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Adrian Charles Smith: WHERE DID THE LAST HOUR GO

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WHERE DID THE LAST HOUR GO?  features oversized facial and bodily elements, mirroring the zombie-like trance we fall into during our digital immersions. The exaggerated expressions act as visual metaphors, emphasising the desensitising effect of our digital consumption and highlighting the psychological toll of our constant engagement with algorithm-driven content. This series urges viewers to […]

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Jean Bennett: TOUCHED

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Sunshine Coast textile artist, sculptor, mixed media artist and art therapist Jean Bennett graduated with a degree in fine arts from Goldsmiths, London, and a Doctor of Practice in Arts Psychotherapy from the University of Derby, UK. Bennett invites audiences to engage with her work sensorily, through touch; enticing a sense of wonder and connectedness.

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Dawn Ng: Avalanche

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Singaporean artist Dawn Ng deals with time, memory, and the ephemeral. For Avalanche, the artist crafted pigmented blocks of ice, then filmed them slowly melting away. Shot against a blank background, the blocks could be tiny or massive—she offers us no sense of scale. Using time lapse, Ng compressed hours of real time into twenty-five minutes of screen time. But,

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Carlos Barrios: Mas Alegria

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Carlos Barrios, born in El Salvador Central America, now lives and works in Queensland. Carlos Barrios grew up exploring remnants of ancient cultures, surrounded by artifacts and art due to his father’s career as an archaeologist. Carlos Barrios began painting figures and creatures from his imagination at the age of six. However, when he was ten,

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Subverting Surface

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Artists: Jorge M Brito, Matthew Hurdle, Melissa J Harvey Subverting Surface redefines the relationship between artist, material, and viewer. Within this exhibition, paper transforms into more than a passive backdrop; it becomes the very essence of the artworks themselves. The featured artists harness the inherent qualities of the materiality of paper, allowing it to transcend

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Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

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Situated at the Larapinta Valley Town Camp at the base of Mt Gillen in Alice Springs, the Art Room of the Yarrenyty Arltere Learning Centre has quickly become one of the most dynamic forces in contemporary Australian Indigenous art. Established in 2000 as an intergenerational education and community facility, Yarrenyty Arltere was introduced as a

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Pippa Makgil: Monday Morning

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Monday morning is an abstract exploration between painting and sculpture. Objecthood and the expanded spatial quality of abstract painting bounces between the formal and sensual gauge of sight and surface. Material considerations are used to subvert the expectations related to texture, mass & scale. Vida Lahey’s painting Monday morning 1912 resonates with Kabi Kabi/Sunshine Coast based artist Pippa

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Samstag Scholarship and UniSA Jeffrey Smart Commission

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Samstag Scholarships enable Australian artists to develop their artistic capacities and skills through a dedicated period of practice-based learning in an international learning institution. The scholarship provides each artist with institutional fees for one academic year of study and a $70,000 tax free allowance and covers travel expenses to a leading international art school of their

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Sunny Art Prize 2024

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The Sunny Art Prize is calling for applications from visual artists from all over the world for their 2024 edition. The art competition is open to everyone, regardless of location or preferred medium and theme. The Sunny Art Prize has established itself as one of the UK’s most prestigious international art competitions. The scope of

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North Queensland Ceramic Awards

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The North Queensland Ceramic Awards showcases well-known and emerging artists and offers a $10,000 major acquisitive prize. Selected works will be on display at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery from 18 October 2024 to 2 February 2025 and will be eligible in various categories beyond the major City of Townsville Art Collection Award.   Image: Liz Ranger-Craven, Nature’s Goddesses 2022.

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Lincoln Austin: I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing

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Lincoln Austin’s Groundbreaking Exhibition Comes to Judith Wright Centre Prepare to embark on a sensory journey like no other as acclaimed artist Lincoln Austin presents his latest exhibition, I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing, for Flying Arts Alliance at the Judith Wright Centre in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane From Monday 13th May for two weeks only, this immersive

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Kink: Queer Australian Art

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Join  the launch of queer art history collective Kink‘s new website, the first ever free and publicly-accessible online database dedicated to showcasing the work of Australian LGBTQIA+ artists. Currently featuring over 100 artists and artworks from 1900 to now, this evolving platform seeks to represent the diversity and reach of queer Australian art in its myriad forms.

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BBA Photography Prize 2024

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The 2024 BBA Photography Prize open call has officially launched! BBA 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 such as age, gender, or background. An international jury will select 50 photographers for the longlist and 20+ for

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MADA Gallery: Curator-In-Residence

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MADA Gallery is a contemporary art space located at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. In addition to examination exhibitions by PhD candidates, MADA Gallery hosts a programme of exhibitions by artists, curators, designers, architects, and other creative practitioners. Applications are now open for a year-long curator-in-residence programme in

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Hamilton Darroch: Fairground

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Onespace is proud to present Fairground, Ham Darroch’s first solo exhibition in Brisbane. This selection of paintings and sculptures derives from the artist’s deep interest in the visual tradition of hard-edge abstraction of the 1960s and 70s, and of incorporating a phenomenological sense of dynamism within a pictorial space through geometry, tone, perspective and scale. His creative

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John Elliott: FACT or FABLE

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An unusual exhibition – a display featuring John Elliott’s visual journals, (read scrapbooks), and photography, presents a sight unprecedented. Elliott, a self-professed visual enthusiast, has harbored an insatiable appetite for images throughout his life. Years ago, his accumulation of books, magazines, photographs, and brochures inundated his life and in response, John began curating only the

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Still life

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Artists: Keith Burt, Lucy Culliton, Claudia Greathead, James Guppy, Fiona Hiscock, Drew Connor Holland, Laura Jones, Victoria Reichelt, Monica Rohan and Louise Tate. Image: Monica Rohan, Hydrangea2024, oil on board, 45.0 x 35.0 cm

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Geelong Contemporary Art Prize

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Entries are now open for the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. This signature event continues a long tradition of acquisitive award exhibitions presented by the Gallery, through which the permanent collection has grown substantially. The first painting prize—the Geelong Centenary Art Competition—was held in 1938, and in the more than 80 years since, the Gallery has awarded acquisitive

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The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

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Art that takes you places. Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries feature in the eleventh chapter of the flagship Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Bringing compelling new art to Brisbane, the Triennial is a gateway to the rapidly evolving artistic

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Moreton Bay Art Prize 2024

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The Moreton Bay Art Prize is an annual exhibition and prize that supports and celebrates our diverse local artists. Winners of the prize will share a prize pool totalling $10,000 with a non-acquisitive prize of: $5,000 for first place $3,000 for second place $1,500 for third place $500 for a People’s Choice Award. An exhibition showcasing the

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Katie Paine: Windows

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Windows explores the nature of vision and how the ways that we see the world affects our experience of time and place. This new media installation is centred around two video works that tell stories about the ways that we encounter and understand the world through the collection of information and the construction of knowledge. Paine

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Lyndal Hargrave: Wanderlust

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Lyndal Hargrave’s work is a celebration of the beauty of the natural world and the power of art to capture the essence of time and place. There is progression and impermanence across the work, mirroring moments of personal transition Hargrave herself experiences while in the studio. Her shimmering compositions inspire contemplation and introspection, allowing an

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Land Holds Memory

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Collaborative exhibitions featuring the works of six acclaimed artists will be shown in a two-part exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley and Fireworks Gallery in Bowen Hills. Curated by Nina Shadforth, Senior Curator Caloundra Regional Gallery, Land Holds Memory is a group exhibition of works that reflect on the experiences of walking, listening, and creating in

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