Fire Horse, Silkscreen on high density PVC, 2012 Samuel Tupou is a Cairns based artist with a specialty in screenprinting. Tupou’s practice reflects contemporary dilemmas of cultural identity, Westernization and immigration. Through the re-invention and repetition of found imagery from Western popular culture, and the use of industrial materials, Tupou creates new narratives which portray […]
WHEN : Sunday 1 April, 1.30pm-2.30pm WHERE : QUT Gardens Theatre Foyer | Free Art and fashion have always been closely aligned and nowhere is this more obvious than in the realm of fashion photography. National fashion photographers, style makers, artists and curators will talk about these ideas during this panel discussion chaired by Alison
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WHEN : 31st March 6:00 -8:00pm WHERE : BOXCOPY Alex Cuffe is a multi-disciplinary artist who works across sculpture, installation and experimental sound. In his practice Cuffe approaches the materiality of objects in relation to convoluted theories drawn from science, geometry, astrology, kinetics and acoustics. His works utilize the aesthetics of the ‘backyard inventor’ where
WHEN : 1st April / Ongoing WHERE : Eight Collective How much effort are you willing to make in order to really get to know someone? To what extent can you really get to know others and how much of that knowledge is assumed? With so much information through technology, now available at our fingertips,
WHEN : 31st March, 2:00 – 4:00pm WHERE : Jan Manton Art Samuel Tupou is a Cairns based artist with a specialty in screenprinting. Tupou’s practice reflects contemporary dilemmas of cultural identity, Westernization and immigration. Through the re-invention and repetition of found imagery from Western popular culture, and the use of industrial materials, Tupou creates
WHEN : 31st March – 3rd June WHERE : UQ Art Museum China’s capital Beijing is a pulsing, vibrant metropolis where the old and new compete for space in an ever-changing environment. Beijing Hao! presents the work of six Chinese photomedia artists whose imagery is based in and around Beijing. Included are Zhou Jun’s digitally
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WHEN : 31st March – 17th June WHERE : QUT Art Museum The first pieces of Indigenous art held in the QUT Art Collection—two traditional bark paintings from Maningrida in western Arnhem Land—were acquired in the mid 1960s. However, the major part of the Collection has been assembled over the past two decades and continues
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WHEN : 28th March, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE :QUT Creative Industries Precinct / Cnr Kelvin Grove Road & Musk Avenue Regional creative practice is often overlooked in histories that emanate from established centres of cultural activity. Australian animation production is generally associated with Sydney and Melbourne, and little of the pre-digital commercial work generated outside
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WHEN : 28th – 30th March WHERE : QUT Creative Industries Precinct Daniel McKewen’s artwork explores the intersection between the roles of the artist and the fan, as they engage with popular culture. His video installations appropriate and reconfigure elements from mass media to explore how our interactions with pop culture can allow us to
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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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