FRESH CUTS 2012
WHAT : Artist Call Out WHEN : Deadline 28th March
WHERE : Tidy Contemporary Arts Space DEADLINE : Open Call Tidy Contemporary Arts Space is a new gallery located in Brisbane. We’re on the look out for new artists to exhibit, particularly street art and photography. Proposals are sought for both our hired space and free rotational space. Our main exhibition area on our street
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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
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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WHEN : 24th and 25th March, 12:00 – 6:00pm, WHAT : Workshop WHERE : The Edge Auditorium/Lab 1/Lab 2 This weekend master class pairs you up with the magical artists from Greedy Hen. These DIY darlings are in demand, their stellar reputation stemming from their work with indie musos such as Josh Pyke, The Middle
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WHEN : 23rd, March, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studio, 27 Florence Street, Teneriffe, Brisbane New Works By – AMANDA CECCATO After spending the better part of the last two years living and involving herself in the Berlin art scene, Ceccato returns to the place that helped launch her art career with a
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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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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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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
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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WHEN : 21st March, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse Donna Hewitt has been creating works for voice and technology for the past 15 years, starting out with fixed media works for processed voice and developing her practice into cross media and real time performance contexts. In this seminar, she will present an overview
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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
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
WHEN : Saturday, March 17, 11:00am – 12:00pm where : QUT Art Museum Join Polish contemporary artists, Dr Malgorzata Warlikowska and Dr Maja Wolinska from the Media Art Department, Academy of Art & Design, Wrocław, in conversation with Dr Beata Batorowicz as they talk about their individual practices and the current contemporary art scene in
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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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WHEN : 16th March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : POP Gallery Nathan Corum is a highly successful emerging artist, who has exhibited in Australia and Norway. His photographic art practice revolves around the relationship between cinema and photography. He is currently undertaking his PhD at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, where he is
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WHEN : 15th – 22nd March WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery Artists : Anthony Jigalin, Guido Van Helten, Sam Butel, LUCKS, Barek, ZKLR WEBSITE
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
WHEN : Until 17th March WHERE : Metro Arts, Level 2, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane Critical Boundary is an art laboratory, experimenting with manifestations of the fight or flight instinct. Across three weeks, Transparency Collective will create installations and performances examining the various ways that human beings collide, avoid, and attack each other. A series
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WHAT : Lecture WHERE : IMA WHEN : Thursday 15 March at 6pm Martyn Jolly on the history of spirit photography in Australia,Europe, and America. Jolly is the author of Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography and Head of Photography and Media Arts at the Australian National University, Canberra. WEBSITE
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WHAT : Artist Call Out (Female) WHERE : Lust For Life Tattoo WHEN : SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA EMAIL UNTIL 5pm WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH Lust For Life gallery invites women of Brisbane to submit their artwork for inclusion in Viva La Femme – A Celebration Of Women.The exhibition will celebrate female-related imagery and concepts for the
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WHEN : Until 24th March WHERE : Doggett Street Studio Artists : Dave Groom, Mel McRae, Rachael Lee, Rachel Arthur, Mark Dean, Stephen Newton, Graham Davis, Adrian Hunter, John Flitcroft, Sue Hunter, Nick Ashby, Mike Chavez Mike Chavez, soz/k, 2011, Screenprint & Acrylic on Canvas, 61 x 61 cm ea. WEBSITE
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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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WHEN : 13th March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery Please join Gordon Hookey and New York art critic Eleanor Heartney as they discuss Gordon’s new solo exhibition. The event is co-sponsored by Queensland College of Art and Milani Gallery. WEBSITE
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WHEN : March 9th, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane Working predominantly in video performance, Tahiraj combines digital and hand-made processes to enact a playful tension between everyday experience and its representation. Adopting a lo-fi, do-it-yourself approach, the artist’s videos, recorded on an iPhone, could almost be YouTube fodder. Yet there is
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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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WHEN : 9th March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Image : Sarah Ryan ‘Untitled’ (2008-2009) Digital lenticular photograph, 80cm x 117.5cm
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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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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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WHEN : 3rd March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy, Level 1, 129 Margaret Street, Brisbane This exhibition, Piano Removalist, made especially for BOXCOPY, ruminates on the clangy, a-rhythmical and tiring but also jazzy life-style of piano removalists. To explore this theme Mitch brings together recent paintings, cartoons and sculpture. Mitch lives and works in
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