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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Open to artists across Australia working in any medium. Mandorla is a contemporary fine art award and Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize. 2024 Theme: Refocus: Let all that you do be done in love (1 Cor. 16:14) Entries close 13 March 2024 Finalists exhibited at Holmes à Court Gallery in West Perth Exhibition
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Dive into a night of creativity like never before at our LIFE DRAWING PARTY with Studio Maverik! Join us on Thursday, March 21st, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at The Station on 16 School Street for a Social Drawing Session that promises to be a vibrant and unique experience. Embark on an artistic journey
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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, they draw upon and maintain the spiritual and philosophical sensibilities of their cultural inheritance within the framework of contemporary art internationally. Image: D Harding
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Science Gallery Bengaluru, India, is calling for project proposals for the upcoming hybrid exhibition-season on the theme QUANTUM, held from June 2025 to March 2026 in Bengaluru and online. Science Gallery Bengaluru invites proposals for exhibits as well as ideas for public programmes that respond to the QUANTUM Season. Proposals that may be completely physical, completely digital/online or
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Our cities are built around roads, and in turn, they shape our lives. From our commutes to work, trips to the shops, to holiday travel, almost every journey we undertake is along roads. They occupy significant space, making it difficult to imagine life without them. They continually expand, encroaching on pedestrian access, and major infrastructure
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Disrupted Materiality brings together various works by Brisbane-based artist, creative technologist and musician, Timothy Tate, whose repurposing of outdated consumer electronics offer a dialogue between our analog past and digital present. This exhibition showcases Tate’s work in instrument building, circuit bending/hardware hacking and reimagining of obsolete media across a variety of sonic and visual pieces. Exploring
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How to Swim borrows its title from a chapter in Emily Ogden’s recent book, written while her children were small: On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays, a suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing and the significance of embracing uncertainty. Other chapters are titled things like ‘how to turn a corner’,
As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world. Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By
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The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Telstra NATSIAA) is an annual art competition that celebrates the exceptional talent and cultural significance of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists from across Australia. As the longest-running and most prestigious Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the event provides a platform for artists
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Between 1966 and 1985, Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov made three remarkable short films: Kyiv Frescoes (1967), Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967), and Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani (1985). However, in 2018 all three titles were in danger of disappearing from film history. Join us for an illustrated talk by Daniel Bird, one of the world’s leading scholars on Eastern European cult cinema. Hear him share
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A vibrant hybrid garden adorns the walls of the Museum. Chantal Fraser is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist of Sāmoan descent. Her interdisciplinary practice spans moving image, photography, performance and sculpture. Drawing on her lived experience, Chantal’s work employs ornamentation and adornment to examine themes of materiality, identity and authority. As Artist in Residence, Chantal facilitated workshops
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The Centre for Australia–India Relations is calling for applications from Australia-based individuals, organisations or government bodies for the 2023–2024 Maitri Cultural Partnerships grants. The Maitri Cultural Partnerships support greater exchange and collaboration between Australian and Indian creative industries. This grant opportunity requires applicants to develop, implement or deliver collaboration activities, events, or projects, or plan and
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This free exhibition will showcase Christine’s bright and colourful paintings in both oil and pastel. She will be at the gallery every day during the art show, so please drop in, have a coffee and chat. All the paintings will be for sale – a great opportunity to see a large collection of work by
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Dylan Jones’ new exhibition Line of Sight showing between 20 February – 9 March 2024. This exhibition shares a collection of oil paintings that foster the figure and return to an old method of working from life. It honours friends, loved ones, and new people in his life since relocating
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