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Shandong University of Arts and Griffith University Art Exhibition

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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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The Road North to Brisbane

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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 of Things to Come 2015

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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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So in this Season

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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

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Turner Collection

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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

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Chris Denaro: Nocturne

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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 & Bill Yaxley

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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

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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

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HYDRA

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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

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Simone Eisler

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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

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CHICKS ON SPEED: NEW WORK

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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

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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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Mandjar Art Awards

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The annual Mandjar 9×5 exhibition has become a major event in the Peel region attracting up to 150 artists whose two dimensional and sculptural works reflect the diversity and quality of artwork produced and donated to the Mandjar 9×5 by Western Australia artists. The Heidelberg 9×5 is firmly embedded in the tradition of Australian art

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Great Southern Art Award

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The Great Southern Art Award is a competition and exhibition traditionally held over the Easter period at the Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany. It is an opportunity for Great Southern artists to have their work displayed professionally and be seen by over 2000 visitors. It is generally entered by over 130 artists, and features work

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Michelle Eskola

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Michelle Eskola is a Brisbane based artist born in 1987 at Mount Beauty, Victoria. Eskola’s practice explores the intersection of polarities of light, space, abstraction and formation to investigate the role of painting in contemporary culture. This investigation focuses on the conventions of composition, illusion, repetition and display across digital and time-based media. This interest

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Factory/Studio/Tumblr

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On Saturday, 21 February, the IMA will host a series of lectures and artist’s presentations, Factory/studio/tumblr*, that depart from the Hito Steyerl’s exhibition Too Much World. In close conversation with Steyerl, we have invited Berlin-based scholar Karen Archey to further develop her essay, “Hyper-Elasticity, Symptoms, Signs, Treatment: On Hito Steyerl’s Liquidity Inc.”, she will expand

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Marisa Purcell: Unbounded

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Marisa Purcell employs her depth of experience with oil, acrylic, watercolour, and drawing media to conjure an internal landscape at symbiotic play with notions of micro and macro cosmologies. As she works, her method stretches paint’s physical qualities by combining thinly veiled layers of colour, allowing it to pool and dry slowly. She says, “the most beautiful

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A Little Car Crazy

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Despite a proud history, the place of the motorcar in Australia may well be at a turning point. In the current frenetic era of innovative technology and inbuilt obsolescence, many of the items we only dreamt could exist are now often taken for granted, or discarded quickly without a thought. Is the car, formerly an

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Warren Palmer: Now and Then

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I’ve watched Warren Palmer’s work since the 1970s. He is an artist who exemplifies that feeling we get that something is happening in our own backyard comparable in concept, style and quality to the latest ‘brainwave’ being fed to us from ‘overseas’ in the art magazines, TV art shows and Biennales to which local art

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Piet Noest: Chrome

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Last year, when Piet Noest began a series of paintings in response to Kent Farbach’s compositions Chrome (1995) and Chrome II(2014), his goal was to visually express the dynamics of sound through line, form and colour. He and Farbach had worked together previously during 1994-1995, when Noest created watercolours and paintings based upon the composer’s work and

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Corrie Furner

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Corrie Furner is a graduate of the Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited at Globelight 2014, The GAS: GUAG 2014 and was awarded Highly Commended, in the Survey Co. Art Award. Light is central to her practice and used as a way of transcending objects, spaces and states of being, transforming the ordinary into something new,

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Lindy Lee: The Dark of Absolute Freedom

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Lindy Lee’s work came to prominence in the 1980s and has evolved in tandem with key developments in Australian art, including the turn towards Asia. The first major survey of this artist’s practice, the exhibition explores Lee’s acclaimed early photocopy work, and the work that evolved following her embrace of Buddhism and her Chinese heritage. Also included are recent works

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Carte Blanch: Cover Story

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Carte Blanche is an alliance of contemporary artists with diverse skills and strengths, connected by their mutual interest in artistic development, and their personal passions for varied issues. This exhibition features intriguing installations created by participating artists. Materials are used in unexpected ways with a common thread of reprocessing, giving new purpose to the minutiae

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Artist Call Out: Sustainability and the Natural Environment

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Carindale Connect and B4C (Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee) are teaming up to deliver an art show inspired by nature and sustainability on Saturday 21st February. Both emerging and professional Brisbane artists are being invited to help raise awareness of theSustainability Centre at Carindale and the local environment. The exciting new art exhibition is also celebrating local art

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