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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Looking for experience in arts administration, marketing and publishing? Eyeline Publishing is currently seeking interns and volunteers to assist with administration, marketing and production of Eyeline contemporary visual arts magazine. Duties include assisting with marketing and research, data entry, filing, mailouts, publishing production and digital development. Days and hours are flexible, commitment to a set day each
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Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research will host the inaugural Drawing International Brisbane Symposium, to be held at the Queensland College of Art (QCA) at South Bank, Brisbane from 30 September – 2 October. The Symposium will promote an active dialogue between curators, artists and academics on the role and significance of contemporary drawing practice.
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In our second annual photography competition, we’re asking you to share your favourite place in Queensland with us and our online community to win a share of over $5,000 in Canon equipment and other prizes! Your favourite place could be in the natural or urban environment. It could be in your backyard, the beach, the
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Entries are now open to Australian residents for a national acquisitive contemporary art prize. The $15,000 Grace Cossington Smith art award winner and finalists’ artworks will be displayed at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga from 7 November to 5 December 2015. Finalists will each be awarded $1,000 and will be selected by a
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Carly Kotynski is a practising artist working in the areas of sculpture and public art. Her artworks are largely inspired by society, the natural world and the interconnectedness of all living things. She creates sculptural forms that engage the senses toward the beauty, fragility and resilience of the natural world. These hand-woven pieces evolve slowly
MAKE SPACE is an opportunity to work in the blank space of The Walls once a month, to meet other makers in your community and to see your work on the walls. MEET a special guest artist at each event – artist announced the day before the event! BRING your art/craft/writing project and materials; whether
Theme: This call theme is “Violet.” A bluish-purple shade, a flowering plant, the name of a woman – violet takes on a variety of forms. Violet is even associated with royalty, the unconventional, and ambiguity. Violet can be expressed in a symbolic, literal, modern, traditional, abstract, or completely unique way. Colour your canvas and notepad with
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Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience, and further their engagement with the international art world. Previous finalists include John Keane, former official British war artist
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Entries are now open for the 2015 MAX Indigenous Art Competition which is bigger and better! Major Prize Winner – $2,000 cash prize Major Prize Winner Youth – $1,000 in acquisitive prizes Download the 2015 MAX Indigenous Art Competition Entry form here Launching in NAIDOC week around Australia, we are eager to celebrate the diversity
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The Laundry Artspace is currently accepting entries for the ‘the laundrie national emerging art prize’. For information on how to enter please see our ‘How to Enter’ form. Entries close Friday the 14th of August You can access our How to Enter form on The Laundry Artspace website
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Sensual and tactile, Craig Waddell’s work celebrates both the sublime and the imperfect. Laying down paint, wet into wet, observing while intuitive colour and gesture build and change, he destroys, renews and resurrects images from everyday life. Waddell has exhibited widely throughout Australia and received numerous prizes, awards and residencies, most notably winning the Mosman
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Incomplete Thought is a striking look into the mind and politics of Bleeding Kansas artist Robert Chalender. Owner of Strait Jacket Press, Robert set up shop in Fortitude Valley two years ago, it is in this studio on Brunswick, St. where Robert tends to vent his frustration about the world onto canvas. Born and raised
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“I really am turning into a moth. The light on my phone keeps me searching for truth in all the wrong places…” ~ Nick Drake Nick Drake considers the urban landscape of Brisbane — and the people who occupy it — with distrust and intrigue. Sourcing visual material for his paintings with his smart-phone during
John Morris’s exhibition Figments, Fragments and Fixations is a collection of hand carved timber sculptures. Throughout this series John continues to explore anatomy and the human form; deconstructed, modified and added to. Contrasting elements such as biological, geometrical and mechanical work harmoniously together. As original as it is beautiful, Figments, Fragments and Fixations is must
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John Olsen’s exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. He is an abstract artist whose work remains grounded in the landscape or in evocations of poetry, a painter whose distinctive curvilinear style continually pays homage to the quality of
The exhibition will present new works by Jemima Wyman, including works on paper, wallpaper, collages, bronze talismans and textiles. Jemima Wyman is a contemporary artist who lives and works between Brisbane and Los Angeles. Wyman completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (in Visual Arts) with Honors at the Queensland University of Technology. In 2007, she
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QPF presents HELLO SELFIE MEN. Curated by the 2015 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence Kate Durbin, HELLO SELFIE MEN (HS MEN) a one-hour durational performance wherein men from the Brisbane (and Australian) community will take selfies for an hour straight in the Fortitude Valley Mall, not talking to each other or directly interacting with the
The Zine and Independent Comic Symposium (ZICS) is a 2-day event to be held in Brisbane, Australia at The Edge on Saturday 22 Aug & Sunday 23 August. – Saturday (22 Aug) @ The Edge 12- 6pm Free- Fair, workshops and Panels. – ZICS late night – Dr Sketchy’s + HTML Flowers + MUCH MORE
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In this exhibition Brisbane artists Joe Furlonger, Jun Chen and Pamela See have created new work about suburban and regional Queensland, exploring the theme ‘transience’.Transience was inspired by the example of artist Ian Fairweather (1891 – 1974) who produced his most acclaimed paintings whilst living on Bribie Island in the mid-1950’s onwards. China’s artistic traditions
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In a world consumed by quests for happiness and personal growth, Grant Stevens’ new exhibition, ‘Dark Mess’, delves into the psychic troubles that sometimes lie below the canopy. Working predominantly with video, photography and installation, Stevens’ practice explores how the verbal and non-verbal languages of popular screen culture interface with contemporary subjectivity. This exhibition continues
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BANANA SUNDAYs are a new monthly social sound series on Sunday afternoons as The Walls presents sound artists, artists who play with sound and projections, VJs and noise makers. It’s your chance to go a bit bananas before the start of the working week, and to indulge in some delectable delights as audio and visual
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The Mayne Centre Lecture 2015 by Dr Mary Eagle. Augustus Earle 1793–1838 is evoking interest internationally these days as virtually a mind-traveller whose take on events and activities in his time, long ago, chimes with our sensibilities in the twenty-first century. Earle’s travels (the last of which was with Charles Darwin on The Beagle) took him
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The IMA is pleased to present a talk by artist Marysia Lewandowska. This is the sixth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titledWhat Can Art Institutions Do? Born in Poland, Lewandowska now divides her time between London, UK, and Hong Kong. Through collaborative projects she has explored the public function of archives, collections
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b.f.f. is a not-for-profit event that brings brisbane’s diverse and cutting edge artistic community to new audiences. an arts festival without bureaucracy and red tape – a festival that is inclusive and supports artists who are at all stages of their careers. Now heading into its 4th year, b.f.f. will showcase our remarkable local artists,
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Cerarmicist Dai Li was born in Sichauan, China in 1987 and now lives and works in Queensland. Between the years of 2005 and 2009 she attended the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China and arrived in Australia in late 2009 after graduating from the Institute. The artist held her first solo exhibition Wonderland in mid
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A magical landscape of another world is born in a fleeting moment. Frozen in time and only visible to those who pause to imagine. Imprinted in our memories forever, escaping the reality through the infrared channel of dreams. A Fine Art exhibition by AIPP Master Photographer Jannick Clausen Jannick Clausen is a professional photographer with
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Featuring Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu. Established in 1985, Warlukurlangu Artists’ Art Centre is recognised as one of the most active and important centres in desert art. Beautiful bright colours and intricate patterns mix to illustrate the complex relationships told in their dreaming stories (Jukurrpa). Exhibition Opening: Friday night, 31st July 6 – 9pm Image: Jajirrdi manu Janganpa
Slide right to the cutting edge of contemporary performance and live art. Slipstream rushes into Metro Arts, and brings with it a wide range of time-based art. Flow through one space to another to see the most experimental performance, contemporary dance, live digital drawing, and immersive installations. Artists from across Australia and the world come
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“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” Anais Nin We live in a time of faster connectivity, more knowledge and socially acceptable self-indulgence. Where a photo on Tumblr or Instagram shapes who we are IRL and in cyberspace; our identities are more fluid than ever. Not Yr Sweetheart is
Today public art is often hotly debated, dividing public opinion and attracting news coverage. What is it about public art that creates such controversy? Join public art curator and consultant, Renai Grace from iAM Projects, as she discusses the evolution and importance of public art. Renai will be joined by special guests including curator at
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Brave and curious? Ready to ask what’s next? Join with us to discover what’s new in 2016 We are now calling for proposals to be a part of our 2016 Performance and Exhibition Program, developing and presenting new work. Metro Arts welcomes proposals from early career through to mid and long term practitioners – Brisbane-based, interstate
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BODYPOD is the culmination of Winter Artist in Resident Jason Haggerty’s time occupying The Walls’ mezzanine studio. As Artist In Residence Jason has connected with Miami, an area of the coast that he’d never fully explored before, and aside from soaking up the beach, vibes and coffee in this newly discovered zone he has been
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