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WHEN : 24th Oct, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Current Projects, Studio 3.5, Level 3, Metro Arts, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane Threefold explores the collective practice of Pirrin Francis, Hayley Brandon and Melissa Ryke. Through a constant process of exchange, dialogue and the editing of one another’s work, Threefold aims to map, blur and potentially […]

WHEN : 8th – 28th Oct (Dusk until 9:00pm) WHERE : Parer Place Urban Screens, Kelvin Grove QUT Glomation is a showcase of innovative contemporary animation from around the world. From the Latin word, animãtiõ, animation means ‘the act of bringing to life’ and it’s the focus for Parer Place Project for 2012. This year’s

WHEN : Until 27th Oct WHERE : Andrew Baker Art Dealer Queensland based artist born in 1951 in the United Kingdom. Friend studied at the Eastbourne College of Art from 1967-69. Between 1969-70 he completed a foundation year at the Exeter College of Art, and from 1970-73 he completed a Diploma in Art and Design

WHEN : Until 25 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 : 16th Oct – 3rd Nov WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery Miranda Skoczek’s art gestures towards utopia. Her paintings, which draw freely from across the globe’s visual languages, allow the viewer to witness the birth of new meanings and relationships, and imagine how the fantastical spaces that materialize out of the artist’s musings and

WHEN : 26th Oct – 22nd Dec WHERE : Artisans This is the first major Steampunk exhibition in the country and will showcase highly imaginative, handcrafted Australian Steampunk sculpture, photography, fashion, lighting, illustration, jewellery and communication devices. Steampunk merges a 19th century aesthetic with scientific invention, salvage, and new technology, and artisan has partnered with

WHEN : 11th – 20th Oct WHERE : POP Gallery

WHEN : 18th Oct, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre Post Datum presents ‘Hidden’; a selection of works by QUT Visual Arts students which celebrate triumphs of imagination and concept. Featuring: Gregory Hartogh, Holly Orford, Jacinta Howard, Sarah Allen, Stewart Worthington, Zoe Mary and Matt Lockwood. With a collaborative performance by CTSomething and

WHEN : 18th Oct – 2nd Nov WHERE : Milani Gallery New works by artists Madonna Stauton and Gareth Donnelly.

WHEN : 18th oct – 8th Nov WHERE : IMA@Ksubi, 30 James Street, Fortitude Valley German video artist Julika Rudelius has interviewed denizens of American high society, fashion-conscious European immigrants, political trainees, and sex-obsessed youths, compiling and editing their testimonials to construct insightful meditations on the roles of fashion, materialism, self worth, and identity in

WHEN : 9th Oct – 4th Nov WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse A photography exhibition that transforms the landscapes and wildlife of the Galapagos Islands into a surreal representation of the world at large. Ecuadorian photographer Fernando Espinosa ventured into the Galapagos Islands over the course of two years to capture a contradiction; an environment that

WHEN : 22nd Sep – 27th Oct WHERE : Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane Adopting many of the tropes of minimalism and conceptual art, Paul Bai contributes to this tradition an insistence that the immaterial is also material. Constantly, his work asserts that concepts depend on a physical infrastructure and that, equally, physicality is dependent on

WHEN : 2nd – 27th Oct WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries “The difficulty in painting has always included the transformation of pigment into light, and in these works the artist has shaped and balanced the colour so that the image lives in the mind. They are paintings that have begun from nature, from wild flowers

WHEN : 17th Oct, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : QUT Creative Industries Precinct GIRRL [girrlsound : digitalgirrl] supports the development and promotion of new work by women in the sonic and digital arts. GIRRL works to provide discussion, networking, and exhibition spaces to initiate collaborations and offer support to women making, curating, reviewing, theorising, and

WHEN : Until 21st Oct WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography This work is based on a series of photographs and stories of people over 70 living in Queensland, Australia; the setting for each photograph is the unique and personal space where each character lives, a place with a particular significance. The stories are an

WHEN : 13th Oct – 24th Nov WHERE : Institute of Modern Art American artist Carolee Schneemann is a legendary figure in the women’s art movement. Throughout her career, she sought to liberate herself from oppressive artistic and social conventions and constraints, while using her body to express a potent female sexuality. In 1962, she

WHEN : 13th Oct – 24th Nov WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Melbourne artist Peter Cripps has been a key figure in Australian art since the 1970s. He emerged at a time when minimalism and conceptualism were challenging an older idea of art generally, and of sculpture specifically. As an expression of those challenges,

WHEN : 13th Oct, 6:30pm – 12:00am WHERE : The Box, 29 Vulture St, West End THE BLUE HOUR – an overture to the 2012 2high Festival. Including performances by Soulful funk tunes with a dash of disco Astrid and The Asteroids* Physical Comedy and Circus maestros The Gremlins* The formidably fresh electro-chill stylings of

WHEN : 12th – 20th Oct / Opening 11th Oct, 6:00pm WHERE : The Block, Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove Campus, QUT Adverse Collaborations is an exploration of how intimate relationships are built, challenged and sustained. This project reflects on the creative, political and professional ramifications of compromise, control and trust in relationships. Adverse Collaborations

WHEN : Until 3rd Nov WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery A collection of seen and unseen works from Central & Western Australia. Featuring Artists : Billy Benn, Allan Griffith, Peggy Griffith, Lance James, Barbara Long Kngwarreye, Lucky Morton Kngwarreye, Jean Yaritji Lane, Kukula McDonald, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa, Kathleen Ngale, Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Peter Newry, Poly

WHEN : 12th Oct, 6:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre CONGRATULATION SENSATION is an exhibition showcasing new works by Diagram members Sean Barrett, Jared Worthington, Genevieve Reynolds and Hannah Piper. The closing event will begin 6pm Friday, 12th October. On the night, Diagram members will be inviting attendees to participate in a collaborative ‘happening’, exploring

WHEN : 12th Oct, 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : MAAP SPACE, 111 Constance St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Set in Northwest Laos, the meeting point of the Mekong river, China and Burma, Route 3 (2011) sees celebrated U.S. artists Patty Chang & David Kelley sharpen their idiosyncratic collaborative project: the geo-political Asian road film. The 3-channel

WHEN : 4th Oct – 10th Nov WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Matthew Johnson: Selected Works Intense fields of colour, cerebral particles of light and rhythmic layered grids reappear as a sensory language for Matthew Johnson’s selected paintings and gouaches from 2006 to present. There is at times an unmistakable parallel between the visual and the

WHEN : 10th – 27th Oct / Opening 10th Oct, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts / Jan Manton Jan Manton Art in partnership with Metro Arts presents Platform 2012, an exhibition showcasing large scale wall based and installation work by a group of contemporary artists. These artists’ including leading Indonesian contemporary artist Heri

WHEN : 10th Oct – 10th Nov WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Veronica Kent is a Melbourne-based artist with a practice incorporating photography, digital imaging, paintings, installation and performance. Kent’s works explore ideas of image, beauty, and intangible psychic energy, as they shift and change through time and space. A recurring theme across her work