Everything humans construct must pass. Some simply rust and disintegrate over years. Some are destroyed and quickly replaced. Others are only ever temporary. The subject matter of most of my paintings no longer exist, so it does not matter if they are not a true representation of a particular place at a particular time. All […]
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Robert Mercer was born in Northern Ireland and immigrated with his family to Melbourne, Australia. His art practice has centred on video, photo-media and installation, the position of contemporary art in post-modern societies, and the relevance of art practices in cross cultural communications. Research into the role of autobiography in contemporary art has led to
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Join Curator Kyle Weise in conversation with Dusk of Nations artists Fiona Foley, Archie Moore and Keemon Williams. Dusk of Nations features selected works by leading Australian-based artists drawn primarily from the UQ Collection. Spanning painting, photography, sculptural objects and moving image, artists explore ideas of national identity and nationhood, and how these concepts are defended and maintained,
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Acclaimed Remote Artist Award winner, Colina Wymarra, will unveil two highly anticipated solo exhibitions at two locations across Brisbane this September. Bloodlines at Judith Wright Art Centre from 6th to 20th September, offers a profound exploration of Wymarra’s cultural identity, delving into her rich heritage as both a Gudang/Yadhaykenu Woman from Cape York and a
In partnership with New England Regional Art Museum, we are so excited to announce the Brisbane iteration of Jessica Nothdurft — ‘Freeze Fawn’ opening at Side Gallery on Thursday, 22 August! Join us for opening drinks from 6 — 8 pm at Side Gallery, 7 Emma Street, Red Hill. The exhibition continues until Friday, August
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Learn how to observe and engage with nature in a different way and join me for an introductory one-day workshop. Understand the benefits of connecting with nature, the key elements of being a naturalist and learn more about the environment around you. Try nature journaling with the use of a visual art diary, creating sketches,
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Jon Cattapan is an extensively exhibited visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He first began exhibiting in 1979 and his works deal primarily with ways of representing urban topographies and narratives. He is known for panoramic layered city vistas and figurative groupings and has a long held preoccupation for the way human
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Via a direct approach to mark making and a refined choice of materials, Hall’s recent paintings celebrate line, colour and surface, and in doing so question our tactile relationship to the painted image. Visual tensions between chaos/order, organic/geometric, sumptuousness/raw, sight/touch, colour/black & white are exploited by the artist to generate arresting works rich in sensuality
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A mesmerising display of photography spanning 1890 to 2024. With the power to freeze and preserve time, photography has captured imaginations for centuries. This August, step into New Light: Photography Now + Then, an exhibition where past and present converge in a mesmerising display of photography spanning 1890 to 2024. Immerse yourself in the remarkable tale
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Kitchen Studio is a place where sculpture, food and ideas are interchangeable and digestible. The rules of hospitality will be broken, and nourishment redefined. During the day, Kitchen Studio opens its doors to those who are curious to explore the sculptural dining room. And when the sun sets, the exhibition plays host to a provocative sensory journey for
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Florescence, shapes that form and the compositions that bloom. Always leaning into curiosity and finding my way as I go, I follow what surprises and excites me. Layers of colour & texture; droplets, flowers, stems, bulbs and blocks. ‘Murphy’s paintings aren’t formed by sketches or miniatures, there’s no guidelines. They are rendered straight onto the
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Join us for an evening with Artistic Director of the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Hoor Al Qasimi. Accompanied by artist Richard Bell and GUAM Director Angela Goddard, Al Qasimi will introduce her curatorial practice and discuss the themes and frameworks for the 25th Biennale of Sydney, scheduled to open in 2026. About: Hoor Al Qasimi is
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About Nothing brings together the practices of Natalie Lavelle and Pippa Makgill. In this exhibition, Natalie’s assertive and vast canvases alongside Pippa’s precarious structures attempt to represent the formless or the presence of ‘nothing’. Sitting on this threshold of almost nothing offers grounds of possibilities and prompts a kind of self-awareness in the here and
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Join local textile artist Emily McGuire in this drop-in workshop. Participants will create a woven artwork using second-hand textiles and fabric offcuts. Select your favourite artwork from works in our collection, then create a weaving that responds to the shapes, colours, and features of the work. This program is suitable for all ages, but little
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Australia’s most diverse art prize for emerging contemporary artists, the churchie emerging art prize (‘the churchie’), has officially opened entries for 2024. This national prize, invites early-career artists to enter for a chance to exhibit and be considered for awards totalling an over $40,000 prize pool. Entries are open to all emerging Australian artists over 18, regardless
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Dusk of Nations features selected works by leading Australian-based artists drawn primarily from the UQ Collection. Spanning painting, photography, sculptural objects and moving image, artists explore ideas of national identity and nationhood, and how these concepts are defended and maintained, resisted and subverted. Critical hinges of ‘Australian’ national mythology, including the outback, the national flag, a
Presenting a selection of never before seen artworks, photographic portraits and a newly commissioned documentary film in recognition of Aboriginal people that have contributed to recording and maintaining history and culture. These artworks and objects reveal stories of individuals who saw a need to document what was around them through times of enormous change. The
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In the art world, there’s a new emphasis on care, with a focus on gentle attentiveness and good works, and a fear of triggering hurt. In curatorial practice—and in culture more broadly—‘care’ has become a buzzword, and is being used to reset policy and practice. However, too often, the complexity and troublesomeness of care are
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For more than four decades, Judy Watson has created powerful, ethereal works of art channelling the stories of her family’s Waanyi Country in north-west Queensland. ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’ is a comprehensive survey of the renowned Queensland artist’s incisive meditations on colonial, social and ecological concerns. It is her most extensive solo exhibition
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Over countless generations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people developed an intricate understanding of their Country’s unique environments and ideal ecological balance. Intertwined with cultural knowledge and ceremonial practice, this insight is embedded into societal systems, wherein totemic relationships of responsibility to flora and fauna ensure ongoing land management and sustainability. Native plants provide nourishment,
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The first major solo exhibition by one of Australia’s most innovative and unflinching photomedia artists Through her photographs and moving image works, Iranian-born, Melbourne-based Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image-making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her work can be seen as a form of activism as much as an artistic inquiry. Afshar uses the
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Art Futures is calling for applications from performing artists for the Art Futures Fellowship 2025. The Fellowship includes a two-month residency at Space for International Cooperation [SIC] in Athens, Greece from mid-February to mid-April 2025. The Fellowship prioritises proposals with a clear view on how the fellowship, including the residency period, is embedded in the
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Jason Phu’s brand-new installation is a reimagining of his 2022 artwork everyone is dead, except for me. everything is futile, and i am tired. i wait in my little house, for the winter to take me. Originally commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne as part of the Macfarlane Commissions, this extraordinary example
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual Primavera: Young Australian Artists exhibition showcases the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. In its 32nd year, Primavera has been guest curated by Talia Smith, who considers what artists are creating to challenge society’s prescribed structures. Through works of various media, including installation, video, painting, sculpture, mark-making and text,
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Artists: Alicia Allan, Ash and Kirralee Robinson, Anita Wano-Sumner, Aurora Elwell, Bunda Art, EB Jewellery, Julya Hegarty, Rick Hayward. Celebrating Queensland’s rising craft & design practitioners. artisan is thrilled to present the 2024 edition of our long-standing Unleashed exhibition, shining a spotlight on the next generation of Queensland’s most promising craft and design talent. For over two decades,
Robert Bresson (1901–1999) is one of the monumental figures of French cinema. Over an iconoclastic career spanning six decades, he embraced poetic asceticism in his pursuit of a new kind of truth in filmmaking. This program presents a rare comprehensive retrospective of Bresson’s films, from his early comedy short Public Affairs 1934 to his haunting final treatise L’Argent 1983.
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The Machinery St Gallery space will show evolving exhibit outcomes from a series of workshops conducted for the ISEA2024, disability and artisan communities – these outcomes promise to generate a fascinating installation at the intersection of art and science that explores concepts around disability identity. Image: Habitation, 2021, Helen Pynor. Unglazed bone china (made from the
Bringing together works from the UQ Collection and beyond, this exhibition is attentive to the agency of materials and to the vibrancy of matter. The artists included in Vibrant Matter have co-produced their work with material components of drawing, sculpture, and sound art. Welcoming the active participation of these more-than-human materials and beings as co-creators, the works
The term ‘as above, so below’ has its origins in an ancient, cryptic text known as the Emerald Tablet. Drawn from a Latin interpretation and adopted by a number of different belief systems, the phrase is commonly used to describe the idea that the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm and vice versa. It can be interpreted
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The Evelyn Chapman Art Award is a $50,000 scholarship is presented to an Australian painter, male or female under 45. The Award, given every two years, is intended to support a young Australian painter by furthering their art education both in knowledge and artistic practice internationally or in Australia. The scholarship will cover the reasonable
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Sculptures in the Garden will return in 2024 as one of the largest sculpture exhibitions in rural NSW. This year marks the 14th annual Sculptures in the Garden event, and we are eager to continue providing artists with a platform to exhibit their stunning works alongside both local and interstate artists. Participating artist will also
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This June we are opening a selected survey of Gordon Bennett’s work. Divided Unity tracks the development of Bennett’s exploration of self and other through various periods of his practice from 1991 – 2012. It is presented on the tenth anniversary of his passing to commemorate his life and work. The exhibition includes a selection
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Sunshine Coast based artist Peter Hudson presents a body of en-plein air paintings in his new exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from July 23. Peter Hudson is a landscape and portrait painter, and accomplished musician who draws largely on contemporary Australian history for inspiration in his practice. Regular painting trips and sketching
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Inter-Vene: Re-En-Vision is an anarchival assemblage and installation by current Queensland Art and Design student Paula Condon. Everyday objects and materials are recontextualised and embedded within the architecture of the site, fracturing and reframing the space. Informed by a critique of archival logics, these material explorations seek to reveal and inform different ways of seeing and
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Open to Queensland-based artists or artists with a strong connection to the state, the Clayton Utz Art Award offers a $20,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists. Over the last decade we’ve attracted some of Queensland’s finest talent, a cross-section of cutting-edge artists working in a wide variety of art forms united by
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“Standing in a foreign desert under a vast night sky, the stars seem foreign too. When the moon rises, it is upside down. Why does consciousness insist on the consistency of being? Astronomers tell us the earth and the moon and the sun are all spinning through space at incredible speeds. Yet the evening is
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