Re-magine 2015 is an expansion of the Returned to Glory competition that Hornsby Shire Council has been running in partnership with Hornsby Art Society and sponsored by Cleanaway (our waste contractor) since 2009. There are new categories, added exhibition locations and more prize money! Exhibition will be held from 10 June – 28 June 2015. […]
Position Summary: AFTM is currently seeking a person experienced in Event Management to assist with our Brisbane Festival Exhibition. Wesley Mission Brisbane (WMB) is a large and dynamic organisation with more than 50 locations throughout South East Queensland supporting 100,000 Queenslanders every year. We are an activity of the Uniting Church in Australia and have proudly
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Channels Festival will be hosting a series of exhibitions, screenings, forums and events in September 2015. Submissions are now open to local and international artists who work with video. Selected works will be curated into our festival screening program in Melbourne and our International satellite events. Our first artist-led festival in 2013 was a great
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Please join Imaginary Accord artist Ross Manning for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to turn light into sound. The light-sensitive audio electronics you make will be performed in an improvised jam at the IMA. All materials provided, and no special skills required. Manning, aside from his visual art practice, is an instrument builder and
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Thanks to the generosity of the Siganto Foundation, the Australian Library of Art at SLQ is offering two Fellowships. The Fellowships offer a stipend of $9,000 each, priority access to the collections, and research support from specialist librarians. One Fellowship is available to artists’ books makers to create a new work based on SLQ collections.
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Arts Law is Australia’s independent national community legal centre for the arts, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. It provides free or low cost specialised legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organisations across all art forms, on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters. In 2015 they will
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TheGRID: Hybrid Arts Collective Inc., and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery invite applications from artists for a fifteen week residency at theGRID. Artists must have more than five years’ professional practice and reside outside the Toowoomba region. ‘Off theGRID Too!’ builds on the 2013 pilot project and is a residency program offering a visiting artist a
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The Lethbridge Gallery has established a strong reputation for exhibiting works demonstrating exceptional detail and creativity. With the intention of fostering the next generation of artists, Lethbridge Gallery initiated the Lethbridge 10000. Now in its sixth year, this exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit paintings,
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Flying Arts Alliance is looking to appoint a full time Education and Professional Development Program Coordinator (Visual Arts). This is a great job for a high calibre, highly motivated coordinator with experience in the visual arts, a background in training or education and a keen eye for detail. Under the direction of the Executive Officer, the
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How to – choose the right web and online tools for your arts business This workshop will introduce participants to the abundance of options available to establish an online presence and discuss the pros and cons of each – so that you can choose the right one/s for your business. Where: Judith Wright Centre of
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BLINDSIDE is calling for proposals from artists and curators—emerging and established—local, interstate and international—solo or collaborative. We welcome proposals by practitioners working in all fields of creative endeavour, from painting to sound to somewhere in between. BLINDSIDE welcomes proposals from artists, collectives and curators for solo and group exhibitions and performances across one or both
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the churchie national emerging art prize offers an inspiring glimpse into the future of the Australian contemporary art scene. It provides a forum for artists to compete for highly visible recognition and does not restrict entries by category. All mediums are welcome, including painting, works on paper (drawing, editions, artist books), photography, new media and
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The Sunshine Coast Art Prize celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015. Council is partnering with visual art awards across the Sunshine Coast to promote a region-wide celebration of visual art with combined prizes valued at over $125,000 across a variety of mediums both traditional and contemporary. Mediums include painting, sculpture, public art, photography, new media
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Join the second iteration of the IMA Reading Group on Saturday 9 May 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. This version will
In 2015, Life Art Worldwide Arts Expo will host the ‘Brisbane Art Prize’ for the first time. A $10,000 prize is on offer to one of the finalists pre-selected for the showcase in September. The exhibition of finalists for the Brisbane Art Prize will be showcased at Lightspace in The Valley, Brisbane for 5 days during the Life Art Worldwide Arts
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Aside from being a spectacular sculpture, ‘He Kōrero Pūrākau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river’ is also a playable concert grand piano. Drop by the exhibition on Sunday 21 June to hear the piano being played. As with other works by Parekowhai, ‘He Kōrero Pūrākau mo Te Awanui o
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William Robinson: Infinite sphere surveys work from the artist’s early career until now. It explores the literal and metaphorical concerns that underpin Robinson’s art, and demonstrates the full circle of his practice. The exhibition shows how his work has no beginning or end, and how this is articulated through his ongoing use of multipoint perspective and,
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Alongside his esteemed career as a filmmaker, David Lynch has worked as a visual artist for 50 years, producing an extensive body of paintings, photography and works on paper. ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ is a rare opportunity to consider Lynch’s entire creative vision and the relationships between his practice as an artist, filmmaker and
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L.M. Noonan is an established Queensland artist with a unique voice and strong aesthetic. Noonan uses pre-existing and recognizable imagery to tap into the subconscious, engaging with image fragments in an intuitive process of re-assembly and remix. Simple Interventions is an exhibition that challenges the notion of traditional collage and assemblage techniques to instead create
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‘Here, night’ is a one night only solo exhibition of new work by Kinly Grey. Through site-specific installation, instructional, performative, and video works, Kinly Grey explores experiences of ineffable feeling. ‘Here, night’ is an exhibition of new work that experiments with material, scale, and visual poetics as propositional gestures towards personal experiences and relationships with
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Workshop will play their last hometown show for the year, before an extended hibernation. They will be back in 2016. They will feature with Scraps, Martyr Privates, Brainbeau, Bodies and Multiple Man for a one night sound event. WORKSHOP https://soundcloud.com/wannaworkshop SCRAPS http://5crap5.bandcamp.com/music MARTYR PRIVATES https://soundcloud.com/martyr-privates BRAINBEAU https://www.youtube.com/user/brainbeau BODIES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1KBatVzTQ&feature=youtu.be MULTIPLE MAN (DJ SET) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6KhFWvKPM red
FLUIDATA is an immersive experiential installation with durational performances by Igneous, a Brisbane-based inter-media and performance company. The work explores questions around the state of Queensland creeks, the ways in which digital media can help connect audiences with the natural environment and anecdotes about local waterways. For the development of this interactive installation, Igneous artists
Amber Wallis’ paintings transform an internal psychological landscape into lyrical physicality. In her work, looping, rhythmic lines and broad areas of brushwork intersperse with shadows of recognizable forms to become the “uncanny place where the abstract and figurative meet”. Her engagement of the hand, gestural notation and colour map out thoughts, emotions, and intuitions. While
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The captivating work of emerging Queensland artist Monica Rohan will be presented in her solo exhibition, Topsy-turvy, at Jan Murphy Gallery from 19 May – 13 June. Rohan has rapidly established herself as an artist to watch, with her intricately patterned artworks gaining her interest locally and nationally. Focussing on selfportraiture, her artworks provide an
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Emily McGuire’s exhibition, “Imagine Being Attractive” explores the complex relationship between Tumblr blogging, fashion, and female identity. “Imagine Being Attractive” considers how fashionable female identity is performed through found images and anonymity on Tumblr blogs. From her perspective as a participant observer on Tumblr, Emily’s practice examines the ways in which Tumblr blogs are a
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“In Depth” is an exhibition that showcases the amazingly intricate works by talented glass artist Joanna Bone and photographer Aaron Micallef. Join us on the 12th of June at 6pm for the opening night of this exciting exhibition and discover the ways Aaron’s photographic works and Joanna’s sculptural glass forms can work together to explore
The Murmur of Surfaces is a Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection In Perspective exhibition that showcases the strength and diversity of Sharon Jewell’s artistic career to date. The title, The Murmur of Surfaces, refers both to the material and compositional emphasis of much of the work in this exhibition. The drawings in her new
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Come celebrate the opening night of Desert Dreams; a photographic exhibition by Holly Riding, capturing the Americana spirit of rural USA. The exhibition will consist of a number of A2 sized photo prints accompanied by an exclusive ‘Desert Dreams’ hardcover zine. The Desert Dreams zine will combine some of the exhibition series with other exclusive
Recent Prints by Joanna Kambourian & Darren Bryant at Poly Gone Cowboy A curated selection of work by Darren & Jo since forming the collaboration print & design studio, Ms Browns Lounge in 2010. Opening Night : 15th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm Donation Bar http://msbrownslounge.com.au
Gerwyn Davies new photographic series ‘Paradise’ depicts tropes of glamour and class in an otherworldly fashion. The series of self-portraits explores the use of dress in self-representation with the fabrication of elaborate bricolage constructions that repurpose everyday materials in imaginative ways. These constructions range in their complexity and detail and result in the shrouding of
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Please join Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s Curator of Indigenous Art Bruce McLean, for an in-conversation with Brisbane-based artist Vernon Ah Kee, on Thursday, 16 June, at 6pm. McLean has worked with Ah Kee on a number of occasions, including My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia (2013) at
In asking why responses to Sugimoto’s photographs turn on a dime from awe to scorn, I suggest that these strange works of art manage to escape human desires. My hope is that by moving the conversation away from entrenched dichotomies such aesthetics or anti-aesthetics and toward an analysis of the nature of objects and feelings,
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Contemporary New Zealand art will take centre stage when ‘Michael Parekowhai: The Promised Land’, a major exhibition spanning 26 years of the artist’s career, opens at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) this weekend. Curated by the Gallery’s Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibitions, Maud Page, the exhibition is showing exclusively at Brisbane’s GOMA from 28
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This major career survey will reflect on the past decade of Peter Hennessey’s practice. Trained as an architect, Hennessey has established an international profile for his physically imposing, conceptually rigorous sculptures. He is inspired by the science of space exploration and comparable technological advances, and scours the Internet and other publicly available information to produce his work. The resulting sculptures are
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A Screening Series part three: Satellites – Tuesday 9 June 6.00pm @ UQ Art Museum. As part of Peter Hennessey: ‘Making it real’ exhibition. Free. All Welcome. Meteor Christoph Giradet & Matthias Müller | 2011 | 15 minutes Courtesy of Light Cone, www.lightcone.org Using elements of feature films, fragments of fairy tales and science fiction motifs, Meteor is an
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Muk Muk Fine Art presents ‘Fine Detail’, an exhibition showcasing the delicate detailed dot work of contemporary Aboriginal paintings from Central Australia. Now showing in ‘La Galerie’ within the Sofitel Brisbane Central, each artwork highlights the artist’s intimate knowledge of traditional stories relating to country and culture. The centerpiece is the stunning black and white