“As the force of Gravity pulls all animate and inanimate beings towards the earth it perhaps, inversely and paradoxically, that which connects us to something beyond. These recent paintings have been created working under the direct inspiration of the Mediterranean light and the warmth that falls directly into the studio from above. I have tried […]
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Surgical Fantasies gives form to fantasies of control and autonomy for those with bodies burdened by chronic pain, specifically endometriosis. Exploring desires to intervene with one’s own circumstances against the inability to do so, Jarvis expands upon historical artistic representations of medical bodies and female objectification, creating a fantastical ‘surgical suite’. Savannah Jarvis is an emerging
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Early January, 2020. A suffocating smoke has enveloped the city. The sky is burnt black and orange. The sun is barely visible. You can barely breathe, even here in the city. Bushfires are burning across eastern Australia, and images of bright red waves devouring everything play on every television. The pictures merge with the blurred
Though Bundit Puangthong studied both traditional and contemporary art making in his native Thailand, his emergence in contemporary Australian art happened almost as an afterthought. Having travelled to Melbourne to study English, Puangthong earned extra money as a street artist selling paintings to tourists and sketching chalk drawings on footpaths to the delight of passers-by.
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Axis and Origin is an archive of printed grids and concentric found objects accumulated during travel which engage the conceptual possibilities of pressure and trace to expose the contours of surfaces. Material matrices include ironing boards, manholes, pavements, tram tracks, a bleacher seat, and a bed. Dematerialised and displaced from origin, the works are realised through processes
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Richard Bell (b. 1953) lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. He works across a variety of media including painting, installation, performance and video. One of Australia’s most significant artists, Bell’s work explores the complex artistic and political problems of Western, colonial and Indigenous art production. He grew out of a generation of Aboriginal activists and
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In the final exhibition for 2023, FireWorks Gallery has assembled a significant number of small works, all measuring 30 x 30cm, jovially entitled Over Thirty. Both Indigenous and Non-indigenous artists have been brought together to mark and celebrate Over 30 artists…Over 30 years of the gallery in operation. On display in the ground floor gallery
The power of the monument is well accepted. The gravitas of the miniature much less so. Natasha Bieniek lets her diminutive paintings lasso the viewer with a quiet grace, pulling the eyes in and halting the gaze. Hers are not the kind of pictures to take in with a passing glance and it is the
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Join artist Jody Rallah (Yuggera, Biri) for a hands-on weaving workshop. In this beginner-friendly session, learn about plant fibres and weaving techniques, and be guided through the process of making your own small basket. All materials provided. Bookings essential. Workshop: 16 Dec. 2023 12.00PM–1.00PM
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The Ipswich Community Gallery invites exhibition applications for 2024 from emerging and established visual artists and curators. Both group and solo exhibitions that embrace contemporary practice and nurture meaningful connections with our audiences are encouraged to apply!
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Lethbridge Gallery is honoured to partner with Riparian Plaza to bring you a special Christmas Exhibition during the holiday season. We are thrilled to include artworks by established contemporary artists from Brisbane and beyond in this collection. Image: FRAGMENTED STILL LIFE 810X By J Valenzuela Didi
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CONTEXTILE invites all artists (national and international) to present artworks to the competition for the International Exhibition, as part of the programme of its 7th Edition, Contextile 2024 – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, to be held in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, from the 7th September to the 15th December 2024. In 2024, the Contextile biennial
Our Metro Arts x Firstdraft 2024/2025 Program is a reciprocal partnership supporting one regional New South Wales artist/collaboration and one regional Queensland artist/collaboration to exhibit at both Firstdraft (Sydney) and Metro Arts (Brisbane). In Round 1, a New South Wales regional artist was selected through the 2023 Firstdraft Program Callout, to exhibit at Firstdraft in
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From February to November 2024, Outer Space will present new exhibitions at our main gallery in the Judith Wright Arts Centre, selected from the callout, in addition to projects by invitation. This opportunity is open to emerging, early and mid-career Australian-based artists. First Nations people, people of colour, culturally and linguistically diverse, queer, gender-diverse and
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Utterly Human is an exhibition of new paintings by Inbal Nissim, a painter driven by the intuitive. Her work deals with the connection between the inner landscapes of the mind and the way those are being expressed in the material. Nissim works mainly with ink on paper or loose fabrics, her paintings explore the manifestation of
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Visit Redcliffe Art Gallery for the opening night of this year’s 15 Artists exhibition. Celebrate as we announce the $20,000 prize winner. Everyone is welcome, come along and let your hair down to the soundtrack of a secret guest DJ. There will be light refreshments and drinks available. The exhibition highlights recent works by Australian artists, presenting
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Since 1951, The Blake Prize has engaged artists, nationally and internationally, with ideas of spirituality and religion. The prize takes its name from William Blake, the world-famous 18th Century artist, and poet who threaded the religious and artistic throughout his practice. Building on this history, The 68th Blake Prize continues to encourage contemporary artists of varied styles and
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A Repetitive Cycle by Anna Boghiguian, a series of mixed media drawings on parchment paper. The work interweaves the history of the Spanish flu epidemic that spread towards the end of World War I, claiming more than 50 million lives between 1918 and 1920 with an account of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. The work was commissioned
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Rick Amor (b. 1948, Frankston, Victoria) is one of Australia’s most prominent figurative painters and a highly regarded printmaker and sculptor. Amor lives and works in Melbourne. His supreme grasp of tonality allows him to masterfully manipulate light and transport the viewer into his images. Filled with light and shadow, Amor’s brooding and nostalgic works
artisan‘s workshop vision is to offer bespoke and intimate classes of the highest quality. Classes that are thoughtful and beautifully paced, where students have a personalised experience, and teachers feel supported in sharing their honed skill. We believe that this is the difference artisan brings to the workshop experience. If you are thinking of doing a
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ONE.5C is an exhibition by Yanni Van Zijl that explores humans’ relationships with their actions and the consequences that follow. Van Zijl takes an environmentalist approach, citing concerns of fire, flood, drought and climate change as driving forces of their practice. These concerns inform material decisions with the artist stating: “sadly there is no shortage of
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Over the coming months, West Moreton Health will be commissioning artists to design and create a mural at the Ipswich Hospital Level 6 Front Entry. The artwork creates opportunities for emerging First Nations artists to contribute to the creation of warm, welcoming spaces within these environments, providing visual reprieve for patients, families, visitors and staff.
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Steve Lopes showcases his newest collection of works ‘Shape for Gods’. An opening night will be hosted at Mitchell Fine Art on the 13th of October from 6pm to 8pm with the artist in attendance, followed by an artist talk on the 14th from 11am. This exhibition has been two years in the making following
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Kellie O’Dempsey’s debut commercial exhibition Wish You Were Here on show between 3 – 28 October 2023. Wish You Were Here is an immersive installation of collaged works using paper, drawing, tape and video that transports the viewer into an uncertain landscape. Begun throughout the early days of the pandemic, worked and
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A pink body, with numerous pink dishwashing gloves protruding from its chest and stomach, sits half reclined on a beach chair, its legs outstretched, atop a cowskin rug. The figure is armless and has a pink glitter horn extending from its neck, in place of a head. The figure is a projection of the artist’s
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Redlands local Dylan Mooney, 27, has won this year’s Brisbane Portrait Prize taking home the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Prize for his artwork Still Thriving. The artwork is a double portrait of Mr Mooney and his friend, Sam Ramsey, in an embrace described by the Chief Judge Suzanne Cotter as “an embrace which speaks of love,
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Entries are now open for the 2024 Blacktown City Art Prize. The Blacktown City Art Prize is an annual art prize and exhibition presented by Blacktown City Council and Blacktown Arts at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre. The Mayor of Blacktown City, Tony Bleasdale OAM said, “The Blacktown City Art Prize has been instrumental
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Artful Heads is hosting its inaugural art exhibition, Houseful of Heads on October 19th at echo & bounce in Woolloongabba. An exploration of identity and self perception, Houseful of Heads will feature 24 distinctly talented, Meanjin / Brisbane based, early career visual artists and photographers all producing one work, a self portrait fitting the dimensions
An intergenerational relationship between three Watson/Brand family women has been expressed lovingly through a new project exhibiting at Side Gallery. Memories explores three generations who actively pursued a ceramic project to document spending precious time together. Leonie Watson, Liz Watson, and Minnie Brand, ages ranging between 70 something, 40 something and 6 years old, have spent months
Intimate Immensity is an exhibition of works by Australian artist, Ian Friend. Ian Friend is best known for his subtle and evocative works on paper. With a fascination for the alchemy of materials and an obsession with handmade paper, Friend’s works are made through processes that speak to the artist’s reverence for the materiality of making.
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Jeanette Stok’s solo exhibition Become, visualises how we create barriers between ourselves and others. The exhibition showcases a comprehensive display of works, including a wearable art piece constructed from black plastic gutter guard, photographs, varieties of sculptures, and hand-drawn black and white animation that analyses the embodied knowledge within embroidery. Visitors are invited to contribute
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An exciting exhibition of paintings and collages, by original Brisbane artist, Sharmila Nezovic. It explores the paved-over urban experience, through intensely realised, provocative, highly textured abstractions. “I use, what I call, an ‘industrial palette’”, she says. “By directly mixing such materials as road-base crusher dust, washed builder’s sand, sawdust, shards of glass or pebbles into
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Your Pals is a Brisbane-based art collective, co-founded by Sam Hope and Izzy Heaton, and this year there are some new pals joining Sam and Izzy at the annual exhibition. They are welcoming on board: Arion Aime, Cait Crumpet, Eve Mathies, Ruby Stevens, and Gretel Chapman. The exhibition will be showing an exciting array of
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The outlook for the future can seem bleak, the doomsday clock is currently set at 90 seconds to midnight and there does not seem to be a solution on the table. With this depressing forecast how do we find hope? In Get Me Out!, artists share ways of escape from our current reality – be that
A celebration of contemporary ceramics and their imaginative makers. From ancient vessels to figurines revealing the daily lives of people from antiquity, ceramics have been integral to cultures worldwide for millennia. Ceramics have stored our most precious resources, have been vehicles for knowledge and traditions, and passed between generations as heirlooms. Clay: Collected Ceramics is a
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Onespace is proud to present Ross Booker’s latest exhibition, Hydrosphere, which marks a significant turning point in the ‘artist’s gaze’ due to recent significant changes with his eyesight. Once reliant upon personal observation of the landscape and close attention to research photography and memory, recent retina detachments and corrective surgery have necessitated a new way of
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