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VIDEO EASY

WHAT : Call for video submissions WHERE : Three Projects DEADLINE : June 10th Three projects is a collaboration between No Frills* Co-director Kate Woodcroft and Brisbane artists Timothy P. Kerr, Sarah Byrne and Joseph Breikers. TP presents new projects which play on the form of the gallery and extend specific preoccupations in their work.

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Passages

WHEN : May 2, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Current ProjectsStudio 3.5, Level 3, Metro Arts, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane Passages brings together a selection of Brisbane based artists who make text-based artworks, including zines, catalogue essays and ephemera that engage the spaces of visual art and critical writing. It will investigate how text and

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Gareth Sansom

Gareth Sansom’s paintings are eclectic, studded with allusions both historical, cultural and personal. There is something almost diaristic about his work, but its presentation is anything but linear and logical. Abiding themes are mortality, ageing, sexual identity, popular and youth culture and cinema. Stylistically Sansom uses a wide array of painting techniques but signature devices

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DIAlogues Seminar

WHEN : 1st May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Corporate Culture showroom – 925 Ann St. Fortitude Valley DIAloguesContinuing Professional Development (CPD) Seminar Series delivers a contemporary and engaging discussion on current issues that face the design professions ln Queensland. First hand knowledge, experience and case study examples are delivered by leading professionals in design

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Art Write #1

WHEN : 1st May, 6:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Join industry professionals as they share their knowledge and experience of the contemporary art writing environment, how it works and how to break in. This is the first program in the professional development series, Art Write. The program is designed for emerging arts writers, artists

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Banner Workshop

WHEN : 29th April, 2:00 – 5:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts, The Basement Level ARI invites you to take part in a Banner Making Workshop. The workshops are free and open to all women who would like to share their experiences and ideas, and work collaboratively with Level on this project – the banners created

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Hold by Caitlin Franzmann

WHEN : 28th April, 6:00 – 8:30pm WHERE : Hangar – Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, Brisbane Caitlin Franzmann creates work that encourages perpetual shifts between a person’s internal and external space. In ‘Hold’ she will create an intimate and sensory experience for visitors to consider not only the visible, but also the less

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Naoya Sakaguchi

WHEN : April 28th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Art Factory, 84 Merivale Street, South Brisbane For the past few weeks Queensland College of Art’s artist in residence Naoya Sakaguchi (Tokyo), has been practicing out of Brisbane S.H.S’s Art Factory Gallery. As well as working with the students of Brisbane S.H.S, Naoya has been presenting

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POSTCARDS TO BRISBANE

DEADLINE : 27th April WHERE : Grey St, Southbank, Brisbane NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE 2012, FRINGE EXPERIENCE STREET EXHIBITION: “Postcards to Brisbane (wish you were here!)” In five photos – show what you love about where you live. Simply send the iamges to : apa@apa.qld.gov.au Sponsored by South Bank Corporation & supported by the Australian Institute

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Hijacked III : Contemporary Photography from Australia and the United Kingdom

WHEN : 27th April – 16th June / Opening : 27th April 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Griffith Art Museum Major survey exhibition and publication featuring the best photographic talents from or within Australia and the United Kingdom. Known for halting the status quo, arresting the scene and exploding a new perspective on the practices

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Jan Van Dijk

WHEN : 27th April – 11th May WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Jan Van Dijk’s paintings explore the absurdity of human kind through explorations into gritty characters and humorous narratives in paint. His paintings move beyond the real and exist in a realm where the work is more about the futility and frailty of

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NEXUS FESTIVAL

WHAT : CALL OUT – animations and motion graphics pieces DEADLINE : 26th April The Nexus Festival is seeking entries for inclusion in its screening programme. The festival will also include exhibitions, panel discussions and workshops from industry leaders. An open call is made for animations and motion graphics pieces. Selected works will be included

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Chonggang Du

WHERE : 25th April – 19th May WHERE : Jan Manton Art Chonggang Du taught at Jinan Craft Arts School and Shandong Arts Academy for 18 years before moving to Australia in 2003. He has since completed a MFA at Monash University where he wrote a thesis titled ‘Hybridity and Art’ in 2009. Du’s notion

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Curator’s discussion

WHEN : 22nd April, 1.00pm WHERE : Cinema B, GOMA Led by curator Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, this lively discussion with artists in ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ unravels the contributions female artists have made to the contemporary art of this country over recent decades. Featuring participating artists Bindi Cole, Natalya Hughes and Jenny Watson.

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Michael Zavros

  Michael Zavros, a realist painter, drawer, sculptor and film-maker, was born in 1974 and graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1996. Michael has taken part in numerous group and solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane,

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Yanni Floros

WHEN : 21st April WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Yanni Floros is an Adelaide based artist that trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating as a sculpture major. Since then he has shown his work around Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide and has been a finalist in art prizes such as the

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Perspectives Artist Talk

WHEN :21st April, 11:00 – 12:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Jon Cattapan travelled to Timor-Leste in July 2008 as an official war artist commissioned by the Australian War Memorial. Join Jon as he discusses his experience of the role of Australian peacekeepers in Timor-Leste and how it influenced his series of works in Perspectives.

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DNA Jewellery

WHEN : 21st April, 1:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : The Edge Inspiration can come from the strangest of places. Not your traditional jewellery making class, in this workshop contemporary artist and biotechnologist Svenja Kratz, will show you how to extract DNA from a piece of fruit or vegetable and then use it to create wearable

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Embodied Acts

Embodied Acts will present a range of free performances, events and actions in and around GOMA. See Rebecca Baumann collaborating with a pyro technician to send sheets of candy-coloured smoke into the sky; Performance fee, an endurance event by Brown Council, where for two dollars the viewer can procure a kiss from one of the

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Essence by Louise Sparre

WHEN : 18th April, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts The exhibition Essence depicts the artist Louise Sparre’s reflections and moods in process as a newcomer integrating into the Australian society, dealing with the curiosity, strangeness, sacrifice and loneliness. Many of Sparre’s artworks deal with the dualistic from the upheaval associated with a habitat

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