Gemma Smith was born Sydney in 1978. In 1999 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and in 2004 an honours year at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Gemma Smith’s work begins with abstract painting, with a specific interest in colour’s ability to subvert the flat picture plane. […]
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Jane Burton was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1966. After moving with her family to Tasmania in 1980s, Burton attended the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart where in 1991 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and in 1993 received an Honorary Research Associate. Burton’s first solo exhibition, The Sweetest Path, was held in
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A performative installation pursuing a subjective engagement with feminist histories by incorporating video, painting and drawing within the format of a lecture performance. OPENING // 24 June 2014, 6PM ARTIST TALK // 1 July, 6PM
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The exhibition phase of Imaginary Accord ends with a two-day symposium on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 July, departing from the same question as our year-long lecture series,What Can Art Institutions Do? The event will commence and conclude with New Delhi-based artists Raqs Media Collective’s performative works Time Symposium on Friday at 7pm, and the world premiere of Memoraphilia
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Artists: Barry Tate & Glenn Morgan. Tate and Morgan’s work could be described as dynamic, vibrant, humorous, challenging, thought provoking, energetic.. definitely not safe. With wide and varied technique Glenn has been described as an artist who can frighten a laugh out of you with hard hitting social commentary while Barry’s work has a religious
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Lyndal Hargrave is a maker of objects and a painter of shapes. Her current work manifests as complex geometrically inspired paintings and modular, wall based sculptures. Residing between art, science and mathematics, Hargrave is inspired by the patterns that underpin the chaos of life. Her attention is drawn to order and variation within this structure
To mark our fortieth anniversary, the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is currently embarking on a year-long project, Imaginary Accord, which explores this institution’s historical mission, while imagining what it could mean today and for the future, through an exhibition, a lecture series, a symposium, and a publication. The Imaginary Accord exhibition will grow and change
The Hold Artspace, on behalf of the artists, warmly invites you to the concurrent exhibitions and openings of ‘Beneath our Feet’ by Dennis McCart and ‘A Line from Me to You’ by Shayna Wells. ‘Beneath our Feet’ | Dennis McCart Dennis McCart’s practice focuses on ‘Edgelands’; liminal zones and banal structures often unobserved or ignored.
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This body of work investigates the changing architectural façade of Brisbane. The recycled materials sourced from old “Queenslander” houses, shops and buildings either being demolished or under renovation in Brisbane suggest themes that correspond to social, historical, architectural and domestic concepts relative to the local region. These works are connected to Brisbane in a way
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A pioneering street artist in Brisbane, *Lucks has worked in a variety of situations as an artist and community worker. He’s inspired by found objects, tattoo art, graffiti, domestic animals, ongoing battles with colour, styles, tags, definitions, word play and religion. His inquiry into good luck / bad luck and all the lucks in between
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Please join Brisbane-based artist, Daniel McKewen for a tour of our current exhibition Imaginary Accord on Saturday, 27 June, at 3pm. McKewen is an artist whose practice investigates the intersections of contemporary art, popular culture, and the entertainment and financial industries. He appropriates elements from screen culture in order to examine and critique how these
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Please join us for the opening of ‘Wild Tasmania’ on Friday 26th June to be opened by Bob Brown, environmentalist and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens Wild Tasmania features photographs by two of Tasmania’s finest nature photographers, Wolfgang Glowacki and Arwen Dyer. Arwen and Wolfgang portray the stunning Tasmanian wilderness through their macro,
Art Gets Hot With Those Who Dare 2970° is the boiling point for gold. Extreme heat catalyses the metal causing it to melt. Art has a similar alchemy when applied to society. The properties of art cause society to become something other than what it was – it is transformative. 2970° is three days of
In 1938 the Australian artist Thea Proctor claimed that “it is well known that the majority of women art students have a good sense of colour” and conjectured that male-dominated art gallery boards might suffer from the absence of this gendered ‘colour sense’. Quaternary explores this enduring aesthetic relationship by surveying women graduates of QUT
The finalists for the 2015 Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award have now been selected and the artists are now preparing their artworks to send to the gallery for the exhibition. For a sixth year, Lethbridge Gallery has supported artists and held the Award offering $10 000 prize money to the winner. Lethbridge Gallery
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Louise Bennett’s exhibition All at Once explores screen-based mediation as an unstable fluid space of rainstorms and unpredictable futures. All at Once investigates the conditions of the present moment of experience by exploring the emotional, spiritual and technical properties of digital media. Bennett questions the shape of time, place and mood in our increasingly digitised
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The tedious old adage about art, about painting, being the marriage of form and content is just that old adage because it’s true. What is Tim’s content? All art, and painting too, is essentially autobiographical if it is to have any value, any meaning, any credibility, any authenticity. Art is the exploration and manipulation of
“Science underpins all my work,” says Ari Athans. Geography, geology, and topography combine in her paintings to resonate with a sense of the earth and its timeless processes, to explore the fuzzy boundary between organic and inorganic. The physicality of her creative process – building up and sanding back layers of enamel paint, oil pastel
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New in 2015, Access Arts presents Undercover Artist Festival at Queensland Theatre Company from Friday 26 – Saturday 27 June 2015. Artists from across Australia and New Zealand will showcase their work at a festival accessible to all artists and audiences. Undercover Artist Festival is led by founding Festival Director Belinda Locke, a theatre-maker and arts
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Rex Butler considers the history of artistic interaction between Australia and South America as part of his ‘UnAustralian’ project with A.D.S. Donaldson. This lecture concludes with a consideration of Chilean-Australian artist Juan Davila’s series Un-Australian (2014) and, in conversation with Gillian Whitlock, the ‘unAustralian’ art of the detention camp. Rex Butler is an Associate Professor
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Be transfixed by the beauty of illumination in this interactive display of specially commissioned light installations. A collaboration between Brisbane Powerhouse and The Edge has enabled a selection of visual artists to create an exhibition that explores interactivity, the heritage listed architecture of Brisbane Powerhouse and the alluring quality of light. Responding to the iconic architecture of Brisbane Powerhouse, and led by how far their
Bianca Beetson is a Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi (Sunshine Coast) Waradjuri (NSW) woman, Born in Roma Western Qld. She completed a Bachelor of Arts Visual arts at the Queensland University of Technology from 1993 – 95 and Completed her Honours in 1998. Bianca’s is a visual artist who works in a broad range of media including: painting,
Stone, water and living earth is a series of creative responses to the environment and its elements by artists Glenda Hobdell, Catherine Schoch, Virginia Jones and Craig Tapp. The theme offers the artists and audience an opportunity to consider both the creative and destructive cycles of elemental forces. Each of the works is presented as
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Belinda Sinclair & Clairy Laurence Ceramics. Through A Glass Darkly is an exhibition of new and recent works. Both artists are inspired by esoteric mythologies and folklore in developing their work. Opening Night: July 3rd – 6pm – 9pm
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Applications are now open to proposals for the 2016 UTS Gallery Exhibition Program. Our annual program incorporates curated, solo and collaborative projects across a broad range of media, with a focus on critical practices that reflect and engage with current dialogues surrounding cultural production. We’re seeking proposals from artists, curators, designers and other creative innovators
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Gain skills from three industry professionals who will guide you through drawing techniques for different lettering styles and the various effects that can be utilised in many beneficial uses for hand painted lettering. This workshop is exciting and friendly in an intimate and hands on setting and is designed for those who have the basics under control and want to learn
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As an amateur photographer, Elliott captured our city at the beginning of an exciting era – a time of population growth, advances in technology and significant global events and social change. Coupled with glimpses of his family life, this exhibition explores one man’s fascinating views of a forgotten Brisbane. The historic collection of glass plate
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when you walk into a gallery space there’s a hierarchy of how to behave, sometimes it feels like that turns into a trajectory of how we are supposed to experience art, you have to see it a certain way or you don’t get it, sometimes this imposes a logical structure on works that are more intuitive, it’s better
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This course offers intensive training to artists wanting to develop/improve their exhibition concept, planning, design and development skills to a professional level. Over five intensive workshops July – August, participants will learn about the essential the principles of exhibition planning, design and development. Participants will also gain valuable insight into the practicalities of how to
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Join the third iteration of the IMA Reading Group on Saturday, 13 June, 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. Public Programs and
PhotoAccess is now calling for proposals for our 2016 exhibition program. The PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery is dedicated to the contemporary photo-based arts, and presents a dynamic program of exhibitions across three spaces. Artists, curators and community groups are invited to submit exhibition proposals. The Gallery Committee are particularly interested in exhibitions which: – present
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The Silk Cut Award was introduced in 1995 to promote the making, appreciation and understanding of contemporary linocut printmaking in Australia, supporting artists and students who work with this exciting medium. Sponsored by Duroloid, the national distributors of Silk Cut Linoleum, the award aims to provide creative opportunities for artists of all ages. It is
Designed to attract some of Australia’s finest contemporary artists and high calibre works, the inaugural Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize and exhibition was first held in 2003 at Bendigo Art Gallery. Every two years the Gallery invites artists to submit entries for the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. The most outstanding work as judged by
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A $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture dedicated to the memory of Olive Cotton, one of Australia’s leading twentieth century photographers. The winning work is acquired for the Gallery’s Collection. The exhibition is selected from entrants across Australia and is a significant opportunity for both emerging and established photographers. In 2005 Tweed
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Marie Corella Ellis OAM (1918-2003) was a long-term resident and dressmaker in Fortitude Valley for most of her life. Marie was named after the Victorian-period celebrity author Marie Corelli after being born in the Valley in February 1918. For 60 or more years she lived at the address 101-103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, where Jugglers
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The Lumen Prize Exhibition, the global award and tour for digitally created art, is delighted to announce that it is opening its fourth call for entries on 9th March 2015. This year, there will be a US$10,000 prize fund as well as a global tour to Asia, Europe and the US. There are eight prizes