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
WHEN : 13th July – 11th August WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography The congregation of CITIZENs, here in this show, was never premeditated. I didn’t set out to capture any of them, with the greater collection called CITIZEN in mind. They happened over time. These images are from a broad subject of people I
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WHEN : 10th – 20th July WHERE : Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, South Bank campus, 226 Grey Street A juried exhibition of student work by recent graduates from Australian and New Zealand Tertiary Institutions. Held in conjunction with the 15th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) Biennial National Conference Participation
WHEN : 3rd – 13th July / Closing Event 12th July, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End Please join The Hold Artspace for the closing of Bête Noire, an exhibition of current work by Zoe Porter as part of a doctoral research project. This exhibition will incorporate a
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WHEN : 9th – 27th July WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery For his new exhibition Vipoo Srivilasa has created a series of twelve porcelain figurines. He assumes the role of an entrepreneur with Silicon Valley-like aspirations. His goal is ‘Make a Million Before Dinner’. To do this he has structured a Twelve Step Program to
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WHEN : 12th July, 9:00am – 10:30am WHERE : University of Queensland Art Museum Free public panel discussion on world-making in the visual arts, with presentations by University of Queensland art history staff Dr Amelia Barikin, Associate Professor Rex Butler, Dr Sally Butler, and Dr Allison Holland. Sally Butler investigates the complexities of globalised world-making
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DEADLINE : 12th July, 2013 The Digital Associates Program provides independent artists, collectives and curators with opportunities to present quality and innovative new media and digital work. The program provides subsidised access to a unique exhibition space with infrastructure designed to facilitate the display of creative digital and new media practice. Successful applicants are provided
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WHEN : 4th – 20th July / Opening 11th July, 6-8pm WHERE : Milani Gallery The exhibition will present new works inspired by the artist’s residency at the British School at Rome in 2012, alongside a new presentation of Wunderkammer artefacts.
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WHEN : 11th – 20th July / Closing event 19th July, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : POP @ Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merivale St, South Brisbane Mister Miyagi – exhibition of recent works by Andrew D K Forsyth and Llewellyn Millhouse. PhD Candidate Llewellyn Millhouse and DVA Candidate Andrew D K Forsyth represent a pairing
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WHEN : 11th – 17th July WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Seven w/ Another is an exhibition showcasing 14 well-known creative individuals, from a variety of professions, pairing them to create a collaborative artwork. By grouping creatives from different fields, for example, an opera singer with an animator or a graphic designer with an architect, Seven
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WHEN : 10th July, 6:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum ART/WORK is a program for senior high school students interested in a career in the visual arts. They will hear from young QUT graduates, who will chart the path that led to their exciting careers. We also welcome teachers and parents along to this free
WHEN : 2nd – 27th July WHERE : Heiser Gallery Melbourne artists Lyndell Brown and Charles Green invoke illusory worlds that disrupt the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction. Intertwining the mediums of painting, photography and digital reproduction, the artists layer and recreate images from different cultural periods and contexts. However, as the
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WHEN : 9th July – 28th July WHERE : REDSEA Gallery Brisbane 27 James Street, Fortitude Valley REDSEA Gallery is pleased to present ‘The New York Years’, an exhibition and book launch celebrating the work of renowned Australian artist David Rankin. Written by Dore Ashton with an introduction by Peter Carey, twice recipient of the
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WHEN : 9th July – 27th July WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery A. J. Taylor’s paintings reveal themselves slowly. To see one must be prepared to look – and willingly join the artist in his appraisal of the world through paint. His scenes, often purposefully mundane, are not so much about location as the processes
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WHEN : 9th – 19th July WHERE : Wooloongabba Art Gallery An exhibition of recent work by Conference Delegates, held in conjunction with the 15th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) Biennial National Conference Participation + Exchange. The JMGA 2013 conference Participation + Exchange creates an opportunity to draw together the conceptually and geographically
WHEN : 1st June – 7th October WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’ is the Gallery’s largest exhibition of contemporary art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to date. The exhibition examines the strengths of the Gallery’s holdings and explores three central
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WHEN : 6th – 27th July / Opening 6th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy OM NOM NOM NOM presents a new body of work by Alice Lang which was developed during a recent artist residency at RAID Projects in Los Angeles. This new series of paintings, drawings and objects incorporates images and text derived from
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WHEN : 6th July, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Inhouse ARI 12 lechmere st, New Farm A new solo show by artist Benjamin Crowley with accompanying essay by Danny Ford – ‘Pisswreck Destiny’ Like cringe-worthy semi-scripted reality T.V. Benjamin Crowley’s practice is predominately performance based and is hinged on the compulsion to elicit ambivalence and
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WHEN : 5th July, 5:30pm WHERE : Metro Arts Join Friday Night: July, as Ahmarnya Price joins us with Takeover#3: Rumpus. Continuing on the Takeover series – works in an advanced stage of development showcasing at Metro Arts – Ahmarnya will take us on a walk to the height of the civilised world and ask;
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WHEN : July 5th, 6:00pm – 10:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Artspace An exploration into the human heart linking psychological experience and physical location.’ As a QCA [Brisbane] graduate and Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing finalist [2012] Liana has created a new body of work reflecting her current interests around the body, psychology and being.
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WHEN : 5th July, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Artspace Bringing the outside in, Shannon has produced a significant new body of work referencing street art in the context of the white cube. His work is found in collections across Australia and internationally and is highly sought after by collectors. [Red and Blue space]
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WHEN : 6th July – 6th August / Opening 5th July, 6:30pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum This exhibition examines the emergence of Concrete Poetry in Australia in the mid-1960s and its subsequent developments. Born to Concrete presents works from Heide Museum of Modern Art’s extensive collection of Concrete Poetry. Augmenting this is a group
WHEN : 5th July, 6:00pm – 8:00pm WHERE : SmallWorks Gallery 87 Bromley St, Kangaroo Point New constructed photography by Fiona Lascelles & Tony Nyberg. Have you ever thought about how you might die, or ever fantasized about a possible fatal accident or murder? Artists Fiona Lascelles and Tony Nyberg have been surreptitiously posing this
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WHEN : 5th – 27th July / Opening 5th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Fracture presents a playful new sculpture series of carefully reconfigured sections of cow horn, miniature animal skeletons and glass beads to create morphed organic sculptures that are both fragile and robust. Works can be purchased online Image: ‘Ophidian
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WHEN : 4th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov is celebrated for his dizzingly experimental documentary Man with a Movie Camera (1929). Described as a ‘whirligig visual ruckus’, this feature-length film uses camera trickery and audacious editing to describe everyday life in modern, revolutionary-period Russia. However, Vertov is less
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