The Clarence Prize is a biennial, acquisitive exhibition open to Australian designers and craftspeople. The aims of the Clarence Prize are to promote excellence and innovation in art/design practice, to enhance the City of Clarence art collection with the acquisition of significant works and to present a high quality exhibition of furniture design. Prizes: One […]
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 5th Annual “Landscapes” Juried Art Competition for the month of April 2015. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s May 2015 online group art exhibition. The gallery encourages entries from artists (including
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REDSEA Gallery is proud to present an inaugural group exhibition showcasing Brisbane’s next generation of artists. By utilising its position as an established international art gallery, REDSEA aims to help launch the careers of these seven outstanding student artists, whose work displays incredible promise and ambition. Young Blood will prove to uncover the forefront of
The JUMPstart Pilot Intern Program is a unique initiative of the UQ Art Museum, presented in conjunction with the Art History program of The University of Queensland’s School of English, Media Studies and Art History. In 2014 the program offered five graduate-year students professional experience in the visual arts industry. Over three months students shadowed UQ Art Museum staff, gaining professional skills
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A Thousand Words showcases portraits by artists Cheryl Creed and Nickeema Williams as they capture Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identities in fleeting moments in time. The artists’ vibrant, thought provoking works capture the personality of their subjects — community leaders, youth, family and friends from communities including Cairns, Woorabinda, Cherbourg and Brisbane —
Dogs. Why a show on dogs? What kind of cues does a show centred around dogs send out? Too much potential for cuteness, the vernacular, the sentimental. Too much probability of strained humour – of clichés and corniness. Too much evidence of easy anthropomorphisms as a way of revealing human traits. And yet the representations
In 2015, Sculptors Queensland has redefined its student prize, an adjunct to its annual member’s exhibition and Shillam Prize, to include all artists under the age 25 actively engaged in the exciting practice of sculpture. We invite students and young practitioners creating original work to consider making a submission to the 2015 Sculptors Queensland Youth
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The exhibition ‘Subversive Spaces’ at The Hold Art Space (Brisbane), features the work of six women artists whose art practices have at their core an engagement with disruption, and activation of media forms to challenge and overturn normalised art histories. The ‘subversion’ of the title is linked to the artists’s awareness of context — a
Lisa Christensen’s exhibition An Open Window extends the boundaries of still-life into an imaginary realm. Curious birds explore a new domestic landscape and invite the viewer’s own interpretation of the work. In 2014, Lisa was highly commended in the Lethbridge 10 000 and went on to sell out her works featured in the 10 000
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Rebecca Daynes is a New Zealand born artist now residing in Brisbane. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Visual Arts at the Queensland University of Technology. Her practice-led research project investigates the phenomenological aspects of sincerity through screen-based and traditional media. Accompanying essay by Lilly Heenan (One Night Only Event)
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ENGINEERED TO BE ETERNALLY MODULAR, THE RENSHAWS’ IS A CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECT REIMAGINED. OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE INDIVIDUALISED OPPORTUNITIES AND OUTCOMES FOR THE VARIOUS ARTISTS WE WORK WITH. WE OFFER AN INNER-CITY ARTIST STUDIO AND LIVING QUARTERS, OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH PUBLIC PROGRAMS, PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS, COLLECTOR STUDIO VISITS AND PRIVATE EVENTS. THE RENSHAWS’
In 2015 we are proud to announce that we have found our new home at the Brisbane Powerhouse. This heritage listed venue delivers an Analogue Digital experience like nothing before. Sit closer to the action than ever before with over 500 stadium seats towering two and a half stories into the creative atmosphere that is:
The ‘Way out West’ exhibition is part of Vast Art’s Artist Development Project, which has endeavoured to give artists in western Queensland with a chance to develop their practice as a professional artist. The project has provided business skills tailored to the art industry, as well as mentoring and interviews with industry professionals, to assist
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Madame Banksia: Margaret Preston’s Flower Gazing and the Japonist Protocols of Félix Regamey Across a career that reshaped Australian art, the celebrated and controversial Modernist Margaret Preston brought an uncanny intensity to the depiction of flowers. During her student years in Paris, might she have mingled with the bohemian circles around French orientalist Félix Régamey,
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Lara Merrett’s colour-rich paintings have been compared to the romantic painters of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries: both ‘imagine geographies of space, atmosphere and physicality’. For Merrett, it’s the inquiry into the picture plane and surface, balance of ink and acrylic, of depth and opacity, chaos with order and the reference to otherness that
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The exhibition The Spaces Between by the Nightladder artist group explores the notion of place and how we, as humans, navigate it. Finding one’s way in the world requires a particularly complex behaviour, which is even more challenged in times of globalisation, increased migration and displacement of peoples. All works are underpinned by the idea of the
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Bimblebox 153 Birds is an exhibition that combines printmaking and audio recordings about the bird species of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge in Central Western Queensland. The exhibition will consist of 153, A4 sized bird prints and musician’s bird call interpretations will be interwoven with poetry and prose, each presented via audio and played throughout the
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In a globalised world driven by international capitalism, the enmeshment of social networking and an increasingly pessimistic ecological overview, the idea of inter-relatedness may seem essential. However, what is at stake when interconnectedness leaves no spaces for cutting loose? This show presents 20 individual responses to that nagging question. This exhibition features works from current
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For ‘Chasing Infinite Junctures’, Brisbane based artist Caitlin Franzmann will present a new installation work as an open site for affect, response and collaboration. The exhibition will begin with an architectural intervention, which will then be available for exchange and transformation involving other artists, events and the sensing body of the audience. For five weeks,
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In this exhibition, domestic space is identified as a site of comfort/discomfort in constant flux, and as the location of our most private social interactions. In line with these understandings, Tess Mehonoshen and Ally McKay utilise this space to translate the contemporary unease intrinsic to the intimate human experience of relating to place and others.
The Stone Age was characterised by the use of stone technologies, Bronze by the use of Bronze and Iron the use of Iron. Today we are living in the Plastic Age. An age of disposable and temporary. An age where Water, the very substance which connects us most to the world, running within us and
IRL Digital Festival is Brisbane Powerhouse’s inaugural celebration of video games, technology and art. The festival takes over the venue for 10 days and nights and everyone is invited to come and play. Featuring free retro video game exhibitions, interactive art installations, digital-inspired music by Tom Thum and QSO and virtual reality fun, there is something to
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Ian Smith was born in Cairns, Queensland in 1950. In 1968 the artist began studying architecture at the University of Queensland but left the course after one year. In 1970 he travelled to live and study in Melbourne where he completed a Diploma of Art and Design at the Prahran College of Technology in 1972.
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In 2011, artist James Bridle introduced the term “New Aesthetic” to articulate a concept referring to the increasing appearance of the visual language of digital technology and the Internet in the physical world, and the blending of the virtual and physical. This exhibition examines creative practice from Queensland, Australian, and international inter-media artists reflecting on
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Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing: From book to film goes behind-the-scenes to reveal how the popular book came to life as an animated film. It features Tan’s exquisite original drawings and working sketches alongside exclusive footage of the animators and sound artists, demonstrating how the drawings were brought to life on screen with movement, sound
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Julie Cane’s exhibition Nature’s Bounty challenges the traditional ideal of the ‘fruit and flowers’ still life; focusing on the importance of decay in the world around us while capturing the subjects inherent beauty. Winner of the 2014 Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award, Julie Cane is recognized for her compelling colours, bountiful patterns and
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In the lecture Against The Image, curator Hicham Khalidi will present his examination of the concept of Aniconism – the prohibition of representation of the divine, humans, or living beings in Islamic thought – and its place within modern and contemporary abstract and conceptual art. This lecture is part of an ongoing research project, which
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Bringing a playfulness into the darker wells of thought, Dord Burrough’s works are influenced by personal journeys, daydreams, altered states, as well as the natural world and our place within it. The work is an exploration of psychological worlds of friendly grotesquerie. Mini-revelations are distilled, admitting to the existence of the material world under the
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The exhibition presents a new body of work by Kirsty Bruce. There will be no opening event. Image: Kirsty Bruce, Untitled 2015 (detail), Acrylic, watercolour and pencil on paper, 56 x 42 cm
Double Take brings together the work of eight emerging artists dealing with materiality, deception and the urban landscape. Presenting new and recent works across painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation, Double Take aims to draw upon the ways in which the artists manipulate and transform their chosen materials to make new representations of the world
Mira Oosterweghel presents new performative and sculptural works, continuing her exploration of the body and its relationship to site and structures. Attempting to negotiate the psychological terrain between bodies and the external environment, Unstable Moments creates a situation oscillating between notions of danger and play – the desire to defy gravity is contrasted against the
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Kei Kalak (Glen Mackie) has a distinguishable bold design style featuring wonderfully threadlike lines. He explains that he has been elected as Yam Island’s ‘official’ storyteller. Glen’s mission is to keep alive the sacred stories of the four brothers who travelled from the north before memory and settled at Zenadh Kes, or what most Australians know
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Please join the UQ Art Museum and Society of Fine Art for ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ – a panel discussion with arts professionals to discuss career opportunities for Art History and Museum Studies graduates. When: Friday 1 May, 12-1pm Where: UQ Art Museum Panellists Amelia Barikan – Art History academic Ellie Buttrose – QAGOMA
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5:49PM. The sun disappears below the horizon of the Gold Coast Highway and the neon signs flicker to life. The textual message is saturated with light. At a glance, we fail to see text, only images. What would it mean to lift the text from the plethora of signs that illuminate the skyline? The context
We must cultivate our garden – Voltaire Gardens are loved by all–there is something fundamentally human to be found in taking pleasure from a garden. Whether it is a simple plot of green grass in our backyards, flower pots on a windowsill or balcony, the elaborate grounds of estates or public parks, they all hold
On the eve of Heimo Zobernig’s spatial intervention for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015, David Pestorius is exhibiting a small survey of the Viennese artist’s work in Australia, a period which now spans more than 15 years. Heimo Zobernig (* 1958) is one of the most important inheritors of the Minimal-Conceptual Art
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