14 PEOPLE – 7 TEAMS – 1 IDEA: Create something different. The creative process can be very insular. No matter whether you’re a fine artist, a designer, a developer or a writer, coming up with – and executing – ideas can be a lonely process involving just you and your imagination. We believe that great […]
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inbetweenspaces presents a video work by local artist Sally Chicken for the Ann-other St Party during the Valley Fiesta. Sally’s practice explores the absurd through combining seemingly disparate elements and environments. Her video works often focus on differences between urban and rural environments and explore the humorous potential for animals to become performers. The work
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You are invited to view a new collection of works by Madeleine Kelly that mirror collaged spaces.
Nine Lives presents, ‘Know Your Product,’ three weeks of short group exhibitions curated by the Nine Lives interns; Stephanie Pohlman, Ellie Anderson and Anna Oh. The exhibitions feature 32, local, home grown artists experimenting within different mediums, in a showcase of painting, illustration and photography. Each exhibition will be a snapshot of Brisbane produced art,
An emerging artist. Based in Australia. Working with paint. Self-portraiture: a conduit for my questioning how the painted ‘self’ can be seen to both affirm and destabilize identity construction through the act of conscious withholding/embellishing and unconscious revealing. Image: Alternate, mixed media on canvas, (2011) www.danalawrie.com
” The austerity and boldness of this subject matter is balanced by a delicate depth and finish- enhanced, seemingly, with the very fragrance of the Australian landscape. I am concerned with the colour, structure and movement of grass, and the relationship between areas of where grass has once been and where grass is now travelling
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For this, the second in the Gallery’s regular series of Artist’s Choice exhibitions, respected Queensland photographer Marian Drew has curated a display from the Gallery’s Collection relating to that most precious resource, water. In ‘Buoyancy’, Marian Drew explores the mythical and psychological associations we have with water, and in the process, seeks to engage with
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In an age of digital manipulation the ability for photography to be dishonest or misleading is more relevant than ever. Such digital tampering prompts the viewer to be more wary of the images they see around them. Unphotogenic Observations is a series of new photos that continue Charlie Hillhouse’s minimal, observational aesthetic, and his interest
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Nature’s apparent chaos is ultimately deceptive: oceanic tides are orchestrated by powerful astronomical helixes, and the bee-swarm returns to a hive of mathematical precision. Jason Fitzgerald works on similar principles, creating labyrinthine sculptural reliefs that resonate with the minutiae of nature whilst distilling a universal rhythm. A professional cabinet maker with a compulsive drawing habit,
Animate Beings, polyurethane resin & paint, 2010 Born in Poland and currently based in Australia, Cezary Stulgis’ is a sculptor, painter and designer whose highly distinctive work fuses ‘next-level’ aesthetics with classical craftsmanship – a reflection of his artistic roots in the street art movement of the mid-eighties and formal training as a sculptor and
A site specific outdoor performance driven by collaborators Jim Denley (saxophone) and Robbie Avenaim (percussion). Jim and Robbie will work with Ross Manning whose instruments have one foot in sound art, the other in sculpture.
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Kate’s practice involves the use of a combination of mediums and processes. Central to her work is the compression of ideas and mediums into a new image or form, with influences including pattern, repetition and the hand made. Working in both 2D and 3D, Kate creates forms that are often detailed, graphic, and ambiguous in
New works by Kitty Horton & Michael Candy Gallery Hours are Thursday / Friday 12 to 8 and Saturday / Sunday 10 to 4 Enquiries > lovelovestudio1@hotmail.com or 043999582
In The Name of the Father & Child, Type C Photograph, 2008 I create artefacts for discovery in a future world. These artefacts highlight endangered socio-cultural narratives. Time has bleached all colour, flesh has crystallised, and beyond death, the hair has continued to grow. The gleam of these fossilised forms binds our memories to the
Join The Wandering Room in welcoming Ross Manning and Andrew Forsyth to their residency in The Wandering Room studio space on Grey Street. As part of their one-month residency, the two will be having two exhibitions. This first one is titled ‘The Plastic Arts’. Ross and Andrew have been working away in the studio creating
WITH POISED STEEL DAVISTHOMAS CONTINUE THEIR PLAYFUL INVESTIGATION INTO HOW MATERIALS CAN BE UTILISED FOR SCULPTURE. THEIR NEW WORK WILL ENGULF SHØØTING GALLERY, POISED, IN SUSPENDED BALANCE, VIA A SERIES OF SHOCK CORD STRAPS. POISED STEEL TAKES THE SHØØTING GALLERY AND IT’S PUNTERS INTO NEW TERRITORY AS THE AUDIENCE IS INVITED TO MINGLE WITH FIFTY
Ephemeral Still Life: repository of memory Scott Whitaker is an Australian visual artist, based on the Sunshine Coast hinterland north of Brisbane. Whitaker is also the founding director of Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane, Queensland which opened in 1993.
Cold Rock Croc, mixed media on canvas – 1m x 2m, 2007 www.anthonylister.com
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Room40’s Open Frame festival continues its annual survey of esoteric music and media arts. In 2011, Open Frame welcomes one of the true icons of 21st Century sound art – New York’s Marina Rosenfeld. Known for epic performance works and highly personalised sound situations, she has presented works at the Tate Modern, NYMOMA and countless
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From series – Words I Learnt From The English Class – ” Division ” www.archiesmoore.com
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The University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize highlights The University of Queensland’s commitment to developing a National Collection of Artists’ Self-Portraits. Life is risk / Art is risk What is contemporary art if not a risk, a monumental folly? Could there be a riskier venture than creating art—painting, music, dance— and showing it to
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Kirsty Bruce creates finely detailed portraits in watercolour & pencil. She draws on an array of pop culture sources for her images, most frequently painting images from the pages of fashion magazines that capture her interest. For ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’, Bruce presents a major drawing installation. Image : Untitled (2009) Acrylic and watercolour on paper
JUST US Gallery presents “Furthest Horizons” – A selection of works by Californian photographer Scott G Toepfer, including the exclusive Australian launch of his book “Chasing Horizons”. We’re honoured to host Scott’s first exhibit outside of the United States. WEBSITE
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For the next in Annie St Offsite’s Baggage locker series of exhibitions we are pleased to present new work by Clare Peake (WA). Please join us for opening drinks at MJ’s Bar, (upstairs) Roma St. Transit Centre on Friday 23rd September 6-8PM Exhibition continues through till 29th September Exhibition access : The lockers are located
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DEADLINE : 23 September, 2011 WHERE : The Arts Centre Gold Coast, 135 Bundall Road Surfers Paradise An acquisitive art prize and exhibition run by Gold Coast City Gallery since 1968. $30,000 total prize and acquisitions, $10,000 prize winner (non acquisitive), up to $20,000 in acquisitions, $5,000 Peoples Choice award. Guest Judge – Artist and
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From series – Unorthodox Aphorisms, 2011 www.yavuzerkan.net
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The Wandering Rom would like to invite you to the final instalment of our Dollhouse program; Stephen Russell’s solo show ‘What’s the Difference?’. ‘What’s the Differenc’e… sees Russell replicate the Dollhouse exhibition space. He explores the social, political, and philosophical dimensions of visual arts practice; he is interested in investigating the contingent precarious nature of
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Interval, acrylic and collage on mylar on board, 2010 Rhonda Dee’s paintings are a metaphor for the complex and powerful process of creative push and pull by which we change and develop the force of our physical, intellectual and emotional potential. Her emergent beings, some swathed in dappled veils, are incomplete with nascent ears and
Lucy Griggs was born in Sydney in 1976 and currently lives and works between Melbourne and Almaty. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Honours year at the Queensland University of Technology in 2001 and a Master of Visual Arts (first class honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2007. Awards
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Louise Tahiraj is a video artist whose practice negotiates the tension between day-to-day experience and its mediation. Through a combination of digital and hand-made processes she investigates the crossovers between construction and illusion within screen-based media.Her solo performances in front of a web-cam are isolating yet sincere in her gesture to communicate and create personal
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Prisoners of Age presents the stories of some of the most marginalized members of our society in their own words, revealing much of themselves. What we as a society decide to do about them reveals just as much of ourselves. It is our ambition that we can persuade a younger audience to avoid making the
WHEN : Sunday 18 September WHERE : Circle Gallery, 274 Montague Rd West En COST : $40 / $50 non-members Artists who want to be successful in business have the opportunity to participate in a series of business development workshops over the next few months to be run by Flying Arts and Artworkers Alliance, two
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NASI GOBLOK & RAJA KENTUT ~ Your Time / My Time ~ A visual arts cultural exchange travel diary. Artist talks – 5.00 to 6.00pm Official speech – 6.30pm Performance – 7.00 to 9.00 pm Lugas Syllabus (Jogjakarta, Indonesia) and Eric Rossi (Brisbane, Australia)are introduced into each other’s world,travelling between the two countries,alternating as host/guest,
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Stretching Space is an exhibition curated by QUT Honours student Brooke White. It is part of a greater research project that is concerned with exhibition design for contemporary art. This project aims to discover and address the curatorial problems which arise when a conventional art space seeks to contain works which are deliberately difficult to
Coalesce is an exhibition by Bridie Gillman and Keira Kavetsky consisting of paintings, drawings, assemblages and video, exploring, collecting, gathering, assembling. The exhibition runs from 15th – 17th September.
