Join the second iteration of the IMA Reading Group on Saturday 9 May at 3pm. The reading group is a monthly assembly in the Motto IMA bookstore designed to further activate local discussion surrounding contemporary art. The initiative is aimed at university students and recent graduates, and desires to provoke conversation in an open, participatory environment. This version will […]
In 2015, Life Art Worldwide Arts Expo will host the ‘Brisbane Art Prize’ for the first time. A $10,000 prize is on offer to one of the finalists pre-selected for the showcase in September. The exhibition of finalists for the Brisbane Art Prize will be showcased at Lightspace in The Valley, Brisbane for 5 days during the Life Art Worldwide Arts
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Aside from being a spectacular sculpture, ‘He Kōrero Pūrākau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river’ is also a playable concert grand piano. Drop by the exhibition on Sunday 21 June to hear the piano being played. As with other works by Parekowhai, ‘He Kōrero Pūrākau mo Te Awanui o
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William Robinson: Infinite sphere surveys work from the artist’s early career until now. It explores the literal and metaphorical concerns that underpin Robinson’s art, and demonstrates the full circle of his practice. The exhibition shows how his work has no beginning or end, and how this is articulated through his ongoing use of multipoint perspective and,
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Alongside his esteemed career as a filmmaker, David Lynch has worked as a visual artist for 50 years, producing an extensive body of paintings, photography and works on paper. ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ is a rare opportunity to consider Lynch’s entire creative vision and the relationships between his practice as an artist, filmmaker and
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L.M. Noonan is an established Queensland artist with a unique voice and strong aesthetic. Noonan uses pre-existing and recognizable imagery to tap into the subconscious, engaging with image fragments in an intuitive process of re-assembly and remix. Simple Interventions is an exhibition that challenges the notion of traditional collage and assemblage techniques to instead create
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‘Here, night’ is a one night only solo exhibition of new work by Kinly Grey. Through site-specific installation, instructional, performative, and video works, Kinly Grey explores experiences of ineffable feeling. ‘Here, night’ is an exhibition of new work that experiments with material, scale, and visual poetics as propositional gestures towards personal experiences and relationships with
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Workshop will play their last hometown show for the year, before an extended hibernation. They will be back in 2016. They will feature with Scraps, Martyr Privates, Brainbeau, Bodies and Multiple Man for a one night sound event. WORKSHOP https://soundcloud.com/wannaworkshop SCRAPS http://5crap5.bandcamp.com/music MARTYR PRIVATES https://soundcloud.com/martyr-privates BRAINBEAU https://www.youtube.com/user/brainbeau BODIES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1KBatVzTQ&feature=youtu.be MULTIPLE MAN (DJ SET) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6KhFWvKPM red
FLUIDATA is an immersive experiential installation with durational performances by Igneous, a Brisbane-based inter-media and performance company. The work explores questions around the state of Queensland creeks, the ways in which digital media can help connect audiences with the natural environment and anecdotes about local waterways. For the development of this interactive installation, Igneous artists
Amber Wallis’ paintings transform an internal psychological landscape into lyrical physicality. In her work, looping, rhythmic lines and broad areas of brushwork intersperse with shadows of recognizable forms to become the “uncanny place where the abstract and figurative meet”. Her engagement of the hand, gestural notation and colour map out thoughts, emotions, and intuitions. While
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The captivating work of emerging Queensland artist Monica Rohan will be presented in her solo exhibition, Topsy-turvy, at Jan Murphy Gallery from 19 May – 13 June. Rohan has rapidly established herself as an artist to watch, with her intricately patterned artworks gaining her interest locally and nationally. Focussing on selfportraiture, her artworks provide an
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Emily McGuire’s exhibition, “Imagine Being Attractive” explores the complex relationship between Tumblr blogging, fashion, and female identity. “Imagine Being Attractive” considers how fashionable female identity is performed through found images and anonymity on Tumblr blogs. From her perspective as a participant observer on Tumblr, Emily’s practice examines the ways in which Tumblr blogs are a
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“In Depth” is an exhibition that showcases the amazingly intricate works by talented glass artist Joanna Bone and photographer Aaron Micallef. Join us on the 12th of June at 6pm for the opening night of this exciting exhibition and discover the ways Aaron’s photographic works and Joanna’s sculptural glass forms can work together to explore
The Murmur of Surfaces is a Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection In Perspective exhibition that showcases the strength and diversity of Sharon Jewell’s artistic career to date. The title, The Murmur of Surfaces, refers both to the material and compositional emphasis of much of the work in this exhibition. The drawings in her new
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Come celebrate the opening night of Desert Dreams; a photographic exhibition by Holly Riding, capturing the Americana spirit of rural USA. The exhibition will consist of a number of A2 sized photo prints accompanied by an exclusive ‘Desert Dreams’ hardcover zine. The Desert Dreams zine will combine some of the exhibition series with other exclusive
Recent Prints by Joanna Kambourian & Darren Bryant at Poly Gone Cowboy A curated selection of work by Darren & Jo since forming the collaboration print & design studio, Ms Browns Lounge in 2010. Opening Night : 15th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm Donation Bar http://msbrownslounge.com.au
Gerwyn Davies new photographic series ‘Paradise’ depicts tropes of glamour and class in an otherworldly fashion. The series of self-portraits explores the use of dress in self-representation with the fabrication of elaborate bricolage constructions that repurpose everyday materials in imaginative ways. These constructions range in their complexity and detail and result in the shrouding of
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Please join Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s Curator of Indigenous Art Bruce McLean, for an in-conversation with Brisbane-based artist Vernon Ah Kee, on Thursday, 16 June, at 6pm. McLean has worked with Ah Kee on a number of occasions, including My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia (2013) at
In asking why responses to Sugimoto’s photographs turn on a dime from awe to scorn, I suggest that these strange works of art manage to escape human desires. My hope is that by moving the conversation away from entrenched dichotomies such aesthetics or anti-aesthetics and toward an analysis of the nature of objects and feelings,
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Contemporary New Zealand art will take centre stage when ‘Michael Parekowhai: The Promised Land’, a major exhibition spanning 26 years of the artist’s career, opens at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) this weekend. Curated by the Gallery’s Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibitions, Maud Page, the exhibition is showing exclusively at Brisbane’s GOMA from 28
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This major career survey will reflect on the past decade of Peter Hennessey’s practice. Trained as an architect, Hennessey has established an international profile for his physically imposing, conceptually rigorous sculptures. He is inspired by the science of space exploration and comparable technological advances, and scours the Internet and other publicly available information to produce his work. The resulting sculptures are
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A Screening Series part three: Satellites – Tuesday 9 June 6.00pm @ UQ Art Museum. As part of Peter Hennessey: ‘Making it real’ exhibition. Free. All Welcome. Meteor Christoph Giradet & Matthias Müller | 2011 | 15 minutes Courtesy of Light Cone, www.lightcone.org Using elements of feature films, fragments of fairy tales and science fiction motifs, Meteor is an
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Muk Muk Fine Art presents ‘Fine Detail’, an exhibition showcasing the delicate detailed dot work of contemporary Aboriginal paintings from Central Australia. Now showing in ‘La Galerie’ within the Sofitel Brisbane Central, each artwork highlights the artist’s intimate knowledge of traditional stories relating to country and culture. The centerpiece is the stunning black and white
To the 2015 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture This year the national art prize held in Perth, WA, features the $50,000 Lester Prize, the $7,500 People’s Choice Prize, the $1,000 SJOGHC Online People’s Choice Prize and a $1,000 HU Kendall & Co art supply gift voucher. Entry Forms Now Available Click here to find
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Karla Dickens, Wiradjuri painter, was born in Sydney in 1967. Dickens enrolled in Life Drawing classes at high school where the female form was her main subject matter. She began her formal training as an artist when she enrolled at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1991, obtaining a Fine Arts Diploma in
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It has been established that soundwaves cannot travel in an airtight vacuum, so it is often assumed that sonic energy does not exist in outer space. This assumption is furthered through film and television, which often represent outer space as an empty, still and silent zone. Yet sound existing in space is feasible because not
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Maureen Hansen is an artist living and working in Brisbane. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology and currently works as an art curator and a freelance fine art teacher. Solo exhibitions of the artist include Domes & Dames, Soho House, London (1999); Brisbane Spring, Brisbane City Hall, Stevens
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“TRASH YOUTH” is an art exhibition by Jake Connor Moss. It features paintings, photographs, films and books inspired by 21st century youth culture. Exhibition Dates: 16th – 22nd June
The exhibition will present four new paintings by Gareth Sansom. Gareth Sansom is one of Australia’s most highly regarded painters. His work engages with issues of personal identity, sexuality and mortality. A resolutely figurative artist, for over five decades the human body has remained the central motif for his musings on the human condition. Born
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This exhibition reconsiders the visibility of colonial settler women within historical narratives. Referencing colonial images and objects of jewellery, this experimental work will extend on existing knowledge of the era. By using the genre of jewellery to navigate the archives, connections can be created between diverse artifactual evidence concerned with the presence of women in
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Amaterasu – Japanese Sun Goddess Amaterasu the Japanese Sun Goddess is credited with the creation of the islands of Japan. Before this, the world was only an amorphous mass. When she lay down a necklace of pearls the islands of Japan came into being.The first Emperor was her grandson and she bequeathed to him a
It’s tax time! The inimitable Accountant to the Arts Brian Tucker presents and discusses all the facts you need to know about your tax and answers all your questions. It’s Time. Time: 7pm Cost: FREE at your computer via Web TV Click here to register
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Art from the Margins Since 2008, Art from the Margins (AFTM), a creative initiative of Wesley Mission Brisbane, has been instrumental in bringing artists together and bridging the gap between artists living in isolation, the public and the wider community. AFTM supports and promotes the work of artists living with adversity, disadvantage and social isolation,
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Calling all young artists! Are you 12-25 and looking for an opportunity to make some art and have it displayed? As part of Brisbane Youth Week 2015, Visible Ink will be hosting a week-long collective art project which will be taking place 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday April 13 through to Thursday April 16 at the
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Working closely on common themes to intertwine their visual poetry, Mulder and van Vuuren explore the incapturable essence of memory and experience through a connection to objects, images and the passing of time. There is something unnerving about Mulder’s Neither here nor there (2014). Although beds in exhibition spaces are not new (think Tracy Emin), their
As observed through Mark Whalen’s eyes, the world is a strange and curious place. His paintings, ceramics and sculpture explore darkly comic, elegant tableaux alive with futuristic mini-dramas. Sexual play, arm wrestling competitions, and ominous rituals are the norm. Potted plants, smiley faces, and scientific information vie for our attention: fences and dead-ends abound. He
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