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The Hopper Prize

The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2023 artist grants. We are offering $3,500 and $1,000 grants to artists & photographers around the world. For this open call, we will be providing 6 grants totaling $11,000 USD. 2 artists will each receive $3,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. This is

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Still Life Studio

Welcome to a space to explore, create and play. Explore the still life tradition – art that features inanimate or ‘still’ objects like fruit, flowers, baskets, and bottles. The objects often represent life’s pleasures, like the beauty of a flower, and the cycle of life from birth to death. Be inspired by artist Robyn Stacey,

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Omnia Art Prize

Entries are now open for the $15,000 Omnia Art Prize. Australia’s premier contemporary art prize and exhibition. Selected artworks will be exhibited and available for sale at the exhibition from 19-23 May 2023. Image: Belem Lett, The Sun Burns For Us, oil, gesso, marble dust on aluminium, 152 x 150 cm

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Incinerator Art Award

Incinerator Gallery is excited to announce the Call for Entries for the ninth annual Incinerator Art Award. A nationally recognised exhibition that celebrates the crucial role art plays for contemporary Australian audiences. The exhibition is dedicated to Art for Social Change and invites entries from both emerging and established artists from all over Australia.    NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES  Incinerator

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Drawing Festival

An unmissable one-day free festival celebrating drawing and creativity. Get creative at artist-led Draw Along workshops and drop-in drawing experiences, plus be inspired by art exhibitions, instrumental music performances, talks, tours and live art demonstrations. Spark or rekindle your love of drawing through experiences designed to tap into the transformative benefits of drawing. From beginners

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KEPK Artspace: EOI

KEPK is looking for expressions of interest from artists, curators and performers to join our 2023 program. This year, KEPK will be welcoming 10 exhibitions from external applicants into a program that emphasises experimental and interdisciplinary art forms, amplifying the work of local, interstate and international artists. Applicants will be assessed on portfolio, feasibility of

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Cut X Paste

A communal cut and paste session for collage artists and the collage curious. Beginners will love this introduction to collage – no prior experience is required. Share food, conversation, a treasure-trove of materials and make collages inspired by a monthly theme. In April we’re all about THE FOOL : chasing daydreams and new adventures. All

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Jonathan Kopinski: Nervous. Solid. Nothing.

Jonathan Kopinski’s latest offering Nervous. Solid. Nothing. continues the artist’s exploration into psycho-scenographic imagery. Eschewing overt didactic arcs in favour of fragmentary and often incongruous motifs and images, Kopinski’s compositions present scenes severed from reality, with trace elements of it. The strange blend of visual language across photorealism, abstraction, collage and hand renderings give an initial

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Connections across the Coral Sea

Discover a time where humankind knew no borders. A place where objects and ideas were shared harmoniously across cultures. Travel across the iconic Coral Sea and explore the rich relationships of ancient First Nations communities – their trade, customs and connections. Connections across the Coral Sea reveals the latest archaeological research around the earliest movements

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Urbania #1

‘Urbania’ is an ongoing series of shows bringing together small groups of independent artists who currently live and work in Brisbane. Artists: Ally McKay Casselle Mountford Clinton Barker Jason Binnie Kay Watanabe Kazumi Daido Kenneth Beck Loki Groves Rebekah Evans Opening Event: Saturday afternoon, February 25 from 3pm

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BODY-CITES

Body-Cites has been curated by Centre for Projection Art  (CPA) artistic director Priya Namana for FRAME: a biennial of dance 2023. Taking place across multiple sites in March, Body-Cites, as part of FRAME, will include a series of exhibitions, screenings and artist conversations, presented by CPA. As part of this, Body-Cites: choreographic experiments on screen, in collaboration with Composite Moving Image

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Zoe Wong: Oriental Futures

Oriental Futures is a photographic series exploring the oriental setting that is apparent in sci fi cinema, particularly that of Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). This series aims to reconcile the use of ‘Asia’ as decoration within predominantly white storylines by highlighting its appearance and making it central to the images. By

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UnitePlayPerform: Kinship Playshop

An immersive experience to cultivate community connection. This is a fresh space where immersive art, ritual, making and community come together. A guided experience hosted by UnitePlayPerform’s Artist, Founder and Master Facilitator ØFFËRÎNGŠ  (featured within Play Moves exhibition), providing a unique experience for all participants. In this guided Kinship Playshop™, participants use object art, space, sense, movement, language

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Martin Edge: All the best

See the world through the eyes of local artist Martin Edge. The Pine Rivers Art Gallery becomes an inclusive, playful, sensory experience of Martin’s wondrous world. Drawing from Martin’s memories, All the best, from Martin Edge will share moments from his life, be they everyday, whimsical or monumental. This project has been produced in collaboration with Pia

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Artist in Residence: Christine Ko and Louis Lim

An evolving installation of community kites and recollections. As Artists in Residence at Museum of Brisbane (MoB) for BrisAsia Stories, Christine Ko and Louis Lim will extend upon their ongoing project Departure. In this iteration of the project, Christine and Louis will lead a series of informal conversations and workshops with various members from Brisbane migrant communities.

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FLUX

Brought together via an open-call, this collection of moving image works suggests time, space and material as mutable and unsettled. Through the potential of the moving image as both form and process, and its possibilities for the juxtaposition, re-articulation and compression of time and space, the artists in Flux blur boundaries between past and present, new and

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Kyra Mancktelow: Don’t Read the Comments

Don’t Read the Comments investigates the history of protest in Australia through legacies of colonialism, posing important questions about how we remember and acknowledge the Indigenous experience and histories of today. These monoprints result in a transfer of ink and conceptual ideas, creating an image that stages stark encounters between emblems of Indigenous cultural resistance

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Ashlee Becks

Ashlee Becks is an impasto painter specialising in the need to better understand and live with the self. A material sensibility guides the work, with thick impasto mark making acting as a metaphor for self-discovery and healing. Loving, performative, and visceral strokes juxtaposed with intricate detail enables viewers to sense the presence of the artist.

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TONDI / TONDO

  A group exhibition of circular forms, curated by Claire Grant. TONDI (   ) TONDO features a diverse array of material responses: sculptural installation, ceramics, photography, painting, projection, and sound. Tondo (plural tondi) is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art. Challenging tradition, these thirteen artists dare to break outside the square.

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Keemon Williams: Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales is an ongoing series exploring queer narratives, and their intrinsic links to other forms of identity. Particularly the way in which experiences of queer life, trauma, and Indigeneity combine to create a personal form of cultural expression. Recollecting experiences through dramatisation, the photographic medium is used as a tool to reformat memory, to address

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Kay Watanabe: Resonance

Resonance is a collection of the latest original fine art prints created by Brisbane-based visual artist Kay Watanabe. The collection is themed around Kay’s interest in environmental issues and her belief that humanity and nature are not separate and that their fates influence each other. The starting point of the series is Sun-kissed and Forest Dreaming. They were created in

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Elyse de Valle: Emotionally Overcontrolled/Undercontrolled

Emotionally Overcontrolled/Undercontrolled is an exhibition of new works by Elyse de Valle. Intricate embroidered adaptations of notes from the artist’s journals taken throughout Dialectical Behaviour Therapy sessions, articulate painful emotions, urges and symptoms. They are stitched into fabric as words and physical traces of process. This exhibition is accompanied by an Artist Book available here in hardcover, paperback and ebook

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Keith Burt: Variations

  Jan Murphy Gallery is delighted to present ‘Variations’, an exhibitions of new paintings by Keith Burt. ‘Variations’ is an exploration of calm moods and quiet corners in still life painting. Keith’s latest body of work is characterised by the tactile quality of his subjects, from chalky white vessels and hollow glass, to scrunched paper

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