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fully (un)formed

‘fully (un)formed’ will test the limits of the presupposed, question the expected, and find comfort in the familiar. Encompassing a diverse range of experimental practices, six artists will present their sometimes awkward, sometimes chaotic, sometimes brave but always honest understandings of the world observed around them.Featuring:Hailey AtkinsRee HeghJack MitchellFred GoochCreation SaffignaRhiannon Dionysius Exhibition Opening: Friday 16th […]

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The Conception Of Abstraction In Audio/Visual Installation: Appropriation, site specificity and reflexivity in the work of Jake Sun

  There is no question that the contemporary subject navigates the world via mass-media and televisual representation. As Amelia Jones surmised, those born post-1960 are ‘conditioned on the deepest level by what we might call the representational regimes of postmodernism – cinema, television, and the seemingly endless stream of images, sounds , textures, and smells’

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PORTAL: RE-SOUNDING HOUSE

A special free event: luxuriate in the hypnotic ambient sound of two dozen vintage keyboards, strings, voices and subtle electric guitar – and some gorgeous cushions to sit and lie on, within one of Brisbane’s grandest Victorian-era homes.The aim is a relaxing, glorious afternoon of ambient connections, across people, instruments and space.“PORTAL: RE-SOUNDING HOUSE” is

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IMA Talk: Vivian Ziherl

Marking the commencement of her research, IMA Curatorial Fellow Vivian Ziherl will lecture on the theme of ‘Frontier Imaginaries’. Departing from the notion of the ‘Brisbane Line’, Vivian will advance the proposition that the ‘Frontier’ may be understood as the site at which primitive accumulation occurs. From this premise, she will chart the advance of

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Tracey Moffatt: Spirited

Tracey Moffatt is an internationally recognised Australian artist who is currently based in New York City. Her work has included photography and experimental film which have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Australia and the Tate. ‘Tracey Moffatt: Spirited’ showcases her recent body of work, ‘Spirit

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Visions Collection

“VISION COLLECTION” aims to be a selection of high-quality artworks with a contemporary visual impact. The contest is addressed to professional and amateur artists, graphic designers, painters, photographers, sculptors, etc… from all over the world.  The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artist, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. This

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Travelling Scholarships 2015

Applications for the 2015 travelling scholarships are now open in the categories of acting, painting, sculpture and singing. Over $200,000 worth of scholarships are available to support emerging young Australian born artists aged between 21 -35. All applications must be submitted via the online system with relevant attachments included. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before

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Open Exchange

  A panel discussion on open source design The open source movement is often positioned as having a major impact on the future of design and architecture; from democratising their development and usage, to undermining their financial viability. Open Exchange promises to tackle the big questions for these industries as the open source movement continues to

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Planes of Reality – Curators in Space

Six of Queensland most promising emerging curators present a contemporay exhibition of young Queensland artists work. Supported by Flying Arts in association with JWCOCA. Featuring Artists: Katherine Appleby Sue Beyer Anna Carey Caitlin Franzmann Emma Godfrey Svenja Kratz Donna Maree Robinson   Image: Donna Maree Robinson – DRIFT – REK (2013) ARCHIVAL INK ON FINE ART HAHNEMÜHLE

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Sandra Selig: Interleaves

The exhibition features a suite of new collages by Sandra Selig and runs concurrently with Vernon Ah Kee ‘Brutalities’.  Sandra Selig works with a range of media — from sound and light works, and small-scale wall pieces; to works on paper and site-specific installations. Her practice, now spanning more than ten years, has often explored

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Camille Hannah: Peep Show

Harnessing the contemporary aesthetic of mediated visuality, Camille Hannah’s paintings are contextualized by their status as a non-photographic image in a world dominated by the screen, traversing the paradox between the prohibition of touch in relation to digital technology and art. These illusory paintings encapsulated within shallow domes of convex Perspex, aim to tantalise and distance the

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Vernon Ah Kee: Brutalities

The exhibition features a suite of new paintings by Vernon Ah Kee and runs concurrently with Sandra Selig ‘interleaves’. Born in Far North Queensland, Vernon Ah Kee is a conceptual artist and a founding member of the Brisbane-based proppaNOW artists’ collective. He has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) at the Queensland College of Art,

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Tibetan Painting Workshop

Spend some time with Master painter Karma Phuntsok as he teaches you the simple techniques used in traditional Tibetan painting of Buddhist images. Karma Phuntsok’s artworks are a unique and dynamic expression of contemporary Buddhist Art. The startling beauty and richness which graces his work is influenced by his diverse life experience. From a childhood

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John Fries Award 2015

Entries for the next John Fries Award will open in January 2015. At that time the website will be updated with an online entry form, full details on how to enter and the guest judges. An exhibition of finalists is held each year and the winner announced at the exhibition opening. See previous John Fries

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Belem Lett: There Be Monsters

With shimmering colour and layered, fluttering forms, Belem Lett’s paintings evoke beauty and desire as antidotes for the uncertainties of life. Lett plays with notions of geography, geology and meteorology to create what he calls ‘pointless mappings of spatial relations’.Based upon random urban walks the artist has staged around Paris and Sydney, each series of

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Base Perceptions

‘To learn how to use forms … is above all to know how to make them one’s own, to inhabit them’ -Nicolas Bourriaud, 2002   “Select Reshape” examines the tension between technologically created images and the handmade. Utilising shapes that directly reference pre-existing architectural forms, Degroot abstracts, de-constructs, re-constructs and then re-imagines these forms in

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While Here

Impress Printmakers Studio & Gallery presents an exhibition of prints, drawings, and artist books by Brisbane artist Claudia Husband and American artist Christopher Hagen who shared a residency on the island of Skopelos, Greece in July 2014. Drawing upon the delicate nature of the Skopelos marble and the unique geography of the island, Claudia and

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Stephen Johnston: Observations

International artist Stephen Johnston’s thought-provoking new exhibition ‘Observations’ explores the relationship between our humanity and the items we use everyday. Johnston paints hyper-realistic figures juxtaposed with banal objects, creating unusual contexts and intriguing compositions. Johnston has gained a reputation as one of Ireland’s most promising young artists, being featured on the front page of the

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Lisa Adams

“Lisa Adams creates images that are often unsettling, sometimes melancholy or by turns uplifting, but always affecting and richly atmospheric. THe scale on which she works affords her involved and tightly realised paintings an intimacy that echoes the personal nature of her subject matter. Indeed, she explores grand emotions on a humble scale so that

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fibre Art Project

A call for expressions of interest from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander weavers, fibre artists and community groups connected to South East Queensland is being sought for the development of a fibre art project at Redland Art Gallery. Artists will be invited to explore continuity of weaving traditions themes, through new or existing works.Aboriginal and

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Collectibles IV

Spiro | Grace Art Rooms would like to invite you to celebrate the year past and the year to come with Christmas cocktails on Saturday, December 6. ‘Collectibles IV’ will feature a selection of artists from 2014 and will see the introduction of our 2015 program. The exhibition marks our fifth year of operation and

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