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Serious Matter

WHEN : 31st March 6:00 -8:00pm WHERE : BOXCOPY Alex Cuffe is a multi-disciplinary artist who works across sculpture, installation and experimental sound. In his practice Cuffe approaches the materiality of objects in relation to convoluted theories drawn from science, geometry, astrology, kinetics and acoustics. His works utilize the aesthetics of the ‘backyard inventor’ where

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Eight Collective

WHEN : 1st April / Ongoing WHERE : Eight Collective How much effort are you willing to make in order to really get to know someone? To what extent can you really get to know others and how much of that knowledge is assumed? With so much information through technology, now available at our fingertips,

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Samuel Tupou

WHEN : 31st March, 2:00 – 4:00pm WHERE : Jan Manton Art Samuel Tupou is a Cairns based artist with a specialty in screenprinting. Tupou’s practice reflects contemporary dilemmas of cultural identity, Westernization and immigration. Through the re-invention and repetition of found imagery from Western popular culture, and the use of industrial materials, Tupou creates

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Indigenous Art Collection

WHEN : 31st March – 17th June WHERE : QUT Art Museum The first pieces of Indigenous art held in the QUT Art Collection—two traditional bark paintings from Maningrida in western Arnhem Land—were acquired in the mid 1960s. However, the major part of the Collection has been assembled over the past two decades and continues

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Mondo Motion | Life on pegs: Pre-digital animation in Brisbane

WHEN : 28th March, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE :QUT Creative Industries Precinct / Cnr Kelvin Grove Road & Musk Avenue Regional creative practice is often overlooked in histories that emanate from established centres of cultural activity. Australian animation production is generally associated with Sydney and Melbourne, and little of the pre-digital commercial work generated outside

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VEXTA

WHEN : 27th March – 14th April WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery “I’m creating work with what’s happening in the world now.” How do we feel about ourselves now? How do we feel about the future? Vexta has always wanted her art to make people think. On stepping into the gallery, her oeuvre remains characterised

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Public Art Commission Opportunities

WHAT : CALL OUT DEADLINE : 26th March, 2012 Expressions of Interest are sought from interested artists and designers to undertake site-specific public artwork/s commissioned as part of The Corso, North Lakes project. The Artwork Program consists of five (5) Artwork Commissions. Opportunities include: cultural placemaking, integrated sculptural works, interactive electronic artworks, an interior entrance

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Sandra Selig – Light Gets In

WHEN : 22nd March 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery, 54 Logan Road, Woolloongabba Brisbane’s Sandra Selig made her name with her sublime site-specific installations, where curving planes are suggested through the regular disposition of threads strung through the gallery space between architectural points, suggesting weightless ephemeral geometric forms. One is permanently installed in

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Olaf Breuning – Home 2

WHEN : 22nd March -18th April WHERE : IMA@KSUBI In what looks like a handycam-video diary or an amateur travel documentary, we follow Breuning’s pal Brian Kerstetter (who the Guardian dubbed ‘the poor man’s Borat’) to Japan, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland, and Ghana, suffering his inane observations and lame jokes. A demented cosmopolitan, Kerstetter’s character

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Lefety Levity

WHEN : 21st March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Studio 3.5, level 3 Metro Arts, Edward Street, Brisbane, QLD Current Projects invites you to Lefety Levity, a one-night exhibition by Sally Chicken. Sally’s practice investigates the relationship between humans and animals and how these relationships change between cultures. Her practice is influenced by her own

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The art of collecting

WHEN : Wednesday 21 March, 6pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Get an insight into the collection of Art through a panel discussion from varying view points of public institutions, commercial galleries, collecting groups and corporate collections. Panelists include Bruce Heiser (Heiser Gallery), Jenifer McLennan (Kurilpa Group) and Megan Williams (QUT Art Museum). RSVP essential

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Jasmin Coleman

Stabilisers (Installation view), Acrow Props, Scaffold Couplers, 2011 / Image by Sam Robert’s Photography Stabilisers explores tensions between permanency and flux, stability and instability through the installation of large industrial structures. In the gallery space, a braced, industrial composition transitions from an inanimate structure to a physical, material, even anthropomorphic entity. In contrast, Transitioning (by

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Rhys Lee

WHEN : 20th March – 14th April WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Rhys Lee paints to excite. With instinct acting as his muse, he manipulates elements of form and colour to create otherworldly scenarios. Immediately striking is his use of electric colours, which animate the picture plane and jostle for pre-eminence. Colour renders the forms

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The Lourigan Collection

WHEN : 17th March WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Lethbridge Gallery presents a unique opportunity to acquire a piece of Australian Art history with the release of The Lourigan collection of paintings which include some of Australia’s most celebrated artists; Norman Lindsay, Russell Drysdale, Robert Dickerson and more. WEBSITE

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Fashioning Self

WHEN : 25th Feb – 29 April 2012 WHERE : UQ Art Museum How much do we think about what we wear? From the elegant ‘Paris Hat’ of the high street to the infamous ‘Hoody’ of contemporary urban streetwear, from the celebration of cultural identities to the subversion of national icons, this exhibition features works

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Lightness & Gravity: Contemporary Works from the Collection

WHEN : 3 March — 5 Nov WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) ‘Lightness & Gravity’ showcases the Gallery’s contemporary collection in a series of thematic constellations. The display features a truly international selection of artists and a number of recent major acquisitions. The title points to a longstanding philosophical discussion of the fundamental

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Katrin Ströbel: FROM/TO (AUS)

WHEN : 9th March, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts, Studio 3.05 Current Projects is excited to invite you to Katrin Ströbel’s FROM/TO (AUS). Katrin Ströbel’s (1975 in Pforzheim, Germany) drawings, installations and videos deal with semiotics, (pictorial) languages and cultural codes. Through travel grants and longer stays in Europe, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South

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Dell Stewart

Oregon Hexagon Scarf Dell Stewart is inspired by tools, patterns, nature, the home, mysterious objects, interactions and exchanges found and experienced in life. Her work features recurring motifs and symbols in a broad range of media, creating a personal symbolism, suggestive of memory and elementary connections. Stewart creates curious gatherings with ritualistic possibilities through an

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