WHEN : 12th – 29th June / Opening 12th June WHERE : Metro Arts In her latest exhibition no wonder, Erika Scott uses second-hand fish tanks, photographs, gap filler, boxer shorts, dusters, glass, cane frames, tiles and a live axolotl to negotiate ‘symptoms’ of collage. In adopting processes of ‘making’ that tear, bind and break, […]
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WHEN : 13th June, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art You are invited to view Len Lye’s great lost film, the ‘rhapsodic’ All Souls Carnival (1957). An expatriate New Zealander, Lye worked in London from 1926 to 1944, and in New York from 1944 until his death in 1980. He is known for his
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WHEN : 8th June – 7th July WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography With teenage pregnancy stereotyped as a social problem, most dominant discourses do not consider the limited choices available to many young women experiencing ‘disadvantage’. As a consequence, becoming a mother at a young age can be perceived as an irrational and irresponsible
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WHEN : 12th – 22nd June WHERE : WEBB Gallery, Ground Floor,Webb Centre Building, QCA South Bank Recent work by Queensland College of Art MVA candidate Nancy Stilianos. An exhibition of large installations with a focus on the handmade. Produced over the past two years, the works seek to transport the viewer to a place
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Michael Muir’s work explores the simplification and interpretation of various forms predominately being the built environment. With an emphasis on colour and natural light the painted works explore the notion of a fusion between representation and abstraction.The work is based from an emotive perspective steeped in nostalgia and childhood memories – either borrowed or his
Moving across mediums, forms and ideas, Woodward’s practice typically engages with processes of editing, free association and re-imagining. Previously his artworks have materialised as sculpture, video, writing, installation, drawings and public events. Tim Woodward graduated with Honours from QUT in 2006. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, most recently with solo exhibitions at
WHEN : 11th June – 20th July WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Totems are beguiling and mysterious, affording the viewer a glimpse into deep spiritual traditions. A particular magic occurs when aesthetics and meaning are complimentary, when the essence of the story is captured in the art. This happens with Bloodwood Totems – the dancing shimmer
WHEN : 8th June – 7th July WHERE : Philip Bacon Galleries Giorgio de Chirico once famously observed that “Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” Peter Boggs is an artist who
WHEN : 13th April – 23rd June WHERE : UQ Art Museum Joseph Marioni makes his paintings by running paint down the canvas, and yet insists that the work is intended. Robert MacPherson crushes sticks of charcoal onto paper in what again must be seen as a form of process art, and yet worries that
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WHEN : 14th May – 29th June WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery Artists: Georgina Allain, Loique Allain, Mimi Allain, Maryann Bourne, Elizabeth Cowie, Stan De Jersey, Zoe De Jersey, Dawn Koondumbin, Doreen Mapoondin, Virginia Namponan, Mavis Ngallametta, Frank Petero, Margaret Pootchemunka, Sue Ryan, Ceferino Sabatino, Ellarose Savage & Francisca Walmbeng The GhostNets Australia project started
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WHEN : 9th June, 6:00pm WHERE : 199 boundary st, west end, Brisbane Featuring performances by : X in O, Kahl Monticone, Bad Intensions , $low, Massimo Magee & Adam Sussman. ($10 entry + $3 Corkage)
WHEN : 8th June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Inhouse ARI 12 Lechmere Street, New Farm, Brisbane Exhibition by Pirrin Francis, ‘Nightfall Recollections’. Written critique by Andi Halfpapp, ‘Our memories are not Our Own’ One night only event Proudly Supported by Maap, Brisbane City Council and Queensland Government Creative Sparks is a joint initiative of
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WHEN : 13 May – 22 June / Open Studio 8th May 12:00 – 6:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy Over the next six weeks, Brisbane based artists Joseph Breikers and Timothy P Kerr will utilise the Boxcopy gallery as a site for experimentation and play, undertaking investigations into the nexus between humour and collaboration. Join us
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WHEN : 8th June – 7th July WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography Alison Brady is an established international photographic artist based in New York. Her work is characterised by psychological themes, which deliberately prompt a cognitive dissonance in a viewer. Brady adopts devices such as humour, horror, the grotesque and the bizarre. Brady has
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WHEN : 8th – 27th July WHERE : Institute of Modern Art The IMA showed Olaf Breuning’s videos Home (2005) in 2006 and Home 2 (2007) last year. Now our audiences can complete the trilogy with Home 3: Homage to New York (2012). In all three half-hour videos, we are guided by an anonymous buffoon,
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WHEN : 31st May – 14th June / Opening 7th June, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Bird Gallery and Studio 181 George St, Brisbane City (Alley Way) Bird presents an international French artist who evolved his artistry in Paris by artistic squat around artists like Sebran D’Argent, Cyprien Gaillard, C215, and many others of the
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WHEN : 7th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hangar, 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill 4059 Artists : Athena Thebus & Clark Beaumont & Louise Bennett. Celebrity worship, conspicuous consumption, mass boredom, and hyper sexualisation are not wholly horrible but, admittedly, fascinating in their grotesqueness; alarming in their beauty. Here, sarcasm and sincerity are
WHEN : 8th June — 27th July WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Every time I make a painting I’m dragging the whole history of painting with me.—Judy Millar Post-expressionist painter Judy Millar is a paradox. She seems to do everything she can to distance herself from the old idea of authentic, expressive painting. She
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DEADLINE : 7th June, 2013 Queen Street Studio is calling for artists to re-imagine the relationship and function of studio, gallery and retail space in our 2013/2014 Visual Art Residency Program. The program will offer 2 groups of 6 visual artists six-months of free space to create, exhibit and sell their work online and in-store
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DEADLINE : 7th June, 2013 Electrolight, in conjunction with Fed Square and the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) are excited to announce a joint initiative for The Light in Winter 2013. ‘Yo Gobo’ will see a selection of designs realised as unique gobos and displayed in a public art projection in St Paul’s Court,
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WHEN : 7th June, 5:30pm WHERE : Metro Arts Level 1 to Level 4 Friday Night: June is shaping up to be another great evening. Thomas Quirk will offer a taste of his new work in development, The Theory of Everything, and Rebecca Meston will reveal a work in progress showing of Ebony Starling, her
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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