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China Shanghai International Arts Festival: Rising Artists’ Works

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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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IMA: Exhibition Openings

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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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Workshop: In The Loop

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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: Pacific Art Events

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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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PUNQ: EOI

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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

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Gerwyn Davies: Mirage

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“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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Jason Fitzgerald: Alchemy of Form

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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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Gemma Smith: Orbits

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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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John Young

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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

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Kasper Raglus: Tidal

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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

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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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Here Space Launch

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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,

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Textibition

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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

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Arthur Jafa: Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death

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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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Magdalena Marciniak: Tranquil Threads

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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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Jason Castro: For Our Elders

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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: Field work

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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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Her Work

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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

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Yellow Meadow

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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

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Nyx: My secret Garden

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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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