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Image World

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

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James and Eleanor Avery

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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Simone Eisler : Artist Talk

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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ART + SCIENCE @ Brenda May Gallery

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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Andrew McNamara Lecture

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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Addition #5

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.

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Gareth Sansom

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.

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Sugar

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

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Shilpa Gupta

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

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PARTICIPATORY ART AND THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY

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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The Games of Art

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

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Firebrand III

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

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Simon Starling Lecture

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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Lee Lombardi

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

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‘Night Mountain I miss You’ by Justin Lee Williams

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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Road Trip

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

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Camille Serisier

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

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Independent Artists Funding Information Session

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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NiMS 12

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

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CRESSIDA CAMPBELL

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

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