Christian Capurro
WHEN :1st Sep – 17th Sep WHERE : Milani Gallery WEBSITE
Ponch Hawkes: More seeing is not understanding
This exhibition invites the viewer into what Ponch Hawkes calls the ‘realm of glimpsing’. The term ‘glimpse’, originally derived from the word ‘glimmer’, refers to visual information that is fleeting and superficial, like a shimmer of light reflecting off a moving surface. To glimpse something is to catch a partial view or passing impression in
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We Are Here
WHEN : 1 – 4 September 2011 WHERE : Sydney We Are Here (WAH) is the first International Symposium for Artist Run Initiatives. NAVA, the National Association for the Visual Arts, in partnership with Firstdraft, is holding the symposium in Sydney in early September. WAH has a schedule of events including exhibitions, seminars and workshops.
Fresher Cunts Call Out
WHEN : Proposals due 31 August 2011 Fresher 2011 is Oct 15 2011 WHERE : Inbetweenspaces Ari inbetweenspaces’ annual showcase will feature a range of emerging Queensland artists who have not shown in Fresher before. Eligible artists are invited to submit proposals. Send proposals to PO Box 16121 Brisbane QLD 4000 or info@inbetweenspaces.org Proposal Forms
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Apathy and Wonder
APATHY AND WONDER is an environment (or installation) that reconfigures Gallery 2 at Metro Arts. “As we enter the space we approach two worlds – the internal and external, the dark and light, Apatheia & the Theatre of Situation.” -Rebecca Cunningham “Melody Woodnutt’s installation embodies in a rich image something of the excitement of the
This is what I do
Artists – Matt Bradley, Matt Dabrowski, Richard Grayson, Michael Stevenson & Danius Kesminas and Tim Woodward Curated by Wes Hill Curator, artist and critic Wes Hill presents an ambitious project featuring works by Queensland and interstate artists linked to the themes of self-broadcast and amateur artistic practice. This is what I do is an exhibition
Matt Dabrowski
Will the real public artist please stand up! Mixed media, 2004 “Matt Dabrowski and the Many Hands of Glamour” Matt Dabrowski is a practicing artist based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Dabrowski’s practice focuses on exploring cross-disciplinary and interstitial arrangements to provide new systems for advancing complex and ambiguous hypotheses. Notions such as the human condition,
Artist – Sean Barrett
Woman 2, 32 cm x 40 cm, Inkjet Print on MDF, 2011
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THE ABSENCE OF ALICE
Developed over four years The Absence of Alice consists of an evolving series of exhibitions that comment on Svenja Kratz’s experiences working within the area of cell and tissue culture at QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation. The title refers to the artist’s early experiences working with a cell line isolated in 1973 from
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Developing Your Brand: Selling your brand to a funding body.
WHEN : 13th August, 10am – 4:30pm WHERE : The Paddington Substation, 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington QLD Learn how to clearly articulate your business to funding bodies and develop exciting grant submissions that clearly spring naturally from your long-term career plans. Presented in conjunction with Artworkers Alliance, Developing Your Brand is an integrated series of
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World showcases over 260 of Cartier-Bresson’s photographs, selected by Cartier-Bresson and long-time friend and publisher Robert Delpire for an exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris in 2003 before Cartier-Bresson’s death in 2004. The exhibition encompasses his portraits as well as his travels through Mexico, Indonesia,
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Giving Voice Through Social Documentary Photography Forum
WHEN : 27 August ·1:00 – 4:00 WHERE : Central Lecture Theatre,Queensland College of Art.Griffith University, Southbank Campus. Speakers: Angela Blakely and David Lloyd, Social Documentary Photographers.Shahidul Alam, Social Documentary PhotographerTracey Foley, Amnesty International, Panel Facilitator: Professor Pradip Thomas, University of Queensland Museum of Brisbane is proud to present the Giving Voice Through Social Documentary
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Festival of New Primitive
Ross Manning – First showing of his Prepared Pianola and progressive scroll loops Michael Candy – 300 break lights disrupting the general natural order Sarah Byrne – Installation extravaganza and fare well for Euro Trash tour The Festival of New Primitive is a sporadic series of events based around the idea improvised bricolage in art
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Indigenous Ceramic Art Award
DEADLINE : 26/08/2011 12:00:00 AM WHERE : Shepparton Art Gallery, Eastbank Centre, 70-90 Welsford StWelsford St, Shepparton VIC 3632 The Indigenous Ceramic Art Award was developed by Shepparton Art Gallery to support Indigenous ceramic artists and acknowledge the special industry of ceramic art practise. The awards encourage and stimulate excellence in this sphere, providing cultural
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SafARI 2012: National Call for Artist Submissions
WHEN : 26 August, 2011 WHERE: safARI SafARI is calling for submissions from emerging and unrepresented artists working in diverse media across Australia to be considered for SafARI 2012. Solo artists and/or groups of one or more artists will be considered. SafARI is the unofficial fringe exhibition to the Biennale of Sydney that began in
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Andrea Eckersley &Nicola Moss
Andrea Eckersley: ‘Spatial Planes’ Andrea Eckersley is interested in exploring how the material aspects of paint create intensities, affects or sensations on a surface. These paintings investigate the minimum conditions of spatial illusion needed to maintain an engagement between the viewer and the surface. Eckersley’s paintings are illusionistic, employing visual tricks to enable the audience
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House of Giants
The prize winning street artist and large scale muralist will officially open his highly anticipated sophomore solo exhibition ‘House of Giants’ off at Jugglers Art Space on Friday 26 August. The ‘House of Giants’ exhibition will showcase a vast collection of intricately detailed still life paintings, prints and installations featuring a variety of mediums, from
Three Winter Coats and a Dirty Knife
Nine Lives presents ‘Three Winter Coats and a Dirty Knife’ a compilation of ink illustrations by… Ellie Anderson, Jesse Olsen, Kylie Spear, Dord Burrough, Dan Ford The exhibition draws inspiration from the Neko Case song ‘Dirty Knife’ and Curator, Ellie Anderson’s poetic interpretation of the ballad. Through the galleries space, Anderson depicts a tale
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The Daphne Mayo Lecture 2011
WHEN : 24 August · 18:00 – 21:00 WHERE : The University of Queensland Art Museum, ICTE Auditorium in the Sir Llew Edwards Building, (No 14), which is located diagonally across from the UQ Art Museum in University Drive. FREE : RSVP by Friday 19 August, Bookings essential as numbers are limited. The period 1980
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Chantal Fraser
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Chantal Fraser is a Brisbane based multi-media artist with a BFA (Honours) from Queensland University of Technology. Fraser’s practice engages in pushing the boundaries of adornment through mediums such as installation, performance and digital media. Fraser has exhibited nationally at various institutions such as QUT Art Museum, University of
Strutten : Call for submissions
DEADLINE : 21st August, 2011 EMAIL : info@strutten.com Strutten in partnership with Silo Beats are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for our joint exhibit on September 3rd 2011 . Silo is a Brisbane based music and arts collective, who love anything electronic. The collective comprises of 12 very talented individuals who are
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Gonkar Gyatso – Three Realms
Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso interweaves traditional Buddhist iconography with pop culture to explore issues of identity, globalisation, hybridity, and consumerism. Gyatso grew up during the Cultural Revolution, which saw the suppression and destruction of art forms that did not coincide with Mao’s ideological program. Traditional religious Tibetan art forms were forbidden, as were bourgeois western
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Daniel Mafe
From Series – Sites of Abstraction: diagrams of need. 2009 These paintings are the result of the accumulated tracings of many imagined and pictured songs. All the songs are improvised and drawn, one over the other, in the crowded solitude of my studio. The paintings are visually complex and present densely worked surfaces. They have
Shape Shifters
This space marks the start of our ‘Wandering Room on Grey Street’ project. This project involves an artist or a number of artists being invited to use our space as a studio and produce an exhibition that develops and transforms over time.Come along this Saturday at 4pm for our first afternoon tea ‘Shape Shifters’. See
The Sixth Extinction: Our Postcolonial Ecology
“The Sixth Extinction: Our Postcolonial Ecology” is an exhibition of small scale sculptural works and jewellery created during Bibi Locke’s Master of Visual Arts candidacy. Extending the field of contemporary jewellery and small object practice, Locke visualises aspects of Australia’s postcolonial ecology, including the direct impact of invasive introduced species on native flora and fauna,
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Finding Biloela
In July 2011, two lecturers and 26 students from Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art travelled to the rural Central Queensland town of Biloela as part of a long-term goal to visually document stories pertinent to rural Australia. The stories heard and found were varied and at times unexpected, all of them wonderful accounts of
Jump Mentoring
As Australia’s largest artist mentoring program, JUMP is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, managed nationally by Youth Arts Queensland, and delivered in collaboration with state delivery partners. For more information, click through to the about section of this site.
LEVEL IS MOVING
Closing Party: Saturday 27 August 6 – 9pm / Exhibition Dates: 24 – 27 August 2011 Chantal Fraser, Anita Holtsclaw, Dhana Merritt, Judy Ann Moule, Rachael Parsons, Kat Sawyer, Danielle Woolbank At the end of August, Level will be leaving it’s current location at 11 Stratton St to relocate to a new space which will
Peter Alwast;Future Perfect
Peter Alwast mixes his mediums and metaphors. His work traverses drawing, painting, photography, installation, and computer animation. It incorporates the personal and the generic (family histories, political ideologies, psychoanalysis, poetry). Collapsing hygenic modernism into the romantic sublime, the mundane into the spectacular, his work can be mysterious, even confounding. As he says: ‘I’m interested in
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Ernesto Love
Virtually everything, The Museum of You. Roma St. Transit Centre baggage lockers, Friday 19th August 6 – 9pm
Natasha Cordasic
WHEN : 15 Aug – 3 Sep 2011 WHERE : www.edwinacorlette.com THE TWINS (TWO PANELS)ENAMEL ON ALUMINIUM, 120.0 X 100.0 CM
Post Datum: Sixty Sixty
Post Datum Presents : Sixty Sixty A collection of Brisbane based artists exploring contemporary art issues within the confines of sixty by sixty centimetres.
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