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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Join Studio Maverik for a Spring Inspired Still Life Drawing Workshop — create colourful sketches in a relaxed & ambient environment. In this Still Life Drawing Workshop, you will be lightly guided through creating colourful sketches inspired by a Spring-themed collection of flowers, fruits & ornaments. You will be encouraged to embrace abstraction and draw
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The 2023 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition will run from 6 to 12 October in King George Square, with more than 250 artworks for sale. Entry to the exhibition is free. Every exhibiting artist has a lived experience of mental illness, either through their own direct personal experience or in their role as a carer or
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! Apply to showcase your work at this important arts event happening at Echo & Bounce in Woolloongabba BNE, on the 19th of November. We are dedicated to supporting POC & Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander applicants who wish to submit work based on their experiences with racism. To apply – please click
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Celebrate 100 years of Australia’s most renowned portrait prize In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrated the 100th birthday of Australia’s oldest and most-loved portrait award, the Archibald Prize. The landmark exhibition explores the rich history of the Archibald Prize, unearthing captivating stories in the selection of works. It reflects not just
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Exploring how we arrived at this point – from the archaic to a language of compressed space – Bruce Reynolds’ work invites consideration of the ancient and the ‘now’. Bruce Reynolds’ work grew from collage to relief and sculpture over a number of decades. Recent residencies in Rome focused both studio and architectural works on
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Sam Cranstoun: You Are Neither Here Nor There brings together four projects made during the first decade of Queensland artist Sam Cranstoun’s research-driven practice. The subject matter reflects the artist’s interest in lesser-known aspects of significant twentieth-century figures and events. Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, the Memphis motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated, and
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Judith Wright’s new exhibition Second Thoughts on show between 31 October – 25 November 2023. Second Thoughts sees Judith Wright pair her favourite medium, large scale works on paper, with new materials. Wright has created her own chipboard substrate, infused with her signature sepia metallic pigments, set in playful found frames. These
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Born in Yuendumu, at the edge of the Tanami Desert roughly 350kms from Alice Springs, Candy Nelson Nakamarra was first introduced to art making as a child by her father Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula(1925-2001), a renowned artist at the forefront of the Papunya art movement in the 1970s and 80s. Candy learned to paint while being
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At this professional development event, hear from Archie about the early stages of his career and the opportunities that expanded his practice ahead of his major exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Archie Moore (b. 1970, Toowoomba, l. Redland, Queensland. Kamilaroi/Bigambul) works across media in conceptual, research-based portrayals of self and national histories. His ongoing
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Mare Amoris | Sea of Love embraces love as an uprising: an active force with which to mobilise, organise, and create room for radical expressions of care beyond capital. Join us at UQ Art Museum for our final Ultramarine Conversation for 2023 with artists Christopher Bassi, Sonja Carmichael, Elisa Jane Carmichael and Chun Yin Rainbow Chan in conversation with Director Peta
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In this workshop, create vibrant cut-and-paste artworks inspired by Frances’ collage practice. Learn how to approach collage — the art of overlapping pieces of material to create a unique composition. Frances will run through a series of activities to guide you in creating a small collection of your very own collages using artist-quality materials. –
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The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. Finalists of the Brisbane Portrait Prize 2023 have been revealed, with 84 works selected from more than 600 entries in this year’s competition.
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Join Studio Maverik for a Thursday session of self-guided extended Long Pose Life Drawing, with three whole hours to explore a single pose. This session is absolutely perfect for those who are looking to take their sweet time to creatively explore a single pose/composition without time pressures. In this extended long pose class, you are
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The Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University Graduate Exhibitions will showcase the work of graduating students from the disciplines of Visual Art, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Photography, Design, and Creative and Interactive Media. Each year, we host a series of innovative and inspiring student-curated exhibitions and presentations featuring the next generation of creative
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The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. Internationality and networking make YICCA a huge opportunity for the artists, which can: • Win a cash prize: – Euro 3000,00 money prize to the first selected – Euro 1000,00 money prize to the second
Join the world’s most influential competition for artists and designers. You’ll have the unique opportunity to exhibit in the iconic space of the Arsenale Nord of Venice from March 02 to April 01, 2024, during an international exhibition that welcomes more than 10 thousand visitors each year. With 18 years of history, Arte Laguna
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present our first exhibition with Protégé artist Charlotte Ghaie. Working gently and intuitively with pastel on paper, Ghaie’s works explore fragmented cultural identity and the slipperiness of memory. Through a haze of smudged colour, ambiguous and at times unnerving figures emerge in her work, along with elements of the
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Entries are NOW OPEN for our Small Works Art Prize, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for artworks measuring 35x35x35cm or less! The Small Works Art Prize welcomes artists at all stages of their career to take part, from emerging to established, practicing throughout Australia and beyond. All mediums are accepted including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics,
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Engage, contemplate and discover an expansive interconnected future with Patterns for Future Living, a dynamic DIY exhibition that stirs collective action for environmental and ecological justice. Inspired by the works of modernist artist Sonia Delaunay Terk, this space fosters mediation and care through an immersive installation of rhythmic colour, pattern and sound. Commissioned by Metro
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Are you looking to try a Meanjin / Brisbane Life Drawing session? Studio Maverik runs inclusive, beginner-friendly life drawing classes. Life Drawing involves drawing a live, often nude model. Life Drawing has been a pivotal creative practice throughout Art History. Here at Studio Maverik, we take this tradition and facilitate a contemporary space for all
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Art Junction offers a unique opportunity for a short to medium term artist residency in Rural Badanga, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Art Junction Residency runs by a group of artists. Providing an open platform for artists where creativity can flow free from distractions amidst the peaceful hills of Udaipur since 2013. . A unique atmosphere of entirely
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Passepartout Photo Prize aims to support the development of talented photographers from all over the world by awarding 1,000 euros in monetary prizes every year, organizing exhibition in a fine art gallery in the heart of Rome, publication in our partners’ magazines, and providing other opportunities for international exposure. What makes our contest unique is
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The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland hosted by Flying Arts Alliance. This year the highly anticipated regional art awards offer a record prize pool of over $140,000. The theme for the 2023 QRAA is Perspective, calling artists to enter
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