WHEN : 2nd Nov – 9th Feb WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery ‘California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way’ will introduce Australian audiences to a broad spectrum of industrial, architectural, commercial, fashion and craft design from California. Organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and curated by Wendy Kaplan (Curator and […]
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The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body. Each year, they deliver over $200 million in funding for arts organisations and individual artists across the country. The Grants section of their website provides you with information about our 2014 funding programs and the funding application process. It also
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WHEN : 30th November – 2nd March WHERE : QUT Art Museum Surveying the intriguing and vibrant Kimberley region in Western Australia through the work of over sixty contemporary artists, the exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to view works rarely seen, as well as work from emerging talent often difficult to view in the flesh
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WHEN : 19th October – 16th February WHERE : UQ Art Museum The prominence given to the self image in social media, on reality television and in everyday life has generated an audience primed to receive and consume personal information. Whether artists today operate from a digital platform or not, their self portraits are likely
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WHEN : 15th November – 27th April WHERE : Museum of Brisbane Six pairs of Queensland’s finest visual artists collaborate for the first time for Silver. Each duo — a leading photographer and artisan jeweller — consider the differences and commonalities in their practices to present new artworks inspired by our city. In Silver, the
Rebecca Cunningham is an Australian curator, sound, and performance artist.Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Music, Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University and Bachelor of Creative Industries 2A Honours, Interdisciplinary from QUT and is currently undertaking a PHD in Business [Griffith University] exploring the operation of trust in the global performance art network.
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WHEN : 12th December – 1st February WHERE : Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey St, South Bank A Sense of Place and Culture – British and Australian Narrative Jewellery. Transplantation is a travelling exhibition hosted by the Queensland College of Art showcasing a group of 12 contemporary jewellery artists from the UK
Vanessa Bertagnole is a photographer, artist, arts consultant and independent curator based in Brisbane. Most recently with her fine art photography, Bertagnole has been exploring abstract forms in an attempt to illustrate the elusiveness of memory and mediated forms of communication. In doing so, she hopes to blur the boundaries of photography and challenge the
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Fellow Humans, Stephen Hart’s latest exhibition at Museum of Brisbane is a riveting collection of 20 sculpted timber humans. Some of the people chosen to be represented in sculptural form are close to the artist, such as his daughter, wife and brother-in-law. Amongst them is a lawyer, an architect and even the artist himself, plus
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An exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed contemporary Australian artist, Ben Quilty, is currently on display at Jan Murphy Gallery, Fortitude Valley. As viewers approach the gallery space they are first accosted by the dark confronting glare of the artist in his Self-portrait, on the day of the review 2013 as he stares numbly out
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Archer Davies’ exhibition Altogether Elsewhere at the Hold Artspace in West End featured a showcase of Davies’ works spanning from 2012 and 2013. These new works were created both locally in Davies’ Brisbane studio, and during his recent residency in Philadelphia. Primarily exploring his artistic expression through oil paintings, Davies develops and creates works
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This year marked the fourth incantation of the UQ Art Museum’s ‘National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize,’ inviting artists to explore modes of self-expression and to reflect on the individual in society. Self portraiture has undergone many changes over the last century where the medium is no longer tackled with the traditional paint to canvas approach. It has seen
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Often forgotten Queenslanders – both people and places – brought into focus last month, with the exhibition of more than 100 photographs, stories and video portraits at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The Queensland Small Towns: Photo-documentary project exhibition showcased stories inspired by people living and working in Dalby and Moranbah – two rural Queensland towns
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The Simon Starling exhibition showing at the Institute of Modern Art from October 5th to November 30th 2013 presents a series of visual puzzles using an extensive array of materials. From sculpture and installation to photography and film, all the works within the exhibition are a result of extensive research, fine-tuning, and editing. Whilst in
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WHEN : 14th December – 8th March WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Since 1997, we have presented Fresh Cut, an annual exhibition showcasing our pick of emerging local artists. The show is limited to artists born or living in Queensland, who are up to six years out of art school, who have not shown
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WHEN : 25th October – 8th February WHERE : Artisan The Hightide project began with a design publication that captures a snapshot of recent design and shines the light on the current crop of high-profile Queensland designers who are paving the way forward. This exhibition features works from furniture to product design by the 23
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An exhibition of new works by Vernon Ah Kee, titled Invasion Paintings, is currently on display at Milani Gallery. Ah Kee is a contemporary Aboriginal artist based in Brisbane and his oeuvre, which ranges from realist drawings to post-conceptual text pieces, challenges the dominant narrative of Australian history by reframing it from an
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WHEN : 21st December – 4th March WHERE : Caboolture Regional Art Gallery A touring exhibition of fine art prints by indigenous artists Joel Sam and Brian Robinson. These artists explore their Torres Strait Islander culture through linocut, etching and dry point printing techniques.
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BNE ART is expanding its online platform and seeking freelance writers and editors to review local art exhibitions, as well as showcase short essays on broader arts related topics. This opportunity is ideal for undergraduate / postgraduate students and creative writers who wish to develop professional writing skills in the arts. Writing resources will be
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DEADLINE : Open Call Out The Burrow Creative Gallery Space is located in Brisbane’s West End at The Burrow cafe and restaurant. The Burrow supports the creative growth of Brisbane by providing a unique exhibition space for a wide range of emerging & professional, local Visual Artists. Ranging from Paintings on canvas, drawings, sculpture, photography,
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DEADLINE : 24th December 2013 We believe there is a better way for performers and producers than waiting for rare slots in theatres and losing life savings presenting in fringe festivals where there are more performances than audiences members and the entire budget goes on venue hire and paying for everything but the creation of
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WHEN : 20th December – 2nd January WHERE : The Loading Dock, 2 Edmonstone Street, West End Memory is a complex network within the human subject. The works of four local artists in SPACE–NON–SPACE present the fluidity and complexity of memory while maintaining the possibility to be read differently in relation to each other. The
WHEN : 19th – 21st December / Opening 21st December, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace The Hold Artspace warmly welcomes you to join in the festivities for its last exhibition for 2013. We will be celebrating this milestone by exhibiting a number of artists who have shown with us during the year.
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WHEN : 19th December, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Fresh Cut artists Anita Holtsclaw and Ruth McConchie discuss their works in Fresh Cut 2013: Part 2. Both make works addressing the gaze—voyeurism and surveillance. Holtsclaw explores the representation of women (and the feminine) in cinema. She presents her romantic films in specially constructed
WHEN : 17th December – 24th December WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery New works by artists : Jason Benjamin Jason Fitzgerald Kirra Jamison Adam Lester Robert Malherbe Lara Merrett Image : Jason Benjamin, What we’re here for (2013)
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WHEN : 20th November – 23rd December WHERE : Jan Mnaton Gallery Now based in Arita, the home of Japanese blue and white ceramics, Koyama continues to explore manga-style motifs with the comically grotesque. Pika-chan is a creature born out of the nuclear disaster of Fukushima. Half angel of death and half kewpie doll, Pika-chan
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WHEN : 13th December, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : SmallWorks Gallery SmallWorks hosts its annual end of year exhibition. Showcasing a lineup of international and national artists, the exhibition delivers a rich range of works from the small to the large, from painting to sculpture, from photography to light based works. Artists : Scott Eady,
WHEN : 12th Nov – 21st December WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery Keringke Arts is named after an important and ancient place that was formed when the ancestor Kangaroo was passing through this land. Several of the Keringke Artists have responsibilities associated with the Keringke Rockhole site. Keringke Arts today produces a wide variety of
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WHEN : 15th November – 21st December WHERE : Andrew Baker Art Dealer Australian Artist Lincoln Austin investigates the blurred boundaries between Ideal and physical realities.Through geometry, pattern, systems and repetition Lincoln Austin engages with the formality of mathematics, the poetic of metaphor and the potential of material.Austin’s works range in scale and process markedly;
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WHEN : 7th December, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Inhouse ARI Camille Serisier investigates the relationship between human beings and the natural world by exploring differing representations of nature in Australian culture. She does this through a close reading of environmental narratives in a range of cultural sites, such as the theatre, early childhood education
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WHEN : 6th – 8th December WHERE : Boxcopy Altered States brings together video works by three artists interested in processes of transformation, translation and distraction, and the unreliable transmission of information. Jon Rafman restages the fast-paced, high-adrenaline experience of first-person shooter video gaming as a melancholic, wandering Bildungsroman: a search for past places, lost
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WHEN : 5th – 21st December / Opening 5th Dec, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery Vernon Ah Kee will present ‘Invder Paintings’. His art is primarily a critique of Australian popular culture, specifically the Black/White dichotomy. Aleks Danko will present ‘Pointless, More or Less’. He is recognised for a prolific career spanning over
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WHEN : 6th – 14th December / Opening 6th Dec, 6:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace A River Without Banks is a contemporary drawing exhibition including six Brisbane-based emerging artists. It will focus on the philosophical and conceptual possibilities of the medium, and will use new media, interactive works and installation to challenge and extend
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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 around Australia, in Tokyo, and California, where she also held
WHEN : 5th – 20th December / Opening 5th, 6:00 – 7:30pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre Shopfront Seven emerging curators and seven Queensland artists have come together to present ‘Uncanny’, an exhibition that explores the strange in the everyday. The artworks on show disrupt familiar scenes to re-examine expectations and perceptions. “Visitors to the
WHEN : 28th November – 7th February / Opening 28th Nov, 5:30 – 8:30pm WHERE : Griffith University Art Gallery, 226 Grey St, South Bank The annual curated showcase of Queensland College of Art graduate artists, including The Survey Co. Art Prize winners. GAS features Fine Art (Jewellery and Small Objects, Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture),
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