The Lethbridge Gallery has established a strong reputation for exhibiting works demonstrating exceptional detail and creativity. With the intention of fostering the next generation of artists, Lethbridge Gallery initiated the Lethbridge 10 000. Now in its fifth year, this exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit […]
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Performance Now brings together work by some of the most significant artists of today to explore the ephemerality of live performance and how this is captured by artists and transformed into new work that contains the power and content of the original. Together the selected works are an indication of the extent to which visual artists
The Hornsby Shire Council ‘Returned to Glory’ recycled art competition and exhibition celebrates the re-use and recycling of waste through art. Artists are invited to submit work which demonstrates the concept of resource recovery – turning waste into a resource – through the use of recovered waste products and materials. Over $5,000 in total will
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Every two years, the Institute of Modern Art awards $10k to an experimental Queensland artist in memory of Queensland artist Jeremy Hynes. The Brisbane art scene was shocked by the death of Jeremy Hynes late in 2006. During the 1990s Hynes produced a body of audacious performance work, which was presented at the IMA and
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Ross Manning has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including ‘Volumes’, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2013); ‘Spectra’, Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2012); ‘Field Emissions’, Starkwhite, Auckland (2012); and ‘3 Songs’, MONA FOMA at Long Gallery, Hobart (2010). He has also participated in a number of group exhibitions, among them ‘Foundation’s Edge: Artists and Technology’, QUT
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This major survey will focus on the past decade of the artist’s practice. Mellor’s Indigenous heritage informs his art, which considers Australia’s colonial legacy. Born at Mackay, Queensland, in 1971 he maintains strong links with his mother’s Country on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland. The exhibition is the first to consider in depth how
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Presence/absence explores the proposition and outcome of the artist body within their work. Highlighting a variation of approaches each artwork gives rise to the idea of physical or implied presence. The exhibition further explores the differing manifestations of this notion within the practices of five Brisbane Artists: Athena Thebus Chris Bennie Clark Beaumont Louise Bennet
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Kirra Jamison cultivates ideas. Initial kernels of intuition germinate into lines, forms and patterns that branch and weave and interlay the picture plane with snatches of narrative. Floating amongst the fragments of decorative motif and patterning, vignettes of everyday experience emerge and inveigle the viewer with abundant possibilities of meaning. Harmonious or chaotic, repeated or
Hannah Cutts has been collecting and curating sets of well worn regalia for over 25 years. Hand painted linoleum, deer antlers, bicycle seats, fishing buoys, wooden hand reels, 1970’s tap heads…the list goes on. After 18 years in the design industry she has found the time, energy and the resolve to finally start creating the
Collaborative artists Wilkins Hill (Wendy Wilkins and Wes Hill) have been working together since 2000, pursuing a shared interest in the phenomenological aspects of communicating meaning between an artwork and an audience. In Brainal Pipes Confusion Cave, the artists expand upon a series of works developed in Germany between 2008 and 2012, which stage obtuse
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Ngurra Nganampa “Community” featuring Papunya Tjupi. 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 program is complemented with
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Need Funding for a Creative Project? The closing date for this round of Moreton Bay Regional Council’s RADF (Regional Arts Development Fund) grants is just around the corner!!! RADF can fund an array of different arts, culture and heritage activities with a focus on supporting artists and/or projects in the Moreton Bay Region. Available to
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DEADLINE : 31st January, 2014 Entries for the 2014 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships are now open. The Fellowships – The two winners will each receive: -$10,000 prize money – manuscript development with black&write!’s Indigenous editors at SLQ – publication by prestigious Indigenous publisher Magabala Books For more information please visit the website
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An exhibition for PhD examination by Lynden Stone, featuring the Mind Dispenser, the Mind Lamp project and the Metaphase Typewriter revival project.
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‘New World City’ is a group exhibition providing a cross-sectional glimpse into local emerging art. This exhibition aims to reflect Brisbane’s energised and critical emerging art community that is contributing to the city’s growing reputation as an artistic centre. Presenting a diverse range of concerns, aesthetics and media, ‘New World City’ will focus on students
High Tide; Queensland Now Project presents the crème de la crème of design from Queensland past and present at Artisan Gallery. The collection is a direct reflection of a new book by Jason Bird, a design publication featuring 22 clever designers and design firms. It features critical contributions from Paul McGillick, editor-in-chief of InDesign and
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Coming of age within regional Queensland is an experience saturated with the images and identifiers of a male dominated culture; where sports, agriculture, and a mantra of “hard yakka” reign supreme. Combining documentary photography with site-specific performance, Sugar explores existing tensions within femininity, womanhood and familial identity. Performing within the artist’s grandmother’s home, and using
Ali Bezer’s practice explores a phenomenology of noise that generates visual meaning from invisible sensations. Her predominant use of metal establishes an intricate interplay of gravity, magnetism, material and light drawn from in-depth research into the physicality of sound. Mitchell Donaldson’s practice explores the unmaking of the self in an attempt to comprehend the meaning
Show Arts Gallery presents Transfer an exhibition showcasing prints and works on paper by recent Southbank Institute of Technology Visual Art graduates Helle Cook, Jeanette Stok, Lisa Willersdorf, Julie Purcell and Kathy Mack. The exhibition serves to document this important period of change (transfer) and progression in the lives of these emerging artists. Transfer exposes each of the artist’s
Making Friends is the follow up exhibition to a one month residency that took place in Auckland between Australian artists David Creed and Angela Rossitto from The Wandering Room and New Zealand artist Justin Jade Morgan from Development AIR. Living together in Justin’s warehouse space and observing each others routines at close quarters led them
WHEN : 23 November 2013 – 11 May 2014 WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art One of the most dramatic exhibitions to be held at GOMA, ‘Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth’ presents major new works by a truly global artist, whose large-scale installations and explosion events have made him one of the most
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DEADLINE : 10th Jan, 2014 St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane (SVPHB) is embarking on a new Arts Program that enhances our hospital environment to support the spiritual, emotional and physical health and well-being of patients, family members and staff. As part of our program we will transform our environment by installing vibrant exhibitions of high-quality
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WHEN : 7th January – 15th February WHERE : Pine Rivers Art Gallery Animal FanFair draws attention to humankind’s changing relationships to animals which are complex and often contradictory. The selected artists Katka Adams, Marian Drew, Hayden Fowler, Kelly Hussey-Smith, Owen Hutchison, Claude Jones, Sam Leach, Emma Lindsay, Rod McRae and Walter Stahl have dedicated
WHEN : 18th October – 2nd March WHERE : Museum of Brisbane Best known for his detailed figurative sculpture, Stephen Hart has developed his career utilising the traditional technique of hand-carving timber to examine and express the strengths and virtues of humanity, the individual’s place in society and our collective responsibility. In Fellow Humans Hart
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WHEN : 2nd Nov – 9th Feb WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery ‘California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way’ will introduce Australian audiences to a broad spectrum of industrial, architectural, commercial, fashion and craft design from California. Organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and curated by Wendy Kaplan (Curator and
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The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body. Each year, they deliver over $200 million in funding for arts organisations and individual artists across the country. The Grants section of their website provides you with information about our 2014 funding programs and the funding application process. It also
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WHEN : 30th November – 2nd March WHERE : QUT Art Museum Surveying the intriguing and vibrant Kimberley region in Western Australia through the work of over sixty contemporary artists, the exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to view works rarely seen, as well as work from emerging talent often difficult to view in the flesh
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WHEN : 19th October – 16th February WHERE : UQ Art Museum The prominence given to the self image in social media, on reality television and in everyday life has generated an audience primed to receive and consume personal information. Whether artists today operate from a digital platform or not, their self portraits are likely
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WHEN : 15th November – 27th April WHERE : Museum of Brisbane Six pairs of Queensland’s finest visual artists collaborate for the first time for Silver. Each duo — a leading photographer and artisan jeweller — consider the differences and commonalities in their practices to present new artworks inspired by our city. In Silver, the
Rebecca Cunningham is an Australian curator, sound, and performance artist.Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Music, Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University and Bachelor of Creative Industries 2A Honours, Interdisciplinary from QUT and is currently undertaking a PHD in Business [Griffith University] exploring the operation of trust in the global performance art network.
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WHEN : 12th December – 1st February WHERE : Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey St, South Bank A Sense of Place and Culture – British and Australian Narrative Jewellery. Transplantation is a travelling exhibition hosted by the Queensland College of Art showcasing a group of 12 contemporary jewellery artists from the UK
Vanessa Bertagnole is a photographer, artist, arts consultant and independent curator based in Brisbane. Most recently with her fine art photography, Bertagnole has been exploring abstract forms in an attempt to illustrate the elusiveness of memory and mediated forms of communication. In doing so, she hopes to blur the boundaries of photography and challenge the
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Fellow Humans, Stephen Hart’s latest exhibition at Museum of Brisbane is a riveting collection of 20 sculpted timber humans. Some of the people chosen to be represented in sculptural form are close to the artist, such as his daughter, wife and brother-in-law. Amongst them is a lawyer, an architect and even the artist himself, plus
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An exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed contemporary Australian artist, Ben Quilty, is currently on display at Jan Murphy Gallery, Fortitude Valley. As viewers approach the gallery space they are first accosted by the dark confronting glare of the artist in his Self-portrait, on the day of the review 2013 as he stares numbly out
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