The IMA’s Art Teachers Day is an annual professional development event for Queensland Art Teachers. The event is an immersive program, which aims to engage participants with peers, educators, curators, and artists working today. The program will begin with a welcome and contextualising overview of our current exhibitions by IMA’s Operations Manager Madeleine King. The […]
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This month The Walls have combined their monthly Make Space and Banana Sunday events to bring you a super snap happy photo workshop that will guide you in the development of your photography skills. Join local ABC Open Producer Jeff Licence for an afternoon of photography and fun, and share your pictures with a national audience through
Outside In gives artists the opportunity to show their work in a unique way to a wide audience, impacting directly on the quality of life for patients, visitors and staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane (SVPHB). Every day, the Outside In exhibitions transform the entire hospital environment. Now in its third year, Outside In
With an opening on 10 September 2015 at POP Gallery Woolloongabba, Indirect Response is a selection of new works by Simon Degroot PhD candidate at the Queensland College of Art. This exhibition is a chance for Degroot to display new painting and sculptural work that has emerged from his doctoral research thus far. Degroot’s research interest
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Influenced by her mixed Finnish and Australian cultural heritage, Michelle Eskola explores the intersection of polarities of light, space, abstraction and formation. Employing these elements and processes she considers the role of painting in contemporary digital culture. Highlighting the correlation between traditional painting methods and digital image construction, Eskola continually shifts between physical and virtual
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Conceived as part of Charles Robb’s ongoing self-portraiture project,Catacoustics is informed by his twin interests in figurative and incidental form – especially the tension between highly refined, modelled forms and the mundane objects and materials that accumulate in the studio during the modelling and casting process. He combines these elements into provisional arrangements: composite sculptural
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The highly recognisable sculptures of Linde Ivimey will be presented in a new solo exhibition, Cross My Heart, at Jan Murphy Gallery. Using an extremely diverse and distinctive range of materials, her creatures are comprised of bone, hair, teeth, fabric, gemstones and metals, amongst other things. Cross My Heart is a masquerade ball of sorts,
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The City of Sydney seeks Request for Quotation from artists with experience in community engagement and an interest in textiles, weaving or other unique artisan applications for an innovative, functional, site-specific artwork. We are looking for a high quality, permanent public artwork that will take the form of a large scale artwork curtain or textile
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Element is a bright new exhibition featuring three local landscape artists; Pat Hall, Wayne Malkin and Raelean Hall. Pat Hall Pat Hall is known for her watercolour paintings with a difference. Her new collection does not follow ‘traditional’ watercolour ideals; featuring intense colours on oversized paper, stretched over large frames; giving new life to the
Wabi Sabi profiles Australian and Japanese artists that explore traditional Japanese techniques such as Ikebana, shibori, woodblock printing, ceramics, irogane and tsumami zaiku. The works are fabricated using traditional Japanese processes and techniques but are inspired by the Australian landscape and way of life. The works are designed to push the boundaries of Japanese tradition,
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Gary Winfield’s work focuses on the current thinking on consciousness – what it is and where it is. His unique artwork endeavours to visualise the abstract notions of consciousness through splashes of vivid colours that organically fall and spider onto the canvas. Not trying to interpret science, Winfield’s artwork instead illustrates the sheer and ungraspable
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We often forget that our natural world exists in an endless state of evolution and transformation. While human beings are also a creation of the natural world, we tend to exude an arrogant superiority over our environment. That is, until we encounter nature’s true and unpredictable power. As Queenslanders, we are repeatedly reminded of nature’s
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Blak features artworks by students enrolled in the QCA – Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Program and was coordinated by Art from the Margins (AFTM) in celebration of Blak History Month. Australian Blak History Month has been held in July each year since 2008 and seeks to promote, celebrate and remember the history of Australia’s Aboriginal
Attitude As Form presents the work of 22 practitioners from Australia and New Zealand exposing a diversity of ideas and approaches to the creation of contemporary jewellery. The exhibition reflects current thinking in the fields of fashion, art, craft and design as they are explored and responded to within the field of adornment. The exhibition
An evocative exhibition integrating models, photographs, drawings and plans, Straddie Stylesurveys the unique and distinctive design of the North Stradbroke Island beach house. A holiday and fishing destination for those seeking escape, Straddie’s contemporary beach architecture emerged from the humble origins of the 1930s fibro beach shack and earlier traditional shelters. Curated by Dr Robert
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This world premiere exhibition of fine art will connect you with nature via a stunning visual odyssey. After forging a long career as a publisher, naturalist, teacher and photographer, As One celebrates Steve Parish’s career with his first ever exhibition of his fine art collection. The exhibition encapsulates the diverse beauty of our land, shown via a wide range of styles and image techniques. He
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2016 The 22sqm space features a street level window front, and is $300 per three week exhibition. Costs include promotion via social media, website, and mailing list, a listing in Artguide, 200 printed gallery invites, facilitation of an Opening (Friday 6-8pm), and assistance and consultation
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‘We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989’ surveys the art of Heisei, the current era in the Japanese imperial calendar, through the presentation of around 100 works by over 40 contemporary Japanese artists, drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection. Increasingly cosmopolitan in character and operating with an unprecedented level of international mobility,
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‘Gallipoli’, is an exhibition by celebrated Australian artist and writer Steve Lopes. It commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, also known as the Dardanelles campaign. This work was painted primarily in Turkey during a trip with a number of Australia and New Zealand’s finest artists. The aim was to travel to what has
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Over the past three decades John Young has continuously negotiated with the definitions and concepts surrounding the question: what is the role of the artist? Throughout his long artistic journey Young’s practice has responded to and been shaped by the seismic shock waves that initially introduced Postmodernism as a fringe activity eventually leading to its endorsement
‘Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere’ considers the work of contemporary artists who employ light and related technologies, and examines their practice in relation to artistic precedents. Historically, artists invoked light’s symbolic power and, from the late-19th century, explored its fleeting optical effects. In the 1920s and 1930s László Moholy-Nagy and his contemporaries equated electric light
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The Flyway Print Exchange is an interchange between artists living in different countries along the East-Asian Australasian Flyway, the flight path travelled by Australia’s migratory shorebirds twice annually between their breeding and non-breeding grounds. The annual departure and arrival of migratory birds is a spectacle which has symbolic meaning in numerous cultures around the world.
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Japanese film will make a long-awaited return to the Australian Cinémathèque when ‘Cult Japan’ opens for the eight-week film program running from 3 July to 2 September 2015 / Tickets are now on sale. Featuring atomic monsters, cool assassins, geishas and gargantuas, ‘Cult Japan’ celebrates some of the most enduring genre films of Japanese cinema
The IMA is pleased to present a talk by art historian Ian McLean. This is the seventh presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled What Can Art Institutions Do?, featuring a response by Brisbane artist Richard Bell McLean has published extensively on Australian art, and particularly Australian Aboriginal art within a
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Working with motifs and devices drawn from cybernetic culture, my recent body of work investigates problems of the feminised body, queer theory and transgender representations in technosexual imagery. Resultantly, these representations perpetuate issues of immobility, subservience and sexual manipulation. – James Barth 2015 Exhibition Opening: Friday night, 4 September 6pm – 9pm Image: James Barth, Dancing Machine
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Welcome to the garden where it all began… (Shannon/2) + (Patrick/2) = Shatrick Shatrick is a collaborative duo made up of Brisbane-based artists: Shannon Tonkin and Patrick Zaia. Shatrick combines: performance, technology, installation, sculpture, tragedy, excess, sound, flesh, love and sex to create EPIC WALKTHROUGH NARRATIVES The Laundry Artspace: 3 Ashfield St, East Brisbane shatrick.com
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Are you a writer? Do you write about art? If so, we want to know you! Whether you are established or looking for experience we look forward to hearing from you. Send information including your cv or any past experience to: cutthumb@outlook.com Website – https://cutthumbari.wordpress.com/
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Curated by Ross Woodrow & Lynden Stone and courtesy of the generous support of Bosz Gallery. All proceeds from this exhibition will fund a 2016 QCA Honours Scholarship. Artists in the show: Beau Allen Jennifer Andrews Ali Bezer Renata Buziak Russell Craig Jo D’Hage Julie Fragar Catherine Large Kay S Lawrence Andy Lowrie Donna Marcus Tim Mosely
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Montage_and_the_Polychord is a presentation of installation, video and sound work by visual artist Tristan Stonhill and sound artist Luke Jaaniste and the inaugural exhibition for the creative platform CORFLUTE. Stonhill’s under-the-house inventor aesthetic coalesces with Jaaniste’s ambient sonics. Stonhill’s practice is driven by the provocation to analyse the overlooked and plays with the difference between
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Hands deep in pockets, eyes and shoes locked in a firm unwavering gaze, momentary relief followed by some sort of retroactive shame about the social interaction you did not have. After furtively glancing a familiar face at the far end of the cat food, gardening and misc. aisle your shopping trolley has found itself abandoned
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Lmtdspace’s third show, Underline_, is an investigation into contemporary drawing, Underline_ will exhibit artworks by emerging artists who utilise drawing in their studio practice to inform their interdisciplinary art making. Drawing is recognised to be the medium most directly linked to generating and materialising thought (Stout, K. 2014). In other words, it is regarded as
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‘Terrain’ explores these relationships through the colours, textures, lines and forms of their paintings, weaving, body adornments and sculptures. The land and its natural features can wield powerful aesthetic and cultural influences on Australia’s Indigenous artists. Image: Queenie McKenzie, Australia 1915–98 / Kija (Gidja) / Nakarra people / Texas hills 1994
Miles Hall is known for his abstract paintings. Now living and working in Montpellier, France, after completing studies at QCA Griffith University, Hall continues his fascination with surface and texture. As he explains below: “I had an old sculpture lecturer at art school who used to refer to the life-model as being a ‘solid liquid state’.
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This body of work began 12 years ago during an art residency in Taipei looking at, and recording Chinese public space. Unexpectedly, perhaps the most memorable experience there was taken from contemporary urban, rather than traditional Chinese culture. I scrawled the following description on the gallery wall in a show of work produced during the
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The ballerina and her tutu have been romanticised for hundreds of years. Throughout the 17th-19th centuries, as dance developed into a specialised art form, so too did the costumes. Specially designed garments were introduced to allow the dancer maximum movement and to expose the complicated footwork seen en pointe. The tutu as we know it,
Wesley Mission Brisbane and Brisbane Festival present, Art From the Margins Brisbane Festival Exhibition 2015. The exhibition will feature over 450 artworks from over 300 artists. Art from the Margins (AFTM) is the creative initiative of Wesley Mission Brisbane and since 2008 has been instrumental in bringing artists together and bridging the gap between artists
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