The call for submissions is open for the 18th Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF). Submissions are available for two weeks, from 24 June to 7 July 2024. The guidelines below provide more details. The 18th edition of the BIVAF will be held from 5 to 27 October 2024. Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF) […]
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Join us for our first Portrait of an artist event for 2024, featuring internationally acclaimed contemporary artist D Harding in conversation with Cheryl Leavy. D Harding works in a wide variety of media to explore the visual and social languages of their communities as cultural continuum. A descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples,
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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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Join Platform artist Miguel Aquilizan for a free-form sculpture workshop. Learn about the art of assemblage as he shares his personal creative process, philosophies on sculpture making, and tips and techniques. As a sculptor, Aquilizan is intuitive in his inquiry, improvisational in his approach, and inventive in his use of diverse materials. He attributes part of his love of
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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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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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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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This exhibition is the culmination of painting and sculptural works by Meanjin based artist Tim Wilson from the last 8 months. The works explore various themes surrounding the power dynamic created by institutions. OPENING NIGHT EVENT: Friday 12 April 5pm-10pm ARTIST TALK: Saturday 13 April 2pm GALLERY HOURS: 13-17 April 8am-3pm
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Established in 2001, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is Australia’s pre-eminent award for small sculpture presented by Woollahra Council. The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize attracts strong support from artists, collectors and critics and is the first national acquisitive prize for an original, freestanding sculpture of up to 80cm in any dimension. The main award each year
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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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This is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of contemporary photographic portraiture with an in-depth look at Shea’s personal practice, sharing his passion as you are guided through the steps to create a portrait. Focusing on the slow and intentional process inherent to large format photography, learn about what is involved –
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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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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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Join Lisa Reihana and Mykaela Saunders, in conversation with Ellen Van Neerven, as they discuss their practices of storytelling around Indigenous histories and futures connected to the Great Ocean. In her film GROUNDLOOP, Lisa Reihana imagines a future where the ocean is a superhighway – an everyday connector between Indigenous voyagers from Aotearoa New Zealand
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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
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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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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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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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’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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Daniel Clifford is based in Meanjin/Brisbane, whose work explores themes of playful imperfection, materiality and the tragicomic. Through his process, he embraces the chaos and impermanence found in both nature and human existence. Clifford’s work is a reflection of his fascination with exploring the unknown and the uncertain, as well as finding beauty and meaning
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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
The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. Internationality and networking make YICCA a huge opportunity for the artists, which can: • Win a cash prize: – Euro 3000,00 money prize to the first selected – Euro 1000,00 money prize to the second
artisan is announcing the selected artists for our new Artisan Residency Program, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. These residencies have been developed by artisan to elevate careers and offer opportunities for emerging and established artisans to expand their practice create new works and engage with new communities. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Arts Queensland for
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The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper (NWOP) was established in 1998 and incorporated the former Spring Festival of Drawing and Prints Acquisitive which began in 1973 and 1974. With a long and rich history, NWOP attracts leading contemporary artists from across Australia working in the fields of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.
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Experimenta is Australia’s leading organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting and touring contemporary art driven by ideas and shaped by technology. We are seeking Expressions of Interest for media artworks by Australian artists for the touring exhibition Experimenta Emergence (2025-2027). About the commission Our commissions provide a significant opportunity for Australian artists to undertake professional and creative development, with financial and in-kind support from Experimenta, in order to realise
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Radiate is a survey exhibition of the past 20+ years of practice for internationally acclaimed artist Donna Marcus. In this exhibition, Marcus threads familial connection with conceptual and historical underpinnings from marine salvaging in the early 1900s to themes of memory, minimalism, and geometry. A once long-term resident of the Gold Coast Hinterland, Marcus is
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BBA Prizes has launched a new open call for international artists and photographers. Any medium, no restrictions for themes or experience. The opportunity to be featured in an online exhibition this May 2024. Join our growing online community focused on giving a platform for your emerging or mid-level careers. Enter now on our website.
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Colour is desire (Amy Silman). Colour is a power which directly influences the soul (Kandinsky). Colour is an industrial process. Colour is a commodity. We ‘learn’ colour but do not necessarily understand it (Derek Jarman). Colour places practice before theory (Josef Albers). Colour is the first piece of magic Dorothy encounters in Oz (over the
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Set during the 2022 Meanjin Floods, In the Mudline uses digital artmaking to reflect on feelings of agentive paralysis in contemporary society, caught between virtual spectacle and looming catastrophe. While urgent challenges such as climate change demand attention, Lobwein highlights the societal immersion into virtual-digital realms as a complicit factor. Lobwein contemplates the paradox of art-making with
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Lewis Miller (b. 1959, Melbourne) is a celebrated figurative and still life painter. Painting from life; the close observation of Miller’s subjects is revealed through bold linework, vivid colour and expressive brushstrokes. Miller trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he also completed his post graduate studies. One of Australia’s leading portrait painters,
‘I wanna be rich’ features episodes from 2 bodies of work: a suite of reconstructed Glomesh and faux-mesh sculptures from the Postcard series and oil on linen works called Immediacy Paintings. The title is a tongue-in-mouth-cheek fantasy amidst the reality that visual artists are almost always broke. ‘I wanna be rich’ is also coined from
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A group exhibition featuring art from: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Debra Wurrkidj, Paddy Bedford, Nyilyari Tjapangati, Samuel Namunjdja, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Patrick Tjungurrayi, Ivan Namirrkki, Angelina Pwerle, Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula, Burrunday, Old Walter Tjampitjinpa, Makinti Napanangka, Wingu Tingima, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, Billy Benn, Sylvia Kanytjupai Ken, Wawiriya Burton, Yirawala, Paddy Jaminji Jampin, Hector Jandany, Timothy Cook, Carbiene
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China Shanghai International Arts Festival is calling for artists from across the world, 45 years old and under, to apply for the Rising Artists’ Works programme (R.A.W.!). The call is for professional young artists, amateur young artists, and curators and both individuals and teams can apply. Established in 2012, R.A.W.! is a leading artwork incubation
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Sally M. Nangala Mulda lives at Abbott’s Town Camp, near the riverbed of the Todd River in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Born in Titjikala, 130 km south of Mparntwe, she went to school in Amoonguna. Her childhood wasn’t stable because she had difficulties with her vision and lost the use of her left arm due to
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Celebrate the opening of our three new exhibitions, It Is Not a Place, Platform, and The Magnificent Levitation Act of Lauren O. At 3pm, hear artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby in conversation with Imelda Miller (Curator, Torres Strait Islander and Pacific Indigenous Studies, Queensland Museum) as they discuss the Australian South Sea Islander artist’s new exhibition It Is Not a Place. Afterwards, join us for opening celebrations
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