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WHEN : 3rd August, 7:00 – 11:00pm WHERE : Salt House Gallery, New Farm, 888 Brunswick St Rubens Cantuni aka Tokyo Candies Brendan O’Connor (Aus) Kat Cameron aka Team Kitten Tiffany Atkin (Aus) Maho Kamimura (Japan) Laura Strange (Aus) Dan Hancock (Aus) Emma Dalzell (Aus) Ella Mobbs (Aus) Rhiannon Claire McLay (Aus) A celebration of […]

WHEN : 2nd Aug, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art How Are You, Jannik Splidsboel’s 2011 documentary on the work of Danish-Norwegian art couple Elmgreen and Dragset. Courtesy Radiator Film. Splidsboel goes back to the very beginning when Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset met at a gay bar in Copenhagen and embarked on a

WHEN : 2nd – 31st August WHERE : Lust For Life Tattoo William Mobbs ‘Eye Candy’ & Ella Mobbs ‘Bone China’ exhibition launch. William Mobbs lives and works in Ocean Shores in Northern NSW, having originally studied art in Brisbane and has numerous successful solo exhibitions in Byron Bay and Sydney to his credit. He

WHEN : 2nd Aug, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Pickle Gallery, Contemporary Artisans Collective, 20 Lyons Terrace Windsor In the Now – an exhibition of current work & works in progress by the Jewellers & Metalsmiths Group of QLD. Exhibition dates : 2nd-15th August Works by: Pippin Blackwell, Leeanne Bond, Ann Chadwick, Adrianna Collard, Georgina

WHEN : 29th July, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Scratch Bar, 8/1 Park Rd Milton, Brisbane Joseph Breikers will host a metal night at the Scratch Bar in Milton. Breikers mines his long-term investigation of metal culture to produce a blog and customised bar experience. Presented by Three Projects Three projects is a collaboration

WHEN : 28th July, 7:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy A Sound performance collaboration. Level 1, 129 Margaret Street Brisbane.

WHEN : 28th July, 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Hangar, Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill Brisbane Featuring Michelle Knowles, Melissa Ryke, Erika Scott and Jemima Wyman. Curated by Brooke Ferguson Cleanskins is a one night exhibition of video work by selected Brisbane based artists who hail from North Queensland. It will bring together

WHEN : 27th July 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street, South Bank Chromophilia – An abnormal attraction to colour. Not nearly subtle enough to be eroticism and not so brazen as to be fetishism; this particular attraction to colour is a blatant disregard for respected colour theory

WHEN : 28th July, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Anthea Polson Art The quite extraordinary Memory Motel exhibition of paintings, drawings and installation pieces continues Peta Houghton’s “ongoing autobiographical project.” This new body of work however, is also a very personal meditation on the transience of the physical body, the mind and memory. “Through old

WHEN : 27th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Zammit Projects presents a series of exhibitions in the Ryan Renshaw Window Space. Launching with the work of Brisbane artist Chris Bennie, the space acts as a proposal for a new gallery.

WHEN : 27th July, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Yvonne Todd : ‘65% Seahorsel’ / Exhibition Dates : May 30 – June 23, 2012 Image : YVONNE TODD Moonsap, 2012, Type-C photograph, 134cm x 107cm, edition of 3, framed WHEN : 27th July, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Charles

WHEN : 27th July, 6:30pm WHERE : The Red Herring: 9 Alcester St. Grange Laura Brinin is a Brisbane-based, emerging contemporary artist. Her practice explores relational aesthetic notions with an emphasis on domesticity, the home, and relationships. These umbrella terms lead to notions of the home and surrounding environment, domestic rituals and relationship observations. A

WHEN : 27th July, 5:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : 80 HAMPSTEAD ROAD, HIGHGATE HILL Truth-worship is a first solo exhibition by Alrey Batol. Starting out primarily as a performative sound and video artist, now exploring new media installation and electronic sculpture, Alrey has been sporadically performing and exhibiting in Brisbane mainly in underground circles. The

WHEN : 27th July, 6:00 – 7:30pm WHERE : QUT Creative Industries Precinct A special screening event of Bill Viola’s The Reflecting Pool Collected Works 1977-1980 (duration: 62 minutes), including Ancient of Days (1979-81) and The Reflecting Pool (1977-79). Refreshments will be provided on the night and participants who RSVP through Eventbrite will receive an

WHEN : 26th July, 6:00pm WHERE : The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct A retrospective of seminal video art from 1970 to 1985. To be opened by David Perry Click here to RSVP

WHEN : 26th Jul – Sun 23rd Sep WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Comissioned by FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography in 2011, Martin Parr documents the work and leisure of people in Western Australian port towns and coastal cities, revealing something unique about the coastal dwelling population and Australian life in general. In

WHEN : Until 28th July WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery My current paintings explore the subtle beauty of colours present in the remnant native flora of the coastal areas of southeast Queensland. I have long been moved by the delicate muted tones of coastal wallum scrub and the dark luminosity of forest floors in our

WHEN : Until 11th August WHERE : Wooloongabba Art Gallery ‘Silence’ an exhibition by Henri van Noordenburg and Eryn Begley. This exhibition includes solo and collaborated works concentrating on the theme of silence created around religion, family dispute, and migration. Henri’s work is created by hand carving into a photographic print, with these one off

WHEN : July 25th, 6:00pm WHERE : Current Projects Current Projects presents recent video work by Brisbane emerging artist duo Clark Beaumont, in which the artists unpack the ‘Aussie’ identity and construct new narratives for both themselves and the audience. Originally created for SafARI 2012 in Sydney, ‘So where the bloody hell are you?’ ‘premieres’

WHEN : Until 4th August WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Abject waste or nature’s jewels, each are treated to the same forensic reckoning at the hands of Beijing based photographer Huang Xu. His lavish, closely cropped imagery transforms arbitrary objects into sensual chiaroscuro studies by a process of 3-D scanning, photography and digital manipulation. Image

WHEN : Until 12th August WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography This exhibition explores landscape at night in Peru and Australia. Jorge Deustua and Marian Drew began this project in 2010 after a chance meeting in Australia, 2009. This collaborative dialogue between two people with different histories, cultures and languages led to relatively exotic landscapes.

WHEN : Until 22nd July WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Carl McConnell (1926–2003) was the most important potter in the post-World War Two generation in Queensland, introducing stoneware and porcelain firing to the state. His superb craftsmanship has been showcased in numerous exhibitions, which established his nationwide profile. Phillip McConnell (b.1947), Carl’s eldest son,

WHEN : 10th July – 4th August WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries “Since graduating from art school, I have been primarily concerned with the painting of the human figure in a narrative context and the depiction of the human presence – tht is the Portrait. This focus all stems from my devotion to the great