The sandy, weathered environment of the coastal heath is where Lisa draws inspiration for her current work. Continuing in her pursuit of carefully rendered still-life paintings, she paints the gnarled twists and turns of the primitive-shaped plants of this area, placing the ‘wild’ within the calm and peace of softly-hued interior scapes. Relying on soft […]
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The focus of Karen Stone’s Master of Visual Art (Research) is an examination of how the meaning of the term ‘home’ deeply embodies notions of belonging. Stone uses her identity as an older, single, non-home owning Australian woman, to guide and inform her research, exploring definitions of home as affected by physical, emotional, gendered, familial
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The awards offer an unparalleled opportunity for exposure for photographers at all stages of their career and are known worldwide by industry leaders. The images are judged by the World Photography Organisation and a specially selected jury from theWorld Photographic Academy which is made up on the photographic industry’s most esteemed individuals. The Sony World
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Kim Ah Sam belongs to the Kuku Yalanji and Kalkadoon people and works between printmaking, sculpture and weaving to culturally connect to country, interlocking her journey and exploring cultural identity. My sculptures relate to the landscape in the way that it relates to the body. It’s as if the surface of the land has
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The Perry Prize will be awarded for the ‘drawing’ chosen as the winning work, by the 2023 judge (Imants Tillers; artist, writer and curator), completed within the period of 12 months prior to 11 January, 2023. The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, valued at $25,000.00, is an acquisitive prize. Finalists in the competition are also eligible
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This new collection concentrates on a core interest in colour, focusing on yellow and its complimentary purples. The paintings themselves display a variety of themes that have been explored in recent years – insects, figures, shadow play and personal concepts. Yellow can be a challenging colour to work with- it’s intensely rich but also easily
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So in this civilised world as I witness through the media, brutal war, rabid fundamentalism and ridiculous conspiracies I feel that painting some roses up in the sky from time to time is a fairly benign, yet slightly satisfying reaction. – Stephen Nothling Image: Looking North along West Street 2022, Oil on canvas, 110 x 160 cm
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This November in Galleries 1, 2 & 3 we will be presenting new and recent works by Bonita Ely. The exhibition includes a new major work that presents her research of the Great Artesian Basin – the largest aquifer in the world; as well as a collection of image and text works that parody past
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SUPERCUT – Project 5 brings together the practices of Ben Tupas, Tay Haggarty, Laurie Oxenford, Sha Sarwari and Veople. Focused on the theme of ‘crossing’, the exhibition uses multimedia approaches to explore relationships between people and place. Ben Tupas is a Filipino Australian artist based in Toowoomba, Queensland. His arts practice explores ideas of identity,
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Not quite there embraces the eccentric, the unconventional, and the odd. Working across a diversity of media including textiles, installation, sculpture, photography, video, sound, and painting, the artists in this group show are collectively preoccupied with the body. Some bodies are clothed, others not. Some are implied, but absent – whose clothes are these, whose shoes? Some are whole,
Looking at bright things is an exhibition of new paintings and light interventions by Tor Maclean. The paintings themselves are studies of light using the interior view of windows from the various houses she has lived in, from childhood to the present as source material. Examining and observing light in her day to day through
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A showcase of emerging artists from the 2022 Brisbane Portrait Prize submissions. Brisbane Portrait Prize celebrates Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Opening Event Join us for the FREE exhibition opening event on Saturday 19 November, 4-6pm. Image: Jonathan Sri – The Guardian of Highgate Hill. By Martina Clarke
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Quadrant Gallery is pleased to announce the inaugural feel good ART PRIZE 2023, with the intention of the Prize becoming an annual event. Artists are invited to submit a “feel good” 20x20cm 2D or 3D artwork, as we believe in the power of art to elevate our surroundings and make our community a happier place.
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Upskill your drawing and join Sunburnt in the suburbs artist Phoebe Paradise in this incredible opportunity to learn digital illustration skills using Procreate. A ‘Sip n Sketch’ like no other, we’ll supply the iPads, you supply the creativity as Phoebe shares some of her tips and tricks for using Procreate to create a digital still life drawing.
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Join a vivid, hyper saturated exploration of the suburban summer. Inspired by the streets of Strathpine, Bray Park and Albany Creek, Phoebe Paradise’s world is filled with giant ice-creams, fantastical houses and never-ending holidays. Phoebe Sheehy aka Phoebe Paradise is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist, musician and designer based in Meanjin, Brisbane. Known for her bright
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Join Bella Deary for an artist talk as she introduces her first showcase of new work towards her PhD in Visual Arts, with the School of Creative Practice, Faculty of Creative industries, Education and Social Justice in the Old Government House cellar. Entangled Others aims to shed light on the rapid decline of vibrant coral communities occurring
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Since 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize has grown and evolved and is today one of the richest prizes for painting in regional Australia. Finalists for the Muswellbrook Art Prize vie for a total of $70,000 prize money across three prize categories: Painting ($50,000 acquisitive), Works on Paper ($10,000 acquisitive), and Ceramics ($10,000 acquisitive). Astute adjudication of the Prize over
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Jan Murphy Gallery is delighted to present, ‘Two Places’ an exhibition of new paintings by Marina Strocchi. In ‘Two Places’ , Strocchi presents a collection of works which further explore her time spent in New York alongside works inspired by rural Victoria, not far from Melbourne, where she now resides. The frenetic and immense built
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Join QCA Tuesdays event on 6th December from 5.30pm – 7:30pm to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions. Svetlana Trefilova: Diffusion – Webb Gallery My microscopic observations of nature, using both a scientific and artistic eye, helped me establish diffusion as the key technical method of my artwork. I dilute acrylic paints to
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Coffee, no sleep, an undefined task. Waiting for a video to upload, while practicing a musical instrument. These are the conditions of 24/7 Capitalism. ‘Amateur’ is an exhibition of new works by Simone Hine that investigates the role of the amateur in 24/7 capitalism and its mediated constituents. Opening celebrations: Thursday 17 November, 6-9pm Artist
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The annual Side Gallery end-of-year show is titled ‘Burn’ for the 2022 iteration, which will run from December 1 — 17. The word Burn elicits subjective definitions and associations for the artists involved; to burn, to light fire, climate change, heat, colour, pain, repair, to seal or cauterise, thus heal, to long for, to ignite,
you did care about me didn’t you it doesn’t stop for me new city new life new boyfriend hanging out with my new friends my heart is so broken but so big i only do friendship or romance even if we never hang out again it feels like we’re friends forever i think my friend
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Evidence of Scale II features over 70 works from FireWorks stable artists Alick Sweet, David Paulson, Pat Hoffie, Phil Gordon and Rod Moss. The gallery also introduces new artists to the gallery Piyali Ghosh and Stephen Hart; as well as two bronze sculptures by Joe Furlonger whose exhibition (in partnership with Bruce Heiser projects), Land
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Artists: Joseph Botica, Imogen Corbett, Mia Gribbin, Emma Gow, Chloe Healy-Johnson, Liam Johnston, Alisha Kitto, Hye Won Lee, Ava Long, Michael Louttit, Seren Wagstaff, Nadya Wilson Somatic Algorithms springs from collaborative discussion encompassing abstraction and the body. These dialogues are made manifest in the works shown, where the body is present both representationally and through
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A MURRIALITY is the first survey of renowned Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey, charting three decades of practice where artmaking and activism fuse. Gordon Hookey’s work is best known for its biting satire of Australian culture and politics, its witty critique of racism, and an exploration of oral and image-based history-making traditions. Across sculpture, printmaking, video, and large-scale
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Jan Manton Gallery is proud to present Recent Works by Dai Li showing between 6 – 21 December, 2022. Recent Works continues Dai Li’s interest in quirky, humorous, and inquisitive characters inspired by everyday life. Dai Li was born in Sichuan, China in 1987. She moved to Australia in 2009 and now lives and works
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David Whyte and Brendan Smith are exhibiting at Land Street Gallery, Toowong. Whyte’s art like quantum science is gifted to challenge the status quo and to expose that which is new and at the peripheral of our limited senses. Mondrian, Klee, Rothko, Miro, Pollock, Beuys peeled back layers and revealed the mark, the surface to
Expressions of interest are now open for shows and locations to be part of 2023 Anywhere Festival. Anywhere Festival happens 4-21 May 2023 in nooks and crannies anywhere but a theatre anywhere in Brisbane. Anyone can apply to present a performance or to have a performance at their business or home. Anywhere Festival is a
Paula Dunlop is a Brisbane-based artist, designer, and maker. She takes traditional bead-weaving techniques to produce contemporary and sculptural pieces from her home studio in Paddington. Her work has been exhibited both locally and overseas, and is stocked in gallery and museum stores throughout Australia and in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC.
‘Never Sometimes Now’ a solo exhibition by lucks @luckylucks Opening Event: Friday Dec 9th, 6:00pm Gallery opening hours: Dec 10th – 11th – 10am-5pm Dec 12th-21st – by appointment
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Smell Library aims to create a place for olfactory exploration, enrichment and discovery free from the alienation of marketing and retail spaces. In what hopes to be as intuitive a concept as possible, Pink Manor Decant Club presents a shifting collection largely of creative, contemporary independent and artisan perfumery, alongside some classic vintage work. Come
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The IMA Program Assistant is a part-time position created to support an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander arts worker in the early stages of their career. The candidate will work closely with the IMA team across a range of areas–including programs, curatorial, and operations–to prepare them to become a future Australian arts sector leader.
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Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to all Australian artists, presented by Redland Art Gallery. Redland Art Awards 2022 features four prizes, totalling $22,000. The primary award is an acquisitive prize of $15,000 with runner up awards of $4,000 and $2,500 as well as The Meredith Foxton People’s Choice Award of $500. Image: Barry
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How long have you been feeling unwell is an urgently-paced video installation that uses found footage to dissect and reframe the representation of illness in popular culture. Often, the ill body acts as a commodity for observation, entertainment and curiosity. Via the cut of the edit, this work exposes and lacerates the cultural centralisation and
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Holdings 2022, a group exhibition curated by Gallery Assistant, Sarah Meehan. Holdings is informed by the spectrum and relationships of colours commonly identified in the colour wheel. Featured works by our represented artists have been thoughtfully selected from the stockroom. Through a kaleidoscopic display of artworks, Holdings highlights and celebrates the diversity of
This December across Galleries 1, 2 & 3 we are presenting recent works by Khaled Sabsabi. The exhibition includes works that trace the relationships between the self and other, belief and possibilities of transcendence. Opening Event: Saturday 3 December, 4-6pm Khaled Sabsabi’s process involves working across art mediums, geographical borders and cultures to create immersive