Being Together uses appropriated objects, constructed sculptures and video portraits to explore ideas of community, a recurring theme in Peter Alwast’s work. Relations between seemingly disparate objects are established in unexpected ways, which talk about limit and communion simultaneously. Gold chain making machines belonging to the artist’s father are presented with video portraits of artists […]
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Stefan produces works that focus on compositional elements like volume or colour, his oeuvre maps an attempt to capture the ephemeral spirit of his chosen medium. While somewhat unusual in the contemporary era, such bewitchment by the magic of painting is fundamental to the tradition that continues to inspire him. Indeed, like his predecessors, with
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New work presented by Brooke Ferguson and Courtney Coombs When: Friday 2 October, 5:00-6:00pm Where: Captain Burke Park (under the bridge) Kangaroo Point, Q 4169
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Abstraction is a way of art making that goes beyond the physical appearance of things to express a hidden meaning. It is non-representational, meaning the artwork does not depict the way things look in real life. Instead the artists in Direction Now want us to look at paintings in a different way. They want us
“Float” presents the work of 14 Queensland College of Art students at a projection event at the Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Platform on the 14th of October, 6 – 8pm. This one-night show is a response to an art and sound infield course on Stradbroke Island, where students from the College of Art and the Queensland
Karla Marchesi was born in Brisbane in 1984. In 2004 the artist graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and later in 2007 received her Honours in Fine Art from the College. During her undergraduate studies in 2003 Marchesi received the Philip Bacon Galleries Prize for Excellence in Drawing
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‘Together Forever Tonight’ is a one night only show of recent works by artists Hailey Atkins and Jack Mitchell. Working across a range of two and three dimensional media, Hailey and Jack explore how the dialogue between their practices works to further reveal and distort the identity of themselves and those they observe. HAILEY ATKINS
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Donald Blue’s interest in Chinese culture began in the 1950’s when he lived in Taiwan with his family for a 3 year period. He began making pottery in the early 70’s and soon after took up the brush as a pottery decoration technique. A home-built clay slab-rolling machine and subsequent commitment to two-dimensional ceramic projects,
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“The difficulty in painting has always included the transformation of pigment into light, and in these works the artist has shaped and balanced the colour so that the image lives in the mind. They are paintings that have begun from nature, from wild flowers that have grown in the Wallum country of the North Coast.
This survey explores the expansive act of Performance Drawing – the act and action of drawing, its processes as theatre, line, motion and record, positing drawing within an interdisciplinary platform. Curated by Kellie O’Dempsey, the group exhibition consists of works on paper, digital drawings, video and a live drawing performance. In conjunction with the Drawing International
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Heidi Yardly eschews the vast panoramas of contemporary painting in favour of intimately scaled compositions. Her oil paintings feature figures and settings that recall film noir or the eerie magic of the occult. And just like these influences, Yardley’s paintings are elliptical and infinitely suggestive – we, the audience, are called upon to complete the
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Immerse yourself in light and sound – an evening of new chamber music by Ben Heim + Connor D’Netto. Instrumental, vocal and electronic forces combine to create a new concert experience – intimate yet expansive – enveloping and captivating. Free. All welcome. Bookings essential as numbers are limited. RSVP by 23 October here Drinks and
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Please join us for a special lecture-performance by Slavs and Tatars entitled The Tranny Tease. Through a focus on Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union, The Tranny Tease explores how transliteration (the conversion of scripts) can act as a method of resistance, highlighting notions of identity politics, colonialism, and faith. This program coincides with
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An exhibition of recent works by emerging Brisbane artists Jessie Nash and Jack Mitchell exploring the tenuous boundaries between familiar and foreign in real and virtual social landscapes. Using friends, acquaintances and strangers as their subjects they employ observation and speculation to create portraits which ‘fill the gaps’ in unknown narratives. Through their respective contemporary
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On Saturday the 17th of October, join Sally Edwards at A-CH Gallery for an exhibition of her collection ‘Men in Uniform’, a collection created as part of a year long Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours, majoring in fashion. This project will be shown in the form of a runway show for one night only. ****
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Capital and country: the Federation years 1900–1914 celebrates the art of the newly federated Australia alongside the work of Australians working in Europe during these formative years of the new century. The paintings by 25 Australian artists invite viewers on a journey through the era and around the world, from patriotic visions of the Australian
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‘GOMA Q’ is the first in a series that will profile the innovations and achievements of leading Queensland visual artists. The exhibition will profile more than 30 emerging, mid-career and senior artists working across the spectrum of themes and media and will reflect the dynamic character of Queensland art today. OPENING WEEKEND EVENT –
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15 Artists is an annual acquisitive award and exhibition, which plays a pivotal role in the ongoing growth of the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection. We invite artists to submit work that reflects our Collection’s focus on culture, identity, spirit and sense of place. This exhibition has an $8,000 acquisitive prize which will be
Juan Davila will bring together two significant works from one of Chilean/Australian artist Juan Davila’s most iconic series of paintings, Hysterical Tears, which have been loaned from a private Queensland art collection. This body of work from the 1980s radically appropriates from the art historical canon and other key references. Among the identifiable sources is
The artists Elvis Richardson and Virginia Fraser have adopted a curatorial pose to collaborate on a series of magazine covers, combining portraiture with attention-seeking headlines for a so-far fictional publication FEMMO™. Where other curators might select, arrange and present tangible and digital objects in galleries, the editors of FEMMO™ have organised indexical text objects on
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An historical view of Australia and its people seen through the camera’s lens will be unveiled when ‘The Photograph and Australia’ opens this weekend at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG). The exhibition, on tour from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, traces the evolution of photography in Australia since the 1840s and is on
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For a decade Paul Mumme’s work has explored the absurdities of contemporary life, the dead ends that we encounter and their various causes. Sometimes ridiculous, sometimes banal, his works usually take the form of simple visual jokes that deepen with consideration. For various reasons, Paul Mumme has decided to end his artistic career with this
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The exhibition ‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ acknowledges Daniel Crooks’ significant contribution to new media art in Australia and traces the emergence of this recent transition into sculptural forms from his early works in video art and photography through to the present day. Working across digital video, photography and now sculpture, his practice explores the elasticity
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Those accused of witchcraft during the European witch-hunt were generally understood to be extremely malicious and aggressive. As a moral and social threat, they had to be excluded from the benefits and protections of church and state, if not wholly exterminated. For this reason they were made to appear alien and other, and emotions were
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To coincide with the inaugural Drawing International Brisbane Symposium at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University), three artists from different backgrounds collectively share a synergy of core ideas around drawing, photo-media and performance/installation. Artists: Piyali Ghosh, Robert Mercer, David Nixon. Image (part) © David Nixon, Muse 2014, 40 x 33 cm, Archival inkjet print
‘Leave (Get Out)’ is a selection of new work that investigates how the body can process emotions in ways which the heart or mind cannot. Groenenboom’s performance and audiovisual installations reflect submission to the indulgence and pathos associated with heartbreak. Erin Groenenboom is a Brisbane based artist working with video, performance and installation. She completed
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In Future Ruins, Reichelt has produced a series of skillfully crafted paintings that continue her investigation into society’s shift from the analogue to digital. For this series, she considers the abandoned, haunting interiors of library and archive spaces, as a way of looking at our most recent past and thinking about our digital future. Her
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The mission of this film festival is to inspire, entertain and most importantly, pay tribute to all wonderfully talented, inspiring kick-ass women out there. The Berlin Feminist Film Week presents a week of films made by women mainly about other females. We seek to increase visibility for all femtastic filmmakers out there and highlight films with
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The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) is now in its fifth year and open for entries in the 2015-2016 competition. Innovative photographers from around the world are invited to submit their best work on the main theme “Happiness“, as well as on three other themes: Wildlife, Father and Son
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GREETINGS FROM… is an exhibition of postcards and small works by local Aussie artists. It is a lighthearted look at the beautiful places, people and animals we are surrounded by. Whether it be the ocean, the outback, an Aussie icon or their favourite band, artist will be looking outside the normal constraints of the postcard
Add your vision to a major exhibition about Peace State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is presenting an exhibition titled Peace and Quiet from 28 November 2015 until 14 February 2016, which will explore personal, social and political ideas of peace. Peace and Quiet is an opportunity for the community to explore and present a range
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The Zucker Art Collection is looking to acquire contemporary artworks by international fine artists. This new private contemporary art collection is composed of works by emerging artists from around the world. By discovering and working with professional artists we learn about their work and open up opportunities for their career development. The jury for the open call is
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Ann Street Gallery is currently accepting submissions for science inspired artwork from artist-scientists and scientist-artists in all medium for a curated group exhibition. The focus of the exhibition is to provide an opportunity to explore similarities and the intersections between art and science, while also creating a dialogue where artists, scientists, and the public can
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Project Outline: Container is a unique artist residency that will invite artists to travel on commercial container carriers to worldwide destinations along existing shipping routes. The selected shipping line will host artists, providing them with a unique studio space in available cabins, as well as the exciting opportunity to travel internationally. Through a selective application
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The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries that reflect the distinctive vision of Australia’s aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects. The National Portrait Gallery offers a prize of $25,000 for the most outstanding photographic portrait. For more information please visit the –
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Paul Mumme is a multidisciplinary artist born in Brisbane. His work deals with the paradoxical aspects of human thought and behaviour, often articulated in terms of the philosophical absurd. Usually performative, it stresses the presence of a protagonist that is sometimes present as a suit-clad figure. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including the Institute