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Marina Strocchi & Wayne Eager

WHEN : 10th Sep – 5th October WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Hovering somewhere between abstraction and landscape, Marina Strocchi’s paintings are rich evocations of her experiences of living in the Central Australian desert. Melbourne- born Strocchi has lived in Central Australia for the past 20 years, working for a substantial period with the Aboriginal […]

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The Edge : Opportunities

SEPTEMBER SHORT COURSES Intro, intermediate and advanced workshops are available as part of each short course, as well as personalised support in one-on-one sessions. WordPress 29 August – 29 September WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) which powers over 60 million websites worldwide. This free, out-of-the-box solution is a straight forward way

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Bonemap’s Nerve Engine

WHEN : 10th – 14th September WHERE : The Block, QUT Precinct, Kelvin Grove Brisbane An interactive, new media dance experience where the audience generates elements of the live performance through their own movement-based interactions, creating a magic geography and socially engaged terrain – one participant at a time. Book your FREE 10 minute session

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Selfiephilia

WHEN : 5th – 15th September / Opening 6th, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace Artists : Tyza Stewart, Dana Lawrie, Nicola Scott & Lee Lombardi. Selfiephilia merges four distinct practices that intervene in or expand the definition of what constitutes a contemporary self-portrait. Rather than seeking to resolve this categorical question, these

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Processing Disagreement: Part 1

WHEN : 5th September, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Being embedded in entertainment—’the culture industry’—the moving image has often been a target for radical film artists. Some make explicitly political, socially engaged, strident, ideological works. Others process popular imagery through their avant-garde language, making their critique more abstract and implicit. These approaches can

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Deep Sleep

WHEN : 1st – 7th September / Opening 5th, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Box Deep Sleep is a multi-disciplinary exhibition at The Box, West End, curated by Luke Kidd specifically for the Brisbane Fringe Festival. This exhibition will feature the works of three emerging Brisbane based artists, Zoe Porter, Pirrin Francis and Dord

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GOMA TALKS: Country

WHEN : 5th September, 6:30pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Hosted by Daniel Browning, presenter of ABC Radio National’s Awaye! Explore writing as a medium for expressing ideas about country, including identifying with, being displaced from or belonging to a place, with guests including: Daniel Browning, Sue Abbey, Director, black&write! Melissa Lucashenko, Rory O’Connor,

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Grace and The Kissing Swans : Artist Talk by Chris Bennie

WHEN : 4th September, 6:30 – 8:00pm WHERE : Fish Lane Studios The Fox Hotel, Level 2 Grace and The Kissing Swans is a project that uses flood-affected caravans sourced from Bundaberg Council’s Waste Management Depot. Artist Chris Bennie is transforming them into contemporary sculpture for presentation in public contexts. Grace and the Kissing Swans

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Quilts 1700-1945

WHEN : Until 22nd September WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery Explore over 200 years of British quiltmaking. Every stitch tells a story. Quilts stimulate memories of warmth, comfort and security. They are familiar objects, yet carry a range of hidden histories and untold stories about textiles, women’s creativity and the lives of individuals and families.

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Arts Law Seminar – Copyright and Moral Rights for Artists

WHEN : 2nd September, 7:30 – 8:30pm WHERE : IMA screening room, 420 Brunswick Street, Judith Wright Centre Flying Arts in collaboration with The Arts Law Centre Australia are holding a free seminar on Monday 2 September 2013 at 7pm. Director Robyn Ayres will be presenting an update on contemporary arts law and copyright issues

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Claire Stening

WHEN : 20th Aug – 7th Sep WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery Claire Stening makes art to enrich our lives. On one hand her paintings offer perfect illusions of reality, rendered out of the play of dark and light, with extraordinary attention to detail and colour and an exactness that seduces our eye to believe

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John Honeywill

WHEN : 6th – 31st August WHERE : Philip Bacon Galleries “I paint the quiet visual conversations between everyday objects; paintings that explore presence and stillness in the genre of the still life—a genre that links the intimate world with the public.” John Honeywill Image: John Honeywill, Peonies (2012/13) oil on linen)

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Evangeline Cachinero

Evangeline Cachinero is a Brisbane-based artist working primarily in the mediums of mixed media painting, photography, digital art, video, web-based projects, iPhone art, gif animation and social media platforms. She was born in Australia, spent the majority of her early childhood in Spain and her teens to university in the USA. For more information please

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CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE : 30th August Artists, filmmakers, performers, critical thinkers, philosophers, postgraduate students, educators, emerging career researchers and creative people are invited to submit presentations at a 3-day conference held at the Whitlam Studio, Metro Arts, Brisbane from 22-24 November, 2013. This year’s Positive Feedback Loop Conference theme, Expanded and Experimental Screen Works, investigates the possibilities

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Dualism

WHEN : 28th – 31st August WHERE : Jugglers Artspace Dualism can be simply defined as a set of opposites that exist in our lives ie white│black, love│hate, hot│cold, good│evil, male│female etc. It is the notion that all concepts consist of two contrasting qualities, where, according to Western thought, one dominates the other. Metaphysical dualism

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Mono 15

WHEN : 29th August, 7:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Auditory hallucinations from Japan’s godfather of sound art Akio Suzuki and legendary English experimentalist David Toop. A joint project with Room 40. Image: Akio Suzuki

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Liu Zhuoquan

WHEN : 27th August – 7th September WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Liu Zhuoquan has taken the traditional craft of ’snuff bottle’ painting – painting on the inside of glass bottles – and created a new art form. The decorative representation of landscape, flora and fauna, people in various modes of behaviour, has been transformed

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Artist Call Out – Digital Projection Festival (Townsville)

DEADLINE : 26th August La Luna Youth Arts in Townsville is looking for emerging digital projection artists. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to present works during projection festival on 3,4,5, October 2014. Young artists who have skills in making digital works for projection on public sights as well as interactive works are encouraged to

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Kirra Jamison: New works on paper

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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you & I : panel discussion

WHEN : 24th Aug, 11:00am – 1:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End Join The Hold Artspace for a panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibition, ‘you & I: thoughts on intimacy’. Chaired by Deb Porch, artists Courtney Coombs, David Creed & David Spooner and Pirrin Francis will discuss the

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