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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

WHEN : 7th Feb – 3rd March WHERE : Heiser Gallery Born in Melbourne in 1959, Lewis Miller trained at the Victorian College of the Arts in the late 1970s, and completed post graduate studies at the College in 1982. In that same year the artist was awarded the College’s Hugh Ramsey Portrait Prize. Miller

WHEN : 5th Feb – 18th March WHERE : IMA@Ksubi, 46 James Street, Fortitude Valley Perth artist Rebecca Baumann’s flickering colour fields may be motor driven, but the effect is like falling leaves, evoking the random beauty of nature. Using thousands of cards (in a variety of blues) attached to a grid of ninety-six flip-clock

WHEN : Feb 3, 7:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Substation No. 4, 22 Petrie Tce., Brisbane ‘Seven With Another’ aims to bring together creatives from diverse fields – with exciting results. 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

WHEN : 3rd Feb, 6:00 – 10:30pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space 50/50 is a Silent Auction fundraiser supporting the Emerging Artist Development Program. With more than 50 artists donating works, pieces will be sold in increments of $50. The Emerging Artists Development Program [EADP] works with referees from the Special Circumstances Courts in Brisbane

WHEN : Exhibition – 3rd Feb, 6:00-9:00pm / Community Ride and Delivery – 4th Feb, 12:00 – 1:30pm WHERE : White Canvas Gallery The Project Collect artwork and writing. Exhibit all the submitted pieces of work. Deliver all the work to random people via bicycle. Papergirl Brisbane is a cultural initiative which works to bridge

WHEN : 2nd Feb 7:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Lust For Life tattoo gallery espresso bar. 176 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley King is a documentary style photographer who has exhibited nationally and internationally (notably BoxFresh in Sydney / London), in galleries, cafes, warehouses and even an old shed. Her commercial portraits (for the likes of

WHEN : Opening Night: 1st Feb, 6:30pm – 9:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre, Shop Front Trespassers Welcome is an invitation to enter, explore and share in a world that is ordinarily off limits, out of bounds or out of sight, forgotten, hidden or removed from our daily meanderings. Behind locked doors, in darkened subway

WHEN : 10th Jan – 25th March WHERE : QUT Art Museum QUT holds one of Queensland’s most significant public art collections and has been actively developing its holdings since its fledgling beginnings in 1945 under the banner of a predecessor institution, the Queensland Teachers’ Training College. QUT’s Art Collection is a vital part of

WHEN : 28th Jan, 2:00 – 5:00pm WHERE : Avid Reader, West End This Next Wave Magazine is a new, collaborative, culturally relevant print publication; providing a platform for expression, for discussion and for finding common ground to enable constructive social change. Come and celebrate the launch of our first issue with live music, live

WHEN : 28th Jan, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy, Level 1, 129 Margaret Street, Brisbane James and Eleanor Avery are British-born artists who have been collaborating on large scale sculpture and installation projects since 2004 and are currently based between London and Brisbane. The artists’ collaborations are generally site specific and in their many

WHEN : 28th Jan, 6:00-8:00pm WHERE : Wandering Room, Shop 13/14 Grey Street South Bank Nathan Corum is a local photographer who is presently analysing and responding to the iconography of and mechanics behind the cinematic image. His many investigations have resulted in him replicating popcorn, re-creating the effect of pixelation, and re-creating and combining

WHEN : 27th Jan, 6:30-9:30pm WHERE : Woolloongabba Art Gallery, 613 Stanley St Woolloongabba Qld FLOAT~ OUT OF ADVERSITY COMES SHEER JOY ~ An exhibition which CHALLENGES DEFEAT AND CELEBRATES LIFE, the creative innovation of GHOSTNETS AUSTRALIA alongside emerging Brisbane artist, JOANNAH UNDERHILL. GHOST NETS are lost or abandoned fishing nets, tangling endangered species and

WHEN : 27th Jan, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studio, 27 Florence Street, Teneriffe Born and raised on the far north coast of New South Wales and recently returning to Brisbane after a period in London, Thom works between both traditional and street forms of painting mixed with elements of printmaking. The upcoming

WHEN : 20th Jan, 6:30 – 8:30pm WHERE : POP Gallery WEBSITE

WHEN : 21st Jan, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Queensland Centre for Photography, Cnr of Cordelia and Russell Streets, South Brisbane Siegfried Manietta was born in Germany in 1947 and spent his formative years in Northern NSW and South-east Queensland. He worked commercially across a range of disciplines including retail, commercial / advertising photography, and

WHERE : Nine Lives Gallery, 5f Winn St, Fortitude Valley WHEN : Jan 19th – Jan 22nd We’ve decided the old full time gallery front just ain’t for us anymore. There will be a few project based exhibitions in the coming months to look out for but for now, we’re playing host to one final

WHEN : Fridays, 20th January – 2nd March, 5.30–10.00pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) GOMA is open UP LATE on Friday nights from 20 January – 2 March 2012 during ‘Matisse: Drawing Life’. Up Late takes a sophisticated, soulful approach with DJ Jazz in the early evening introducing the lush arrangements of the

WHEN : 13th Jan, 5:30 – 8:30pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery This collective consists of 4 emerging photographic artists from the Queensland College of Art showing works from their graduating folios. The images explore ideas of tradition and expectation, domesticity, marriage and transition while drawing on personal experience, historical frameworks and contemporary practice. This

WHEN : 12th Jan, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Shop 13/14 Grey Street South Bank Oslo and Brisbane based artist Peter Bruce Booth and The Wandering Room would like to invite you to the opening of Peter’s show ‘Supporter’ this Thursday the 12th of January from 6pm. Supporter is a solo show and installation which

WHEN : 12th Jan, 7:00 – 9:00pm WHEN : Lust For Life – 176 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley ‘Deuce’ is Brisbane artist Brandon Specht’s second solo exhibition. Playing outside the conventional, with hardly a brush-mark in sight, he mixes enamel, acrylic and water-based paints together on the canvas at different stages of the drying process.

WHEN : 10th Jan 2012 – 12th Febr WHERE : QUT Art Museum As a culmination of a three year PhD research project, Courtney Coombs’ The sum of all things? explores the symbolic potential of materials, words and forms. Utilising various combinations and recontextualisations of found objects – most often domestic – Coombs resists making