Artists of Ampilatwatja return to Brisbane with their distinctive paintings of Central Australia. These artists combine fine dot paintings with a figurative style featuring flowers and bush medicine flora from their surrounding landscape.
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The world’s leading and largest festival of contemporary character culture Pictoplasmais back with a dense program of inspiring artist presentations, conference lectures, animation screenings, workshops, installations, numerous character walk exhibitions and performances. The unique mix of screenings, exhibitions, and personal artist presentations delivers tons of inspiring input, while the lively exchange between the various disciplines
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CURRENT CALL-OUT FOR SUBMISSION TO ISSUE THREE OF REPURPOSED: Issue Three of Repurposed will be themed around engagements with spatial appropriation. I think about how we perceive ownership of space, personal, civic, etc. and then am confronted, almost daily, with ways in which that ownership or even the notion of ownership has been challenged, confronted
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Holly Bates is a Brisbane-based artist, working individually and as one half of the collaboration Parallel Park with artist Tayla Haggarty. Working across a range of mediums such as painting, installation, performance and video, her practice currently seeks to challenge pre-conceived notions of female sexuality depicted by patriarchal culture. Using feminist approaches to art
In an art world marked by big business sponsors and French champagne it is refreshing to see the kind of bottom–up show like PINKING. Held in residential West End, Cut Thumb gives an enthusiastic, share-house support to young artists. Indeed, a light-hearted, art-for-arts-sake sensibility cuts cross the whole of Rachael Archibald’s practice. There is a
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The annual Lethbridge Gallery Artist Showcase is a group exhibition featuring artworks from all of our talented represented artists. The undeniable talent exhibited throughout 2015 will join forces with a taste of what is to come in 2016. Featured artists include: Jan Jorgensen, Ai Shah, Tsering Hannaford, Raelean Hall, Pat Hall, Scott McDougall, John Morris, Matthew De Moiser, Lucy Bonnin, Bronwyn Hill, Wayne Malkin, Anne-Marie Zanetti, Julie
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At one time the smartphone existed solely in the realm of science fiction. The genre’s endless surfeit of fantastic hardware and software has long captured the minds of technologists and popular culture audiences alike. But the timeline between imagined and commonplace technology is decreasing. Once-farfetched ideas are now mainstays in the mainstream. The maturation of
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Cultures are imagined orders, orders that are safeguarded through constructed social norms and imagined myths. Objects, as part of a material culture become representative of these constructed cultural orders, social norms and myths. These cultural orders and their associated objects in turn become artificial instincts. In the parable ‘The Madman‘, Friedrich Nietzsche suggests that “god
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“In 2015, I have been living and painting in downtown Yangon, formally Rangoon. Yangon is a city in transition. The population through poverty and neglect still lives as it has for generations, in the crowded narrow downtown streets lined with crumbling colonial structures. But inevitably there are signs of western consumerist culture creeping in everywhere
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Kate as Queen Nefertiti is a series of thirteen paintings that combine images of the artist’s wife Kate with the faces of Queen Nefertiti busts. Influenced by the artist’s excursion to the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania as well as their recent marriage, the paintings depict Kate’s face overlayed onto Nefertiti’s, resulting in hybrids
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Anna Carey’s Stardust is a photographic suite featuring five retro-styled ‘Stardust’ motels from different parts of the world. The motels exist in both ‘… then’ and ‘… now’ versions, resulting in a suite of ten images. Anna’s fascination with mid-twentieth century architecture arose while growing up in Queensland’s Gold Coast, where she was exposed to
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A live performance event which will be recorded for those who miss it. The performance space and recordings of the event will be available for perusal on Friday and Saturday between 11-3 following the exhibition. Ross Manning’s acoustic works are known to be devices that spin, flicker, flare, evolve, resonate and generate a kind of
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The IMA is pleased to present work by Brisbane artist Liam O’Brien in The Green Room from the 12 – 20 December. The opening event is Saturday, 12 December at 2 pm, O’Brien will be showing his recent work, Study of the Gaze (2014). This recent work explores the extent to which this charged bodily
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QCA postgraduate student Adam Robert Young will be comandeering the wall of a construction site on Melbourne Street for one day in December to display selected images from his ‘Unstaged’ series. The works explore the theatre of Brisbane’s streets and the characters that strut and fret their hour upon the stage of Brisbane’s central business district. These
The IMA is pleased to present a major solo exhibition by the art collective Slavs and Tatars: Mirrors for Princes. In this show, the artists look to a medieval genre of advice literature known as ‘mirrors for princes’. These guidebooks for future rulers were a literary tradition shared by Christians and Muslims, with Machiavelli’s The Prince
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This exhibition premieres Peter Kennedy’s 1/4″ Akai video tapes, recorded at Inhibodress, Sydney, in 1971 and presented at Milani Gallery as an eleven channel video/sound installation titled Fugue. ‘L I S T E N H E A R’ also features Body Concert 2: Extended, a five channel video work of one of Kennedy’s body and sound
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HTTP://Re-productive is an exhibition of artistic response to the myriad of socio-economic and cultural values of female reproductive issues in a Re-productive world. Curated by Lucy Miles. Artists: Tania Olszewski, Adam Anderson, Emily Devine, Julie Purcell, Bethanne Preston, Jo Rees-Jones, Jessie Nash, Kathy Mack, Lucy Miles, Monika Cox, Brendan Ellis, Michelle Whiffin, Rachael Wellisch, Helle
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Elizabeth Willing’s practice examines gastronomy and the collective experience of food. Drawn to food for its accessibility and all encompassing role within life, Willing has come to explore the personal, public and political discourses surrounding the fundamental product. Interested in the structural limits of food she works across the studio and kitchen to manipulate these
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Sara Irannejad explores the challenges of displacement by investigating how cultural identity and relationships with place evolve through travel and dislocation. A Thousand Interconnections showcases works across painting, pyrography, installation and video that are part of a Doctor of Visual Arts research at Queensland College of Art. By addressing issues such as nostalgia, belonging and
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Belgian Linen in partnership with A-CH Gallery present three local painters. Artists: Archer Davies, Claudia Greathead & Anthony Jigalin Exhibition Dates: 11th – 18th December Poster: Charlie Hillhouse
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You are warmly invited to Jugglers’ last exhibition for 2015 – ‘The X Show’. Celebrating another amazing year at Jugglers; hosting over 100 events, supporting over 800 creatives, visited by over 4,000 audience. Jugglers is reviving it’s annual tradition of hosting a Christmas Art Show to display artworks by just some of our amazing artists-in-residence,
Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible
Jan Murphy presents a group exhibition of gallery artists including: William Mackinnon, Marina Strocchi, Lara Merrett, Heidi Yardley, Patrick Tjungurrayi, Guy Maestri and Danie Mellor. Image: William Mackinnon – Beginning to see the light (2015) acrylic, oil and enamel on linen 120.0 x 148.0 cm
A solo exhibition of two dimensional and three dimensional, mixed media works by Taylah Moore.
Sphereology noun. the study of the human need for interior space. On a metaphysical level, the meaning of my theory is that human beings never live outside of nature but always create a kind of existential space around themselves. Urban spaces are a humanized environment where nature is completely replaced by a man-made reality.
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The search is on for an artist to deliver an Urban Oasis in the heart of Surfers Paradise at the intersection of Surfers Paradise Boulevard and Elkhorn Avenue. The design competition is open now to local, national and international artists. Urban Oasis will signify the pivot point between Surfers Paradise and the cultural precinct –
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Attention to all visionary artists, architects, engineers, 3D designers and model makers: Wide Open Arts will host a curated booth of imaginary towers in our upcoming Outsider Art Fair | NYC (Jan 21-24 2016). Submissions are open to all. All received designs that adhere to the dimensional and structural criteria will be evaluated and the
Cartasia is proud to announce a worldwide art opportunity: “Call for Artists – Indoor exhibition”. Artists from all over the world can send their paper art works, there aren’t any size limits, every participant can send no more that 20 paper art works. The works will be selected from a jury and the winners will
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Kunstwerk Carlshütte is a non-profit cultural initiative and organises the NordArt, an annual international exhibition of visual arts from June to the beginning of October. NordArt is one of the largest juried exhibition of contemporary art in Europe, representing all facets of visual arts. Against the striking backdrop of the former foundry Carlshütte, Chief curator
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baldhip magazine is an online quarterly out of Canada which publishes a range of poetry and visual arts, focusing on experimental forms, interactions with new media, and diverse creators. baldhip is committed to publishing a minimum of 50% female-identified artists per issue. we have no required thematic or technical aspects for the work. we accept
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In 2015, Internet culture is our culture. What happens online is no longer a separate space — a different or virtual life — it’s real life. At Electric Objects, we created EO1, a dedicated display for art, and a new way to bring the amazing, beautiful, and weird internet culture out of your computer and
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In February 2016 Craft will undergo refurbishment, opening the exhibition space up to a wider format, allowing more light and access, and extending our Craft store. We’re excited to reinvent our space to meet our needs better over the coming 12 months. Open Call for Artists and Curators For the first time we are opening our curated
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Please Hold Magazine: “Over and Over” is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2016 issue: “Over and Over.” “Over and Over” may refer to a number of subjects: obsession, anxiety, repetition, patterns, habits, reworking, and so on. When is the notion healthy and when it is destructive? When is it comfortable and when is it
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The Sony World Photography Awards is the world’s biggest photography competition and its aim is simple: to recognise and reward the best contemporary photography in the world. The awards offer an unparalleled opportunity for exposure for photographers at all stages of their career and are known worldwide by industry leaders. The images are judged by
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The Swiss Art Magazine Kunstbulletin and HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) are pleased to announce the establishment of a new prize, ‹net based›, for net-based art, with prize money amounting to CHF 10,000. Based on the model of large international prizes for digital art, such as ‹The Lumen Prize› by Lumen Projects Ltd. In
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Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) invites visual artists to apply for twelve-month residencies at Highgreen in rural Northumberland. The Trust hopes to appoint two artists from applications submitted; one artist to hold the residency starting October 2016 and another artist to hold the residency starting September 2017. VARC is looking for artists who feel that 12
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