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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WHEN : 2nd March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms, 255 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill MEGAN COPE – ‘Deep Water’ Megan Cope has a diverse practice that investigates issues relating to identity, the environment, and mapping practices. She is a descendant from the Quandamooka region (North Stradbroke Island) in South East QLD
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Duel, 2010 At the opening of Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut on August 7th 2010, artists Catherine Sagin and Kate Woodcroft engaged in a ten-minute fencing bout. Sagin prevailed, coming from behind to win 10-8. The prize: naming rights of the collaboration for the period of one year. The work at Fresh Cut also involved a
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WHEN : 1st – 17th March WHERE : Milani Gallery Gordon Hookey was born in North Queensland, Gordon Hookey is Waanji. Visually, Gordon’s work has taken in a wide variety of medium and technique. He is widely travelled having exhibited and undertaken residencies in several countries and demonstrated pictorial and lyrical narratives encompassing drawing, printmaking,
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WHEN : 29th Feb, 6:00 – 8:30pm WHERE : Metro Arts Galleries Sound art and music, as specific activities, are often inadequate to articulate how sound can operate within a visual art practice. In an ambitious, open ended project curated by Brooke Ferguson, Eddy brings together a selection of artists to explore the role conversations
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WHEN : 29th Feb 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Level 3, Metro Arts, 103 Edward Street, Brisbane Current Projects are the Metro Arts Artist-Run Initiative in Residence for 2012. To launch their residency exhibition program they are creating a group work intended to serve as both an introduction to Current Projects and a comment on
WHEN : 28th Feb – 17th March WHERE : QUT, The Block Showcasing creative works by emerging artists and designers from the best of QUT’s 2011 graduates of Creative Industries and Built Environment and Engineering faculties. I’m Yours/Be Mine seeks critical connections between concept and form across diverse disciplines, uncovering future trends through the next
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WHEN : 25th Feb – 25th March WHERE : Queensland Centre for Photography, Cnr of Cordelia and Russell Street, South Brisbane. The second exhibition of 2012 features solo exhibitions by: SCOTT HOWES (QLD) PRUDENCE MURPHY (NSW) LEANNE SAUER (QLD) THOMAS DALLAS WATSON (VIC) STEWART SERVICE (QLD) Image : Scott Howes ‘Night Time’. WEBSITE
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WHEN : 25th Feb – 24th March WHERE : Jan Manton Gallery Imants Tillers is one of Australia’s most revered artists. Tillers has represented Australia at important international exhibitions such as the Sao Paulo Bienal (1975), Documenta 7 (1982), and the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986). Major solo surveys of Tillers’ work include Imants Tillers: works
WHEN : 25th Feb – 29 April WHERE : The University of Queensland Art Museum For many years Gonkar Gyatso has encrusted traditional Buddhist iconography with pop cultural referents to explore issues of identity, globalisation, hybridity, and consumerism. Significant new directions in his practice signal an opportune moment to consider one of world art’s rising
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WHAT : Call Out WHEN : 5pm,Friday 9 March 2012 WHERE : Judith Wright Centre Shop Front The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts now invites applications from Queensland-based artists to take up creative development residencies under our Fresh Ground program. In 2012 we are offering both medium and long-term opportunities for professional arts practitioners,
Project: art journal is calling all artists, designers, writers, photographers, and creative types to fill out an entire art journal as they please. The open theme will allow artists to use any medium in any way about whatever they like. The collection of art journals will be featured in an exhibition at made. Creative Space
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WHEN : 24th Feb, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street, South Bank. “Daily/Weekly” is a collaborative exhibition between Fine Art and photography students from The Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and the Camberwell College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London. Each artist has
WHEN : 24th Feb, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery Bleeding Heart are proud to present Hearts of Gold [8], a collaboration with local emerging artists, where all of opening night profits will be donated to Brisbane’s most recognisable community organisation, New Farm Neighbourhood Centre. Hearts of Gold is a series of art
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WHEN : 23rd Feb 6:00 – 8:30pm WHERE : Fireworks Gallery For Everyone Words and Paintings is a book of thirty paintings, each accompanied by some short poetic prose, which is neither descriptive nor didactic. The book is not about me or my work, rather it is about you! Each painting has the capacity to
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Bitter Bench was installed in a site where an old brisbane city tram stop/shelter used to be. Several years ago this herritage listed structure which often sheltered homelss people was removed in one of Campbell Newman’s efforts to “clean up the city”. This bench was illigally installed as a retaliation to the councils actions. The
WHAT : Exhibition Proposals OPEN WHEN : Deadline 22nd Feb, 5:00pm WHERE : Australian National Capital Artists ANCA Gallery (in Canberra) are currently calling for Exhibition Proposals for the 2012/2013 ANCA Gallery Program. WEBSITE
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WHEN : 23rd Feb, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : IMA Grateful Dead (Robert Nelson 1960, 16mm) Chumlum (Ron Rice 1964, 16mm) Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (Ira Cohen 1968, 16mm) J. Hoberman in the Mar. 16, 2006 Village Voice: “Part ‘Dr. Strange,’ part ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome,’ [‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’ is] so High
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WHEN : 18th Feb, 6:00 – 11:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts, 103 Edward St, Brisbane City. FREE EVENT The Brisbane Emerging Art Festival, in 2012, aims to direct new audiences to the city’s emerging and independent arts. It will introduce audiences to the most outstanding visual art, music, performance, fashion and film in Brisbane. For
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WHEN : 18th Feb – 15th April WHERE : QUT ART MUSEUM From his studio in New York, Australian-born Anton Bruehl (1900-1982) created inventive and perfectly realised colour photographs for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. His work ranges from advertising to images of stars of the stage and screen, to his personal photography
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WHEN : 18th Feb – 14th April WHERE : IMA Brisbane In the 1990s, Sydney artist Mikala Dwyer became famous for creating playful installations that provocatively conflated pedigreed modern art with the amateur, the infantile, and the feminine. Since her 2000 retrospective at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, her works have moved off in a
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WHEN : 17th Feb – 3rd March WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery New Art by New Queensland Artists : Dord Burrough, Yavuz Erkan, Caitlin Franzmann, Dana Lawrie, Hannah Piper & Jared Worthington. *Image – Yuvaz Erkan – Milk* WEBSITE
WHAT : NATIONAL CALL OUT WHEN : Deadline 17th February, 5pm WHERE : Central Australia ARTIST WANTS A LIFE, a lab run by and for artists, is open to practicing contemporary artists of any form or discipline. This 14-day lab is led by Watch This Space, an Artist Run Initiative based in Alice Springs, and
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WHEN : 14th Feb, 3:00 – 5:00pm WHERE : The Edge, State Library of Queensland Never has it been easier to come up with an innovative product idea and deliver it to the world. This February, Portable is proud to present Product Design 2012. In a two hour salon style presentation we will be exploring
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WHEN : 11th Feb, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studio, 27 Florence St. Teneriffe New Works By : KARL SHOOBRIDGE, BEN HAVENAAR and ERIN DUNNE Democratique moniters three interpretations on the processing of materials from mass scale production and consumption. Destabilised to the point of formalism, the neutrality of these everyday materials, suggests
WHEN : 10th Feb, 6:30 – 9:30pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery, 166 Ann St Brisbane City. EASY NOW is an exhibition of three visual artists testing conventional forms of perception and reception. The show features work by: Karl Shoobridge Jared Worthington Sean Barrett
WHERE: Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Judith Wright Centre WHEN : 6pm, Thursday February 9th 2012 SPEAKER: Sascha Bru (Leuven University, Belgium) TOPIC: “Art in States of Exception: Notes on the Avant-Gardes and the Modern Democratic Polis”. Sascha Bru is a founder of The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) and a keynote
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WHEN : 9th Feb, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : artisan, Level 2, 381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley A bespoke collection of recycled furniture & objects. Limited edition and only in black.A polyurea elastomer flexibility, tear strength resistance and waterproof qualities, bespunk can be applied to almost any surface. From a typical garden chair to a
WHEN : 9th – 25th Feb WHERE : Milani Gallery Ross Manning is a Brisbane based artist working with optics, sound and installation. Ross has a background in instrument building and sound sculpture, performing in noise duo Faber Castell (formed in 2002 with Alan Nguyen) and currently with the band Sky Needle (skyneedle.org) touring with
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