In 2015, the IMA celebrates its forty-year anniversary, making it one of Australia’s oldest and continually vibrant spaces for contemporary art. The IMA is seeking a full-time Operations Manager to join our team as we embark on our fourth decade. The new member of this dedicated team must be self-motivated, goal-oriented, and able to work in a […]
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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,
2970Degrees – The Boiling Point: Friday Now that the 2.5 days of explosive thought and action that was 2970Degrees – The Boiling Point has ended, I can breathe and process my thoughts into somewhat of an adequate reflection of what occurred. The Beyond the Horizon report by Bernard Salt – released earlier this year –
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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 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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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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The Nat Yuen Collection of Chinese Antiquities comprises over 80 pieces donated to The University of Queensland since 1994 by Dr Nat Yuen. Dr Yuen has long been connected to The University of Queensland. He graduated in Medicine in 1965, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Medicine in 1995, and in 2010 received the UQ International Alumnus of the Year Award.
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The IMA is pleased to present a lecture by Anne Barlow, Director of Art in General, New York. This is the inaugural presentation in a series of lectures running throughout the year titled What Can Art Institutions Do? At Art in General, Barlow has most recently curated projects with artists Basim Magdy, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Jill Magid, Shezad Dawood,
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Lethbridge Gallery’s annual summer group show brings all of the artists from the gallery together in a showcase of the exhibitions held throughout the year. Image: Eternal Flame by John Morris. Timber, paint, 14 x 13 x 43cm To view the exhibition artists click – HERE
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The Brisbane Collective and To Be Continued Magazine present: HOMEGROWN PEEP SHOW. A pop-up, group collaboration of artists exhibiting in celebration of our fourth issue of TBCMAG, we are hosting COMMISSION FREE ART SALES, a range of LIVE ART plus your chance to get involved in our first TBC ART AUCTION where money raised will
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‘Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ explores the tremendous innovation of Japanese fashion designers from the early 1980s to the present. With nearly 100 garments featured in the exhibition, ranging from the classic and elegant to outrageous, this will be a fascinating experience and rare opportunity to view these unique creations first hand. Japanese
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Extended Jewellery will highlight the diverse practices of ten contemporary Brisbane jewellery and small objects practitioners. Developed through extensive periods of post-graduate study, including double degrees, Honours, Masters and pending Doctorates, each artist will present their refined perspective on the dynamics of thinking through jewellery. Extended Jewellerywill showcase new works by Beau Allen, Pippin Blackwell,
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Now in its 46th year, the Gold Coast Art Prize provides an opportunity to showcase excellent contemporary art practice from across Australia. The prize is open to all Australian artists working in any art media except photography. There is a total of $30,000 for acquisitions. 2014 Selected Artists: Greg ADES Robert BENNETTS Naomi BISHOP Elisabeth BODEY
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Donna Maree Robinson is a multimedia artist whose work explores the poetic potential of an environment which she infuses with layered meanings, imagination, memories and history; a visual intersection of the natural world and our human existence within it. Robinson’s practice crosses disciplines and media that include video projection, digital photography, sculptural works, installation and glass. She has a Master of Contemporary Art
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Exhibition Dates: 4th – 28th February Two opening nights Saturday 6th February Drinks & Gallery Winner announced 4:30 – 7:30 Saturday 13th February Drinks & People’s choice winner announced 4:30 – 7:30 Petite Piece Prizes Gallery Winner Three Week Solo Exhibition at Aspire Gallery and One year representation. Chosen
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Create a personalised statement piece that will be the jewel of your wardrobe with the ever fashionable Brisbane-based artist Hannah Bronte.A Thousand Fibres is kuril dhagun’s new monthly workshop series for adults, featuring some of Brisbane’s most exciting and talented Indigenous artists in. Pull up a cushion, pour a cuppa, and learn a new skill
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Crowdfunding is becoming more popular every day and is popping up in the news more and more. Crowdfunding has been used to successfully raise funds for all sorts of projects – charitable causes, creative endeavours, community projects, and a lot more besides. As one of the fastest growing forms of e-commerce on the planet, it’s
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Apply to pitch your innovative and inspirational idea for a chance to win $25,000 Brisbane City Council’s Innovation Award is for a successful pitch of inspiration and innovation in the creative sector. Applications for the $25,000 award are now open, closing midnight on 12 January 2015. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application
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CUSP: Designing into the Next Decade is a journey into the innovative world of design thinking. From furniture and gadgets to clothing and housing, design can improve how we look, move, work and feel. It has increasingly become clear that design can transcend mere ‘form or function’. When staring down the barrel of unprecedented planetary
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The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is pleased to present Too Much World, the first survey in Australia of the artist, writer, and filmmaker Hito Steyerl. Running from 13 December 2014 to 22 March 2015, this comprehensive exhibition features six works from the past decade, including Liquidity Inc., which premiered earlier this year. Steyerl is a leading
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Ntaria Hilerre (Hermannsburg Horizons) featuring Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra / Many Hands Art Centre and the Hermannsburg Potters Artists: Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra / Many Hands Art Centre Douglas Kwarlpe Abbott Stanley Ebataringa Rienhold Inkamala Lenie Namatjira Kevin Namatjira Gloria Pannka Ivy Pareroultja Hubert Pareroultja Marie Abbott / Ramjohn Mervyn Rubuntja Peter Tjutjatja Taylor Marcus Wheeler Kevin Wirri Hilary Wirri
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INTO PAPER is a contemporary view of papermaking and paper art, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Papermakers of Queensland. The exhibition showcases the experience and diversity of each artist’s practice, working with paper as an art medium not a substrate. Over 40 works by 23 artists have been selected for the exhibition to showcase the
A modern world-view assumes a division between the categories of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’. On the one hand, to be defined as ‘culture’ is to be defined as a subject as having agency. On the other hand, to be defined as ‘nature’ is to be defined as a object as having no-agency. The category of nature
The GAS – Graduate Art Show is a much anticipated end of year exhibition at Griffith University Art Gallery, the premiere public gallery of the University located at South Bank, Brisbane, on the grounds of the Queensland College of Art. Griffith University Art Gallery’s exhibition program focuses attention on Australian and international contemporary art, bringing artists
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Cars = My Automolove examines automobility in contemporary culture and the nature of automotive love. It features historical and contemporary artworks from emerging, established and significant Australian artists who explore the physical, psychological and cultural role automobiles play in Australia and their iconic place within our lives. These artworks have been sourced from commercial galleries,
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‘fully (un)formed’ will test the limits of the presupposed, question the expected, and find comfort in the familiar. Encompassing a diverse range of experimental practices, six artists will present their sometimes awkward, sometimes chaotic, sometimes brave but always honest understandings of the world observed around them.Featuring:Hailey AtkinsRee HeghJack MitchellFred GoochCreation SaffignaRhiannon Dionysius Exhibition Opening: Friday 16th
There is no question that the contemporary subject navigates the world via mass-media and televisual representation. As Amelia Jones surmised, those born post-1960 are ‘conditioned on the deepest level by what we might call the representational regimes of postmodernism – cinema, television, and the seemingly endless stream of images, sounds , textures, and smells’
VH Anthony Vue draws from his Hmong heritage to explore ways in which aspects of the past can continue to infect and inform the present. The Hmong culture thrives in enclaves right across the globe. With no specific country to call their own, and robbed of their written language, over the centuries members of the
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Heiser Gallery is celebrating 10 years from 2004 – 2014. A group exhibition of gallery artists will be on display until the 20th December. To view artists please click here. About Heiser Gallery Located conveniently to Brisbane’s Central Business District in the arts precinct of Fortitude Valley, Heiser Gallery represents the work of leading Australian
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The IMA, Gertrude Contemporary, Landings, and Discipline co-present Public Meeting: Weak Signals/Low Batteries, a screening of the Karrabing Film Collective’s When the Dogs Talked (2014) accompanied by a discussion. The meetings will take place at Gertrude Contemporary on 19 December, and at the IMA on 20 December.The Karrabing Film Collective’s short feature film When the
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A special free event: luxuriate in the hypnotic ambient sound of two dozen vintage keyboards, strings, voices and subtle electric guitar – and some gorgeous cushions to sit and lie on, within one of Brisbane’s grandest Victorian-era homes.The aim is a relaxing, glorious afternoon of ambient connections, across people, instruments and space.“PORTAL: RE-SOUNDING HOUSE” is
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Marking the commencement of her research, IMA Curatorial Fellow Vivian Ziherl will lecture on the theme of ‘Frontier Imaginaries’. Departing from the notion of the ‘Brisbane Line’, Vivian will advance the proposition that the ‘Frontier’ may be understood as the site at which primitive accumulation occurs. From this premise, she will chart the advance of
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Tracey Moffatt is an internationally recognised Australian artist who is currently based in New York City. Her work has included photography and experimental film which have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Australia and the Tate. ‘Tracey Moffatt: Spirited’ showcases her recent body of work, ‘Spirit
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Strong Women Strong Painting Strong Culture is an exhibition of contemporary art made by women living in central Australia. Many of the artists are from what has become known as the Western Desert notably the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north east of South Australia and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands adjacent in Western Australia.
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Each year, Backbone Youth Arts sets out on a mission to find the festival team of the future to shape, create and manage the Backbone 2high Festival. 2high is a circus trick. One standing on the shoulders of another. An ongoing exchange of trust. 2high represents the relationship between the mentor and the mentee who
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Applications are now open for Lens Mist Photographic Exhibition and Award 2015. Photographers of all ages and abilities are invited to submit their image for a chance to feature in the exhibition and win the awards listed below. Best Photograph – $5000 sponsored by City of Kingston People’s Choice Award – $2000 sponsored by Westfield
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