DEADLINE : 30th August, 2013 The 2 Danks Street Award for Contemporary Art Criticism has been established by the permanent galleries of 2 Danks Street Waterloo in conjunction with Artist Profile magazine and online art journal Art for All: All for Art, to foster new writing on, and extend discussion about, the visual arts. This […]
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WHEN : 30th August – 14th September WHERE : Blake House Gallery, 35 Adelaide St, Brisbane Thoughts on Humans and other Animals serves as a showcase for two emerging Brisbane based representational artists. Ray and Duncan are two artists whose careers are at similar points. Although stylistically quite different they both possess similar backgrounds. Ray
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WHEN : 28th – 31st August WHERE : Jugglers Artspace Dualism can be simply defined as a set of opposites that exist in our lives ie white│black, love│hate, hot│cold, good│evil, male│female etc. It is the notion that all concepts consist of two contrasting qualities, where, according to Western thought, one dominates the other. Metaphysical dualism
WHEN : 30th August, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : MAAP SPACE 111 Constance Street, Fortitude Valley Derek Kreckler is completing a MAAP artist-in-residence project. The residency will culminate in a one night only public presentation of some of the visual experiments that he has been developing during his time in Brisbane. Derek works across performance,
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WHEN : 30th August, 6:00pm WHERE : Art & Design Precinct – 10 Bailey St West End Brisbane Wood, Water & Stone: Hidden Worlds is the first solo show from artist Dave Newman. Exhibiting 20+ works from 2012-13. The show includes pieces on both paper & wood, as well as a number of 3D cut-outs.
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DEADLINE : 29th August 2013 Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz LAUNCH Art Award. The Award offers a $10,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to Queensland-based artists or artists with a strong connection to Queensland. This year’s judge will be Director of the
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WHEN : 29th August, 7:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Auditory hallucinations from Japan’s godfather of sound art Akio Suzuki and legendary English experimentalist David Toop. A joint project with Room 40. Image: Akio Suzuki
WHEN : 3rd August – 22nd September WHERE : QUT Art Museum The conservation of art is commonly associated with the restoration of seventeenth century easel paintings or marble sculptures from antiquity. Materials used in contemporary art have challenged this perception and necessitated a shift in the way conservators interact with artists. Made to last:
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WHEN : 27th August – 7th September WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Liu Zhuoquan has taken the traditional craft of ’snuff bottle’ painting – painting on the inside of glass bottles – and created a new art form. The decorative representation of landscape, flora and fauna, people in various modes of behaviour, has been transformed
DEADLINE : 26th August La Luna Youth Arts in Townsville is looking for emerging digital projection artists. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to present works during projection festival on 3,4,5, October 2014. Young artists who have skills in making digital works for projection on public sights as well as interactive works are encouraged to
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Kirra Jamison cultivates ideas. Initial kernels of intuition germinate into lines, forms and patterns that branch and weave and interlay the picture plane with snatches of narrative. Floating amongst the fragments of decorative motif and patterning, vignettes of everyday experience emerge and inveigle the viewer with abundant possibilities of meaning. Harmonious or chaotic, repeated or
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WHEN : 24th Aug, 11:00am – 1:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End Join The Hold Artspace for a panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibition, ‘you & I: thoughts on intimacy’. Chaired by Deb Porch, artists Courtney Coombs, David Creed & David Spooner and Pirrin Francis will discuss the
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WHEN : 23rd August – 1st September / Opening 23rd August, 6:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studios CATC Photoimaging students and The Love Love Art Gallery is excited to present “Just Looking, Thanks”. This free exhibition is a group project created by eleven emerging photographic artists studying photography full time at CATC. In the exhibition,
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WHEN : 23rd August, 8:00pm WHERE : Witchmeat ARI, 80 Hampstead Rd AN ADEQUATE RESPONSE TO GAMES, PERMISSION, THE TENSION OF ETHICAL PLAY, AND THE REQUESTS OF HEDONISM. A TERMINAL TO RECORD YOUR CONCERNS WILL BE ESTABLISHED ADJACENT TO THE ZONE OF PLAY. “Daily life has become aestheticized by a saturation of images and music,
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WHEN : 22nd August – 7th September WHERE : Milani Gallery Richard Bell was born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, and is a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities. Based in Brisbane, Richard has held numerous solo exhibitions since 1990. He is represented in major collections in Australia and New Zealand
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WHEN : 22nd August, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art The Future Is Noise! Amelia Barikin and Greg Hainge (both University of Queensland, Brisbane) and David Toop discuss. Plus, we launch Hainge’s book Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise. A joint project with Room 40.
New Dawn explores the mysterious nature of reality in the objects and the mediatized spaces that surround us day-to-day; how do notions of the body, speed, excess, morality and even revolution translate from a purely technological and virtual gaming space into the real space of the audience? What do these translations mean when approaching ideas
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WHEN : 22nd August – 13th October / Opening 22nd, 6:00pm WHERE : Mild Manners Upstairs at Ksubi, Shop 2/30 James St,Fortitude Valley Having last shown solo in late 2009 at the late Doggett St Studio, the well loved Brisbane based painter has kept himself busy with commercial projects of late. Now, with the exhibition
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WHEN : August 21st – September 7th WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery New work by artists : Antoinette J Citizen, Charles Dennington, Genevieve Reynolds, Jared Worthington & Matthew Greaves.
WHEN : 20th Aug – 21st Sep WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Strangely Familiar investigates the ‘unseen’ side of a differently-abled narrative effectively disrupting the ableist presumption of people labelled ‘disabled’ as inferior. Over the past twelve months Louis Lim has worked collaboratively with Jocelyn, Finbar and Anthony. The stories presented are not concerned with their
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WHEN : 20th August – 15th September WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Spare Parts brings together a diverse range of artists who each use pre-loved prosthetics as their canvas. Curator of this exhibition, Queensland amputee, Priscilla Sutton, started working on a fun creative project back in 2010. It started by Priscilla recycling her own old prosthetic
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WHEN : 3rd August — 14th September WHERE : Pestorius Sweeney House 39 Eblin Drive, Hamilton,Brisbane David Pestorius is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Sydney artist Gary Warner (*1957). In the late 1970s, Warner was a central figure in Brisbane’s vital post-punk and avant-garde art scenes. At the time, he lived
WHEN : 30th July – 24th August WHERE : Heiser Gallery Cherry Hood was born in Sydney in 1950. She studied Fine Art at The National Art School, concentrating on painting. In 2000 she attained a Masters in Masters of Visual Art and a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours from the Sydney College of
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WHEN : 17th August, 6:00pm WHERE : 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane As part of their month long residency at Substation Gallery and Studio, Liv Vesnaver and Rachael Archibald have asked Ray Cavill, of Clayschool Brisbane, to come in and talk about his artform. This is free event and a very special opportunity. Image: Ray
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WHEN : 17th August – 15th September WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography Meditating upon the landscape, scenes are constructed in collaboration with the subjects that provide the possibility for creating an intimate shared space that could be sexual. There is a tradition of depicting the female body in painting, with the land as a
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WHEN : 17th – 19th August / Opening 17th August 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : The Box, 29 Vulture St, in West End, Brisbane Recently returned from the US on an investigation into models of social practice and socially engaged art making and projects, artist and curator Alexandra Winters has searched for social practice in
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WHEN : 16th – 28th August WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery 166 Ann Street, Brisbane Reframed13 is the fourth show in a series of annual exhibitions by a group of local Brisbane artists These exhibitions are characterised by a multiplicity of styles and mediums across painting, photography, objects, installation and jewelllery, representing a diverse range
WHEN : 10th August – 15th December / Opening 16th August, 6:30pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum NEW 2013 features a selection of artworks acquired for The University of Queensland Art Collection during 2012–2013. The exhibition highlights the University’s active acquisition program, which continues a tradition of acquiring innovative artworks that respond to the contemporary
WHEN : 8th – 31st August WHERE : Project Gallery, Webb Gallery QCA, 226 Grey Street / POP at the Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merivale Street, Brisbane This exhibition showcases the works of emerging artists who explore the use of visual narratives as a form of critical inquiry into contemporary local, national and international debates.
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WHEN : 15th – 31st August WHERE : The Hold Artspace you & I is an exhibition of nine emerging artists which examines ideas of intimacy and shared experience. With works from individuals and collaborative pairs, relationships between lovers and strangers, individuals and objects, the body and memory will be considered. Through interactive and new
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DEADLINE : 16th August Musicians, performance artists, visual artists, installation artists and everyone in between, are invited to ravage Brisbane’s perspective of reality, steal their breath and make their hearts beat faster. Artists from all around Australia are being called to be part of the annual arts event, 2high Festival, to showcase their work and
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WHEN : 15th – 31st Aug WHERE : Metro Arts Jan Manton Art and Metro Arts are proud to announce Platform 2013, featuring Brisbane-based artists Judith Wright, Carl Warner, Shayle Flesser, Indonesian artist Jumaadi and Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun. Highlights of the exhibition include Restart and Disillusion, video works by one of the most influential
WHEN : 15th August, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Berlin-based art-book merchants Motto create a one-night pop-up store. They will use the occasion to launch Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction, an anthology edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes. Meet Barikin, Joe Shakespeare (Motto), and designer-publisher Brad Haylock (Surpllus, Melbourne). Bring cash.
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WHEN : 24th July – 24th August WHERE : Andrew Baker Art Dealer 26 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills, Brisbane Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Badtjala, Fraser Island, Queensland. She studied at the Sydney College of the Arts. She has travelled as an artist internationally and to remote communities in
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WHEN : 9th – 31st August WHERE : Artisan This exhibition, brought to Brisbane by the Japan Foundation, is a celebration of contemporary Japanese architecture as a reflection of Japan’s history, people and culture. Including photography and models of various buildings by Japanese architects, the selection spans everything from infrastructural facilities such as airports, to
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WHEN : 9th – 23rd August WHERE : Loading Dock Espresso, 2 Edmondstone St, South Brisbane West End photographer and muso Gerard Glynn is holding his first exhibition ‘Dry Dreams’ at Loading Dock Espresso. Better known as bassist for Brissy rockers Lords of Wong, Glynn has snapped photos for some of the local scene’s best
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