Take a moment for yourself at this yoga session and be surrounded by art. Led by Yasuyo Anne Uehara (Holistic counsellor, life-long meditator, and mindfulness yoga teacher), you’ll be instructed through yoga poses, with a focus on breath and mindfulness practices. Enjoy the benefits of attending this morning yoga session: Practice yoga postures as mindfulness […]
Now in its third year, entries open today (01 March 2023) in the annual National Capital Art Prize. Artists around Australia are invited to take part, with $45,000 prize money up for grabs across three categories, including: Open Prize, First Nations Prize for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and the Sustainability Prize. Categories
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Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize is an initiative of the Hervey Bay Regional Gallery and Fraser Coast Regional Council that seeks to explore our reciprocal, inextricable relationship with the environment through contemporary art. Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize invites entries from artists working in any visual art medium from across Australia, offering a
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Curious about a career in the arts after school or wanting to immerse yourself in the world of contemporary art? The Visual Field is a professional development program for young and emerging creatives (15-18yrs), delivered by Flying Arts Alliance and the Institute of Modern Art. Meet artists and arts industry professionals to explore career pathways and connect with
The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023 is open to original works made on, or principally with, paper. Mediums may include but are not limited to drawing, painting, watercolour, collage, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and video. Awards include the $15,000 major award, the $5,000 Young and Early Career Artist Award, the $5,000 Friends of Hazelhurst Local
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Although Fiona Omeenyo is based in Cairns, since 2016 she has completed commissioned and collaborative works with FireWorks Gallery at their Brisbane studio. This has resulted in large scale experimental paintings, and the development of her imagery into three-dimensional forms in a variety of materials and scale. This includes acrylic table sculptures, aluminium and bronze outdoor
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If you are interested in learning new art techniques, we have the workshops for you. Join us in the Art Tasters workshop series to learn different art mediums with a local artist each month. These inclusive workshops are suitable for adults. Let us know how we can support your individual needs. All materials provided. –
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Innovate Grant awards $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, honorable mentions (3 in art and 3 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners
Life drawing with collage for The Ascended Connect with Chantal Fraser’s The Ascended by making your own artwork inspired by the artist’s protective uniforms, masks and shields. In a life drawing style workshop facilitated by Rachel Monique Walker participants will make their own mixed-media collages with inspiration from Fraser’s Citizens’ Armory. Riot shields, welding masks
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Assets brings together new artworks by Simone Hine that playfully engage with the condition of contemporary visual culture, through the lens of art history, to create a dialectic between liquidity and capital, liquidity and data, and liquidity in the natural and material world. A television leaning against a rock is overtaken by live plants, glitter
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This project is a contemplation on the massive scale and mineral slowness of earth and stone — a search for sensations of deep time and tectonics. Artworks use photography, simple machines and site-responsive installation practices to enact and document a series of material gestures. These gestures prompt felt encounters with geology’s more subtle forces and
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The Banyule Award for Works on Paper is awarded biennially to an outstanding contemporary work on paper. This is a prestigious national art prize, with the winning artwork entered into the Banyule Art Collection. Banyule Council also acquires many artworks from the Finalists’ Exhibition as a part of this process. Each iteration of the Banyule
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Entries are now open for the 2023 Mosman Art Prize. The annual exhibition will take place 23 September – 29 October. The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since
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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