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WHEN : 19th Sep – 13th Oct WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery ‘Colour is the chief protagonist in my work. I am interested in colour as a subject because it has elemental power, it is radiant energy. To tackle colour I find it necessary to make abstract pictures. One reason for this is simply that […]

WHEN : 19th Sep, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Colour By Number is a significant exhibition of new works by Dale Harding, curated by Brisbane based artist Tony Albert. The title refers both to the childhood art game and also to the government of Australia’s practice of attaching numbers to Aboriginal children according

WHEN : 1st – 29th Sep WHERE : Fireworks Gallery After graduating from a Masters of Art at Monash University, Rod moved to Alice Springs. His drawings and paintings are full of arresting imagery that offers viewers a closer look into Aboriginal daily life in the desert. Often perplexing but always engaging, Rod’s graphic works

WHEN : 18 – 19th Sep WHERE : The Block, QUT In a world premiere from Visual Voice (UK), this live art research project combines multimedia, theatre and music for audiences to witness the surreal, sonic experience of a singer in conversation with her voice. Represented as a pre-recorded nasendoscopy projection of soprano Heather Keens’

WHEN : Until 13th Oct WHERE : Artisans Waterlogged is a collection of exquisite wooden sculptures made over the past five years, capturing the ever-present influence of water in the life and work of the artist. While objects such as fish, watering cans, hot water bottles, pegs and shells are a part of a cast

WHEN : 15th Sep, 10:00am – 1:00pm WHERE : A-CH Gallery 72 Vulture Street, West End An exhibition of recent drawings by artist Nat Koyama. Exhibition Dates : 15 September – 10th October

WHEN : 14 – 30 September, 6pm – 6am 7 days WHERE : 5/15 James Street, Fortitude Valley Artists : LINDA DENNIS | BRIDGET CURRIE & TAMARA HENDERSON Oui Oui is an exploration of tactility and sensuality through the video work of Linda Dennis and film by Bridget Currie and Tamara Henderson. Linda Dennis is

WHEN : Until 25th November WHERE : UQ Art Museum Polly Borland’s photographic practice has straddled commercial/photographic documentary, and fine art practice, and is characterised by an edgy sensibility that lends her images tension and resonance. Her concerns have included identity, the outcast, beauty and ugliness. Drawn to the weird and wonderful, Borland’s left-of-centre approach

WHEN : 14th Sep – 13th Oct WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Monica Rohan’s work uses narrative devices to draw out an emotional response from the viewer. The situations she depicts are mundane, yet they are made to seem strange and ominous. Derived from staged photos of herself reacting to her environment, the images

WHEN : 5th Sep – 6th Oct WHERE : Jan Manton Art Ryan Presley was born in Alice Springs, Australia in 1987. He currently works and lives in Brisbane. His father’s family originates from the Moyle River region (Peppimenarti/Port Keats) of the Northern Territory, while his mother’s family were Scandinavian immigrants to Australia. Presley utilises

WHEN : 14th Sep, 6:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space ‘Veneer’ by Guido Van Helten is a new body of work that challanges the notions of conservative cultural policy vs street art and graffiti in his home town Brisbane. Through a collection of paintings on demolished Queenslander architectural materials, Guido’s work combines the classic with

WHEN : Until 28th Oct WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Showcasing the Gallery’s Collection and featuring a group of major new acquisitions, ‘Sculpture is Everything’ explores the extraordinarily diverse and surprising field of contemporary sculpture. Sculpture is everything — from found objects to kinetic structures, from monuments to installation and land art, from pop

WHEN : 12th Sep, 6:00pm WHERE : 65 James St, New Farm. Wall Mural – Behind Jamie’s Espresso (corner of James & Doggett St) Mild Manners, Brisbane Festival and QUT present “IT AIN’T DEAD”. A new generation keeping the age-old trade of hand-painted sign writing alive and kicking. Featuring works by Edward Woodley, Numskull, Marty

WHEN : 13th Sep, 3:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art The MONO program will present ‘Spectral Arrows’, Marco Fusinato’s durational noise performance. A joint project with Room 40

WHEN : 13th Sep – 11th Oct WHERE : IMA@KSUBI : Shop 2/30 James St, Fortitude Valley A recent quitter, Auckland artist Steve Carr presents three videos about the allure of cigarettes, childhood, and dubious parenting techniques. Smoke Train, a young mother entertains her daughter by modifying a cigarette pack so it can be used

WHEN : Until 13th Oct WHERE : Artisans This graphic design exhibition takes a sweeping look at the glory days of album cover design – circa 1940 to the late 1980s – and includes covers by famous artists, interactive covers, banned covers, and those reflecting the influences of contemporary art and design movements. This is

WHEN : Until 15th Sep WHERE : Current Projects Current Projects presents a solo exhibition of new works by emerging Brisbane artist Liam O’Brien. This exhibition finds Liam in the midst of a rigorous re-evaluation of his artistic practice, attempting to (re-)locate his work in the realms of the political, the social and the personal.

WHEN : 12th – 30th Sep, Dusk until 9:00pm WHERE : Parer Place Urban Screens The Lightness Matrix 3: GRANDE SEARCH is the third of The Lightness Matrix trilogy by Glen Henderson. The Lightness Matrix 1 developed as a series of codes and conventions in an exploration of natural form. It involved the aesthetic linking

WHEN : Until 22nd Sep WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Kirra Jamison cultivates ideas. Initial kernels of intuition germinate into lines, forms and patterns that branch and weave and interlay the picture plane with snatches of narrative. Floating amongst the fragments of decorative motif and patterning, vignettes of everyday experience emerge and inveigle the viewer

WHEN : 4th – 22nd Sep WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery The work of Mark Whalen fractures and realigns the old divides between street and studio, form and content, macro and micro views to reinterpret the universal human struggle between our antagonistic instincts for freedom and control for the contemporary era. For his rapidly expanding

WHEN : 4th – 29th Sep WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries Australian artist Tim Storrier, born in 1949, has enjoyed a successful 40-year career, during which the Australian landscape has been his most significant source of inspiration. He has won many national prizes and awards and has exhibited widely in Australia and abroad. Image :

WHEN : Until 28th Oct WHERE : QUT Art Museum Lincoln Austin, Sean Phillips and Arryn Snowball are three Queensland artists working in different media, but with a shared sensibility. Their work presents the viewer with objects or atmospheres for contemplation—repeating modes, shifting visual motifs, words and phrases. open closed presents the work of these

WHEN : Until 15th Sep WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery Dhä-Gombunhamirr Napurrungal Burrimbirryu (Sharing Our Spirit)featuring The Artists from Milingimbi Arts Centre. Artists : Margaret Rarru, Mary Nalmilaga, Helen Ganalmirriwuy, Roslyn Marrkapuy, Lena Walunydjunalil, Joyce Naliyabu, Elizabeth Dhaburrany, Jack Roy, George Milaypuma, Sandra Manyjdarrpuy, Ruth Nalmakarra, Terrence Manda, Frank Gambali, Raymond Bulambula, Wilson Mandjarri &

WHEN : 7th Sep, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : POP Gallery Natacha Arena is a visual artist who focuses on painting as principal medium. She started her Fine Arts and Art History studies in Brussels (Belgium) and she pursued her studies in Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts where she obtained a Master Degree in

WHEN : 8th – 29th September WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Labyrinth Caravan is a collaboration between A-CH Architects and the Artist Run Initiative, The Wandering Room. Together, they have created a temporary space which showcases the works of local artists and bridges a gap between art and architecture. A-CH have been known to create temporary