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The National Photographic Portrait Prize

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The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual event intending to promote the very best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. Photography is the dominant portrait medium of our time. The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an important aspect of the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition program, reflecting the distinctive vision […]

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International Artist Talk : Tehching Hsieh

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Join Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh at GOMA in conversation with Russell Storer, Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, QAGOMA. Hsieh is in Australia for One Year Performance 1980 – 1981’ (Time Clock Piece) currently on display at Carriageworks, Sydney and will discuss this and other projects in this special event. TEHCHING HSIEH Celebrated Taiwanese-American performance

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Noosa National Art Award

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As one of Queensland’s oldest and most prestigious regional galleries, the Noosa Regional Gallery is the premier regional gallery on the Sunshine Coast and is renowned for showcasing world-class innovative Australian contemporary art and design. This year, the Noosa Regional Gallery proudly announces the Noosa Art Award. Entries are currently being sought for the Noosa

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Rhys Lee: Recent Works

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Rhys Lee paints to excite. With instinct acting as his muse, he manipulates elements of form and colour to create otherworldly scenarios. Immediately striking is his use of electric colours that animate the picture plane and jostle for pre-eminence. Colour renders the forms that populate his canvases, seductively luminescent. The vaguely grotesque figures and mysterious

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A Dot on a Line

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Presented as part of the Queensland Festival of Photography – A Dot on a Line is a collaborative project turning a small Albion warehouse into a one night exhibition space. The show brings together emerging Australian artists working within the expanded field of photography. As alternatives to Jeff Wall’s notion of photography’s “heavy burden of depiction,”

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Unfolding Rhythms by Renata Buziak

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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: Courage

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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

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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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PETER MADDEN – ‘From Everywhere Else’

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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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Malungu Ngapa (From The Sea)

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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 : Preludes

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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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Joseph Daws

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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

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No Place

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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

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Four Performative acts of Photography

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‘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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Sam Fullbrook

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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

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EMBEDDED: CRAIG WALSH

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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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MORE OR LESS HUMAN

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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

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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

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Fiona Foley: Courage

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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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PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE

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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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SCOPE Galleries Art Award: Art Concerning Environment

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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

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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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Bundit Puangthong

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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

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Charles Robb

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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 +

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Speak to Me : Slam Poets

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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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Charles Robb : Loss Control II

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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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