WHAT : CALL OUT – Designers / Artists DEADLINE : 3rd May 2012 WHERE : Tractor Design School In association with Semi-Permanent, Tractor is proud to announce the launch of a new design competition. Semi-Permanent is turning 10 this year and to celebrate we’re looking to create a poster or a motion piece that communicates […]
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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.
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
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
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
WHAT : Call Out – Drawing WHERE : Jugglers Art Space DEADLINE : 11th June $4000 Major Prize (acquisitive) Honourable Mention to the value of $500 (non-acquisitive) Peoples Choice to the value of $500 (non-acquisitive) APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN Opening Reception of Finalists and Winners Announced Friday 3 August from 6pm. Enter online visit www.jugglers.org.au
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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
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
WHAT : Open Call to Artists, Writers and Curators DEADLINE : April 30th Chan Hampe Galleries (Singapore) in partnership with Metro Arts (Australia) is calling for applications from emerging artists and curators or writers in their first five years of practice for an international residency program that will take place in Singapore and Brisbane, Australia.
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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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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
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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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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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
WHEN : 26th April, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : QUT Creative Industries A mixed reality artwork/performative exhibition project exploring Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Making the green one red was developed by director Kerreen Ely-Harper and new-media artist Andrew Burrell. The project is designed for both a real and virtual audience, with live actors in a physical space
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WHEN : 27th April, 3:00 – 5:00pm WHERE : The Edge Portable is proud to present an exclusive series of talks with fashion thought leader and internet icon, Susie Lau. London based Susie Lau pioneered the fashion blogging revolution in 2006 with the launch of her blog Style Bubble. Her daily posts featuring a highly
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WHEN : 27th April 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Doggett St Studio Achim is an abstract artist who moved to Brisbane from Johannesburg in 1997. Achim has a thirst for finding new and innovative ways of expressing his passion for the arts and continues to experiment with applying alternate mediums, methods and textures in his
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WHEN : 26th April, 2:30pm WHERE : Gallery 1.1 GOMA Join Jane Morley, fashion designer, consultant and researcher with a specific interest in sustainability, as she investigates a return to the use of particular materials in selected works on display in ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’. Free. No bookings required
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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
WHEN : 26th April, 12:30 – 2:00pm WHERE : Griffith University Art Gallery
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WHEN : 26th April, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : IMA The rise and fall of local artist-run initiatives. Panel discussion with Chris Bennie (MSSR), Brooke Ferguson (Current Projects), Rachael Haynes (Level), and Grant Stevens (formerly The Farm), chaired by Peter Anderson.
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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
WHEN : 24th April, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Ryan Renshaw Gallery will be hosting a private, advance viewing of works to be exhibited at the 2012 Hong Kong International Art Fair, where they will mount a solo exhibition of work by Queensland-based artist Martin Smith. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VIEW
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WHEN : Sunday 22nd April, 10am – 4pm WHERE : Circle Gallery (Art Shed Brisbane)274 Montague Rd West End* Flying Arts is holding a number of professional development workshops and forums for artists over 2012. Topics include project management, setting up and running an arts practice, sustaining an arts practice, finding the money for a
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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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WHEN : 21st April – 24th June WHERE : QUT Art Museum Continuing a tradition that developed during the First World War, the Australian War Memorial has, in the last decade, commissioned many official artists to explore and record the Australian experience of war and peacekeeping around the world. Perspectives presents the unique insights of
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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,
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
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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WHEN : 21st April – 18th July WHERE : Cinémathèque / GOMA The program coincides with the Gallery’s ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ exhibition and continues the exhibition’s exploration of the rich and complex contribution of women practitioners, specifically in the field of filmmaking. Margaret Pomeranz is guest curator for a free film program exploring representations of
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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
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
WHEN : 21st April – 9th June WHERE : Institute of Modern Art
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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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WHEN : April 18th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts On Hiatus marks the first of our Pear shaped: one-night editions by collaborating artists. Catherine or Kate, the artist(s) formerly known as Catherine Sagin (née Fiona Mail) have been working together for four years. Having undergone more name-changes than a high school garage band
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WHEN : 19th April, 4:00pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum Cultural Restitution in the Digital World: Understanding a New Political Economy of Images in the Pacific The digitisation of museum collections has transformed the way people access and engage with objects. It opens opportunities for a new kind of analytical understanding of collections as well
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