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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WHERE : Institute of Modern Art / Queensland Art Gallery Taiwan-based art magazine White Fungus is out now in Australia. The 13th issue of the now bilingual (English and Chinese) publication is the first to be distributed nationally in Australia by SpeedImpex. The new issue opens with the essay-fiction hybrid “The First Woman on Mars”,
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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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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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DEADLINE : 9th September Applications for JUMP Mentoring have opened, giving artists the opportunity to receive grants of up to $10,000 for individuals and up to $20,000 for groups, providing funds to work on their mentorship, to support additional professional development and for costs towards a creative project developed with their mentor. The program aims
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WHEN : 7th – 28th Sep WHERE : QUT Theatre Republic Brisbane Festival’s new hub, QUT Theatre Republic, will feature nightly screenings of art photography by the Access Arts Camera Wonderers. A group of dedicated photographers that meet once a week to discuss photography, techniques and ideas, the Camera Wonderers critique and encourage each other’s
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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
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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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
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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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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Volunteering is a great way to enjoy Brisbane Writers Festival from the inside, learn new skills and be involved in making it all happen. BWF would be impossible to run without the energy and contribution of our wonderful volunteers. Volunteer roles are offered year round in a variety of fields including arts administration, marketing, digital
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DEADLINE : 2nd September, 2013 RELATED FIELDS/DISCIPLINES All styles and genres welcome. Painting. Mixed Media. Sculpture. Ceramics. Conceptual or Performance Art. MENTOR Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE SOYA VISUAL ARTS AWARD The Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards offers visual artists aged 30 and under the chance to accelerate their creative careers with a ticket to anywhere
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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.
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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The Performance Frontiers studio is an open plan office space and is often used for creative workshops for corporate companies. As a company of passionate facilitators and designers, we are dedicated to fostering local artists and connecting them with the corporate community. The studio also offers plenty of street frontage for artwork display in a
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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
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)
WHEN : 1st – 7th September WHERE : Ugees Espresso, 80 Boundary St, West End The Brisbane Collective proudly presents an exhibition of the recent artworks by Megan Starr-Thomas and Jeff Paton. The Brisbane Collective is a fresh art initiative showcasing the works of Brisbane’s creative talent through a series of DIY pop-up community art
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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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WHEN : 27th August – 28th September WHERE : Heiser Gallery Thornton Walker was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1953, and emigrated to Australia, settling in Melbourne in 1965. He graduated with a Diploma of Art (Printmaking) from the Prahan College of Advanced Education in 1976, and began a Post Graduate Diploma (Printmaking) at
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WHEN : 31st August, 7:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy Join Boxcopy Slide Night featuring Chris Howlett who will talk about recent developments in his new work titled ‘New Dawn’. Christopher Howlett graduated with a MFA from the Californian Institute of the Arts in 2000 with the support of an Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarship
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WHEN : 30th Aug – 1st Sept WHERE : The Edge The Zine and Independent Comic Symposium (ZICS) is a 3-day festival to be held in Brisbane, Australia at The Edge on Friday 30th Aug, Saturday 31st Aug, & Sunday 1st September. The event aims to provide a forum for the talents involved in independent
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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
DEADLINE : 30th August, 2013 The 2 Danks Street Award for Contemporary Art Criticism has been established by the permanent galleries of 2 Danks Street Waterloo in conjunction with Artist Profile magazine and online art journal Art for All: All for Art, to foster new writing on, and extend discussion about, the visual arts. This
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WHEN : 30th August – 14th September WHERE : Blake House Gallery, 35 Adelaide St, Brisbane Thoughts on Humans and other Animals serves as a showcase for two emerging Brisbane based representational artists. Ray and Duncan are two artists whose careers are at similar points. Although stylistically quite different they both possess similar backgrounds. Ray
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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
WHEN : 30th August, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : MAAP SPACE 111 Constance Street, Fortitude Valley Derek Kreckler is completing a MAAP artist-in-residence project. The residency will culminate in a one night only public presentation of some of the visual experiments that he has been developing during his time in Brisbane. Derek works across performance,
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WHEN : 30th August, 6:00pm WHERE : Art & Design Precinct – 10 Bailey St West End Brisbane Wood, Water & Stone: Hidden Worlds is the first solo show from artist Dave Newman. Exhibiting 20+ works from 2012-13. The show includes pieces on both paper & wood, as well as a number of 3D cut-outs.
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DEADLINE : 29th August 2013 Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz LAUNCH Art Award. The Award offers a $10,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to Queensland-based artists or artists with a strong connection to Queensland. This year’s judge will be Director of the
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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
WHEN : 3rd August – 22nd September WHERE : QUT Art Museum The conservation of art is commonly associated with the restoration of seventeenth century easel paintings or marble sculptures from antiquity. Materials used in contemporary art have challenged this perception and necessitated a shift in the way conservators interact with artists. Made to last:
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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
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 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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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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