Having recently joined Jan Murphy Gallery’s stable of represented artists; Black Gold is Guy Maestri’s first solo exhibition in Queensland. The NSW based artist is known for his skill in plein air painting and the connection he has with landscape surrounding Broken Hill, Hill End and Wilcannia. In developing work for this exhibition, Maestri spent […]
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Joshua Keep is opening his first solo exhibition, The North, the other half of England, at Gallery Frenzy on Friday 6 March 2015. Continuing a proud Foto Frenzy tradition in this our twenty-third exhibition, Josh is one of many first time exhibitors. Shot on a Mamiya 7 camera using 43mm and 80mm lenses, Josh has exposed Kodak Portra
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Born Brisbane 1960; lives and works in Brisbane Eugene Carchesio collects the images that emerge from the subconscious. Since the early 1980s he has built a solid reputation producing small scale watercolours and minute sculpture. Carchesio’s works fuse plays with geometric patterns and figurative symbolism. Through his subtle images Carchesio attempts to create an ontological
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Hiraki Sawa’s video works are subtle reflections on ideas of time and motion, travel and dislocation. Having lived between London and Japan for many years, cultural mobility has formed a key reference in Sawa’s work, with his narrative sequences often about journeys into real, subconscious or imagined worlds.In recent years, Sawa’s practice has expanded into
Following his recent Gamelan Wizard performances at this years MOFO festival in Tasmania, Lucas Abela returns to the suburb of his youth to present his interactive mash-up installation Mix Tape at The Walls in Miami. MIx Tape is an installation/instrument hybrid that goes beyond mere interaction, instead requiring focused engagement and challenging the audience beyond
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Poly Gone Cowboy presents ‘3‘, featuring new mixed media works by rising art stars; Georgina Friend, Jane Heraghty and Nickeema Williams. The exhibition brings together 3 works from each artist, examining notions of identity, femininity and the transformation of cultural value.
‘Disjecta’ explores family history and the on-going influence of heritage on the individual. Gibson’s work deals with a range of forces and effects including the relationships between archival materials and digital technology, as well as her mixed Indigenous and Slovenian heritage, knowledge and absence, and the relationship between past and present. Seeking processes that translate
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“The sense of beauty we feel before a landscape does not come from the landscape’s aesthetic perfection. It comes from the fact that the look of things is in perfect agreement with our instincts, our propensities, with everything that makes up our unconscious personality … the greater part of an aesthetic emotion if therefore produced
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In Undermining Landscape, Jennifer Sanzaro-Nishimura examines the Australian landscape and the effects of mining from two different perspectives – the physical changes in the landscape predominantly caused by open cut mining and the toxic effects of the chemicals (used in the mining process) and the minerals/materials extracted – on the environment and groundwater systems, especially in
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Sarah grew up in Ireland. She gained an Honours degree in Graphic Design from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1979, before migrating to Australia. Sarah freelanced broadly across the areas of graphics, cartooning and illustration, then focusing on printmaking six years ago. Sarah believes her fevered imagination is fed by
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Brisbane-based artist Anastasia Booth is undertaking the 2015 Summer Residency at Boxcopy, utilising the gallery as a studio space, to create a new body of work exploring specific mythological figures and contemporary rituals, and themes of volition, desire, pleasure and disillusionment. Anastasia works across sculpture, moving image, photography and poetry. Her practice playfully interrogates the
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Flying Arts offers a wide range of hands-on creative development and arts management workshops and residencies. These are delivered all around the state by an experienced, skilled team of artist-teachers and arts business facilitators. Flying Arts artists and facilitators are also experienced in planning, coordinating and delivering arts projects and events and can work with
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2015 ENTRIES OPEN :: $15,000 SWELL SCULPTURE AWARD sponsored by City of Gold Coast Artists are invited to submit entries for the 13th annual Swell Sculpture Festival at Currumbin Beach, Queensland 11 – 20 September 2015. Exhibiting up to 55 sculptures, Swell Sculpture Festival supports full freedom of expression for all forms of sculpture and
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The annual exhibition is open to all artists from SE Queensland and Northern NSW with a prize awarded for a 2D work including painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. This is an important community exhibition designed to encourage participation and competition between both professional and amateur artists. The Milburn Art Prize will discover new and exciting artistic talent,
Artists Jordan Harris, Tanya Borg and Michelle Eskola present On Air: An exploration of digital spaces through traditional media, at Jugglers Art Space. Digital imagery and portable electronic devices have generated an endless drift of visual information. ‘On Air’ responds to the rise of selfies, non-moments and instagram filters through painting, drawing and photography. These
Cameron Eaton’s upcoming exhibition “I knew it was wrong but I did it anyway” responds to his expanding awareness of a simultaneous existence as both consumer and resource. Through the work he examines feelings of being in and of a comfortable western middle class suburban culture whilst also feeling somehow outside it. He employs materials
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Theme: This call theme is “Magnificence” A concept that is noble or sublime. A thing that is lavishly munificent or extravagant. An object that is of exceptional beauty, size or other feature. A place that is extraordinarily fine or superb. A person of greatness, making a splendid appearance or show. A feeling of grandness. What
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A’ Design Award and Competition aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products worldwide. The primary aim of the award is to create publicity, PR push and advertisement opportunities for award winners while supporting the global design culture, creating incentives for entrants to come up with superior designs
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 4th Annual “All Women” Online Juried Art Competition for the month of February 2015. 2D and 3D artists (women only) from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion in to the Gallery’s March 2015 online group art exhibition. The gallery would like
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Since 2013, the feminist collective LEVEL has presented an annual International Women’s Day forum for robust discussions on art and feminism, seeking ways to create change through dialogue and activism. This year’s forum, ‘WE NEED TO LISTEN’, will consider the power of voice, our need to acknowledge a multiplicity of feminist voices, and the act
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The online world is re-shaping our society. From February 1st, TW Fine Art will explore the way artists are merging digital and analog thinking to create exciting new works that are quite literally changing the way we think about art. Intense colors palettes, patterns, structures and processes – Formless to Form. Form to Formless will feature
GROUND examines the progressive investigations of intaglio printmaking in Western Cape York since 2012. It features artists based in Mapoon, Weipa, Naprunam and Aurukun. Originally shown at the Cairns Regional Gallery, many works included are being displayed for the first time. The driving impetus in the emergence of intaglio etching in the Western Cape is
The Hold Artspace opened March 1st 2013, and since this time the artist run initiative has hosted dozens of exhibitions and established itself as a quality space for creative practitioners to showcase their work. Commemorating the second anniversary of the Hold Artspace’s opening, Human Resources brings together the diverse practices of the people behind the
This exhibition honours artworks created by University leaders, Professional staff, Senior lecturers, longstanding educators and students from both universities during the years 2000-2014, the term of a collaborative agreement between the Universities. Styles of artistic presentation and media choices vary greatly between the works on display, reflecting the diverse genres and media types being created
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With inspiration taken from his recent adventures of Brisbane and its local beach scene, Craig Penny’s current body of work proves both this unbridled skill and integrity. Penny’s artistic career continues to rise after a solid fifteen years of international exhibitions and awards, and this solo exhibition at REDSEA will highlight the pinnacle of his
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SHAPE showcases works by the best artists, designers and creatives of the Creative Industries Faculty 2014 graduate class, exposing future innovators in all areas of art and design, including fashion, architecture, interactive and visual design, and visual arts. Now in its ninth year, SHAPE of Things to Come has firmly cemented its place as an
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This exhibition will take visitors behind the scenes to gain a glimpse into Hollywood of the 1920s to 1960s through a collection of costumes, props and ephemera connected to the cinema’s most iconic stars, studios and designers. This extraordinary exhibition is drawn from a sole private collection owned by Brisbane resident Nicholas Inglis who has
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The exhibition shines a spotlight on the current trends in contemporary culture and how this group of young and emerging artists deals with it – from pineapples, owls and energy drinks to the resurgence of record cover. Exhibiting artists include Bec Button, Arian Christopher, Bayley Hegerhorst, Chelsea Lomandra, Luke Mansini, Kimberley Ogle, Lois Shoebridge and
The Turner Collection is an exciting Secondary Market collection featuring artworks from a range of renowned Australian artist such as David Bromley, Robert Dickerson, Charles Blackman, Norman Lindsay and Geoffrey Proud. For more information about the Turner Collection please contact Simone on 0416 743 268 or gallery@lethbridgegallery.com —————————————————— Preview catalogues Turner Collection: https://www.brettlethbridge.com/secondary.php
Animation blurs boundaries of history, memory and imagination Nocturne, the latest exhibition from Brisbane animator Chris Denaro, incorporates a blend of physical stop motion and digital motion graphics to embody the genius loci, or spirit of place, of Teerk Roo Ra in Moreton Bay, Queensland. This project is the final part of Chris’s Doctorate at the
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Martin Edge is an emerging naïve painter, based in Brisbane. As a purveyor of colour, Edge seeks to capture moments from everyday life – inflicting a personal vibrancy into each. Life according to Edge is exhilarating, and this is depicted in his diary like record of events. Edge’s work is represented in state and national
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Vital Signs the touring exhibition of the 2014 Queensland Regional Art Awards is now on show at the Shopfront Gallery, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. The exhibition features a mix of 2D, 3D and digital work of 29 artists from regional and remote Queensland, all who have addressed the theme in creative and diverse
Inspired by a dark alternative vision of isolated masculinity. The black and white imagery, reminiscent of the highly contrasted nature of 1920s film, combined with modern qualities the subjects possess, meld together to create textural and atmospheric imagery. Stark whites, strong inky blacks and a violent tone, the series explores the evolving stylisation of armour
Simone Eisler is a Brisbane/Sunshine Coast based artist and has exhibited her work internationally in the Philippines, Indonesia, New York, Belgium, Paris, Berlin and within Australia. Her work is focused on space, time, form and structure and she moves from large scale sculptural multimedia installations through performative photographic works to individual sculptural objects that reference
For their first exhibition with Milani Gallery, Chicks on Speed will present new and recent video alongside photographs, textiles, collages and objektinstruments (sound sculptures, often wearable). Chicks on Speed is a music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and New Yorker Melissa Logan met at the Munich
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The World Illustration Awards are open to illustrators in any country working in ANY medium or context. Work must be entered as either a New Talent entry or a Professional entry. New Talent entrants are Undergraduate Students, Post-Graduate Students or Graduates within two years of graduation. Professional entrants are all other professional illustrators. Work can
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