Elizabeth Willing is an Australian visual artist. In 2009 she completed her honours in Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology. Between 2008 and 2013 Elizabeth Co-Directed Accidentally Annie St Space; a Brisbane Artist Run Initiative. Elizabeth has undertaken professional development work experience in New York with Janine Antoni (2011), with the Experimental Food […]
This grant provides assistance towards the costs of public presentation for professional visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners who are Australian citizens or permanent residents. This includes, but is not limited to: advertising; promotional printing; mail outs; media photographs; media releases; equipment rental; framing; freight; installation costs; insurance; opening costs; space rental; technical assistance; travel. Please be
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Chris Trueman describes his current body of work as a way of exploring a long-standing interest in the difference between the physiological process of sight and the psychological facet of perception, in other words the way people interpret visual spaces, extract meaning and build narratives from their perceptions. Trueman’s work articulates his unique vision, fusing various
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This exhibition will showcase the final works of the Queensland College of Art Printmakers graduating in 2014. Please join us for the closing celebrations on Friday, 21st November 6 – 9pm. Exhibition Dates: 19th – 22nd NovemberClosing Event: Friday, 21st November 6 – 9pm
Hosted by the QUT Visual Arts discipline, Seeing Things is a one-day symposium for researchers interested in or piqued by the nascent philosophical movement known as Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO).A subset of the Speculative Realist school of thought, OOO acknowledges, on the one hand, the withdrawn life of objects, their concealment, inaccessibility, and strangeness. On the
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Alun Rhys Jones’s eclectic new exhibition ‘The Last Days of Dionysus’ II investigates the use of body, celebrity, form, language and colour in contemporary consumer culture. Through four separate but connected series of works, Rhys Jones explores the ‘kaleidoscopic’ design experience of consumerism. Alun Rhys Jones has been a finalist in a long list of established exhibitions such
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QUT 2014 BFA Visual Art Graduate showOpening November 12th 6pm – 9pmH Block, QUT Kelvin Grove Including works from:Rachel Bain, Holly Bates, Naomi Blacklock, Valerio Cavazza, Samantha Court, Jessica Dudas-Bernal, Joshua Fay, Claudia Francis, Holly Gardiner, Tallara Gray, Tayla Haggarty, Matthew Hutchinson, Margot Kelly, Miriam Khalil, Annie Macindoe, Holly Orford, Katie Porter, Bonnie Sturgess, Molly Tim
Not bound by medium, Judith Wright works across painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installation, often creating complex dialogues between different media. In appearance, her work can range from near minimalism to elaborate figuration and is centred on ideas around the fragility of life, love, loss, and grief. Judith Wright: Desire focuses on a series of work
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RICK AMOR was born in Frankston, Victoria in 1948. In 1965 he completed a Certificate of Art at the Caulfield Institute of Art and from 1966 to 1968 studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. He has been the recipient of several Australia Council studio residencies which have allowed him to work in London, New York
Arryn Snowball was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1977. In 2001 he graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art, and a year later received First Class Honours from the college. Snowball was awarded, in 2003, the prestigious Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship,
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The Institute of Modern Art is pleased to announce The Subtropic Complex, an exhibition of Queensland artists dispersed in the shops of James Street. The project features works by Clark Beaumont, Louise Bennett, Anastasia Booth, Megan Cope, Sam Cranstoun, Caitlin Franzmann, Alice Lang, Archie Moore, Stephen Russell, Haruka Sawa, Sancintya Simpson, Athena Thebus, Elizabeth Willing.
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Presented for the first time in Australia by MAAP – Media Arts Asia Pacific – and curated by MAAP Director Kim Machan, LANDSEASKY is a visually rich exhibition of screen-based artwork by leading international and Australian contemporary artists at Griffith University Art Gallery & MAAP Space Gallery from 1 October to 13 November 2014. Works in the
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‘Ornament’ is a solo exhibition of new works by Canberra based artist, Benjamin Reeve. Exploring the nostalgia of childhood, ‘Ornament’ plays on the hallowed and harrowing memories of youth. Using spray enamel, inks, oil and acrylic paint, Reeve creates powerful portraits on paper and wood. Each unique piece, representing a mirrored snapshot of self-inquiry.Reeve has been
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Vaughn Pinxit’s Stillness: a meditation in new media art, determines through a practice-led research investigation, the proposition that it may be possible to use new media technologies and kinetic installations to create immersive environments that paradoxically evoke qualities of stillness. Intimate insights for understanding stillness through the theoretical and practical experience of meditation, supports a philosophical
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Working in sculpture and installation, Michael Riddle allows chance and accident to have a place in examining how slippages, interruptions and changes of state can act as a site for exploration as the work develops. Using ideas around entropy, function and emotion as drivers and metaphorical vehicles, he sees the objects that he produces as identifying markers
FLEET brings together the work of twelve contemporary practitioners who, as well as maintaining a solo practice, make work within the space of ‘the third hand’. Curated by OK YEAH COOL GREAT, a collaboration between artists Kate Beckingham and Anna McMahon, the works in FLEET explore themes of distortion, collision and the exploration of alternative representation. These themes
What is it that makes someone a fair dinkum, true blue, Aussie bloke? In Larrikins: A History, Brisbane based historian Melissa Bellanta posits that an understanding of larrikinism ‘unlocks the secret to Australian national Identity’.¹ The publication highlights violence and humour as being key to the construct of the male larrikin. From the fictional characters
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Experience Gold Coast beach culture from the 60s, 70s and 80s immortalised by acclaimed photographer Graham Burstow. During the 60s, 70s and 80s the region boomed as tourists and locals alike flocked to the shores for a chance at a relaxed and sun-kissed life; filled with beer belly contests, muttonbird tanning oil and sun girl
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Motto IMA is pleased to present a talk by Melbourne-based designer and publisher Brad Haylock, on Saturday, 1 November, at 4pm.Haylock is program manager of the newly updated Master of Communication Design program at RMIT University, and founding editor of Surpllus, an independent commercial imprint that focuses on critical and speculative practices across art, design,
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Excerpts is the inaugural showcase exhibition of exceptional artworks by third year, Honours, and Postgraduate students. This curated exhibition serves as a snapshot of the distinctive and diverse outcomes that are developed out of Queensland University of Technology (QUT)‘s unique Open Studio model. The course encourages both the creative and critical aspects of art making, enabling an
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This call theme is “Red.” Fire, passion, heat, sacrifice, vitality, danger, happiness, a primary colour. What shade is your red? Eligible Submissions Entries may include 2- and 3-dimensional media, such as paintings, drawings, photography, mixed media, installations, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, fiction, poetry, short stories and other written explorations (up to 900 words). Submissions must be
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Sack Barrow (Ben Rivers, 2011) 21 minutes Sack Barrow explores a small family run factory in the outskirts of London. It was set up in 1931 to provide work for limbless and disabled ex-servicemen until the factory finally went into liquidation this year. The film observes the environment and daily routines of the final month of
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The exhibition will present recent paintings and works on paper. Rosslynd Piggott’s work has received wide acclaim, having been represented in over 50 important solo exhibitions and numerous prestigious curated exhibitions and events, both nationally and internationally. With such a strong exhibition history, beginning in 1981, the artist has maintained a very prolific practice, focusing
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Threads is the interweaving of 12 artists exhibiting together in one space. We are graduates of TAFE Queensland Brisbane’s Advanced Diploma program, exhibiting in the shadow of the G20 Summit as the world’s eye turns to Brisbane in November. We are introducing ourselves Brisbane’s creative arts community. If you are an art lover, please join us
Attunement to light – how it flows over, plays upon and defines structure, shape and colour – is Judith Sinnamon’s primary concern. Her carefully crafted studies of Australian native flora capture each plant’s singular gesture and presence, compelling the viewer to engage with a unique species as well as to witness the artist’s dialogue with
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IMA and OtherFilm presents an evening of feminist film screenings to coincide with the exhibition of Sarah Browne, Hand to Mouth, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Maintenance Art Works 1969–1980.Shorts screened will include the influential ‘women’s work’ parody Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) by Martha Rosler, the appropriated television imagery of Dara Birnbaum’s Wonder Woman (1978-79)
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An exhibition of artworks and creative events by artists-in-residence and special guests. Inspired by the Brisbane River at The Shed. Artists Include: Joanna Bone, Peter Breen, Mel Davis, Joel Glazebrook, Paul Harris, Kay Lawrence, Matt Lockwood, Zoe Mary, Joy McDonald, Aaron Micallef, Rose Moxham, Jessica Row, Sha Sarwari, Vanessa Stanley, James Watts Open Fridays from 6-9pm
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Artspace, IMA, and Protocinema will present a public conversation with three visiting Turkish curators representing a range of independent, not-for-profit and museum sectors to Australia, Inside, Outside and In Parallel: Speculations from three curators working in the Turkish context. Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak Şenova, and Mari Spirito will speak about curating within the context of Turkish contemporary
The Italian Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art), in collaboration with Arte Laguna Studio, organizes the 9th Edition of the International Arte Laguna Prize, aimed at promoting and enhancing Contemporary Art. The Prize obtained a medal from the President of the Italian Republic. Arte Laguna Prize is an international art competition, open to all, with
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Devoting many years to studying the visual arts in Adelaide, Christian Lock has built a strong artistic profile in South Australia. Since winning a Prize for Excellence in Visual Art at the beginning of his arts career in 1997, he has since received various awards, prizes and grants including an Oscarts Award for painting in
In 2012 Doley initiated The Learning Centre: Two Feminists, a project whereby she invited 16 participants from a range of backgrounds to teach her about feminism. Doley then condensed this knowledge from an eclectic range of sources into a series of catch phrases and slogans. This project transforms the live moment between artist and participant into
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‘Feeling blue?’ ‘Down in the dumps?’ ‘In a bad humour?’ Most people have expressed these sentiments at one time or another in their lives. But these words once described a real medical disorder, ‘melancholia’, ruled by the planet Saturn and the element of earth. By labelling themselves as melancholic, artists created and defined a new
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A. J. Taylor’s paintings reveal themselves slowly. To see one must be prepared to look – and willingly join the artist in his appraisal of the world through paint. His scenes, often purposefully mundane, are not so much about location as the processes of seeing. Like the impressionist artists that have inspired him, Taylor’s aesthetic
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Michelle Eskola creates images that explore abstraction, the formation and disintegration of form within contemporary digital culture. These images are created as series of artworks that include drawings, paintings and digital prints. They are moments captured as part of a larger, continual processes of making, of layering, editing, printing, cropping and rearranging forms in paint,
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Justin Jade Morgan in conjunction with The Wandering Room presents the Brisbane chapter of Tools of the Trade.As a follow up to our 2013-2014 International Development Residency in Auckland [NZ] at JJ Morgan & Co we are hosting artist/curator Justin Jade Morgan with his international traveling project Tools of the Trade.Tools of the Trade is
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ORAL presents Joseph Breikers for Stefan Brüggemann in its first action, Intellectual Disasters.Program supported by BARI 2014.—-LEGAL QUESTION – Must the punishment for arson be necessarily a light sentence?An unfortunate man once obtained access to a very well known and very parsimonious American millionaire and started to lay before him his woes. He depicted his
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