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Donald Blue: Blue Dragon

Donald Blue’s interest in Chinese culture began in the 1950’s when he lived in Taiwan with his family for a 3 year period.  He began making pottery in the early 70’s and soon after took up the brush as a pottery decoration technique.  A home-built clay slab-rolling machine and subsequent commitment to two-dimensional ceramic projects, […]

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June Tupicoff

“The difficulty in painting has always included the transformation of pigment into light, and in these works the artist has shaped and balanced the colour so that the image lives in the mind. They are paintings that have begun from nature, from wild flowers that have grown in the Wallum country of the North Coast.

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Drawn to Experience V2

This survey explores the expansive act of Performance Drawing – the act and action of drawing, its processes as theatre, line, motion and record, positing drawing within an interdisciplinary platform. Curated by Kellie O’Dempsey, the group exhibition consists of works on paper, digital drawings, video and a live drawing performance. In conjunction with the Drawing International

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Heidi Yardley: Shapeshifting

Heidi Yardly eschews the vast panoramas of contemporary painting in favour of intimately scaled compositions. Her oil paintings feature figures and settings that recall film noir or the eerie magic of the occult. And just like these influences, Yardley’s paintings are elliptical and infinitely suggestive – we, the audience, are called upon to complete the

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Argo presents Light Play: an immersive chamber music experience

Immerse yourself in light and sound – an evening of new chamber music by Ben Heim + Connor D’Netto. Instrumental, vocal and electronic forces combine to create a new concert experience – intimate yet expansive – enveloping and captivating. Free. All welcome. Bookings essential as numbers are limited. RSVP by 23 October here Drinks and

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Jessie Nash & Jack Mitchell: Gap Fillers

An exhibition of recent works by emerging Brisbane artists Jessie Nash and Jack Mitchell exploring the tenuous boundaries between familiar and foreign in real and virtual social landscapes. Using friends, acquaintances and strangers as their subjects they employ observation and speculation to create portraits which ‘fill the gaps’ in unknown narratives. Through their respective contemporary

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15 Artists 2015

15 Artists is an annual acquisitive award and exhibition, which plays a pivotal role in the ongoing growth of the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection. We invite artists to submit work that reflects our Collection’s focus on culture, identity, spirit and sense of place. This exhibition has an $8,000 acquisitive prize which will be

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Juan Davila

Juan Davila will bring together two significant works from one of Chilean/Australian artist Juan Davila’s most iconic series of paintings, Hysterical Tears, which have been loaned from a private Queensland art collection. This body of work from the 1980s radically appropriates from the art historical canon and other key references. Among the identifiable sources is

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Virginia Fraser & Elvis Richardson: FEMMO

The artists Elvis Richardson and Virginia Fraser have adopted a curatorial pose to collaborate on a series of magazine covers, combining portraiture with attention-seeking headlines for a so-far fictional publication FEMMO™. Where other curators might select, arrange and present tangible and digital objects in galleries, the editors of FEMMO™ have organised indexical text objects on

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The Last Paul Mumme Show

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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Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies

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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Witches as ‘Others’: Mobilising Emotion in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Images

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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Intervention

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

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Erin Groenenboom: Leave (Get Out)

‘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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Berlin Feminist Film Week

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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Greetings From…

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

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Zucker Art Collection – International open call for emerging artists

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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Art + Science Exhibition NY

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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Container Artist Residency

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

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

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

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IMA Art Teachers Day

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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Photo Workshop

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

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Outside In

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

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Michelle Eskola: Luminous Plastic

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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Charles Robb: Catacoustics

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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Linde Ivimey: Cross My Heart

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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