Working in sculpture and installation, Michael Riddle allows chance and accident to have a place in examining how slippages, interruptions and changes of state can act as a site for exploration as the work develops. Using ideas around entropy, function and emotion as drivers and metaphorical vehicles, he sees the objects that he produces as identifying markers […]
FLEET brings together the work of twelve contemporary practitioners who, as well as maintaining a solo practice, make work within the space of ‘the third hand’. Curated by OK YEAH COOL GREAT, a collaboration between artists Kate Beckingham and Anna McMahon, the works in FLEET explore themes of distortion, collision and the exploration of alternative representation. These themes
What is it that makes someone a fair dinkum, true blue, Aussie bloke? In Larrikins: A History, Brisbane based historian Melissa Bellanta posits that an understanding of larrikinism ‘unlocks the secret to Australian national Identity’.¹ The publication highlights violence and humour as being key to the construct of the male larrikin. From the fictional characters
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Experience Gold Coast beach culture from the 60s, 70s and 80s immortalised by acclaimed photographer Graham Burstow. During the 60s, 70s and 80s the region boomed as tourists and locals alike flocked to the shores for a chance at a relaxed and sun-kissed life; filled with beer belly contests, muttonbird tanning oil and sun girl
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Motto IMA is pleased to present a talk by Melbourne-based designer and publisher Brad Haylock, on Saturday, 1 November, at 4pm.Haylock is program manager of the newly updated Master of Communication Design program at RMIT University, and founding editor of Surpllus, an independent commercial imprint that focuses on critical and speculative practices across art, design,
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Excerpts is the inaugural showcase exhibition of exceptional artworks by third year, Honours, and Postgraduate students. This curated exhibition serves as a snapshot of the distinctive and diverse outcomes that are developed out of Queensland University of Technology (QUT)‘s unique Open Studio model. The course encourages both the creative and critical aspects of art making, enabling an
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This call theme is “Red.” Fire, passion, heat, sacrifice, vitality, danger, happiness, a primary colour. What shade is your red? Eligible Submissions Entries may include 2- and 3-dimensional media, such as paintings, drawings, photography, mixed media, installations, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, fiction, poetry, short stories and other written explorations (up to 900 words). Submissions must be
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Sack Barrow (Ben Rivers, 2011) 21 minutes Sack Barrow explores a small family run factory in the outskirts of London. It was set up in 1931 to provide work for limbless and disabled ex-servicemen until the factory finally went into liquidation this year. The film observes the environment and daily routines of the final month of
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The exhibition will present recent paintings and works on paper. Rosslynd Piggott’s work has received wide acclaim, having been represented in over 50 important solo exhibitions and numerous prestigious curated exhibitions and events, both nationally and internationally. With such a strong exhibition history, beginning in 1981, the artist has maintained a very prolific practice, focusing
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Threads is the interweaving of 12 artists exhibiting together in one space. We are graduates of TAFE Queensland Brisbane’s Advanced Diploma program, exhibiting in the shadow of the G20 Summit as the world’s eye turns to Brisbane in November. We are introducing ourselves Brisbane’s creative arts community. If you are an art lover, please join us
Attunement to light – how it flows over, plays upon and defines structure, shape and colour – is Judith Sinnamon’s primary concern. Her carefully crafted studies of Australian native flora capture each plant’s singular gesture and presence, compelling the viewer to engage with a unique species as well as to witness the artist’s dialogue with
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IMA and OtherFilm presents an evening of feminist film screenings to coincide with the exhibition of Sarah Browne, Hand to Mouth, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Maintenance Art Works 1969–1980.Shorts screened will include the influential ‘women’s work’ parody Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) by Martha Rosler, the appropriated television imagery of Dara Birnbaum’s Wonder Woman (1978-79)
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An exhibition of artworks and creative events by artists-in-residence and special guests. Inspired by the Brisbane River at The Shed. Artists Include: Joanna Bone, Peter Breen, Mel Davis, Joel Glazebrook, Paul Harris, Kay Lawrence, Matt Lockwood, Zoe Mary, Joy McDonald, Aaron Micallef, Rose Moxham, Jessica Row, Sha Sarwari, Vanessa Stanley, James Watts Open Fridays from 6-9pm
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Artspace, IMA, and Protocinema will present a public conversation with three visiting Turkish curators representing a range of independent, not-for-profit and museum sectors to Australia, Inside, Outside and In Parallel: Speculations from three curators working in the Turkish context. Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak Şenova, and Mari Spirito will speak about curating within the context of Turkish contemporary
The Italian Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art), in collaboration with Arte Laguna Studio, organizes the 9th Edition of the International Arte Laguna Prize, aimed at promoting and enhancing Contemporary Art. The Prize obtained a medal from the President of the Italian Republic. Arte Laguna Prize is an international art competition, open to all, with
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Devoting many years to studying the visual arts in Adelaide, Christian Lock has built a strong artistic profile in South Australia. Since winning a Prize for Excellence in Visual Art at the beginning of his arts career in 1997, he has since received various awards, prizes and grants including an Oscarts Award for painting in
In 2012 Doley initiated The Learning Centre: Two Feminists, a project whereby she invited 16 participants from a range of backgrounds to teach her about feminism. Doley then condensed this knowledge from an eclectic range of sources into a series of catch phrases and slogans. This project transforms the live moment between artist and participant into
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‘Feeling blue?’ ‘Down in the dumps?’ ‘In a bad humour?’ Most people have expressed these sentiments at one time or another in their lives. But these words once described a real medical disorder, ‘melancholia’, ruled by the planet Saturn and the element of earth. By labelling themselves as melancholic, artists created and defined a new
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A. J. Taylor’s paintings reveal themselves slowly. To see one must be prepared to look – and willingly join the artist in his appraisal of the world through paint. His scenes, often purposefully mundane, are not so much about location as the processes of seeing. Like the impressionist artists that have inspired him, Taylor’s aesthetic
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Michelle Eskola creates images that explore abstraction, the formation and disintegration of form within contemporary digital culture. These images are created as series of artworks that include drawings, paintings and digital prints. They are moments captured as part of a larger, continual processes of making, of layering, editing, printing, cropping and rearranging forms in paint,
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Justin Jade Morgan in conjunction with The Wandering Room presents the Brisbane chapter of Tools of the Trade.As a follow up to our 2013-2014 International Development Residency in Auckland [NZ] at JJ Morgan & Co we are hosting artist/curator Justin Jade Morgan with his international traveling project Tools of the Trade.Tools of the Trade is
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ORAL presents Joseph Breikers for Stefan Brüggemann in its first action, Intellectual Disasters.Program supported by BARI 2014.—-LEGAL QUESTION – Must the punishment for arson be necessarily a light sentence?An unfortunate man once obtained access to a very well known and very parsimonious American millionaire and started to lay before him his woes. He depicted his
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This exhibition showcases over sixty works from the Gallery’s collection of Japanese prints created after 1950. It highlights the ongoing importance of the printmaking tradition in Japan, where artists continue to draw from centuries-old techniques and imagery, while innovating and experimenting with new forms and technologies. ‘Hanga: Modern Japanese prints’ features works by some of
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Audiences will have the opportunity to explore the risqué world of film from the early 1930s when ‘Forbidden Hollywood: The Wild Days of pre-Code Cinema’ opens this evening at the Gallery of Modern Art’s Australian Cinémathèque. The free, curated film program celebrates a unique period of creative freedom in North American movie production and features
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Visual chemistry arises through encounters, interactions and collaborations between 15 artists from varying communities and cultures. Featured Artists : Leecee Carmichael, David Creed, Kazumi Daido, Katina Davidson, Chris Dolman, Lobsang Konchok, Jonathan McBurnie, Robert Mercer, Roland Nancarrow, David Nixon, Stephen Nothling, Warren Palmer, Eric Rossi, David Spooner and Samual Tupou.
The Hold Artspace warmly invites you to the opening of three concurrent exhibitions on Friday the 17th of October from 6-9pm and the artist talk for Kate McKay and Angelica Roache Wilson on Thursday, 23rd October 6-7pm. The View from Here | Kate McKay and Angelica Roache Wilson The View from Here is an exhibition about the process
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‘CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE’ is the outcome of a recent collaborative curatorial project facilitated by Inhouse ARI. Three local writers were invited to generate a shared critical discussion surrounding relevant issues present within local artistic and cultural life. From this dialogue, each writer was asked to curate two artists that reflected the overarching conversation.
“The collagist must pre-empt the reception of visual information, manipulate the associations each element brings and orchestrate their interaction with one another and the viewer.” O’Reilly, S (2008, p.19) 1Assembling Worlds II presents a selection of predominantly new work by Brisbane based artists, Rachael Bartram and Warren Handley. Rachael and Warren met at the Queensland
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REDSEA Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition by Brisbane artist, Luke Barker. Focusing on people in high density urban settings, Luke’s work captures the behaviour, diversity and spirit of society, and the city environment we have created and simultaneously adapted to, by living in such a high concentration of numbers. The city environment itself,
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Jarrod Van Der Ryken is a Brisbane-based visual artist whose practice is concerned with ideas of unspoken experience. His work attempts to draw relations to wider phenomenologies of thought and language including the difficulties of translating existential experience coherently into language. This occurs in the abstraction of texts, forming works of incomprehensible writing, and also
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Kate Beckingham and Anna McMahon met in 2010 during their honours year at Sydney College of the Arts. Drawn together by their love of clean lines and simple aesthetics, Beckingham and McMahon formed OK YEAH COOL GREAT. Collectively they are interested in making art grounded in a common aesthetic understanding rather than a shared conceptualism.
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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