The Surrealists designed diverse experiments in their attempts to reach a transcendental state in the creative process. They were investigating the irrational self – freer thought, truer self-image, less regard for their critics and social prejudices. This project proposes to practice drawing from life models in a life drawing session of approximately 12 hours. This […]
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This is a call out for applications to an unofficial Queensland College of Art Graduate Art Show. To be exhibited for one night only at The Laundry Artspace on Friday 27 November 2015. ENTRIES CLOSE FRIDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 5:00PM IMPORTANT INFORMATION: – Please note you must be graduating from the Queensland College of Art (or
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Be charmed by the personality of Brisbane through the works of 20th Century artist, William Bustard, regarded for his mastery in capturing Queensland’s distinctive sense of light. Bustard (1894 – 1973) was an artist, illustrator and stained-glassWINDOW designer, whose work continues to portray an optimistic view of a changing city. On arriving to Brisbane in
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Subvert Systems is a body of new work by Brisbane based multimedia artist Warren Handley. Through subversion of the intended function of everyday technologies Handley exposes how technology becomes normalised and interrogates the trajectory of ideas from science fiction to science fact. Produced by interrupting the usual function of flatbed scanners and exaggerating the resulting
Lmtdspace’s third show, incidence brings together the work of Renata Buziak, Kim Demuth, Celise Gibson and Henri van Noordenburg. The artists, each with their own techniques and material processes, explore, push and pull at the boundaries of contemporary photomedia practice. Public Programs Friday 09th October, 5pm – incidence floor talk by Victoria Garnons-Williams, PhD. Saturday 17th October, 2pm – incidence artist
My work is deeply rooted in the collective memory of Spain. These memories occupy in me, psychological spaces, evoking beliefs and rituals, enforced by my catholic upbringing, and by the political madness that people of my generation went through. Over the years, my mind has transformed this madness into a grotesque parody. Anna Gonzalez
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On an Account of Seeing and Not Seeing is the studio outcome of my Doctor of Visual Arts candidature and is an enquiry into the realm of perception, of seeing and not seeing, a metaphorical blindness, proposed through the act of drawing. The research project was prompted by the discovery of an old cardboard Leica camera
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Works by Darryl Rogers and David Howard “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.” Max Planck (the originator of quantum theory) Opening night – Friday 9th October 6pm-9pm Image:
Alan Constable’s lifelong interest in cameras began around the age of eight, when he started using scraps of paper and cardboard from cereal boxes to fashion his own. It may come as a surprise to people unfamiliar with Alan’s story to learn that he is legally blind (with limited tunnel-vision); and also deaf, which makes
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Themed on the transformation and transcendence of water, Margaret Ingles’s new exhibition Above and Below evokes a state of relaxation and letting go of the busyness of everyday life. “Water helps us to connect to ourselves, to feel lighter, happier, weightless and naturally more buoyant. Whether in a pool or in the sea, we get
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This exhibition presents a survey of works by the late Australian artist Ian Burn, made during Burn’s time in London from 1965 to 1967. A panel discussion will precede the opening at 3.00pm. Contributors to the discussion include Ann Stephen and Andrew McNamara. The exhibition will coincide with ‘1969: The Black Box of Conceptual Art’
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The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is pleased to present a major film installation by Patrick Staff, The Foundation, co-commissioned with Chisenhale Gallery, London; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Spike Island, Bristol. In this new work, Staff explores queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials. The film combines footage shot at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los
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‘friends that make music and play art’ …guest curated by Louise Bennett – ∑gg√e|n (SubTropical Goth) – ALL the Weathers (Apple core kiddie core best friends galore) – The Formaldehydes (Death pop cutie pies) – Scott Ferguson (debut) Corflute mate Dhana Merritt in conversation with Nicola Morton on all things Real Bad Music and #moonpsychics.
Mitchell Fine Art presents a display of bold minimalist artworks from the Kimberley region of North Western Australia. Depictions of ancient sites and stories of country are portrayed through expanses of ochre colour, thickly applied with tempered precision. The use of ochre is deeply embedded in the traditional cultural expression for these Kimberley Artists. Originally
Space is intrinsic to life. Space materialises as the channel between experiences. This channel is whole, maintaining the existence of both control and chaos operating as singular entities. Control is the physical manifestation of space – control is the physicality of our being, of what we create. Chaos is a non-physical space – chaos is
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‘The Painter’s Reach’ explores the work of senior Australian artist MacPherson and includes paintings, installations, ephemera and works on paper, showing how the artist’s reach begins with the particular and extends far beyond. A constant presence on the Australian art scene for almost forty years, MacPherson’s autodidacticism and varied working life is reflected in his
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The IMA is pleased to present a talk by curator and critic Maria Lind. This is the eighth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled ‘What Can Art Institutions Do?’ Lind is currently based in Stockholm, where she is the director of Tensta Konsthall. She is also the Artistic Director of
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Liquid Architecture, Institute of Modern Art and 4ZZZ present LA2015: Brisbane…. Liquid Architecture’s 2015 Brisbane program unfolds over two evenings in various spaces at the IMA, and features a selection of international and Australian artists performing and presenting in Brisbane for the first time. The program extends a set of recurring themes that mark Liquid
The Hold Artspace, on behalf of the artists Lucy Anderson, Freda Davies & Haruka Sawa, warmly invites you to the opening of ‘Near and Present’. There is a mystery to why a subject is chosen and how it comes into being. As the written word in a novel may help to deepen our understanding of
Place Matters, wherever we are. Grounded, a commission by Glasgow Life for Festival 2014, XX Commonwealth Games, is the seventh exhibition in Judith Parrott’s Place Matters series. Grounded presents the outcome of two residencies; one in the Gaelic speaking Outer Hebrides of Scotland and the other with the Australian Aboriginal nations of the Central Australian
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Curated by Alexandra Winters and featuring the work from Genevieve Felix Reynolds, Freda Davies, Christian Flynn and Andy Harwood. Space Betwixt explores the representation of a gap in information; a blank space that borders the thresholds of existing forms. These liminal spaces have been explored by four artists who have spent their formative years in
6 artists in 6 sites around Miami Saturday 24 October, 12-4pm (one day only) Guided walk with curator Dhana Merritt at 2pm dhanamenta is a one day outdoor exhibition (and guided walk) that explores the Gold Coast landscape, its relationship with the artists and those intrigued by its natural and fabricated beauty. It reflects on
Parallel Universe is Ali Bezer’s PhD examination exhibition, culminating works of art developed and refined over her four-year candidature at Queensland College of Art. Bezer’s visual research project is motivated by her curiosity toward strange audio-visual relationships, being different from musical imagery or illustrative depictions of places characterised by natural or mechanical sounds. Her interest
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The work in this exhibition, Medicinal Plant Cycles, draws on natural science and extensive consultations and discussions with members of the Quandamooka community of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). These images of medicinal plants are based on the fusion of organic and photographic materials in a process of decomposition that I name the biochrome. They are
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Whether you are very new to the watercolour art or more advanced, Tony Walker’s workshops are a refreshing approach to the fundamentals and subtleties of the medium. They open the way to creative techniques, ideas and approaches and the ability to explore different types of subject matter. Cost: $40.00 for RQAS Members, $45.00 for non-members
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Next Thursday the 29th of October, the Lethbridge Gallery will be hosting our first fine art auction. The gallery has a collection of top line Australian artists including original artworks by Jeffrey Smart, William Robinson, Norman Lindsay, Ray Crooke, Robert Dickerson and Geoffrey Proud among others. It also includes a collection of younger artists including
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“Mapping the Quiet Mind” (MtQM), is inspired by the idea of the kinds of vessels required to negotiate the internal landscape or architecture of the mind. The forms I am creating are drifters, journeyers. They are curious, enquiring, dynamic receptacles, vessels for oscillation. They are instruments of invention, forging new strands of connection, negotiating and
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AFTM is looking for local Brisbane artists living with adversity to participate in a group exhibition for early next year. Since 2008, Art from the Margins (AFTM) has been instrumental in bringing artists together and bridging the gap between artists living in isolation, the public and the wider community. AFTM supports and promotes the work
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A Communication between Students at Queensland University of Technology and Fordham University In an era when communication itself is undergoing radical reinvention, students from Fordham University, New York and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane have collaborated using different modes of correspondence – from the antiquated to the contemporaneous – to explore the vagaries of communication
Being Together uses appropriated objects, constructed sculptures and video portraits to explore ideas of community, a recurring theme in Peter Alwast’s work. Relations between seemingly disparate objects are established in unexpected ways, which talk about limit and communion simultaneously. Gold chain making machines belonging to the artist’s father are presented with video portraits of artists
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Stefan produces works that focus on compositional elements like volume or colour, his oeuvre maps an attempt to capture the ephemeral spirit of his chosen medium. While somewhat unusual in the contemporary era, such bewitchment by the magic of painting is fundamental to the tradition that continues to inspire him. Indeed, like his predecessors, with
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New work presented by Brooke Ferguson and Courtney Coombs When: Friday 2 October, 5:00-6:00pm Where: Captain Burke Park (under the bridge) Kangaroo Point, Q 4169
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Abstraction is a way of art making that goes beyond the physical appearance of things to express a hidden meaning. It is non-representational, meaning the artwork does not depict the way things look in real life. Instead the artists in Direction Now want us to look at paintings in a different way. They want us
“Float” presents the work of 14 Queensland College of Art students at a projection event at the Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Platform on the 14th of October, 6 – 8pm. This one-night show is a response to an art and sound infield course on Stradbroke Island, where students from the College of Art and the Queensland
Karla Marchesi was born in Brisbane in 1984. In 2004 the artist graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and later in 2007 received her Honours in Fine Art from the College. During her undergraduate studies in 2003 Marchesi received the Philip Bacon Galleries Prize for Excellence in Drawing
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‘Together Forever Tonight’ is a one night only show of recent works by artists Hailey Atkins and Jack Mitchell. Working across a range of two and three dimensional media, Hailey and Jack explore how the dialogue between their practices works to further reveal and distort the identity of themselves and those they observe. HAILEY ATKINS
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