Correspondences brings together the work of New Zealand based artists whose works explore notions of communication, correspondence and exchange. While seeking to promote dialogue and discourse between Australian and New Zealand artists, this exhibition also forms the first part of an exchange project with Enjoy Public Art Gallery, a non-commercial artist-run initiative based in Wellington. The […]
“If you want to change the world. you first have to change the story. Because stories-not facts-guide our thinking”.The Re-imagining Narratives exhibition is the culmination of an appreciative inquiry doctoral research project by Dr. Theresa Renando, whose findings are represented via visual art and narrative forms. The arts were used to help people connect with the
Megan Cope’s upcoming exhibition Twice Removed explores aboriginal history through cartographic records. The artworks feature Military and Parish maps within the South-East Queensland area. Twice Removed revisits significant sites where displacement or relocation occurred. Cope imprints the current water level rises to reminding us that this history of survival and hardship exists in living memory today. Exhibition Dates | July 10 – 26 2014 Opening times: Thursday-Friday 11am-5pm. Saturday 12am-4pm
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During 10-13 July, seventeen musicians from Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane will be performing small ensemble repertoire from Bach to Xenakis to jazz for The Long Weekenderat FireWorks Gallery in Newstead. Alongside a backdrop of striking artworks from Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, NT there will be also be an installation of six contemporary paintings by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Yvonne
Robert Dickerson is one of Australia ‘s best known painters. Born in Sydney , Australia in 1924, he is the son of a tinsmith.He worked as a boy fashioning tin funnels and scoops in the father’s workshop, and in his leisure hours would hurry to the museums to draw and read and look at great
Artists: Dora Pula Beasley, Rita Pitjara Beasley, Priscilla Pitjarra Foster, Annessa Kemarre Ross Holmes, Michelle Pula Holmes, Robina Pitjara Jones, Margaret Ngwarraye Long, Angeline Pitjara Luck, Lily Pula Miller, Colleen Ngwarraye Morton, Joycie Pitjarra Morton, Lilly Kemarre Morton, Milly Kemarre Morton, Daisy Kemarre Moss, Agnus Rubuntia Pula, Nanima Rambler, Josie Ngwarraye Ross, Kindy Kemarre Ross,
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Hot Modernism unearths the stories of Queensland’s mid-century architecture. This moment in our history, inspired by a new way of thinking about sub-tropical living, brought a wave of fresh ideas, design and debate to the Queensland landscape. From the rolling expanse of the Riverside Expressway, to soaring concrete structures like the Torbreck apartment building, and
The use of condemned hospital linen, a heavily loaded material, forms the backbone of this body of work, which focuses on the systems, processes and emotions that surround death and dying. Condemned hospital linen refers to any laundry items processed at a hospital that have become unfit for use and are destined for incineration. These
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Each year Boxcopy presents a curated program of exhibitions and events. We work closely with exhibiting artists to support the development and production of new works within a critical context. We welcome proposals for exhibitions and projects from artists, curators and collectives at any time. The program is set 12 – 18 months in advance.
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Carol Jerrems’s gritty, poetic and elusive images show people trying to find a new way of life and action in the 1970s. Her images have come to define a decade in Australia’s history. In contrast to an earlier generation of internationally renowned magazine photojournalists such as David Moore, the new generation did not seek commissioned
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Currently in its 53rd year, the Redcliffe Art Society continues to strengthen creativity in the region by promoting local talent and providing a platform for learning and growth in the visual arts. The long-standing tradition of the RASart Exhibition of Excellence continues in 2014 with an extraordinary collection of work that reflects the richness and
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A group exhibition curated by Alex Seton. Artists : Victoria Reichelt, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Laura Moore, Tully Arnot, Caroline Rothwell, Tim Silver, Amy Joy Watson, Charlie Sofo, Honor Freeman, Ham Darroch, Lionel Bawden and Alex Seton. Image : Laura Moore – Hereinbefore 9 (2013)
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Greensmith seeks to showcase the finest Queensland and Californian eco-design in jewellery and metalsmithing, with 16 Queensland jewellers and nine Californian jewellers taking part in the exhibition. Greensmith is reflective of the growing awareness of the social and environmental degradation caused by jewellery production. In recent years groups such as Ethical Metalsmiths and Fair Jewelry
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Located in the heart of Brisbane, Wentworth Galleries showcases exceptional works by many of Australia’s leading contemporary and Aboriginal artists. We take pride in curating collections that enrich homes, offices, and lives. Whether you’re beginning your art journey or expanding a lifelong collection, our gallery offers a welcoming space to discover art that will be
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Finalist Exhibition 2014 The Lethbridge Gallery has established a strong reputation for exhibiting works demonstrating exceptional detail and creativity. With the intention of fostering the next generation of artists, Lethbridge Gallery initiated the Lethbridge 10000. Now in its fifth year, this exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may
Clark Beaumont is the Brisbane based collaborative duo Nicole Beaumont and Sarah Clark. Through both live and mediated performance works they investigate ideas and constructs around identity, female subjectivity, intimacy and interpersonal relationships. Clark Beaumont are the subjects for their work, and their collaboration means exploring the social and physical dynamics of working together to
Situated next to the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens on the QUT Gardens Point Campus, the QUT Art Museum presents exhibitions curated from their collection and also from other leading Australian institutions. QUT Art Museum also run a variety of artist talks and workshops throughout the year. Opening Hours Tuesday – Friday 10:00am – 4:00pm Sunday 10:00am
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‘Poly Gone Cowboy presents ‘Con$ume’, a collection of dynamic pop art prints and furniture from Brisbane based emerging artist Rupert Lewis Jones. In this new series of works the artist questions the materialistic values of modern day society. Poly Gone Cowboy is an artist run project space presenting monthly exhibitions by local and interstate contemporary
Merging eight diverse practices, Odd Home will attempt to reclaim and reform a variety of ingrained cultural norms. Each artist in this exhibition seeks to critically deconstruct long held conventions through their individual arts practice. These artists will consider the association and the distance between reality and imagination, normality and discomfort, group-held beliefs and their alternatives. Working
Tyza Stewart is a visual artist who explores gender identity through an art practice based in continual self-portraiture. Tyza uses documentation and memories from their own childhood as well as more current experiences to inform an interrogation of understandings of normality in relation to gender. Resulting self-portraits depict ambiguously gendered selves that publicly fail to
Conflict: Contemporary responses to war reflects on the world altering events of September 11 2001, and explores art made around the theme of war in the years since. The exhibition takes a wide-ranging view, considering conflict on a global scale, and more localised struggles. It addresses, for instance, the historical conflicts that accompanied colonisation, and continue to affect present generations. Memorials and commemoration,
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Simon Degroot uses painting as a way to interrogate pre-existing images. Calling upon a background in commercial printing processes, he utilises strategies of disassembly and reassembly, abstraction and fragmentation in the creation of new works. Degroot explores two-dimensional representations of space, particularly a communicative and operational space found in flat screen technologies. He is interested
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The IMA is pleased to present a talk by Berlin-based architect, consultant and writer Markus Miessen on Thursday, 26 June, at 6pm. Miessen is the initiator of the Participation tetralogy and his work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics. His practice, Studio Miessen, is currently working on projects for and with EACC
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NIGHTFALL RECOLLECTIONS An exhibition by Pirrin Francis “He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function had been to leave behind nothing but memories. He wrote: I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me. On this trip I’ve tracked it with the relentlessness
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Plexus Gallery is an online space, connecting independent Brisbane artists with art lovers and collectors. Plexus Gallery represents a selection of Brisbane-based, independent artists by combining the benefits of an online gallery platform with our ‘art to your home’ viewing service, which improves the experience of discovering and purchasing art. The development of the gallery
In 2007 Laith McGregor obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. In 2008 he won the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize at the Bendigo Regional Art Gallery. In 2009 he was awarded an Emerging Artist New Work Grant by Australia Council for the Arts and was the Queensland
The Institute of Modern Art is pleased to present the new installation Sciencefictive by Brisbane-born Sydney-based established artist Gary Carsley. This immersive project transforms two galleries into an interior garden, seen through apertures, or Moongates, that puncture the white walls of the gallery. As visitors follow a path laid throughout the galleries, they will encounter these Moongates,
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This exhibition presents an important suite of early paintings by Chinese-born Australian artist Ah Xian. Generously gifted to the Gallery by the artist and donors, these works largely draw on the iconography of socialist realist first aid posters from China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and convey experiences of trauma and the process of healing. The ‘Heavy
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In 2006, Australian director Shaun Wilson visited the Romanesque-Gothic St. Michael’s church in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, encountering 51 medieval religious paintings. After painstakingly copying each artwork into a small travel notebook, Shaun reconstructed each painting through video using a series of actors and friends in locations of historical significance. Filmed between 2006-2013 in Germany, Australia
The exhibition, ‘Seen + Heard: Works and Multiples from the Collection’ draws on major artworks, installations and multiples (numbered editions) from the Gallery’s Collection, which address crossovers between popular culture, music, sound and visual art. In recent decades the Gallery has acquired a number of works that either directly incorporate sound as a component or
Regenerate will feature new works by six emerging artists. This exhibition will present new understandings of the human body as a site in which to explore notions of identity, sexuality and mortality and the points in which these notions intersect. The natural world, technology and the profundity of existence will all come into play as this
Sensual and tactile, Craig Waddell’s work celebrates both the sublime and the imperfect. Laying down paint, wet into wet, observing while intuitive colour and gesture build and change, he destroys, renews and resurrects images from everyday life. A close attunement to the natural world began during childhood on his family farm. Whether painting a rooster
Davida has said she works in episodes. This is through personal necessity, and because the life of the painting when wet, finishes quickly. There is a very strict technical limitation to make any changes. Whereas other methods of painting allow for changes to be made, Davida’s direct hands on caressing of the paint, the substance
Noel McKenna was born in Brisbane in 1956. After studying architecture at the University of Queensland in 1974 and 1975, the artist continued his education at the Brisbane College of Art, attending the College between 1976 and 1978. In 1981 the artist studied at the Alexander Mackie College, Sydney. In the late 1970s the artist
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Caitlin Franzmann lives and works in Brisbane. Franzmann originally trained as an urban planner and in 2012 completed a BFA at Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, QUT Art Museum, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Slopes Gallery and as a part of OtherFilm Festival 2012. In 2012, she completed a
Elisa Jane Carmichael belongs to the Quandamooka people of Minjerribah, NorthStradbroke Island and is very passionate about nurturing and preserving herstrong connection to the sand and sea, Yoolooburrabee. Her current practicevisually explores the beauty of nature and surrounding environment, drawinginspiration from her cultural identity and heritage.Elisa has exhibited as an artist nationally and internationally after
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