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Shian Law Workshop

WHEN : 12th May, 10:00am – 4:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre Judith Wright Centre’s current Artist-In-Residence Shian Law will present a workshop focussing on the integration of multimedia and other stimulus into the development of new dance works. Free to participate – registration complusory to info@judithwrightcentre.com The first part of the workshop focuses on […]

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The Brisbane Collective

WHEN : 11th May, 5:00pm WHERE : Via Studio, 50 Abbotsford Road, Bowen Hills, Brisbane Due to the success of the first exhibition, Brisbane Collective will once again present a pop-up exhibition event. With a selection of local artists and musicians, Via Studios, a rehearsal and recording studio, will be transformed into a creative space

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'Beast' by Gerwyn Davies

WHEN : 11th May – 1st June / Opening 11th May 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Gerwyn Davies’ striking photography exhibition, ‘Beast’ explores and challenges the intrinsic link between fashion and self-expression. The exhibition will be officially opened by Brisbane fashion curator Dr Nadia Buick, co-director of The Fashion Archives. Opening

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Anita Holtsclaw: Palaces

WHEN : 10th – 12th May / Opening 10th May, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : The Block QUT Kelvin Grove Palaces is a multi-channel screen-based installation that explores the part that landscape and narration play in cinematic constructions of gendered identity. The exhibition examines the ways in which our experience as a viewer of cinematic

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Boxcopy Weekender: Offsite

WHEN : 10th – 12th May WHERE : Boxcopy Launch & ‘Tag Team’ Discussion : Friday 10 May 8:00pm Presented in partnership with Accidentally Annie Street Space, Current Projects, David/David, Inbetweenspaces and Level. Collaboration by way of the artist run initiative and the art collective is a mainstay of Brisbane’s art community. Increasingly, local artists,

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Addition #4

WHEN : 9th May, 6:00pm – 8:00pm WHERE : Addition Gallery Addition #4 features five artists whose work is united by it’s emphasis on humour. While their processes and themes vary, comic tropes of irony, parody and absurdity are the staples of their particular critical perspectives. Whether slapping together crude drawings and crass slogans or

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Panoramas

WHEN : 6th April – 6th Oct WHERE : Museum of Brisbane A history of Brisbane Photography. Among the countless images taken since the introduction of photography to Australia in the 1860s, panoramas contain something special. These wide vistas possess a poignancy and power that capture not a single subject, but the broader context of

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Documentary Screening : Pilgrimage from Scattered Points by Luke Fowler

WHEN : 9th May, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Luke Fowler’s 2006 documentary Pilgrimage from Scattered Points addresses English composer Cornelius Cardew. Cardew formed Scratch Orchestra with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton in 1968. Their draft constitution, published in The Musical Times in June 1969, set out the framework for the orchestra’s work,

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Made Here Now

WHEN : 9th May – 15th June / Opening 9th May, 6:00pm WHERE : Artisan Made Here Now sees three local up-and-coming Brisbane based designers, Benjamin Breitenstein, Forrest Gillham and Julian Munro, convert artisan’s shopfront into a functioning design studio / communal workspace / pop-up exhibition. This innovative project invites the public, students and design

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Kate Shaw : Diamond Dust

WHEN : 1st – 25th May / Opening 3rd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery My practice re-interprets notions of what constitutes landscape painting, both within an art historical context and a contemporary social context. The paintings deal with the tensions and dichotomies in both the depiction of the natural world and our relationship

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Pecha Kucha

WHEN : 8th May, 8:20pm WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Shantanu Starrick- [PIXELTRADE] Photographer + Traveller SURROUNDINGS– Architecture Jono Cottee- [VANGUARD FASHION] Liam Murray- Prefabrication + Modularisation Dario Cali- [DADUXIO]- Film Maker + Photographer Nic Martoo + Nic Gonsalves- Emergency Shelter Bridgette Cumming- [MY DELICIOUS YEAR] William Harvey-Jones + Katy Moir + Ben Sheehan –[CineCity 2013]

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Then There Were Nine

WHEN : 7th – 11th May / Opening 11th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Art Space 274 Montague Road, West End Then There Were Nine are a collective of Photography students from CATC in Brisbane. This exhibition will feature work from nine emerging photographers. Each student will exhibit six to eight works,

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Vanessa Bertagnole

Vanessa Bertagnole, b. 1983, United States, is a photographer, artist, arts consultant and curator. After completing a Masters degree in Visual Culture Research from the Australian National University in 2011, Bertagnole relocated from Canberra to Brisbane where she is currently based. Bertagnole’s passion for photography began ten years ago when she inherited her grandfather’s old

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Wang Gongxin

WHEN : 22nd March – 3rd May / Special Launch 3rd May, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : MAAP MAAP’s next exhibition in Brisbane continues a focused series of leading media artists. Wang Gongxin has a significant place in contemporary Chinese art history. As a senior first generation video artist in China, Wang has produced an

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Friday Night

WHEN : 3rd May, 5:30pm WHERE : Metro Arts Behind the heritage facade of Metro Arts there is a vibrant laboratory for the development of new work. On the first Friday of the month, Metro Arts is throwing open its doors to give you an insight into the Artists’ world through a range of new

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Mortimore Prize

WHEN : 2nd – 12th May / Opening 3rd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Graydon Gallery Australia’s leading Realism art event, the $52,000 Mortimore Prize, is exhibiting at Graydon Gallery. Featuring many of Australia’s greatest painters and illustrators, on show will be the winners and selected other works, some 50 in total. Entry is $8.00 for

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Minimal / Conceptual : Public lecture with Andrew McNamara and Nigel Lendon

WHEN : 27th April, 11:00am WHERE : Milani Gallery Andrew McNamara will deliver his paper Evading the Perceptual-Conceptual Divide as a Strategy of Minimal-Conceptual Art in Australia, to be presented at the conference ‘100 Years of Abstract Art’ at Jacobs University, Bremen in May. Following this will be a floor talk with Nigel Lendon.

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The In-Between

WHEN : 26th – 28th April / Opening Event 26th April, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space Solo Artist : Gus Eagleton Group : Fintan Magee, Yannick Blattner, David Don, Carl Steffan. Music : Desmond Cheese THE IN–BETWEEN The In-Between does not undermine a deeper understanding of what a gesture adds. A life

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Mythopoetic

WHEN : April 10th – May 18th WHERE : Queensland College of Art The exhibition Mythopoetic: women artists from India and Australia takes place across three galleries located at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art. The work of 15 artists, including a collaborative pair, is brought together by emerging curator Marnie Dean. Mythopoetic: women artists

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S P A C E

WHEN : 26th April – 2nd May / Opening 26th April, 6pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery Take a blank piece of paper. Cut, paint, fold, draw, make it big, make it small, crumple it, crease it, rip it, destroy it. What is it now? What can you create? How will it represent you? How

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Fatal Oration

WHEN : 24th April, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace A SoFA panel discuss the current exhibition MORTAL, IMMORTAL with three of the exhibiting artists: Emma Leslie, Jared Worthington and Mitchell Donaldson. Please join to enjoy live and interactive dialogue surrounding the artist’s practices and the contemporary reflections of mortality on show.

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