New work by Brooke Ferguson As a material manifestation of Brooke Ferguson’s ongoing performance works, ‘Incremental Maintenance’ is an exhibition that reflects the Brisbane artist’s continued interest in using simple materials, activities and gestures to generate potential artworks. For her solo exhibition at Boxcopy, Ferguson presents the outcome of vacuuming artist run initiatives. Looking to […]
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Featuring works by: Danny FORD | Cara-Ann SIMPSON | Tarn MCLEAN | Fiona COCKFIELD | Farhana AHAD | Liam KEY | Rebecca ROSS | Alexandra LAWSON in collaboration with Devon McKNIGHT (two parts of US based collective SPARE ROOM). We’re all doing it – texting, blogging, sampling, sharing and networking. Our generation exists somewhere in
KIRSTY BOYLE: CRUCIBLE EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT To be opened by Urban Art Projects. An exciting merge of high tech robotics and low tech materials creates a mobile interactive exhibition and an opportunity to participate in making a robot.
Tenterhooks is an upcoming exhibition that will showcase works from nineteen emerging Brisbane artists. The exhibition will explore the metaphorical connotations of this archaic term by creating a dialogue between traditional and contemporary art practices. The show will include two-dimensional drawings, prints and paintings, as well as video, installations and performance. Featuring: Kim Anderson, Nicola
Building community and art: How site-specific works can change artists and audiences. Fram Kitagawa, Japanese curator, publisher, art critic and community advocate, offers his thoughts on the role of art in contemporary society. Kitagawa will be joined by Soichiro Fukutake, Director of the Chichu Art Museum Naoshima and speak on his philosophy, projects, and the
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Post Datum Presents OCULUS Exercise the extrinsic muscles of the eye and enjoy an exhibition of recent works by QUT undergraduate students.Join the artists for drinks from 6pm.
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*Lucks invites you to the candy shop of childhood memories with his new exhibition, “Lucky Dip”. In the spirit of the corner store lucky dip. Lucks invites the audience to dip into an eclectic world comprising contemporary iconography, religion, found objects, clashing colours, tags, styles and wordplay. A pioneering street artist in Brisbane, *Lucks has
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A show by the NOTeven artist collective. Materialising the disillusion of the individual in society, “no kings, no parliaments, no assemblies” is a show that relies on the collaborative effort of 20 art students producing sculptures that have been stripped of any individuality. In doing this, the artists hope to achieve total unity and social
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Open Sky presents the work of four important Brisbane-based artists whose work, in diverse ways, questions what it means to be alive now. The exhibition seeks to respond to today’s fast-paced lifestyle, examining how our continually shifting contemporary environment disrupts our attempts to establish stable forms of belief and structure in our daily lives. In
Contortionist Studios finally wants to make it’s official debut into the world of Brisbane arts, and we’d like everyone to come along and celebrate it with us. There will be an array of artists, including bands, installation art, interactive art, paintings, and prints on display on the night, and much of the artwork will be
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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
