There is an apocryphal story of the painter J.M.W. Turner having himself lashed to a mast during a storm and deciding that if he survived the experience he was bound to record it. I say apocryphal for it appears that Turner was as good a showman as he was a painter. It is a story […]
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This exhibition is based on a research project* titled “Handled with care: Developing the paradigm of ‘a culture of repair and share’ in Brisbane, Queensland”, which exists in a context that has been established and advanced in the past three decades, the interdisciplinary field of sustainable studies, including environmental sciences, humanities and design. The project’s
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As a twist on the usual exhibition format, the artists, designers and craftspeople of Queensland have determined the content of this exhibition series. Chain Reaction 2 continues the chain started in the first instalment of the exhibition in 2014, where two initial artists each selected another two artists who inspire and influence their practice, and
The work explores concepts and representations of femininity within Japanese popular culture and how these ideologies are rejected through contemporary sub-cultures. Inspired by assertions of individuality through fashion and behaviour, and the way this continues to fuel a sense of subversion to mainstream popular culture in Japan. Inspired by expressive street fashion, the representations of
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Bronwyn Hill’s new series Out of the Woods is inspired by the need for solitude and silence as a response to the pressures of every day life. Bronwyn has created a series of pensive self-portraits concentrating on the comfort and relief that comes from escaping to nature. Completing a Diploma of Fine Art in 2011,
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Intimate knowledge of colour frames the foundation for Carla Hananiah’s balancing act between nature and artifice. Her paintings depict vast stretches of New Zealand and Australian mountain and sky most often at the “magic hour” – at dawn or dusk when unreal and powerful, dramatic slanting sunlight moves fleetingly across the landscape, creating tonalities and
How to find customers can be challenging and perplexing question for visual artists. There are many options but how do you identify the right opportunities and take best advantage of them? This workshop aims to prepare artists to better connect with the market place and find their customers. It will introduce participants to the essential
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Head to the beach and take to the street for Bleach* Festival 2015, the Gold Coast’s largest arts and cultural Festival. Expect the unexpected, prepare to be amazed and keep your eyes peeled for eye-popping antics, street parties and picnics in unusual and whimsical settings. Like a giant wave, the Bleach* Festival program will sweep
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Artists, scientists, activists, teachers and young people are invited to contribute to a virtual exhibition with digital postcards, poems or texts on the theme of “HOT WATER – Water, Peace & War”. A panel of special guests will discuss contributions, and respond to online audience, via live-stream on water-wheel.net, and at Balance-Unbalance conference, hosted by
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The 2015 M&G QLD Conference provides a major professional development opportunity for gallery and museum paid and volunteer staff throughout Queensland. A full program will explore topical issues in museum and gallery practice. The conference also provides an ideal time to network with colleagues from around the state. CALL FOR PAPERS The Conference will explore
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Emerging Toowoomba-based ceramic and installation artist, Dan Elborne, presents a new body of work seeking to explore human brutality utilising an innovative porcelain technique. By transforming found animal bones with porcelain, the work reflects on the spectacle of such remains whilst underlining their beautiful fragility. Image: Dan Elborne, Remains 11, 2014. Skull and porcelain. Photo
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An exhibition of shared paintings by The Cosmic Centre; a holistic space dedicated to the development of transcendental dialogue; bringing together art, angels, master teachers, goddesses and old friends from the past, present and future. OPENING // 18 February 2015, 6PM EXHIBITION // 18 February – 7 March 2015 ARTIST TALK // 25 February, 6PM
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Dane is a Brisbane-based photojournalist, portrait and street photographer, and one of Australia’s best-known music photographers. He has published Shades (2016), The Road (2012) and Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer’s Journal (2011). His photos have been exhibited widely, and appear regularly in Rolling Stone Magazine. Artist Website: www.danebeesley.com
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