Blake House Gallery presents ‘Miracle Fruit’, an exhibition featuring photographic works by six contemporary Brisbane based artists. Lynette Letic David Spry Jarryd Lynagh Kale Munro Fraser Stanley Nicholas Eckhardt The exhibition runs from 21st–28th November at Blake House Gallery, Level 2, 35 Adelaide Street, Brisbane. For more information, please visit our exhibition – Website
The Hold Artspace, on behalf of the artists, warmly invites you to the opening of ‘West 35th and 8th: QCA Photography NYC Tour’.In September 24 photography students from QCA representing Creative Advertising, Social Documentary and Art Practices embedded themselves in New York City and produced individual projects that articulated their experiences of this vast and
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The Watermark Print Exhibition showcases for the first time the 2011 Folio Box project; a collection of twenty-six limited edition prints by alumni printmaking students and lecturers of the Queensland College of Art alongside artworks by international guest artists; Tamarind Master Printmaker Lynne Allen, Sarah Bodman and Paul Laidler. The Queensland College of Art Folio
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My Kind of Soldier Australia’s “Rum Rebellion” had almost nothing to do with rum. On the 26th of January 1808, exactly twenty years after the foundation of the Colony, Australia had its first and only successful military coup. While spirits had a part to play in the theatre, what drove the New South Wales Corp
By valuing honesty over notions of purity, a gentle irony seeps into Miranda Skoczek’s search for the sublime: her work rests upon the coexistence of beauty and imperfection. “Seeing, finding and revealing” are invested with spiritual importance for the artist and the viewer, and create a shared, meditative, visual world not unknown to artists like
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As part of The Subtropic Complex, the IMA is pleased to present a new work by Clark Beaumont, Showtime. Clark Beaumont is the Brisbane based collaborative duo Nicole Beaumont and Sarah Clark. Their participatory performance aims to further instrumentalise the role of the audience within their practice. Join us for drinks and to participate in
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Nature’s apparent chaos is ultimately deceptive: oceanic tides are orchestrated by powerful astronomical helixes, and the bee-swarm returns to a hive of mathematical precision. Jason Fitzgerald works on similar principles, creating labyrinthine sculptural reliefs that resonate with the minutiae of nature whilst distilling a universal rhythm. A professional cabinet maker with a compulsive drawing habit,
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The exhibition will feature new video work, sculpture and works on paper by Daniel McKewen. Daniel McKewen is a visual artist whose practice focuses on cinema, the entertainment industry, and the creative, critical, and emotional behaviours of its fans. His work explores the intersections between his roles as an artist and a fan as he engages
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New paintings from Queensland and the Northern Territory by Peter Hudson. Since their beginning, humans and animals have totally relied on land and sea for their existence. The natural laws and systems of the ‘garden of eden’ always have, and continue to provide food, shelter, fire, and rain. Land IS life, the most precious gift
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Aspire Gallery, found in the heart of Brisbane’s No 1 art precinct, is a rental gallery for the arts community situated in Paddington, Brisbane. We are able to boast a beautiful space with wonderfully high ceilings and hardwood floors, that provide a truly unique and professional space. With three large lease areas, jewellery cabinets and
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Assisting emerging Australian artists and art history scholars to develop their talents The Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship, administered by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Foundation gives one emerging Australian artist or Australian art history student the extraordinary opportunity to develop their practices or research through an itinerary of national
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Queensland College of Art presents QCA Showcase 2014.Includes 2014 graduate exhibitions, graduate awards, artist talks, workshops, panel discussions, screenings, high school experience days, and more.27–30 November, South Bank. Free entry.Opening night: 27 November, 4.00pm – 9.00pmBrisbane’s hottest emerging artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers. See the full program of events at: www.griffith.edu.au/qca-showcase
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Calling for Expressions of Interest. We believe there is a better way for performers and producers than waiting for rare slots in theatres and losing life savings presenting in fringe festivals where there are more performances than audiences members and the entire budget goes on venue hire and paying for everything but the creation of
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Institutions describe, and in many ways circumscribe, contemporary life. (How we work, exhibit, believe, are educated, represented, defended, funded, etc). An institution can be considered ‘captured’ when interested parties – powerful elites, but also wilful or subversive individuals – exert influence within or upon it to systematically achieve their ends. In line for a $30million dollar
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un Projects is currently seeking proposals of writing in the form of articles, reviews, interviews and fiction for issue 9.1 of un Magazine, to be published in April 2015. We are also calling for proposals of artist pages. For issue 9.1 editor Pip Wallis invites content around the theme of Subject. Visit the website to find out more about the direction and
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An exhibition by Lynden Stone. Lynden Stone is a full-time visual artist. She also teaches part-time at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Brisbane where she completed her PhD in 2014. In her research project, she investigated how artists can explore and represent the enigmas that quantum physics presents to our perceived reality. She
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Architecture: Made by Women – Japan explores the accomplishments of female architects in Japan and their influence on place-making. Glean an insight into the challenges and opportunities these architects face as they work within a culture that values tradition and craftsmanship in addition to a fiercely modern outlook. This exhibition presents a selection of Japanese female
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Spiro Grace Art Rooms signature doors will be transformed into an interactive live set for Camille Serisier’s upcoming exhibition ‘The Wonderful land of Oz’ opening Thursday, November 6. The exhibition will present multiple interpretations of initial drawings and collages based on Australiana calendars of native flora and fauna. The live tableau vivant, constructed photographed sets
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN – WHO CAN SUBMIT ? Anyone who wishes to be involved is invited to participate, regardless of age, education, profession, gender, or location. Artworks accepted include drawings, photographs, text, pictures, stickers, posters – anything creative and considered that can be rolled and distributed by bicycle. Writers, poets, and lyricists are invited to get involved in the project. You can
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Elizabeth Willing is an Australian visual artist. In 2009 she completed her honours in Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology. Between 2008 and 2013 Elizabeth Co-Directed Accidentally Annie St Space; a Brisbane Artist Run Initiative. Elizabeth has undertaken professional development work experience in New York with Janine Antoni (2011), with the Experimental Food
This grant provides assistance towards the costs of public presentation for professional visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners who are Australian citizens or permanent residents. This includes, but is not limited to: advertising; promotional printing; mail outs; media photographs; media releases; equipment rental; framing; freight; installation costs; insurance; opening costs; space rental; technical assistance; travel. Please be
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Chris Trueman describes his current body of work as a way of exploring a long-standing interest in the difference between the physiological process of sight and the psychological facet of perception, in other words the way people interpret visual spaces, extract meaning and build narratives from their perceptions. Trueman’s work articulates his unique vision, fusing various
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This exhibition will showcase the final works of the Queensland College of Art Printmakers graduating in 2014. Please join us for the closing celebrations on Friday, 21st November 6 – 9pm. Exhibition Dates: 19th – 22nd NovemberClosing Event: Friday, 21st November 6 – 9pm
Hosted by the QUT Visual Arts discipline, Seeing Things is a one-day symposium for researchers interested in or piqued by the nascent philosophical movement known as Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO).A subset of the Speculative Realist school of thought, OOO acknowledges, on the one hand, the withdrawn life of objects, their concealment, inaccessibility, and strangeness. On the
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Alun Rhys Jones’s eclectic new exhibition ‘The Last Days of Dionysus’ II investigates the use of body, celebrity, form, language and colour in contemporary consumer culture. Through four separate but connected series of works, Rhys Jones explores the ‘kaleidoscopic’ design experience of consumerism. Alun Rhys Jones has been a finalist in a long list of established exhibitions such
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QUT 2014 BFA Visual Art Graduate showOpening November 12th 6pm – 9pmH Block, QUT Kelvin Grove Including works from:Rachel Bain, Holly Bates, Naomi Blacklock, Valerio Cavazza, Samantha Court, Jessica Dudas-Bernal, Joshua Fay, Claudia Francis, Holly Gardiner, Tallara Gray, Tayla Haggarty, Matthew Hutchinson, Margot Kelly, Miriam Khalil, Annie Macindoe, Holly Orford, Katie Porter, Bonnie Sturgess, Molly Tim
Not bound by medium, Judith Wright works across painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installation, often creating complex dialogues between different media. In appearance, her work can range from near minimalism to elaborate figuration and is centred on ideas around the fragility of life, love, loss, and grief. Judith Wright: Desire focuses on a series of work
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RICK AMOR was born in Frankston, Victoria in 1948. In 1965 he completed a Certificate of Art at the Caulfield Institute of Art and from 1966 to 1968 studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. He has been the recipient of several Australia Council studio residencies which have allowed him to work in London, New York
Arryn Snowball was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1977. In 2001 he graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art, and a year later received First Class Honours from the college. Snowball was awarded, in 2003, the prestigious Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship,
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The Institute of Modern Art is pleased to announce The Subtropic Complex, an exhibition of Queensland artists dispersed in the shops of James Street. The project features works by Clark Beaumont, Louise Bennett, Anastasia Booth, Megan Cope, Sam Cranstoun, Caitlin Franzmann, Alice Lang, Archie Moore, Stephen Russell, Haruka Sawa, Sancintya Simpson, Athena Thebus, Elizabeth Willing.
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Presented for the first time in Australia by MAAP – Media Arts Asia Pacific – and curated by MAAP Director Kim Machan, LANDSEASKY is a visually rich exhibition of screen-based artwork by leading international and Australian contemporary artists at Griffith University Art Gallery & MAAP Space Gallery from 1 October to 13 November 2014. Works in the
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‘Ornament’ is a solo exhibition of new works by Canberra based artist, Benjamin Reeve. Exploring the nostalgia of childhood, ‘Ornament’ plays on the hallowed and harrowing memories of youth. Using spray enamel, inks, oil and acrylic paint, Reeve creates powerful portraits on paper and wood. Each unique piece, representing a mirrored snapshot of self-inquiry.Reeve has been
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Vaughn Pinxit’s Stillness: a meditation in new media art, determines through a practice-led research investigation, the proposition that it may be possible to use new media technologies and kinetic installations to create immersive environments that paradoxically evoke qualities of stillness. Intimate insights for understanding stillness through the theoretical and practical experience of meditation, supports a philosophical
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Working in sculpture and installation, Michael Riddle allows chance and accident to have a place in examining how slippages, interruptions and changes of state can act as a site for exploration as the work develops. Using ideas around entropy, function and emotion as drivers and metaphorical vehicles, he sees the objects that he produces as identifying markers
FLEET brings together the work of twelve contemporary practitioners who, as well as maintaining a solo practice, make work within the space of ‘the third hand’. Curated by OK YEAH COOL GREAT, a collaboration between artists Kate Beckingham and Anna McMahon, the works in FLEET explore themes of distortion, collision and the exploration of alternative representation. These themes
What is it that makes someone a fair dinkum, true blue, Aussie bloke? In Larrikins: A History, Brisbane based historian Melissa Bellanta posits that an understanding of larrikinism ‘unlocks the secret to Australian national Identity’.¹ The publication highlights violence and humour as being key to the construct of the male larrikin. From the fictional characters
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