French-born experimental artist Félicia Atkinson will brings her captivating sounds to the IMA . Through the lush sounds of her Fender Rhodes, field recordings, and speech in both French and English, Atkinson brings a unique experience of stretching and folding time in-place. She has been renowned for her works on her label (co-run with Bartolomé Sanson) and […]
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Leading Queensland artist and ‘rogue archivist’ Sam Cranstoun‘s first decade work is now available in print, launching at the Institute of Modern Art. Curator Hamish Sawyer chats with Sam Cranstoun about the new book release, Sam Cranstoun: You Are Neither Here Nor There. The publication documents key projects from Cranstoun’s first decade of practice, responds to the 2023 survey
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Transitory Stories is an exhibition centred around a large-scale linocut print by Chilean-born, Australian-based artist Miguel (Andy) Villanueva. Previously exhibited as part of the 2024 Burnie Print Prize in Tasmania, this latest iteration in Brisbane extends the work’s evolving narrative—one shaped by movement, shifting perspectives, and the layered experiences of migration. At its core, Transitory
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Join Griffith University Art Museum for Out of the Box, a special event delving into the 50-year history of printmaking at Griffith University. This event highlights the significance of the QCAD Print Folio Box and broader narratives of Australian printmaking since the 1970s. Chaired by Emily Parker and featuring esteemed QCAD printmaking alumni, this event
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Art, History and Change: Step into Brisbane’s Story at Queen’s Wharf Brisbane After a sold-out summer debut, Museum of Brisbane, in partnership with The Star Brisbane and Queen’s Wharf Brisbane, proudly returns with Season 2 of its acclaimed Public Art Walking Tours. This newly expanded 90-minute tour goes beyond the artworks, offering rich insight into
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The Kennedy Prize is a prestigious annual painting award based in Adelaide, offering $25,000 for the artwork that best embodies the theme of “Beauty.” Finalists’ works are exhibited each September, and a People’s Choice Award is also presented. This prize celebrates creativity and excellence in interpreting beauty through 2D works.
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The Linden Postcard Show is a beloved open-entry exhibition in Melbourne, now in its 35th year. Artists are welcome to submit up to three small artworks (2D works up to 60×60 cm, or 3D works up to 60 cm in height). Over $10,000 in cash and voucher prizes are awarded across 14 categories, including a
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PARKER Contemporary presents The Guardians, a new body of work by Melissa J Harvey (MJ), developed during a residency at the Morgan Conservatory, USA. Through her unique papermaking practice using sprayed abaca and recycled cotton pulp, MJ explores themes of protection, transformation, and dream symbolism. Drawing on recurring dream imagery and handmade processes, these ethereal
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Handful of Dust explores what remains when meaning fades — focusing on untranslatable fragments, obsolete gestures, and materials that linger beyond their original purpose. Rather than nostalgia or archaeology, this exhibition turns its attention to residues: things that have fallen out of time, yet persist. Key Dates:– New works must be completed by August 17–
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Join us for the second instalment of the 2025 Making Of series, featuring acclaimed Quandamooka artist Megan Cope. This special evening will offer deep insights into Cope’s career trajectory, creative decisions, and the pivotal moments that have shaped her highly regarded practice. Megan Cope’s work spans sculpture, painting, and video, often engaging with themes of
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Join Griffith University Art Museum for a special celebration of CAIA – Griffith University’s Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art program. As the only program of its kind in Australia, CAIA has played a vital role in shaping the story of contemporary Indigenous art, with deep community connections and strong ties between teachers, students, alumni, and artist
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This award celebrates the power of small-format works (60 x 60cm or smaller) across all mediums and styles. With a prize pool designed to support and recognise talented artists at every stage of their career, it’s a fantastic opportunity for emerging and established creatives alike.
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Categories: Portrait Landscape Exposure (open genre: fine art, fashion, wildlife, travel, etc.) Eligibility: Open internationally to photographers of all levels (excluding undergrads) Entry Fees: General: AUD $30/photo (~USD $20) Festival Friends: AUD $25/photo (~USD $16) Under 25: AUD $15/photo (~USD $10) Prizes: $5,000 cash + professional camera kit per category winner Group and solo exhibition
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City of Moreton Bay is launching its first Outdoor Gallery exhibition program and is seeking proposals from curatorial teams to lead the development and delivery of the inaugural show: ‘Half a Million Imaginations’, opening November 2026. This new Outdoor Gallery initiative will bring contemporary 2D artworks to everyday public spaces using billboards, lightboxes, digital screens
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Past, Present and Future Tense of the Moving Image in the Griffith University Art Collection is a panel discussion exploring the evolving role of the moving image in art. From experimental film to social media, this conversation reflects on decades of cultural, political, and technological change, examining how video art has captured and shaped shifting
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In The Bottle, I subvert still life beyond its traditional role as a static study of objects. The bottles, though familiar as everyday domestic forms, become figures with human qualities. They slump, stand tall, lean, and twist, embodying bodily presence, vulnerability, and gesture. This anthropomorphism invites viewers to see them as surrogates for people or states
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Jan Murphy Gallery is proud to present Portals, a new exhibition by Guido Maestri. After spending many years living in the city, Maestri has recently returned to Pittwater—an area where he spent much of his youth. This landscape has long captured his imagination, especially the nearby Ku-ring-gai National Park, which he considers his childhood backyard.
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The Institute of Modern Art is pleased to announce Max Athans as the eighth and final recipient of the Jeremy Hynes Award, which has run since 2009 thanks to the generous bequest by the late experimental artist’s family in his name. As the recipient, Athans will present their first institutional show Breathform at the Institute of Modern Art from
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Wendy Sharpe (b.1960, Sydney) is a major Australian figurative artist who divides her time between living and working in her two studios in Sydney and Paris. Sharpe is known for her confident, exuberant figurative and narrative style paintings which depict love, passion and daily life. Sharpe draws with paint – her sensuous use of the medium
Guan Wei was born in Beijing in 1957 and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University in 1986. He first came to Australia in 1989, and from 1989 to 1992 he completed art residencies at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University. During this period, he was also the
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This body of work spans two years of my practice and reflects a period of personal and artistic transition, including a significant relocation to Germany. These lifestyle changes have deeply informed my process, grounding my work as a space of response, reflection, and reinvention. At the core of my practice lies an exploration of the
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What if we find our souls to be enmeshed in media and fictional imaginings? That the ghosts of us reside and stir within other vessels or interfaces; our realities (re)written, performed, and embodied even though we know it all to be a story. To describe a feeling through giving it a face — to use
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You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, which made history as Australia’s first exhibition featuring exclusively gay artists during the height of the AIDS
This May in galleries 1, 2 and 3, we are presenting Optics, an exhibition of new paintings by Richard Bell. In these new works Bell pushes his abstract language to new levels of opticality, burying text within them like Ishihara tests for colour-blindness. Equally concerned with the legacy of abstraction and the aesthetics of Western Desert
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This exhibition brings together a group of artists who consider the sun’s influence and journey on our world. Each day, the sun can be sensed constantly moving through the sky, it’s light bringing brightness, casting shadows, illuminating colour and nourishing life. As our planet Earth revolves around the sun, the sun itself moves slowly through space
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In her latest collection Down the Rabbit Hole, independent artist Bel Parsons presents a series of large-scale abstract paintings inspired by the playful chaos of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. Through vivid colour, contrast, and movement, the works explore the messy beauty of being human, touching on self-reflection, mental health, identity, and societal expectations. Blending her background in
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Farm Studio International Artist Residency offers a unique opportunity for artists to live and work in the peaceful, rural surroundings of Rajasthan, India. Open to artists of all disciplines and media, the program encourages creative development, intercultural dialogue, and collaboration across diverse backgrounds. Artists stay in individual huts or rooms and have access to three
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Jennifer constructs images which straddle the line between realism and illusionism. In her surrealistic portraits she explores the uncanny, the unconscious mind, transformation and identity. Her works often grapple to find a way to visually express feelings and desires that we repress. Finding inspiration in dreams, mythology, personal experiences and conversations; Jennifer creates portraits that
The Lester Prize is one of Australia’s most prestigious portraiture awards, offering over $130,000 in cash and prizes. It includes several awards such as the Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture ($50,000), Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize ($20,000), Minderoo Foundation Spirit Prize ($20,000), and others. The exhibition will be held at the WA Museum Boola Bardip
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Artists are invited to submit artworks in their own media and style. This may range from art which includes recognisable forms as well as more expressive styles and pure abstraction, or the entrant may be inspired by art movements such as Fauvism, Dadaism or Cubism. We encourage all artists to show us their interpretation of
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Hosted by the Rotary Club of Singleton on Hunter, this regional art competition offers over $20,000 in prize money across 12 categories. The exhibition will be held at the Singleton Civic Centre from 26 to 30 July 2025.
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As part of Charter Hall’s redevelopment of Brisbane Square in the heart of the CBD, sustainability was embedded into every aspect of the design—from materials to process. In response, Blaklash, a Brisbane-based Indigenous-led design and curatorial team, developed a curatorial rationale grounded in Aboriginal sovereignty and sustainable cultural practices. The resulting public art commission, Acknowledging
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Kyber Teatro invites artists worldwide to apply for the 12th Edition of “The Wonders of Possible”, an international festival dedicated to the intersection of art, theatre, and new technologies, held in Cagliari, Italy, between October and November 2025. Recognised with the prestigious EFFE Label 2024–2025, the festival champions innovative artistic languages, with a strong focus
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Darren Knight Gallery and The Renshaws warmly invite you to celebrate the opening of Ecstatic horizon, a new exhibition by Louise Weaver. Ecstatic horizon features woven paintings combining hand-painted Japanese paper and linen thread, creating a rich dialogue between poetic landscape and vivid abstraction. Weaver’s practice is shaped by the fragility and rhythms of the
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Sonya is an emerging artist who began painting at home in the Burringurrah community, between Carnarvon and Meekatharra, where she grew up and attended School of the Air. She later studied Visual Arts at Carnarvon TAFE and was invited to teach during NAIDOC Week. Creativity runs in her family—her late father, Ernest Edney, was a dogger
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Celebrating 40 years as an exhibiting artist, Cairns-based painter and sculptor Roland Nancarrow presents his latest solo exhibition, Colour, Leaves, Light and Feathers, at Woolloongabba Art Gallery. Since his first show at Brisbane’s Metro Arts in 1985, Nancarrow has held over 40 solo exhibitions, developing a practice that blends painting with curious 3D forms. This
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