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Monica Rohan : Inside Out

WHEN : 14th Sep – 13th Oct WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Monica Rohan’s work uses narrative devices to draw out an emotional response from the viewer. The situations she depicts are mundane, yet they are made to seem strange and ominous. Derived from staged photos of herself reacting to her environment, the images […]

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Sculpture Is Everything: Contemporary Works From The Collection

WHEN : Until 28th Oct WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Showcasing the Gallery’s Collection and featuring a group of major new acquisitions, ‘Sculpture is Everything’ explores the extraordinarily diverse and surprising field of contemporary sculpture. Sculpture is everything — from found objects to kinetic structures, from monuments to installation and land art, from pop

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IT AIN'T DEAD

WHEN : 12th Sep, 6:00pm WHERE : 65 James St, New Farm. Wall Mural – Behind Jamie’s Espresso (corner of James & Doggett St) Mild Manners, Brisbane Festival and QUT present “IT AIN’T DEAD”. A new generation keeping the age-old trade of hand-painted sign writing alive and kicking. Featuring works by Edward Woodley, Numskull, Marty

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MONO13

WHEN : 13th Sep, 3:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art The MONO program will present ‘Spectral Arrows’, Marco Fusinato’s durational noise performance. A joint project with Room 40

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Steve Carr

WHEN : 13th Sep – 11th Oct WHERE : IMA@KSUBI : Shop 2/30 James St, Fortitude Valley A recent quitter, Auckland artist Steve Carr presents three videos about the allure of cigarettes, childhood, and dubious parenting techniques. Smoke Train, a young mother entertains her daughter by modifying a cigarette pack so it can be used

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2high Festival call for media artists for Program X

DEADLINE : 12th Sep, 5:00pm In 2012 the Music and Exhibitions Departments will collaborate with a new initiative called Program X. Program X showcases the cross-collaboration between music and visual art forms by providing visual accompaniments to live performances by bands at this year’s 2high Festival. Program X is seeking artists working in moving image

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Kirra Jamison

WHEN : Until 22nd Sep WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery 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

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MARK WHALEN

WHEN : 4th – 22nd Sep WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery The work of Mark Whalen fractures and realigns the old divides between street and studio, form and content, macro and micro views to reinterpret the universal human struggle between our antagonistic instincts for freedom and control for the contemporary era. For his rapidly expanding

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Open Call for Submissions: Sculpture at Scenic World 2013

WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 1st Oct, 2012 Following the success of the inaugural Sculpture at Scenic World, Australia’s only rainforest exhibition returns for 2013.Between 23 April, and 19 May, 2013 this outdoor exhibition will provide local, national and international artists an exciting opportunity to exhibit their works within the natural splendour of the

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Tim Storrier

WHEN : 4th – 29th Sep WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries Australian artist Tim Storrier, born in 1949, has enjoyed a successful 40-year career, during which the Australian landscape has been his most significant source of inspiration. He has won many national prizes and awards and has exhibited widely in Australia and abroad. Image :

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OpenClosed

WHEN : Until 28th Oct WHERE : QUT Art Museum Lincoln Austin, Sean Phillips and Arryn Snowball are three Queensland artists working in different media, but with a shared sensibility. Their work presents the viewer with objects or atmospheres for contemplation—repeating modes, shifting visual motifs, words and phrases. open closed presents the work of these

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Dhä-Gombunhamirr Napurrungal Burrimbirryu

WHEN : Until 15th Sep WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery Dhä-Gombunhamirr Napurrungal Burrimbirryu (Sharing Our Spirit)featuring The Artists from Milingimbi Arts Centre. Artists : Margaret Rarru, Mary Nalmilaga, Helen Ganalmirriwuy, Roslyn Marrkapuy, Lena Walunydjunalil, Joyce Naliyabu, Elizabeth Dhaburrany, Jack Roy, George Milaypuma, Sandra Manyjdarrpuy, Ruth Nalmakarra, Terrence Manda, Frank Gambali, Raymond Bulambula, Wilson Mandjarri &

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CARAVAN

WHEN : 8th – 29th September WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Labyrinth Caravan is a collaboration between A-CH Architects and the Artist Run Initiative, The Wandering Room. Together, they have created a temporary space which showcases the works of local artists and bridges a gap between art and architecture. A-CH have been known to create temporary

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Panel Discussion: Polly Borland: Everything I want to be when I grow up

WHEN : 6th Sep, 2:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum A panel discussion responding to the exhibition Polly Borland: Everything I want to be when I grow up, with curator Alison Kubler, Frances Bonner and Jay Younger. Polly Borland’s photographic practice has straddled commercial/photographic documentary, and fine art practice, and is characterised by

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Gender and Science II @ IMA

WHEN : 6th Sep, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Geneticists Vincent Harley (Prince Henry’s Institute, Monash University, Melbourne) and Peter Koopman (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane) and LGTBI community advocates Tony Briffa and Sally Goldner discuss the science and politics of sexual determination and differentiation; chaired by Elizabeth Stephens (Centre

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10 X 100 '10 Australian Photographers'

WHEN : Until 16th Sep WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography 10 of Australia’s finest contemporary photographers were invited to explore their creativity using Fujifilm’s recently developed, compact, new generation Finepix X100 digital camera, submitting 10 photographs each for publication in the book and exhibition ‘10×100: 10 Australian Photographers’. The photographers are Max Pam, Narelle

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{ART} WRITE 4

WHEN : 4th Sep, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Do you want to learn how to write about art? Join industry professionals Tess Maunder (The Maximilian) and Fiona Crawford (A Girl Called Fred) as they share their knowledge and experience of the use of blogging and social media in the arts sector.

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Ellena van Riet

WHEN : 4th – 16th Sep WHERE : Graydon Gallery, 29 Merthyr Road, New Farm Ellena van Riet is a Brisbane artist known for her abstract, mixed media artworks. The following words by New York based Australian artist, David Rankin, capture the spirit and feeling of Ellena and her painting: “Ellena van Riet is a

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