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VEXTA

WHEN : 27th March – 14th April WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery “I’m creating work with what’s happening in the world now.” How do we feel about ourselves now? How do we feel about the future? Vexta has always wanted her art to make people think. On stepping into the gallery, her oeuvre remains characterised

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Public Art Commission Opportunities

WHAT : CALL OUT DEADLINE : 26th March, 2012 Expressions of Interest are sought from interested artists and designers to undertake site-specific public artwork/s commissioned as part of The Corso, North Lakes project. The Artwork Program consists of five (5) Artwork Commissions. Opportunities include: cultural placemaking, integrated sculptural works, interactive electronic artworks, an interior entrance

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Sandra Selig – Light Gets In

WHEN : 22nd March 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery, 54 Logan Road, Woolloongabba Brisbane’s Sandra Selig made her name with her sublime site-specific installations, where curving planes are suggested through the regular disposition of threads strung through the gallery space between architectural points, suggesting weightless ephemeral geometric forms. One is permanently installed in

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Olaf Breuning – Home 2

WHEN : 22nd March -18th April WHERE : IMA@KSUBI In what looks like a handycam-video diary or an amateur travel documentary, we follow Breuning’s pal Brian Kerstetter (who the Guardian dubbed ‘the poor man’s Borat’) to Japan, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland, and Ghana, suffering his inane observations and lame jokes. A demented cosmopolitan, Kerstetter’s character

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Lefety Levity

WHEN : 21st March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Studio 3.5, level 3 Metro Arts, Edward Street, Brisbane, QLD Current Projects invites you to Lefety Levity, a one-night exhibition by Sally Chicken. Sally’s practice investigates the relationship between humans and animals and how these relationships change between cultures. Her practice is influenced by her own

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The art of collecting

WHEN : Wednesday 21 March, 6pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Get an insight into the collection of Art through a panel discussion from varying view points of public institutions, commercial galleries, collecting groups and corporate collections. Panelists include Bruce Heiser (Heiser Gallery), Jenifer McLennan (Kurilpa Group) and Megan Williams (QUT Art Museum). RSVP essential

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Jasmin Coleman

Stabilisers (Installation view), Acrow Props, Scaffold Couplers, 2011 / Image by Sam Robert’s Photography Stabilisers explores tensions between permanency and flux, stability and instability through the installation of large industrial structures. In the gallery space, a braced, industrial composition transitions from an inanimate structure to a physical, material, even anthropomorphic entity. In contrast, Transitioning (by

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Rhys Lee

WHEN : 20th March – 14th April WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Rhys Lee paints to excite. With instinct acting as his muse, he manipulates elements of form and colour to create otherworldly scenarios. Immediately striking is his use of electric colours, which animate the picture plane and jostle for pre-eminence. Colour renders the forms

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The Lourigan Collection

WHEN : 17th March WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Lethbridge Gallery presents a unique opportunity to acquire a piece of Australian Art history with the release of The Lourigan collection of paintings which include some of Australia’s most celebrated artists; Norman Lindsay, Russell Drysdale, Robert Dickerson and more. WEBSITE

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Fashioning Self

WHEN : 25th Feb – 29 April 2012 WHERE : UQ Art Museum How much do we think about what we wear? From the elegant ‘Paris Hat’ of the high street to the infamous ‘Hoody’ of contemporary urban streetwear, from the celebration of cultural identities to the subversion of national icons, this exhibition features works

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Lightness & Gravity: Contemporary Works from the Collection

WHEN : 3 March — 5 Nov WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) ‘Lightness & Gravity’ showcases the Gallery’s contemporary collection in a series of thematic constellations. The display features a truly international selection of artists and a number of recent major acquisitions. The title points to a longstanding philosophical discussion of the fundamental

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Katrin Ströbel: FROM/TO (AUS)

WHEN : 9th March, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts, Studio 3.05 Current Projects is excited to invite you to Katrin Ströbel’s FROM/TO (AUS). Katrin Ströbel’s (1975 in Pforzheim, Germany) drawings, installations and videos deal with semiotics, (pictorial) languages and cultural codes. Through travel grants and longer stays in Europe, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South

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Dell Stewart

Oregon Hexagon Scarf Dell Stewart is inspired by tools, patterns, nature, the home, mysterious objects, interactions and exchanges found and experienced in life. Her work features recurring motifs and symbols in a broad range of media, creating a personal symbolism, suggestive of memory and elementary connections. Stewart creates curious gatherings with ritualistic possibilities through an

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Jared Worthington

Self-Portrait (with Ralph Lauren) 2010 Jared Worthington has a Bachelor of Photography from Queensland College of Art (2010) and will continue into Honours in 2011. Born in the United Kingdom in 1989, he migrated to Australia in 2004 and currently resides in Brisbane. www.jaredworthington.com

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GUEST .S

WHEN : 9th March, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery, 166 Ann Street, Brisbane Featured artists; Alex Winters, Laura Horrocks, Jenna Baldock, Meagan Streader, Lucinda Wolber, Lachlan Brown, Marianna Tigani, Hannah Piper, Tom Dalmau, Ellie Anderson

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Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design

WHEN : 3 March — 3 June WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) This annual exhibition showcases the outstanding achievements of senior visual art and design students from secondary schools throughout Queensland, including regional and remote communities. The Creative Generation Excellence Awards are an initiative of the Department of Education and Training, and are

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Anastasia Booth

That Cold Sense Of, Leather, Ice, Freezer (2011) Photograph: Sam Cranstoun Anastasia Booth is an Australian artist who uses sculpture and installation to re-evaluate the position of female desire in sexual fetish. Booth plays with the idea of fetish as an instrumental strategy, seeing it as a mode to work across different theoretical and material

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ANIMATED STEEL: HEAVIER METAL

WHEN : Until 31st March WHERE : Artisan, 381 Brunswick St Inspired by nature, and fast cars and machinery, Queensland sculptor, Christopher Trotter, recycles industrial scrap metal into animals, fossils, zany vehicles or alien creatures. He carefully selects components,and his intimate understanding of structure and movement, both natural and mechanical, imbues his works with life

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Urban Art Binge

WHEN : March 5th WHERE Jugglers Art Space Urban Art Binge (UAB) is an Artist-Run-Initiative created by Emily Fong and Joannah Underhill with the aim of providing a platform for accessing creative inspiration in everyday life for everybody. To this end, UAB is currently running a series of workshops, based at Juggler’s Art Space, and

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Travelling Perspective

WHEN : 3rd March, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studio New Works By –ANDY HARWOOD. Andy Harwood reveals layered and intersecting geometric shapes with a gritty and sludgy paint application; expressing an anxious and wandering headspace. From his latest solo exhibition, Travelling Perspective; Andy’s interest grows in process based works, provoking the construction

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