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WHEN : 16th Aug, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Richard Hamilton, the godfather of pop art, died in September last year. Over fifty-plus years, he created a huge body of work drawing on pop-culture imagery. He is famous for his iconic collage Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so

WHEN : 13th Aug – 9th Sep WHERE : Brisbane Bus Shelters Bringing art to the everyday, Urban Easels transforms traditional bus shelter advertising space into a temporary public art gallery. This inaugural exhibition features artwork by local independent artists from Brisbane’s artist-run galleries network. Urban Easels is a fantastic opportunity to explore and enjoy

WHEN : Until 1st September WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries Philip Wolfhagen’s landscape paintings lead us in different directions simultaneously. On the one hand they offer quintessential glimpses of a potentially infinite terrain. On the other hand, these painterly depictions of earth, sea and sky engage us with their tendency towards minimal abstraction. In Wolfhagen’s

WHEN : Aug – Sep, 2012 WHERE : Leo Castelli Gallery, 76 Cricket St, Petrie Terrace Three projects and Sarah Byrne are pleased to announce the opening of the Video Easy VHS Library. Video Easy will be housed at Leo Castelli Gallery through August and September with events to be announced. Sarah Byrne explores a

WHEN : 2nd – 14th Aug WHERE : White Canvas Gallery “My current work looks at iconography and language, in particular Arabian (Moorish), Australian Aboriginal, Pacific, Indian and Asian. Street art and graffiti tags are a new phenomenon on this theme and very interesting to investigate. How do global cultures represent ‘mind’? Is it done

WHEN : Until 18th Aug WHERE : Heiser Gallery Ian Smith was born in Cairns, Queensland in 1950. In 1968 the artist began studying architecture at the University of Queensland but left the course after one year. In 1970 he travelled to live and study in Melbourne where he completed a Diploma of Art and

WHEN : Until 26th August WHERE : UQ Art Museum Return to Sender is an exhibition of works by artists who left Queensland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, largely in reaction to the political and cultural milieu of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era. While the exhibition is inspired by this exodus, it also invites

WHEN : 11th Aug, 7:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hangar, Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill Brisbane Artists : Hayley Brandon, Danielle Clej, Pirrin Francis, Michaela Gleave, Rachael Haynes, Catherine or Kate, Jessica Olivieri, Sarah Werkmeister Clear Dove Tone is a one night exhibition of event based scores by selected artists. This collection of

WHEN : 11th Aug – 6th Oct WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato explores rhetorics of extremism in art, music, and politics. Marco Fusinato is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney

WHEN : Until 4th November WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery ‘Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado’ has been specially curated for the Queensland Art Gallery by the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (the Prado). It is the largest and most significant international loan the Prado has ever undertaken, and is also the first exhibition

WHEN : Until 12th August WHERE : POP Gallery An exhibition of prints by members of Impress Printmakers, Qld and Hunter Island Press, Tasmania.

WHEN : Until 12th August WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography I photograph in fog in various unrelated locations. My work uses elements of fog and haze as portals to the transitory quality of one’s surroundings, and examines the insecurity of one’s experience in the landscape. In unclear air, objects lose their finiteness of appearance,

WHEN : 10th Aug, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Logan Art Gallery Eunkyoung Moon-Back’s artworks express the artist’s personal history, specifically exploring the junction where the artist’s Korean heritage and Australian life intersect. Guest speakers Dr Anne Kirker, Art Consultant, Curator and Writer, and Professor John McAuliffe AM, President, Multicap Board of Management.

WHEN : 10th Aug, 6:00pm WHERE : 80 Hampstead Rd, Highgate Hill, Brisbane Witch Meat ARI presents: pure un-adulterated 1000 percent mark-up high grade product. SOLO show by Anthony Jigalin Signed hand bound books $100 Original drawings $50

WHEN : 10th Aug — 8 Sept WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Lyndal Hargrave is an Australian artist working in sculpture, installation and painting. Hargrave’’s core practice exploits timber coat hangers as a sculptural material, reconfigured into complex open-weave forms. Using mundane found objects, Hargrave’’s sculptures probe the possibility of re-invention through the way

WHEN : 9th Aug – 1st Sep WHERE : Milani Gallery Image : Cigarette Dummy, 2008, Silicone, cigarette, wood presentation box, signed and dated, 9 x 2 x 2 cm, Ed. 55

WHEN : 8th Aug, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts 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 ways. In Gut Feeling

WHEN : 8th Aug, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Current Projects Current Projects presents a solo exhibition of new works by Brisbane artist Anastasia Booth. Please join us for the exhibition opening on Wednesday 8 August, 6 – 8pm. There is a small shiver working its way up my spine, as the cold metal slides

WHEN : 8th – 25th Aug WHERE : Metro Arts Through aural, visual and written language, Chatter will explore how quotidian experiences and materials can potentially be recontextualised and reframed as visual art. It will consider how everyday life; conversations, relationships and incidental occurrences, may provide a space through which to explore the shifting and

WHEN : Until 19th August WHERE : Fireworks Gallery A series of paired and group exhibitions celebrating attitudes, images and a Multitude of materials sourced from the bush + rural areas. Winter Lines will feature Australian artists George Tjungurrayi, David Paulson and Walangkura Napanangka Image : David Paulson, Tenebrae III, 2009, oil on canvas, 150x160cm

WHEN : Until 4th Aug WHERE : Metro Arts Across the sea is a new screen-based installation by Anita Holtsclaw. The work explores the part that the landscape and narration play in cinematic constructions of gendered identity. across the sea considers both the role of the artist, as well as the auteur in cinema, to

WHEN : 4th Aug, 6:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy Clover : New work by Archie Moore Exhibition dates : 4 – 25 August 2012 In mid 1981 the then Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Peterson snubbed a World Council of Churches investigation into Aboriginal living conditions by saying that there was no need as Aboriginal Australians ‘lived

WHEN : 4th Aug, 2:00 – 4:00pm WHERE : Jan Manton Art Joseph Daws’s painting practice operates between landscape and abstract painting. It acts as an arena for the artist to explore visual forms in parallel, the associated visual language, and the perception between abstraction and figuration. Daws is currently completing his PhD in Visual

WHEN : 4th Aug, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studios DEVOUT: best wishes, explores the repetitive use of prescribed slang and esoteric symbols between friends and loved ones. The use of cryptic discourse and iconography manifests itself into a language system only understood by the selected few. This phenomenon of codified intimacy is

WHEN : 4th August, 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : 111 Constance St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane The MAAP Board invites you and a guest to the launch of MAAP SPACE & opening exhibition by Zhang Peili. Please join us at 5.30pm for an in-conversation with Zhang Peili, followed by the official opening of the exhibition and

WHEN : 4th August WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Linda Zucco’s first collection at Lethbridge Gallery will open on Saturday 4 August 2012. Linda has a sharp and modern style with fresh compositions that produce modern paintings that pack a punch.

WHEN : 3rd Aug, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merivale Street,Brisbane. From Japan – Prints from Tama Art University is a curated group show featuring recent work by Kuniko Satake and other print artists associated with the Tama Art University (TAU) Satake and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (QCA) senior