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TANGIBLE: RECENT WORKS BY SEBASTIAN DI MAURO AND CARLY SCOUFOS

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This exhibition invites the audience to engage with contemporary art installation practice through an immersive sensory experience. Visitors will be able to carefully explore the tactile qualities of specific sculptural works by these artists through the sense of touch. This exhibition will include recent works by well-known artists, Sebastian Di Mauro and Carly Scoufos who […]

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Come along, have a drink, check out the amazing spaces at Jugglers Art Space that will be filled with a wide range of drawings, paintings, sculpture, collaborations, installations and live art by artists: Alice Weitherhal Joseph Gracia KNOCK Matt Lockwood Zoe Mary Opening Event Friday 21st February 6-9pm

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Anastasia Booth – Means are the Ends: The Command Issue

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Anastasia Booth’s practice centers on the problematic relationship between feminine desire and divergent sexual practice. During Booth’s 3 month residency at LEVEL her sculptural and video works have looked to the rituals, materials and iconographies associated with certain divergent subcultures. By appropriating these tropes, her resulting exhibition will consider how these signs function in portraying

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Sancintya Simpson

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Sancintya Simpson was born 1991 Brisbane, Australia, where she currently works and lives. She is a first generation Australian whose migrant parents are of South African-Indian and Anglo-New Zealand heritage. The impact of being brought up in a cross-cultural environment has had a major influence on Simpson’s artistic practice; leading her work to be based

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Carl Warner: I will support you for ever and ever

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I will support you for ever and ever by Carl Warner continues his ongoing engagement with the visual resonance of  20th Century Modernism into the 21st Century.  This exhibition is offered as an online exhibition.  Works can be viewed online and purchase enquires made via info@janamntonart.com Exhibition can be viewed at – www.janmantonart.com/carl-warner-i-will-support-you-for-ever-and-ever

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Lloyd Rees : Life and Light

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Brisbane-born painter and draftsman Lloyd Rees (1895–1988) is one of Australia’s most recognised and awarded landscape artists. The exhibition honours the important connection between Lloyd Rees and Queensland, especially regarding his early development as a draftsman and artist, the exhibition explores the range of his artistic achievements throughout his long career. Moving from Brisbane to

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Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award

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The Lethbridge Gallery has established a strong reputation for exhibiting works demonstrating exceptional detail and creativity. With the intention of fostering the next generation of artists, Lethbridge Gallery initiated the Lethbridge 10 000. Now in its fifth year, this exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit

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Performance Now

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Performance Now brings together work by some of the most significant artists of today to explore the ephemerality of live performance and how this is captured by artists and transformed into new work that contains the power and content of the original. Together the selected works are an indication of the extent to which visual artists

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Returned to Glory Recycled Art Competition & Exhibition 2014

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The Hornsby Shire Council ‘Returned to Glory’ recycled art competition and exhibition celebrates the re-use and recycling of waste through art. Artists are invited to submit work which demonstrates the concept of resource recovery – turning waste into a resource – through the use of recovered waste products and materials. Over $5,000 in total will

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Jeremy Hynes Award

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Every two years, the Institute of Modern Art awards $10k to an experimental Queensland artist in memory of Queensland artist Jeremy Hynes. The Brisbane art scene was shocked by the death of Jeremy Hynes late in 2006. During the 1990s Hynes produced a body of audacious performance work, which was presented at the IMA and

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Ross Manning: Perpetual Motion

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Ross Manning has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including ‘Volumes’, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2013); ‘Spectra’, Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2012); ‘Field Emissions’, Starkwhite, Auckland (2012); and ‘3 Songs’, MONA FOMA at Long Gallery, Hobart (2010). He has also participated in a number of group exhibitions, among them ‘Foundation’s Edge: Artists and Technology’, QUT

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Presence / Absence

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Presence/absence explores the proposition and outcome of the artist body within their work. Highlighting a variation of approaches each artwork gives rise to the idea of physical or implied presence. The exhibition further explores the differing manifestations of this notion within the practices of five Brisbane Artists: Athena Thebus Chris Bennie Clark Beaumont Louise Bennet

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Kirra Jamison

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Kirra Jamison cultivates ideas. Initial kernels of intuition germinate into lines, forms and patterns that branch and weave and interlay the picture plane with snatches of narrative. Floating amongst the fragments of decorative motif and patterning, vignettes of everyday experience emerge and inveigle the viewer with abundant possibilities of meaning. Harmonious or chaotic, repeated or

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Hannah Cutts

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Hannah Cutts has been collecting and curating sets of well worn regalia for over 25 years. Hand painted linoleum, deer antlers, bicycle seats, fishing buoys, wooden hand reels, 1970’s tap heads…the list goes on. After 18 years in the design industry she has found the time, energy and the resolve to finally start creating the

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BRAINAL PIPES CONFUSION CAVE

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Collaborative artists Wilkins Hill (Wendy Wilkins and Wes Hill) have been working together since 2000, pursuing a shared interest in the phenomenological aspects of communicating meaning between an artwork and an audience. In Brainal Pipes Confusion Cave, the artists expand upon a series of works developed in Germany between 2008 and 2012, which stage obtuse

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Ngurra Nganampa “Community”

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Ngurra Nganampa “Community” featuring Papunya Tjupi. 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 program is complemented with

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Indigenous Writing Fellowships

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DEADLINE : 31st January, 2014 Entries for the 2014 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships are now open. The Fellowships – The two winners will each receive: -$10,000 prize money – manuscript development with black&write!’s Indigenous editors at SLQ – publication by prestigious Indigenous publisher Magabala Books For more information please visit the website

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New World City

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‘New World City’ is a group exhibition providing a cross-sectional glimpse into local emerging art. This exhibition aims to reflect Brisbane’s energised and critical emerging art community that is contributing to the city’s growing reputation as an artistic centre. Presenting a diverse range of concerns, aesthetics and media, ‘New World City’ will focus on students

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Sugar

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Coming of age within regional Queensland is an experience saturated with the images and identifiers of a male dominated culture; where sports, agriculture, and a mantra of “hard yakka” reign supreme. Combining documentary photography with site-specific performance, Sugar explores existing tensions within femininity, womanhood and familial identity. Performing within the artist’s grandmother’s home, and using

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Dark Matter

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Ali Bezer’s practice explores a phenomenology of noise that generates visual meaning from invisible sensations. Her predominant use of metal establishes an intricate interplay of gravity, magnetism, material and light drawn from in-depth research into the physicality of sound. Mitchell Donaldson’s practice explores the unmaking of the self in an attempt to comprehend the meaning

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Transfer

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Show Arts Gallery presents Transfer an exhibition showcasing prints and works on paper by recent Southbank Institute of Technology Visual Art graduates Helle Cook, Jeanette Stok, Lisa Willersdorf, Julie Purcell and Kathy Mack. The exhibition serves to document this important period of change (transfer) and progression in the lives of these emerging artists. Transfer exposes each of the artist’s

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Making Friends

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Making Friends is the follow up exhibition to a one month residency that took place in Auckland between Australian artists David Creed and Angela Rossitto from The Wandering Room and New Zealand artist Justin Jade Morgan from Development AIR. Living together in Justin’s warehouse space and observing each others routines at close quarters led them

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Animal Fanfair

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WHEN : 7th January – 15th February WHERE : Pine Rivers Art Gallery Animal FanFair draws attention to humankind’s changing relationships to animals which are complex and often contradictory. The selected artists Katka Adams, Marian Drew, Hayden Fowler, Kelly Hussey-Smith, Owen Hutchison, Claude Jones, Sam Leach, Emma Lindsay, Rod McRae and Walter Stahl have dedicated

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Stephen Hart : Fellow Humans

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WHEN : 18th October – 2nd March WHERE : Museum of Brisbane Best known for his detailed figurative sculpture, Stephen Hart has developed his career utilising the traditional technique of hand-carving timber to examine and express the strengths and virtues of humanity, the individual’s place in society and our collective responsibility. In Fellow Humans Hart

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