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BESPUNK BY DERLOT

WHEN : 9th Feb, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : artisan, Level 2, 381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley A bespoke collection of recycled furniture & objects. Limited edition and only in black.A polyurea elastomer flexibility, tear strength resistance and waterproof qualities, bespunk can be applied to almost any surface. From a typical garden chair to a

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Ross Manning – Spectra

WHEN : 9th – 25th Feb WHERE : Milani Gallery Ross Manning is a Brisbane based artist working with optics, sound and installation. Ross has a background in instrument building and sound sculpture, performing in noise duo Faber Castell (formed in 2002 with Alan Nguyen) and currently with the band Sky Needle (skyneedle.org) touring with

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Lewis Miller

WHEN : 7th Feb – 3rd March WHERE : Heiser Gallery Born in Melbourne in 1959, Lewis Miller trained at the Victorian College of the Arts in the late 1970s, and completed post graduate studies at the College in 1982. In that same year the artist was awarded the College’s Hugh Ramsey Portrait Prize. Miller

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Automated Monochrome

WHEN : 5th Feb – 18th March WHERE : IMA@Ksubi, 46 James Street, Fortitude Valley Perth artist Rebecca Baumann’s flickering colour fields may be motor driven, but the effect is like falling leaves, evoking the random beauty of nature. Using thousands of cards (in a variety of blues) attached to a grid of ninety-six flip-clock

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50/50

WHEN : 3rd Feb, 6:00 – 10:30pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space 50/50 is a Silent Auction fundraiser supporting the Emerging Artist Development Program. With more than 50 artists donating works, pieces will be sold in increments of $50. The Emerging Artists Development Program [EADP] works with referees from the Special Circumstances Courts in Brisbane

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Papergirl Brisbane

WHEN : Exhibition – 3rd Feb, 6:00-9:00pm / Community Ride and Delivery – 4th Feb, 12:00 – 1:30pm WHERE : White Canvas Gallery The Project Collect artwork and writing. Exhibit all the submitted pieces of work. Deliver all the work to random people via bicycle. Papergirl Brisbane is a cultural initiative which works to bridge

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'In Hiding' by Tricia King

WHEN : 2nd Feb 7:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Lust For Life tattoo gallery espresso bar. 176 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley King is a documentary style photographer who has exhibited nationally and internationally (notably BoxFresh in Sydney / London), in galleries, cafes, warehouses and even an old shed. Her commercial portraits (for the likes of

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Trespassers Welcome

WHEN : Opening Night: 1st Feb, 6:30pm – 9:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre, Shop Front Trespassers Welcome is an invitation to enter, explore and share in a world that is ordinarily off limits, out of bounds or out of sight, forgotten, hidden or removed from our daily meanderings. Behind locked doors, in darkened subway

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From The Bush

WHEN : 31st Jan – 10th March WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Feature artists: Josie Petrick Kemarre (NT)+ Nesbert Mukomberanwa + Lovemore Bonjesi (Zimbabwe) new artists stone sculpture, Cheryl Kensett.(QLD) also on display: Phil Gordon, Kylie Taggart & Maningrida sculptures. Image – Josie Petrick Kemarre – Bush Fruits, Acrylic on Canvas, 194x128cm, 2003 WEBSITE

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NEW 2011: Selected recent acquisitions

NEW 2011 features a selection of artworks acquired for The University of Queensland Art Collection during 2011. The exhibition highlights the University’s active acquisition program, which continues a tradition of acquiring innovative artworks that respond to the contemporary moment. Also featured are works from earlier periods, which enter the Collection primarily through donations (including gifts

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The Golden Hind

WHEN : 28th Jan, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy, Level 1, 129 Margaret Street, Brisbane James and Eleanor Avery are British-born artists who have been collaborating on large scale sculpture and installation projects since 2004 and are currently based between London and Brisbane. The artists’ collaborations are generally site specific and in their many

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Artist – Nathan Corum

WHEN : 28th Jan, 6:00-8:00pm WHERE : Wandering Room, Shop 13/14 Grey Street South Bank Nathan Corum is a local photographer who is presently analysing and responding to the iconography of and mechanics behind the cinematic image. His many investigations have resulted in him replicating popcorn, re-creating the effect of pixelation, and re-creating and combining

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CLAIRE STENING

SUSPENDED, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2011 Claire Stening makes art to enrich our lives. On one hand her paintings offer perfect illusions of reality, rendered out of the play of dark and light, with extraordinary attention to detail and colour and an exactness that seduces our eye to believe that we can

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FLOAT

WHEN : 27th Jan, 6:30-9:30pm WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery, 613 Stanley St Woolloongabba Qld FLOAT~ OUT OF ADVERSITY COMES SHEER JOY ~ An exhibition which CHALLENGES DEFEAT AND CELEBRATES LIFE, the creative innovation of GHOSTNETS AUSTRALIA alongside emerging Brisbane artist, JOANNAH UNDERHILL. GHOST NETS are lost or abandoned fishing nets, tangling endangered species and

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Karla Marchesi

My Bed (self portrait), oil on board, 110 x 105cm, 2009 Biography 1984 Born Brisbane, Australia. Lives Brisbane, Australia Education 2007 Bachelor of Fine Art, First Class Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University 2004 Bachelor of Fine Art Queensland College of Art, Griffith University 2003 Semester study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, United

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SOYA applications open

WHAT : CALL OUT FOR ALL ARTISTS WHEN : Ongoing Australian creatives and artists aged 18 – 30 are invited to enter original creative work in the 2012 Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA365) for a chance to win an overseas trip including 8 nights accommodation, airfare, $5,000 in cash and flights, and skill up

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Anna Carey

Sea Mist 2012, Giclee print 150cm x 100cm I am a visual artist who lives and works on the Gold Coast and I have a fascination with the playful sundrenched suburbs of the city. Through memory recall I meticulously create small architecture models and photograph them to create an illusion of space. As a result

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Up Late – Matisse

WHEN : Fridays, 20th January – 2nd March, 5.30–10.00pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) GOMA is open UP LATE on Friday nights from 20 January – 2 March 2012 during ‘Matisse: Drawing Life’. Up Late takes a sophisticated, soulful approach with DJ Jazz in the early evening introducing the lush arrangements of the

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Leesha Ramsay

Suspended Tradition, 2011 Being handed down tapa mats from her grandmother, Leesha paints on the cloth and then displays these large mats in an unethical way when regarding the Tongan custom and cultural ritual. Even though this would be offensive to the Tongan tradition, to the majority viewing these works, the displacement would not be

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Love the Robots

WHEN : 15th & 28th Jan, 2:00 – 5:00pm WHERE : The Edge, State Library of Queensland Love the Robots is live robotic theatre. It’s as much about the makers as it is about the creations and you, as an audience member, are encouraged to become a maker too. Watch live or stream the show

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North. South. East. West.

WHEN : 13th Jan, 5:30 – 8:30pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery This collective consists of 4 emerging photographic artists from the Queensland College of Art showing works from their graduating folios. The images explore ideas of tradition and expectation, domesticity, marriage and transition while drawing on personal experience, historical frameworks and contemporary practice. This

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Deuce

WHEN : 12th Jan, 7:00 – 9:00pm WHEN : Lust For Life – 176 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley ‘Deuce’ is Brisbane artist Brandon Specht’s second solo exhibition. Playing outside the conventional, with hardly a brush-mark in sight, he mixes enamel, acrylic and water-based paints together on the canvas at different stages of the drying process.

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