To the 2015 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture This year the national art prize held in Perth, WA, features the $50,000 Lester Prize, the $7,500 People’s Choice Prize, the $1,000 SJOGHC Online People’s Choice Prize and a $1,000 HU Kendall & Co art supply gift voucher. Entry Forms Now Available Click here to find […]
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Karla Dickens, Wiradjuri painter, was born in Sydney in 1967. Dickens enrolled in Life Drawing classes at high school where the female form was her main subject matter. She began her formal training as an artist when she enrolled at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1991, obtaining a Fine Arts Diploma in
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It has been established that soundwaves cannot travel in an airtight vacuum, so it is often assumed that sonic energy does not exist in outer space. This assumption is furthered through film and television, which often represent outer space as an empty, still and silent zone. Yet sound existing in space is feasible because not
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Maureen Hansen is an artist living and working in Brisbane. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology and currently works as an art curator and a freelance fine art teacher. Solo exhibitions of the artist include Domes & Dames, Soho House, London (1999); Brisbane Spring, Brisbane City Hall, Stevens
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“TRASH YOUTH” is an art exhibition by Jake Connor Moss. It features paintings, photographs, films and books inspired by 21st century youth culture. Exhibition Dates: 16th – 22nd June
The exhibition will present four new paintings by Gareth Sansom. Gareth Sansom is one of Australia’s most highly regarded painters. His work engages with issues of personal identity, sexuality and mortality. A resolutely figurative artist, for over five decades the human body has remained the central motif for his musings on the human condition. Born
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This exhibition reconsiders the visibility of colonial settler women within historical narratives. Referencing colonial images and objects of jewellery, this experimental work will extend on existing knowledge of the era. By using the genre of jewellery to navigate the archives, connections can be created between diverse artifactual evidence concerned with the presence of women in
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Amaterasu – Japanese Sun Goddess Amaterasu the Japanese Sun Goddess is credited with the creation of the islands of Japan. Before this, the world was only an amorphous mass. When she lay down a necklace of pearls the islands of Japan came into being.The first Emperor was her grandson and she bequeathed to him a
It’s tax time! The inimitable Accountant to the Arts Brian Tucker presents and discusses all the facts you need to know about your tax and answers all your questions. It’s Time. Time: 7pm Cost: FREE at your computer via Web TV Click here to register
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Art from the Margins Since 2008, Art from the Margins (AFTM), a creative initiative of Wesley Mission Brisbane, has been instrumental in bringing artists together and bridging the gap between artists living in isolation, the public and the wider community. AFTM supports and promotes the work of artists living with adversity, disadvantage and social isolation,
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Calling all young artists! Are you 12-25 and looking for an opportunity to make some art and have it displayed? As part of Brisbane Youth Week 2015, Visible Ink will be hosting a week-long collective art project which will be taking place 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday April 13 through to Thursday April 16 at the
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Working closely on common themes to intertwine their visual poetry, Mulder and van Vuuren explore the incapturable essence of memory and experience through a connection to objects, images and the passing of time. There is something unnerving about Mulder’s Neither here nor there (2014). Although beds in exhibition spaces are not new (think Tracy Emin), their
As observed through Mark Whalen’s eyes, the world is a strange and curious place. His paintings, ceramics and sculpture explore darkly comic, elegant tableaux alive with futuristic mini-dramas. Sexual play, arm wrestling competitions, and ominous rituals are the norm. Potted plants, smiley faces, and scientific information vie for our attention: fences and dead-ends abound. He
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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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