Calling all Brisbane Experimental Artists working in visual art, performance, sound, screen and spoken word: The Brisbane Experimental Art Festival is calling for applications to present work in BEAF 2014 to be held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts on Saturday 9th August 2014. In 2014 BEAF is taking over the Judith Wright Centre for a one […]
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Parer Place Urban Screens presents Fictions, an exhibition exploring photographic artists working in moving image. This program is presented in conjunction with the Queensland Festival of Photography 5: Photography and Fictions. Showcasing work by artists who predominately work in the area of photography, Fictions explores how the photographic aesthetic is translated and augmented when incorporating movement. The shift to
Curated by Adriana Teresa and Graham Letorney, the exhibition presents a selection of individual images by FotoVisura Members recognized by a panel of leading editors and curators in theFotoVisura SPOTLIGHT Grant for Outstanding Student Photography Projects. Launched annually since 2010–The FotoVisura Grant aims to support personal photography projects and encourage the production and development of photography outside of the commercial
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Staged photographs of Aborigines against elaborate backdrops were taken in Brisbane’s first photography studios from the late 1860s. Often treasured for their exotic beauty and foreign savagery by European settlers at the time, the photographs quickly became collectors’ items and many originals still exist in public and private collections across the world today. In Captured 46 original
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Christine Atkins has been painting as a full time professional artist for the past 20 years. She has a Bachelor of Art from the University of Queensland majoring in Fine Art and Art History. Studying the work of the old masters, Christine has taken numerous trips to the galleries of Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples and London.
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The City of Hobart Art Prize is an acquisitive award open to artists, designers and craftspeople Australia-wide. This annual exhibition is coordinated and presented by the City of Hobart and brings together the best of contemporary visual arts, craft and design practice.The 2014 Prize seeks to present a broad survey contemporary art exhibition from a
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A national, acquisitive prize for painting The City of Albany Art Prize is open to living Artists working in Australia and features a $25,000 major acquisitive prize as well as a range of non-acquisitive awards. The major acquisitive prize also includes a 4 week studio residency in a self-contained cottage at the Vancouver Arts Centre
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Vivienne Binns has established herself as a highly respected and astute artist within the Australian artistic landscape. Her work explores what it means to be an artist in Australia with local and European histories, engaging with cultures in the Asia Pacific region. Her abiding interests are the function of art making as a human activity,
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‘Lady Emma Hamilton captured the imagination of gossips and grand tourists alike, becoming an icon of feminine independence, survival, and sexuality for Britain’s long 18th century. The ‘Attitudes,’ a series of artistic reinterpretations of scenes from her husband’s famous collection of Apulian vases, are witness to her beauty and the allure of the classical past.
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We currently have the following exhibitions open for artists to submit work: “POP!” submissions due by 7/5/2014. Opening night 16/5/2014. Pop of colour not necessarily in Pop art style. We want the paintings to be leaping off the wall! We also hire out our gallery for Solo or Collaborative Exhibitions for any artists that might
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The inimitable Las Vegas based artist Matthew Couper opened his exhibition ‘BLACK SQUARE, BLACK CROSS, BLACK FLAG’ last week at Brisbane’s SmallWorks gallery in Kangaroo point. He recently stated that ‘like any good Johnny Cash, Nick Cave or Pixies song, you’ve got to have sex, death and religion fuelling the fire’. Working in a Spanish colonial tradition,
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Drawing on her wealth of experience within the global art world, Stephanie Rosenthal will explore the presentation of performance art in public institutions, focusing on new performative strategies and formats, as well as the complementary role of the digital archive. Notwithstanding its longer history, including Dada, Situationism, and the ritualised events of the pluralistic 1970s,
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Please join the screening of Let Your Light Shine, a film by Jodie Mack. Jodie Mack is an American animator/performance artist for whom 2013 was a breakthrough year. Under Mack’s direction, merch tables meet museum gift stores, the sublime meets Sublime the band, and stoner shop tie-dyes and dollar-store trinkets collude to create pulsing, ebullient spectacles. Colour-in-motion is
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Jessica Geron is a Brisbane-based artist with a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts in Sydney. With tongue firmly in cheek, she brings together cultural elements of assorted trash and treasure, to create moments of hilarity, fantasy and pure (and impure) decorative distraction. She quotes liberally from a rich history of
Rosella first appeared on the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s and has become the most successful artist to come out of far North Queensland’s renowned Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. Her paintings revolve loosely around several narratives of her social, physical, and natural, environment. They feature events such as hunting and fishing expeditions, weather
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Robert Jacks is recognised as one of Australia’s most significant and accomplished abstract artists. His art, like the man himself, is elegant, sophisticated and gregarious. Jacks studied sculpture and painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ad held his first critically acclaimed solo exhibition in 1966. Soon after, he moved to New York to
WOOD: art design architecture explores innovative and outstanding uses of wood in contemporary Australian art, design and architecture. The exhibition showcases unique works by contemporary Australian artists, designers and architects engaging with the material qualities of wood. It represents a cross-section of current creative practices, modes of thinking and relationships to this fundamental material. It is
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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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“I think that mysterious things happen in familiar places. We don’t always need to run to the other end of the world” – Saul Leiter In Christopher McVinish’s new body of work, the artist has drawn on the past as well as the present in his quest to find meaning in the mundane. The
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A day devoted to performance, with a range of events and talks taking place in and around GOMA, featuring Australian artists who explore site-specific, performative and ephemeral practices. TALKS 10.00am | Artist talk Join Agatha Gothe-Snape for an introduction to the history of visual scores, and the intersections between dance and visual art, with particular reference to
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Please join The University of Queensland’s Society of Fine Arts (SoFA) for an evening of art and cocktails. This annual fundrasing event is the highlight of the SoFA calendar and will be held in the UQ Art Museum for the first time. Bid on artworks donated from a range of local galleries and artists between sipping fresh
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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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Submissions for the 2014 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing are only accepted online, by filling in the application form at www.jugglers.org.au. If you have any problems with the online registration, please contact Jugglers Art Space. Entry into the 2014 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing is open to all artists living and working in Australia. Entries must be a
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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 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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There Will Be_______ is centred around a 30 minute film by Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe. The piece addresses one of the twentieth century’s most shocking and mysterious society murders. Filmed on location at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, in the very rooms where the killings took place, and using only dialogue appropriated from dozens of
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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,”
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 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 – 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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Channels Festival is looking for two arts workers to head up the new team: an Artistic Director and a General Manager. Our new Artistic Director will be tasked with shaping the curatorial focus of Channels Festival 2015. Building on the bones of the 2013 program, they will have a unique opportunity to drive the vision, themes and critical framework of the
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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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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 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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‘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
Khaled Sabsabi spent his childhood in Lebanon and moved with his family to Australia in 1978, settling in multicultural Western Sydney. He specialises in multimedia and site-specific installations, often involving people on the margins of society. In 2003, he returned to Lbanon for the first time, which led to a reengagement with the region and
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