In Solo Uno, Claudia Mazzotta encapsulates a year-long journey of introspection, blending various artistic mediums such as drawing, painting, and photography, all delicately interwoven with the timeless motif of the flower. Each piece within this exhibition represents a nuanced reflection on a cherished childhood memory rooted in the simple yet profound act of retrieving a single flower […]
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My landscapes respond to place and at times express an emotional rather than literal connection. It is my escape, by using colour and energy I create calm. Colour choice comes instinctively. I have as many colours out and mixed as physically possible on my oversized painter’s table, the process after that is automatic – based
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SECCA invites artists from across Australia to submit entries for the 2024 SHNPA. Winner receives $50,000 prize money. The Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award is one of Australia’s most loved and richest prizes for realistic portraiture. The $50,000 biennial award is non-acquisitive and attracts hundreds of entries from many of Australia’s most respected artists. The
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Platform—our new annual exhibition series—will showcase new work by emerging artists under forty, who were born, live, or lived in Queensland, and who have not yet had a major solo exhibition in a public gallery. In 2024, we present new works by Miguel Aquilizan, Mia Boe, and Sarah Poulgrain. Sculptor Miguel Aquilizan is intuitive in his inquiry, improvisational
Sea-Skins refuses and overwrites Hong Kong’s colonial narrative by tracing the places where sea meets land. These coastlines and borders have been artificially altered—dumping soil onto seas, used as bargaining pieces, neglected when inconvenient and heavily surveilled by land colonisers (british and chinese). Seasalt is a gift between sea and land for Hong Kongers. Natalie
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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. What we want is to answer a fundamental question in the current artistic context: what does painting mean today? At the base of
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We invite you to submit your work to the 22nd DongGang International Photo Festival, to be held this year from July 12th to September 29th, 2024 in Yeongwol, Gangwon State, Korea.This year’s theme; Silently Loud From nature’s perspective, humanity itself is a form of hell. That is because of the tendency of humans to objectify
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Passepartout Photo Prize aims to support the development of talented photographers from all over the world by awarding 1,000 euros in monetary prizes every year, organizing exhibition in a fine art gallery in the heart of Rome, publication in our partners’ magazines, and providing other opportunities for international exposure. What makes our contest unique is
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May’s Art after dark special edition presents Wish you were here artist Kellie O’Dempsey. Kellie will bring the fun as she runs an “exquisite corpse” game at Redcliffe Art Gallery. Invented in Paris by the Surrealists in 1925, exquisite corpse is a collective parlour game of chance where each player conceals their contribution before passing the artwork along to the
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Make a date with your creativity when artist Gillian Mercer joins us for another Crafty Party this May. Step into the vibrant world of assemblage with Gillian Mercer, an artist who creates tiny gardens out of upcycled materials. In this 2.5 hour workshop you will learn how to make a beautiful bouquet of everlasting tin
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Angela Su’s documentary-style, speculative-fiction video The Magnificent Levitation Act of Lauren O (2022) addresses levitation as a politically subversive act. It tells the story of the artist’s alter-ego Lauren O—an enigmatic figure who believed she could levitate—and her involvement with Laden Raven, a group of anarchist circus performers. Beginning with archival film clips of gravity defiers—from balloonists to
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“Nature. Culture. Natural culture, cultural nature. An aging dialectic. A story in the round. The bare boughs of an ancient Linden tree wait, against the sky. Trees in forests will be cut. The timber moved on. The City of Venice is held, supported, by poles, piles, that were once Alder trees. Alnus glutinosa, a short lived tree. Those under Venice,
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Onespace invites you to the opening of mouth open, mouth closed, Stella Haycock’s first solo exhibition as an early career artist. Her conceptual installation will extend on her ideas surrounding abstraction and manipulation of alphabetic forms. Through printmaking, painting, and installation she questions the conventions of reading and writing and highlights the potential for depicting
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This May across Galleries 1, 2 and 3 we are presenting A Landscape is Something You Look Through, an exhibition that considers contemporary approaches to land, cultural practice and landscape in relation to the late works of Ian Burn. Artists include Robert Andrew, Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman, Ian Burn, Ruha Fifita, D Harding, Queenie McKenzie, Tom Nicholson, Jody
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The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. The sitter must also have a connection with Brisbane. All entrants will be eligible for the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Award which is supported
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‘Fountain’ is a new series of works that further my exploration of colour and looping tubular forms across metal surfaces. These oscillating, orbiting trajectories have a relationship to the pathways of celestial bodies, tracing out gravitationally dictated pathways across the universe. The reduction of palette within individual works explores gentler and subtler shifts in light
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An art exhibition by Ray Coffey. Reflecting on his childhood growing up in the UK, Ray Coffey examines the glorification and vilification of male aggression. Juxtaposing hooligans in the guise of hero’s and rejecting societal forms of acceptable violence.
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As part of UQ Art Museum’s multi-year research and programming arc Blue Assembly, please join us for the final in person session of The Word for World is Ocean reading circle led by Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris. The final in-person gathering will launch Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris’s new book The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water (Routledge, 2024) which challenges conventional notions of the Anthropocene, instead championing
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The Farm Margaret River is a working rural property and a mecca for artistic practice, dedicated to exploring our connection to land through art. Each year, local, national and international artists and collaborators are invited to an ever-changing, ancient piece of land to create site-specific artwork informed by this unique place. The artist’s contributions continue
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The prestigious Stanthorpe Art Prize is back, and it’s time to showcase your talent to the world. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a budding newcomer, this is your chance to shine on the artistic stage. We are thrilled to announce that submissions are now open for this renowned competition. Entries close Friday 31 May
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Applications are now open for SAM’s Artist Community & Education; and Curatorial & Research residencies. The studio-based residencies will take place within a period of one to six months. We welcome applicants from around the world and across all mediums and disciplines. Cycle 3, which will take place from April 2025 – September 2026, focuses
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Brisbane Street Art Festival is back with its annual exhibition, ‘Within These Walls’, and we are looking for passionate artists to take part in a group showcase of works by local, interstate and international artists. ‘Within These Walls’ celebrates all works from paintings to sculptures to photographs – and we embrace creativity and artistic innovation.
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Forecast has announced the six new mentors and its call for project ideas for the ninth edition of Forecast Mentorships. Artistic practitioners and cultural producers working in all creative fields, anywhere in the world, are encouraged to apply to Forecast’s international mentorship program with projects that could benefit from the expertise of one of this
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Artists from across Australia are invited to submit entries for the 2024 JADA. Grafton Regional Gallery is pleased to announce that entries are open for the 2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA), artists from across Australia aged over 18 are invited to submit entries until midnight 30 June 2024. The JADA is Australia’s richest regional drawing award.
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The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2024 artist grants. We are offering $3,500 and $1,000 grants to artists & photographers around the world. For this open call, we will be providing 6 grants totaling $11,000 USD. 2 artists will each receive $3,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. This is
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An online workshop series with Cut X paste’s Emma Anna @emma_anna_chatter exploring collage and colour. Join Emma for a 2-hour Zoom session kicking off at 9AM Brisbane time (we recommend checking https://www.timeanddate.com for time conversions if you’re joining from elsewhere). Celebrate the start of the weekend with this relaxing collage session, perfect for beginners and advanced cutters
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The Doyles is held annually in the historical village of Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The exhibition will run from the 27th June 2024 until 7th July 2024. Entries open 1 March and close 24 May 2024. The Doyles is a prestigious event on a nationally competitive art calendar. With a first prize of
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As a contemporary art space championing creative practices that demonstrate exceptional skill and craftsmanship, we pride ourselves on showcasing some of Australia’s most exciting emerging and established artists and craftspeople. Located in the heart of Fitzroy–one of Melbourne’s most creative suburbs–Brunswick Street Gallery has multiple exhibition spaces and two dedicated stockrooms. We have a large
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The Fondation Fiminco is launching a call for applications for international visual artists for a 11-month creative and production residency in Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis). The call for applications is open until midnight on the 15th of April 2024. The Fondation Fiminco artist residency will last 11 months, from September 2024 to July 2025. WHO
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Idris Murphy returns to Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley with an exhibition of paintings that capture the essence of the Australian landscape. Sydney based artist Idris Murphy has been at the forefront of Australian landscape painting for over four decades. His artwork is characterized by a deep engagement with the Australian environment, filtered through a
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The 2024 BBA Photography Prize open call is searching for the best photographic talent from all around the world. Open to any theme or medium, the competition spotlights emerging photographers without restrictions on age, gender, or background. An international jury will select 50 photographers for the longlist and 20+ for the shortlist. Simply enter and
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Arte Laguna Prize 19, Contemporary Art Contest based in Venice, is open to artists and designers from all around the world. There are no restrictions of age, gender, nationality and artistic background, and the theme is free. The techniques admitted are: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and short films, performances and acting
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We are thrilled to announce the return of the prestigious Brisbane Rotary Art Show, extending its artistic reach and vibrant offerings in 2024. Mark your calendars for a journey of creative exploration, as the Show unfolds for two weeks, from July 15th to 26th, 2024, at the esteemed Queen Plaza One in the heart of Brisbane CBD. For those unable
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The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize open to all artists and art forms. We celebrate our chosen artists across our media, exhibiting their art online where it is viewed by artists and collectors in the United States and throughout the world. Homiens sponsors a platform for artists to network and collaborate,
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After 35 years of providing tertiary student grants, the Foundation believes there is a need to provide a broader support for artists throughout the community. We now welcome applications from any artist who is an Australian resident, and who fulfils our selection criteria regarding the skills and aesthetic principles that we seek to encourage. In
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Join Tori-Jay Mordey at this beginner-friendly portrait workshop. Tori-Jay is a First Nations artist and illustrator. Her portraits are created using various mediums including digital illustrations and drawings, printmaking and mural painting. Tori-Jay will show her process of marking out faces and developing a portrait. Participants will practise using these techniques before diving into timed life drawings.
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