Solid Gold “Its lost all its bark” Solid Gold is the manifestation of a mateship between two Brisbane based emerging artists Lucy Forsberg and Sally Molloy whose practices intersect in their commentary of Australian sociology and national identity. With reference to the bush, the two are getting back to their roots and exploring their own […]
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Poly Gone Cowboy presents new artworks by : Shayne Smith, Kelly Green, Michael Forrest, Seff Mudge, Lauren Goudie and Steven Mewett. ‘MIX TAPE ink’ features drawings by 6 Brisbane artists that use music to inspire their artwork. Each artist has produced a series of works that interpret the characteristics of musicians and the music that
Bigfoot is Blurry: New Work by Joseph Breikers. This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. This exhibition is presented as part of the 2016 Metro Arts Artist in Residence Program. One night Exhibition :: Friday February 26, 6-8PM
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DM teahouse is an interactive artwork welcoming the viewer to share the experience of sitting and drinking tea. Your host, artist curator, Dhana Merritt encourages you to relax, read or chat, and invites you to consider your contribution to the artwork, as you enjoy your tea. DM teahouse is a one day event that delves
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Vai Niu Wai Niu Coconut Water is an exhibition that investigates diverse issues by Australian artists of Pacific Island heritage. This exhibition gives voice to Pacific cultural practices and raises issues of continuity of cultural practices for Moananui communities living in Australia, colonisation and the environment, and the body as a cultural site. Selected artists
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Join jeweller Elizabeth Shaw and fashion and textile designer Alice Payne, who both currently have works on display at artisan, in conversation with visual arts lecturer, Courtney Pedersen discussing the nature of deconstruction and reconstruction in contemporary craft and design. RSVP by Monday 15 February to info@artisan.org.au or (07) 3215 0803. The reconstruction, reuse
Rana Hamadeh is speaking about her practice and recent project, The Sleepwalkers, on Thursday 25 February, at 6pm. Hamadeh is a performance and visual artist from Lebanon based in the Netherlands. Interested in a curatorial approach within her artistic practice, she works on long-term discursive research projects that operate as umbrellas to growing series of
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Diana Smith and Kelly Doley with contributions from Jude Adams, Janine Burke, Bonita Ely, Julie Ewington, Deborah Kelly, Anne Marsh, Joanna Mendelssohn, Catriona Moore, Ann Newmarch, Jill Orr and Ann Stephen (ongoing) In 1975 the American art critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard came to Australia to deliver the Power Lecture at Sydney University. She
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Independent yet interrelated, both artists employ playful bricolage/assemblage to manipulate and disrupt the binary relationships associated with two contrasting spaces, ‘the domestic’ and ‘the construction site.’ The exhibition reveals previously unexposed tensions and dialogues between each artist’s work. OPENING NIGHT: Friday 19th February, 6 – 8 PM Dates: 17th – 27th February Gallery Hours: Tuesday
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Oral ARI is pleased to present the exhibition Hotel Shakespear, a collaborative exhibition of Tokyo-based artists Ummmi and Charlie Hillhouse with Brisbane-based Sebastian Moody. Each artist has contributed a single work in response to Meguro Emperor-Japan’s most famous love hotel. UMMMI is a artist and Film Director from Tokyo. The major themes of her work
Transition brings together the works of Justin Garnsworthy, Cherylynne Bullen and Birgit Kehr – working across an eclectic selection of media from Blu-tak to photography. Justin Garnsworthy incorporates office materials with technology to create works that disrupt notions of detachment in an over-saturated material culture. He explores the elasticity and threshold of Blu-tack and its
The Laundry Artspace invites you to their first show for 2016, ‘Exhibition/Inhibition’, featuring works by recent QCA honours graduates Jaala Alex, Vrinda Gleeson and Chloe Waters. Working across a range of media, ‘Exhibition/Inhibition’ explores each of the artist’s experience, relationship and expression of their bodies within a sex-positive discourse that accounts for the complexity of
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One night in 1965, the father of Indonesian-born artist Dadang Christanto was taken by force and the family home burned to the ground. Christanto’s father’s fate remains unknown – but, like so many, he is assumed dead. As a child growing up in an Indonesia immersed in the horrors of violent political upheaval, the young
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Explore Brisbane’s laneways with Weaving Our Heritage a visual street art installation which will transform Eagle Lane in Brisbane’s CBD into an outdoor gallery. Weaving our Heritage will be on show from the 7-21 February and is a vibrant burst of colour and pattern in the heart of Brisbane’s business district. This free event is
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Printmaking at QCA & GCCA. Featuring: Chase Archer, Rebecca Austin, Blair Coffey, Clare Cowley, Russell Craig, Fred Gooch, Domenica Hoare, Nicola Hooper, David Nixon, Glen Skien, Torinne Zach. LARGESSE speaks to two qualities that are evident in the prints being made in the Queensland College of Art print studios and at the Griffith Centre for
Artist – Bridie Gillman BALI: Temporary Research Lab / 17 – 21 February 2016 Studio 4.2, Level 4 METRO ARTS Bridie Gillman’s practice has focused on the hybridity that often results as part of the process of negotiating cross-cultural experiences. Drawing from time spent in Indonesia as a child, as well as extensive travel as
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Join us on Saturday evening for the next event as part of the Summer School series – a special guest artist lecture by Sydney based artist Zanny Begg and a screening of the film ‘How to Blow up a Bubble that Won’t Burst’ (2015). Zanny Begg is a Sydney based artist and film maker who
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Please join us for the opening of Lyndal Hargrave’s first exhibition with Edwina Corlette Gallery Saturday, 13 February, at 2pm. ‘New Geometricks’ manifests as complex geometrically inspired paintings and modular, wall based sculptures. Residing between art, science and mathematics, Lyndal is inspired by the patterns that underpin the chaos of life. “My attention is drawn
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The Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) is a new project concept conceived by an innovative creative collective that intends to enhance the Brisbane community and inspire individuals through public art. The team at BSAF will be offering many unique spaces that present artists and creatives from many disciplines an opportunity to showcase their work. By
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Applications are now open for exhibitions in 2016 / 2017. We have an online system that is quick and easy to use. All applications to exhibit are considered by the c3 curatorial committee. The gallery has two main submission rounds each year. Go to our website for more information and to apply online. For more information
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The IMA is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett (1955–2014), Be Polite. The IMA’s Executive Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh have worked closely with the Estate of Gordon Bennett to curate a selection of works on paper that
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Up Close brings together three significant photographic exhibitions by Juno Gemes, Michael Aird and Jo-Anne Dreissens. Juno Gemes is one of Australia’s most renowned contemporary photographers. For over 40 years, she has advocated for justice, recognition and respect for Aboriginal Australians through her photographic documentation of historic moments from the 1970s to now and portraiture.
Join us for the first APT8 Live Sunday on 31 January 2016. APT8 Live will feature artist performances, drop-in workshops, curator’s tours and an APT8 Live discussion forum in which performance art specialists, academics and artists consider the breadth of contemporary performance art from the Asia Pacific region, and the wide ranging issues and contexts
An artist’s ideas and ambitions for a work become secondary to the life the work gains once published/released publicly. This is particularly so for small objects and jewellery as they interact in people’s lives. As items that are worn or held they take on a life of their own, gaining new meanings and purpose from
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A dynamic and diverse celebration of contemporary Asian-Australian artists Catch a range of dynamic work created by contemporary Asian-Australian artists throughout Metro Arts. Be immersed in a striking and colourful installation created by multidisciplinary artist Vanghoua Anthony Vue. Then explore Oriental Women, a series of hand-coloured photographs that are reminiscent of early ethnographs of the Oriental
Emma Theyers new collection Age of Humans comments on the relationship between humanity and nature.These meticulously detailed charcoal drawings explore both the fragility and resilience of nature, along with man’s continuing intervention. Emma’s artworks investigate the detrimental effects of human consumerism and its ability to shape and alter life’s existence. This representation of manipulation and
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Unlimited is the umbrella title for João Vasco Paiva’s site-specific art project that inhabits the CityCat ferry terminals along the Brisbane River and also an exhibition in MAAP–Media Art Asia Pacific’s gallery, MAAP SPACE in Fortitude Valley. The Hong Kong based artist has installed maritime signal flags at seven CityCat ferry terminals along the Brisbane
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Join us on Sunday afternoon for a pop up Bookshop at Boxcopy and browse through an eclectic arrangement of pre-loved art books, all available for cash purchase. ARCHIE MOORE | POCKET MONEY For this event we have commissioned a limited edition work ‘Pocket Money’ in the form of a book bag by Archie Moore. Archie
J Valenzuela Didi’s artworks are both contemporary and nostalgic, inspired by Australian suburban landscapes. Stillness in Transit is an exhibition of artworks that rediscover places and moments from childhood memories. His paintings are created without sentiment, but instead with the excitement and wonder of a child. Familiar scenes emerge as alien landscapes and the figures
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Please join Max Delany and Julie Ewington in a conversation about the work and practice of artist Pat Brassington. Curated by Juliana Engberg, the exhibition ‘Pat Brassington: À Rebours’ is a major survey of one of Australia’s most important and influential photo-based artists. The exhibition continues until 10 April. Max Delany is the Artistic Director
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Kym Maxwell is a Melbourne based multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work incorporates but is not limited to video art installation, pedagogic projects, arts writing and curation. Kym’s research involves the power dynamics of care, pedagogic relationships and child’s play. Kym mines environments for their institutional frameworks, which can be expressed as tropes of the
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The IMA’s Executive Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh will launch our full 2016 program on Saturday, 6 February, at 3pm. The IMA’s 2016 exhibition program has been generously supported by Australia Council for the Arts; Arts Queensland; Creative New Zealand; the Department of Communications and the Arts through Indigenous Languages and Arts; the Keir
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HOF Art and Surface Arts presents an exciting residency program in the heart of Bangkok’s budding art district. Applications are received on an ongoing basis for residencies which provide accommodation, studio space and support for a residency fee (35,000 THB per month). HOF Art and Surface Arts bring artists together from around the world
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In both art and law, judgment is crucial. While a legal judgment and a work of art may appear to be very different things, in fact they share many commonalities. Both lawyers and artists employ reasoning and perception in their practices and their work is subject to scrutiny, review and critique. The free exhibition Discerning
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A4 Art Australia is an exhibition of 2D and 3D A4-sized artworks, hence the title. This exhibition will showcase A4-sized artworks by both established and emerging artists and offers all participating artists the opportunity gain exposure for their art at low entry cost. By having a format of A4-sized artworks, artists from all over Australia have an opportunity to conveniently submit works via Australia Post. All 2D
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