Sydney painter Leslie Rice is known for his dark gothic works that hark back to classical European painting. He has brought his own approach and produces works on velvet, which although itself an ancient medium, is not practiced widely in a contemporary context. Rice’s elusive artworks demand viewers experience the work in person, a rarity […]
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Elemental phenomena explores naturally occurring events, constructed experiments, and transitions of states of matter, including water, air, light and magnetic fields. Artists Ella Barclay (NSW), Robin Fox (VIC), Michaela Gleave (NSW) andJason Hendrick Hansma (The Netherlands) draw on a range of materials and ideas obliquely aligned with physics, transforming the gallery into series of propositions,
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Linda Zucco is recognized for her bold and edgy oil paintings of urban life. Throughout her new series Blue, Linda uses the iconic scooter as a character in a visual story, represented as both the observer and the participant. Blue is a quirky and bright collection that explores of the complex colour and its ability
Cross Pose: Body language against the grain brings together Australian artworks from The University of Queensland Art Collection that draw on the human body as expressions of cross-cultural subjectivities and visual politics. The visual languages of the body in these artworks ‘pose’ questions, and issue challenges to normative thinking. We confront bodies generating ideas and
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Sand of the Earth is a selection of paintings developed by Elisa Jane Carmichael that represent the many grains of sand and ochres from the sacred land of Quandamooka Country – North Stradbroke Island. Many grains of sand form the land we walk on. Grains of sand connect and mould into other surfaces of nature.
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Continuing with his interests in science fiction, abstract and non-objective painting, Christian Flynn’s An Index of Possibilities challenges the idea of modernist and successive contemporary art forms are solely progressive authoritarian and puritanical phenomena. Instead, Flynn asserts that abstract and non-objective picture making has a continuing potential to be a contemplative and intellectually fertile ground
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Gardens play a significant role in the lives of many. People of diverse backgrounds or location place unique values on their gardens and what they grow, from exotic or imported specimens, to carefully chosen native, edible plants, or even ones of sentimental value. A garden can stimulate peace and tranquillity, provide fresh seasonal produce, or
A-CH Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Bridie Gillman from the 3rd to the 11th of July. *** A printed publication including a response to Makeshift Monuments written by Chris Bennie will be available on the opening night and throughout the exhibition.
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‘Breath Drawings’ features a series of new works on paper by Melbourne-based artist Brett Colquhoun. Gemma Smith ‘Weight and Waver’ continues downstairs until 4 July. Brett Colquhoun’s lightness of touch results in paintings and drawings that exude a strange and elegant mystery. Forever in search of ways to articulate states of being, moments in time and
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Room40 presents MONO 18 + MONO 19 Saturday 1 August – William Basinski (USA) – Makino Takashi (Japan) – Jim O’Rourke: Multichannel Commission Premiere (performed by Lawrence English…Jim loves Japan and is staying there) Sunday 2 August – Hypnosis Display (Grouper + Paul Clipson) (USA) – Ross Manning (Brisbane) In 2015, Room40 is celebrating 15
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‘Participation’ presents two diverse approaches to understanding presence in daily familiarities. Whilst Kristian Fracchia works within external paradigms of social representation and identity construction to reassess bodily experience, Fred Gooch uses his body as a filter to internally abstract and re-express everyday experiences of ‘being’ through the drawn line. In this exhibition, bodies are used
The talismanic qualities of the reused, the resourceful, and the strange come together in Hannah Cutts’ work to celebrate an inseparability of life and art. In a truly Duchampian twist on evaluating what is unique, finding is the creative act for her, and thus she amasses carefully chosen, commonplace objects to suggest a poesis of
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In the art of taxidermy gesture is paramount, hence for sculptor Julia deVille the most considered aspect of creation is composing her subjects to find a balance between pathos, humour and dignified realism. Arriving in Australia from New Zealand on the cusp of adulthood, deVille trained as a jeweller and learned further crafting skills studying
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Joseph Daws’s painting practice operates between landscape and abstract painting. It acts as an arena for the artist to explore visual forms in parallel, the associated visual language, and the perception between abstraction and figuration.
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In association with our exhibition Cross Pose: Body language against the grain, please join Professor Roland Bleiker, School of Political Science and International Studies, and Dr Sally Butler, School of Communication and Arts, and other invited speakers in a conversation about art and global politics. Free. All welcome.
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‘This is Not a Drill’ is a collection of the most current work from QUT Visual Arts Honours student’s. The exhibition reflects on an awareness of immediacy as they near the end of their studies and work towards nailing their final studio portfolios. Presenting works across a range of media including sculpture, installation, video, photography
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A team of leading Australian artists brings Australia’s chilling atomic history to life in the dynamic transmedia production Ten Minutes to Midnight, marking the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during WWII. Premiering at the 2015 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Ten Minutes to Midnight comprises an immersive projection installation, new digital artworks, and
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Fresh artistic talents will be unveiled in upcoming group exhibition, Anywhere, Elsewhere, which focuses on the practices of emerging QLD artists. In an initiative to support the next generation of contemporary artists, Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present the work of local artists, Bridie Gillman, Claudia Greathead and Sancintya Simpson. Curated by Brisbane based
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Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future that is regarded as a whole. Despite being an imagined construct, it can contextualise all things. It creates opportunity for death and rebirth, pressure and expectation. Where would we be, or what could we be, without it? ‘Almost a Year’ presents
ALONE TOGETHER is an exhibition that showcases works by four recent Queensland graduates – Karike Ashworth, Alrey Batol, Tayla Haggerty and Sancinyta Simpson. These artists are negotiating the complexities of voicing individual experiences and concerns, by drawing on the language and objects of the everyday. The exhibition also explores the importance of connectivity for artists
Dedicating to promoting the practices of local artists Spiro Grace Art Rooms (SGAR) is delighted to announce the relaunch of our Spring Hill gallery at 6pm on Thursday June 11 with the group exhibition ‘Superlinear’. Highlighting intersections of mathematics and art Superlinear explores line as a point of movement and it’s departure from the two
“For many years landscape, our connection to place and how we think about the genre of landscape painting has been the subject of my work. My paintings of landscapes are as interested in the idea of bringing beauty into being as considering ideas about how landscape is experienced today in this fast paced world. For
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The Float is a community engagement project that embraces the talents of over 100 young people in Australia, North America and China. The Float was initiated by artist Pamela See who introduced students in the traditional Chinese crafts of woodblock printing, calligraphy and papercutting. The ten workshops culminated in a series of papercut installations and
Gemma Smith was born Sydney in 1978. In 1999 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and in 2004 an honours year at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Gemma Smith’s work begins with abstract painting, with a specific interest in colour’s ability to subvert the flat picture plane.
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Jane Burton was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1966. After moving with her family to Tasmania in 1980s, Burton attended the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart where in 1991 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and in 1993 received an Honorary Research Associate. Burton’s first solo exhibition, The Sweetest Path, was held in
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A performative installation pursuing a subjective engagement with feminist histories by incorporating video, painting and drawing within the format of a lecture performance. OPENING // 24 June 2014, 6PM ARTIST TALK // 1 July, 6PM
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The exhibition phase of Imaginary Accord ends with a two-day symposium on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 July, departing from the same question as our year-long lecture series,What Can Art Institutions Do? The event will commence and conclude with New Delhi-based artists Raqs Media Collective’s performative works Time Symposium on Friday at 7pm, and the world premiere of Memoraphilia
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Artists: Barry Tate & Glenn Morgan. Tate and Morgan’s work could be described as dynamic, vibrant, humorous, challenging, thought provoking, energetic.. definitely not safe. With wide and varied technique Glenn has been described as an artist who can frighten a laugh out of you with hard hitting social commentary while Barry’s work has a religious
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Lyndal Hargrave is a maker of objects and a painter of shapes. Her current work manifests as complex geometrically inspired paintings and modular, wall based sculptures. Residing between art, science and mathematics, Hargrave is inspired by the patterns that underpin the chaos of life. Her attention is drawn to order and variation within this structure
To mark our fortieth anniversary, the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is currently embarking on a year-long project, Imaginary Accord, which explores this institution’s historical mission, while imagining what it could mean today and for the future, through an exhibition, a lecture series, a symposium, and a publication. The Imaginary Accord exhibition will grow and change
The Hold Artspace, on behalf of the artists, warmly invites you to the concurrent exhibitions and openings of ‘Beneath our Feet’ by Dennis McCart and ‘A Line from Me to You’ by Shayna Wells. ‘Beneath our Feet’ | Dennis McCart Dennis McCart’s practice focuses on ‘Edgelands’; liminal zones and banal structures often unobserved or ignored.
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This body of work investigates the changing architectural façade of Brisbane. The recycled materials sourced from old “Queenslander” houses, shops and buildings either being demolished or under renovation in Brisbane suggest themes that correspond to social, historical, architectural and domestic concepts relative to the local region. These works are connected to Brisbane in a way
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A pioneering street artist in Brisbane, *Lucks has worked in a variety of situations as an artist and community worker. He’s inspired by found objects, tattoo art, graffiti, domestic animals, ongoing battles with colour, styles, tags, definitions, word play and religion. His inquiry into good luck / bad luck and all the lucks in between
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Please join Brisbane-based artist, Daniel McKewen for a tour of our current exhibition Imaginary Accord on Saturday, 27 June, at 3pm. McKewen is an artist whose practice investigates the intersections of contemporary art, popular culture, and the entertainment and financial industries. He appropriates elements from screen culture in order to examine and critique how these
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Please join us for the opening of ‘Wild Tasmania’ on Friday 26th June to be opened by Bob Brown, environmentalist and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens Wild Tasmania features photographs by two of Tasmania’s finest nature photographers, Wolfgang Glowacki and Arwen Dyer. Arwen and Wolfgang portray the stunning Tasmanian wilderness through their macro,
Art Gets Hot With Those Who Dare 2970° is the boiling point for gold. Extreme heat catalyses the metal causing it to melt. Art has a similar alchemy when applied to society. The properties of art cause society to become something other than what it was – it is transformative. 2970° is three days of