‘Senior Artists of the Western Deserts’ is an exhibition that celebrates the profound, vibrant artistry of Australia’s First Nations people of Australia’s Western Deserts in Central Australia. The Western Desert region, encompassing vast areas of Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory, is home to some of the most accomplished Aboriginal artists whose works […]
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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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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’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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Art Futures, Serendipity in Action is an international non-profit organisation that supports and initiates activities with an unconditional belief in the value of the arts, culture and education. Its activities aim to widen participation and engagement in the arts towards more just and sustainable societies in Europe and beyond. Together with partner Space for International
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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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This solo exhibition by Sunday Jemmott, “Diaries of a Rainbow Fish” seeks to re-contextualise the classic children’s picture book, “Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister. The simple narrative follows a uniquely rainbow scaled fish, who must share in order to be happy. However, Jemmott, guided by found imagery of fish, and text excerpts from the book,
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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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ISEA2024 sets out to explore human perception of timescales and challenge our understanding of past, present and future in the days of singularity and climate change – the Everywhen. The Everywhen is the concept of all time simultaneously present in a place and describes the notion that past, present and future are co-habiting any given location.
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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’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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Polish off your lucky betting shoes and get yourself down to tracks for a good old night of the dogs. The hounds are howling and cigarette smoke fills the air as winners chatter about their favourites in the next race and losers grab another stubbie from the bar. Jack Rodgers takes us on a nostalgic
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Melbourne artist Yandell Walton presents her latest exhibition When We Are One at Double Vision, as part of The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2024. When We Are One is an interrogation of human and plant symbiosis. Delving into the Posthuman this work aims to subvert the technology and present a more empathetic standpoint. Created with 3D models
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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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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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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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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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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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‘My work is grounded in the beauty and meaning that can be found in the everyday, in the mundane and the utilitarian, and in the unremarkable corners of home. It is an exploration of household objects and familiar surroundings and of the humour and significance of ordinary things. I am interested in the process and act
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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
Flying Arts Alliance is thrilled to announce, Fibres and Vessels, a captivating solo exhibition by emerging Indigenous artist Clare Jacque Vasquez which will run from 3 to 17 June at Judith Wright Centre. Vazquez grew up in both an urban environment in her younger years, and then on her Grandmother’s Country in north-west New South
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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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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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