There is something about water that helps us recover a sense of wellbeing and harmony that we easily felt as children. Fluid and flexible, it helps alleviate the stresses and anxieties of everyday life, encouraging us to relax, let go, and become weightless. In this collection, ‘Splash!’, Margaret Ingles has created a series of “visual haikus” capturing […]
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NAVA Connect offers artists five online courses to enhance their professional expertise and skills in areas ranging from grant writing, managing a business, marketing themselves and their work, expanding career opportunities and building an online presence. The online format enables artists from anywhere in Australia the flexibility to learn at times that suit often busy
The Creative Sparks Program is a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council and Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. The grant program aims to: invest in creative projects within a community context which deliver artistic, cultural, social and economic returns support artists, artsworkers and producers in the development of new work and extension of their creative practice
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Luke Maninov is an imaging neuroscientist and artist living in Brisbane, Australia. His designs are heavily influenced by natural forms and his continuing work in the fields of biomedical imaging and neuroscience. Through the study of comparative structure in plants and animals his work examines the shared features that define the living and the organic. First
Liquid Architecture is an Australian organisation for events, exhibitions, performances and situations of the world’s leading artists working with sound. Once a “sense-specific” festival, interested in listening and the depth of individual sound perception, Liquid Architecture is broadening its focus of concern to engage the social, cultural, political, economic as well as aesthetic frameworks in which
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Continuing his interests in material reality, virtuality, repetition and the common good, Peter Alwast presents a series of paintings which chart the origins of the human species. The exhibition presents a dialogue between paintings made in the real and their virtual counterparts, constructing and deconstructing perceptions about origin and hierarchy. Long live the chickens and
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The inhabitants of Vipoo Srivilasa’s enigmatic porcelain kingdom have much to tell us. As contemporary figurines they communicate through gesture, pattern, colour and texture: their delicately configured messages are full of poetic insight into the human condition, carrying more than just a touch of wry humour. At first glance, their balanced poise beckons for our
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In England, he was noted for his huge murals. In Australia, however, James Guppy is known for his exquisitely executed, small, evocative paintings. His art displays courage and honesty in the way it explores human emotions, identifying and commenting on the cultural and emotional legacies with which we live. Guppy portrays people in moments of
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Salli Sixpence’s latest collection of macro photographs ‘Once Were Oceans’ was born out of impressions gleaned from a long walk through the Australian outback. Drawing on memory of this journey Salli reconstructs vistas using mirrors, colour card, paint, flora and condiments to conjure a remarkably convincing interpretation of the arid plains and flooding rains of a big
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It seems counter-intuitive to put together art – a form or medium dominated since Kant by questions of intentionality – and the object-oriented ontology arising out of the recent philosophical movement of Speculative Realism. However, undoubtedly one of the corollaries of Speculative Realism’s unchaining of ontology from ‘correlationism’ – the assumption that reality must somehow
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Are you a manager or experienced independent currently working in the arts? Do you want to take that next step in your career? Are you aspiring to take on a more senior position or strategic role? If so, this program has been designed for you. The Australia Council for the Arts invites applications for
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Maryann Talia Pau is a practicing weaver, artist and designer. She is an exhibiting artist, collaborator, sista and lover of Pasifika crafts, bling and material culture. Born in Apia, Samoa, Maryann grew up in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand and has recently moved to Brisbane with her family after developing her art and work in Melbourne.
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About the Gallery The main exhibition space is a set of nineteen mailboxes measuring 46 x 286 x 14cm. All boxes have glass fronts and LED lights. Seventeen of the boxes each measure 23 x 12.5 x 12cm & the two boxes near the foyer entrance each measure 20 x 12 x 12cm (dimensions are approximate as each box varies slightly.)
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The IMA welcomes teachers to join us on Art Teachers Day for an immersive professional development program engaged with peers, educators, curators, and artists working today. In association with the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), the morning session is located at Cinema A, GOMA. The afternoon program is located at the IMA. View
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QUT Creative Industries Precinct is calling for submissions from independent artists, curators and/or collectives to be a part of the 2015 Exhibition Program at The Block. We’re seeking applications for an exhibition/project/performance which considers the unique spatial and technical capabilities of The Block and embraces experimentation and inter- or trans-disciplinary practice. The successful applicant/s will
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The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize are awarded to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the study and practice of
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Get an introduction to making mobile apps for Apple iOS using Xcode. Xcode is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that contains the tools that are used to build some of the most popular apps in the market. The workshop will start with writing and building code, showing how to get the most out of source
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The Burnie Regional Art Gallery is now calling for entries for the Burnie Print Prize 2015, which will be held for the fifth time after the inaugural competition in 2007. The Prize has been increased from $12,000 to $15,000 making it, alongside the Fremantle Print Prize, the equal-first richest prize for printmaking in Australia. The judges for
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This is a call out for applications for one Exhibition Team Leader from Queensland as part of the Professional Development program for the Venice Biennale 2015. Please note that this position was formerly known as “Venue Attendant Team Leader”. This position is co-funded by Arts Queensland. The Professional Development program is an essential part of
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Forgotten Treasures Like rain on tarmac… the smell of old books… a brand new fairytale… your first time clubbing… a brave new world… a standing ovation….our new dreamtime. Join us in creating an inspiring and magical experience for Brisbane as we commandeer the most majestic landmark in the city. The iconic Old Museum will be
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Please join us for two solo exhibitions by Genevieve Reynolds and Jared Worthington, opening 6pm Friday, 12th September at The Hold Artspace, West End, Brisbane. In Genevieve Reynolds’ paintings, overlapping layers of translucent colour obscure and reveal earlier compositions, forming tunnels leading into the work’s history. The resulting forms protrude and recede, oscillating between reading as objects or
RARE CUTS Volume 1 is a fundraiser with all profits going to DVConnect, a not for profit outfit that arrange assistance such as counselling, intervention, transport and emergency accommodation for Queenslanders who are in danger from a violent partner or family member. They also assist in moving between 12 and 20 pets to safety each
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The ArtStart program has been created to give financial assistance to recent arts graduates, helping you make the challenging transition from studying to having a professional career in the arts. If you’ve completed an accredited Certificate IV arts course or higher in the past three years – or are about to complete one – you could be eligible.
Pull of the Moon showcases works by Brisbane based artists Elisa Carmichael and Ellie Anderson. Thematic connections with the natural world are explored by both artists in individual and collaborative art works. Both Elisa and Ellie explore the moon’s effect on tides, marine life, and the earth through their own artistic processes. The artists’ backgrounds,
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Pedal Brisbane will be hosting a spectacular photography exhibition exploring the intrigue and vision of the world of cycling. We want to see your passion for cycling shine through! What does cycling mean to you? The Photography Exhibition will be displayed in the QM Collectors Cafe, as a part of the Pedal Brisbane 2014 event,
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The aim of Asialink’s Arts Residency Program is to create meaningful and enduring relationships between individuals and organisations in Australia and Asia. Asialink works in partnership with arts residency centres in the region to realise this goal. Asialink Arts Residencies are professional development opportunities, aimed at being mutually beneficial to both host and resident. This
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Franz Ehmann is an internationally recognised artist, working with installation, performance and video for over 20 years. Prepared food and its waste have dominated the theatrical language of Ehmann’s practice, giving rise to their symbolic and metaphorical significance. Previously beeswax, honey, milk and eggshells have been employed to construct allegories that synchronise imagery and language.
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The Graeme Hildebrand Art Scholarship Travel Grant through a generous bequest, offers a biennial scholarship or travel grand to developing artists who would benefit from funding for tuition and travel, and would otherwise be unable to take advantage of such an opportunity. A grant is awarded of up to $10,000. The judging panel is comprised
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Professional Development for Artists This is a comprehensive program of activities for artist interested in improving their business skills. The program consists of workshops, forums, master classes, artist consultations and a new workshop series and exhibition for emerging curators. For more information please visit the – Website DATE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR Sunday 14 September How to:
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An exhibition of works made in collaboration, Poulgrain and Millhouse create intimate scenarios through a process of collection and construction, asking the audience to engage with the ‘quality’ of materials and sensations. Feel The Quality explores the potential for objects, forms and narratives to act as historical documents that describe their social and cultural context. Sarah
For the exhibition THIS IS NOT THE WORK, feminist artist-run-initiative LEVEL continue their investigation of alternative curatorial methods. Surveying a selection of community-engaged artist projects from different locations around the world, this exhibition followed the pathways of women-centred social networks in order to initiate further collaboration and conversation. The projects documented in this exhibition are examples
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Sarah Poulgrain is a Brisbane-based artist interested in distorted reconstructions of experience. She works primarily through sculpture, painting and installations, using objects and images to create sets or scenes. Often using materials of a precarious nature, her practice is concerned with re-enactments of momentary occurrences and seemingly inconsequential narratives in transition from the experiential to
An exhibition of new paintings by Israeli artist Keren Paz. This is the first time the Venice Biennale featured artist will be exhibited in Australia and we are very excited to be showcasing a series of her abstract landscape paintings from 2013 & 2014. A selection of the artist’s work will also be available
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Tom Nicholson’s new work Comparative Monument (Ma’man Allah) begins with the shared histories between Australia and a remarkable site in Jerusalem. Conceived as a sibling work to his 2012 project Comparative Monument (Palestine), this large-scale work has evolved over two years of research in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Beirut, London and Melbourne. The work is premiered in Brisbane,
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In a city weeks after the snow filthy chunks of ice remain in the streets, in gutters and on freeway verges. Cars that have been parked for a number of months drive away leaving holes in the ice. There’s a desperate feeling of weight, the simultaneous heaviness and lightness of opening a large stone door
I work with and against a broad range of cultural references such as contemporary abstract painting, gestural and colour field, Chinese ink painting, and the decorative excesses of the rococo, oriental carpets and chintz. My paintings are cyphers to this inclusivity where a gestural exploration of the surface and paint is combined with an understanding
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