The exhibition features an impressive convergence of recent works from significant Australian artists. Twenty five pairs of artist couples have been selected for the exhibition, including internationally recognised local artists James and Eleanor Avery. The exhibition also includes work by couples Clare Healy and Sean Cordeiro; Rick Amor and Meg Williams; Helen Eagar and Christopher […]
string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art, is a touring exhibition from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, which explores innovative approaches to fibre and art in a contemporary context. The exhibition brings together Aboriginal artists who work with expanded notions of textile and craft-based tradition, and will present a range of artworks from sculpture
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The arched lines of the Brisbane River will transcend the canvas, stretching across the lengths of the gallery walls for Sue Beyer’s upcoming exhibition ‘Betwixt and Between’ opening at SGAR Thursday, October 9. Driven by a unique combination of painting, roller-skating and motor biking, Sue’s practice investigates place as a fluid and shifting set of
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Muk Muk Fine Art presents ‘Monochrome’, a visually striking display of dramatic black and white Aboriginal artworks from Central Australia. Exhibiting in ‘La Galerie’ within the Sofitel Brisbane Central in Turbot St, the timeless theme of limited palates of shades of black and white creates a sophisticated and elegant look. Artworks on display include a
Continuing the weekender series is Compulsion Loop, featuring new installation based works by artists Chris Bennie, Marnie Edmiston and Madeleine Stack, curated by Sarah Barron. The term, ‘compulsion loop’ is a recently coined word by the gaming industry to describe the intentionally addictive and repetitive model of pursuing goals for rewards. The pursuit for pleasure and
The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and its recently appointed Directors, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, are delighted to announce the re-launch of its venue on Saturday, 11 October, at 5pm. We will reopen with updated premises designed by Studio Miessen, a Berlin-based collaborative agency for spatial strategy and cultural analysis, which will include a new branch of Motto, a worldwide network of stores dedicated
Collaborative new work by Romii Fulton-Smith, Zoe Knight, Madeleine Stack and Jarrod Van Der Ryken. An exhibition of BARI FESTIVAL 2014 presented by Fake Estate and Aggregate Projects.
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The next session in the Artist Talk Web TV Series. Insightful, instructive and more than just interesting – visual arts champion John Stafford interviews Peter Mackay, Curator, Contemporary Australian Art, QAGOMA on Madonna Staunton’s substantial and historically significant practice. For webinar bookings: Click Here GETTING YOUR ART TO MARKET – The Video The Flying Arts
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Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival is about exchanging ideas, exploring arts practice and highlighting Brisbane’s creative spaces. BARI Festival 2014 celebrates Brisbane based Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs), artist collectives practicing and exhibiting beyond commercial gallery spaces. Over two weekends the BARI Festival will showcase ARIs in locations around Brisbane with exhibition opening nights, live art events, artist talks
Animals have been represented in art from earliest times, emphasising the integral roles they have played within human civilisation as labourers, food, and companions. In contemporary society, this representation has come to include the use of physical animals in art, often causing their harm or death. Angela Hughes makes art that evokes a discussion of
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This lecture examines the increasingly strategic role played by art spaces in the preservation and promotion of a certain idea of ‘cinema’. Museums and galleries have to stake their claim to be the guardians of cinema as cultural memory and the patrons of moving image installations in the face of the easy accessibility of the
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Poly Gone Cowboy invites you, this Friday evening, to the opening of ‘Screen Daze‘, a group exhibition of new screenprints by local Brisbane and interstate artists: Clinton Barker / Benn Driscoll / Robert Chalender / Charles Street / Samuel Tupou / Mini Graff / Franck Gohier / Chayni Henry / Joanna Kambourian / Darren Bryant.
Within this exhibition Robert Andrew investigates the combination of contrasting natural and technology-based materials, to highlight the contradictions that exist within the duality of his combined background. The repurposing and merging of these disparate elements give the opportunity to talk about the conflict, as well as the strengths that have surfaced within moments of chance
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An exhibition of images from the 2014 Vast Arts Photography Competition. With a new name and renewed focus on regional photographers, the annual Vast Arts Photography Competition and Exhibition aims to develop and enhance the skills and opportunities available to western Queensland photographers and showcase their images and talents to a wide audience across Queensland.
An exhibition of new works by artist Sam Cranstoun. Opening event: Thursday 2 October, 6 – 8 pm This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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Between the 1840s and the 1860s, a rather curious artifact circulated sideshows and carnivals. The Fiji Mermaid, as it was titled, comprised of the mummified head and torso of a monkey, attached to the tail of a fish. While there was no evidence that the creature, exhibited by eccentric American philanthropist P.T. Barnham, was
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The AX3 – American Aperture Awards are an international open call for photography possessing uncommon vision. This opportunity is open to photographers of all backgrounds who capture images that make the unknowable known. Our goal is to celebrate the most iconic photos taken by new and emerging talent, as well as professionals, from around the
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Inviting us to intertwine our rational side with our intuition, John Aslanidis’ elegant chromatic paintings offer a vision firmly grounded in knowledge of physics, mathematics and music theory. His colour and line create a poetics of the interval – the space between – and blur the normative boundaries between what we see, hear, feel and
Julie Dowling was born in Subiaco, Western Australia. Working in a social realist style, Dowling draws on diverse art traditions including European portraiture and Christian icons, Mexican mural painting, Papunya Tula dotting and Noongar iconography. Dowling works like an ethnographer, recording the deep-seated injustices in the Indigenous community. Her pictorial works have a strong political
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New paintings by artist Leonard Brown showing at Andrew Baker Art Dealer Image: STAND A LITTLE CLOSER (2014). Oil on linen, 120 x 180 cm
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Landscape painting has a long and illustrious history in Australian art, however few artists have tackled the subject in such a way that the use of landscape represents a creative leap forward. This can be said for Sir Russell Drysdale and Sir Sidney Nolan in the 40s and 50s, John Olsen and Fred Williams in
“I have known Band’s art since his first exhibition in Australia in 1987 and I have always been moved by it. Band has a profound talent to create beauty, to make beautiful art. Band has a serious relationship with colour, shape, line and texture and the expression of these elements is as essential to him
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Ryan Renshaw Gallery will close after 10 years and will be hosting a closing event on Friday 10th October. The accompanying exhibition will feature an interactive installation by Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, and Kiah Reading. In October 2004 we opened a small gallery in Brisbane with the simple premise of providing a free space for emerging artists working
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Much has been made of Eady’s practice as a series of devious works that infiltrate both the gallery, the public space and the skin of its viewers. On first approach his works avoid the radar, slipping in under the guise of humour and irony and deliver something of a knockout blow that comes unannounced. Looking up
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Lethbridge 10000 Finalists exhibition features a collection of the artists to watch that have been sourced from our annual art award, the Lethbridge 10000 Art Award. The Artists are: Selene Cochrane Julie Cane Martin Tighe Michelle Caitens Anne-Marie Zanetti Lisa Christensen These six artists each demonstrate exceptional skill with their paint medium and showcase the talent
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‘Emerald’, a solo exhibition of new works by Brisbane based artist, Andy Harwood. Harwood has retreated into a mathematical labyrinth of warped geometry, grasping influence from colour presently consuming him, ‘EMERALD’. Modernism was a dirty word through the nineties and well into the two-thousands, however in that always-cyclic way it has returned and brought to attention
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A-CH Gallery presents ‘Observe’ as part of Dispatch, a window space exchange program. The exhibition will feature an installation by Alexander Jackson Wyatt as per an exchange with SLOT Gallery, Sydney. A-CH Gallery’s curator Kate Mackenzie has used Jackson Wyatt’s work as a starting point for the exhibition, inviting Brisbane artists Alrey Batol, Rachael Archibald,
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There is something about water that helps us recover a sense of wellbeing and harmony that we easily felt as children. Fluid and flexible, it helps alleviate the stresses and anxieties of everyday life, encouraging us to relax, let go, and become weightless. In this collection, ‘Splash!’, Margaret Ingles has created a series of “visual haikus” capturing
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NAVA Connect offers artists five online courses to enhance their professional expertise and skills in areas ranging from grant writing, managing a business, marketing themselves and their work, expanding career opportunities and building an online presence. The online format enables artists from anywhere in Australia the flexibility to learn at times that suit often busy
The Creative Sparks Program is a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council and Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. The grant program aims to: invest in creative projects within a community context which deliver artistic, cultural, social and economic returns support artists, artsworkers and producers in the development of new work and extension of their creative practice
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Luke Maninov is an imaging neuroscientist and artist living in Brisbane, Australia. His designs are heavily influenced by natural forms and his continuing work in the fields of biomedical imaging and neuroscience. Through the study of comparative structure in plants and animals his work examines the shared features that define the living and the organic. First
Liquid Architecture is an Australian organisation for events, exhibitions, performances and situations of the world’s leading artists working with sound. Once a “sense-specific” festival, interested in listening and the depth of individual sound perception, Liquid Architecture is broadening its focus of concern to engage the social, cultural, political, economic as well as aesthetic frameworks in which
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Continuing his interests in material reality, virtuality, repetition and the common good, Peter Alwast presents a series of paintings which chart the origins of the human species. The exhibition presents a dialogue between paintings made in the real and their virtual counterparts, constructing and deconstructing perceptions about origin and hierarchy. Long live the chickens and
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The inhabitants of Vipoo Srivilasa’s enigmatic porcelain kingdom have much to tell us. As contemporary figurines they communicate through gesture, pattern, colour and texture: their delicately configured messages are full of poetic insight into the human condition, carrying more than just a touch of wry humour. At first glance, their balanced poise beckons for our
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In England, he was noted for his huge murals. In Australia, however, James Guppy is known for his exquisitely executed, small, evocative paintings. His art displays courage and honesty in the way it explores human emotions, identifying and commenting on the cultural and emotional legacies with which we live. Guppy portrays people in moments of
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Salli Sixpence’s latest collection of macro photographs ‘Once Were Oceans’ was born out of impressions gleaned from a long walk through the Australian outback. Drawing on memory of this journey Salli reconstructs vistas using mirrors, colour card, paint, flora and condiments to conjure a remarkably convincing interpretation of the arid plains and flooding rains of a big
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