Peter Kennedy: Light Years 1970–1 In the early 1970s, Brisbane-born artist Peter Kennedy was a leading figure in the development of conceptual art in Australia. Light Years restages work from three solo shows he mounted in 1970 and 1971, which contained pioneering examples of installation, light, performance, and sound work. Neon-Light Installations, at Gallery A […]
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Come along at 5pm on Saturday 7 May to hear Barbara Penrose and Judith Kentish in conversation with Louise Rollman about their solo exhibitions “Architectural Fantasies: vertigo” and “from ideas of the mute”. Stay on for the opening event and drinks from 6pm. Also opening on Saturday is an exhibition by collaborative duo Nervous Systems,
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Maschi Fontana is an artistic duo consisting of the Swiss/Australian artist Tom Mùller and Swiss/Italian artist Jean-Thomas Vannotti, who together re-ignite a previous creative partnership, developing it into a significant inter-hemisphere collaboration. The duo connect with a post-Beuys shamanistic tide of esoteric artists like Almagul Menlibayeva and Marcus Coates who engage in a variety of
As the second last installation in the window box of Ryan Renshaw Gallery and the follow on from Warm Glow, The Wandering Room have enlisted Ryan Presley to present a series of prints, which he has titled “Chain Reaction”. Presley’s work addresses social injustices and reconfigures perceptions of Australian history. In his series, ‘Blood Money’,
Now for something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue… Chapel, the second cab off the rank in our Dollhouse program opens this Friday night the 6th of May from 6pm and features new work from local artists Madelin Bouwman, Leah Emery, and Nicole Gillard. Chapel sees diminutive yet provocative works set inside a pristine
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Daniel Templeman ‘Back and Forth’ + Edward Niznik ‘South’. Exhibition continues until 28 May 2011, Thursday to Saturday 11-3pm or by appointment
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WHEN : Friday 6 May 6.30pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum ‘New Psychedelia’ presents a range of contemporary Australian artworks that display psychedelic influences and strategies for addressing the themes of consciousness, capitalism and technology. SEAN BAILEY | BELLE BASSIN | GUY BENFIELD | CHRIS BENNIE | DAMIANO BERTOLI | MATT DABROWSKI AND THE MANY
From the series ‘The Sport and Fair Play of Aussie Rule’, 2009 Eric Bridgeman is a multi-disciplinary artist based Brisbane, Australia. Born in October 1986 in Redcliffe (QLD) to Raymond Bridgeman (from Cracow, Central Queensland) and Veronika Gikope Muka (from Gumine, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea). Bridgeman commenced his Bachelor of Photography at the
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Warren Handley migrated from the south east of England to Australia in 2005 and has been living in Brisbane ever since. Believing creativity should not necessarily be restricted to the use of just one medium, Warren’s creative practice is spear headed by experimentation in all kinds of media.
Tracey Moffatt is arguably Australia’s best known contemporary artist working across photography and video. From 1999 to 2009, Moffatt and her editing collaborator Gary Hillberg produced seven montage videos that survey the enduring dramatic modes and genres of Hollywood cinema. Re-editing and juxtaposing video clips, Moffatt’s montage videos create ironic commentary on the clichés of
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Image: ‘11.15pm 11.02 2007 11.22pm 11.02.2007 (2007)’
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Image: Repaper, 2009, interactive installation with sound.
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An exhibition at a time and in a space by Akiko Yamasaki & Alex Cuffe. The Omniverse is the conceptual ensemble of all possible universes, with all possible laws of physics, first coined by Sun Ra. Opening 7pm till late (Free) With special Guests Joel Stern & WTEM playing at 8pm Gold coin Bar and
The stitchery collective is a fashion-based artist-run initiative. Founded by Kath Horton and Paula Dunlop in February 2010, it is a group of artists, dressmakers, designers and academics who use creative practice to connect individuals and develop vibrant and inclusive communities.
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Disembraining Machine is an evolving project showcasing experiments in noise, improvised, popular and unpopular, new and old music and art drawing from Brisbane’s underground creative scene, but also featuring national and international artists and groups.. We stage a monthly happening and document the results for posterity and circulation. Enjoy! Artistic direction Joel Stern Technical production
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Kelly Hussey-Smith is a Documentary Practitioner mainly working in photography and more recently in video and multimedia. She lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Kelly is currently undertaking a PhD at The Queensland College of Art, and is working on a long-term project investigating how we use animals as entertainment and decoration in our everyday
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Artist Handbook – ‘So You Want To Be An Artist ‘
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Nine Wives is a concept show that transforms the gallery into a contemporary domestic environment where female notions and rituals are explored. For the theme, nine female Queensland artists were invited to create artworks that respond to one of nine rooms that make up a home. Spaces such as the dining room, study, nursery,
Stabilisers is a site responsive installation by Jasmin Coleman with sound composition Transitioning by Cara-Ann Simpson. Stabilisers explores tensions between permanancy and flux, stability and instability through the installation of large industrial structures. In the gallery space, a braced, industrial composition transitions from… an inanimate structure to a physical, material, even anthropomorphic entity. In contrast,
Contemplation: Chinese Expression presents six media artists from the Beijing Film Academy as part of an international work exchange. These art works share an aesthetic connection through the utilisation of poetic and mesmerising visual language. Conceptually these works are linked by a broad environmental theme, with a vast scope for interpretation. The range of readings,
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William Robinson: The Transfigured Landscape presents an unprecedented opportunity to view significant artworks by one of the nation’s most cherished living artists. Presented across QUT’s premier visual art institutions, The William Robinson Gallery and QUT Art Museum, this exhibition coincides with the artist’s 75th birthday and is both a celebration of this important milestone as
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You are invited to the opening of Bill Platz’s exhibition, Rigging Portraits where you have the pleasure to view his recent portraiture in a range of media and mediums. Bill says that portraits are rigged, rigged in a manner familiar to grifters and confidence artists. These portraits reveal rigging immediately, seducing the spectator by exposing
WHEN : Thursday 14 April 2011 at 6pm. WHERE : IMA After dabbling in punk rock and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded Brighton-based Super-8 film collective Situation Cinema in 1986, then Loophole Cinema in 1989. Using 16mm multi-projector techniques, Loophole performed throughout Europe until 1999, famously producing The International Symposium of Shadows in London in
WHEN : Saturday 9 April 6-8pm WHERE : BOX COPY Artist – Wilkins Hill Lemurs, roswell, wheat, pyramids, mosquitoes, yellow skin, humans that lay eggs, bestiality, nazi aryanism (2009) is a nine-part videowork that was created by Wilkins Hill over a six month period whilst living between Berlin and Paris. Based on the theme of
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WHEN : 9 April – 5 June 2011 WHERE : UQ Art Museum Playful, edgy, clever and satirical, the works in Space invaders have appeared in city streets around Australia. Street art has significantly altered Australian visual culture, especially over the past decade. It has announced the arrival of a new generation of contemporary artists.
WHEN : 9 – 29 April 2011 WHERE : LEVEL ARI Gallery 1 – Artist : Courtney Pederson My mother is water, my father is wood is an assemblage of materials collected over six years of research into the Scandinavian history of Queensland. Images, documents and artefacts, collected as objects of history, collapse into a
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WHEN : 2 April – 1 May 2011 WHERE : The Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) Kurt Sorensen Each series of photographs relates to the other in its depiction and representation of isolation, loneliness, beauty and tragedy. I have taken my inspiration from the folk tales and the landscape of the areas photographed. I am
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WHEN : 2 APR – 7 MAY 2011 WHERE : Jan Manton Gallery Magda Cebokli – Michael Doolan Michael Doolan lives in Melbourne and works in Sydney where he is a Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 1981, he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Ceramic Design) at Chisholm Institute of
WHEN : April 1 – April 30 WHERE : The Wandering Room @ Ryan Renshaw – 137 Warry St, Spring Hill Warm Glow The April Edition of The Wandering Room’s ‘residency’ at Ryan Renshaw Gallery is curated by Dhana Merritt. Warm Glow features the works of Pope Alice Xorporation, Bulgarian artist Kamen Stoyanov, Pamela See
WHEN : Opening Event: Thursday 26 March 6:30 PM WHERE : Studio 3.10 LVL 3 Metro Arts 109 Edward St Brisbane Working below-level, street-level, the high-way and the sky-way, New Movement & Co. guarantees universal passage. No space impenetrable. No weight too burdensome. No route too unearthly. We have the means. A subsidiary of Bababa
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WHEN : 26 March 2011 6-9pm WHERE : BOXCOPY Let’s spend the night together? You, me and a couple of videos? No one is home and the living room is free. GHOSTHOUSE is a new project by Brisbane based artist Sarah Byrne. It attempts to transcribe and translate the digital language of Byrne’s practice, towards
WHEN : 23 March–23 April 2011 WHERE : www.andrew-baker.com NGAU PIKI (MY DREAM), Acrylic on linen, 2010
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