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Space & Place

You are warmly invited to the exhibition opening of the Space & Place – Queensland Festival of Photography Prize Finalist Exhibition and announcement of prize winners on Friday 28 March, 5-8pm at the Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) gallery at the corner of Cordelia and Russell Streets, South Brisbane, Australia. Featuring the following finalists: Alithea

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Camille Serisier’s ‘Ovid’s Medusa’.

‘In the performative spectacle everybody is a potential performer, from movie stars to next-door neighbours’ – Sven Lutticken, 2009 Borrowing classic tales and characters from Greek mythology, Serisier’s Ovid’s Medusa, a one-night event at InHouse ARI on the 7th of December, playfully engages with culturally and historically encoded gender narratives. Upon entering the exhibition, the

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Maud Creative

Maud Creative is a fine art studio/gallery situated in Newstead, close to the Brisbane CBD and ‘the Valley’ area. The Gallery was officially open by Dr. Les Walkling (Ph.D, D.F.A.) on February 8th, 2014 The studio/gallery was born out of an appreciation of fine art photography and is a space to come to enjoy, admire and

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Common Woman

Common Woman I – VI is a four-part exhibition series exploring contemporary intersectional feminist discourse, featuring 16 Australian artists and artist collaborations whose works engage with issues of gender, race, class and sexuality. The exhibition has been developed by LEVEL’s emerging curator, Lisa Bryan-Brown. Each week, ‘Common Woman’ will exhibit four artists’ works. The artists

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Peepshow/Creepshow and Disco Dilettante

The Hold Artspace warmly invites you to the opening of two upcoming exhibitions: ‘Disco Dilettante’ and ‘Peepshow/Creepshow’. Jamie Mumford Disco Dilettante The Disco Dilettante delights in the superficial nature of all things seductive, shiny and fantastic. This exhibition of recent work by Jamie Mumford considers the elements that make up the glamorous, excessive popular culture of

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Everything Is A Distraction

How can we decouple our attention from the objectives that drive our lives – self-positioning, the promise of novelty, opportunities, life narratives, the constant maximising of pleasure and possessions?   Everything is a Distraction is part object iconography, part instructional video and part transcendental advertisement. The exhibition uses sculpture, video, photography and drawing to attempt

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Still Life: Joachim Froese

Still Life: Joachim Froese Photographs 1999-2008 is a Flying Arts touring survey exhibition of internationally renowned photographer. The exhibition ‘features a selection of works from four series: ‘Rhopography’ 1999 – 2003; ‘Written in the Past’ 2007; and ‘Archive’ 2008. Over the last ten years Froese’s work has concentrated on photographic still life and often explores

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Lewis Miller

Born in Melbourne in 1959, Lewis Miller trained at the Victorian College of the Arts in the late 1970s, and completed post graduate studies at the College in 1982.  In that same year the artist was awarded the College’s Hugh Ramsey Portrait Prize. Miller is considered one of this country’s leading figurative and portraiture artists.

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Marisa Purcell

The subject of Marisa Purcell’s artwork cannot be found in her paintings but comes about through the experience of them. Their meaning resides in the illusory spaces created between the swathes and splashes of brilliant saturated colour, and the bold and ghostly forms that spill out from her canvases to permeate the viewer. Purcell describes

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Rod Moss: DRAWN

Rod Moss legendary painter from the fringes of Alice Springs brings us more of his arresting imagery – a closer look into Aboriginal daily life in the desert. Often perplexing but always engaging, these graphic works can appear both mundane and sardonic. Tongue in cheek references and suggestive poses by the Aboriginal subjects simultaneously challenge

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Christian Capurro : Amateur Prop Films

Christian Capurro works with a diverse range of media, tools and processes. He was curated into the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and also recently into: InVisible: Art at the Edge of Perception, Mass MoCA (2010); Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, IMA/Tin Sheds/Samstag Museum of Art (2009/10); Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, AGNSW/Asialink touring exhibition (2009/11); Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian

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Everyday Magic

Talking about Robert Rauschenberg’s practice, John Cage once remarked ‘beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look’. Taking this idea as a starting point and drawing on the Gallery’s contemporary collections, ‘Everyday Magic’ focuses on how the everyday — both materials and situations — can be transformed into art.

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EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION

How can we decouple our attention from the objectives that drive our lives–self-positioning, the promise of novelty, opportunities, life narratives, the constant maximising of pleasure and possessions? Part object iconography, part instructional video, part transcendental advertisement, Everything is a Distraction is an exhibition of new work by Marnie Edmiston. Using a combination of sculpture, video, photography and

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Wendy Sharpe

Wendy Sharpe is acclaimed as one of Australia’s most significant and awarded artists. She has won the Archibald Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Prize (twice) and the Sulman prize (judged by Albert Tucker). She has received major commissions including Australian Official Artist to East Timor, the first woman painter since World War II. Wendy is

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Conversation Pieces

Opening on International Women’s Day, ‘Conversation Pieces’ presents works by Australian artists Agatha Gothe-Snape, Alex Martinis Roe and Hannah Raisin and collaborative works by Catherine or Kate, Scott Ferguson (Erika Scott & Brooke Ferguson) and Courtney Coombs & Caitlin Franzmann. These artists engage with ideas of contemporary feminism through processes of dialogue and exchange; exploring

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Richard Dunlop

Richard Dunlop first began making large paintings colliding botanical illustration with still life and landscape conventions at a time when the status and the appeal of painting was waning. He described the taboo of mixing these previously distinct genres as irresistible. Today it seems that it is Dunlop’s paintings that are irresistible to both contemporary

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Arthur Boyd : An Active Witness

This is the first major exhibition to consider the social consciousness that infused Arthur Boyd’s life and to link his political concerns with his artwork. Paintings, prints, ceramics and other materials from the Bundanon Trust Collection offer insights into how one of Australia’s greatest artists dealt with the social responsibility that defines humanity. The exhibition

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The Magic of Printmaking

‘The Magic of Printmaking’ celebrates both the magical effects obtained through diverse printing techniques, and the magic that happens when a diverse group of seven artists explore these techniques together. The result is an exhibition that offers the viewer endless possibilities of to discover this magic in a wide variety of both artistic prints and

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Gemma Smith

Gemma Smith was born Sydney in 1978. In 1999 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and in 2004 an honours year at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Gemma Smith’s work begins with abstract painting, with a specific interest in colour’s ability to subvert the flat picture plane.

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Richard Long International Artist talk

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear one of Britain’s most successful contemporary sculptors, Richard Long share insights into his career and recent work, in conversation with Rex Butler, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Queensland. Recipient of the prestigious Turner Prize in 1989 for ‘the exceptional and enduring quality of his contribution to British art’, Long’s

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David Kas and Ai Shah

This exhibition combines the paintings of two of the Lethbridge L10 000 winners – David Kas from 2013 and Ai Shah in 2010. Both of these artists have a keen interest in landscape painting but utilize very different techniques resulting in very different styles. David looks at new ways of interpreting the landscape through his

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We Need To Act Forum

Building on the energy that emanated from LEVEL’s previous forum, ‘Feminism and Art in 2013’, ‘We Need To Act’ will focus on the future, looking at what it means to act in the political sense, and how artists, curators and writers are attempting to create change. With a keynote presentation from one of Australia’s most

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PORTAL (NOCTURNAL)

PORTAL is Luke Jaaniste ongoing project that brings together a host of vintage keyboards (Yamaha Portasounds from early 1980s) to create mesmerising ambient sound fields. PORTAL (NOCTURNAL) is a special late-night performance-scape in the car park of Metro Arts – as part of Metro Arts’ Pop Up Bar & Supper Club, timed for this year’s

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Magic Miles | Audrey Lam

Magic Miles is set in one of those ordinary afternoons when somehow small details and experiences collide to become an exhilarating and perfect moment, maybe palpable only to you, you who it comes to more easily because you’re young and invincible, exuberant for anything and everything matters, even – or especially because – the ordinary

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The Edge

A digital culture centre providing visitors with the opportunity to explore creativity across the arts, technology, science and enterprise. The Edge presents an ongoing calendar of exhibitions, events and workshops and offers free access to a range of hardware and software. At The Edge we aim to provide Queenslanders of all ages with the opportunity

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