WHEN : 7th August, 6:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse, QUT Kelvin Grove Brisbane Join Melbourne-based curator Laura Castagnini in a discussion about Feminism and Art. Laura will also be mentoring Level’s 2013 Emerging Curator in Residence, Lisa Bryan-Brown. Laura Castagnini is a curator and writer whose research interests include feminist art histories and their current […]
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WHEN : 5th – 30th August WHERE : Substation Gallery & Studio, 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington. For the month of August Liv Vesnaver and Rachael Archibald will be the artists in residence at the Substation Gallery.The gallery will be open everyday 10am – 2pm. OUR TIME IN THE SPACE During our month long residency at
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WHEN : 3rd – 24th Aug / Opening 3rd Aug, 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Join SGAR for the unveiling of Daniel Templeman’s newest exhibition ‘Four Rings’. The evening will showcase a major sculptural piece created as part of Templeman’s newly completed doctorate of Visual Art at Griffith University.
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WHEN : 3rd Aug – 21st September WHERE : Institute of Modern Art In 1997, Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and formed Chicks on Speed. Although they would achieve fame as an electroclash band, Chicks on Speed started as a multidisciplinary art project, applying a
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WHEN : 30th July – 17th August WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery “The starting point for this work is about rocks, minerals and object collecting. I enjoy working with steel as a canvas because it allows me to be very physical with the work – scraping, rusting, depositing paint, erosion, sanding, layering – all feel
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WHEN : 3rd Aug – 15th Sep WHERE : QUT Art Museum In 2009, Shane and Sally Thompson bequeathed in their Will a personal collection of just under 400 artworks to the QUT Art Collection. This exhibition is a celebration of this generosity and brings together works from their collection alongside existing QUT holdings to
WHEN : 2nd – 11th August / Opening 2nd August, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Three White Rooms – 138 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane Art lovers will have their hunger stimulated by a striking new exhibition from artist Will Irving. Through his aptly entitled exhibition ‘Food for Thought’, Will celebrates the glory of epicurean tastefulness
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WHEN : 1st Aug – 10th August / Opening 2nd Aug, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane ‘Middle Ground’ presents the current stages of studio research by Fine Art Honours candidates from Queensland College of Art. Ranging from painting, sculpture, installation, textiles, jewellery and performance, ‘Middle Ground’
WHEN : 3rd Aug – 21st Sep WHERE : Institute of Modern Art This year’s show features Joseph Breikers, Caitlin Franzmann, Anita Holtsclaw, and Ruth McConchie. They were selected by Leonard and artist and QUT lecturer Grant Stevens. Each receives $5k to help them realise their project, thanks to a Creative Sparks grant from Brisbane
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WHEN : 30th July – 17th Aug WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Leslie Rice has spent more than15 years as an established tattoo artist (from a lineage of tattooists including his father and sister) and finds the transition to velvet to be strangely familiar. Like painting the body with a needle, painting velvet with a
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WHEN : 2nd – 13th August / Opening 2nd August, 5:30pm WHERE : Bird Studios Beautiful Dreamers Awake Unto Me is an exhibition to mark the launch of Michelle Fleur Photography. Michelle Fleur is a Brisbane based photographer who specializes in both portraiture and fine art. Please join the launch on the evening of August
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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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