Join Studio Maverik for a Sunday session of self-guided long pose life drawing, with plenty of time to capture the finer details of each pose. Long pose life drawing entails an experienced nude Life Model holding a single pose for an extended period of time. In this two-hour session, you will have lots of time […]
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My new series explores the beauty of solitude and connection, celebrating the diverse ways in which love takes shape. Solitude allows for self-discovery and personal growth, fostering a strong bond with oneself. Through my art, I depict the tranquillity and strength found in being alone. On the other hand, connection represents the magic of love
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For MONO 46 we delve into a triple bill of extended instrumental mastery. On their latest record World In World, Julia Reidy (DE/AU) crafts a work that is utterly unique, existing between the traditions of extended song form, just intonation composition, and exploratory guitar work. Merging hovering clouds of voice amidst clusters of open harmonic guitar flutters, their work is entirely its
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Join us for a sensory guided experience where you can engage in discussion and sensory exploration. These 30-minute sessions are designed to introduce visitors to new ways of experiencing and connecting with the artworks of the exhibition. Individuals, school students and groups of all ages and abilities are encouraged and welcomed. Dates Friday 30 June
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The JAA Australasian Jewellery Awards celebrate and recognise design, innovation, craftsmanship and marketability in the jewellery industry. They are the ultimate industry awards that reward creativity, skill and technique – the most distinguished program for the Australian and New Zealand jewellery community. This year we present the 27th instalment. The JAA Australasian Jewellery Awards are
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The Hawkesbury Art Prize is a biennial prize awarded to an Australian artist for a painting, drawing or work on paper with the theme of Contemporary Australian Identity. Open to Australian artists, the prize is awarded for the most outstanding work created in the past 12 months. The theme invites artists to respond to the
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Jasmine’s signature geometry-based paintings aid the artist’s exploration of “the beauty and poignancy of time and the bitter nature of love and loss”. Roaming Geometry is Jasmine’s second exhibition at Side Gallery, initially showing I AM THE MUSE in 2021. The exhibition was a resounding successful sell-out show, and it is clear that the audience resonates with
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This exhibition concerns collaboration, the politics of exchange and display between two artists and the championing of experimental and non-hierarchical points of connection that this creates. It is an exhibition which champions the interstice between space and the materiality of painting. Vox Pop is derived from the Latin ‘vox populi’ meaning voice of the people.
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Entries are open for WA’s premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize. Now in its seventeenth year, this award is one of the nation’s most recognised and prestigious art prizes. With a prize pool totalling over $105,000, the competition is open to artists of all experience levels – emerging, midcareer and professional. Last year The
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In the exhibition Her beauty and her terror, contemporary artists explore the Australian landscape in its extremities, subtleties and forms. You can explore your connection to it through the use of sound in a workshop with sound artist and musician Julia Anderson. A soundscape is a combination of individual sounds that together create a sensation or
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Open call to all photographers Anyone 18+ can apply – all genders and nationalities welcome Submit up to 15 images – this entitles you to be eligible for the long and shortlist and show your photographs at our exclusive exhibition in Berlin. No restrictions on experience or social / educational background. All themes welcome –
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These school holidays, to celebrate NAIDOC week, the Hub Gallery will showcase Jinibara elder and artist Uncle Noel Blair and his artworks from Moreton Bay Regional Council’s Art Collection. Join us in the Creative Play Space and make your own colourful story or create a 3D animal figure inspired by Uncle Noel’s fun characters. Caboolture
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Vivienne Binns is an important figure in the history of Australian visual art. Binns rose to prominence in the 1960s with her psychedelic depictions of sexual imagery, which anticipated the feminist art movement. Since that time, she has continued to shape some of the most significant developments in Australian visual culture, both within and beyond
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Philip Wolfhagen (b.1963, Launceston) is a leading Australian contemporary landscape painter who lives and works in Longford, Tasmania. He is inspired by the atmospheric landscape of northern Tasmania and the emotive qualities of light and weather. Wolfhagen’s paintings are unique in his use of beeswax mixed with oils. His work is physical, dense in its
Jessica Nothdurft’s latest exhibition Dreams and Nightmares uses her signature faux naïf styling to explore her evocative and raw life experiences. The show centres on hyper-restrained ink drawings, bronze sculptures and paintings; battered housewives, pregnant dogs, cages and crouched forms recur in the series. The poses and graphic depictions link the characters’ relationships, creating a solid
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Join us on the opening night of the Moreton Bay Region Art Prize 2023 at the Pine Rivers Art Gallery as we come together to congratulate this year’s shortlisted artists. We’ll be bringing the fun as we celebrate the creativity and talent of Moreton Bay’s artists with music, drinks, snacks and all the atmosphere you
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Since their childhood years in Bundaberg, brothers Tim and Mic Gruchy have been insatiably curious about emergent innovations in image and sound technology. They have now worked in this field both collaboratively and individually for four decades, exploring the use of moving image, sound and the body not only in art contexts, but also
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A Matter of Looking: 20th century works from the QUT Art Collection. This exhibition introduces audiences to rarely seen paintings, prints and drawings by female artists across the broad spectrum of the 20th century held in the QUT Art Collection. We often forget that art is fundamentally about not only looking visually, but truly seeing
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HOTA Gallery’s first ever international blockbuster exhibition invites you into the world of iconic artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, with a collection of works never before seen in Australia. In a world exclusive exhibition, Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York, pairs these three superstars alongside artists inspired by their legacy.
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IKUNTJI STYLE presents the design-led journey from a remote Central Australian desert community to a global brand. Situated in the community of Ikuntji/Haasts Bluff, and founded in 1992, IKUNTJI ARTISTS was the first art centre established by First Nations women in the Western Desert Art Movement and the first arts centre from Central Australia to release its own
Hear their words, see their work We invite you to engage with the James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews, a series of in-depth and intimate video interviews where you will hear the words of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists and see the work of selected artists. Featured artwork will include work from Vernon
Is it too great a truism to repeat that the best art is always the child of its own age? —Eveline W Syme Celebrating the artistic friendship of Naarm/Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, the National Gallery Touring Exhibition Spowers & Syme will present the changing face of interwar Australia through the perspective of two
Karee Dahl’s creative practice is primarily concern with the processes and material relationships between textiles, drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation practice. Dahl refers to her practice as, “an obsessive manipulation of thread – a continuous drawn line of fibre.” Her works range in a variety of sizes, colours, pattern, working both aspects of two and
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Council has a significant collection of works by local and nationally recognised artists. Our annual acquisition program aims to share important works of art from emerging and established artists. This exhibition will examine Council’s recent acquisitions through the themes of: culture identity spirit sense of place. Artworks in this exhibition include those from Atong Atem,
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This group exhibition showcases a selection of Aboriginal artworks reflecting the story of ‘Ngapa’ or Water Dreaming, an important dreaming for Aboriginal people. Water is vital for both humans and animals, not only for drinking purposes but also to encourage growth of plants, and the generation of native bush foods. The location of all water
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the garden of forking paths expands the experience of public space and memory into one that is rendered through an uncanny topology of abstract geometries. A place of inquiry and mystery – the work unearths the shrouded and subtle intimacies of queerness hidden within a public space historically explored as cruising grounds. Jarrod Van Der
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An Australian-American, Fran O’Neill, was born in Wangaratta, Australia, and currently lives and works between Australia and Brooklyn, New York. O’Neill attended Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, earning a BFA and Post Graduate Degree. Her post-graduate work continued at the New York Studio School’s Certificate Program, and her MFA was completed at Brooklyn College. She has
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A collection of short films. Within these films street photographers capture cheeky kids playing in New York’s East Harlem in the 1940s, meanwhile in the film Bridges Go Round the camera dances with a city skyline, and two films showcase their city with the aim to tempt tourists to their shores – pre-war Tokyo and a picturesque
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Ōranges and other offerings delineates the bonds and distances existing between families, both blood and chosen. As the first institutional solo exhibition by Japanese-Australian artist Reina Brigette Takeuchi, the exhibition takes inspiration from her father’s eco-farm in Tokyo entitled Field of Dreams. Her father, Yukifumi Takeuchi, embarked on creating the field during the pandemic for
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The last powerful artworks by esteemed indigenous artist Wukun Wanambi will be prominently featured at Queen’s Wharf Brisbane as an enduring public legacy. The Yolngu artist from Eastern Arnhem Land, Mr Wanambi completed the design for his super sculpture, which is a totem of three large mullet fish he titled Destiny, before passing away in
This April we are presenting an exhibition of new works by Ross Manning. In Gallery 1 and 3, a series of new wall works continue Manning’s sculptural experiments in light and colour. In Gallery 2 Manning presents a new major screen and mirror floor installation. Images: Ross Manning Untitled 2023, Diffusion grading film with integrated
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Disappearing Act examines feelings of anxiety and concern toward landscapes under threat. In these paintings, curtains of patterned textiles are drawn back by disembodied hands, creating portals to seemingly idyllic environments beyond. Against the depth of these vistas the fabrics flatten into abstract designs that hinder and distract the eye, drawing attention to the way
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The exhibition TIMES TIDE emerged out of a long period of painterly and formal experimentation in subjects drawn from both the anecdotal close at hand and underfoot, as well as the more expansive arena of the mutable river landscape, privileging gesture alongside the constraints of the geometric. Ostensibly, these are pictures of silhouetted structures and
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Australia is the world’s third largest exporter of yellowcake; a concentrated form of uranium ore in powder form. Yellowcake is a multidisciplinary exhibition of paintings, ceramics, installation, and photography developed in response to the Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine in North Western Queensland. The mine finished rehabilitation in 1986, however the open pit remains accessible to
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‘When I look at the sport of rugby league, I see the body colliding with the earth like barrows in dramatic formations, a repetitive display of rainbow coloured armour, a dance, a singsing of shields that hover before the skin, flesh and bones. Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman Weaving together imagery, colours and materials inspired by Bridgeman’s
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Entries for the 2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize are now open and close on Wednesday 15 February 2023, at 12:00 p.m. (midday Daylight Saving Time Eastern Australia). Established in 2017 to promote art and opportunities for both emerging and established women artists in Australia, the Art Prize has seen exponential growth in entries each
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