Join featured artist Camille Serisier and Museum of Brisbane Exhibition Designer Alison Ross for a personalised walk through David Malouf and friends. Gain inside knowledge into the development of the exhibition as well as a discussion into Serisier’s artwork and her connection with David Malouf. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ […]
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Educators will explore the theme of “sustainability” by collecting materials and found objects to create an abstract mixed media assemblage artwork. Educators will be shown how to create an aesthetically harmonious collage of assembled elements by examining materials and composition.Date: Sunday 1 June Where: Brisbane Institute of Art, 41 Grafton Street, Windsor Time: 10am – 4pm
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This is a free workshop session dealing with Tax & Finance Matters for Artists & Artsworkers delivered by Brian Tucker. The focus of the session is Facts about tax, your arts business and preparing your tax return. Where: Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts & LIVESTREAM via Web TV Time: 7.00 pm – 8.00 pm Cost: FREE but
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On the eve of the centenary of World War I, a war that pitched Australia against Germany, it might be salutary to reflect upon the history of artistic interaction between the two countries. We might begin with the arrival here of several German or German-trained artists in the 19th century (John Lindt, Eugene von Gérard
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Martin Smith is a soulful photographer. His works reflect both the intimate and trying moments of his life, depicting meaningful moments and places, without contrivance.Smith foregoes traditional photography, incorporating text and collage within his images. Martin Smith’s works are exhibited regularly both in Australia and internationally. In 2007 Smith was included in Primavera at the MCA
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Svenja Kratz is a contemporary Brisbane based artist interested in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary creative practice, particularly the intersections between science and art. Svenja’s work gives rise to the complex relationships between humans and other organisms, engaging with the human endeavour to understand, manipulate and control the world around us, particularly through scientific research. Through her practice
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StateoftheART Gallery is inviting Australian artists currently studying or who have graduated within the last five years from a recognised higher education art or design course to apply for online representation. Artists working in any visual media can submit works for consideration. Please complete the Preliminary Application Form by following the link http://www.stateoftheartgallery.com.au/artists/join. All applications
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The MAX Indigenous Art Competition celebrates the quality and diversity of the practice of painting among Indigenous artists nationwide. The winning artworks will be used to help redesign the new GETS (Goldfields Employment and Training Services) program and bring a new face to GETS Australia, alongside other MAX Indigenous programs. The Major Prize winning artwork
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The Exhibition Development Project offers intensive training to emerging artists wanting to develop/improve their exhibition concept, planning, design and development skills to a professional level. Over five intensive workshops July – August participants will learn about the essential the principles of exhibition planning, design and development and gain valuable insight into the practicalities of how
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The Macquarie Photography Prize is an international photography competition open to anyone from any country. 2014 MPP categories are: Open – Any Subject The Colour Red People Arthouse 2014 MPP guidelines for entry: Entry fee is $7.00AUD per photograph. No limit to the number of photographs entered. Photographs must have been captured since 1st July 2012. $22,000AUD in
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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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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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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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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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Metro Arts opens its doors to welcome back Brisbane emerging artists fresh from presenting in Melbourne’s Next Wave 2014. In recognition of the need for artists to work nationally in order to build sustainable practices, Metro Arts has joined forces with the biennial festival. This is the first time that work from Next Wave festival
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YOU WORRY ME will indeed worry you. Messing around with ink and paint is a preoccupation of both ‘artists’, and has precluded any kind of normal, healthy development of boys their age. In fact, this exhibition is a part of their legal probation requirement, in an effort to enforce a smooth transition back into society. It is
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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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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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Brave and curious? Ready to ask what’s next? Join with us to discover what’s new in 2015. We are now calling for proposals to be a part of our 2015 program, including our Performance, Exhibition and Artist in Residence Programs. The 2015 Exhibition Program will present exhibitions over 10 months in the Gallery space on level 2.
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Calling all Brisbane Experimental Artists working in visual art, performance, sound, screen and spoken word: The Brisbane Experimental Art Festival is calling for applications to present work in BEAF 2014 to be held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts on Saturday 9th August 2014. In 2014 BEAF is taking over the Judith Wright Centre for a one
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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
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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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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Christine Atkins has been painting as a full time professional artist for the past 20 years. She has a Bachelor of Art from the University of Queensland majoring in Fine Art and Art History. Studying the work of the old masters, Christine has taken numerous trips to the galleries of Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples and London.
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The City of Hobart Art Prize is an acquisitive award open to artists, designers and craftspeople Australia-wide. This annual exhibition is coordinated and presented by the City of Hobart and brings together the best of contemporary visual arts, craft and design practice.The 2014 Prize seeks to present a broad survey contemporary art exhibition from a
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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 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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‘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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We currently have the following exhibitions open for artists to submit work: “POP!” submissions due by 7/5/2014. Opening night 16/5/2014. Pop of colour not necessarily in Pop art style. We want the paintings to be leaping off the wall! We also hire out our gallery for Solo or Collaborative Exhibitions for any artists that might
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The inimitable Las Vegas based artist Matthew Couper opened his exhibition ‘BLACK SQUARE, BLACK CROSS, BLACK FLAG’ last week at Brisbane’s SmallWorks gallery in Kangaroo point. He recently stated that ‘like any good Johnny Cash, Nick Cave or Pixies song, you’ve got to have sex, death and religion fuelling the fire’. Working in a Spanish colonial tradition,
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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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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 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
Rosella first appeared on the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s and has become the most successful artist to come out of far North Queensland’s renowned Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. Her paintings revolve loosely around several narratives of her social, physical, and natural, environment. They feature events such as hunting and fishing expeditions, weather
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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
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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