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Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists

The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists provides assistance towards travel (for educational purposes) and/or tuition costs for young people building a career in the visual arts broadly in the areas of painting, photography or sculpture. Four candidates will be awarded $5,000 each (excluding GST). Applications to travel overseas (preferably for the first time) to undertake formal study, […]

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Tim Woodward: Concertistic Life

Drawing attention to the performative, speculative and uncertain nature of creative practice, the exhibition ‘Concertistic Life’ presents a grouping of new and recent works by Tim Woodward.Moving across mediums, forms and ideas, Woodward’s practice typically engages with processes of editing, free association and re-imagining. Previously his artworks have materialised as sculpture, video, writing, installation, drawings

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Monica Rohan: Predicament

Floating transcendence and anchored realism share equal magnitude in Monica Rohan’s paintings. Inspired by a rural-idyll of a childhood in South East Queensland and the internal longing of the 19th century novel, Rohan reflects on the genre of autobiography through a mysterious form of self portraiture. Allowing her imagination free rein, Rohan represents the figure

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Gapuwiyak Calling: phone-made media from Arnhem Land

Curated by Miyarrka Media and developed for exhibition with the Anthropology Museum.  “We decided to name our exhibition Gapuwiyak Calling because we’re calling you through our phones, calling so you can connect to us.  We’re grabbing hold of new possibilities using these little things.  Maybe you’ll answer us?” – Paul Gurrumuruwuy In 2008 the introduction

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15 ARTISTS RETROSPECTIVE

15 Artists is an annual exhibition that commenced in 1997. This exhibition celebrates sixteen years of the exhibition and comprises the winning works that now feature prominently in the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection. This is an exhibition featuring the past winners of the 15 Artists exhibition and competition held annually at the Redcliffe

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The University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences Artist In Residence

Are you a recent graduate or completing a higher degree in one of Queensland’s visual arts or media programs? Interested in on-the-ground experience of regional rainforests or desert outback? Wanting to deepen your knowledge of Conservation Biology and Climate Change Science? The University of Queensland’s School of Biological Sciences and UQ Art Museum are launching

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Fictions

Parer Place Urban Screens presents Fictions, an exhibition exploring photographic artists working in moving image. This program is presented in conjunction with the Queensland Festival of Photography 5: Photography and Fictions. Showcasing work by artists who predominately work in the area of photography, Fictions explores how the photographic aesthetic is translated and augmented when incorporating movement. The shift to

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FotoVisura: SPOTLIGHT 2014 Exhibition

Curated by Adriana Teresa and Graham Letorney, the exhibition presents a selection of individual images by FotoVisura Members recognized by a panel of leading editors and curators in theFotoVisura SPOTLIGHT Grant for Outstanding Student Photography Projects. Launched annually since 2010–The FotoVisura Grant aims to support personal photography projects and encourage the production and development of photography outside of the commercial

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Captured: Early Brisbane photographers and their Aboriginal subjects

Staged photographs of Aborigines against elaborate backdrops were taken in Brisbane’s first photography studios from the late 1860s. Often treasured for their exotic beauty and foreign savagery by European settlers at the time, the photographs quickly became collectors’ items and many originals still exist in public and private collections across the world today. In Captured 46 original

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Albany Art Prize 2014

A national, acquisitive prize for painting The City of Albany Art Prize is open to living Artists working in Australia and features a $25,000 major acquisitive prize as well as a range of non-acquisitive awards. The major acquisitive prize also includes a 4 week studio residency in a self-contained cottage at the Vancouver Arts Centre

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Vivienne Binns: New Work

Vivienne Binns has established herself as a highly respected and astute artist within the Australian artistic landscape. Her work explores what it means to be an artist in Australia with local and European histories, engaging with cultures in the Asia Pacific region. Her abiding interests are the function of art making as a human activity,

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Classical Life Drawing – Ancient Attitudes

‘Lady Emma Hamilton captured the imagination of gossips and grand tourists alike, becoming an icon of feminine independence, survival, and sexuality for Britain’s long 18th century. The ‘Attitudes,’ a series of artistic reinterpretations of scenes from her husband’s famous collection of Apulian vases, are witness to her beauty and the allure of the classical past.

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Curator’s Talk with Stephanie Rosenthal

Drawing on her wealth of experience within the global art world, Stephanie Rosenthal will explore the presentation of performance art in public institutions, focusing on new performative strategies and formats, as well as the complementary role of the digital archive. Notwithstanding its longer history, including Dada, Situationism, and the ritualised events of the pluralistic 1970s,

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OtherFilm: Let Your Light Shine

Please join the screening of Let Your Light Shine, a film by Jodie Mack. Jodie Mack is an American animator/performance artist for whom 2013 was a breakthrough year. Under Mack’s direction, merch tables meet museum gift stores, the sublime meets Sublime the band, and stoner shop tie-dyes and dollar-store trinkets collude to create pulsing, ebullient spectacles. Colour-in-motion is

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JESSICA GERON

Jessica Geron is a Brisbane-based artist with a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts in Sydney. With tongue firmly in cheek, she brings together cultural elements of assorted trash and treasure, to create moments of hilarity, fantasy and pure (and impure) decorative distraction.  She quotes liberally from a rich history of

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Robert Jacks

Robert Jacks is recognised as one of Australia’s most significant and accomplished abstract artists. His art, like the man himself, is elegant, sophisticated and gregarious. Jacks studied sculpture and painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ad held his first critically acclaimed solo exhibition in 1966. Soon after, he moved to New York to

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WOOD: art design architecture

WOOD: art design architecture explores innovative and outstanding uses of wood in contemporary Australian art, design and architecture. The exhibition showcases unique works by contemporary Australian artists, designers and architects engaging with the material qualities of wood. It represents a cross-section of current creative practices, modes of thinking and relationships to this fundamental material. It is

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The National Photographic Portrait Prize

The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual event intending to promote the very best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. Photography is the dominant portrait medium of our time. The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an important aspect of the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition program, reflecting the distinctive vision

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International Artist Talk : Tehching Hsieh

Join Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh at GOMA in conversation with Russell Storer, Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, QAGOMA. Hsieh is in Australia for One Year Performance 1980 – 1981’ (Time Clock Piece) currently on display at Carriageworks, Sydney and will discuss this and other projects in this special event. TEHCHING HSIEH Celebrated Taiwanese-American performance

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Noosa National Art Award

As one of Queensland’s oldest and most prestigious regional galleries, the Noosa Regional Gallery is the premier regional gallery on the Sunshine Coast and is renowned for showcasing world-class innovative Australian contemporary art and design. This year, the Noosa Regional Gallery proudly announces the Noosa Art Award. Entries are currently being sought for the Noosa

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Rhys Lee: Recent Works

Rhys Lee paints to excite. With instinct acting as his muse, he manipulates elements of form and colour to create otherworldly scenarios. Immediately striking is his use of electric colours that animate the picture plane and jostle for pre-eminence. Colour renders the forms that populate his canvases, seductively luminescent. The vaguely grotesque figures and mysterious

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A Dot on a Line

Presented as part of the Queensland Festival of Photography – A Dot on a Line is a collaborative project turning a small Albion warehouse into a one night exhibition space. The show brings together emerging Australian artists working within the expanded field of photography. As alternatives to Jeff Wall’s notion of photography’s “heavy burden of depiction,”

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