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Franz Ehmann: Many Things (It’s a colourful world)

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Franz Ehmann is an internationally recognised artist, working with installation, performance and video for over 20 years. Prepared food and its waste have dominated the theatrical language of Ehmann’s practice, giving rise to their symbolic and metaphorical significance. Previously beeswax, honey, milk and eggshells have been employed to construct allegories that synchronise imagery and language. […]

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How to: Set up & run your arts business

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Professional Development for Artists This is a comprehensive program of activities for artist interested in improving their business skills. The program consists of workshops, forums, master classes, artist consultations and a new workshop series and exhibition for emerging curators. For more information please visit the – Website DATE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR Sunday 14 September How to:

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Feel The Quality

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An exhibition of works made in collaboration, Poulgrain and Millhouse create intimate scenarios through a process of collection and construction, asking the audience to engage with the ‘quality’ of materials and sensations. Feel The Quality explores the potential for objects, forms and narratives to act as historical documents that describe their social and cultural context. Sarah

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THIS IS NOT THE WORK

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For the exhibition THIS IS NOT THE WORK, feminist artist-run-initiative LEVEL continue their investigation of alternative curatorial methods. Surveying a selection of community-engaged artist projects from different locations around the world, this exhibition followed the pathways of women-centred social networks in order to initiate further collaboration and conversation. The projects documented in this exhibition are examples

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Sarah Poulgrain

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Sarah Poulgrain is a Brisbane-based artist interested in distorted reconstructions of experience. She works primarily through sculpture, painting and installations, using objects and images to create sets or scenes. Often using materials of a precarious nature, her practice is concerned with re-enactments of momentary occurrences and seemingly inconsequential narratives in transition from the experiential to

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Tom Nicholson: Comparative Monument (Ma’man Allah)

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Tom Nicholson’s new work Comparative Monument (Ma’man Allah) begins with the shared histories between Australia and a remarkable site in Jerusalem. Conceived as a sibling work to his 2012 project Comparative Monument (Palestine), this large-scale work has evolved over two years of research in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Beirut, London and Melbourne. The work is premiered in Brisbane,

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COLD SHOULDERED

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In a city weeks after the snow filthy chunks of ice remain in the streets, in gutters and on freeway verges. Cars that have been parked for a number of months drive away leaving holes in the ice. There’s a desperate feeling of weight, the simultaneous heaviness and lightness of opening a large stone door

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Daniel Mafe : Grandiflora II

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I work with and against a broad range of cultural references such as contemporary abstract painting, gestural and colour field, Chinese ink painting, and the decorative excesses of the rococo, oriental carpets and chintz.  My paintings are cyphers to this inclusivity where a gestural exploration of the surface and paint is combined with an understanding

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Vive L’ Homme

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Inspired by the great success generated over the last 3 years from our Ladies only exhibition Viva La Femme, LUST FOR LIFE is proud to present our inaugural VIVE L’ HOMME exhibition. This exhibition will showcase the work of 20 male artists touching on subjects such as fatherhood, brotherhood, strength, boldness, male form, machismo, virility, masculinity and anything

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Mytho-Poetic – Print and Assemblage Works by Glen Skien

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MYTHO-POETIC is a constellation of postcards, letters, photographs and drawings that are stitched together and are obscured through the process of etching, drawing, collage and construction. Fish and birds, boats and houses, solitary figures and cryptic inscriptions appear frequently as myths and icons. These motifs are highly evocative of familiar places, lost encounters’ life histories

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Deb Mansfield: Get Out Of The Water

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Deb Mansfield is an Australian photomedia artist whose area of research looks at liminal geographies and spaces of in-between. In particular, interstitial sites that problematise assumptions about the nature of boundaries. Mansfield draws on ideas evoked by journeys to remote littoral spaces including Moreton Bay (Queensland), the Mississippi River Delta (Louisiana), Kleinmond (South Africa), the

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Madonna Staunton: Out of a Clear Blue Sky

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As Staunton’s first major exhibition at QAGOMA since 1994, this presentation reveals the artist’s full progression through the restrained elegance of her collage and sculptural assemblage, to the more philosophical and personal content of her print-making and recent painting. ‘This exhibition continues the Gallery’s important program of exhibitions celebrating the work of Queensland artists, including recent

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Nicholas Harding

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Swimming in the sea has an ecstatic aspect, communing with the sublime; swimming in a river is a more reflective, even melancholy experience. But rivers are seldom uninteresting; Mallarme said in the autobiographical note he composed for Verlaine that one could spend whole days boating on a river and never feel that time had been

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TOOLS OF THE TRADE

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The Wandering Room invites you to be part of a collaborative project.  As a follow up to our 2013-2014 residence in Auckland we will be hosting Justin Jade Morgan from Development AIR in Brisbane with his international traveling showcase Tools of the Trade. Tools of the Trade is a snowballing project where willing creatives are invited to

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Galaxy Express

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As part of Brisbane Fringe festival, Poly Gone Cowboy presents ‘Galaxy Express’, a selection of new works from New Zealand based artist Felix Harris. Harris filters subtly sharp and witty observations of socially awkward situations through pop/surrealist spectacles with strong ritualistic overtones.   Opening night Friday August 22nd, 5pm – 7.30pm Show runs August 22nd  –

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MYTHOGRAPHIES

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Mild Manners Gallery is pleased to present Mythographies. A collection of new paintings and hardwood sculptural works by one of Australia’s most exciting young street artists Mik Shida.Kicking off his painting career in Brisbane in mid 2000’s, Shida’s distinctive style is now recognised internationally, having created ethereal works in both galleries and outdoor spaces across the globe.

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Stuart Ringholt: Kraft

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The IMA is delighted to present Kraft, the first survey exhibition of Melbourne-based artist Stuart Ringholt. As part of his diverse practice, Ringholt leads audiences on naturist gallery tours, anger workshops, and participatory performance works that invoke embarrassment, fear, laughter, and love. Ringholt also makes videos, absurdist sculptures, painted mirrors, and collages.Occupying all four of the IMA’s

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Young International Contest of Contemporary Art

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The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artist, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. This aim will be pursued by taking advantage of the opportunities that the contest offers: Euro 3000,00 (three thousand/00) money prize to the first selected Euro 1000,00 (one thousand/00) money prize to the second selected exhibit of

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re: cognition/re-cognition II

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The distinct art practices of Michelle Roberts and Sonya G Peters come together in this joint exhibition. Although diverse in their art practices Roberts and Peters share parallels in which the transformative process of mark-making calls into play the very notion of auto-biographical, autographic memory. Memories as such alter over time through voluntary and involuntary

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Five Centuries of Melancholia

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The year 2014 marks the 500th anniversary of Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I 1514, the centrepiece of a new exhibition presented by The University of Queensland Art Museum (UQ Art Museum) in partnership with the UQ Node, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800). Five Centuries of Melancholia explores how, from

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Dense Plant Scenes

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Brisbane-based artist Tyza Stewart is taking part in this year’s emerging artist program at Boxcopy with a four week artist residency in the gallery during the month of August. Come along to the closing weekend events from Friday 29 – Sunday 31 August. Tyza’s practice is a continually evolving self-portrait formed through paintings, digital images

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G(r)azing on Flesh

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G(r)azing on flesh looks at the work of Carolyn McKenzie-Craig and Heidi Stevens. Both artists are invested in the gendered bodily experience within contemporary society. McKenzie-Craig investigates the potential for a gendered self free from social constraints whilst Stevens’ pursues an exclusively female symbolic order. The exhibition at The Hold presents a dialogue between McKenzie-Craig

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Linden Postcard Show

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The much loved Linden Postcard Show returns in 2014 with a brand new look. This unique open entry competition sees hundreds of small format contemporary artworks adorn the gallery walls at Linden. Over $10,000 worth of prizes are available. Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts is a unique contemporary public art gallery located in the heart of St Kilda

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THIS IS NOT THE WORK – call out for submissions

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LEVEL are calling for participants in our feminist reading and resource room as part of the upcoming exhibition project THIS IS NOT THE WORK, to be held in September 2014 at The Block, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology.For the exhibition, THIS IS NOT THE WORK, feminist artist-run-initiative, LEVEL continue their investigation of alternative

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Harvest

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The ‘Harvest’ exhibition is a celebration of food in art. With over 150 works from the Gallery’s Collection, ‘Harvest’ includes magnificent still lifes from the seventeenth century to today, contemporary photography, bold video works, and dramatic large-scale installations, with major new acquisitions of works by Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno. Northern European still-life paintings of the

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Tyza Stewart

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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

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Platform 2014

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Platform 2014 brings together installation and large-scale artworks from early to mid-career Australian artists working in a diverse range of mediums. Artists include;  Stephen Hart, Michael Doolan, Merete Megarrity  and Gabrielle Courtenay. Stephen Hart’s work is often concerned with the human condition and our relation to the urban and built environment. 2014 recipient of the

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Sophie Bottomley: The Shape of the Mouth

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Sophie Bottomley’s sculptures transform everyday materials into seductive forms which exhibit lush and repetitive textured surfaces – alluding to the artist’s hand. Through her attention to the internal and external qualities Bottomley invokes a strong corporeal and visceral relationship between the spectator and the artwork. The sculptures investigate the relationship between interior and exterior, form,

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