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WHEN : 23rd Aug,8:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre To launch the Open Frame festivalfor 2012, Syncretism delivers a double bill to tempt, tease and titillate the ears, heart and body! Former Yellow Swans member Pete Swanson (USA) is known primarily for one thing – sheer, physical walls of sound. His latest solo LP for

WHEN : 22nd Aug,6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse, QUT Creative Industries Precinct GIRRL presents Susan Hawkins, a composer and sound artist currently based in Australia, who specialises in music for film and contemporary dance. Susan has international experience as a composer, collaborating in contemporary dance, animation, theatre, and sculptural sound installation. Career highlights

WHEN : 22nd Aug – 8th Sep WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery A group exhibition of contemporary visual artists : Nicholas Folland, Chris Bennie, Bridget Currie, Hossein Valamanesh, Mark Hilton, Susan Jacobs and John Spiteri. Image : Susan Jacobs, ‘Iron Crow Ball Chain’ 2011, steel, metal chain, neodymium magnet, dimensions variable

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