The Stone Age was characterised by the use of stone technologies, Bronze by the use of Bronze and Iron the use of Iron. Today we are living in the Plastic Age. An age of disposable and temporary. An age where Water, the very substance which connects us most to the world, running within us and […]
IRL Digital Festival is Brisbane Powerhouse’s inaugural celebration of video games, technology and art. The festival takes over the venue for 10 days and nights and everyone is invited to come and play. Featuring free retro video game exhibitions, interactive art installations, digital-inspired music by Tom Thum and QSO and virtual reality fun, there is something to
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Ian Smith was born in Cairns, Queensland in 1950. In 1968 the artist began studying architecture at the University of Queensland but left the course after one year. In 1970 he travelled to live and study in Melbourne where he completed a Diploma of Art and Design at the Prahran College of Technology in 1972.
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In 2011, artist James Bridle introduced the term “New Aesthetic” to articulate a concept referring to the increasing appearance of the visual language of digital technology and the Internet in the physical world, and the blending of the virtual and physical. This exhibition examines creative practice from Queensland, Australian, and international inter-media artists reflecting on
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Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing: From book to film goes behind-the-scenes to reveal how the popular book came to life as an animated film. It features Tan’s exquisite original drawings and working sketches alongside exclusive footage of the animators and sound artists, demonstrating how the drawings were brought to life on screen with movement, sound
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Julie Cane’s exhibition Nature’s Bounty challenges the traditional ideal of the ‘fruit and flowers’ still life; focusing on the importance of decay in the world around us while capturing the subjects inherent beauty. Winner of the 2014 Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award, Julie Cane is recognized for her compelling colours, bountiful patterns and
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In the lecture Against The Image, curator Hicham Khalidi will present his examination of the concept of Aniconism – the prohibition of representation of the divine, humans, or living beings in Islamic thought – and its place within modern and contemporary abstract and conceptual art. This lecture is part of an ongoing research project, which
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Bringing a playfulness into the darker wells of thought, Dord Burrough’s works are influenced by personal journeys, daydreams, altered states, as well as the natural world and our place within it. The work is an exploration of psychological worlds of friendly grotesquerie. Mini-revelations are distilled, admitting to the existence of the material world under the
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The exhibition presents a new body of work by Kirsty Bruce. There will be no opening event. Image: Kirsty Bruce, Untitled 2015 (detail), Acrylic, watercolour and pencil on paper, 56 x 42 cm
Double Take brings together the work of eight emerging artists dealing with materiality, deception and the urban landscape. Presenting new and recent works across painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation, Double Take aims to draw upon the ways in which the artists manipulate and transform their chosen materials to make new representations of the world
Mira Oosterweghel presents new performative and sculptural works, continuing her exploration of the body and its relationship to site and structures. Attempting to negotiate the psychological terrain between bodies and the external environment, Unstable Moments creates a situation oscillating between notions of danger and play – the desire to defy gravity is contrasted against the
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Kei Kalak (Glen Mackie) has a distinguishable bold design style featuring wonderfully threadlike lines. He explains that he has been elected as Yam Island’s ‘official’ storyteller. Glen’s mission is to keep alive the sacred stories of the four brothers who travelled from the north before memory and settled at Zenadh Kes, or what most Australians know
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Please join the UQ Art Museum and Society of Fine Art for ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go’ – a panel discussion with arts professionals to discuss career opportunities for Art History and Museum Studies graduates. When: Friday 1 May, 12-1pm Where: UQ Art Museum Panellists Amelia Barikan – Art History academic Ellie Buttrose – QAGOMA
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5:49PM. The sun disappears below the horizon of the Gold Coast Highway and the neon signs flicker to life. The textual message is saturated with light. At a glance, we fail to see text, only images. What would it mean to lift the text from the plethora of signs that illuminate the skyline? The context
We must cultivate our garden – Voltaire Gardens are loved by all–there is something fundamentally human to be found in taking pleasure from a garden. Whether it is a simple plot of green grass in our backyards, flower pots on a windowsill or balcony, the elaborate grounds of estates or public parks, they all hold
On the eve of Heimo Zobernig’s spatial intervention for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015, David Pestorius is exhibiting a small survey of the Viennese artist’s work in Australia, a period which now spans more than 15 years. Heimo Zobernig (* 1958) is one of the most important inheritors of the Minimal-Conceptual Art
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DEEPER MESMERISM will present two lie-down and move-around performance-installations exploring hypnotic spatialised music, created by Luke Jaaniste (various electronics) with collaborating improvisors including Jordin Steele (voice), Marisa Georgiou (voice) and James Scott (bass): PORTAL is an ongoing project that uses many identical vintage keyboards (Yamaha Portasounds from the early 1980s) to create hypnotic spatialised harmonies,
‘Friday Night: May’ delivers an array of performance work in development and an exhibition, as the building opens for another edition of our open house event; connecting artists and audiences in a lively social environment – through our building and at the foyer bar from 6pm. Work in Residence artist Julie Vulcan – who you
Melbourne artist Martin Tighe’s new collection Leaven Bread features thirteen still life paintings. This series of paintings is a continuation of the artist’s fascination with bread and its significance in our lives. Bread as a subject has layered meanings in society, from symbolising basic nourishment to complex religious iconography. ‘ Bread is often a universal
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Call for artists and writers: ArtAscent is now accepting submissions for the international call for artists themed “Unknown.” A concept that is beyond the range of one’s knowledge, experience, or understanding. A thing that is strange, unfamiliar, and obscure. A place that is not discovered, explored, or identified. A person that is not famous, not
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Blue Monaro is a collaborative exhibition of new work by Brisbane artists Bridie Gillman and Kylie Spear. This exhibition responds to The Walls’ location in Miami, Gold Coast; one of Australia’s most popular tourist destinations. Blue Monaro utilises objects associated with Miami’s ‘leisure lifestyle’ in order to elicit experiences of sentimentality, seduction and awkwardness. Using
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SNAP15 is a collection of seven Brisbane photographers of both international and local recognition who know their way around a camera. International award winning landscape photographer Fred McKie relies upon meticulous research, planning and patience. “My most celebrated photograph to date Monument Valley Storm was captured during an overnight excursion to Hunt’s Mesa in America,
Heartbreak and triumph, jubilation and devastation: it’s all on show at the Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Exhibition, featuring works by Australia’s most outstanding photojournalists. In 2014 over 2000 photographs were considered for selection in the Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism – the pinnacle of achievement for Australian press photographers judged by industry experts and awarded
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The Mayor and Councillors of Moreton Bay Regional Council have the pleasure of inviting you and your family to view Creative Power: The Art of George Baldessin. This exhibition is curated by Tess Edwards Baldessin, the artist’s widow and is toured by Maitland Regional Art Gallery. It is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian
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Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud present Landung in Australien, an exploration of refugee and asylum seeker policies. We perceive ourselves to be in a shrinking world of digital communication and borderless travel. However, this is only a reality for the privileged few, those with civil rights and residence permits, while others are excluded and suppressed.
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Situating the viewer as an intruder to the privacy of domestic space, Empty Places/With Suspicion challenges personal reliance on the secrecy of intimate thought and activity. For the exhibition the gallery becomes the site of a derelict home; the decaying qualities and eerie ambiance of which impart a sense of hopelessness and existential belittlement. OPENING
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con│struct: Celebrating Queensland Sculpture explores the extraordinarily diverse field of sculpture. It features ten artists that represent the scope and depth of contemporary sculpture across the state who have a sustained practice working in the sculptural realm. Artists include: – Lincoln Austin, Eleanor and James Avery, Laurindo de Abreau Sotto, Simone Eisler, Jason Fitzgerald, Hew
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The IMA is pleased to launch Mikala Dwyer’s monograph Drawing Down the Moon. For more than twenty years, Mikala Dwyer has pushed the limits of installation, sculpture and performance, establishing herself as one of Australia’s most engaging contemporary artists. To launch the publication, the Mikala has invited Brisbane artist Caitlin Franzmann to deliver her performance:
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LOVELOVE STUDIOS has Studio space available in Milton, 4064. This would suit visual artists and computer based designer. An exciting, established art gallery and studio space in the heart of Milton’s flourishing commercial district is offering cheap studios spaces with WIFI and 24hr access. Super close to public transport, Officeworks and art supplies store. Restaurants, cafe’s
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Access Arts’ Community Arts workshops provide members with a supportive, inclusive and creative environment to engage with various art forms, encouraging positive social interaction, a strong sense of community, and artistic expression of each individual. Anyone is welcome to attend these workshops, whether or not you experience a disability and irrespective of your previous experience.
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This exhibition of work from printmakers based in Aberystwyth (Wales) and Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) is a collaborative project linking artistic communities from opposite sides of our planet. Through the activity of printmaking, the participating artists were asked to explore the significance of river histories, particularly the legacy of catastrophic flood events, for communities. This highlights
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Workshops available at The Edge for the first half of 2015 are now live. Choose an old favourite to sharpen your creative skills or something new, from motion design to fabrication, Raspberry Pi, zines, comics and more. Workshops are a chance for you to create something new, whether it be a robot, a social media strategy or
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“Tell me a story” is a command familiar to anyone who spends time with young children, but with patience, the child will provide an equal reward by revealing a new way of seeing. Early modernists recognised the potential of childish mark-making and imaginative perspective, and Michael Muir has had similar experiences as a parent of
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Abbey McCulloch holds a Masters in Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Named as one of Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists by Art Collector in 2009, 2010 and 2011, she has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize three times (with portraits of Toni Collette [2007], Nell Schofield [2009] and Naomi Watts
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The exhibition will present recent and new work by Richard Bell and Emory Douglas, including their major collaborative painting Peace heals, war kills 2011-14. These will be exhibited alongside recent embroideries Emory Douglas has made with artists from the Zapatista movement.The exhibition will also premiere a new film by Richard Bell. Opening event: Thursday 26 March
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Iconic Brisbane artist Sue Pickford will be launching her works at Bosz Gallery on Friday 27 March alongside Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin. The exhibition explores contemporary themes influenced by the philosophical and socio-political themes of her own era, in relation to place, race and culture. “Through the appropriation of iconology and cultural schemas, I use
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