We at Pen and Brush strongly support the premise that art and literature are vital aspects of the human experience. We also believe that art and literature created by women deserves to be recognized and valued on its merit – not judged by the gender of the maker. Pen and Brush is now accepting visual […]
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An important part of Rachael Archibald’s practice involves playing with the conventions of artistic categories and conforming them into an all inclusive art form through the use of digital technologies. Departing from traditional ways of making art, Archibald is more at home in the digital environment, an accessible and flexible space that allows her
The John Fries Award is an annual non-acquisitive award of $10,000 recognising emerging and early career visual artists. Since its start in 2010, it has become a platform for some of the most engaging and experimental works from emerging artists across Australia and New Zealand. The prize was established by the Fries family in memory
Hello Possums! Caitlyn “Caity” Reynolds has made some art for you and asked me to write some words to go with it if that’s the kind of thing you’re into. Maybe you’re looking at the art right now, oo-ing and ah-ing away happily, and then you walk out away in search of beer and sex,
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International Art Space (IAS) is calling for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from Australian and Nordic artists working with visual, digital and hybrid media who are interested in participating in spaced 3: north by southeast, the third iteration of spaced, IAS’s recurring international event of context-responsive art. Spaced 3: north by southeast is centred on an artists’
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Explore a corner of inner-suburban Brisbane through the eyes of the quirky and playful Stephen Nothling. Nothling’s paintings invite you into his endearing neighbourhood in a series that documents Louisa Street where the artist has lived for 14 years. In The last street in Highgate Hill, Nothling imagines life behind the façade of 38 houses
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Yvonne is a Queensland artist who lives and paints at Mt. Glorious, near Brisbane. She began exhibiting in 1981 and since then has maintained a consistently strong painting practice and exhibition schedule. Her most distinctive paintings are the grass series oil works, begun in 2004. This series is concerned with the colour, structure and movement
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Metafisica Australe presents a new body of work by leading Australian artist Imants Tillers and attempts to find common ground between contemporary Western Desert painting and the metaphysical paintings of the 20th Century Italian master, Giorgio de Chirico. It continues the premise of the exhibition Dreaming: Aboriginal Australia art meets de Chirico curated by Ian McLean and Erica Izett
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PART 3 Artists: ETEL ADNAN, KHADIM ALI, VERNON AH KEE, RICHARD BELL, GORDON BENNETT, IAN BURN, CHICKS ON SPEED, CHRISTIAN CAPURRO, EUGENE CARCHESIO, BONITA ELY, LUCIO FONTANA, DALE HARDING, ROBERT HUNTER, FRANCISCO DE GOYA, TIM JOHNSON, ROSS MANNING, DJAMBAWA MARAWILI, TOM NICHOLSON, RAQUEL ORMELLA, STUART RINGHOLT, LUKE ROBERTS, KHALED SABSABI, SANDRA SELIG, GARETH SANSOM, MADONNA
The Laundry Artspace presents ‘GAS leak: a QCA graduate art show’ – a one night only event at The Laundry Artspace on Friday the 27th of November. This event celebrates and supports QCA Graduates by providing a platform for the presentation of a selection of artists across multiple disciplines in an alternative exhibition space. The
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Alex Seton only makes around 30 sculptures per year – but he is prolific, as anyone who has ever worked with marble will understand. Seton’s signature is virtuosic and realistic marble carving, however his sculptures are anything but traditional. His subjects are often drawn from popular culture, from politics or from the overlooked and everyday.
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MAAP SPACE gallery will host a public discussion about transformations in “nature” of the visual image now and into the future. Andrew McNamara will be in conversation with Ingrid Hoelzl about her new book, Soft Image, which explores the changing conception of image today, especially the photographic image. ‘Soft Image:Towards a New Theory of the Digital Age’
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In Alone In The Sun, Julian Meagher expands on his previous examinations of ritualised masculinity and Australia’s drinking culture, looking to our white colonial past for answers to some of our most challenging contemporary problems. Continuing to question how much of his own identity has been shaped by our collective history, Meagher began dissecting the
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This work is the result of many years spent camping, walking, and drawing in central Australia. Initial impressions of the vastness of ‘The Centre’ are illusive, but over time, the landscape starts to imprint a map on your memory — a fabric of veins left by walking. The map is layered with sights and senses, and
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John Stafford interviews Asia Pacific Triennial 8 (APT8) artist Asim Waqif, and curator Tarun Nagesh in this free webinar session. The Asia Pacific Triennial is Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s flagship contemporary art series. Asim Waqif trained as an architect and worked in film and television before turning to contemporary art. For APT8, Waqif
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SCULPTURE15 is a showcase of the high standard and diversity of works created by the graduating sculpture students of the Queensland College of Art. It is a showcase, not only of emerging talent, but also of varied manifestations of sculpture. Though materially and conceptually so diverse, there are clear conversations between the works in the
BEFORE ALL ELSE is the Graduate Exhibition for the 2015 cohort of Visual Arts Honours students. Please join us on Friday the 13th of November to celebrate the culmination of the creative outcomes of our projects explored over the course of this year. The opening event will take place at H Block, QUT Kelvin Grove
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I cannot look at Peter Anderson’s work without succumbing to a shiver of both delight and of dread. The sub-Antarctic wind howls off his Southern Ocean canvases with so much force that it’s impossible not to feel the icy sting of salt spume and the gut churning heave and slough of the mountainous seas. Look
Be one of the first to celebrate #APT8 at our Opening Night Party. Experience captivating large-scale sculptures, immersive installations and intriguing performances and kinetic artworks after hours. Live performance by White Shoes & The Couples Company (Jakarta, Indonesia). For more information visit www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/apt8 Founding Sponsor: Queensland Government Principal Sponsor: Audi Australia
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QCA Showcase: 26–30 November 2015 The Queensland College of Art (QCA) will open its doors to the public for a special five-day event in November, 2015. The QCA Showcase will transform the South Bank campus into exhibition spaces featuring the work of graduating students from: fine art, film, animation, games design, photography, contemporary Australian Indigenous
Don’t you worry! Its gonna be alright ‘cause I’m always ready, I won’t let you out of my sight. I’ll be ready (I’ll be ready) Never you fear (no don’t you fear) I’ll be ready Forever and always I’m always here. – “I’ll be ready” David Hasselhoff (chorus) Cigdem Aydemir is a Sydney-based artist working
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Jon Cattapan is an extensively exhibited visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He first began exhibiting in 1979 and his works deal primarily with ways of representing urban topographies and narratives. He is known for panoramic layered city vistas and figurative groupings and has a long held preoccupation for the way human
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UQ Architecture invites you to CROP’15 the end of year public exhibition showcasing the best work of our students from the Masters and Bachelors degrees. The opening night is a free, public event, please bring your family and friends. The exhibition installation is designed and built by UQ Architecture students with the generous support of
Please join writer and curator Rachel O’Reilly for a screening and discussion titled ‘Prefigures of Divestment in the Feminist Cinemas of Extraction’, which traces different periodizations of mining’s labour image through the exemplary ideational and projective work of feminist artists, activists, and theorists. O’Reilly is a poet, critic, independent curator and researcher whose work explores
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From November 19 – 27 , A-CH Gallery presents ‘Life, Death, Miscellaneous’. The exhibition features works by Amanda Wolf and Joeseph Breikers. Please join us from 6pm on Saturday November 21 to celebrate the opening of the exhibition *** Amanda Wolf and Joseph Breikers are two Brisbane-based artists whose work shares an interest in the
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The IMA is pleased to present work by the Brisbane-based duo Clark Beaumont in The Green Room. Clark Beaumont will be showing their recent work, The Descent (2015), which has never been presented in their home city of Brisbane. This is the first of three presentations by artists who have been shortlisted for the 2015 Jeremy Hynes Award,
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The Gallery on Level 2 will be taken over with bodies joining together to discover what ambitious plans are in store for us in 2016. Get a cheeky look at the artistic program for the new year, collect a happy snap and free drink, then spill champagne over the floorboards. On the night you’ll have
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Queensland College of Art’s 2015 graduating print media cohort presents ‘yeah, yeah, nah.’, an exhibition showcase of the final works from each artist varying in all mediums across the print making and drawing disciplines.
decorating for integrated lifestyles The color pink may be named after the flower, coming from the frilled edge of the flowers: the verb “to pink” dates from the 14th century and means “to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern”. WIKIPEDIA An important part of Rachael Archibald’s practice involves playing with the conventions of artistic
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The IMA is pleased to present work by the Brisbane-based duo Catherine or Kate. Catherine or Kate have been collaborating for 8 years. Last year they went to comedy school in Chicago to try to get funnier. The experience was more fraught than they expected and when they got home they stopped using phone and
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This exhibition presents the 2015 graduating Honours students from Fine Art and Photography. It is in the environment of Honours study that intensive intellectual and emotional journeys take place with creative leaps leading to artwork of a very high quality. Students from both these disciplines have worked across media areas making for highly individual artworks.
New work by Sebastian Moody. Opening Saturday 24 October, 5-8pm. Sebastian Moody was born in Sydney, New South Wales (1979). He currently lives and works in Brisbane where he has completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Queensland University of Technology (2001) and a Master of Museum Studies at The University of Queensland (2009). Moody
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Retrospection, an exhibition features new works from five Brisbane female photographic artists who often look to the past to make sense of their place in the world. Simultaneously methodical and melancholic, the artists reinvent and play with interpretation and memory through their respective photographic practices. Insights are deeply personal and the works demand considered reflection.
Scott’s new paintings are a collection of small stories of comings and goings and new directions – moving on in life and the taking of new paths towards the unknown From the weather-worn timber houses and abandoned sheds in the rural Australian landscape left to the elements as families have moved on. This theme correlates
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Ömie Artists (Inc.) is a cooperative of Ömie tribeswomen barkcloth painters from Oro Province in Papua New Guinea. Paintings on barkcloth, also known as ‘tapa’, are the customary textile of the Ömie. Women wear nioge (skirts) while men wear givai (loincloths). Ömie barkcloths are still worn today by men, women and children during traditional ceremonies
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Beginning in 2002, Compact Prints is Umbrella Studio’s trademark biennial exhibition showcasing North Queensland’s printmaking talent alongside national and international artists. Compact Prints 2014 is the 7th incarnation of the exhibition showcasing 176 artists from 14 different countries across the globe. Image: Stephen Coutts, How It Works (2014) Exhibition Opening: Thursday 22 October, 2015 at 6 pm