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Dusk of Nations: In Conversation with Fiona Foley, Archie Moore and Keemon Williams

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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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Colina Wymarra

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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

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Miles Hall: LATENT/BLATANT

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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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Pia Murphy: Florescence

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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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Natalie Lavelle and Pippa Makgill: About Nothing

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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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Dusk of Nations

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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

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Duty of Care – Part One

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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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Judy Watson: mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri

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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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Seeds and Sovereignty

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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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Art Futures Fellowship: Greece

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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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Primavera: Young Australian Artists

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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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Unleashed

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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,

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Necessary Images: The Films of Robert Bresson

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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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Bone Drift

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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

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Vibrant Matter

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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

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As Above, So Below

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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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Sculptures in the Garden

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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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Paula Condon: Inter-Vene: Re-En-Vision

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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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Clayton Utz Art Award

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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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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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