microMONO16
WHEN : 25th April, 7:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Glitterbug, from Cologne, plus a quadrophonic set from Melbourne’s Thembi Soddell and Anthea Caddy.
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.
The Archive Project
DEADLINE : 31st Dec, 2013 As a result of many discussions re: the journey, position and visibility of women artists, artist and curator Courtney Coombs is currently developing a new project to digitally archive Australian women artists in 2013 – far and wide. The result will be a simple online interface that will detail an
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Crude Tools, Feeble Actions
WHEN : 24th April – 11th May / Opening 24th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Crude Tools, Feeble Actions brings together new works by Brisbane based artist Anastasia Booth. The exhibition plays with the notion of folding the fanciful, highly erotic and DIY aesthetic across one another with unexpected results. Booth’s art practice explores
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Michael Candy and Benjamin Forster : In Conversation
WHEN : 24th April, 6:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Michael Candy is an emerging new media/kinetic artist with a specific interest in the relationship between imitation and technological standards. Benjamin Forster’s practice explores drawing, bringing together digital and biological technologies, installation and print to trace the boundaries of logic, economy and the role of
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Innovative Landscape Design
WHEN : 23rd – 24th April WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery In an event not be missed by design, architecture and horticultural enthusiasts, Brisbane’s Bleeding Heart Gallery will be showcasing Queensland’s finest in Landscape Architecture in a free public exhibition next week. In a celebration of the contribution that Landscape Architects make to our communities,
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The Box Monthly V
WHEN : 20th April, 6:00pm WHERE : The Box 29 Vulture St. West End, Brisbane Do you like music? Art? Poetry? Cuddles? Thinking? Laughter? People? Love? Life? Well then come to The Box Monthly for a heady dose of all these things. Artists: Alithea Josaphine, Madeleine Keinonen, Venom Vision, Ben Eckersley, James Needham. Music: Captain
Alrey Batol – ‘Waterbirds’
WHEN : 20th April, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : 12 Lechmere st, New Farm / Inhouse ARI Exhibition by artist Arley Batol with a written critique by Katherine Dionysius. One night only event.
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The Philadelphia Connection
WHEN : 11th April – 4th May / Opening 19th April, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : The Art Factory, 84 Merivale Street, South Brisbane Come along to the official Launch of POP@AFG (Postgraduates And Other Projects @ The Art Factory Gallery) research exhibition space. The first exhibtion ‘The Philadelphia Connection’ will present six artists from
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Rebecca Ross : Grid Trip
WHEN : 19th April – 11th May WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms ‘Grid Trip’ is an exhibition of colourful, bold and striking new works by Queensland artist Rebecca Ross, influenced by her passion for travel and exploration. Using maps and memorabilia collected during her recent travels to Italy, Ross’ work employs various forms of
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Mortal, Immortal
WHEN : 17th – 30th April / Opening 19th, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane. Diagram and The Hold Artspace invite you to join us on Friday the 19th of April from 6:00pm to 9:00pm for the opening of ‘Mortal, Immortal’, an exhibition of contemporary reflections on
k.O.M.A Project
WHEN : 18th April – 20th May WHERE : Upstairs, Shop 2/30 James St, Fortitude Valley Brisbane,(above Ksubi) Mild Manners is undertaking a temporary residency throughout 2013, in a small space on James St. This six part gallery project begins with an opening group exhibition including; Andrew Gordon, Ben Havenarr, Hamishi, James Ettelson, Jedda-Daisy, Culley,
Treasures: the art of collecting
WHEN : 30th March – 28th April WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography Treasures is an exhibition celebrating the art of collecting photography. From institutional collections to the one time love affair with a picture, this exhibition traces the personal history of the objects that encase the artistic meaning given by their makers, but also
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Anupama Kundoo speaks to Shahmen Suku
WHEN : 18th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Anupama Kundoo’s experimental, sustainable architecture has brought her international recognition and numerous awards. Born in India, she lived and worked in Europe before moving to Brisbane—where she teaches at the University of Queensland—in 2012. That year, she also exhibited in David Chipperfield’s curated section
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Dadang Christanto : Lost and Found
WHEN : 17th April – 2nd June WHERE : Jan Manton Art Dadang Christanto is a leading Indonesian artist who lives in Darwin. He was a lecturer at the School of Art and Design, Northern Territory University (1999–2003), completing a residency at the Canberra School of Art before moving to Sydney to lecture at the
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Feltspace : Call for writers
DEADLINE: Open FELTspace would like to get to know you. We approach writers and curators from time to time about a variety of projects. Join our register of arts writers by sending us an email with an expression of your interest to participate in future projects. Include your full name, email, mobile, and links to
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Datascape
WHEN : 16th – 26th April / Opening 18th April, 6:30pm WHERE : The Block Featuring a performance by electronic musician Dr Donna Hewitt, inventor of the eMic, a sensor-enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance. Donna has performed nationally and internationally and is a member of artist collective Lady Electronica, as well as a
Julian Meagher
WHEN : 16th April – 4th May WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery With his training in medicine contributing an empirical basis for techniques learned as a student of painting in Italy, Julian Meagher’s work layers the real and the symbolic in a way that acknowledges the multidimensional and fragmentary nature of life as we experience
Gregory Crewdson : In a Lonely Place
WHEN : 16th March – 25th May WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Crewdson’s images compress the melodrama of an entire movie, or soap-opera season, into a single, elaborately constructed scene.—New York Times American photographer Gregory Crewdson is famous for his large-scale, staged, directed photographs that offer a surreal view of middle America. He says:
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Neil Frazer
WHEN : 16th April – 11th May WHERE : Philip Bacon Galleries “My paintings are the result of travel within Australia and New Zealand, I aim to make paintings that combine something of the texture and energy of the place with a sense of its broader geology and geography.” “I’m not trying to make paintings
OpenSource: Dustin Grella’s Animation Hotline Volume 1 and Volume 2
WHEN : 8th – 15th April / 20th April – 6th May WHERE : Parer Place Urban Screens OpenSource is a series of exhibitions throughout 2013 exploring the use of crowd sourcing within the still and moving image, including Visual Art, Film, Music Videos, and Animations. Dustin Grella is a New York-based Artist that works
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Residency at BigCi
DEADLINE : 15th April, 2013 Local and international artists are invited to submit proposals for a $500 Award to undertake a Residency at Bilpin international ground for Creative initiatives (BigCi) to take place between July and December 2013. BigCi is located in Bilpin on the edge of the World Heritage listed Greater Blue Mountains, about
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Elizabeth Willing : Leaving the Table
WHEN : 13th April – 4th May / Opening 13th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy Elizabeth Willing’s practice examines gastronomy with an emphasis on the collective experience of food; how and what we eat. Between the studio and kitchen, Willing’s work unpacks the structural and sensual qualities of foods often in absurd, unstable and formless
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Karl De Waal
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,
Djalkiri
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
Feverish
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
Rearview: Looking Back On Brisbane
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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Amelia Barikin on Pierre Huyghe
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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A Private Collection – Artist’s Choice: Michael Zavros
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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Foundations Edge : Artists and Technology
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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SafARI : Call Out – 2014
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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'Mighty Small' curated by Olivia Welch : Call Out
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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Figuration
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
Chris Langlois : Sketches
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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Exist Symposium : CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
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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Plank Canvas
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.