The kinetic sculptures of Ian Burns engage us in a whimsical yet profound examination of how images are constructed and consumed in our media-saturated world. The sculptures, resembling eccentric homemade computer systems, are crafted from humble materials such as cheap wood, street-found junk, department store electronics, mass-produced furniture and assorted eBay treasures. His signature approaches […]
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A soft opening preview for the body of work created to be shown in Tasmania’s Penny Contemporary gallery later this year. Continuing with CVW’s signature experimental assemblages addressing elements of process and ritual, this pop-up preview is an opportunity to see the works before they are taken to Hobart for the artist’s solo exhibition, The comfort of
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Fall in love this February with the art of watercolour with a very special workshop from Paper Hands artist, Holly Neilson. Join us at MoB after dark for a night of bubbles, brownies and beautiful art, as Holly guides you through the process of mastering the basics of working with watercolour. In this 2.5 hour
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Join Studio Maverik for a Summer Inspired Still Life Drawing Workshop — create colourful sketches in a relaxed & ambient environment Featuring unique glasswork by Lawn Bowls In this Still Life Drawing Workshop, you will be lightly guided through creating colourful sketches inspired by a Summer-themed collection of flowers, fruits & ornaments ✨ In this
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Young Portfolio is a program organized by the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K*MoPA) to support young photographers from around the world by exhibiting and acquiring their works for the museum’s collection. Anybody under the age of 35 is welcome to submit their works. We are looking for works by devoted photographers who are passionate
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The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships offer talented young artists (aged 21-35 at the closing date) the chance to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts through travelling either interstate and/or overseas. In 2024, the scholarships will provide financial support for the disciplines of acting, instrumental music, painting and poetry to help talented Australian artists achieve
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Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (ExiS) is now calling for entries from around the world for the 2024 festival, held from 18 to 25 July. ExiS was founded in 2004 by Moving Image Forum in order to screen experimental films and contemporary moving images that explore the unknown forms and territories of cinema. ExiS’ focus
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The musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is calling for applications from artists from one of the 4 continents represented in the collections (including Asia and Oceania) for the Sound Art Residency. As part of the Sound Art Residency, the museum will finance a work of sound art that may enter its permanent collection. The
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Ceramic artists are being invited from throughout Australia to investigate the beauty and sense of intimacy experienced when eating or drinking from an exquisitely crafted plate, or vessel. Do you make plates, bowls, platters, cups, mugs, jugs or tea/ coffee pots that take the dining experience to another level? We welcome contributions from ceramic artists
The UniSQ Biennial Art Award is an exciting addition to Australia’s vibrant art scene. This award will celebrate and champion contemporary Australian art, providing a platform for talented artists to showcase their work and gain recognition. With a generous prize pool of $40,000, the new award will offer a significant opportunity for artists to receive
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Like many of Hiraki Sawa’s video works, O 2009 is a subtle reflection on time and motion, travel and dislocation. Having lived between London and Japan for many years, cultural mobility has formed a key reference in Sawa’s work, with his narrative sequences often about journeys into real, subconscious or imagined worlds. In recent years, Sawa’s practice
The Lethbridge Landscape Prize returns in 2024. The award invites all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape, from conventional to the unusual, and from monumental to intricate. The definition of ‘landscape’ has been extended to include urbanscapes and interiors. All mediums are welcome, including digital and video. Image: River City Seasons Mika Nakamura-Mather (Finalist 2022)
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Set against the stunning backdrop of Gap Park, Watson’s Bay NSW, the Lumière Sculpture Festival offers a remarkable platform for artists to unleash their creativity amid this uniquelandscape. A distinguished panel of judges will select sculptures for nightly illumination, transforming Gap Park into an enchanting wonderland. We look forward to providing our audience an opportunity to
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Celebrating the legacy of John Glover, The John Glover Art Prize (Glover Prize) has become one of Australia’s most significant awards for landscape painting, open to artists from anywhere in the world. It is awarded annually by The John Glover Society Inc. for the work judged the best contemporary landscape painting of Tasmania. Landscape painting
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In ām / ammā / mā maram artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson researches her matrilineal heritage, making visible the histories of indentured Indian women that remain marginal or erased in colonial archives. A first-generation Australian and descendant of labourers sent from the port of Madras (now Chennai), India, to work on sugar plantations in the British colony
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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is calling for applications from local and international artists for their 2025 edition, to be held from 8 to 19 January 2025. The Festival focuses on contemporary, cutting-edge and socially engaged performing and live art works. They are calling for proposal that are concerned with in the world today, and how
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In this presentation, Swedish curator Maria Lind will speak about her work from Stockholm’s Tensta Konsthall to the Gwangju Biennale, and how a context-sensitive curatorial methodology took shape along the way. Lind will explore the central parts of her methodology: self-institutionalization, displacement, art-centricity, embeddedness, pervasive eclecticism, and the proximity principle. Please join us after the
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Powerhouse Parramatta and the Cité internationale des arts (Paris) are proud to announce the galang residency program 2024 supporting Australia-based First Nations creative practitioners. It offers an opportunity for two Australia-based First Nations creative practitioners to travel to Paris for a fully supported 12-week residency hosted by Cité internationale des arts. RESIDENCIES OFFERED IN 2024 3 May –
IN | ARI are looking for experimental, contemporary projects for their 2024 IN | SITE Destabilise Program. These can take the form of exhibitions, performance, installations, film screenings, participatory practice, sound works, or interdisciplinary collaborations. Have a project that doesn’t fit neatly into these categories? We want to hear from you too. IN | ARI
George Town Festival (GTF) 2024 is calling for applications from artists from any creative discipline to participate in a unique one- to three-month residency programme in George Town, Malaysia, between 15 March and 15 June 2024. The residency offers artists a dynamic and culturally vibrant environment to delve into their artistic practice, make meaningful connections
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Hoofbeats Sanctuary is a mental health charity on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The sanctuary is a safe, restorative space that brings people, animals and nature together to improve the emotional well-being of some of the most vulnerable members of our community – women and girls living with mental health challenges resulting from trauma. Equine therapy
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YUI – PORT is calling for applications from Japanese and international artists for their Artist-in-Residence programme in 2024 near Niigata City, Japan. The purpose of Artist in Residence project is to host and support artists from Japan and overseas who conduct creative activities while residing at the Niigata City Centre for Creative Arts and International
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The Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize is offered by the Fleurieu Art Foundation and is a non-acquisitive South Australian art prize open to all Australian visual artists (aged 18 years of over) who create two or three dimensional artworks. There will be two prizes awarded by the judges in 2024. The Fleurieu Art Prize is AU$20,000
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The 9th edition of the Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival is calling for applications for the festival, which will take place from 6 to 19 May 2024. In this edition, the media art festival will be organised under the theme ‘Seeing is Believing’ in collaboration with German curator Inga Seidler. In the course of advancing
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This is the fourth iteration of rightNOW, an exhibition format that expedites freshly conceived ideas and experiments straight from artists’ studios to eager new audiences at Onespace gallery. An immediate sense of contemporaneity is established by the premise that the featured works have been produced ‘right now’, and indeed, these paintings by Caroline Gasteen, Alisha
Experimental musicians and organisers Coo present a night of visceral sonic force, tinkling kinetic machines, and auditory hallucination. Join us for performances by three powerhouses of the local experimental music scene—Yvette Ofa Agapow, Ross Manning, and Mong Mong. Agapow works at the intersection of noise, ambient, and drone music, with vocal and percussion improvisation. She interrogates her personal relationship to pain, catharsis,
Megan Cope is a Quandamooka Artist from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island in South East Queensland. Her site-specific sculptural installations, public art practice and paintings investigate issues relating to colonial histories, the environment and mapping practices. Cope’s work often resists prescribed notions of Aboriginality and examine psychogeographies that challenge the grand narrative of ‘Australia’ and our
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How do archiving processes record and present certain stories? What are the legacies of these processes? Antecedent explores spaces and absences in forms of visual storytelling and record keeping. Drawing from diverse sources like European ghost stories, historic houses and colonial dictionaries, this group exhibition by early career artists Jenna Lee, Col Mac and Miranda
Join us for the first of the ‘Making of’ artist series, an in-depth talk with guest artist Taloi Havini. ‘Making of’ is a platform different artists and perspectives within the arts world, to share their early career explorations, and walk us through the opportunities and decisions significant in their journeys. WHEN: 6-7pm, Thursday 29 February
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‘Tirra lumaik’ is the movement of the north westerly Kuki wind that blows from November to March each year on Badu Island. This wind will continue to build in search of its direction—from the North, South, East and West. When Kuki finds its path, it will blow cyclonic winds and storms. Much like the swell
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As part of our multi-year research and programming arc Blue Assembly, please join us for an evening of robust discussion about Indigenous water rights. This conversation gathers creative, legal and academic voices to discuss the legal fiction of ‘mare nullius,’ and questions colonial boundaries in relation to oceans and their connected lands and waters. Join academic
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Moreton to the Mill is a celebration of place from the marine sanctuaries and vibrant shores of Moreton Bay to the Piano Mill and its surrounding nature reserve in Northern New South Wales’ Granite Belt. Buziak and Wolfe explore these treasured spaces in a new collection of cyanotypes, biochromes, and hand drawn patterns. Renata
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Dissect Arthur Jafa’s seminal work in a roundtable discussion facilitated by artist and Adjunct Curator Shannon Brett. Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016) encapsulates African American experience as a tale of resilience. Scenes of trauma, racism, grief, and routine police violence are shuffled with others of joy, defiance, and creativity, including performances by exceptional
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This professional development webinar for artists and arts workers will discuss different approaches to visitor engagement through Cultural Mediation practice. Cultural mediation is a visitor engagement practice that sees museum staff and volunteers’ journey alongside the visitor in an act of mutual exchange. In this webinar, you will learn about cultural mediation’s emergence in institutions
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I think there’s a quiet comfort to be found in the way our memories fade over time. Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to find ways to interpret and record this wonderfully strange language of inaccuracies. Writing memories down seems to solidify them too much and strip them of some of their
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A exhibition featuring works from private collections. Featured Artsits: William Robinson Charles Blackman John Brack Fred Williams Robert Klippel Rupert Bunny Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Ian Fairweather Cressida Campbell Lawrence Daws John Honeywill Hayward Veal Sam Fullbrook Garry Shead Russell Drysdale Donald Friend Jon Molvig Michael Zavros Robert Jacks Craig Medson Garry Shead Nicholas Harding
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