This exhibition draws attention to the infinite progression of nature’s rhythms in various frequencies and times. The natural process of organic decomposition are captured through an experimental biochrome process and time-lapse photography. These methods allow for the observation of the transformation of native flora by revealing what is usually invisible to the eye. The significance […]
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Fiona Foley has had significant success. Ever since her beginnings with Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Ko-operative in Sydney in the early 1980s, her stature has increased – as an Australian artist with national and international standing. A major survey exhibition, Fiona Foley: Forbidden, toured Sydney and Brisbane (2009-2010), noting her influential voice and the breadth of her
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Ben Quilty: after Afghanistan – a series of powerful portraits depicting the realities of war is on display at the Griffith University Art Gallery (GUAG) in South Bank from 12 April until 7 June, as part of the Australian War Memorial’s travelling exhibition. Quilty was appointed as an official war artist by the Australian War Memorial in 2011
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Channels Festival is looking for two arts workers to head up the new team: an Artistic Director and a General Manager. Our new Artistic Director will be tasked with shaping the curatorial focus of Channels Festival 2015. Building on the bones of the 2013 program, they will have a unique opportunity to drive the vision, themes and critical framework of the
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Peter Madden is an Auckland-based collage artist who creates heavily detailed, surreal microcosms that seem to leap out of their two-dimensional frameworks. Ransacking old issues of National Geographic for his source material, Madden transplants them from their original context into his own fantastical world. Madden’s overwhelming collages burst at the seams with a proliferation of imagery, crammed
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Featuring Artists: Joseph Au, Talla Gaidan, Zac Gaidan, Edmond Laza, Weldon Matasia, Laurie Nona, Micheal Nona. Established in 2004, the Woolloongabba Art Gallery has quickly become one of Queensland’s leading galleries, dedicated to the exhibition and sale of quality contemporary art. Representing a stylistically varied selection of local and Australasian art by established and emerging artists, Woolloongabba Art Gallery’s regular exhibition
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Anna Carey is a Gold Coast based artist whose practice overlaps both photography and sculpture. With memory and recall as the only reference of permanency, she interweaves model making, drawing and photography to create fictive architectural spaces from her immediate urban environment, the Gold Coast. Anna Carey has a Bachelor of Digital Media majoring in Fine Art and Art Theory,
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‘New Works: Paintings and Ceramics’ follows a successful first showing at JMA in 2012. In this follow up exhibition, Daws continues his exploration of abstraction with paintings on paper and introduces his ceramic practice with tea ware vessels. Joseph Daws’s painting practice operates between landscape and abstract painting. It acts as an arena for the
Khaled Sabsabi spent his childhood in Lebanon and moved with his family to Australia in 1978, settling in multicultural Western Sydney. He specialises in multimedia and site-specific installations, often involving people on the margins of society. In 2003, he returned to Lbanon for the first time, which led to a reengagement with the region and
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No place brings together four international artists who investigate notions of place, working within the realm of constructed photography in both physical and digital studios. The exhibition includes the work of James Casebere (USA), Giacomo Costa (Italy), Yao Lu (China) and Lori Nix (USA). Each artist considers their environs, combining utopian and dystopian views that both reminisce on the past and forewarn of the
‘Four Performative acts of Photography’ is a group exhibition featuring new work by Alana Hampton, Mari Hirata, Mandana Mapar and Kathy Mackey. This exhibition explores the performative and experimental aspects of the artist’s individual and collaborative practices through video, installation and two dimensional works. Image: Mandana Mapar, Tehran: Narratives of Freedom (detail), 2014
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The Queensland Art Gallery will present the first significant exhibition in almost two decades on one of Australia’s finest post-World War II painters, Sam Fullbrook, from April 5 to August 10. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said ‘Sam Fullbrook: Delicate Beauty’ would celebrate Fullbrook’s exceptional use of colour
Song of Songs is a series of 24 paintings that takes its name from a book of the Old Testament. Written circa 900BC, this piece of erotic poetry follows the journey of two lovers from courtship to consummation. The more explicit parts of the poem are expressed, euphemistically, in language that might – at first glance –
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The Pilbara is a place of extreme contrasts. Here, the idea of land as a source of spiritual and cultural identity and the idea of land as commodity co-exist.—Craig Walsh Craig Walsh is renowned for his site-responsive artworks, which are often developed in collaboration with communities to express their perspectives. Over the last twenty years,
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EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Grocon is developing a new building at 480 Queen Street located in the CBD of Brisbane. The building’s unique design opens itself to a myriad of opportunities where public art can be integrated to enhance the visual amenity and cultural depth of the immediate area. Grocon would like to offer the city
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In an exhibition of new performance and sculptural works, Leena Riethmuller will host somatic experience events, inviting participants and viewers to encounter their bodies in new or different ways. “I think there are important developments to be made in fostering the relationship between an individual and their own body; by being more attentive to ourselves,
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FireWorks Gallery – known for exhibiting and promoting artworks by some of Australia’s best contemporary artists – is located in a renovated concrete warehouse, featuring an impressive double-storey void, at 9/31 Thompson Street, Bowen Hills. Artworks are sourced from across Australia and showcased through exhibitions. Unique collections – private and corporate – are developed featuring
A Moreton Bay Regional Art Collection in perspective exhibition celebrating Fiona Foley’s career. Foley is one of the most prolific and challenging artists working in Australia today. Her diverse artistic practice includes painting, sculpture, installation, photography, works on paper, printmaking and video. This exhibition examines the diversity and depth of her arts practice and will
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Artists are invited to select a book from the list below. Once we have sent you the book of your choice, you then create an artwork inspired by and using the book (or a portion of) of their choice. Open to all artists in all states of Australia and New Zealand, all mediums and all
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PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE was born with the purpose of investigating the most interesting ideas in international contemporary art. The name COMBAT draws its conceptual inspiration from combat films, videos shot by American military cameramen during World War II battles. Combat films, often shot on the frontline and live, filmed the horrors of the war to
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The SCOPE Galleries Environmental Award – Art Concerning Environment is a National non-acquisitive Biennial Award with a cash prize $5,000. SCOPE Galleries was established in December 2009 with the aim of fostering contemporary art in a regional location and supporting artist’s development by providing ongoing opportunity for exhibition and exposure of their artwork. The SCOPE Galleries
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Experimenta’s 5th International Biennial of Media Art will make its only Queensland appearance in Brisbane on 7 April, opening at QUT’s The Block and State Library of Queensland. Speak to me considers what it means – at this time – to be together. Are we really “more connected than ever”? The free exhibition brings together works that offer multiple perspectives as
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Before coming to Australia, Bundit Puangthong completed formal training in traditional Thai art, and later studied contemporary Western methods at Chiang Mai University under the guidance of renowned Thai artist Montien Boonma. Now based in Melbourne, he completed his Master of Visual Arts from the Victorian College of Arts in 2005. His work has been exhibited
Charles Robb is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, now based in Brisbane. Robb’s work has been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions including The Day the Machine Started, (dianne tanzer gallery + projects Melbourne Art Fair 2010), Scope Miami Art Fair (with Hous Projects, USA, 2009), Millwork (dianne tanzer gallery +
Three Brisbane slam poets will perform an original work at the opening night of ‘Experimenta Speak to Me, 5th International Biennial of Media Art’, responding to the theme ‘speak to me’. Performers Eleanor Jackson: Eleanor is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and radio broadcaster. As a poet and performer, Eleanor has been described
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‘Loss Control II’ is part of Charles Robb’s ongoing self-portraiture project. The works evolved from Robb’s dual investigations into the figure and incidental form – focussing on the objects that accrue within the studio space. Through bringing these objects together Robb constructs a new visual dialogue and relationship between these contrasting forms. Courtesy of Dianne
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‘Stages’ is a collaborative exhibition by Melbourne-based artists, Clare Rae and Simone Hine. Both artists follow in the tradition of feminist art practices, using their own body to examine broader ideas related to the conditions of feminine representation. This is coupled with an interest in the relationship between stillness and motion as it relates to the
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You are warmly invited to the exhibition opening of the Space & Place – Queensland Festival of Photography Prize Finalist Exhibition and announcement of prize winners on Friday 28 March, 5-8pm at the Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) gallery at the corner of Cordelia and Russell Streets, South Brisbane, Australia. Featuring the following finalists: Alithea
‘In the performative spectacle everybody is a potential performer, from movie stars to next-door neighbours’ – Sven Lutticken, 2009 Borrowing classic tales and characters from Greek mythology, Serisier’s Ovid’s Medusa, a one-night event at InHouse ARI on the 7th of December, playfully engages with culturally and historically encoded gender narratives. Upon entering the exhibition, the
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Maud Creative is a fine art studio/gallery situated in Newstead, close to the Brisbane CBD and ‘the Valley’ area. The Gallery was officially open by Dr. Les Walkling (Ph.D, D.F.A.) on February 8th, 2014 The studio/gallery was born out of an appreciation of fine art photography and is a space to come to enjoy, admire and
Common Woman I – VI is a four-part exhibition series exploring contemporary intersectional feminist discourse, featuring 16 Australian artists and artist collaborations whose works engage with issues of gender, race, class and sexuality. The exhibition has been developed by LEVEL’s emerging curator, Lisa Bryan-Brown. Each week, ‘Common Woman’ will exhibit four artists’ works. The artists
The Hold Artspace warmly invites you to the opening of two upcoming exhibitions: ‘Disco Dilettante’ and ‘Peepshow/Creepshow’. Jamie Mumford Disco Dilettante The Disco Dilettante delights in the superficial nature of all things seductive, shiny and fantastic. This exhibition of recent work by Jamie Mumford considers the elements that make up the glamorous, excessive popular culture of
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How can we decouple our attention from the objectives that drive our lives – self-positioning, the promise of novelty, opportunities, life narratives, the constant maximising of pleasure and possessions? Everything is a Distraction is part object iconography, part instructional video and part transcendental advertisement. The exhibition uses sculpture, video, photography and drawing to attempt
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Please join us on Saturday 15 March at 9.30am for the official exhibition opening of the 2012 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award or JADA is a by-annual award run by the Grafton Regional Gallery. Acquisitions from the JADA enter the Gallery’s nationally recognized collection of Australian contemporary drawing. The works are
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I know that when I travel with a camera I tend to rely on it to collect visual memories. Without a camera, I look harder. I sketch landscapes, I collect small souvenirs, I do studies in paint and I desperately scribble notes in an effort to lock into my brain details that I suspect that
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Still Life: Joachim Froese Photographs 1999-2008 is a Flying Arts touring survey exhibition of internationally renowned photographer. The exhibition ‘features a selection of works from four series: ‘Rhopography’ 1999 – 2003; ‘Written in the Past’ 2007; and ‘Archive’ 2008. Over the last ten years Froese’s work has concentrated on photographic still life and often explores
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