Reflecting on the evocative nature of print and its power to preserve memory in a tangible form, Printed Reverie responds to the intersection between memory, time and contemporary printing techniques. Engaging with intaglio, relief, lithography, papermaking, and screen printing, artists aim to connect with viewers to explore how print becomes an indexical mark of past […]
The 2023 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, ‘inFORM’, will feature the work of 34 emerging artists graduating from QUT Visual Arts’ unique Open Studio program. Working across diverse media including moving image, installation, performance, painting, photography, sculpture and more, the artists of ‘inFORM’ are creatively and critically engaging with the social, political, and personal conditions
CONCRETE MIRRORS – Constructing Systems of Dust, is a provocative exhibition of paintings and collages, by Brisbane artist, Sharmila Nezovic. It explores the paved-over urban experience, through intensely realised, 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,
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‘Living Patterns’ celebrates an expansive definition of abstraction in Australian art. It highlights how artists have engaged with scientific ideas around perception and emotive reactions to colour, shape and form. Many works convey how motifs and symbols from all manner of artistic lineages – recent and ancient – can be applied in new and innovative
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(un)grounded: as if I was releasing something is a solo exhibition by Sharna Barker that explores the boundaries of contemporary self-portraiture. Her paintings and sculptures—as somatic (re)constructions of self—foreground disintegration, unpredictability, and failure, as ‘self’ appears and disappears interchangeably. Sharna underscores material and formal precarity to propose alternative modes of representation. In the work, a
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Peter Boggs (b. 1949, New Zealand) is one of the leading contemporary painters in Australia, with a career spanning nearly 40 years and 50 solo exhibitions. The award-winning painter is at home painting the mysteries of Italian Renaissance Gardens – most notably the Boboli Gardens in Florence, as he is in unveiling the secret and
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present DISSEVER by Miles Hall, our latest online exhibition showing from 13 September. Hall’s paper works capture the process of combining graphite pigment with an oil binder to create gestural qualities and forms. Each piece has been torn into two seperate pieces and is then recombined on the opposite side to reveal its
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Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present Hidden mothers and ghost flowers by Amber Wallis, her first exhibition with the gallery. Working at a large scale onto both primed and raw linen, layering colour loosely and quickly, the paintings take on an intentionally diffuse and mysterious quality. “My painting practice continues to be an ode
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The Institute of Modern Art and the Copyright Agency are pleased to announce that Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist James Barth is the third recipient of the Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) commission. The $80,000 contemporary art commission is the third in an annual series presented by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund in partnership with leading Australian arts institutions. The commission supports mid-career and established Australian artists
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Daniel Boyd is known for his multidisciplinary practice that resituates colonial history within an infinitely expansive universe. In his paintings, videos, and installations, he employs dots as a visual and conceptual tool to explore themes of identity, memory, perception, and history. Reiterated endlessly to form expansive constellations, each dot—or lens—offers a distinct point of knowledge, experience,
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An exhibition of Aboriginal paintings that draw inspiration from seasonal changes and showcase artworks highlighting luminosity and vibrancy is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from September 14th. Bold splashes of vibrant colour feature strongly in this collection of artworks with the overriding theme emphasizing the glowing quality and abundance of colour. These
The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) is excited to announce the Call for Entries for its 20th edition, scheduled for 2024. With a rich history of showcasing cutting-edge digital art and fostering creative innovation, ADAF invites artists, scientists, intellectuals, technologists, and creators from around the world to be part of this milestone celebration by submitting
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Artists from the Redcliffe Art Society will hold live art demonstrations Saturday mornings from 14 October to 11 November at Redcliffe Art Gallery. Meet the artists and watch them in action in these interactive sessions. You can ask questions about their creative process and techniques. This demonstration series is in conjunction with the Redcliffe Art Society
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Exchange is a living process of transformation, like conversations that span across generations. To share and ignite the spirit kept alive between ancient and living relations. Our hearts beat the songs of thousand plus generations, guided in haptic practice,and embedded and encoded in our exchanges. Jody Rallah explores the Undercurrents of life on Yuggera Djara,
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My still life paintings explore the perception of light through objects in space. The interplay of light travelling through objects both translucent and opaque creates unique patterns of shadows and reflections, which play an integral part in each of my compositions. The shadows are the essence of the objects themselves and connect them individually to
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To celebrate the Big Draw Festival, join us at Redcliffe Art Gallery for a drawing workshop facilitated by guest artist, Holly Anderson. Enjoy light refreshments while you learn how to sketch using different drawing techniques that will improve your pencil art. Whether you are an experienced artist or a beginner, this workshop is open to
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Yuiko uses her art to find a way out of the haze of situations she wasn’t sure about at the time and transforms them into fun and carefree moments, ready for the world to share and enjoy. Buttons Ink is Yuiko’s way of connecting with others and together making sense of the past and present
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This September Milani Gallery will be presenting an exhibition of works by Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman and Haus Yuriyal. Haus Yuriyal consists of thirty-plus members formed in 2015 after the construction of a round house in the Waghi Valley, Jiwaka Province with members primarily from the extended Yuri tribe of the southern Simbu district of Gumine
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The exhibition Portals includes new light, video and experimental painting works by Michelle Xen. The exhibition features an abstract fluorescent series called Portals, extending the multidisciplinary and embodied gestures in Xen’s video, performance and painting works. Created using fluorescent pigment on 100% cotton rag, the artworks have ultraviolet properties referencing the lighting effects found in
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THE DPS LAB, an evening of theatrical exploration on Tuesday 24th October at The Princess Theatre featuring new visual theatre works from Dead Puppet Society’s 2023 DPS Academy artists. With three bite-sized showcases of original works from local emerging and independent artists on the bill, and The Princess Theatre’s outdoor bar open with a DJ
Please join the opening of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Phone by Seren Wagstaff, Emma Gow, Joseph Botica A mass collusion to instill minor confusion at the intersection of delusion and intrusion. A sweaty scroll through personal space, roadside dining outside the footpath permit, perched on your turf out front of
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The Chelsea International Photography Competition provides the winning participants an opportunity to exhibit at one of our New York spaces, located in the heart of the Chelsea art district. The sprawling and elegant street-level space attracts hundreds of visitors with its striking exterior. Along with the exciting opportunity to showcase your works in New York, each artist
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A cultural initiative that brings together creative minds with the latest technology to shape innovative solutions to today’s biggest ecological challenges. The award’s exhibition is powered by Philips Tableaux, a display from PPDS using advanced colour ePaper technology to allow a power-free exhibition of the digital artworks. Participating artists in this premiere edition will be
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We are excited to announce entries are open for the Linden Postcard Show 2023-2024, and that this time we are mixing things up! We are drawing from the past to reshape the future and give the Postcard Show a refresh. The days of 8 x 10 are over, we are opening the doors to larger
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JFF Special Series returns to QAGOMA in 2023 to proudly present the work of filmmaker Kо̄ Nakahira (1926-1978), a pioneering figure in post-war Japanese cinema. Nakahira began his career as an assistant director at Shochiku Studio, where he worked alongside prominent directors including the likes of Akira Kurosawa and Yūzō Kawashima. Later on Nakahira would
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Woven forms are ubiquitous in the fabric of everyday life. They offer protection, privacy, means of self-expression, storage, and homogenisation. Yet, despite the ubiquity of woven forms, weaving is often unnoticed. It is merely the technical process that produces our clothing, upholstery, curtains, canvases and kitchen sieves. The event of a thread takes its title
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How can abstraction tell stories of identity and culture? Join ‘Living Patterns: Contemporary Australian Abstraction‘ artists Paul Bai and Gemma Smith in conversation with Ellie Buttrose (Curator, Contemporary Australian Art, QAGOMA) as they explore approaches to abstraction through the lenses that define their world views and identities. Time: 10.30 – 11.30am, Sat 28 Oct 2023
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In partnership with Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre, artisan’s community of makers have been offered a mini artist retreat/residency. The residency is open to craft and design practitioners who are keen to share their own expertise and explore new experiences. This is an opportunity to explore, experiment and extend practices. The successful applicant will have access
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Join renowned artist and educator, Joachim Froese, for a workshop designed to develop strategies for analytic thinking and concept development. The workshop will combine theoretical and practical exercises that will provide you with new, structured, hands-on tools and strategies in the classroom when communicating ideas about visual imagery. In this workshop you will learn
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‘Fierce Visions’ presents the works of French–Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop and her uncle, Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty. Both auteurs push the bounds of cinematic language, blending elements of documentary and fiction. Mati Diop began her film career as an actress and her recent debut feature Atlantics 2019 was the first film directed by a Black woman
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The biennial Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award (formally the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award) is a national prize established in 1981 to promote and support talented emerging artists in Australia. Initiated by the Lane Cove community in honour of its long-term resident and acclaimed artist Dr Lloyd Rees, who was an advocate for getting young
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When travelling through the flat, monotonous country of inland Australia, agricultural and mining structures are often visible for a considerable distance, rising like giant sculptures out of a flat plain: three-dimensional forms intersecting with horizontal lines. One of the forms encountered repeatedly are cylinders, most conspicuously as tanks or drums for water and fuel. In
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An organic materialisation, with its genesis in human and more-than-human collectivism. In an uncanny partnership suspended by the voices of many, fungi and humans will share in the procreation of a new symbiotic body. Tender beginnings will eternally link these intimate organisms to the human sphere of Outer Space. Intimate Organisms presents an immersive installation
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Perceptions and experiences of place inform Bridie Gillman’s paintings, abstracted to convey the felt rather than the seen. A childhood spent in Indonesia, and many subsequent cross-cultural residencies, has seen her capture the layers of travel in her practice. Watching Walls is a new and sumptuous body of work (paintings, ceramic sculpture, and a soundscape made in
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A cut and paste session for collage artists and the collage curious. Beginners will love this introduction to collage – no prior experience is required. Share conversation, dip into a treasure-trove of materials and make collages inspired by a monthly creative brief. All materials are provided but please remember to bring your favourite scissors and/or
Please join us at UQ Art Museum for an evening of robust discussion about Indigenous water rights as part of our current exhibition Mare Amoris | Sea of Love. This conversation discusses the legal fiction of ‘mare nullius,’ and questions colonial boundaries in relation to oceans and their connected lands and waters. Join academic and
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