EightONE signifies the union of eight graduating art students into one cohesive exhibition. We are the South Bank Institute of Technology’s first Advanced Diploma group and we are excited by the potential to introduce ourselves to South East Queensland’s creative arts community. Eightone ‘s opening night celebrations begin Wednesday the 4th of June from 6 […]
Between 1950 and 1972, galleries run by Brian Johnstone were Brisbane’s foremost forums for contemporary Australian art; Marodian Gallery (1950–1952), and The Johnstone Gallery run with his wife Marjorie (1952–1972), represented an impressive range of Australian artists. The Johnstone Gallery was arguably Australia’s most famous commercial gallery at that time, exhibiting the works of Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, Ray Crooke, Lawrence Daws, Donald
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Where do artists come from? Is it a matter of choice to become an artist, or do some predefined qualities make it inescapable? As part of The Working Life, Vilnius-based artist Darius Mikšys will host an Artists Parents Meeting at the IMA on Thursday 5 June, where these and other questions will be addressed in a private forum. Artists Parents Meetings are live
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Flying Arts Alliance is presenting a new exhibition of works which celebrates the rich artistic influences and diversity of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists of Far North Queensland at the Shopfront Gallery during May. The exhibition, Freshwater Saltwater: Connecting to Country, is curated by UMI Arts resident curator Teho Ropeyarn and features thirty
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Featuring works by Richard Bell, Andrea Fraser, Marianne Flotron, Melanie Gilligan, Jesse Jones, Darius Mikšys, Stuart Ringholt, and Superflex. Representations of labour have a long tradition in art; and anxiety, fear and terror equally so. In the years since the 2008 global financial crisis, many artists have showed a renewed interest in examining the relationship between
The stormtroopers, in the epic Star Wars films, were a collective of military personnel. They carried out Imperialist duties, prescribed by the evil Lord Vader, with cool efficiency. This is an interesting choice of imagery, for an artist of politically subversive and culturally critical means. For Alasdair Macintyre, his shiny white warriors are emblematic of
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Natalya Hughes deconstructs, reconfigures and rewrites figurative images to form partially abstracted and highly patterned psychological worlds. Working broadly across painting, collage, print, animation and installation, Hughes conflates the boundaries between realism and the fantastical, grotesque and kitsch in an intense and often humorous exploration of decadence and the grossly familiar. Based in Sydney, Hughes’s
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Painter Jasper Knight completed a Master of Arts at the University of New South Wales. His broadly coloured, painterly works viscerally depict icons of the urban landscape. Knight has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Alice Springs and internationally in London. He was awarded the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2003, the
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“The Long Martch” combines the historical concept of the marching army, with the perilous journey of the artist through time. Using the “stormtrooper” character from the “Star Wars” series, the lonely voyage of the artist is directly inscribed upon the armour of each trooper, reflecting both a homage to those who have gone before, as
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The Blaktism, a new video work by Megan Cope, is a high-energy performance and ritual that sees a young female “Fair-Skinned Aborigine” undertake a sacred ceremony in which she receives the rite of authenticity validated by cultural authorities ever present in the Australian cultural landscape. The sacred ceremony itself (too mystical to discuss in media ephemera)
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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
The National Portrait Gallery calls all creative types aged 18 – 30 to submit a screen-based digital portrait for the $10,000 Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014. The artist judged to have made the most outstanding screen-based digital portrait will be awarded a $10,000 bursary and an artistic residency at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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Established in 2001, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize attracts strong support from artists, collectors and critics and is the first and only national acquisitive prize that showcases the quality and diversity of sculptures of smaller dimensions. Over 500 entries from national and international artists are received annually and approximately 40 finalists’ works are exhibited over
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Entries for the 2014 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture are now open. In 2014 the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture features the $50,000 Lester Prize and a $7,500 People’s Choice Prize. For more information please visit – Website
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Each year, the Brett Whiteley Studio, administered by the Art Gallery of NSW, invites applications for a major travelling art scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a talented young artist with an established body of work, who is best able to demonstrate the use and benefit of the scholarship to further their art education in Europe.
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The Lumen Prize Exhibition celebrates the very best fine art created digitally from emerging and established artists globally. Our goal is to focus the world’s attention on this exciting genre of fine art through an annual competition and global tour of the works selected by our eminent panel of judges. We are seeking the most compelling
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines today called for Queenslanders to contribute to a major new art installation being created by Los Angeles artist collective, Fallen Fruit. Fallen Fruit of Brisbane: Pineapple Express! is a large, site-specific artwork that has been specially commissioned for ‘Harvest’, GOMA’s major exhibition exploring the production,
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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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