WHEN : 16th June, 10:30am WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Join Genevieve Staines as she discusses her practice and works from her current exhibition, Brisbane Synthetic Pomp Precinct at Ryan Renshaw Gallery, in conversation with Carmen Ansaldo. Thanks to Jocelyn’s Provisions, morning tea will be provided. RSVP essential to info@ryanrenshaw.com.au Image – Gebevieve Staines
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WHEN : 16th June, 6:00pm WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery The Lethbridge Gallery has established a strong reputation for exhibiting works demonstrating exceptional detail and creativity. With the intention of fostering the next generation of artists, Lethbridge Gallery initiated the Lethbridge 10 000. Now in its third year, this exciting art competition is open to national
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WHEN : June 15th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Electrifying new works featuring Jagamara’s iconic symbols emblazoned in dramatic colours and textures. Completed over the last 12 months between Papunya and Brisbane, Jagamara is a dynamic artist who has maintained an indisputable significance + presence in the contemporary Aboriginal Art market for over
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WHAT : Call for Applications DEADLINE : 15th June, 2012 The Artspace Studio Residency Program provides local, national and international contemporary visual arts practitioners, curators, theorists and writers with subsidised studio facilities for the development of new ideas and work. Artspace operates four residential and six non-residential studios on-site in the Gunnery Building, Woolloomooloo. These
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WHEN : 16th June WHERE : Location sent the day before / Interventions Interventions = Battery-operated/acoustic outdoor events in Brisbane with a focus on the experimental&improvised performance. contact: brisbane.interventions@gmail.com
WHEN : 14th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Addition Gallery 32 Hardgrave Road, West End The second exhibition at Addition Gallery will feature new work from Brisbane artist’s Kiah Reading, Pirrin Francis and Felix Fox. These artists work with objects, images and space in a way that shifts the boundaries between balance and imbalance,
WHEN : 15th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : White Canvas Gallery Mark “Chopper” Read’s friendship with the 2000 Archibald Prize winner Adam Cullen gave Read the the initial impetus to start painting a decade ago. Cullen had taken Read to a Melbourne art gallery to view his work and mentioned that Elton John had
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WHEN : 14th June, 6:00pm WHERE : Room 60, shop 22 carraway street, KG urban village, Brisbane The Maximilian, are pleased to invite you to celebrate the first in an official trio of national launches in our home town of Brisbane. The Maximilian is an online platform and publication, publishing writing and projects at the
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WHEN : Until 16th June WHERE : Doggett St Studios My work involves rapid change using found & natural materials. I incorporate photography,sculpture, stitching ,drawing assemblage & collaborate with other artists & designers. Lesa Hepburn
WHAT: Applications Open DEADLINE : 9th July, 2012 The Queensland Regional Art Awards is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to highlight the wealth of creative talent located outside the capital city and provide a platform for further professional development.
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WHEN : 14th June, 8:00-9:50pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre COST : Presale: $15 / Door Sale: $18 Over the past couple of years he has emerged for the DIY underground via an esoteric collection of cassette and LP editions, each of which offers a profound and personal sonic world: a world littered with pulsing
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WHEN : 12th June – 7th July WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries “each layer’s a memory patterned thick with the textures of life it may be still but its view is fluid with living…” Robert Kennedy extract from “Two Parts of Life” in 2006 exhibition catalogue Text – Phillip Bacon Galleries Image – Nicholas Harding,
WHEN : Until 16th June WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Adam Lester’s work comes from a need to make sense of cultural ’noise’. Travels in Greece and Asia, and an interlude in the hippy north of New South Wales, have laid the groundwork for this artist’s penetrating perception of the contemporary milieu. Steering a course
WHEN : 8 & 9th June, 2:00 – 5:00pm WHERE : The Hangar – Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill COST : $50/$30,(Cash only, includes materials ) Bookings essential, limited spaces. Email: info@levelari.org With readings, investigation and encounter, come join this ongoing experiment in collective consideration and social art making. You are invited to address
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WHEN : 9th June – 8th July / Opening 9th June 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : 32 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane You are warmly invited to the fifth exhibition opening of 2012 at the Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) gallery at the corner of Cordelia and Russell Streets, South Brisbane, Australia. QCP will also be
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WHEN : 8th June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Sebel Hotel Brisbane, 95 Charlotte Street, Cnr Charlotte and Albert St Brisbane City Knock uses a Sebel Hotel suite to present site responsive works by Brooke Ferguson and Sebastian Moody. Meet your Annie Street representative in the foyer to be escorted to the show. The exhibition
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 8th June The FAC Print Award, Australia’s leading printmaking award, is an annual feature of the curated exhibition program and promises a vital overview of contemporary printmaking. Established and emerging artists are presented in the Print Award exhibition, which attracts thousands of visitors each year. Prizes are awarded in
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 8th June, 2012 ISEA2013 will consist of exhibitions, performances, symposium and public events to be held in Sydney from the Friday 7th of June until Sunday 16th of June 2013. It will also support residencies and associated events throughout regional NSW and across Australia leading into and out of
19th International Symposium on Electronic Art – Call Out Read More »
WHEN : 8th June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Franz Ehmann – ‘Words that changed the world and influenced the weather’ 08 June — 30 June 2012 Franz Ehmann’s work contains a philosophical and conceptual link that can be sustained through existential and ontological inquiries. Prepared food and its waste have
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Artists today are depicting animals in their work with remarkable frequency. The exhibition ANIMAL/HUMAN presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists that explore our complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Their work variously touches on the psychological, ethical, philosophical, scientific and cultural parameters of the relationship. A number of works
WHEN : 7th June, 6:30pm WHERE : GOMA CINEMA A, GOMA Exploring the diverse cultural expressions of women in the context of contemporary debates about an ‘Australian’ national identity. View the live webcast of GOMA Talks on our website http://qagoma.qld.gov.au/webcast and tweet your comments, feedback and questions to the panel using hash tag #GOMAtalks. GOMA
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WHEN : Until 22nd July WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ — the second in the Gallery’s Contemporary Australia exhibition series — celebrates the diversity, energy and innovation of contemporary women artists working in this country today. This exhibition acknowledges the strong history of work by women artists and recognises the
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WHEN : 6th June, 6pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Senior secondary students interested in a career in the visual arts are invited to come along to this free information session. Hear from four young QUT graduates, Sam Cranstoun, Rachael Parsons, Pia Robinson and Tess Maunder, as they chart the path that led to their
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WHEN : 6th June, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Ground Floor, E Block, South Bank Institute of Technology During these past two years at South Bank Institute of Technology, the mid-year 2012 graduating students have challenged and developed their senses to create works of art, works that have been shaped by the people they are
WHAT : Scholarship DEADLINE : 5th June, 2012 The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists provides assistance towards travel (for educational purposes) and/or tuition costs for young people building a career in the visual arts broadly in the areas of painting, photography or sculpture. Notification: Two months following the closing date Four candidates will
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WHEN : 8th June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : POP Gallery
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WHEN : 2nd – 30th June WHERE : Milani Gallery GORDON BENNETT 1955 Born Monto, Queensland, lives and works in Brisbane 1986-88 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Queensland College of Art, Brisbane 1990 Winner of Aberdare Art Prize, Ipswich City Council Regional Gallery, Ipswich 1991 Winner of the Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship 1993
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WHEN : 1st June, 6:30pm WHERE : QUT Kelvin Grove, Art Studios, H Block An exhibition of the QUT Visual art students and an opportunity to view the studios of the first year artists.
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 1st June, 2012 The Arts Access Australia Art Prize is a new national art prize for artists with disability.The prize is non-acquisitive and will focus on a different art form each year. For the first prize in 2012, the focus will be on small visual artworks. Shortlisted works will
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WHEN : 1st and 2nd June, 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts The space above, below and between is filled with reminders and our breaths carry the weight of the night as we gather to pay homage to all that has come before us: the books, the stories, the dreams and the memories. We lay them
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WHEN : 29th May – 16th Jun / Opening 1st June 6:00-8:00pm WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery “Growing up on a farm in Galston, I have always strived to locate my working studio in rural areas, as this is where I feel most at peace. For the past two years my studio has been on
WHEN : May 30 – June 23 / Opening 1st June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Chris Bond studied Fine Art at RMIT in the mid 1990s and began showing in 2000, participating initially in artist run and institutional spaces before being represented by Nellie Castan Gallery in 2005. He received a
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WHEN : 2nd – 24th June WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a picture by Samuel Aranda from Spain as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. The picture shows a woman holding a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used
WHEN : 1st June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : POP Gallery12 Ipswich Road Woolloongabba, Brisbane In a fast moving world we are distanced from our immediate experiences and objectify the present as a thing to be re-constructed. Today’s nowstalgic culture of self-promotion, “update” value and the digitization of all aspects of everyday life is alternately
WHEN : 29 May – 23 June / Opening 1st June 6-8pm WHRE : Heiser Gallery90b Arthur St, Fortitude Valley Karla Marchesi was born in Brisbane in 1984. In 2004 the artist graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and later in 2007 received her Honours in Fine Art
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WHEN : 1st – 24th June / Opening 1st June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery 137 Warry Street Fortitude Valley, Image : From ‘Moutain’ Series, 2012 www.callumross.net
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