Digital Stills works will embody the 2015 Escape Artfest theme “CLASH”. Participants are asked to design spectacular digital artworks for exhibit here on the ARTfest-Digital website. Every discipline, genre, style, and school of thought within digital art and photography is welcome. Eligibility In 2015 there will be two categories; “Open” and “Under 18’s” for each competition. The […]
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The IMA is pleased to present a talk by American artist, Matt Mullican. The lecture will focus on the concepts and motivations of Mullican’s practice, engaging specifically with his current body of work. Since the 1970s, Mullican’s performances, drawings, photographs, sculptures and video works have had a significant effect on our understanding of postmodern culture.
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Carly Kotynski is a Brisbane based artist who incorporates many different craft skills in her sculptural works and installations. Her art practice continually evolves as she explores and masters different techniques and experiments with a range of materials. Having used copper wire and natural fibers for some time, Carly recently discovered cotton rope and the
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This joint exhibition, featuring contemporary realist artist Raymond Cheney and digital illustrator and designer Julian Cheney, explores the state of ‘flow’ – the experience of being completely enthralled while engaged in activity. Raymond and Julian (father and son) use different yet complementary modes of creative expression including music, visual art and interactive media to illustrate the
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New work by artist Leonard Brown. To view works from the exhibition please click on the link. Image:Leonard Brown – The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide 2015
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The IMA is pleased to present a talk by Dutch artist Willem de Rooij. De Rooij was born 1969 in Beverwijk, the Netherlands, and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In his work he engages processes of selection and combination of images in a variety of different media, ranging from sculpture to photography, film
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Night Live is a series of portraits of the sister of the artists. A graduate of QCA Griffith University, Archer Davies is an emerging artist who has shown regularly in group and solo exhibitions. This is his first exhibition with Jan Manton Art. As he explains: “This series of paintings began at a time when longer working
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Limited spaces available. Bookings essential. Free of charge. Participate in one on one, body-focused workshops with the artist. Workshop tasks will include various forms of performance, mindfulness, intimacy, sound, silliness, love and good conversation. By accessing bodily information, participants will be given the opportunity to reflect on tacit knowledge, physical experiences and emotional states. Bookings
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Catherine Parker‘s exhibition It’s (still) a Beautiful World explores a cross-cultural narrative in mixed-media paintings. Trekking across the globe submersing herself in the day-to-day lives of the locals, Parker’s works highlight the rich narratives of these environments and cultures. The works transverse physical space as Parker draws influence from India, her studio in magnetic island and her travels throughout Australia. The It’s (still)
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The ten artists in this exhibition have come together in a spirit of a mutual exploration of abstraction. Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Terri Brooks, Michael Cusack, Miles Hall, Anton Hart, Anthony T O’Carroll, Claire Primrose, Amanda Ryan, Peter Sharp and Ann Thompson represent a cross-generational group of Australian artists who have pursued the emotional tenor of abstract
The exhibition will present new artists’ books, multiples and digital prints by Sydney-based artist Peter Burgess. Opening event: Thursday 20 August 2015, 6 – 8pm Peter Burgess is an Australian artist and the current Co-Acting Subject Leader in Printmaking at the National Art School, Sydney. Burgess’ works focus on the negotiation of relationships between private
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Empty Kingdom is an installation that explores perception and ways of seeing. Elements such as light, colour and reflectivity have been used to construct an indeterminate but visually desirable space in which one cannot physically enter. Ricky Larry is a Brisbane based artist who graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2014. He works
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Oral ARI is pleased to present the exhibition, Wet, showcasing new work by Brisbane-based artist Tayla Haggarty. Her practice investigates how the lesbian-feminist identity can be explored through the use of sculpture and collaborative art making. Reassembling everyday objects into finely balanced sculptural compositions, Haggartys work transforms the familiar into sites of tension and unease.
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There is something of the subtle trickster at play in Amber Boardman’s mythical paintings of human foibles. In her work, eye-catching, jewel-like hues and fleshy, earthy tonalities produce absurd portraits and wacky situations. Seducing us with sophisticated improvisations in juicy, wet-into-wet paint, comforting schadenfreude and a seemingly toddler-like sensibility, Boardman’s distinctly intelligent formal sensibility propels
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Experimenta, Australia’s leading media arts organisation, presents Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art at The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct. Looking closely at the role media art plays in re-telling and creating stories,Experimenta Recharge focuses on artists whose work is inspired by and entangled with the past, exploring whether knowledge changes when it
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The IMA is pleased to present the inaugural Green Room exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Dale Harding, White Collared. Harding is a descendent of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of Central Queensland, who has gained recognition for works that explore the untold histories of his communities. Recently he has been investigating the social and political realities experienced by members
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Emerging documentary photographer, Kelly McIlvenny, presents a visual investigation into the women changing the reality of maternal health in Nepal, documenting how they dealt with the challenging physical, cultural and social environments of Nepal in order to help produce Nepal’s successful reduction in maternal deaths over the past twenty years. Dates: Wednesday, 26 August – Saturday,
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Celeste Chandler was born in Hobart in 1977. In 1998 Chandler graduated from the University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Painting, with a Bachelor in Fine Art (majoring in painting). In 2003 she obtained her Masters in Fine Art from the same institution. Chandler’s work has been curated in a number of group exhibitions including
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Please join exhibiting artists Sam Cranstoun, Marian Drew and Carl Warner in a conversation about light, art and science with exhibition curator Samantha Littley and Dr Margaret Wegener, Lecturer, UQ Physics. Afternoon tea served following the discussion. Free. All welcome. Image: Marian Drew ‘Three light forms’ 1999 colour pigment print on paper 58.6 x 73.6
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Part of the Ampers&nd Program of the Brisbane Writers Festival. Celebrate the launch of Lucida Journal: Habitat, Queensland Centre of Photography’s first ever printed edition of the journal. Following the closure of our gallery space in 2014, this edition of Lucida Journal explores the theme of what makes a home. Join artists, curators and academics
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Indirect Response is an exhibition of new works by Simon Degroot exploring a translation of image details in abstraction. This exhibition considers how an abstract translation of architectural shapes can maintain a line of reference as they are painted and repeated in physical space. In particular, how a strategy of translation can be used to
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Alrey Batol’s third solo exhibition, ‘Kerbside Ikebana’, brings together new works examining material culture in the First World. Alrey’s practice looks at our attitudes of affluence particularly towards novelty, obsolescence and disutility. This exhibition will feature an array of works from photographs and handmade paper, to a large installation work that reassembles unwanted kerbside furniture
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Curated by The Brisbane Collective and showcased at Crowbar Brisbane as apart of the Big Sound live music showcase, we have enlisted 11 of the best live music photographers / videographers for a 3-day showcase of their work. From festivals to small venues, they have captured your favourite musical acts and an assortment of prints
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The Mandorla Art Award employs a thematic spiritual inspiration that changes with each exhibition. These inspirations are defined by quotations from the Bible and all participating artists are requested to interpret these in their own way. In 2016, artists will interpret the theme ‘The Resurrection’ in figurative and abstract form and through various media. This
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he Montalto Sculpture Prize is an acquisitive award open to all artists working in any medium. The Prize has been extended in 2016 and will now run eight months, from February to October 2016, to give artists the opportunity to show their works for an extended period. The Mitchells share a passion for wine, food, nature and
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The focus of this Masterclass is on developing a photographic concept of Place, facilitated through interpretation and listening to another’s experience and perspectives. Participants develop a concept and create an individual photo story of place. Presented in conjunction with Judy’s exhibition Grounded. Facilitator: Judy Parrott Where: Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, 420 Brunswick St, Valley
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Starting with the question “Why Jewellery?”, students, graduates and staff from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and Queensland College of Art seek to create their answers based on each individual’s background and experience. The exhibition is a starting point in demonstrating the variety of contemporary jewellery. The first showing of this exhibition
Transgressiphoria explores the tenuous boundaries between children’s play and adult paraphilias through the equivalency constructed by the appropriation of found glamour photography and discarded popular culture toys. Mass cultural waste is tenderly manipulated and assembled into enigmatic sexual gestures that reify the banalities of perversion and become a satirical comment on contemporary culture’s pornofication of
disassemble | reassemble highlights the relationship between humans and nature, and contemplates the attitudes, both caring and careless, that shape human life on the planet. The foundations of the exhibition arose from memories of the early 1990’s environmental superhero, Captain Planet: the star of an animated children’s TV edutainment series that advocated environmentalism. In the
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As part of the 2016 Artistic Program, Metro Arts is bringing back its Artist Run Initiative (ARI) in Residence Program. With a specific focus on providing a visible platform for experimental and interdisciplinary practices, the ARI in Residence opportunity will support a collective over 12 months to develop or refine a structure and operational model
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Public art is a key contributor to Brisbane’s reputation as a vibrant and active new world city, and one that attracts people to live, work and invest. To assist in the delivery of high quality artwork throughout the city, Brisbane City Council is seeking applications from talented curators to be listed on the Register of
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Interview between Llewellyn Millhouse and Jaden Gallagher L: Your work up until this project has been mostly sculptural installations, consisting of ready-made and everyday materials and relying on the physical quality or spatial experience of the work, what has directed your interest to the particularly flat and immaterial world of digital video production and motion
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Big or small arts projects require good management and attention to detail to be successful. Having a good plan takes the mystery out of the process, the uncertainty out of coordination and some of the pain out of delivery. This workshop introduces the principles of effective project management and explains how a little method to
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Are you an artist seeking an affordable and alternative space to exhibit your art? Look no further and be a part of beautifying Banyo’s living room, Site Café. Site Café will play host to a group exhibition next month; Spring @ Site, and is calling for artists to submit works on paper, 20cm x 20cm
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Lilith: A Feminist History Journal is seeking submissions for our next issue. Please note that Lilith only publishes articles that constitute an original piece of research. Lilith will also consider publishing un-refereed reviews and discussion pieces. We particularly encourage submissions from Australian and international postgraduate students and early career researchers. Submissions for the 2016 issue must be received by 30 September
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Brenda May Gallery is seeking proposals from professional practising artists in Australia and New Zealand for the following curated group exhibitions. Sculpture 2016: Bronze, 27 January to 20 February 2016Sculpture 2017: Water, January to February 2017 Art history abounds with examples of sculptors employing bronze; from scarce, but insightful, Ancient Greek vessels, to the large-scale
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