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Artist Talk: Kelly Hussey-Smith

Brisbane based artist Kelly Hussey-Smith will discuss her work in the animal fanfair exhibition. Kelly is a PhD Candidate from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University where she also teaches in the Photography program. She is interested in sharing human experiences through photography and storytelling.  Refreshments provided. Image: Kelly Hussey-Smith, From Series – History Alive Date: […]

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MONO 17: David Grubbs

The IMA and Room 40 are pleased to present a concert and a lecture by artist and musician David Grubbs. For over twenty years, Grubbs has left an indelible impact on music and art. Grubbs is an Associate Professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he teaches MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA), and Creative Writing. As a

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Jacqui Stockdale in Conversation with Marian Drew

EDWINA CORLETTE GALLERY presents JACQUI STOCKDALE In Conversation with an Introduction by MARIAN DREW RSVP: gallery@edwinacorlette.com Jacqui Stockdale is highly regarded for her practice as a painter, drawer and photographer and has been recognised in major awards, prizes and institutional exhibitions. Stockdale’s work is both exuberant and serious. She sets up theatrical scenes using carnival masks, costumes and objects

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Tim Johnson: Conceptual Work / New Paintings

  Tim Johnson’s highly individual contributions to the practice of making art and to debates about art in Australia, as well as his sustained engagement with diverse communities of Australian society, have constituted one of the most passionate, provocative and productive contributions to our cultural life by an Australian artist in recent decades. At the very end of the 1960s, after painting

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Ash, Needle, Pencil, Match

This collaborative exhibition blends the material thinking of artists Glen Skien and Tachika Yokota who embrace process and the hand-made object as a means of exploring the poetic and transformative nature of everyday objects. Through the reconfiguring of familiar objects fabricated through a variety of mediums both artists reflect on the loss and erasure of

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The Mayne Centre Lecture: On the Possibility of a New Balloon Animal

On the Possibility of a New Balloon Animal rigorously examines a frivolous object in order to advocate a possible future for architecture and art. Returning to Jeff Koons’s Rabbit of 1986 as an exemplar, the lecture poses a series of questions to establish the terms of this speculation: How do balloon animals construct an audience? What might it

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An Occasion

Catherine Sagin and Kate Woodcroft interview each other about studying comedy, their relationship, and being artists. For the occasion they have asked artists Erika Scott, Courtney Coombs, Martin Smith, Joseph Breikers, Tim Kerr, and David M Thomas to make a work that is not funny.Please be prompt and enter through the chapel.Proudly Supported by Brisbane

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Claire Stening: Shutter Light

Surface. Texture. Shadow. The play of light on fabric, the transparency of glass, the softer structures of draped silk and the pure contours of ceramics, eggs or a pear. Painting the unique in the commonplace is Claire Stening’s obsession. Her compositions approach a calm, almost weightless monumentality, and her natural inclination toward a neutral palette

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James Cousins: Twofoldness

For Cousins, there are several aspects to painting that are topical.  One is the status of the image and the function of representation; another is the act/s of painting or the process and systems used.  Cousins’ relationship with the recognisability of images sets him apart from most of his local contemporaries, and makes it necessary to align his

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Middle Ground 2

Middle Ground 2 presents the current stages of studio research by Fine Art Honours candidates from the Queensland College of Art. These artists are honing their skills in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking and jewellery. Middle Ground 2 serves as a diverse showcase of emerging contemporary practitioners. Each artist has spent

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Right Here Right Now

‘Poly Gone Cowboy presents ‘Right Here Right Now’, a fresh collection of paintings by Cairns based artist Caroline Mudge. In this new series of works Mudge continues her exploration into Buddhist principles and practice. Using her trademark candy palette on recycled surfaces Mudge lures viewers into her paintings whilst giving them a gentle slap as they

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Moran Art Prizes

The Moran Arts Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit organisation whose objective is to support the Arts in Australia through: The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prizes, and The Moran School Photographic Workshops. Established by Doug and Greta Moran and Family in 1988 in celebration of Australia’s bicentennial, the Moran Arts Foundation fosters portraiture skills and excellence in photography.

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ANtIMATION

With a rich history of experimentation and rapid uptake of new technologies, Animation is consistently at the forefront of creative innovation in art concerned with movement, space and time. Often pushing the boundaries between art, film and media technology, artist animators work in an interdisciplinary space that expands well beyond Disney and Pixar. Presenting a

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The Paul Guest Prize 2014

The Paul Guest Prize is a non-acquisitive cash prize of $12,000 which is held every two years, highlighting contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge and Olympic rower, the Honourable Paul Guest QC and encourages artists from across Australia to engage with the important medium of drawing and

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Aster + Asha Gallery

Aster + Asha Gallery is an online contemporary art platform dedicated to exhibiting a curated selection of engaging artwork by emerging artists from across Australia. The gallery presents artists who work across varied mediums including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and print, using both traditional and innovative materials and techniques. It has a strong focus on

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The Kennedy Prize

The Kennedy Prize is an annual Australian art award of $25,000 for ‘beauty’. The prize, offered by the Kennedy Arts Foundation, is based and exhibited in Adelaide but open to Australian artists nationwide, and is awarded to works that embody, comment on or celebrate beauty. The winning artist will receive the Kennedy Prize of $25,000,

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Sculpture by the Sea 2015

Submissions are now open for the 11th annual Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe which is being held from 6 – 22 March 2015 on Perth’s stunning Cottesloe Beach. In 2014, over 70 artists were selected to exhibit. Over 200,000 people attended the exhibition during the 3 week exhibition period and over 44% of indoor and outdoor works sold. The submission form for Sculpture

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Clayton Utz Art Award 2014

Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz Art Award. The Award offers a $10,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to Queensland-based artists or artists with a strong connection to Queensland. This year’s judge will be Sebastian Di Mauro For more information please visit the – Website

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Peter Kozak: Snow is Flesh

‘Snow is Flesh’ will feature both video works and drawings that meditatively speak to the human experience of decay. The exhibition will feature recent and previous works that are part of a series of drawings for which Kozak received the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for drawing in 2012. These drawings are simple pencil and paper compositions

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Invisible Movements

Invisible Movements is an exhibition of new work by Caitlin Franzmann developed abroad, exploring the experience of the body in motion – its internal rhythms in relation to stimuli, spaces and speed. “For 3 months Caitlin worked at torna in Istanbul as guest artist. For 3 months, she cleaned the cat shit from the arcade corridors,

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The Walls Contemporary Art Space

The Walls is seeking expressions of interest from artists, writers, performers, screeners, speakers, presenters and curators for our proposed 2015 program. Send your CV/Bio, a few images, a brief statement about your current enquiries and where relevant your connection/response to (Miami) the Gold Coast. Submissions via email to mail@thewalls.com.au by July 22. This is not a call for

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Adam Lester: Summerland

Adam Lester’s work comes from a need to make sense of cultural ‘noise’. Travels in Greece and Asia, and an interlude in the hippy north of New South Wales, have laid the groundwork for this artist’s penetrating perception of the contemporary milieu. Steering a course between the political and the aesthetic, Lester appropriates from the

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The Skin I’m In

The Skin I’m In is a focused examination of identity expressed through personal narratives, encompassing issues of evolution, gene modification, prosthetics, and lineage along with concepts of skin and bruising. The exhibition presents a number of lithographs, a ‘nana blanket’ constructed from screen printed aluminium, photographs and drawings on paper maché, and paper maché body casts.

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Contemporary War Film Program

This program offers audiences an opportunity to engage with the diverse and compelling genre of the contemporary war film, and was conceived to accompany the UQ Art Museum exhibition Conflict: Contemporary responses to war. Curated by John Edmond, PhD candidate in The University of Queensland’s School of English, Media Studies and Art History (EMSAH), the program

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