WHEN : 5th – 9th June / Opening 5th 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End. The Hold Artspace warmly welcomes you to ‘First Light’ – a photography exhibition featuring twenty-six students from the Queensland College of Art, exploring a range of topics through contemporary photographic art practice. Featuring […]
WHEN : 5th June – 13th July WHERE : Andrew Baker Art Dealer ÖMIE ARTISTS (Inc.) is a cooperative of Ömie tribeswomen barkcloth painters from Oro Province in Papua New Guinea. Barkcloth is the traditional textile of the Ömie tribe. Women wear nioge (skirts) while men wear givai (loincloths). Barkcloth serves important purposes in marriage,
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Bridie Gillman is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Drawing from her experiences living in Indonesia as a child and more recent time there her work focuses on the intricacies of cross-cultural experience and communication. Her research and object gathering materially translate these experiences and result in video work, mixed media paintings, sculptures and
DEADLINE : 4th June. 2013 The Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards Visual Design & Communications category is currently open for entries. The Award offers visual designers aged between 18 and 30 the opportunity to choose their own adventure, with $5,000 worth of air travel enabling them to jet off wherever inspiration calls. The winner will
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WHEN : 4th – 29th June WHERE : Heiser Gallery McLean Edwards (born 1972 in Darwin) is a painter who currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. McLean has been an Archibald Prize finalist in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2013. McLean Edwards is represented by Martin Brown Contemporary in Sydney, Australia. His work is
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WHEN : 3rd June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Room60 Shop 22, Carraway St, Kelvin Grove Ruminating on the task and effects of bracing, Scaffold conflates physical support structures with the human body. Foregrounding strain, tension, and focus, the performance problematises cycles of renovation, collapse, and repair in both the contemporary urban environment and in
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WHEN : 2nd June, 3:00pm – 10:00pm WHERE : Coniston Lane Lost movements is a not for profit artist run initiative that was developed by a group of Brisbane based musicians, artists and performers. Since it’s formation in April 2012 it has grown steadily to become a valuable part of the arts in Brisbane. As
WHEN : 1st June – 28th July WHERE : QUT Art Museum QUT holds a significant collection of international works on paper by 20th century luminaries such as Alexander Calder, David Hockney, William Kentridge, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, Joan Miro, Henry Moore and Joe Tilson. Individually, many of these works have never been exhibited and
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WHEN : 1st June, 5:30pm – 9:30pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Celebrate the opening of ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’ with a night of music, and a chance to see the exhibition after hours. At ‘My Country’ Up Late, enjoy special musical performances by Archie Roach,
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WHEN : 1st – 16th June / Opening 1st June, from 10am WHERE : Bleached Gallery 75 Vulture Street, West End. ‘New Arcadia: Contemporary Australian Photography’ is group exhibition featuring 11 artists from around Australia. The exhibition showcases 24 personal views of what is ‘Australian’ New Arcadia explores the notion that Australian iconography is not
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WHEN : 1st June, 2:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 2, Level 2 Join Peter Anderson, our 2013 Australian Library of Art Siganto Foundation Fellow, for an insightful discussion of the history and significance of artist run initiatives in Brisbane since the 1970s. While artist initiated exhibition spaces and projects have
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WHEN : 1st June, 2pm till late WHERE : Love Love Studios This Saturday Love Love will be hosting a newspaper launch from the brilliant collective Mild Mutant. There will be live bands, a BBQ, a whole host of wonderful creatives and a brand spanking new newspaper. It will cost you a measly $8 and
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DEADLINE : 15th July The City of Albany Art Prize is open to living Artists working in Australia and features a $25,000 major acquisitive prize as well as a range of non-acquisitive awards. The major acquisitive prize also includes a 4 week studio residency in a self-contained cottage at the Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany
WHEN : 1st – 30th June Artists Laura Luck and Nick Nielsen will be turning Brisbane’s public phone booths into places to experience stories from the city’s past. The stories are taken from an extensive series of interviews with a diverse range of city residents. Every day a new highlight will become available from a
WHEN : 24th May – 7th July / Opening 31st May, 6:00pm WHERE : Griffith University Art Gallery In New York in the late 1970s a young Richard Prince, working in the tear sheet department at Time Life, began to manipulate images from advertising, reconfiguring them as his own and, in the process, creating some
WHEN : 31st May, 6:00 – 11:00pm WHRE : Room 60, 22 Carraway Street, Brisbane Inspired by the National Cultural Policy. Join performance artist, producer and theatre-maker Eloise Maree in an intimate, one on one work to create a physical cartography of your culture. What is culture? Is it the TV you watch? The songs
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DEADLINE : 31st May Each year Boxcopy presents a curated program of exhibitions and events through a process of invitation and proposals. We welcome proposals for exhibitions and projects from artists, curators and collectives. The next review date for proposals is 31st May 2013. Boxcopy is now accepting proposals for our 2014 Exhibition Program. For
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DEADLINE : 31st May 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (4A) is proud to announce that applications are now open for its studio residency program in Beijing. Through this initiative three early career artists will embark on a month-long residency in September at the studios of renowned Chinese Australian artist Shen Shaomin. The residency program
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DEADLINE : 31st July, 2013 McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park and Southern Way has announced the third call for entries for the 2015 Biennial Sculpture Commission valued at $250,000. This unique commission forms part of an ongoing dedication to the presentation of public sculpture by McClelland in association with Southern Way. The 2015 commission will be positioned
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WHEN : 29th May – 22nd June / Opening 31st May, 6:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery 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
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WHEN : 29th May – 22nd June WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Window Gallery Box Dispatch 02 sees Alexander Jackson Wyatt dispatched from SLOT in Sydney to Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Windowbox. Currently based between Germany and Sydney, Alexander Jackson Wyatt works across installation and image production. Operating between spatial intervention and image production, he
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DEADLINE : 29th May, 2013 Established in 2004 the d’Arcy Doyle Art Awards has long since been a favourite with art lovers and artists throughout Australia. It was created to honour the late Queensland landscape artist and long time Mudgeeraba identity d’Arcy William Doyle, as well as to encourage emerging artists. It is now recognised
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WHEN : 28th May, 6:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace Join the closing event for Simon Degroot’s exhibition ‘Titanium Anvil’. Taking place in the standard artist talk format, Degroot will discuss the work included in the exhibition and the role that images play in the creation of meaning and the formation of value in contemporary
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WHEN : 26th May – 30th June / Opening Event 26th May, 11:00am WHERE : Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland Photographer Richard Nolan-Neylan brings the private space of the artist’s studio or workspace into the public realm with Going Public, a series of portraits of prominent Queensland artists and their studios. Curated by Jacqueline Armitstead, this
WHEN : 26th May, 10:00am – 4:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts Are you an artist? Are you in business? Artists sometimes have difficulty thinking of themselves as a business. However, if you want to make money from your work and see your career grow, it is important to give some thought
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WHEN : 25th May, 2:30pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art José Da Silva, Senior Curator, Australian Cinémathèque, QAGOMA, will give insights into ‘Earth and Elsewhere’ an exhibition of contemporary Collection works that connects personal and social histories to bigger questions about the origin and nature of the universe. ‘Earth and Elsewhere’ brings together works
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DEADLINE : ASAP Frock on the Block is a one-day-only outdoor pop-up market for emerging fashion, arts, crafts and design in Brisbane. Held at the Parade Ground at the QUT Creative Industries Precinct in Kelvin Grove, the market acts as a platform for new fashion designers, visual artists, graphic designers, photographers, entertainers and musicians to
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WHEN : 25th May, 6:00pm WHERE : The Box 29 Vulture St. West End The monthly celebration of the arts community & fundraiser for The Box artspace. Art: Romii Fulton-Smith, Erin Groennenboom, Kinly Grey, Lucy Forsberg Live Music: MKO, Dog Faced Killaz, Ashley Farlow, Moza.
WHEN : 24th May, 6:00pm WHERE : 1/11 Leonard Street Woolloongabba, Brisbane A collection of works from 2009 to 2013 (one night only). Harwood’s paintings are given breath by an antithesis of mark making techniques and a referral to geometric structuring. His works are dynamic, visceral and masculine. The opposing variations of paint application applied
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WHEN : 24th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studio, 27 Florence St Teneriffe This show explores how our society represents and copes with the emotional trauma of falling in and out of love. Artists: Stephen Sloggett, Drew Flaherty, Char Chamez, Clinton Cunningham, Fintan Magee, Stuart Koppe,Emily Devers, Candice Halfpapp, Matt Johnson, Anna
WHEN : 23rd May – 30th May / Opening 23rd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Upstairs, Shop 2/30 James St, Fortitude Valley Brisbane,(above Ksubi) ‘This Is How Memories Are Made: Woodcuts by Alex Gillies’ Brisbane woodcut artist Alex Gillies returns with his third solo exhibition, This Is How Memories Are Made, an exploration of the fleeting
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WHEN : 23rd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Darren Jorgensen (University of Western Australia) traces a history of esoteric art in Australia, looking at how Norman Lindsay, Danie Mellor, and others mobilise ritual images in their work. Yet in synthesising different ritual traditions—Christian, indigenous, Masonic, pagan, and sex magic—these artists fall short
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WHEN : 4th May – 2nd June WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography Kanazawa Study was completed whilst on an artist in residence at the Centre for art and architecture Kanazawa and the Kanazawa Art port. The work researches how the difference in design and material change over diverse time spans and class systems in
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WHEN : 22nd May – 8th June / Opening 22nd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Seeing Things presents new work by emerging artists Dan McCabe and Mitchell Donaldson, co-founders of Addition Artist-Run Initiative. Incorporating found objects, drawing, painting and photography, the exhibition engages their shared interest in abstraction and materiality in relation to contemporary
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