Now in its 36th year, ‘the churchie’ has become one of Australia’s leading prizes for emerging artists, offering a $25,000 prize pool to support artists at a critical moment in their careers. The finalists’ exhibition will take place at the Institute of Modern Art from 20 May to 19 August 2023, featuring compelling works by thirteen early-career artists […]
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Contemporary society has become increasingly attuned to the self-image through social media’s ‘selfie’ culture and reality TV, providing a fascinating backdrop in which to examine the self-portrait today. ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ explores the genre of the self-portrait, a distinct form of portraiture in which subject and artist are one. The exhibition examines the human
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Brisbane Festival returns in 2023 with a program that promises connection, community, complexity, and joy in a city-wide celebration of arts, culture, and live performance from 1 – 23 September. The fourth program from Artistic Director Louise Bezzina simultaneously welcomes the world and spotlights Brisbane on the global stage across 23 days of evocative, accessible, and uplifting work.
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I am not a noun. I am an ecology. FUTURE NOSTALGIA looks at emergent narratives of the future through our relationships to song, dance, craft, food, ecologies, ourselves and each other. Drawn from evolutionary ecological research + restoration, speculative fiction, surrealism, ecophilosophy and biomimicry. Haywood works to congeal collaborating participants, including; multi-instrumentalist/artist Sue Simpson, evolutionary biologist Dr.
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‘Contemporary Art X Cinema’ showcases films by multi-disciplinary artists whose practice has expanded into moving image works that directly engage with the language of cinema. From riveting historical dramas and heart-wrenching biopics, to thought-provoking experimental films that push the boundaries of narrative storytelling, this program brings together a curated selection of films that look at
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This exhibition builds on Matt’s trademark approach exploring the movement and drama of the natural world. The collection sees Matt turn his attention upwards, with a series of works predominantly representing the patterns of the sky. The paintings aim to show a split-second moment in time, whilst capturing the ever-changing and eternal flow of nature.
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Sam Harrison is a Brisbane based artist and curator with cultural connections to Kamilaroi and Wiradjuri people of Central NSW. He completed a bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) in 2018 from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Sam has worked in a number of creative capacities, as an exhibiting artist, curator, artist assistant and
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An exhibition that brings together a group of emerging artists, all students or recent graduates of the Queensland College of Art , aiming to emphasise the role of the viewer and the ambiguous interpretations derived from their personal experiences. Exploring the relationship between reality, the perspective of the artist and the power of art to
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In 2021, an ‘artist in residence’ opportunity, which accompanied Rich’s Fleeting World exhibition at Side Gallery, created a compelling need for Rich to explore the circle and all this holistic symbol represents. In addition, at that time, Rich had several conversations with fellow artisans from diverse disciplines of practice. These conversations led to the idea of undertaking
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Join Artist-In-Residence Kellie O’Dempsey and sound artist Mick Dick for a live drawing and sound performance. This performance is an exciting outcome from Kellie O’Dempsey’s three week Artist-In-Residence at The Condensery, where she will research and develop new work responding to the architecture and history of the bomb shelter. Built in the 1940s as a
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The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) is a prominent event that brings together scholars, artists, and scientists from around the world to explore the intersection of art, science, and technology. The symposium was first held in 1988 and has since become one of the most significant forums for exchanging ideas and presenting cutting-edge work
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In some cultures, it is not just humans who carry a spirit or soul. Objects too can maintain such qualities. In November 2019, one-hundred-and-four stowaways, simplistic Russian educational robots, boarded a container ship in the Chinese port city of Shantou. For three weeks they sat in darkness, their only certainty a variable state of undulation
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Join the Get me out! exhibiting artist, Spencer Harvie, in an experimental and collaborative drawing workshop. You will explore the role of drawn images in the era of information overload. In this workshop, you will use a wide range of methods including tracing, collaging, photocopying, erasure, and remixing. Together with the artist, you will create
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Call for exhibition proposals: Incinerator Gallery Atrium Space Incinerator Gallery exhibits work by emerging and established artists in the Atrium each year. The Atrium is suited to sculptural and spatial practices that are site-considered. All applicants are encouraged to visit the exhibition space before submitting your application. New works designed specifically for the site are highly encouraged. Successful applicants
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Green sky, orange clouds, purple rain presents new and recent artworks from Meanjin/Brisbane artist Jordan Azcune. Fascinated with colour, optics, and spirituality, his artworks relate to the natural world, the body, and architecture. This exhibition will explore Azcune’s personal connection to the Redlands Coast, having grown up in the area, and will reinterpret local built and
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Compositional Utterances is a site-responsive, collaborative exhibition by three artists whose material-led practices share feminist and ecological concerns. The exhibition is the product of deep conversation and collaboration between Brisbane-based artists Mandy Quadrio, Susan Hawkins and Jan Oliver. All three artists have practices centred on the formal and narrative potential of their chosen materials: Quadrio works with sea
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Climate of Violence: Directions in sound and vision by Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon. Amy Sargeant is a Meanjin based visual artist, musician and trans justice advocate. Through installations of sculpture, audio and video Amy’s work responds to her disillusionment with the dysfunctions of the Australian political establishment by reframing the elements of political spectacle.
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Don’t miss our final Portrait of an artist event for 2023 featuring nationally and internationally acclaimed First Nations artist Richard Bell, fresh from his recent exhibition at the Tate Modern in London! Richard will be live and in-conversation with renowned First Nations photographer Michael Aird, also Director of University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum. Richard Bell (Kamilaroi, Kooma,
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In their joint exhibition Holding, Ally McKay and Emily McGuire present new works that grapple with concepts of potential and fulfilment. Through their considered use of materials, light and space they each explore the relationships between balance and tension in order to unpack power dynamics within organisational systems. Reflecting on the incessant social, domestic and
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The National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others reveals how – at the height of the Abstract expressionist movement – a new avant-garde began to materialise from the same-sex relationship between two young artists – Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. The exhibition highlights how Rauschenberg and Johns expanded on ideas developed through their
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Linda is a Brisbane (Meanjin) based painter using oil on linen. In Close to Home, she applies her strong sense of shape and rich but restrained palette to familiar Brisbane landmarks and scenes. Linda’s fashion background is evident in the simple, bold compositions, as is her nostalgic instinct in the colour schemes and figures that
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Mitchell Fine Art is pleased to present ‘Artists of the North Country’, an exhibition of Aboriginal artworks from the Arnhem land region of the Northern Territory. Arnhem Land is home to one of the oldest continuously living cultures in the world, with a diversity of different languages, customs, and laws. There is a storytelling tradition which is
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Joel Sherwood Spring was announced as the winner of the churchie emerging art prize 2023 at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) on Friday night. The Sydney-based Wiradjuri artist took home the $15,000 non-acquisitive cash prize donated by long standing prize money sponsor, BSPN Architecture. Spring’s video, Diggermode (2022), was selected as the Overall Prize winner by judge Tara McDowell, Associate Professor and Director
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Asia Pacific Video is an exhibition developed by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). It focuses on performance, experimentation and theatricality in video art from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition highlights artists experimenting with video as an art form capturing bodily actions and performative practices, creating intersections between contemporary art and
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‘Beautiful Wickedness’ will be the most significant exhibition of work by celebrated Australian artist eX de Medici yet staged. The survey will examine the artist’s central concerns, including the fragility of life, global affairs, greed and commerce, and the universal themes of power, conflict, and death. Exhibition highlights include de Medici’s intricate botanical studies and
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Flowah Powah: Alice Lang borrows from a vibrant counterculture aesthetic that rose out of LA in the 1960s, while playing on a uniquely Australian vernacular, through goading and sometimes humorous painting, text and sculpture. Lang taps into the current political and cultural climate to deliver a high impact visual journey full of kitsch, vulgarism and the
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‘Shape I’m In’ is Adam Lester’s eighth solo exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery. Steering a course between figuration and gestural interpretation, Adam Lester’s observations of contemporary culture are bought to edgy resolution in his latest exhibition, ‘Shape I’m In’. Drawing inspiration from recent trips to Woodford Folk Festival and coloured by fading memories of early
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The trauma experienced by refugees is often forgotten or made invisible, further burdening their attempts to flourish in a new land. Archaeology of memory is an exhibition that tells the stories of refugees and asylum seekers caught between conflict and politics. Image: Sha Sawari: Untitled, 2022, from the series of Archaeology of memory and ongoing, charcoal,
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Margaret Olley AC (1923 – 2011) is one of Australia’s most celebrated painters. Focussing largely on still life and interiors, Olley drew inspiration from her home studio and the beauty of the everyday objects she surrounded herself with. Olley was born on 24 June 1923 in Lismore, New South Wales. In 1925 the Olley family
Jacqueline Hennessy’s feminine figures offer themselves to our gaze, conditionally: a body, a gesture, the minutiae of fabric or hair — faces are rare. Hennessy builds her images slowly over time, transparent washes of raw umber are gently painted onto linen then disrupted by overbrushing. “My process involves playing between binary opposites to create a
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The Land that never was (or Is) will be Milojevic’s first solo exhibition at FireWorks Gallery comprising of nine limited-edition prints. Contemporary cultural identity and the complexities of a cross-cultural position are explored through imagery evolving from two worlds – one evocative of a European landscape and the other reminiscent of a Tasmanian one. Milojevic utilises
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Established in 2018 the Urunga Small Sculpture Prize is a regional award for small sculpture, presented by the Urunga Business and Community Chamber, and the Urunga Art Space.
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At the heart of Head On Photo Festival are the Head On Photo Awards across four categories;, Portrait, Landscape, Student, and the brand-new Environmental Awards by Australian Geographic all judged by a diverse panel of Australian and international photography industry leaders, from creators to curators. Head On’s philosophy hinges upon the belief that all artists
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After a year creating work at the Norman Park Substation… the Pathfinders provide reflections on their Metro Arts’ journey. Artists: Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing and James Barth At the close of their residency, MAVA Pathfinder Artists, Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing and James Barth share developments and learnings from their time in the MAVA studio. Upskilling
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Things I want to say brings together artists from across the country whose practices negotiate identity in contemporary Australia. Focusing on artists with a connection to Queensland, the exhibition will encourage conversation around navigating one’s sense of self within the pressures of broader society. Curated by Imogen Dixon-Smith and Rachel Arndt. Artists: JORDAN AZCUNE | TYZA HART
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Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT is an exhibition from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). This exhibition shares highlights from the long-running Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) series and features art commissioned or collected from APT1 (1993) to APT10 (2021-22). Including works by: Heri Dono (Indonesia) Lee Wen
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