Join us in the Outer Space Main Gallery for an artist talk and participatory workshop with Norton Fredericks as part of their exhibition, Contaminated. In the Loop is a dual-purpose offering, where participants will learn and contribute looped, woven outcomes towards the exhibition, and engage in shared discourse and insights on the current states of ecological health and contamination within our local […]
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sis: Sunameke Performance – 10.30 – 10.00am, Sun 14 Apr Join Papua New Guinean performance group Sunameke as they revisit their 2015 APT8 work A’inaisa in the context of new work created for ‘sis: Pacific Art 1980-2023’. sis: Backhand Maiden Tour – 11.30am – 12.15pm, Sun 14 Apr Embark on a tour of the
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Alongside our curated program of major site-specific works, Umbrella and PUNQ are inviting expressions of interest to propose major works for this year’s festival. About the Festival Festival Dates: 2 – 18 August PUNQ is a biennial place-making festival which activates and engages with spaces, histories, and futures through art. It celebrates the distinct landscapes of
“A mirage is an atmospheric illusion, one conjured as immense heat radiates off a scorched earth. It manifests as a shimmering promise of cool water bubbling away on the horizon however, it is a cruel trick of the eye, a lure that draws a thirsty traveller deeper into the peril of the baking desert. A
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Nature’s apparent chaos is ultimately deceptive: oceanic tides are orchestrated by powerful astronomical helixes, and the bee-swarm returns to a hive of mathematical precision. Jason Fitzgerald works on similar principles, creating labyrinthine sculptural reliefs that resonate with the minutiae of nature whilst distilling a universal rhythm. A professional cabinet maker with a compulsive drawing habit,
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Take, Replace, Cover presents landscape-based works that explore the imbuement of affect, warmth and connectedness in both physical and digital transitory spaces. The exhibition essay by Emmalyn Hawthorn can be found here.
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Gemma Smith’s work takes the form of both painting and sculpture. Through her explorations of colour theory, pictorial depth and sculptural form, Smith has developed a body of abstract work that both playfully and seriously investigates the shifting pictorial plane. Her early work was based on abstract paintings of crystalline forms exploring geometric and spatial
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In 1994, Courtney Pedersen and Charles Robb began an artistic collaboration that has spanned almost thirty years. Over that time, they have accumulated a large store of materials and equipment that rests as a shadow record of their processes and investigative interests. This project considers the invisible cost burdens experienced by artists over the duration
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John Young (b.1956, Hong Kong) is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice is informed by formal philosophical and theoretical tenets. Young’s interest in examining and engaging with conceptual art and post-modernist concepts has him placed among the forefront of those involved in the critical assessment of contemporary art practice since the 1980s. Arriving in Australia
Tidal continues Kasper’s dedication to exploring line, colour and form through his unique geometric abstractions. Presenting a view into other worlds, these paintings rise and fall, they ebb and flow, push and pull, much like the tides of the sea. A master of precision, Kasper’s paintings offer reflective spaces and moments of stillness. Established through a
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Yuriyal Bridgeman: yubilong(mi)bilongyu includes significant new works that reflect the culmination of Bridgeman’s most recent research practice, along with a selection of works, many in bold and breathtaking bright colours, surveying the breadth of Bridgeman’s career to date. Bridgeman’s work is deeply anchored in the traditional cultural practices of his Papua New Guinean community while also
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The Typism Book began as a simple black-and-white publication for a one-day type and lettering conference on the Gold Coast in 2013. Fast forward ten years, and the tenth edition of the Typism Book is in the works. To commemorate this milestone and coincide with the 2024 ATypI: Association Typographique Internationale Conference in Brisbane, Typism
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Join us for a special in-conversation event with artists Dylan Mooney and Casey Coolwell as they discuss their practice and their mural collaboration at QUT Garden’s Point. This event is presented in collaboration with QUT Pride Staff Network and QUT Galleries and Museums. Please note: The event will be held in the courtyard behind B
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Cyber Bunker, the sibling space of Cyber Palace, is a new project space for noise, new media, experimental arts, sound and performance. Come along on Sunday, 21 April to break in the space together and experience a clash of sound, poetry and art. SoundsRoss ManningYvette Ofa AgapowT.B.I.A.T. + Steel PuddingDigicarrieIsadora Chadeaux ArtRin CharltonA.T.G. PoetryRae WhiteEd
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Here Space, Brisbane’s newest art space—featuring working artist studios—invites you to join our creative community for our launch party, exhibition opening and first ever open studio weekend. Join us for: LAUNCH PARTY & EXHIBITION OPENING: (Fri 3 May 5:30-8 pm) – Kick off the celebrations with an opening night party! Meet the resident artists,
Darwin-based artist Franck Gohier returns to Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane with a series of artworks that continue his reflection of society with its frailties, faults, and triumphs. Franck Gohier has an extensive portfolio as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Gohier’s homage is to the history of Australian Pop, his artwork steeped in his political
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Texibition brings together a diverse group of emerging artists whose experimental practices incorporate text as a principal element of their work. Toying with the boundaries between the subtle and the explicit, these artists utilise text in unique, evocative and satirical ways, to address issues both personal and political, and encourage critical dialog. This exhibition is generously
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2024 presents a diverse selection of artworks by artists at the forefront of photographic media. As a survey of contemporary practice, the award plays an important role in representing the ongoing evolution of photography and the ways in which artists use it to create striking and memorable
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Migratory birds travel long distances, from one end of the earth to another. They are known as ‘birds of passage’; an expression that can also be applied to people. For artists Ian Fairweather and Paul Jacoulet, their journeys across Asia and the Pacific, in the first half of the twentieth century, influenced both the content
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Call for submissions for the 26th Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi to be staged along the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama in Sydney, Australia from 18 October – 4 November 2024 are now OPEN. ARTIST AWARDS AND SUBSIDIES Each year we seek to generate artist subsidies and awards, many of which are finalised throughout the year. Subsidies
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In just seven-and-a-half minutes, Arthur Jafa’s roller-coaster montage video Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death encapsulates African American experience as a tale of resilience. It combines original footage by Jafa—an artist with a long career as a cinematographer and director—with excerpts from films, newscasts, sports coverage, music clips, and citizen videos. Scenes of trauma, racism,
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We were honoured by the sheer volume and calibre of responses to our exhibition call out late last year. With over 120 submissions from artists across the country, selecting just eight projects to exhibit in the Main Gallery was a task of great deliberation and consultation for the Outer Space programming committee. We’d like to
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DAILY DILEMMAS is Christopher Zanko’s third solo exhibition at Edwina Corlette and is a show that subtly, yet decidedly shares with the viewer the lens through which the artist sees the world, and importantly, the streets, homes, and locale of his youth, and now his own young family’s upbringing. The title of this exhibition draws
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Glass artist Magdalena Marciniak explores tranquility in her exhibition. Inspired by the Bunyaville Forest around her studio, her artwork reflects nature’s influence through lines, lights, and shadows. Tranquil Threads highlights our connection to nature, exploring its impact on art and ourselves as an integral part of a natural tapestry. Image: Magdalena Marciniak, Golden hours, 2023, flamework
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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
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This exhibition aims to showcase photographic portraits of Australian First Nations Elders who were present at the 2023 NAIDOC celebrations in Ipswich. This project acknowledges, honours, and shows our appreciation for each of the subject’s role as an Elder in the community of Ipswich. The exhibition portraits take on special significance, considering that the 2023
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Lara Merrett’s colour-rich paintings have been compared to the romantic painters of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries: both ‘imagine geographies of space, atmosphere and physicality. For Merrett, it’s the inquiry into the picture plane and surface, balance of ink and acrylic, of depth and opacity, chaos with order and the reference to otherness’ that
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In response to this year’s theme for International Women’s Day, Inspiring Inclusion, five Meanjin (Brisbane) artists with strong connections to linguistically diverse communities have explored their agency within contemporary Australian society. Bengali Australian multidisciplinary Artist Natasha Narain said, “I do believe in finding answers instead of staying in the space of victimhood.” Narain’s contribution to
Traditionally, documentation of war and conflict has been closely associated with photojournalists. From Margaret Bourke-White to Hyung Cong ‘Nick’ Út to Lynsey Addario, iconic photographs have left an indelible mark on how we remember wars. These images distil the essence of the conflict, its toll on the communities living in the war zones, and the
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A group exhibition including: Alick Sweet Anthony Lister Fiona Omeenyo Ian Waldron Jennifer Herd Joanne Currie Nalingu Laurie Nilsen Estate Matthew Johnson Michael Eather Michael Nelson Jagamara AM Estate Miles Allen Pat Hoffie AM Phil Gordon Rosella Namok Samantha Hobson Stephen Hart Image: Light Year by Michael Eather
Join Dean Ansell on Friday 8 March 2024 from 6 – 9 PM for an embodied sound performance where he enacts gori (legend), mourns with his ancestors, channels Riḡorabana ḡalluka babalau (creek spirits), and partakes in ginikoi (cleanse by water). Dean Ansell is a multidisciplinary artist of Melanesian (Riḡorabana and Balawaia, Papua Niugini), Maltese, and
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Nyx is an artist and vulvactivist, determined to advocate for (all) women’s rights through the proliferation of pussy power. Her work explores the language and symbolic potential of the vagina as a source of female empowerment, lived experience and a vital site for activism. “We must have agency over our own bodies, the right to
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Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley kicks of its 2024 calendar with an exhibition of artworks from Brisbane born artist Ann Thomson. ‘Something Old, Something New’ features a selection of new works, works from the gallery stockroom and a range of porcelain vases and wooden sculptures. The exhibition is being held concurrently with a survey
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Oh come all ye faithful hardware hackers, wigglers, synth and circuit-bending enthusiasts. This is chance to break out your hardware drawer contents, and bring things that you’d like to swap, sell (hated or broken modules are welcome!), hack/circuit-bend or even some primo things that aren’t quite working with your massive synth or sonic system! This
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In 2011, Pablo Picasso’s iconic work Buste de Femme (1943) undertook a journey from Eindhoven to Ramallah, where it was exhibited for three weeks. However, getting this work into the occupied Palestinian territory took two years of extensive artistic, legal, and administrative research and negotiation. Created by Khaled Hourani, the Director of the International Academy of Art
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A new installation by Jarrod Van Der Ryken. Jarrod Van Der Ryken is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in the mediums of photography, video, and sculpture. his experimental practice often culminates in immersive video installation. through experimentation with time and space, his work investigates themes of identity, representation, and the complexities of lived experience.
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