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Fred Williams: Paintings of the North-West

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Fred Williams (1927–1982) was a painter and printmaker whose distinctive vision of the Australian landscape fundamentally altered the way the Australian continent is viewed and depicted. One of Australia’s most eminent and influential landscape artists, Williams’ work can be seen as a modernist reinterpretation of the Heidelberg tradition, representing the most significant development in Australian […]

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KINGS ARI – Exhibition Proposals

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KINGS presents critical and experimental projects from emerging and mid-career artists. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations artists, artists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, Deaf and disabled artists and LGBTQIA+ artists. KINGS seeks to support a broad range of projects and approaches to contemporary art practice. We particularly value projects that are research-based,

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Approaching First Nations Collaborations with Darren Blackman

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Gureng Gureng/Gangulu man, Darren Blackman has spent over 20years working in remote and regional Queensland from, the Western Qld, the Gulf Country, Cape York and the Torres Strait. In this webinar, he’ll share his lived and learned experiences, engaging with diverse people and cultures. Participants will learn about: Common protocols & practices. The uniqueness of

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Dobell Drawing Prize #24

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The biennial Dobell Drawing Prize is Australia’s leading prize for drawing, an unparalleled celebration of technique, innovation and expanded drawing practices. The $30,000 acquisitive prize is presented by the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art practice. The winning work will enter

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Tectonic Noise

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Join us for a night of tectonic noise, as we welcome a collaboration between Dean Ansell & Connor Andree-Evarts in sonic response to Hannah Hallam-Eames’ exhibition, ‘Time Tunnels‘. The exhibition invites seismic speculations across millions of years and Earthly evolutions. It’s been formed across continents, glaciers and volcanos, Hallam-Eames’ ongoing research into unstable terrain and into

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Flow

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Flow is a site-specific immersive installation that beckons the audience to explore the depths of shared human emotion through the metaphorical lens of water. The interactive artwork uses projection-mapped generative animation, electronic modular sound and a custom audiovisual sensory system to invite participation. The public can generate and experiment with sound collaboratively and drive animation with

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Queer Here

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This important showcase is the result of a partnership between QCAD Galleries, QCAD and the Brisbane Pride Festival. The selected works, spanning diverse media, explore queerness in both direct and subtle ways. From family and community to humour, identity, migration, feminism, and gender expression, these artists engage with the themes central to LGBTQIA+ experience.

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International Australian Studies Association: Biennial Conference

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Macquarie University is calling for proposals for individual papers, panels, or roundtables for plenary sessions, for the biennial conference of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA), 5–7 February 2025 in Sydney, Australia. The theme for the conference is ‘Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds’. It aims to foster interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogues on

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Teen Zines Workshop

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Calling all crafty teens! Join us for an exciting and creative workshop where you can learn the art of zine-making from artist, Izzy Heaton. What to expect: Tour of New Light: Start with an inspiring tour of the New Light: Photography Now + Then exhibit, guided by Izzy Heaton. Discover the stories behind the art and gain insight into

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MMCA Residency Programme

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MMCA Residency run by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), is calling for applications from artists and researchers working in diverse artistic disciplines and conducting professional research projects for the International Artist/Researcher Residency Programme 2025. The residency takes place in Seoul, Korea, for a period of 10 weeks. The programmes will

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Hiromi Tango: Crafty Party

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Weave some magic into your Thursday evening. Inspired by her remarkable residency, 花弁 Hanabira (Gentle Petal) join artist Hiromi Tango for a very special Crafty Party that celebrates healing and joy. For one night only, we welcome you into the exuberant world of Hiromi Tango, a vibrant celebration of colour and sculptural form. During this special workshop,

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Sage Arts: Alchemy

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‘Alchemy’ is an exhibition conceived of and curated by Isabelle Cowan and Ella Senbruns. 8 artists collaborate in pairs to respond to the theme of Alchemy. Individually they will produce an artwork that will be displayed next to their collaborators work. The pairings will feature one jeweller/small object maker and one 2D artist. The aim

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Sally Anderson: Holding a Hurricane and the Household

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A love of process and insatiable curiosity for life’s contradictions are the hallmarks of Sally Anderson’s painterly style. Abstracted and instinctual, her compositions are intangible landscapes of vaguely constructivist forms, reactionary mark-making and opaque references to past experiences. Comprised of layers, both physical and metaphorical, they catalogue a practice of meditation and technical application that

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Everywhere, there is bread and oil. We can salt the water

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Join us for the showcase exhibition of our current International Artist in Residence, Florence Rosalie (Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Canada). In “Everywhere, there is bread and oil. We can salt the water.”, Florence’s poetry-led practice steps into Friendship as a liminal space, sacred in nature, where community is built. Between the words and the cyanotype process she explores

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Innovate Grants

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Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. We’ve simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and our application reflects that. Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions

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Outer Space 2025 Callout

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Outer Space is contemporary arts organisation that collaborates with emerging, early and mid-career artists and arts workers to present critically engaged, experimental practices in a supportive, professional environment. Since it was founded in 2016, Outer Space has fast become a leading platform in the australian visual arts sector, providing a range of opportunities and resources

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Min-woo Bang: Silent Nature

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An exhibition of paintings where the canvas becomes a mirror to the artists innermost feelings is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane from 2nd July 2024. Min Woo Bang’s paintings are both ethereal and mesmerising, where his primary subject matter is the allure of our natural surroundings and the ephemeral beauty of our skies.

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Jarrod van der Ryken: The Garden of Forking Paths

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Experience a journey of queer desire with the garden of forking paths, an immersive experience merging art, technology and nature. Explore the overlap of historical cruising grounds and city reserves in a slow cinematic descent from satellite imagery to a digitally rendered treetop in a virtual night. Multi-channel soundscapes entice and provoke as you engage with and

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The World Press Photo 2024

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The World Press Photo Foundation is a global platform connecting photojournalists, documentary photographers and our worldwide audiences through trustworthy storytelling. World Press Photo was founded in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized a contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to an international audience. Since then, the World Press Photo Contest has

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Moreton Bay Art Prize Awards Night

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The Moreton Bay Art Prize brings together artists from the region through an annual exhibition and prize that supports and celebrates diverse artistic practice in the City of Moreton Bay. Shortlisted Artists Joanne Braddy, Aaron Butt, Kirsten Button, Glenys Cadman, Lisa Christensen, Jamie Congdon, Bill Cotching, Leanne Margaret Day, DELTAVENUS, Sylviane Demandolx, Bronwyn Doherty, Lauren

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Erik Johansson: How To Fly

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Erik Johansson, based in Prague, Czech Republic, is celebrated for his surreal style, blending hundreds of photographic elements to create seemingly realistic yet impossible scenes. His work challenges the boundaries between reality and fiction, offering a unique and captivating experience.Growing up in the Swedish countryside has deeply influenced Johansson’s visual style, with many of his works featuring

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ARTICULATION: Language, Object, Space

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A design exhibition that unravels the intricate relationship between language and its profound influence on cultural and social dimensions through objects and space. Using the three Greek concepts relating to words – ‘Logos,’ the uttered word; ‘Graphe,’ the written or codified word; and ‘Rhema,’ the revelatory word, the designers and artists investigate these connections through

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Making of Tony Albert

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Join us for a night of story and insight for the second guest in our ‘Making of’ series; prolific artist Tony Albert ⁠ In this session, Tony will share insights about his early career explorations, and walk us through the opportunities and decisions significant in his artistic journey that has led him his recent work

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Queer Here 2024

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Queer Here is returning for 2024 and are looking for creatives to submit work! In partnership with Brisbane Pride Inc., the exhibition celebrates the talents, vision and experiences of queer artists from Brisbane/Meanjin. The exhibition is open to students, alumni and staff of Griffith University but also to the wider community.   What you need

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Dustin Voggenreiter: PANOPTICON

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Panopticon is a series of digitally animated GIFs, displayed on large LCD screens, partially concealed by prison-cell window frames. Dustin Voggenreiter’s work explores the idea of our limited capacity to understand the world around us. As creatures born with perceptions geared towards survival, we grasp at making sense of the complex, chaotic reality we inhabit.   From

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ATTACHMENT: A new public art installation by Paula Dunlop

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Paula Dunlop’s Attachment is a permanent public artwork for Metro Arts and the West Village precinct, located  on the Factory Lane brick wall, just outside of Metro Arts. Thousands of reflective glass beads — painstakingly arranged one-at-a-time into panels that take their shape from the seep and flow of moisture through the surrounding built environment— are inlayed

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Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm

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Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm invites visitors into the spectral spaces where AI, health data, and artistic and scientific research converge, interrogating the porous boundaries where data ownership and algorithmic agency bleed into the realities of healthcare and wellness industries. This immersive, multi-sensory installation is born from six months of cross-disciplinary research in Austria with

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Kirralee Robinson: ELSEWHERE

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A sculptural exhibition of light, optics and found objects, where materiality meets daydream. Based in Ipswich, Kirralee makes sculptures that engage with elemental phenomena such as light, optics, kinetics, and tactility. Kirralee is influenced by science fiction, ecofeminist theory and material conservation, Kirralee works intrinsically and explicitly exploring concepts and methodologies relating to material waste.

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Artist in Residence: Hiromi Tango

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Japanese-Australian multidisciplinary artist Hiromi Tango will start a six-month residency from 2 March 2024 where the contemporary creative will transform Museum of Brisbane’s Adelaide Street Pavilion into a sculptural arrangement of vibrant flowers through the 花弁 Hanabira (Gentle Petal) public installation. As the community-led project begins to blossom, Hiromi invites residents and visitors to create

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