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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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Fireworks Exhibitions

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FireWorks Gallery’s upcoming exhibitions Creek… River… Ocean and Soakages showcase ‘water’ as it occurs through  the diverse geographies of Australia. Soakages presents artists from the Central and Western Deserts. Upstairs, Creek…  River… Ocean focuses on Queensland artists; David Paulson returning to his classic Maleny Creek oil paintings, Joanne  Currie Nalingu investigating the river of her

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SIS: Pacific Art (1980-2023)

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Sis, susa, tuofefine, tuahine, tuafafine, sister eo an, tita, kauaemua, sista – there are many different words for ‘sister’ in the Pacific region. The exhibition ‘sis’ investigates three decades of art-making from a sisterhood of artists from across Oceania. Important figures, often largely unknown outside their homelands are highlighted, alongside established artists, to create an

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Hornsby Art Prize 2024

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Established in 2009, the Hornsby Art Prize is organised and sponsored by Hornsby Shire Council and delivered in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society. This year, the art prize has an overall prize pool value of $23,000, with the major prize $10,000. Categories include Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Digital Art Stills/Digital Photography and Sculpture. The non-acquisitive

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MONO 48

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Launching MONO for 2024 is a massive triple bill of outer orbit electronics and devolved song form. Evicshen (USA) is a sound artist, expersynthesizersc performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built

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r e a: NATIVE & Performances

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Join us for a night of celebration and performance as part of ISEA2024 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) and our current exhibition r e a: NATIVE. Alongside the official opening celebrations of r e a: NATIVE, four new projections developed through Griffith University’s Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) will be shown in the White Box Gallery. WHEN: Wednesday 26

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The Bookplate Art Project

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The Bookplate Art Project is a participatory art project designed to strengthen connections between artists, BCC libraries and the community. A selection of commissioned Brisbane artists, along with the wider creative community, will create mini-bookplate artworks inspired by stories and books. These artworks will be placed in books to be discovered by book borrowers between

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Important Australian Paintings

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A spectacular group art exhibition showcasing important Australian paintings by renowned artists: Kenneth Macqueen, Vida Lahey, Ethel Carrick Fox, Nora Heysen, Bessie Davidson, Arthur Streeton, Margaret Olley, Robert Dickerson, Cressida Campbell, Davida Allen, John Olsen, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Brett Whiteley, Fred Williams, Jeffrey Smart, William Robinson, John Coburn, Tim Storrier, Lisa Bale, Rick Amor,

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Zaachariaha Fielding: Paralpi

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Zaachariaha Fielding’s ‘gremlins’ lurk at the peripheries. They manifest in paint as playful saboteurs, but their flashy colours and impish expressions belie a darker set of universal antagonisms – doubt, fear, worry, ego. Fielding comes from a strong lineage of Anangu artists, but took up painting in earnest during the 2020 lockdowns in lieu of

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National Photographic Portrait Prize

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The National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023 (NPPP) is a touring exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery. It was established by the National Portrait Gallery in 2007 and attracts thousands of entries each year. Open to established, emerging and amateur practitioners, the NPPP celebrates Australian photographers, and the power of photographic portraiture to communicate something beyond the appearance

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Postcommodity: From Here To Another Time

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Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary art collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez (Genizaro, Manito, Xicano), and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee). Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multi-ethnic colonizing force that is

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Hoda Afshar in conversation with Isobel Parker Philip

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Join artist Hoda Afshar in conversation with curator Isobel Parker Philip on the opening weekend of Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line, 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

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Kitty Horton: LINEAGE

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Kitty Horton’s artworks often explore the materiality of oils, mixed media, ceramics and drawing as primary mediums in her visual art practice. Inspired by the American Minimalists, Kitty investigates her surroundings by creating distorted shapes, forms and motifs. Mark-making and the lucky accident extend the relationship between painting and drawing. Kitty has recently engaged with

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Bronwyn Searle: Outside In

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Bronwyn has been painting and drawing, in one form or another, all her life. Her current works reflect her passion for capturing the light and are influenced by her depth of experience in illustrative techniques. Bronwyn enjoys the challenge of taking ordinary, everyday scenes and interpreting them in her own inimitable and widely recognised style.

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Sue Beyer & Tara Pattenden: Press

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Press brings together the work of two artists, Sue Beyer and Tara Pattenden. Both artists employ digital technologies to produce physical objects that emphasise tactile, sonic and spatial experiences. These works locate technology in materiality, present as objects in the gallery. These technologies act as metaphors for networked data, while simultaneously pointing to the physicality of

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Bonnie Qin: Studies, Captured

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Studies, Captured is a solo exhibition from QCAD alumni Bonnie Qin that delves into presence and absence through paintings. Textural still lifes evoke tactile sensations, while figurative shadows on water, cropped to exclude flesh, hint at bodily presence. Using paint strokes to distort shadows, the work explores the physical and metaphorical relationship between shadows, water, and

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Artist Talks: Iris van Herpen + Megan Cope

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Join internationally acclaimed Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen and Cloé Pitiot, Curator, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris for a conversation exploring the intersection of fashion, art, design, science and technology in van Herpen’s innovative exhibition, ‘Sculpting the Senses’. This event is free and unbooked. Seating is limited, available on a first-in, first seated basis. To

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Mono 49: Matmos and Andrew Tuttle

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Creative constraint has made Matmos one of the most consistently exciting acts in electronic music. Since the mid-1990s, the American duo of M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel have created playful, conceptual productions that straddle the line between musique concrète electroacoustics and dance music. On releases for labels including Thrill Jockey, Smithsonian Folkways, and Matador, and in live performances

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Memory Selection

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Who are you without your memory? This is one of the many questions Sam is asking you in her solo exhibition, as director of Your Pals, ‘Memory Selection’. This is an immersive and interactive exhibition that takes form as an experiment. Sam, as the maker, presents you with objects that represent memories from throughout her

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Naomi McKenzie: Where We Meet

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Onespace invites you to view Naomi Mckenzie’s online exhibition, Where We Meet from the 3rd to the 28th of June, 2024. This exhibition features several of Naomi’s black and white photographs of ‘poignant reflections on childhood, parenting, and sense of place—where pictorial potential is alive in everything’. Naomi was the winner of the Emerging Artist Award in

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