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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Gary Warner is an artist, photographer, writer, curator, musician and media producer who was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1957. His work across various visual media demonstrates Warner’s continuing fascinations with natural and man-made phenomena ranging from nature, cities, human interactions and Eastern and Western philosophies. Warner showed a precocious talent for media when aged
Seam, 2009 Carly’s sculptural and installation based practice focuses on bridging elements of the mechanistic and industrial to the organic patterns of growth and decay. Her work explores the translation of abstract and fleeting moments within fluid phenomena, into woven constructions of industrial wire. This process parallels textile traditions of needlework, lace making and knitting,
New Primitive: A Cappella – An acoustic homage to the unadulterated human voice. Presented by SPEC
exist ARI are running regular Live Art/performance art based events called exist-ing where artists are encouraged to try out new works, discuss and learn more about Live Art, view international live artist screenings, and present performance or live based artworks to an audience. exist aims to make spaces where artists, audiences and communities can engage
In conjunction with ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’, the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque presents a major survey of the surrealist sensibility in cinema. The Savage Eye: Surrealism and Cinema considers films made under the rubric of the movement alongside popular cinema highlighting the enduring fascination with surrealist tendencies, narratives and tropes. The program also charts how
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WHEN : 11 June at 10:00 – 07 August at 16:00 WHERE : UQ Art Museum -James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (Building 11) University Drive WAITING FOR ASYLUM: FIGURES FROM AN ARCHIVE Ten years since the Siev X tragedy, asylum seekers still provoke strong political, emotional and ideological responses across all ranks of Australian
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Operating as a quasi-archival artist, Brianne Mackinnon’s practice explores information systems and processes of publicity and dissemination that generate within the arts industry. Establishing large online and physical archives of exhibition publications, brochures and related publicity content and images, her practice endeavours to establish a self-generating system of production, where research into and participation
A Collection of works by Alex Gillies & Murdoch. The work of Brisbane based artist Alex Gilles draws on transient imagery to produce woodblock prints which fuse the past and present. Alex takes the humble act of carving into blocks of hardwood using processes unchanged for hundreds of years to form detailed prints, anchored in
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New Zealand based artist, Peter Madden’s sculptural installations begin life as flat imagery, which he carefully refashions into spiralling three-dimensional objects.Gleaning images from books, magazines and encyclopaedias – National Geographic magazines are a favourite – Madden slices out the illustrations, then reassembles them in fantastical constructions.The denuded books are kept – pages intact in their
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CROSS–STITCH: Without Apology is a two-night art event/nightclub/theatre/gallery/reality-tv/photo-shoot featuring theatre, music, visual art and that-which-cannot-be-coined in an accelerated-senses avant-garde experience that crashes head-first into Metro Arts’ backyard to kick off FR11. At-the-helm is emerging Artistic Director Steven Mitchell Wright who has invited a gamut of independent artists to develop new work based o…n myth, history
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this…(#9), 180.3 x 104.1cm, Unique Type C print, (2012) this… this… is a homage to photography’s disappearing materiality. this… is my lament for colour analogue technology. this… is a photogram; a photograph without a negative. this… is a crumpled piece of light sensitive paper. this… is an image of itself. this… is an abstraction. this…
As a part of the upcoming “Art on James”, Level artist-run-initiative will be staging Subdivision, a pop-up Art Fair located in an empty store on the corner of James and Arthur Sts from the 2-9 June 2011. Playing with the set up of a traditional art fair, each artist will be allocated a masked off
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First in line for a series of events for the New Primitive Festival Curated by SPEC. Performance and Installation Henry Mills (Bris) Alrey Batol (Bris) Ben Kolaitis (Melb) Wukir Suryadi & Rully Shabar (Indo) XinO (Katie Martain) (Bris) Program is supported by MAAP & Next Wave Festival
Image: ‘Mirage’ site-specific transparent digital print 2010
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While we are showing Peter Kennedy’s light sculptures from 1970, we will screen A Film of Real Time, which documents a parallel instance of pioneering light art from across the ditch. As a sculpture student at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts, Narbey was commissioned to create Real Time, a full-gallery interactive-light-sound installation, for
