‘I can spin skies’ spans historical and contemporary textiles and art influenced by textile practices from across Asia. The exhibition takes its title from fifteenth century Persian poet Rumi’s reflection on the humble silkworm’s ability to spin the thread that makes one of the most prized fabrics in the world. Works are shown in dialogue […]
We are pleased to announce a new exhibition by Brisbane artist Paul Bai, who has shown his work regularly at the Pestorius Sweeney House now for over 20 years, most recently in 2020. Bai’s latest exhibition features only four works. Selected from the artist’s studio by former Institute of Modern Art director, Nicholas Tsoutas, this
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This will only hurt for a second is an exhibition that delves into the transformative power of softness as a means to reclaim body autonomy. Through an immersive and playful installation, the exhibition challenges the medicalisation of intimacy and touch within the realm of disability experience, offering a unique perspective on the profound social and
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Michael Stiegler’s small spaces exhibition at Side Gallery showcases a confluence of his distinctive illustrations, paintings, and collages. Inspired by many sources, including his former New York apartment, hotel notepads, and renowned art institutions, including The Met and Gagosian, Michael eloquently reimagines the inspiration for his figurative characters and illustrations. These sources first captivated him while living and
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Join us at Pine Rivers Art Gallery for a 30-minute immersive sound art performance. Entry is free. Be taken on an ambient journey with Fresh Eyes exhibiting artist, Gabe Parker. Experience projections and raw soundscapes of the region’s suburban life. This live performance will encourage better listenership and a more sustainable mindset. After the show, stay and
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Lisa’s paintings have evolved out of a “love for detail, colour and form, and the desire to convey something otherworldly with humble everyday objects”. Extending on the rich history of still-life painting, Lisa is influenced by the Dutch and Spanish still-life paintings of the 17th century, that focused on themes of mortality through the depiction
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Musician Reece Bowden (Anawain) incorporates hypnotic guitar, lo-fi synths, and electronic beats into an improvisational, responsive sound performance.
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The result from the Voice referendum gave hard evidence to a largely suspected truth: we inhabit an unreconciled nation, wary of venturing into the uncharted territory of change. These recent weeks have been a challenging period for many, particularly for our First Nations Australians. With more questions than answers, there’s a prevailing sense of uncertainty
A Tender Disco — Plaything Playhouse observes and mocks the inveterate feminine daily performance of complying with social conduct. This ritualistic routine often functions under the veil of etiquette and habit, almost a communion to the gods of social convention. Frances considers this as mimicking a dance routine or a puppet performing. There’s a reason why
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A celebration of Print by third year students from the Queensland College of Art and the launch of the 2023 QCA Print Folio Box. Exhibiting Artists: Darren Blackman • Jorge M Brito • Geoff Burns • Sophie McIntyre • Bronte Moore • Deanne Muir • Tutu Nguyen • Marijah Westacott
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You are invited to join us for this in-conversation with internationally renowned artist, Tony Albert to share and discuss the journey and making of Tony’s first public artwork in Brisbane, Native Still Life commissioned as part of the Brisbane City Council’s The Platform situated at Brisbane Botanical Gardens Mount Coot-tha. Native Still Life is inspired by the stunning native flowers
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This showcase exhibition will highlight the work of two students completing an Honours degree in visual arts at the University of Canberra, in partnership with TAFE Queensland. This year the Honours research project at University of Canberra ranged from visual art to fashion, music and acting. The format of the program is creative practice-based research,
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Our amazing stable of newly represented artists are showcasing a selection of their latest works in the upcoming exhibition, Pony. Join us on 30 November from 6 pm to celebrate our debut stable show Artists Jessica Nothdurft, Kitty Horton and Carolyn V Watson will join curator Laura Brinin on Saturday, 2 December, from 10.30 am for
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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