A communal cut and paste session for collage artists and the collage curious. Share food, conversation, a treasure-trove of materials and make collages inspired by a monthly theme. This March we’re delving into the weird and wonderful world of : DINOSAURS. Hosted by Emma Anna @emma_anna_chatter and The Burrow @theburrowwestend. All materials are provided but […]
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An initiative of Museum of Brisbane (MoB), BRISBANE ART DESIGN (BAD) champions the movers and shakers of the Brisbane art and design sector, and spotlights our thriving cultural identity through the places, histories and climate that bring our collective creativity to the fore. BAD 2023 will profile more than 150 events across 60 venues over
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6th Biennale of the Dolomites is calling for proposals. SMACH is an international call for artists. SPROUTING. The theme of the Biennale 2023 is a verb declined in the gerund indicating an action already in progress on a visible level or on invisible, microscopic, metaphorical levels. The term has a wide range of applications from
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‘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
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
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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The start of the year can fill us with the urge to reflect and reset. Join Claire Ritchie in this workshop to learn techniques to develop and refine your drawing skills. Establish your own daily journal practice for the year ahead with the skills learned during the event. While the commitment of drawing in a
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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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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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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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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
Join us for a panel discussion with exhibition artist Mona Ryder, Director QUT Galleries and Museums Vanessa Van Ooyen, visual artist and educator Dr Rachael Haynes and writer Dr Victoria Garnons-Williams on the practice of seminal Queensland artist Mona Ryder. Queensland-based artist and QUT alumnus Mona Ryder has been a significant figure in the Australian
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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 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.
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.
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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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Medicine Clay – Gidjarr by Simone Arnol & Bernard Singleton. One way to preserve our cultural knowledge is to share it. To ensure the transmission of knowledge from one generation of family to the next, we must embed the knowledge systems practiced by our old people’s into our
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Showing new works by artists by artists: Goldie (Anika Lister), Carmen Olsen, Rebekah Evans & Andrea Verheeson Opening Event: Friday Feb 17 at 5pm
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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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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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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Aster + Asha Gallery artist, Miranda Hine, will present an exhibition of new paintings at POP Gallery in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley next month. A winner of last year’s prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, this new body of work sees her continue to explore how we construct meaning and make sense of the world around
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The Griffith University Printmakers Club has been celebrating explorations of printmaking for over 20 years. This annual exhibition showcases the work of members in response to the theme ‘Forbidden’, whether that be subverting assumed technical processes, tackling taboo themes, or enchanting the audience with forbidden knowledge. Opening night: 2 February, 5.30-7.73pm Open Tue – Sat
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A survey of prints and textiles by the late Robyn Daw, former Creative Industries Program Leader, Logan City Council 2012 – 2022. Robyn’s creative practice spanned many decades and is showcased for the first time to Logan audiences. Opening night for this exhibition will be held on February 3 2023 at 6 pm. Click here for more
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Ann Thomson has been at the forefront of the Australian art landscape for more than 50 years. Brisbane born but now Sydney based, Thomson is a painter and sculptor known for her intriguing, expressive artworks. Her importance as a visual artist cannot be overstated and her influence on generations of artists is evident. The body
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Weaving a capricious path through five centuries of western painting, Pools of Sorrow; Waves of Joy visits upon histrionic moments. The works pay homage to movements such as Australian mysticism, the Italian, Dutch and Spanish Baroque, Preraphaelitism, Norwegian Romanticism and even banal stock imagery. A series of eight oil paintings feature new collaged narratives; figures appear in unfamiliar landscapes,
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The Footscray Art Prize is a biennial visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines. To recognise the impact of COVID-19 on visual artists, Footscray Art Prize is doubling the prize money so there’s $20,000 up for grabs this year. Established in 2016, it contributes to Footscray’s reputation as a thriving cultural
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Vague Intentions presents: IDLE INFERENCE An interactive art exhibition with purpose. A curated collection of art from 8 artists in a range of different mediums, as well as local musicians, food and drinks. You will have the chance to participate in various activities, win some fantastic raffle prizes, and even score an incredible painting at
A solo exhibition by artist Jesse Olsen showcasing his latest and largest body of work at Sure Gallery from Thursday 23rd March. Each illustration consists delicate details and forms focusing on optimism, heart break, gun fights and tenderness. Come on out and grab a drink and have a look at this eclectic body of work.
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For our first exhibition of 2023 we are presenting new and recent works by Judy Watson. In Gallery 1 we are showing new paintings and mixed media works alongside her new wall installation bagging colonialism. In Gallery 2 we are presenting major recent paintings that were first shown at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris as
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Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘Soft Skeletons’, Laura Patterson’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Continuing Laura’s dedication to ferns as a painterly muse, ‘Soft Skeletons’, presents a body of work enamoured with the dichotomy of strength and delicacy. Created in her home studio after field trips and research, the paintings communicate the
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Joanne has realised a highly charged individual style that, although instantly recognisable as Aboriginal, speaks of her journey as an artist moving within cultures. The importance of the river as a metaphor is a constant in Joanne’s painting, as this takes her back to the hardships of her early life living on the banks of
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Malamegi Lab Art Prize, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit their artworks, and much more. PRIZES:
Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) is delighted to present Safdar Ahmed: Border Farce / Alien Citizen / Sovereign Murders from 2 to 12 February 2023, at POP (Postgraduate and Other Projects) Gallery, on Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Destiny Disrupted curated by Nur Shkembi and currently on show at Griffith
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APOGEE uses computer-generated imagery and game engine technology to explore the critical tensions between current technological advancements, and subsequential planetary ecocide. With the advent of space tourism, spacefaring rhetoric, and the widespread use of game engines for entertainment, the work examines the direct cost of society’s desire to explore other realities, virtual and real. Even
Mitchell Fine Art begins its 2023 gallery exhibition calendar year with the personally curated exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’ showing from January 30th. Gallery Director Mike Mitchell has selected artworks from the Gallery’s collection showcasing a mix of Australian contemporary and Aboriginal art. The exhibition highlights the gallery’s diverse stockroom and includes artists that will be exhibited
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