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I USED TO SKATE ONCE 9

WHEN : 20th June, 7:00 – 12:00pm WHERE : The Zoo, 711 ann st, Fortitude Valley For the last 9 years, The Outpost have produced the skate art/music event titled “i used to skate once”. The Outpost invites local, interstate and international artists to utilise skateboard decks as their canvas for new work. Artists: Elana […]

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Das Super Paper

WHEN : 20th June, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Sydney’s Das Superpaper has been described as ‘the printed lookbook of emerging and contemporary art’. Guest edited by Drew Pettifer, the latest issue (‘The Body Politic’) explores how artists engage with questions of gender, sexuality, and race. Key questions include: How can art function

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Carla Hananiah

WHEN : 18th June – 6th July WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery Having spent her childhood in New Zealand surrounded by the country’s breathtaking landscape Hananiah sought to capture the raw and sublime experience of witnessing vast horizons at play with natural light and shadow. Now based in Australia, the overwhelming beauty of nature and

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Bloody Oath

WHEN : 12th – 16th June / Opening 13th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Box 29 Vulture St, in West End, Brisbane A contemporary take on classic Australiana, ‘Bloody Oath’ is a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring some of Queenland’s finest young creatives. The showcase encompasses work expressing diverse cultural heritage, and a play on

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Sophie Bottomley

Sophie Bottomley creates sculptural objects that investigate how the experience and perception of space is altered through changes in scale. Being a hybrid that blurs the boundary between a model and a sculptural object, they also occupy a space between the real and the invented, being a fictional environment and yet a proposal for something

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Call for Artists : Artman Gallery, Melbourne

Deadline: Ongoing Artman Gallery is a Melbourne-based art gallery and studio, dedicated to showcasing artistic talent in a variety of media from both established and emerging artists. We professionally promote talented artists, within a community of creativity, culture, and learning. We consider submissions from artists working in a variety of media. Please email an artist

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Body-Painting Films

WHEN : 13th June, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art You are invited to view Len Lye’s great lost film, the ‘rhapsodic’ All Souls Carnival (1957). An expatriate New Zealander, Lye worked in London from 1926 to 1944, and in New York from 1944 until his death in 1980. He is known for his

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‘You didn’t take away my future, you gave me a new one’ by Raphaela Rosella

WHEN : 8th June – 7th July WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography With teenage pregnancy stereotyped as a social problem, most dominant discourses do not consider the limited choices available to many young women experiencing ‘disadvantage’. As a consequence, becoming a mother at a young age can be perceived as an irrational and irresponsible

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I saved the world today

WHEN : 12th – 22nd June WHERE : WEBB Gallery, Ground Floor,Webb Centre Building, QCA South Bank Recent work by Queensland College of Art MVA candidate Nancy Stilianos. An exhibition of large installations with a focus on the handmade. Produced over the past two years, the works seek to transport the viewer to a place

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Michael Muir

Michael Muir’s work explores the simplification and interpretation of various forms predominately being the built environment. With an emphasis on colour and natural light the painted works explore the notion of a fusion between representation and abstraction.The work is based from an emotive perspective steeped in nostalgia and childhood memories – either borrowed or his

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Tim Woodward

Moving across mediums, forms and ideas, Woodward’s practice typically engages with processes of editing, free association and re-imagining. Previously his artworks have materialised as sculpture, video, writing, installation, drawings and public events. Tim Woodward graduated with Honours from QUT in 2006. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, most recently with solo exhibitions at

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Firebrand II

WHEN : 11th June – 20th July WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Totems are beguiling and mysterious, affording the viewer a glimpse into deep spiritual traditions. A particular magic occurs when aesthetics and meaning are complimentary, when the essence of the story is captured in the art. This happens with Bloodwood Totems – the dancing shimmer

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Peter Boggs

WHEN : 8th June – 7th July WHERE : Philip Bacon Galleries Giorgio de Chirico once famously observed that “Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” Peter Boggs is an artist who

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Marioni / MacPherson

WHEN : 13th April – 23rd June WHERE : UQ Art Museum Joseph Marioni makes his paintings by running paint down the canvas, and yet insists that the work is intended. Robert MacPherson crushes sticks of charcoal onto paper in what again must be seen as a form of process art, and yet worries that

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GhostNets: Caring For Country

WHEN : 14th May – 29th June WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery Artists: Georgina Allain, Loique Allain, Mimi Allain, Maryann Bourne, Elizabeth Cowie, Stan De Jersey, Zoe De Jersey, Dawn Koondumbin, Doreen Mapoondin, Virginia Namponan, Mavis Ngallametta, Frank Petero, Margaret Pootchemunka, Sue Ryan, Ceferino Sabatino, Ellarose Savage & Francisca Walmbeng The GhostNets Australia project started

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Olaf Breuning : Home 3

WHEN : 8th – 27th July WHERE : Institute of Modern Art The IMA showed Olaf Breuning’s videos Home (2005) in 2006 and Home 2 (2007) last year. Now our audiences can complete the trilogy with Home 3: Homage to New York (2012). In all three half-hour videos, we are guided by an anonymous buffoon,

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Fashionable Conspiracy

WHEN : 31st May – 14th June / Opening 7th June, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Bird Gallery and Studio 181 George St, Brisbane City (Alley Way) Bird presents an international French artist who evolved his artistry in Paris by artistic squat around artists like Sebran D’Argent, Cyprien Gaillard, C215, and many others of the

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Rinse & Repeat

WHEN : 7th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hangar, 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill 4059 Artists : Athena Thebus & Clark Beaumont & Louise Bennett. Celebrity worship, conspicuous consumption, mass boredom, and hyper sexualisation are not wholly horrible but, admittedly, fascinating in their grotesqueness; alarming in their beauty. Here, sarcasm and sincerity are

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