WHEN : 26th Oct 6:00 – 9:00pm ( Until November 9th 2011) WHERE : Metro Arts, Studio 3.10, Level 3 Featuring work by Benjamin Crowley, Pirrin Francis, Michael Vosper and Elizabeth Willing. Curated by Anastasia Booth Body Transgress centers upon the engagement of artists with the body as a site of practice through digital media. […]
WHEN : 26th October 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Founded as Fiona Mail in 2008, renamed as Catherine Sagin in 2010, the collaboration of Catherine Sagin and Kate Woodcroft returns as Catherine or Kate. In the lead up to this exhibition they undertook a residency in Iceland where they continued the competitive method
WHEN : 26th October 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts I fucking love you is a fantasyland where gold pen is for declarations, rayon rose petals equate to romance and sex means love. WEBSITE
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WHEN : Tuesday 25 October 6.00pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum WHAT : Public Lecture. In this lecture, Duncan Robinson traces the evolution of museums in Britain by examining their architecture and methods of display. By doing so, he aims to show how attitudes towards museums, and the expectations of their visitors, have changed over
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WHEN : 25th October – 23rd December WHERE : QUT Art Museum To be opened by Professor Sasha Grishin AM, The Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History, Australian National University. RSVP by 19 October, click here UNION WITH REALITY: THE ART OF LEONARD BROWN 23 October-23 December Union with reality brings together over three
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WHEN : 8th Oct – 6th Nov WHERE : IMA@Surfers – Circle on Cavill, 9 Ferny Avenue, Surfers Paradise, QLD Self-proclaimed ‘dumpster diva’, Justene Williams gets about in costumes fashioned from trash, then presents videos of her frantic performances on stacks of old TV monitors. Hysterical feminism, neo-dada, or ritualistic recycling? All of the above.
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WHEN : The next round closes on 24 October for insurance cover from 1 November. Flying Arts is now pleased to offer practicing visual, crafts and design artists access to very cost effective insurance cover. This insurance (underwritten by QBE) is only available to Flying Arts Accredited Members and covers: General Liability; Professional Indemnity; Product
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Yellow Desert Brisbane, enamel on Belgian linen, 152 x 122cm, 2002. www.andrew-baker.com/lb
WHEN : 22 Oct – 4th Feb WHERE : IMA Los Angeles artist Diana Thater is famous for her audacious video installations that deconstruct the language and mechanics of video as a medium while exploring the relationship between human beings and the natural world (particularly animals). The highlight of our show is her new six-channel
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WHEN : 22nd Oct 2-4pm WHERE : Jan Manton Art, 1/93 Fortescue St, Spring Hill QLD. To be opened by Kirsti Simpson, Director of Hassell, with artist talk by Marion Borgelt Marion Borgelt draws inspiration from subjects such as semiotics, language and phenomenology to create atavistic fantasies and mysteries in the forms of painting, sculpture
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WHEN : Friday, October 21st · 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Roma Street Transit Centre baggage lockers For the next in Annie St Offsite’s Baggage locker series of exhibitions we are pleased to present ‘You bring light’ in a new installation by Jake Sun. Please join us for opening drinks at The Transcontinental Hotel, Roma
WHEN : 21st – 29th OCT WHERE : Jugglers Art Space A series of paintings completed from found imagery that mythologise representations of masculinity depicted in the media. WEBSITE
Nancy Stilianos’s materially driven practice questions the environmental and economic stakes of mass consumption and asks whether we can construct our own anthotopia through the use of locally sourced materials. Website
WHEN : 20th October – 6:00- 8:00pm WHERE : IMA Los Angeles novelist and art critic Chris Kraus will be giving a lecture here, on Thursday 20 October at 6pm. Kraus is known for scrambling the modes of fiction and non-fiction, taking an experimental approach to writing art criticism and steeping her novels in references
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WHEN : 19 October – 2nd November WHERE : The Old Museum, Sherwood Neighborhood Centre, Zillmere PCYC Queensland Arts Council’s Creative Generator SEQ and Brisbane City Council will present a series of ‘Creative Spotlight’ networking events to take place in 3 locations across Brisbane on Wednesday the 19th October, Wednesday 26th October and Wednesday 2nd
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WHEN : 22nd Oct · 10:00 – 6:00pm WHERE : The Getty Center Lawn ARTIST :Jemima Wyman Come by and enjoy an outdoor installation on the Getty lawn of large-scale, movable body pillows for visitors to either drift off or lounge on. A communal resting site with vibrant, psychedelic symmetries generated from tie-dyed t-shirts and
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WHEN : Oct 1st -Feb 5th WHERE : GOMA The exhibition brings together contemporary textile works from the gallery’s Australian, Asian and Pacific Collections. WEBSITE
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WHEN : Opening 19th Oct 6 – 8pm WHERE : Metro Arts Galleries Christian Flynn and Miles Hall are Brisbane based artists who explore the ongoing possibilities of Painting in a digital age. While both artists maintain highly individualised practices their work shares an immediate engagement with the act of painting – concentrating on presenting
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Christian Flynn was born in Innisfail, Queensland, in 1978. He moved around a lot when he was young before coming to Brisbane in 1988. Flynn attended a public school, did one year of an economics degree, scrapped that, then did three years at TAFE studying illustration and then fine art. He went on to get
Chair, watercolour, 640 x 499mm, 2011. Monica Rohan’s work explores the inundation of contradictions and paradoxes that complicate emotions, through the pictorial language of contemporary painting. She uses herself as the subject and the driving force behind her works. She explores the clash between what is real and what is simulated and how this affects
WHEN : 15th October · 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Wandering Room – Grey St, Southbank The Wandering Room would like to invite you to part II of Andrew Forsyth and Ross Manning’s residence as part of our Wandering Room on Grey Street Project, their second opening entitled Rukus. Rukus follows on from The
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WHEN : 14th October · 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Tidy art space- 29 Logan Road, Woolloongabba QLD This exhibition will explore interpretations relating to a woman’s perspective on the representation of women. The exhibition is held by the QUT Women’s Collective, a community of female students that come together to discuss and promote
WHEN : Opening Friday, October 14 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space, 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley The Word Conterminous exhibition will display 50 artworks from 17 emerging artists based in Queensland Australia. A series of 25 random word combinations were generated and each combination will be interpreted by two separate artists
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Martin Smith is a soulful photographer. His works reflect both the intimate and trying moments of his life, depicting meaningful moments and places, without contrivance. Smith foregoes traditional photography, incorporating text and collage within his images. Martin Smith’s works are exhibited regularly both in Australia and internationally. In 2007 Smith was included in Primavera at
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Social Clothing Experiments , 2011 (PLATFORM: Public art installation) Wyman’s individual art practice incorporates various mediums including installation, video, performance, photography and painting. Her most recent artworks utilize these mediums to specifically focus on visual based resistance strategies employed within contemporary ‘irregular military’, in an aim to explore the formal and psychological potentiality of camouflage
One is a durational performance by Rebecca Cunningham and all of you. One table. Two chairs. An exchange of DNA. DURATION 2-10 minutes per exchange. WEBSITE
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WHEN : 13 October · 5:30 – 6:30pm WHERE : Queensland Centre for Photography You are warmly invited to the upcoming QCP public program ‘How to Collect Photography’.Join Dr Daryl Hewson (the foremost collector of Queensland Photography) and Maurice Ortega (QCP director) in a conversation about the facts and joys of collecting photography. Seating is
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Rosslynd Piggott’s work has received wide acclaim, having been represented in over 35 important solo exhibitions, and numerous prestigious curated exhibitions and events, both nationally and internationally. With such a strong exhibition history, beginning in 1981, the artist has maintained a very prolific practice, focusing on 3-dimensional works, painting and drawing. Piggott’s style is slow
WHAT : Mentorship, Exchange and Fellowship Program. WHEN : Applicants must contact M&GSQ before 14 October 2011 (Applications close 9 December 2011.) With the financial support of Arts Queensland through the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), this is the second year that M&GSQ has been able to offer this exciting initiative. Guidelines and Application Forms
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IMA Brisbane will launch the new Spring edition of Art & Australia magazine featuring work by Michael Zavros and essay by IMA director Robert Leonard. Come and meet the Art & Australia team. WEBSITE
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You are invited to attend Priya Cox’s Honours graduation exhibition at the Stitchery Collective. WEBSITE
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WHAT : Life Drawing WHERE : Jugglers Art Space every Wednesday evening 7pm – 9pm COST : $10 for students & $12 for others BYO materials. WEBSITE
WHEN : 12th October, 6 – 8pm WHERE : The University of Queensland Art Museum WHO : Lead by Dr Charles Green Contemporary art has boomed since the late 1980s. The period’s key art productions have clustered around spectacular, expensive new art such as video installation and large colour photography, implying venues able to provide
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Lifting a Helpless Patient, Oil on canvas, 151 x 122 cm, 2005 www.milanigallery.com.au
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From photographic book – NOT LAST DAYS, 2010 Charlie Hillhouse, photographer and founder of SMALL HOUSE BOOKS.