WHEN : 1st – 31st August WHERE : Brisbane Square Library,2nd floor, 266 George Street, Brisbane Vie de Pacifique-Pacific Life is a unique exchange of original contemporary prints by 51 artists from seven countries in and around the Pacific Ocean. Initiated, coordinated and curated by Impress president Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura, the exchange coincides with the 7th […]
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WHEN : 1st August 6:00pm WHERE : University of Queensland Art Museum On August 1st, SoFA continues its productive association with Diagram, with the latest installment of the Salon entitled Image World. Supported by UQAM, the evening will involve a panel discussion about the visual artists whose work will be exhibited in the gallery, and
James and Eleanor Avery work both individually and collaboratively, and have been collaborating on large scale sculpture and installation projects, including commissioned public art projects, since 2004. They work between Brisbane, Australia and London, UK and many of their works develop out of international studio residencies. James and Eleanor’s early collaborations evolved in a number
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WHEN : 31st July, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Please join Sydney-based artist Baden Pailthorpe in a discussion about his work in The Games of Art exhibition as well as his practice more broadly. Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian media artist, writer and curator. His work engages with the
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DEADLINE : 31st July, 2013 Centrehouse/Gallery Lane Cove invites artists to submit entries to the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Awards and exhibition.This years exhibition will be held in the architect designed Gallery Lane Cove. The award is open to Australian artists between the ages of 18 and 30 years with works in painting, drawing
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WHEN : 27th July, 2:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Simone Eisler’s practice focuses on recreating natural figures and materials into new fantastical forms that emit an ethereal, other-worldly energy. Over the years Simone has presented us with many characters that despite their unusual materials and lifeless form, emanate such personality it
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WHEN : 27th July, 6:00 – 11:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts The 2013 Brisbane Emerging Art Festival will focus on presenting Brisbane’s leading emerging artists from across visual art, performance, experimental and contemporary music, dance, fashion, film, design and spoken word. The festival will take over the Judith Wright Centre of
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DEADLINE : 26th July, 2013 The faculties of art and science are inextricably connected. Images are used to illustrate experiments and discoveries, and scientific ideas have influenced artistic movements, such as Impressionism and the Renaissance. Photography’s original scientific categorisation is another example of this relationship involving inspiration, cross-pollination and the rethinking of disciplinary boundaries. ‘Art
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WHEN : 24th July – 18th August WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Gavin Hipkins is an Auckland-based artist who works with photography and moving image. He has been described as a ‘tourist of photography’ reflecting a strategic treatment of eclectic historic styles and photographic techniques. He has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia and
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WHEN : 25th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art We Petty Bourgeois!: Comrades and Contemporaries was one of Sigmar Polke’s last major exhibitions. In examining it, Andrew McNamara (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) revisits familiar assumptions about art, criticism, and class.
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WHEN : 12th July – 7th September / Opening 26th July, 6-8pm WHERE : Griffith University Art Gallery, 226 Grey St, South Brisbane
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WHEN : July 25th – 1st August WHERE : Addition Gallery Addition #5 explores an alternative approach to visual practice based on a materialist ontology for the work of art. Mitchell Donaldson, Llewellyn Millhouse, Shanna Muston and Sarah Poulgrain will activate material and process, embodying a number of non-representational modes of making and understanding artwork.
WHEN : 25th July – 17th August / Opening 25th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery Gareth Sansom (born 1939, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian artist, painter, printmaker and collagist. Sansom has had a distinct influence on subsequent Australian art, paving the way for later notable artists such as Juan Davila and Howard Arkley.
WHEN : Until 7th October WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery ‘Sugar’ reflects on the history of the industry that first brought South Sea Islanders to Australia. The exhibition features a selection of historical photographs documenting South Sea Islanders working in Queensland, drawn from the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery and the State Library of
WHEN : 24th July – 30th August / Opening 26th July, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : MAAP The MAAP Board invites you to the opening of a solo exhibition by Indian artist Shilpa Gupta. Gupta creates artwork using interactive video, websites, objects, photographs, sound and public performances to probe and examine subversively such themes as
WHEN : 24th July. 6:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Just as Pop Art depicted the abundance of material products in a postwar consumer society, Participatory Art represents today’s experience economies. Participatory Art’s engagement with experience economies in which it aesthetically codifies experiences, is associated with neoliberal practices that commodify ‘authentic’ experiences. Participatory Art that
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WHEN : 23rd July – 2nd August / Opening 25th July, 6:30pm WHERE : The Block QUT Creative Industries Precinct The Games of Art will investigate artists who use gaming as a framework and medium for expressing social-cultural ideas. What happens when artists reframe games as being more than entertainment? What kinds of works emerge
WHEN : 23rd July – 18th Aug WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse The Central Queensland Project is a photographic exploration of a largely invisible but economically powerful region. Given the complexity of the modern economy and the insularity of city life, most of us are blind to the reality of life beyond the city limits. Initially
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WHEN : 24th July – 17th August WHERE : Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Windowbox. Jenny Mai Hall is a visual artist who lives and works in The Hills of outer Melbourne. Her work explores ‘the everyday’ in connection with and/or in contrast to the fragility of the human condition. She works across various mediums
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WHEN : 24th – 31st August WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Firebrand III at FireWorks Gallery focuses on Queensland painter David Paulson and will showcase his new series Maleny Creek 2013. David has been painting from Maleny since 2003 and this show represents his 5th solo exhibition where his précised scenes of creek beds, along with
WHEN : 21st July, 1:00pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank. English artist Simon Starling, who won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2005, is celebrated for his erudite projects. His works explore the legacies of modernism and globalisation by addressing peculiar histories surrounding specific objects and sites of art, design, and
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WHEN : 4th July – 30th August WHERE : Webb Centre, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey St, South Brisbane Current work from students in their final year of study at Modern Handicraft and Art departments in Shandong China and Queesland College of Art, Griffith University.
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WHEN : 19th July, 7:30pm – 12:00pm WHERE : Arena, 210 Brunswick St, Brisbane RAW Brisbane is proud to announce the launch of its third showcase of 2013. ELEVATION will bring together 40 emerging artists spanning genres such as fashion, music, visual and performing arts, film and more for a one night extravaganza at the
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WHEN : 20th July, 11:00am WHERE : (Milani Gallery](http://www.milanigallery.com.au/)
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WHEN : 18th – 27th July / Opening 19th July, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane Edinburgh artist Theo Shields has been based in Brisbane at the Queensland College of Art for the past 6 months. This exhibition of newly produced sculptures, videos and photographs will examine
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Lee Lombardi is a Brisbane-based artist examining the contradictions inherent in realism, where representation presents only an unreality. Employing a meticulous and academic approach to image making, his intricate paintings and drawings are constructed from personal photographic archives, motion picture screenshots and found images. A finalist in this year’s Sunshine Coast Art Prize, he graduated
DEADLINE : 19th July, 5:00pm Metro Arts is now receiving applications for the 2014 Visual Arts exhibitions program. Applications should be emailed in PDF form to: submissions@metroarts.com.au All support material should be online and linked to from the PDF Application. For more information please visit the website
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WHEN : 18th July – 18th August WHERE : k.O.M.A Project, Shop 2/30 James St (above Ksubi) Fortitude Valley, Brisbane ‘Night Mountain I Miss You’ is the new show by exciting young Melbourne painter and sculptor Justin Lee Williams. Featuring a collection of large watercolour paintings, drawings and wood-fired stoneware sculptures. Spending the last few
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WHEN : 17th July – 3rd August WHERE : Metro Arts Jenna Baldock reflects on her experience as co-director of Inhouse Artist Run Initiative (ARI) through Out of house, a group exhibition featuring emerging artists: Jake Sun, Yannick Blattner, Alrey Batol, Pirrin Francis and Benjamin Crowley. Jenna is exploring the contingent dynamics of exhibition space
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WHEN : 21st May – 3rd August WHERE : Artisan Road Trip is a collaborative textile/art project that brings together Ann-Maree Reaney, a visual artist based in Brisbane, and Jill Kinnear, an Australian textile designer and artist currently based in the USA. Using photographic stills and video footage of their road trips across USA, Morocco
A Perfect Day Series. Power and Strife (2012), Photographic Print, 50.0 x 50.0 cm Photo : Sam Scoufos Photography 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
WHEN : 16th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts 109 Edward Street, Brisbane With a number of funding round deadlines approaching, Metro Arts is hosting an information session for Brisbane’s independent artists. Join Linda Dreghorn, Grant Support Officer, Arts Policy and Programs (Arts Queensland); Lyn Wallis, Director, Theatre (Australia Council) and David Ryding, Program Manager,
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DEADLINE : 15th July, 2013 The Clayfield College P&F Association are seeking submissions to the annual CLAYFIELD COLLEGE ART SHOW (2013) As inspiration, our theme this year is “street2studio”. It will showcase two contrasting artistic styles – art of the street and art from the studio. Funds raised from the 2013 Art Show will go
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WHEN : 14th July, 3:00 – 6:00pm WHERE : Substation Gallery – 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane Exhibiting and visiting artists/musicians explore aural boundaries. Featuring : Scott McConnachie (Melb) Brett Thomson (Melb) Tim Green (Bris) Adam Sussmann (Bris) Matt Earle (Bris – Exhibiting) Nicola Morton (Bris – Exhibiting) Kahl Monticone (Bris – Exhibiting) Marrissa Allen
DEADLINE : Open 2013 We are looking for visual artists to exhibit their work in 2014 at the Gallery of the Alliance Francaise de Brisbane. The Alliance Francaise de Brisbane is the French language school and Cultural Centre in Brisbane. The mission is not only to promote French culture but also cultural diversity. Gallery of
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WHEN : 9th July – 3rd August WHERE : Philip Bacon Galleries “There is a wonderful harmony between this technique and the art of Cressida Campbell for both in their own way are devotions to craft; the former in the processes of image making and the latter in the process of design. But so too