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Jackie Ryan: Fever Dream

Self-described pop-culture adventurer Jackie Ryan is one of the most superficial people in the universe, or just one of the luckiest? Does she make art, or does she simply keep company with a lot of people who are art? Sure, she’s won some awards for her work – but does she wear them well? Decide […]

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Peter Kennedy: Is There a Narrative Going on Here

This October in Galleries 1 and 2, we are presenting Is There a Narrative Going On Here, an exhibition of new and historical works by Peter Kennedy. The exhibition continues Kennedy’s enduring inquiry into the sociopolitical capacity of art. Consisting of predominantly collage-drawings and paintings, the works foreground his ongoing investigation of the geopolitical resonances of

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Celia Gullett: Shaping Colour

Celia Gullett (born 1959) began her art studies at East Sydney Technical College in 1979, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1984. At that stage she didn’t feel sufficiently “worldly” to become an exhibiting artist. In the years to follow she experienced many things, including marriage and children, with painting remaining a constant

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LATTICE

LATTICE, the 2024 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, showcases the creative work of emerging artists graduating from QUT’s unique Open Studio program. Working across a variety of media including moving image, installation, textile, painting, and sculpture, their artworks offer creative and critical reflections on the social, political, and personal experiences of our contemporary world. Opening

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Adriane Strampp: Where the Light Falls: Stories of the Everyday

Adriane Strampp is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist. Her current work explores earlier concerns, pared down to core elements both in subject matter and colour, examining the subtleties and nuances of memory and experience through poetic imagery and personal mythology. Image: Temporal space (and the weight of silence), 2024, oil on linen, 163 x 203 cm

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Stolen Songline: Lani’s Lament

Join us to hear from internationally regarded researcher and Yidinji Elder, the Honorary Professor Henrietta Marrie AM, as she shares the story of Lani Mulgrave Blair (1883-1900). Lani’s story traverses major themes in our shared history: stolen children, frontier wars, colonial displacement, and assimilation policies. He exists beyond his moment and reminds us of the

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Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art

Entries are now open for the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (NPCA) to artists across Australia, working in any medium. This biennial competition includes four monetary prizes: Open Prize: $20,000 Local Prize: $10,000 Mayor’s Award: $500 People’s Choice Award: $500 Image credits: Tina Stefanou, Hym(e)nals, NPCA2023 Local Winner, Jarrad Martyn, Refuge, NPCA2023 Mayor’s Award, Laresa Kosloff, New FuturesTM, NPCA2023 Open Winner

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Decolonial Natural Pigments Instructional Residency

Arquetopia’s artist residencies are designed with a decolonial framework that challenges traditional narratives and promotes diverse perspectives in art and cultural practices. These residencies offer artists the opportunity to engage deeply with local communities, traditions, and knowledge systems in Oaxaca, Puebla, and Cusco. By immersing themselves in the rich cultural contexts of these regions, artists

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Scott Breton: Doors Through the Ordinary

Scott Breton is a figurative fine artist from Brisbane, Australia. After completing a science degree (BSc (Genetics) University of Queensland) and contemplating a career in biotechnology, Scott committed fully to pursuing art, continuing a classically leaning arts education and practise begun much earlier. In 2012 Scott won the highly contested A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship, Australia’s

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Carbon_Dating

The Carbon_Dating  exhibition presents a series of artwork-based experiments that aim to generate interest in Australia’s often endangered native grasses. The exhibition tracks how the project assembled six teams of scientists, artists, growers and First Nations informants across Queensland from Miles, Gold Coast, Somerset, Samford Valley, Sunshine Coast and Cairns during 2022-23 to grow and care

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Burnie Print Prize 2025

The Burnie Print Prize presents the best works from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists. We welcome all artists living and working in Australia to enter a print or an artist’s book created utilising any printing process. Offering a prize pool of $23,000 the winner will take home $17,000 cash, and an emerging artist $5,000, plus a

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Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

Fashion, art, design, science and technology collide in the world of endlessly innovative and internationally acclaimed Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Exclusive to Brisbane, this exhibition is an immersive sensory exploration of her practice with close to 100 garments in conversation with contemporary artworks, natural history specimens and cultural artefacts from which the designer

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Ephemera: Trace-less

Ephemera emerged in 2001 through the initiative of Townsville City Council. Its purpose was to provide a platform for regional artists to showcase their exceptional talent. Today, Ephemera stands proudly as the North’s leading temporary public art festival. Now in its 13th iteration, this beloved and highly anticipated biennial event attracts local, national, and international artists and audiences to

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The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Australia’s Nature Photo Contest

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Australia’s Nature Photo Contest is back, with more than $14,000 worth of prizes up for grabs for photography and nature lovers from across Oceania. Oceania is an extraordinary region, with many of its species found nowhere else on Earth. We’re on the lookout for shots that help capture the vibrance and vulnerability

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Big Sculpture

The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair’s Big Sculpture touring exhibition is a captivating showcase, presenting the cultural talents of emerging and prominent artists. The exhibition promises an immersive visual journey through the diverse narratives woven by Indigenous artists, transcending boundaries and embracing a rich tapestry of perspectives. At the heart of this exhibition are large-scale commissioned works that

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June Tupicoff

June Tupicoff (b.1949, Healesville, Victoria) is a Brisbane based artist whose work focuses on an inherent interest in the Australian landscape. Tupicoff pays particular attention to ‘wallum country’, an ecosystem of coastal south-east Queensland extending into north-eastern New South Wales, characterised by flora-rich shrubland and heathland. Originally an abstractionist, over the course of time Tupicoff’s

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Yvonne Mills-Stanley: Don’t worry about the snakes

Don’t worry about the snakes, an exhibition of 19 oil paintings on both linen and canvas by Mt. Glorious-based artist, Yvonne Mill-Stanley, is the latest iteration of the artist’s fascination with her longstanding subject matter, grass. Tasmanian artist, Milan Milojevic’s exhibition of limited-edition, primarily multi-panelled series’, including new black and white works, is titled Mad

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Nick Olsen

Nick Olsen is a Brisbane based painter who is interested in the built environment and how our living spaces reflect our cultural sensibilities through different times in our history. He uses a focus on light, tone and colour to elicit an emotional response and a sense of “place” in his work. We are thrilled to

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Michael Georgetti: A Love Supreme

Michael Georgetti’s practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and installation.  His approach is characterised by three-dimensional conceptual paintings with an anthropological quality, offering a critique of the politics of display. He eschews traditional hanging methods, incorporating gleaming silver and brass frames that playfully interact the paintings they contain – often acting as conduits for consumer branding and

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Cycles of Surrealism

House Conspiracy & Sanctuary of Surrealism present a group exhibition in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Andre Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto. The influence that a century of Surrealism has had on contemporary life and art is inestimable, and so too are the benefits of the emancipatory tools the movement’s pioneers helped bring to attention

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I, object

Contemporary and historical works from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Indigenous Australian Art collection. I, object considers the many complex relationships Aboriginal Australian artists continue to have with objects – from the histories informing their creation to the social and cultural consequences of their collection. The exhibition demonstrates the great pride

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In conversation: James Barth and Tim Riley Walsh

James Barth discusses her show The Clumped Spirit with Tim Riley Walsh, Assistant Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Gadigal/Sydney, and member of the Kink collective. Tim Riley Walsh is Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, living and working on Gadigal Country. Previously, he was Curator in Residence at Gertrude and MADA Gallery, Monash University, both in

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Mirra Whale: Quiet and Still

Mitchell Fine Art Gallery presents Archibald Finalist Mirra Whale’s third solo exhibition ‘Quiet and Still’ from 3rd – 28th September, 2024.Mirra Whale is a Sydney based artist whose artworks explore the formal and conceptual limits of the genre of still life. Within her practice Mirra utlises everyday household objects and presents them from another angle.“This

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Vera Möller

Vera Möller (b.1955, Bremen, Germany) is a Melbourne based artist whose keen interest in the natural world, science, and art converges in the images and objects produced and examined within her art practice. Möller’s original studies included biology (Universität Wurzburg, Wurzburg and Technische Universität, München, Germany 1976-79); theology and microbiology (1979-83 Ludwig Maximilians-Universität and Technische

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Natalie Lavelle: Total Other

Total Other: Inspired by Eva Hesse In her latest series of purple paintings titled Total Other, Natalie Lavelle draws profound inspiration from Eva Hesse’s concept of a “total other” standpoint, forging a dialogue between abstraction and corporeality. Like Hesse, Lavelle explores the tactile and sensorial dimensions of art, where each brushstroke becomes a gesture towards

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Prisma Art Prize

Prisma Art Prize is an art contest born to promote emerging painters and visual artists. As our name and logo suggests, we want to be a prism that refracts all the possible outcomes of the painting process: we aim to collect and showcase a selection of artworks which is inclusive, diversified and representative of the

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The Dream Weaver: Guardians of Grace

Grace Lillian Lee is a multicultural artist known for her contemporary interpretation of a traditional weaving practice and groundbreaking collaborations with Indigenous communities, creating a platform for cultural expression and celebration by way of fashion performances. Featuring eight ethereal Shields and Armours, each evoking Grace’s totem, Koysemer (moth), The Dream Weaver: Guardians of Grace is a homage

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Riverine

The opening of riverine is a gallery-warming opportunity to celebrate Onespace’s beautiful new site at Kurilpa (the Turrbal word for the lands around South Brisbane meaning ‘the place of water rats’) and a chance for audiences to reacquaint themselves with some of the gallery’s represented artists. Fittingly, water is central to the work of many of these

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