My treescapes are a celebration of these magnificent living beings that we turn to for sustenance emotionally, physically and spiritually. These are Corymbia Tessaslaris’s, eucalypts of Gooreng Gooreng country, North of Bundaberg Qld that filled the headlands looking out over ‘Bustard Bay’. That was until a wooden boat arrived with a people who didn’t care […]
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This collection of work centres around a powerful childhood memory. At around four years of age, I was playing on the balcony of a restaurant that my mum worked at. Playing happily, I suddenly slipped between a gap in the timber floor and fell into the river below. Falling from such height, I sank deep
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Celebrating its 17th year in 2025, 9 by 5 commemorates the original exhibition held in Melbourne in 1889. This featured artists Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin who produced uniform artwork on nine by five-inch cigar box lids. Arts in Greater Dandenong’s adaptation has now become a nationally recognised exhibition that celebrates diversity within
Riddergade AIR is calling for applications from professional visual artists from all over the world for their three-month residency programme in Viborg, Denmark, in 2025. The purpose of Riddergade AIR is to create connections between the residents and Danish artists and to facilitate new opportunities for international development of the Danish contemporary art scene. With Riddergade AIR, Viborg
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Lure is the latest collaborative body of work by Seren Wagstaff and Joseph Botica. The exhibition speaks from shared experiences growing up in coastal towns in regional Queensland, with particular reference to memories surrounding fishing. Fishing, a staple community activity in both Wagstaff and Botica’s hometowns, could be considered a practice of “bogan spirituality”. The
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The annual Side Gallery end-of-year show is titled ‘Paradise Gloss — Next Edition’. The theme Paradise Gloss is the exhibition title that curator Laura Brinin has explored this year with a project for the Outdoor Gallery, presented by Brisbane City Council. In this theme extension, Laura invites artists in the broader community to consider how they will
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The only way out is through presents a quiet interplay of material and processual explorations. The works explore moving through uncertainty, using form and texture to navigate a shifting landscape. Opening Event: Saturday 2 November, 4-6pm. Courtney Coombs makes art, writes, and facilitates to make sense of the world and their place in it. They
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Dr. Ryan Presley was born in 1987 in Alice Springs, and currently lives and works in Brisbane. His father’s family is Marri Ngarr and originate from the Moyle River region in the Northern Territory. His mother’s family were Scandinavian immigrants to Australia. Presley’s practice wrestles with themes of power and dominion—in particular, how religion and
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In this exhibition, Hobson invites audiences to step into a world of black JOY—a celebration of culture, resilience, and authenticity. Her photography captures everyday moments that resonate with pride and positivity. These pieces reflect the simple beauty of home and community life, while addressing deeper social issues facing Indigenous peoples. Her work offers a window into
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MONO51 drifts into the surround terrain with spatial performances from two generations of Australia sound makers. Warren Burt, whilst born in the USA, is one of Australia’s unsung sonic heroes. Arriving here in 1975, he has been responsible for a diverse array of truly iconic works the exist between the markers of experimental music, minimalism,
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Pallas Projects/Studios’ Artist-Initiated Projects, is an Arts Council funded, open-submission, annual gallery programme that is highly accessible to artists, presented in the context of an established gallery space with a dedicated tradition towards the development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment. Its focus is on early/mid career, emerging artists and recent graduates, who demonstrate their
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Landslide Gallery is a Blue Mountains based Artist Run Initiative (ARI) established in 2023 by artists Amber Hearn, Heather Miller and Kevina-Jo Smith. Landslide has a focus on contemporary painting, broadening to a variety of mediums including ceramics, sculpture, video, photography and installation. Presenting a dynamic range of work from artists who have a critically
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My current body of work blends digital art and large-scale paintings. The process of drawing on the computer informs my approach to painting on canvas. I find a sense of immediacy and connection in making marks digitally using Photoshop, which influences my traditional art practice. I present a combination of electronically printed images alongside large-scale
We invite artists and photographers of all mediums, from all around the world, to participate in our biggest exhibition ever. We will be taking over the iconic Kühlhaus Berlin to present the best artworks and photographs from our international Artist Prize and Photography Prize open calls in May/June 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to exhibit.
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In his first exhibition since winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist, Archie Moore, presents an ambitious new moving image work at the University of South Australia’s Samstag Museum of Art as part of the Adelaide Film Festival. Archie Moore: AFF and Samstag Moving Image Commission 2024 will feature as
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Growing up in Bibile, Sri Lanka, Kuweni Dias Mendis has long been immersed in ritual practices and ceremonies. The temples of Bibile are sites of great mystery. Through reverence and precise spiritual acts, they reveal meaning, draw commonality, and inspire higher purpose. Guided by the Sri Lankan principles of ‘ප්රකෘති Prakuratha’ (original creation or nature)
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The Ipswich Community Gallery is excited to announce that we are now accepting exhibition applications for 2025. Whether you’re an emerging talent or an established creative, we want to hear from you. We welcome both group and solo exhibitions that celebrate contemporary art and foster deep connections with our amazing audience. This opportunity provides the
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Sophie Evans is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist whose work examines the intersection of feminism, identity and personal narrative, focusing on fragmentation, the body and mental health. Rooted in her experiences as a queer woman, Evans challenges society’s unceasing scrutiny of female and queer bodies, using painting as her medium to confront and reclaim these narratives. In
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The 2025–26 Hatched Curatorial Associate is a key role within PICA’s Exhibitions team, supported by funding from The Minderoo Foundation. This position offers practical experience to build expertise in the WA arts sector and is ideal for an early-career curator with exhibition experience and strong communication and administrative skills. The Hatched: National Graduate Show, presented by
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As one of Australia’s most acclaimed photographers, Robyn Stacey has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally since the mid–1980s. Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions; including Know My Name – Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and nationwide, 2020-2022, Destination Sydney: The Natural World, 9
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‘Some Days My Skin Just Isn’t So Thick’ is a visual art exhibition (1 October – 18 November), with a central focus on resilience. Main themes include: discomfort, perseverance, and survival in the process of challenging adversity – especially for those with migrant heritages, for whom biology, society, culture and (mis)communication both help and hinder
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Submit your proposals for ‘A Stage Called Home’: BEMAC’s 2025 Artistic Program, including the BEMAC Live and BEMAC Unplugged series, as well as a special event for BrisAsia festival and a Creative Development in partnership with Metro Arts by Monday, October 21. The invitation is open to individuals, bands, collectives, community groups and non-profit organisations.
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Reverberations chronicles artist Kuweni Dias Mendis’ journey of belonging as a migrant woman of colour and culture in Australia. This multisensory arts experience incorporates film, live music, movement and visual arts in an exploration of identity and belonging, forged in spirituality. ‘Reverberations’ comprises three segments, starting with the screening of a short by award-winning filmmaker
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As a painter and scholar, Reichelt has investigated the shifts from analogue to digital and concrete to virtual with floodlit precision. “My painting practice investigates objects that are in danger of becoming obsolete or are in different states of change. For example, past works have depicted abandoned libraries, archive spaces and objects that speak to
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Onespace is proud to announce the representation of Prita Tina Yeganeh, a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and educator of Iranian descent, based in Magandjin (Brisbane), Queensland. Growing up in India and ‘Australia,’ Prita draws from her lived experiences as a refugee and migrant-settler, blending these with practice-based research in heritage artisan crafts to share personal and
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Brunswick Street Gallery is excited to announce that entries are NOW OPEN for our 2025 Small Works Art Prize, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for artworks measuring 35x35x35cm or less. All levels of experience are welcome and all mediums accepted–including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, weaving, sculpture, ceramics and more. ALL ENTRIES EXHIBITED 5–18 JANUARY 2025
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Bronwyn Hill (b.1989) is a Brisbane based painter. Predominantly focusing on portrait and figurative work, Hill is recognized by her photo-real oil paintings that follow a narrative, exploring self-analysis and introspection that are often inspired by moments in solitude. Hill’s use of light and shadow is a recurring feature to her work along with the
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In the recent works, I have mostly moved away from the more gestural paintings of a couple of years ago and set myself the challenge of making the works tighter, more defined, and more precise and importantly, less complex. The idea is not however to search for some kind of essence. Rather, it is an
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Robert (Tommy) Pau was born in Townsville in 1967 and has cultural connections to Australian Aboriginal people, the Eastern Torres Strait islands, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islands and Asia. From a young age Tommy was taught to understand and respect the need for keeping culture strong through traditional cultural practices. His father believed passionately in
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Museum of Brisbane and UAP (Urban Art Projects) have announced a dynamic new collaboration designed to provide professional development and global networking for local Brisbane artists and creatives. With mutual roots in Brisbane and a passion for nurturing and elevating local artists and creatives, the new Museum of Brisbane x UAP partnership extends both companies’
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Exhibiting in the Lounge Gallery is Easton Dunne with their installation work, Hail Holy Queen (2023). Dunne’s Hail Holy Queen (2023) applies a queer lens to a childhood time and place where, according to the artist, they “held an acute sense of [their]own queerness and transness but had no language or agency to recognise or express this identity, in
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Something Blue is an installation by LeAnne Vincent that draws parallels between the mating patterns of the male satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) and people who use online dating. The male satin bowerbird is well known for its practice of building and decorating a bower to attract females. The bower acts as a ‘courtship arena’ during the
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The Hub Gallery at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery is a professional exhibition space dedicated to highlighting emerging and established artists. Local schools, art groups, and artists who live in or have a connection to, or whose artworks are relevant to the region can apply. The gallery accepts applications for solo and group exhibitions as well
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Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) is delighted to present Duty of Care: Part Two in partnership with Institute of Modern Art. In the art world and in wider culture, there’s a new emphasis on care, focusing on gentle attentiveness and good works, and a fear of triggering hurt. Care has become an overworked buzzword and
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Soft Pressing is an exhibition which investigates and encourages an interaction with surfaces that make up our everyday environments. Through a process pressing paper to walls, footpaths or other surfaces and then rubbing graphite or charcoal, artist Simon Degroot has used ‘frottage’ to record specific places and times. Once each surface is recorded, Degroot has returned
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Each year, the Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD) hosts a series of innovative and inspiring student-curated exhibitions and presentations featuring the next generation of creative thinkers, as they demonstrate the power and possibility of contemporary art and design. Exhibition Opening: Thursday 24 October 2024 6:00pm – 9:00pm
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