ARTIST TALK Wednesday 10 August, 6pm Brooke Ferguson culminates her time as Metro Arts’ 2011 Artist in Residence with a solo exhibition entitled Pause/Play. This significant solo exhibition involves ephemeral, object-based installations which explore the possibilities for sound as an active element within the visual arts experience. Brooke’s conceptually-driven practice focuses on the connections between […]
Diagram aims to promote fresh, playful, innovative visual projects that reflect, criticize and celebrate contemporary culture.
Dr Doom has some good news – public rock, wooden supports, 2009
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Dundalli Commemorative, watercolour on arches paper, 2010 Ryan Presley was born in Alice Springs, Australia in 1987. He currently works and lives in Brisbane. His father’s family originates from the Moyle River region (Peppimenarti/Port Keats) of the Northern Territory, while his mother’s family were Scandinavian immigrants to Australia. Presley utilises a variety of media and
Fukutoshi Ueno – ‘Passaggio’ Fukutoshi Ueno brings traditional elements of Japanese culture to a contemporary design context creating artefacts that explore simplicity, practicality and multi-purpose functionality. Om Mee Ai – ‘Nebula’ Om Mee Ai’s practice extends beyond the creative artefact’s physical form to engage the viewer. In her series of paintings, she utilises a technique
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Laura Horrocks’ debut show – Hole Hearted – explores femininity and angst with a striking palette of sherbert hues. The former QCA student’s sensual nudes contrast with vibrant geometric abstracts that speak to the esoteric.”Ideas mostly come from a compulsion to layer colour, repeat triangles and ultimately to express the unending parade of emotions life
Come along to the opening of three new exhibitions on Friday 29 July, kicking off with artist talks at 5.30pm. In Gallery 1 and 2 Artists in Residence Erika Scott and Hannah Gatland present solo exhibitions after working in the Level studios over the last couple of months. In Gallery 3 Rachael Haynes has curated
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Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer’s Journal is Dane Beesley’s account of ten years behind the camera, behind the scenes of Australian rock. With cheeky and endearing cartoon sketches and hasty diary scribbles, take a peek at the sweaty, boozy life of the rock photographer as he moves from gig to portrait to band shoot, from
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On this night, and this night only we are having a spectacular show by some of Brisbane’s finest emerging artists and musicians, in the heart of west end. Artists : Georg Whelan, Gus, Scott Keim, Bhats, Llewellyn Millhouse, Holly Leonardson, Fish, Jelly, Ben Baker. WEBSITE
Not just greed and fear, 2011 ‘You’d believe me if i was a white man’ – July 22nd, 6-8pm @ Milani Gallery www.milanigallery.com.au
‘Pace’ exhibitions presents Fast Friends. Curated by Jill Barker. Artists: Daniel Mafe, Kim Demuth, Moo Design, Angela Hughes, Marcel Daniels, John Madden, Jaishree Srinivasan WEBSITE
Image: Caress – coloured latex, gauze, car seats, video projection, installation, 2007 www.linda-dennis.com
King Louis’ Animals, 2010 Pen, stitching on wallpaper. My arts practice and research is a result of my ongoing fascination with and love for animals. While the welfare of the animal is an important issue within all facets of society, with laws in many countries that ensure they are treated humanely despite their ultimate demise,
Come to the grand opening of our pop-up space on the Gold Coast. The first show is Damiano Bertoli Continuous Moment: Anxiety Villa. IMA@Surfers is presented in association with Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Gold Coast, with support from Circle on Cavill. Preceded by a talk by the artist in conversation with Reuben Keehan
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Voicing Concerns is a photographic exhibition from 16th July to 14th August addressing some of the current state of affairs of our planet earth. The exhibition includes works from Renata Buziak, Sarah Oxenham, Leanne Sauer and Sarah Welch who are Brisbane based photographers who in one way or another are questioning and interacting with the
Image: Wood, metal shelf, electronics, oscillating fan, solenoids, guitar strings,2 x Marshall guitar amps.
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Exhibition opening: 4 August 2011 Continues: 5 – 28 August 2011 The IRIS Award is an annual international prize recognising new and outstanding portraiture in photo-based media offering over $4000 in cash and prizes.The criteria for selection focuses on portraits that are unique, original and engaging whilst maintaining excellence in photography. Image Credit : Tony,
Finalist 2011 in Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition Opening Night – 15th July 6 – 10pm @ Griffith University Art Gallery
Image: Dream 3 – Cyanotype on cotton, Unique, 73 x 99 cm
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OMFG! 2009 Exhibition Opening @ Boxcopy ARI, 16 July 6 -9pm
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Image: I Need a Compass Not an Anchor – The Alley, 2010-11
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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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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)
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
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
Self-Portrait (with Ralph Lauren), 2010. Inkjet print, 70 x 50 cm
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Tapper, recycled sterling silver and timber, 2011 Elizabeth Shaw is a contemporary jeweler and metalsmith based in Brisbane Queensland Australia. Elizabeth Shaw specialises in original works, one offs and works in series.
Buku-Manapanmirr @ Woolloongabba Art Gallery / Opening 1 July – 6 August “Meeting Together and Sharing Yolngu Knowledge and Culture”
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 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;
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.
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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