WHEN : 13th – 25th April WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Karl De Waal’s work presents quirky and humours insights into everyday life. Using a clever combination of collage, words and imagery, the work is thought-provoking and original. Influenced by Dada and sculpture, the pieces created simple, stark and visually arresting Image : Karl De Waal, […]
WHEN : 3rd April – 23rd June WHERE : UQ Art Museum Djalkiri is the culmination of a vibrant and intensive cross-cultural exchange between five highly respected Yithuwa Madarrpa artists and four renowned artists from across Australia. In 2009 Djambawa Marawili, Marrirra Marawili, Liyawaday Wirrpanda, Marrnyula Mununggurr and Mulkun Wirrpanda participated in a printmaking workshop
WHEN : 12th April, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Artspace A multidisciplinary exhibition of work from Australia’s leading young artists, featuring photography, fine-art and design. Having come together from diverse backgrounds, eight artists have drawn from a criss-cross of ideas and practices in devising a singular kaleidoscopic vision of artistic energy and fervour. Amongst
WHEN : 12th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Vision Studio, Level II, Factory II, Absoe. 51 Mollision Street, West End (cnr of Boundary and Mollison, behind the Gunshop). A retrospective photography exhibition by photographer Dan Quinn. Dan Quinn first received a camera when he was the wee age of 13. He was a suburban ‘sufferer’, living
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WHEN : 11th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art In the works of French artist Pierre Huyghe, time is volatile: it folds and unfolds, disperses and multiplies. In her paper, Memories of the Future, Amelia Barikin (University of Queensland) discusses Huyghe’s ‘science fictional’ time zones. Last year, MIT Press published Barikin’s book Parallel
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WHEN : 23rd March – 23rd June WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery Continuing the Artist’s Choice series of exhibitions, Brisbane-based artist Michael Zavros was invited to work with the Gallery’s Collection. Taking his own seductive, realist painting — Unicorn in the anticamera 2008 — as his point of departure, Zavros has cast contemporary beauty, decadence
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WHEN : 16th March – 26th May / Opening 15th March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum The place of technology in art is not always centred on the new, high-tech or latest shiny gadget. Foundation’s edge: artists and technology presents the work of artists who, rather than adhering to the intended use
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DEADLINE : April 10th SafARI is the unofficial fringe exhibition to the Biennale of Sydney, and 2014 will mark its fifth edition. SafARI showcases the work of emerging and unrepresented Australian artists in multiple sites across Sydney, including Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) and public spaces. It is timed to coincide with the crucial first opening
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DEADLINE : 26th April, 2013 Brenda May Gallery is currently accepting proposals from professional practising artists for the following group exhibitions scheduled for 2013. ‘Mighty Small’ curated by Olivia Welch – July 2013 Artwork on an immense scale often enthrals and consumes, whereas smaller works captivate on a much more intimate level, drawing the viewer
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WHEN : 9th April – 27th April WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Figuration is in celebration of the artist’s long time love affair with the figure. Veteran exhibitor Graeme Drendel, is joined by newcomers Natasha Bieniek and Monica Rohan. Bieniek’s minature portraits depict female figures in various states of repose. Seen alone within their personal
WHEN : 9th April – 4th May WHERE : Heiser Gallery Langlois’ paintings concentrate on the landscape yet one will find no people or a compositional anchor in which to fix the location in his works. Instead, the viewer will be subjected to vast distances and large panoramas that undoubtedly point to a sense of
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DEADLINE : 8th April, 2013 This two-day symposium will explore issues surrounding Performance, the Body and Time in the 21st century. How is the ever-increasing pace of technology generation affecting us as artists and audiences? How have the advances made in the 21st century changed the way we create, the way we consume and how
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WHEN : 6th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Cottage Skateboards, 639 Wynnum Rd, Morningside 10 local emerging artists have been given a handcrafted skateboard deck in which they paint/scratch/post/create on it. Artists; Kitty, Ben Samios (Oddnuts apparel), Eluan Waldron, Lucinda Wolber, Jonathan Huybers, Ben Constantine (Plump Oyster), Ella, Mobbs, J. Litten Kotte, Barek, Cap’n William.
WHEN : 6th April, 11:00am – 12:30pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum Please join Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro as they explore ideas of deconstruction, reconstruction and everything in between, followed by a discussion with MCA exhibition curator Anna Davis and A/Prof Rex Butler, Art History, The University of Queensland. Free. All welcome. Refreshments served
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WHEN : 6th April – 28th July WHERE : UQ Art Museum Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro are Australian artists who transform the residue of consumer society, re-imagining the forms and systems that surround us. Interrogating ideas of home, aspiration, mobility and the acquisition of material goods, their work is characterised by a playful reinvention
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WHEN : 6th April, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : 12 Lechmere St, New Farm An exhibition by artist Yannick Blattner. Written critique by Lisa Byan-Brown: Simultaneous dichotomies in the work of Yannick Blattner One night only event.
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WHEN : 5th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Witch Meat ARI 80 Hampstead Rd, West End Thomas Payne, A QUT undergrad/never-grad, who has been regarded amongst his peers as ‘cool’ and even in some cases “very cool”. Tom’s practice draws a heavy influence from online grunge or digital Avant-garde (tumblr). His work is often multifaceted, hyper
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WHEN : 19th March – 13th April WHERE : Philip Bacon Galleries Ray Crooke is the master painter of Australia’s far northerly regions and offshore Pacific environs. He is the painter of opalescent, slightly melancholic outreaches where homespun rituals such as flower picking and promenading are replenishing enough to engross individual citizens or whole townships
WHEN : 3rd – 24th April WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Bruce Reynolds studied at the ANU School of Art and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Following this he taught at the ANU School of Art in the 1980s and at Queensland College of Art from 1986 to 2006. Bruce Reynolds has had
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UR{BNE} Festival seeks to undertake creative events in public spaces to encourage use of our urban environment. As part of this year’s festival, they’re holding an open air art market. Inspired by the art on London’s Bayswater Road and elsewhere, they aim to provide an opportunity for people to display, produce and sell art in
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WHEN : 5th – 16th April / Opening 5th April, 6:30pm WHERE : Brisbane Institute of Art , 41 Grafton Street, Windsor “Búsquedas” is Argentine artist Monique Baqués’ first exhibition in Australia. The latest production in a career spanning across many countries, Monique goes back to her roots, rediscovering charcoal drawing and sketching in this
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WHEN : 2nd – 20th April WHERE : Milani Gallery An exhibition of work by Peter Kennedy, Normana Wight and Nigel Lendon. Image : Peter Kennedy, Vertical Wall Piece from Neon Light Installations 1970
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WHEN : 4th April, 6:30pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Saturday Extra host Geraldine Doogue, AO, and guests discuss some of the major issues shaping cultural and political policy in the Asian and Pacific region, as well as implications for the future.
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WHEN : 4th – 28th April WHERE : Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Windowbox Rachael Haynes’ art practice explores the limits of language and subjectivity, and re-examines art history and philosophy in relation to gender politics. In her drawing installations and performative video works, Haynes performs a playful mixing of language codes and systems –
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WHEN : 4th – 7th April / Opening 4th April, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : The Box 29 Vulture Street, West End, Brisbane WEARS is a Box Vintage initiative curated by artist and producer Alexandra Winters. The exhibition features a handful of local photographers working with their medium through very different methodologies. With vintage items
WHEN : 3rd May, 7:00pm – Late WHERE : Love Love Studios LoveLove is proud to present Ghoul’s Night Out, a group show of artists from across the globe showcasing a diverse array of mediums, celebrating the art behind the skateboarder. O utpost store, Sailor Jerry and Iron Fist shoes are proudly supporting this event
DEADLINE : 6th May The John Fries Memorial Prize for emerging visual artists is a non-acquisitive award of $10,000. This annual prize is open to all artists resident in Australia and New Zealand who are not enrolled as a student and whose work is not represented in the collection of an Australian state, territory or
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WHEN : 3rd – 21st April / Opening 6th April, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : White Canvas Gallery ‘Lost Girls, Strong Girls and the Assembled Image’ is a solo exhibition by Rachael Bartram. ‘The Lost Girls…’ project began in 2012 and this culminating exhibition presents a new body of work with the aim of further
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DEADLINE : April 3rd, 2013 Applications for the Cube Production Residency Program are now open to writers with experience in delivering high-quality literary programs whose practice intersects digital media, and science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The Cube Production Residency Program is currently offering a Digital Writing Residency. This is a unique opportunity for an
WHEN : 2nd April – 11th May / Opening 5th April 6:30 – 9:30pm WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery Most of these images are aesthetic imitations of the landscape. Places created for the artist and the viewer to roam through as one would do at an amusement park or country fair. This may seem a
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DEADLINE : April 4th, 2013 Brenda May Gallery is currently accepting proposals from professional practicing artists for the following group exhibitions scheduled for 2013. ‘Sugar, Sugar’ curated by Megan Fizell – October 2013 As a species, we are predisposed to seek out sugar to supplement our diet. “Sweet tooth” and “sugar rush” are colloquial phrases
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The Hold Artspace welcomes proposals from emerging and mid-career artists, curators, writers, collaborative groups, ARI’s and other creatives on a rolling basis. For more information please visit the website
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DEADLINE : 1st April, 2013 Picturing the World Family is a call to action from photographers to submit a portfolio of images (a coherent photo essay – maximum of 5 images) that showcases the landscape of contemporary family lives and relationships as they exist across the World today. Picturing the World Family has been inspired
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DEADLINE : 31st March, 2013 We’re calling out to 500 printmakers to become a part of a massive exchange of printed matter that will reach across the globe. “The Drive Home…” is the theme of this swap – artists will interpret the theme by making an edition of 12 prints to submit to the exchange.
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DEADLINE : May 10th, 2013 The churchie national emerging art prize and exhibition offers an inspiring glimpse into the future of the Australian contemporary art scene. It provides a forum for artists to compete for highly visible recognition and does not restrict entries by category. All mediums are welcome, including painting, works on paper (drawing,
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WHEN : 26th March – 13th April / Opening 29th March, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane “2 Big 2 Fail” is the second exhibition to be held at The Hold Artspace, and will showcase the work of six Brisbane-based emerging artists. This exhibition will comprise interdisciplinary