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Call for Applications: 2013 Artspace Studio Residencies

WHAT : Call for Applications DEADLINE : 15th June, 2012 The Artspace Studio Residency Program provides local, national and international contemporary visual arts practitioners, curators, theorists and writers with subsidised studio facilities for the development of new ideas and work. Artspace operates four residential and six non-residential studios on-site in the Gunnery Building, Woolloomooloo. These […]

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Addition 2

WHEN : 14th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Addition Gallery 32 Hardgrave Road, West End The second exhibition at Addition Gallery will feature new work from Brisbane artist’s Kiah Reading, Pirrin Francis and Felix Fox. These artists work with objects, images and space in a way that shifts the boundaries between balance and imbalance,

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Lesa Hepburn

WHEN : Until 16th June WHERE : Doggett St Studios My work involves rapid change using found & natural materials. I incorporate photography,sculpture, stitching ,drawing assemblage & collaborate with other artists & designers. Lesa Hepburn

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Nicholas Harding

WHEN : 12th June – 7th July WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries “each layer’s a memory patterned thick with the textures of life it may be still but its view is fluid with living…” Robert Kennedy extract from “Two Parts of Life” in 2006 exhibition catalogue Text – Phillip Bacon Galleries Image – Nicholas Harding,

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Adam Lester

WHEN : Until 16th June WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Adam Lester’s work comes from a need to make sense of cultural ’noise’. Travels in Greece and Asia, and an interlude in the hippy north of New South Wales, have laid the groundwork for this artist’s penetrating perception of the contemporary milieu. Steering a course

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Animal / Human

Artists today are depicting animals in their work with remarkable frequency. The exhibition ANIMAL/HUMAN presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists that explore our complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Their work variously touches on the psychological, ethical, philosophical, scientific and cultural parameters of the relationship. A number of works

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GOMA TALKS : Nationhood – Who creates cultural identity?

WHEN : 7th June, 6:30pm WHERE : GOMA CINEMA A, GOMA Exploring the diverse cultural expressions of women in the context of contemporary debates about an ‘Australian’ national identity. View the live webcast of GOMA Talks on our website http://qagoma.qld.gov.au/webcast and tweet your comments, feedback and questions to the panel using hash tag #GOMAtalks. GOMA

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Contemporary Australia: Women

WHEN : Until 22nd July WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ — the second in the Gallery’s Contemporary Australia exhibition series — celebrates the diversity, energy and innovation of contemporary women artists working in this country today. This exhibition acknowledges the strong history of work by women artists and recognises the

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Petrichor

WHEN : 6th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Ground Floor, E Block, South Bank Institute of Technology During these past two years at South Bank Institute of Technology, the mid-year 2012 graduating students have challenged and developed their senses to create works of art, works that have been shaped by the people they are

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The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists

WHAT : Scholarship DEADLINE : 5th June, 2012 The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists provides assistance towards travel (for educational purposes) and/or tuition costs for young people building a career in the visual arts broadly in the areas of painting, photography or sculpture. Notification: Two months following the closing date Four candidates will

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Craig Waddell

WHEN : 29th May – 16th Jun / Opening 1st June 6:00-8:00pm WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery “Growing up on a farm in Galston, I have always strived to locate my working studio in rural areas, as this is where I feel most at peace. For the past two years my studio has been on

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World Press Photo

WHEN : 2nd – 24th June WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a picture by Samuel Aranda from Spain as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. The picture shows a woman holding a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used

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NOWstalgia

WHEN : 1st June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : POP Gallery12 Ipswich Road Woolloongabba, Brisbane In a fast moving world we are distanced from our immediate experiences and objectify the present as a thing to be re-constructed. Today’s nowstalgic culture of self-promotion, “update” value and the digitization of all aspects of everyday life is alternately

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Memefest Festival of Socially responsive Communication and Art 2012.

WHAT : Call For Applications Memefest DEADLINE : May 31, 2012. Memefest, an international organization dedicated to promoting new, productive and relevant forms of cultural activism, together with the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, this year introduces the Memefest/Griffith-QCA award for ‘Imaginative Critical Intervention’. This award invites cultural activists, creatives and thinkers from the

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