduced Postmodernism as a fringe activity eventually leading to its endorsement
‘Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere’ considers the work of contemporary artists who employ light and related technologies, and examines their practice in relation to artistic precedents. Historically, artists invoked light’s symbolic power and, from the late-19th century, explored its fleeting optical effects. In the 1920s and 1930s László Moholy-Nagy and his contemporaries equated electric light
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