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
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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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 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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This exhibition will take visitors behind the scenes to gain a glimpse into Hollywood of the 1920s to 1960s through a collection of costumes, props and ephemera connected to the cinema’s most iconic stars, studios and designers. This extraordinary exhibition is drawn from a sole private collection owned by Brisbane resident Nicholas Inglis who has
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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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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 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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The Bundaberg Arts Festival is the Bundaberg region’s longest running competitive arts exhibition with more than $16,000 in awards – provided by the Bundaberg region’s businesses. Our 2013 exhibition featured more than 400 entries from 150 artists, appealing to all, resulting in our visitor numbers quadrupling over two years. The festival explores the diversity of
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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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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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Now established as a key exhibition in the contemporary art calendar, the annual exhibition of selected finalists is a reflection of current national practice in still photography. Thanks to the assistance of The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts, the winner receives a $20,000 prize and their work is acquired by Gold
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If one task of representation is to show us how the world looks, abstraction is free to do something else, and reflecting our sense of the world, rather than what’s otherwise visible to the naked eye – whether on the part of the painter or the viewer – is key to its perpetual attraction – Bob Nickas 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
Enter the hypnotic, immersive, vibrational world of sonic artist Luke Jaaniste. As part of his Fresh Ground residency, Luke is creating and curating a series of sonic immersions, to mesmerise your body, mind and soul. This is listening for your whole body, in a vibrational space of sound, presented in an emptied out, darkened Performance
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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 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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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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It’s a new year and we’re looking for a new intern to help out on the 2015 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing. The role is to assist Project Manager Holly Riding and Director Peter Breen in the production of the competition. The role includes the opportunity to experience firsthand how to deliver a nationwide
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Poly Gone Cowboy presents it’s first exhibition for the year. ‘Life, Death & in Between’ features new works by 3 Queensland artists whose work draw upon principals of illustration and design. Please join us to celebrate the latest works from Elana Mullaly, Ken Smith & Philip Schouteten.
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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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Dogs. Why a show on dogs? What kind of cues does a show centred around dogs send out? Too much potential for cuteness, the vernacular, the sentimental. Too much probability of strained humour – of clichés and corniness. Too much evidence of easy anthropomorphisms as a way of revealing human traits. And yet the representations
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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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