WHEN : 2nd November, 12:00pm – 11:30pm WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Pull, push, rip and ravage the known fabric of reality. 2high will unsettle your perceptions and reveal new truths. These are our worlds, vulnerable and breathtaking. 130 artists, 20 bands, 16 shows and 200 metres of vines will pack the Brisbane Powerhouse for 2high […]
WHEN : 1st November, 5:30pm WHERE : Metro Arts On the first Friday night of each month Metro Arts throws open its doors and invites audiences into the Artists’ space. Each month Friday Nights showcase works in development; rough, ready, and full of potential. Take the opportunity to step into studios, participate in talks, see
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Marcel Daniels is a Brisbane-based artist whose practice explores the complexities and ambiguities of personal, individuated experience in the context of the current postcolonial condition. Driven by an interest to critically and creatively explore materials, text, language and images Daniels creates installations that use personal biography to investigate broader issues of diaspora, heterogeneity and hybridity.
WHEN : 1st – 14th November WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Born in Brisbane in 1959, has a Diploma in Visual Communications from the Queensland College of Art and now lives and works in the Blue Mountains. She has held more than 30 solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous group and ‘by invitation’ exhibitions
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WHEN : 31st October, 6:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artpsace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane Presented in conjunction with our current exhibition ‘For want of a better word.’ The Hold Artspace warmly invites you to join us for a debate on the topic: Photography is easy. Speaking for the argument: Bruce Reynolds Lisa Bryan
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WHEN : 31st Oct – 14th Nov / Opening 1st Nov, 6:00pm WHERE : A-CH Gallery, 75 Vulture St, West End Stephen Russell presents new work that further explores his interest in the limits and meaning of the work of art under the contemporary conditions of commodification, digitisation, and distribution. For Torpor Audit, Stephen Russell
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WHEN : 31st October WHERE : Brisbane Convention Centre Heading into it’s sixth year in Brisbane, Semi-Permanent is very excited to be back in 2013 with a lineup of talented creatives to inspire and engage. Our speakers come from a diverse range of fields and backgrounds within art and design and are set to light-up
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WHEN : 30th October, 6:00pm WHERE : Blake House Gallery, 35 Adelaide Street, Brisbane Achromatism (noun) The visual property of being without chromatic colour. Created to run alongside the Brisbane leg of Semi-Permanent conferences, Achromatism aims to provide a show that encompasses Australian artists of varying styles to present a group show based around a
WHEN : 31st October – 10th November / Opening 31st, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts A solo exhibition by LEVEL artist in residence Leena Riethmuller. During Leena Riethmuller’s residency, she ran a six week somatic experience workshop involving 5 participants. Each week, a task was introduced to engage the participants in new bodily
WHEN : 27th October, 10:00am – 4:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley This is a comprehensive program of activities for artist interested in improving their business skills. The program consists of workshops, forums, master classes, artist consultations and a new workshop series and exhibition for emerging curators.
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WHEN : 24th – 27th October WHERE : Skygate at Brisbane Airport Larger-than-life sculptures, free Queensland Theatre Company performances, QAGOMA children’s art workshops and live music will transform Skygate from Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 October for Art with Altitude.
WHEN : 23rd – 28th October / Opening 26th Oct, 5:00pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery Interesting things happen when you mix disparate things together; sodium and water, stripes and polka-dot, art and life. ALL SORTS takes this simple approach to a heterogeneous selection of artwork for appropriately “mixed” results. Featuring local and interstate artists
WHEN : 26th – 27th October WHERE : Jugglers Artspace Unscene History is committed to the historical preservation and accurate documentation of the Brisbane Freestyle scene. Unscene plans to highlight the diverse history surrounding the Brisbane Freestyle scene through regular news updates. Following the exhibit, Unscene will continue to expand the timeline both before and
WHEN : 25th October, 7:30pm WHERE : Parer Place Parade Ground QUT Kelvin Grove As part of our OpenSource program Parer Place is holding a one night only free screening of One Day on Earth 10.10.10, the first film to have ever been simultaneously recorded across every country in the world.Gold coin donation, all proceeds
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WHEN : 25th – 27th October / Opening 25th, 6:00pm WHERE : The Box A collation of single works from many contemporary artists and performers to be displayed together as one creative body. Inspired by Carl Jung’s theory of the ‘collective unconscious’ the show hints at the many themes and archetypes influencing the subconscious of
WHEN : 25th October – 25th October 2014 WHERE : Online Exhibtion Over a ten year history, Museum of Brisbane (MOB) has played a vital role in the life of Brisbane city and its residents. MOB have unearthed hidden histories, given voice to the silent and revealed the extraordinary in the people and places of
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WHEN : 25th Oct – 2nd Nov / Opening 25th Oct, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace For Want of a Better Word will feature new works by emerging Brisbane artists David Chatfield, Emma Leslie, Felix Merry and Sarah Oxenham. The work of these four artists seeks to deconstruct traditional photography down to
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WHEN : 25th Oct – 30th Nov / Opening 25th Oct, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : SmallWorks Gallery 87 Bromley street Kangaroo Point Ben Pearce is well known for his deft reconfiguration of objects and textures, using form as a signifier of human emotion and psychological states and then blending these together to deliver potent
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WHEN : 24th October, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Addition Gallery The Addition Committee invites you and your friends to their last show of 2013. Addition # 6 is an exhibition in two parts. NAT KOYAMA LUCAS DAVIDSON Nat Koyama and Lucas Davidson employ the tension between still and moving imagery to examine the body
WHEN : 24th October, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn’s video Touching Reality conflates seeing and touching. We watch fingertips scroll through photographs on a touchscreen. The photographs are of corpses and carnage; scenes of war, violence, and dismemberment; bodies burnt and shredded. We see heads blown apart; bits of
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WHEN : 24th Oct – 9th Nov / Opening 24th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery Jon Cattapan is an extensively exhibited visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He first began exhibiting in 1979 and his works deal primarily with ways of representing urban topographies and narratives. He is known for
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DEADLINE : 7th December 2013 WetlandCare Australia invites photographers of all ages to enter our Photography Prize. World Wetlands Day falls on February 2nd each year and commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on the 2nd February 1971. The theme for World
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WHEN : 22nd October – 2nd November WHERE : Promoseven Place, 151 George St, Brisbane In this new object based installation, Ruth McConchie explores the links between processual and material obsessions, and the history of Promoseven Place. Completed in 1920, the building was originally designed to incorporate The State Savings Bank. Among its earlier tenants
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DEADLINE : November 1st, 2013 Oslo Screen Festival is now open for entries and would like to invite artists to send new video art works to the festival’s 4th edition in March 2014. The festival will take place at the cinemateque in Filmens Hus and other locations in the city. Please read the instructions before
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WHEN : 23rd October, 6:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Join Nancy Stilianos in conversation with Susan Ostling, Senior Lecturer Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art, as they discuss Nancy’s practice and the time intensive process behind the sculptural forms in Anthotopia. Plus visit the Gallery during Friday Night: November (1st Nov) to see Nancy pulling
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A-CH Gallery is currently accepting exhibition proposals. Proposals are welcome from people working in all creative practices. A-CH Gallery aims to provide an affordable exhibition space for emerging artists, and also offers an ideal opportunity to exhibit small bodies of work in an intimate space. Please submit a minimum of four high-resolution images, a short
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WHEN : 19th October – 14th December / Opening 19th Oct, 1:30pm WHERE : Caboolture Regional Art Gallery – 4 Hasking Street, Caboolture The Arts play an important role in defining us, both as individuals and as a collective. More than any other art form, sound has the capacity to define generations, transport us somewhere
DEADLINE : December 1st, 2013 The Hold Artspace consists of three rooms each available separately for hire, offering flexible exhibition options for artists to exhibit, document or develop their artwork. Our gallery spaces are ideal for solo or group exhibitions and can accommodate artist talks, artist/group residencies, workshops, screenings, performances as well as exhibition openings
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WHEN : 19th October, 10:00am – 1:00pm Sketchcrawl is a worldwide quarterly drawing meet-up that entices sketchers from all over the world to meet and and sketch their cities, and this happens on that day world-wide! Joining is free, and participants can scan and post their images online and then share them with Sketchcrawlers from
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WHEN : 19th October – 16th November / Opening 18th Oct, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy 282 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane Glaze presents new video work developed as part of Boxcopy’s Emerging artist program, by Brisbane-based artist, Liam O’Brien. The main area of O’Brien’s inquiry focuses on ideas of personal freedom, of which the construction
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DEADLINE : October 18th, 2013 Brenda May Gallery is currently accepting proposals from professional practising artists for the following group exhibition scheduled for 2014. ‘Sculpture 2014′ – January/February 2014 This show continues the tradition of opening our year with an exhibition devoted to the best and most interesting contemporary sculpture. Although there are no restrictions
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WHEN : 15th – 27th October / Opening 18th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Graydon Gallery 29 Merthyr Rd, New Farm Brisbane artist Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox presents an exhibition of paintings which explore new perspectives revealed by contemporary cosmological research, the study of the Universe. By taking the viewer away from Earth she subtly suggests that
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WHEN : 16th October – 9th November / Opening 17th Oct, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Nicholas Folland is a restless artist who is currently holidaying in his birthplace, Adelaide. He is a Samstag Scholar who studied within the research program at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam and the University of Barcelona,
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WHEN : 18th October – 3rd November WHERE : Fish Lane Studios Level 3, Fox Hotel 71-73 Melbourne St South Brisbane Short term residencies with artists Miso, Ghostpatrol, Sean Morris and publisher Small House Books. Each artist will work with resident publisher Small House Books to produce a limited run book. Program runs October 18
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WHEN : 17th October – 9th November WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Windowbox For Dispatch 09, Melbourne’s Chapter House Lane is sending Andrzej Nowicki’s Spooks go striding work up to Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Windowbox. Andrzej Nowicki has exhibited in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Brooklyn and Melbourne. Via Poland, South Africa and New York, the now
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WHEN : 16th October – 2nd November WHERE : Metro Arts Nancy Stilianos’s materially driven practice questions the environmental and economic stakes of mass consumption and asks whether we can construct our own anthotopia through the use of locally sourced materials. Image : Nancy Stilianos, I saved the world today (2013)
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