Join Lisa Tucker from Art2cin2u to explore the significance of the Koru in Māori art and design in this painting workshop. The Koru is the symbol of creation and is based on the shape of an unfurling fern frond. The circular symbol conveys the idea of movement. It signifies that as we move through life […]
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Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz Art Award. The Award offers a $20,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to an outstanding artwork by a Queensland-based artist, or an artist with a strong connection to Queensland. Image: GLENN HUNT, FREEDOM FIGHTER (Winner 2022)
John Honeywill (b. 1952, Brisbane) is a still life painter living and working in Brisbane. An accomplished art educator for much of his professional life, Honeywill now focusses solely on his painting practice. His meticulous and inquisitive works continue the tradition of still life painting with the artist describing – “I paint the quiet visual conversations
Join for an evening of talks from Taiwanese Indigenous artists Yuma Taru and Anchi Lin. Yuma Taru (Atayal) has revitalised Atayal weaving, establishing the Lihang Workshop—a creative studio and social enterprise developing Atayal culture. Her work featured in the Gwangju Biennale in 2023, the Taiwan Art Biennial in 2022, the Asia Pacific Triennial in 2021, and in Sakàhan at the
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When Paul Ryan paints the landscape, it’s not the scenery so much as the forgotten histories of his local area that he seeks to explore. Never straying far from his home base in Thirroul, a suburb of Wollongong noted for post-colonial industries including whaling, logging, and mining, Ryan repeatedly finds himself searching for the footprints
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The Art Educators Network sessions are an opportunity for visual art teachers to connect with peers and galleries in the region. These sessions include a tour or a professional development talk about the current exhibition. Afterward, there will be networking and refreshments. These sessions run once per term at one of Council’s art galleries. Join
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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. The Brisbane Portrait Prize: Encourages excellence, creates opportunity for artists and increases engagement in the arts, by providing space for artists to explore contemporary portraiture, encompassing notions of story telling in the digital age.
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The Asia Pacific Architecture Festival (APAF) returns to Brisbane from 9 to 23 June 2023 in a collaboration between founding partners Architecture Media and State Library of Queensland. APAF is a celebration of architecture and design in the Asia Pacific region. The festival is renowned for delivering a program that includes exhibitions, installations, symposia, lectures
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“…infinite, expansive… like tides pulled by the moon, uncommon energies – the intertwining of creativity and transcendence.” A wonderfully evocative quote from Jennifer Higgie’s latest book ‘The Other Side’, referencing ‘Oceanic States’, a term used by Freud to describe the mystical experiences of the preverbal stage of development. It is a fitting sentiment for this
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We warmly invite you to the inaugural Ron Hurley Memorial Lecture. This event is hosted by the Queensland College of Art and will include a lecture by prominent Griffith alumnus and contemporary artist Gordon Hookey. Gordon will speak on the legacy of Ron Hurley as well as share insights from his own career. This will
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Following on from his residency at Museum of Brisbane, artist Robert Brownhall is once again transporting his studio to the heart of City Hall, and this time he’s inviting you to come along for the journey. For one day only, you have the rare opportunity to learn drawing techniques from one of Brisbane’s finest artists
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Landscape artist Jeff Makin returns to Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane as he celebrates his 80th birthday and 60 years of painting. Jeff Makin’s artwork has long explored the picturesque and the sublime in nature, anchored specifically by the Australian landscape. In his latest exhibition Jeff Makin reflects on his travels to Central Australia, capturing
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Ground is a word that is rich with subtleties and connotations. On a material level it can represent the soil or earth upon which we stand – the ground cultivates and nourishes life, the prepared surface of a support, or an electrical connection. It can speak of the performative action of grinding, of breaking a
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Kristen Lethem’s artwork focuses on landscape and the exploration of patterns within the environment formed as a result of the interplay between topography, vegetation and by extension – shadow and light. Through the use of a restricted palette, these light and shadow patterns appear script like, coalescing into Lethem’s personal, visual language of the landscape.
James Barth’s self-portraits use avatars as a means to explore their transgendered identity and representation. Through painting and 3d modelling, Barth’s works combines photography, painting, science fiction, cinematic language, and poetic gestures. Barth’s recent solo and dual exhibitions include:The Placeholder Milani Gallery (2021), ZONWEE: the last known recording of a daydream in collaboration with Spencer Harvie, Boxcopy (2019), Screen
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Hoda Afshar was born in Tehran, Iran (1983), and is now based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a Bachelor degree in Fine Art– Photography in Tehran, and her PhD thesis in Creative Arts at Curtin University. Hoda began her career as a documentary photographer in Iran in 2005, and since 2007 she has been living
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The annual Gosford Art Prize has been a feature of the Gosford Regional Gallery program since the early 1970s and is a cultural highlight of our region. Open to practicing artists from across Australia, the prize presents the selected winner with a first prize of $15,000 with a second prize of $5,000. Other prizes include
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For Natalie Lavelle, painting is a life force. So central to her personhood, her works act as proxies for her—embodying her energy, enthusiasm, and spirit. Her latest body of work, Flesh for Fantasy, contemplates Sontag’s question, ‘how can we experience art in a direct, unmediated manner?’. Compelled to deal sensuously with art—to achieve this unmediated experience—Sontag approached
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MONO heads offsite to the Queensland Conservatorium in South Bank to team up with CARI (Creative Arts Research Institute) for a special evening of outer orbit rhythm and prepared piano exploration. As Spill, German pianist Magda Mayas and Australian drummer Tony Buck have created a dynamic and freely experimental platform for improvisation. Mayas’ work inside the piano is equal parts exploratory and reflexive. Her
Over the last 17 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. MAPh invites artists to submit still photo-based media including analogue and digital photography created over the last year for consideration.
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DEUX celebrates the artistic partnership between Ebony Wilmott and Stella Haycock in their investigation of time, process, chance, and repetition. Printmaking and painting processes are used to explore the seriality of line, space, and form; the works coalesce in their considerations of permutability made possible through pressure and trace. Through the lens of abstraction, the
Onespace is excited to present Any way, shape or form, a vibrant exhibition of new sculptures by Renee Kire. Renee Kire is an early career artist who primarily uses installation and sculpture to revise the Minimalist agenda from a feminist perspective. Kire has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University,
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Living between Sydney and South West France for family reasons affords Adrienne Gaha the benefit of avoiding a full winter in either location. “I never have a whole summer, either, but I do have two whole autumns, one here and one in Quercy,” Gaha says of the rural area situated 90km north of Toulouse. “But
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A rare opportunity to hear from renowned Australian contemporary artist Luke Roberts; the artist behind Her Divine Holiness Pope Alice/Santa Alicia. In conversation with curator Nicholas Tsoutas, Luke will share intimate details of the spectacle and grandeur of HDH Pope Alice. What is it that creates such an awe-struck audience, completely absorbed in this live
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Ipswich artist Matthew Cheyne is fascinated by space and time. In his latest exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane, Cheyne creates an otherworldly park to delve into our relationship with public space and its hidden power structures and absurdities. Following on from his first sellout solo exhibition Matthew Cheyne reflects on the human urge
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Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘The Argument of the Eye’ by A.J. Taylor. In ‘The Argument of the Eye’, A.J. Taylor presents landscapes from recent travels around Queensland, including Carnarvon Gorge and the Daintree Rainforest as well as his homebased Sunshine Coast hinterland. “The works are closely observed and unambiguous depictions of specific
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Searching through an ocean of tidal waves for you is an exhibition that honours the artist’s ongoing desire to connect with South Sea Island culture and to create a sense of connection to her ancestral heritage. Shari’s work is informed by deeply reflecting on childhood memories and delving into the historical contexts of the South
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Ariki Vaine (Chiefess Woman) is a two-part video series reflecting the story and importance of Mother Earth through Cook Island dance, while exploring the importance of cultural lineage and connection to her ancestors. “Women in my family have been vital role models in my upbringing, and Ariki Vaine displays a graciousness toward the leaders of
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We Are Electric is an exhibition about energy: its bodily and planetary flows, the politics of its extraction and exchange, and its inextricable connection to human evolution and industrial expansion. From the frequencies that careen between our cells—communicating with our hearts, instructing them to beat—to the electromagnetic fields that encompass the Earth and its rhythms,
In a world where filters are omnipresent, Jacinta Giles’ exhibition Filter asks us to reflect on the ways in which we interact with and interpret the visual world around us. In using coloured filters— both physically within the work and as the conceptual theme behind the series— Giles also explores the filtering process as a creative technique,
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Perennials features a series of mixed media works depicting sculptures and artefacts evoking associations with his Australian-Thai heritage. By thrusting these ancient fragments into the present moment, the artist seeks to agitate the colonial context in which they were found by filtering them through a nuanced, personal perspective which is interested in the ways Thai identity can
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Museum of Brisbane (MoB) has appointed Zoe Graham as Director/Chief Executive Officer of the city’s leading history and art museum after an extensive nationwide search. Ms Graham will officially commence in the position from July 2023 and will lead the team through a period of growth and expansion. With more than 15 years’ experience in
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Art meets science – Open call for artists. Base funding from $5,000-$75,000. World Science Festival Brisbane invites expressions of interest (EOI) to participate in Curiocity Brisbane 2024, an annual temporary public art event held in Brisbane. Artists can submit ideas for artworks that celebrate the intersection of science and art. Curiocity Brisbane is seeking a diverse array of artworks (approximately 15
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Entries are now open for our Fifty Squared Art Prize, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for 2D works measuring 50x50cm or less. The Fifty Squared Art Prize welcomes artists at all stages of their career, from emerging to established, practicing throughout Australia and beyond. All 2D mediums will be accepted including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking,
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Susie Choi is a Sydney-based contemporary artist who works across ceramics, sculpture and installation and is guided by ideas that confound and amuse her. The sources of inspiration for her work stem mainly from childhood including toys and playgrounds, the material culture of South Korea, and elements of Australian popular culture. Each body of work
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For the 2023 Brisbane Art and Design (BAD) Festival, FireWorks Gallery is staging Halfway House. This mixed media exhibition poses questions about what a halfway house might mean through the work of 16 Brisbane-based artists. As an intersectional place that has become home for so many travellers, Brisbane’s rich cultural and social history is reflected
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