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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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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QCA Galleries are a facility of the Queensland College of Art. Exhibitions, guest lectures and artist talks are programmed throughout the year with exhibition opportunities available to students, staff and external exhibitors. Exhibitions are free and open to the public. We aim to foster experimentation and innovation while providing a forum for research, ideas and exchange. Exhibition
Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery is a volunteer artist managed facility that is located in the historic refurbished former Kedron Tram Substation No 8 at 134 Kedron Park Road Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The building is now known as Kedron subARTStation.Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery provides for both members and the wider community, an affordable open
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WHEN : 18th of March, 6:00pm WHERE : Kangaroo Motel Artist – Lou Hubbard, Tim Woodward, Chris Bennie Presented by Accidently Annie St Space WEBSITE
A creative, quirky and comfortable space for all ages of emerging and established artists, craftsmen and women, designers, photographers and developers of creative nick knacks and what nots to feel welcome, be inspired and proudly exhibit and display there wares. As well as providing a wide range of creative events, workshops, programmes and services. Located
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The Institute provides a non-profit creative arts centre housing studios, workshops and galleries. The Institute supports contemporary creative arts practice in an environment open to variety and continual change. As an incorporated association, it is governed by a Committee of Management and administered through the Arts Manager. The arts programs at the Institute are developed
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WHEN : 11 March at 18:00 – 01 April WHERE : LEVEL, 11 Stratton St, Newstead, QLD GALLERY 1 – Conjure ZOE PORTER – In collaboration with Eric Rossi and Olivia Porter (opening performance) Conjure is part performance, part musical/sound arrangements and part exhibition. The exhibition will consist of the residue that results from a
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WHEN : 9 – 25 March 2011Open: Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00PM WHERE : Inbetweenspaces @ Metro Arts Three sides to every story: Ernesto Love + Eve Roleston + Ernest Olove = 3SUM/3DUM. WEBSITE
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Joseph Breiker’s first solo exhibition at Metro Arts commences an exciting year for the Galleries Program in 2011. An exploration into the place of humour in contemporary visual art, Joseph will utilise drawing, painting, mixed media sculpture, sound and video as he seeks to unlock the creative and critical capacity of the visual artist as
WHEN : 5 March — 30 April WHERE : IMA Let the Healing Begin The idea that art makes us better people, that it heals our souls, is an anathema. In the art world, ‘art therapy’ is the butt of endless jokes. Nevertheless, contemporary art is riddled with therapeutic subtexts and strategies. Let the Healing
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WHEN : MARCH 3 – MARCH 26, 2011 WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery BRUCE REYNOLDS’Air Percussion’ WEBSITE
WHEN : Opening night Friday 4th of March @ 6pm – 8pm. WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery 1 – 137 Warry Street Zoe Porter Spiracular is an exploration into a hybrid practice that merges collage with painting, video and installation. The work reveals a constructed universe, an ultra-violet intergalactic cosmos that consists of monsters as
WHEN: 2nd March 6-9pm WHERE : QUT, Kelvin Grove, The Block 2011 sees Shape of Things to Come in its fifth year of exhibition. This annual showcase highlights the very best of art and design graduates from both the Creative Industries and Built Environment and Engineering faculties. Shape of Things to Come is a dual
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WHEN : 26 February – 27 March WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography Izabela Pluta Izabela Pluta’s work explores the psychological connection (or disconnection) between places. Examining the semi-permanent, fly-in-fly out lifestyles of regions such as the Pilbara, Gestures of the Landscape delves into the impermanence and transience of Western Australia’s mining towns. Pluta considers
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WHEN : 26 February – 19 March 2011 WHERE : BOXCOPY A joke involves me, you and someone else. One of us is going to get hurt. This exhibition involves two video works by Melbourne artist Kel Glaister—each a playing out of familiar gags. With the title derived from something Jerry Lewis once said, this
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