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Painting Country: Recent Acquisitions of Indigenous Art

Painting Country celebrates the richness of The University of Queensland Art Collection. Representation of Indigenous artists in the Collection was boosted in 2010 by gifts, including artworks donated by Patrick Corrigan AM, and Christopher Thomas and Mark Alexander, which are showcased in this exhibition. The paintings reveal the artists’ connection to Country and ongoing engagement

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ASSEMBLING WORLDS

An exhibition by emerging Brisbane based visual artists Rachael Bartram & Warren Handley that explores the world of collage; both in the digital realm and the handmade. COLLAGE:”Offering a non linear, disjointed experience of the world and transforming the banal into the otherworldly and the surreal.” (Lillington, Monroe & O’Reilly 2008 p.81)

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Joel Rea

Versus Collection, oil on canvas, 10x10cm each (2010) Joel Rea was born in 1983 and graduated in 2003 from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, with a Bachelor of Fine Art. Upon graduating he was awarded Golden Key International Honour Society membership for outstanding scholastic achievement and excellence and was also granted the Griffith

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Peter Alwast

Storm – Pencil and oil marker on archival giclee print on canvas, 2011 Peter Alwast’s conceptual practice employs a range of media including video,computer graphics, painting and drawing. His video works and drawings translate different modes and layers of representation, invoking questions about the relationship of new media to painting and drawing, the real and

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Daniel McKewen: Portraits

WHEN : Wednesday 29 June, 6pm – 8pm, Exhibition 29 June to 16 July 2011   For his first solo exhibition at Metro Arts Galleries, digital video artist Daniel McKewen will plunder the flood of imagery generated around celebrity figures to create new works which survey idealised masculine and feminine beauty in Western popular culture.

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SKY NEEDLE

SKY NEEDLE perform primitive pop improvised along hypnotic waves of clunk in the backwater of the cosmic junkyard on unstruments operated by Alex Cuffe, Joel Stern, Sarah Byrne and Ross Manning. Sky Needle live in Brisbane, Australia. “The music, well, let’s talk about the music. It’s stalking, eerie, the night stumblings of a pot addict;

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TEN10 BRISBANE

TEN10 is an audiovisual exhibition designed to showcase the natural relationship found between sound and image. It pairs ten visual artists (filmmakers, animators, motion designers, and video artists) with ten musicians from the same city to create new work. Resulting in ten short film pieces that are creatively open and individual in approach.

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illuminated/solitary/infinite/perfectly motionless

minated/solitary/infinite/perfectly motionless/equipped with precious volumes/useless/incorruptible/secret Kieran Swann is a multidisciplinary artist. His work investigates notions of transformation and decay of structures and processes, and returns to themes of entropy, language, construction and demolition, and masculine behaviours. He is one quarter of Transparency Collective, a group of artists in dialogue around their solo performative practices.

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Gary Warner

Gary Warner is an artist, photographer, writer, curator, musician and media producer who was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1957. His work across various visual media demonstrates Warner’s continuing fascinations with natural and man-made phenomena ranging from nature, cities, human interactions and Eastern and Western philosophies. Warner showed a precocious talent for media when aged

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Carly Scoufos

Seam, 2009 Carly’s sculptural and installation based practice focuses on bridging elements of the mechanistic and industrial to the organic patterns of growth and decay. Her work explores the translation of abstract and fleeting moments within fluid phenomena, into woven constructions of industrial wire. This process parallels textile traditions of needlework, lace making and knitting,

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exist-ing

exist ARI are running regular Live Art/performance art based events called exist-ing where artists are encouraged to try out new works, discuss and learn more about Live Art, view international live artist screenings, and present performance or live based artworks to an audience. exist aims to make spaces where artists, audiences and communities can engage

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The Savage Eye: Surrealism and Cinema

In conjunction with ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’, the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque presents a major survey of the surrealist sensibility in cinema. The Savage Eye: Surrealism and Cinema considers films made under the rubric of the movement alongside popular cinema highlighting the enduring fascination with surrealist tendencies, narratives and tropes. The program also charts how

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Brianne Mackinnon

  Operating as a quasi-archival artist, Brianne Mackinnon’s practice explores information systems and processes of publicity and dissemination that generate within the arts industry. Establishing large online and physical archives of exhibition publications, brochures and related publicity content and images, her practice endeavours to establish a self-generating system of production, where research into and participation

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Peter Madden: Closer Stills and The Veil of Want

New Zealand based artist, Peter Madden’s sculptural installations begin life as flat imagery, which he carefully refashions into spiralling three-dimensional objects.Gleaning images from books, magazines and encyclopaedias – National Geographic magazines are a favourite – Madden slices out the illustrations, then reassembles them in fantastical constructions.The denuded books are kept – pages intact in their

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FR11 Cross Stich: Without Apology

CROSS–STITCH: Without Apology is a two-night art event/nightclub/theatre/gallery/reality-tv/photo-shoot featuring theatre, music, visual art and that-which-cannot-be-coined in an accelerated-senses avant-garde experience that crashes head-first into Metro Arts’ backyard to kick off FR11. At-the-helm is emerging Artistic Director Steven Mitchell Wright who has invited a gamut of independent artists to develop new work based o…n myth, history

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Emma Leslie

this…(#9), 180.3 x 104.1cm, Unique Type C print, (2012) this… this… is a homage to photography’s disappearing materiality. this… is my lament for colour analogue technology. this… is a photogram; a photograph without a negative. this… is a crumpled piece of light sensitive paper. this… is an image of itself. this… is an abstraction. this…

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New Primitive

First in line for a series of events for the New Primitive Festival Curated by SPEC. Performance and Installation Henry Mills (Bris) Alrey Batol (Bris) Ben Kolaitis (Melb) Wukir Suryadi & Rully Shabar (Indo) XinO (Katie Martain) (Bris) Program is supported by MAAP & Next Wave Festival

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For Real

While we are showing Peter Kennedy’s light sculptures from 1970, we will screen A Film of Real Time, which documents a parallel instance of pioneering light art from across the ditch. As a sculpture student at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts, Narbey was commissioned to create Real Time, a full-gallery interactive-light-sound installation, for

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Ben Clarkson

Minute gallery presents Canadian based artist and illustrator Ben Clarkson’s series of work ‘In The Woods” a series of digital images that explore the differences between imagination and reality within digital environments.

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