Founded in 1896, State Library of Queensland is the leading reference and research library in Queensland. State Library is responsible for collecting and preserving a comprehensive collection of Queensland’s cultural and documentary heritage, providing free access to information for all Queenslanders and for the advancement of public libraries across the State. State Library plays a […]
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Making art is the start of the artist’s journey into successful business. Knowing how to write about, document and present your artwork is the next important step in getting ready to go to market. Facilitated by Louise Martin Chew. Where: Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley Time: 10 pm – 4pm Cost: $55 ($48 for
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A distinct landmark, both as a striking pre-war industrial building and a hub for creativity, art and cultural innovation, Brisbane Powerhouse is situated on the Brisbane River, and central to the bustling New Farm Park precinct. As Brisbane City Council’s premier arts venue, the much-loved building stages more than 1250 performances a year including a
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Named after Judith Wright, the celebrated Australian poet and activist, the Judith Wright Arts Centre (JWAC) is a vibrant and contemporary visual and performing arts hub, located in the heart of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Home to some of Queensland’s and Australia’s most dynamic arts organisations, JWAC is a creative space for exciting visual arts programming and
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The QUT Creative Industries Precinct is a hub of exhibition and performance venues based on the QUT Kelvin Grove campus. The Creative Industries Precinct program focuses on digital practices and presents a range of exhibitions, screenings, performances and public programs throughout the year. A $60 million site boasting some of Australia’s most sophisticated, high-tech digital
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Karike Ashworth is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brisbane. Her creative practice consists of time-based media, text, objects and installations. Her areas of interest include social practice, collaboration and the private-made-public. These broad areas of interest frame her more specific concerns with the way mutual implication, ambiguity and social (or emotional) discomfort
Established in 2001, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize attracts strong support from artists, collectors and critics and is the first national acquisitive prize for an original, freestanding sculpture of up to 80cm in any dimension. Over 500 entries from Australian and international artists are received annually and approximately 40 finalists’ works are exhibited over a
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BANANAs are a new monthly social sound series on Saturday/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 currents
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A pop-up, group collaboration of artists exhibiting in celebration of our sixth issue of TBCMAG, we are hosting COMMISSION FREE ART SALES, a range of LIVE ART plus your chance to get involved in our ART AUCTION where money raised will be contributed to keeping our free magazine in print! Get in early and grab yourself a LTD EDT X TBCMAG collectors pack! First 20 people
21ST CENTURY In my paintings, I ‘play’ with perspective, landscape, the tree-of-life symbol, cosmology, various meanings of code and more. When I paint I think about all of these things and what they might mean in the cosmological and technological 21st century. For example, the painting above is called Code. It ‘asks’ where the code of life might be found.
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The exhibition features a body of new work by Melbourne-based Stuart Ringholt, including a series of chair interventions, car boots and drawing collages. Image: Stuart Ringholt, Page 169 2014, felt tip pen and collage on paper
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William Kentridge is a major figure in contemporary art, who has established an international reputation as a gifted figurative artist. Working in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, Kentridge explores themes of the society in which he lives, but in a particularly subtle way. Kentridge creates art in a variety of media, including
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Jonthan Crowther’s paintings sit within the still life genre exploring the overlooked ordinary everyday objects and materials of contemporary life. Using the lens of the camera Crowther investigate these objects at an intimate micro level transforming them into large macro sized hyperreal paintings. Utilising the tools of trompe l’oeil and classical painting techniques his artworks
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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