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Robyn Stacey: as still as life

Robyn Stacey: as still as life leads audiences into the tantalising world of still life. The exhibition opens with a collection of still-life photographs drawn from the Monash Gallery of Art – placing Stacey’s work into a wider context. Following, you’ll get to explore the works of Robyn Stacey, one of Australia’s leading photographic artists. Robyn

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Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Finalists of the MCPP are exhibited annually at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre with the prize-winning work joining the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection, and a collection of contemporary photographic works acquired through the Muswellbrook Photographic Award (1987 – 2014). Means of work presentation are unrestricted, inviting photographers to illustrate the intent of their works through a

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Remagine Art Prize 2023

Open to digital stills, sculpture, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, and drawing. Entries close 26 April 2023. Artists are asked to submit works that relate to an element of this year’s theme ‘Wasteland or Wonderland’, referring to the decisions we make each day about how much waste we create, and how this affects the

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Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion

Created by Bendigo Art Gallery, Piinpi: Contemporary Australian Indigenous Fashion shines a light on Australia’s leading First Nations creatives, and a design movement that is fast becoming a national fashion phenomenon. Featuring the work of Indigenous artists and designers from the inner city to remote desert art centres, Piinpi highlights the strength and diversity of the rapidly expanding Indigenous

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Andrew Arnaoutopoulos: Eternity

  Fireworks Gallery will be presenting a new exhibition; Eternity by renowned artist Andrew Arnaoutopoulos comprising of recent paintings and installations displayed in the mezzanine gallery. Arnaoutopoulos, who is being exhibited for the first time at FireWorks gallery, has invited Nicholas Tsoutas as the curator; both boast distinguished professional careers in contemporary art spanning decades.

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Lost in Palm Springs

Lost in Palm Springs is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together 14 creative minds – including internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia – who respond to, capture, or reimagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture found in the desert city. Connections between Palm Springs and Australia

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2023 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture

  The Olive Cotton Award is a $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture in memory of photographer Olive Cotton. The exhibition is selected from entrants across Australia and is a significant opportunity for established and emerging photographers. The winning work is acquired for the Gallery’s collection. First prize: $20,000 acquisitive Director’s Choice:

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Alexandra Matthews: Walking Pace

Alexandra’s latest collection, ‘Walking Pace,’ showcases her passion for early Queensland architecture. Her intricate depictions invite viewers to immerse themselves in the scenes, as the interplay of light at dusk brings architectural details to life. The evening streetscapes unfold uniquely, with the glowing windows suggesting the presence of human lives. Through her artwork, she celebrates

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Play Moves

Surrender yourself to the sublime art of play. In the tradition of RMXTV and The Storytellers: Next Chapter, MoB is once again inviting the community to break the boundaries of audience and artist with our largest participatory exhibition to date, Play Moves. Bringing together a collection of local and national participatory artists, we are inviting people of all ages

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Brontë Naylor: COUNTERWEIGHT

Onespace warmly invites you to COUNTERWEIGHT  by multidisciplinary artist, Brontë Naylor. Naylor’s first solo exhibition with Onespace examines our tolerance for grief and longing, while considering the passing of time, and the unfolding of healing. Through performance and composition, the works layer and distribute ‘weight’ in different ways, exploring the poignant relationships between humans, objects,

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Summer Aldis: A Thread of Silver

From the Heath Interwoven experiences of hope and happenstance are intricately detailed in Summer Aldis’s new collection of chiaroscuro drawings. Sentimental musings on fate as a woven fabric of thread informs the repeated symbolism. Conceptualised at a personal crossroad- to become a teacher, or to pursue a career in the arts- this collection captures the emotional tapestry of

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TEETERING, TITTERING, TITS UP

teetering, tittering, tits up is an exhibition of sculptural works that imagine structures for queer and multispecies intimacies. Playful reconfigurations of outdoor equipment such as tarpaulin, tentpoles, and trampolines offer refuge in their corrugations and curvatures. Developed in response to wetland bird hides and other cruising sites, the exhibition takes an irreverent, ironic, and absurd approach

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Suspended Moment

Suspended Moment includes key works by Katthy Cavaliere alongside the fellowship artists who benefited from her enduring legacy. The exhibit brings together new works by three recipients of The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship: Frances Barrett Sally Rees Giselle Stanborough. The fellowship was established in the name of Italian-born, Australian artist Katthy Cavaliere (1972–2012). It was a one-off

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Robert Brownhall

Robert Brownhall (b.1968, Brisbane) is a realist painter, inspired by his local environment of South-East Queensland. Over nearly thirty years of painting, Brownhall has developed a unique style characterised by a strong connection to place with his moody nocturnes, broad sweeping panoramas and gritty vignettes of urban life. Brownhall’s realism is not slick. The humanity

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Melting into Air

  Presented in conjunction with the Gallery of Modern Art’s blockbuster ‘Air’ exhibition, ‘Melting into Air’ (26 November 2022 – 23 April 2023) is the new, free cinema program at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA. It explores screen depictions of this essential element from over the past century, showcasing hidden mysteries within deep fogs, the sublime potential

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Rebecca Ross: Greater Sunrise

Rebecca Ross lives on Kombumerri Country/Queensland’s Southern Gold Coast. Since completing a Master of Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology she has exhibited at the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C. and Festival 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, and was awarded the Rome Studio at the British School at Rome by the Australia Council

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Michael Cook: Fake

Michael Cook is a Queensland-based artist of Bidjara heritage. Over  the last decade, Cook has produced works that interrogate the legacy  of colonisation and invite the viewer to experience the other side of the  coin, roles in reversal and histories re-written. His latest series of 12 large  scale photographic works titled ‘Fake,’ follows an Indigenous

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Miri Badger: IKKUNA

“This framed glass is following me, obscuring and cropping my experience. A form of shelter.  Looking over my shoulder, through another window I see muted green and brown encased in a red trim.” I spent 2012 in Turku, Finland. After 10 years, in August 2022, I found myself there again as an artist in residence

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GOMA Talks: Cancel Culture

GOMA Talks returns during ‘Air’ to ask the question – is cancel culture giving us a voice or suffocating us? Public shaming and calling out transgressions are social justice practices that have been around as long as society itself. In our increasingly digital world social media has become the contemporary town square, a place where conflicting

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Air

‘Air’ showcases immersive and large-scale works by leading international and Australian artists exploring the cultural, ecological and political dimensions of air. When artists address the global issues confronting us today, they have the power to change the world – by changing the way we look at it. Chris Saines CNZM, Director QAGOMA Presented across the

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Artist Talks at Studio Gallery

Studio Gallery is proud to present a dynamic panel discussion and evening event on the intersection of art, design, and community. Delve deep into the minds of esteemed Australian artists, including Stanislas Piechaczek, Andy Harwood, Clairy Laurence, and renowned artist and Studio Gallery director Kerry Armstrong. The panel discussion will explore the role that art

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Margaret Loy Pula: UNJANGOLA – MY FATHER’S COUNTRY

Hailing from Utopia in Central Australia Margaret Loy Pula continues a legacy of sharing culture. Painting traditional stories handed down from her father she depicts her homelands, bush foods and ceremonial designs using a series of finely detailed dots. Margaret Loy Pula paints her culture and her father’s dreaming. Her primary story is “Anatye” or Bush Potato dreaming. The

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Julie Gilroy: Curating an Image

Arranging fragments into desirable compositions to steer and guide the observer. Moulding our image to appear effortlessly beautiful, happier, sleeker, camouflaging the chaos. But we must embrace the un-curated fragments, the messy backgrounds which make us unique and interesting. When we lay ourselves bare we find strength and beauty. Navigating the labyrinth of content and

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Renee Kire: Shifting Perspectives

Shifting Perspectives is a site-specific installation that invites participants to engage with their surroundings. As a continuation into Renee’s research into the overlooking of women artists, she is seeking new ways to occupy space in untraditional ways. The installation slowly reveals itself through the responsiveness of the participant, making them think about their surroundings and

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Dhana Merritt: Soak

Soak is an invitation to collectively restore and revitalise mentally, emotionally and physically within the shared experience of a healing magnesium-rich foot bath. An inclusive, safe and playful sanctum held over two weekends in May, Wreckers Artspace will become a wellness destination. Concerns around the increase of diagnosed magnesium deficiencies in our bodies and decreasing

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Dadang Christanto: LEGACY

Dadang Christanto, widely known for his works surrounding Indonesia’s 1965-66 genocide, returns to Jan Manton Gallery in his new exhibition LEGACY with a continued rigour and commitment to voicing the stories of the countless victims. Christanto grew up in Tegal, Central Java where he lived with his family during the 1960s. When Christanto was 8 years old,

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Ari Athans: Ingrained

Mnemonic landscapes half-remembered through the haze of sun reflecting off plunging hills, landscapes slide from the haze of memory bleeding into bright smears. Ingrained mines the mental topography of memory to draw out emotional landscapes of Ari Athans own life. Time and place are compressed into bleary recollections, where individual points of focus stand out amidst foggy

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