Onespace is pleased to invite you to experience The Secret Life of Objects by Northern Rivers–based artist Lyndall Phelps. This exhibition showcases a selection of Phelps’ recent work from her ‘Re-collect’ series, and a condensed survey of pieces created by the artist during residencies in British museums and institutions between 2008 and 2018. The Secret Life of Objects includes […]
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The Naked Landscape interplays the vigour and vitality of nine mature-aged Queensland College of Art, Griffith University students with the passion of a younger artist to conceptualise what ‘nakedness’ and ‘landscape’ represent when individually visualised. The addition of the younger artist introduces an intergenerational counterpoint offering commonalities and differences that demonstrate shared language and
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Applications are now open. The BBA Artist Prize 2023 awards international artists irrespective of their background with several Prizes incl. a solo show, cash prizes and much more. The competition includes a group exhibition of the shortlisted artists at the iconic Kühlhaus Berlin, one of the city’s most favoured venues for arts and culture events
Expressions of interest call out. IN | SITE PROGRAM : destabilise IN | artist run initiative invites project proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists, curators, collectives, or collaborators for our 2023 IN | SITE Program: destabilise. We are looking for experimental, contemporary projects. These can take the form of exhibitions, performance, installations, film screenings,
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Accepting applications from all Australian-born or Australia-based digital artists in all stages of their careers. Sugar Glider Digital is a digital art subscription platform for the avant-garde screen-owners looking to rent meaningful, high quality digital artwork for their company, art collection or brand. As placemakers and specialists in the arts, we get that exposure doesn’t
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‘It’s hot’… it’s a saying we are all familiar with. In Australia, as the climate changes and our summers get warmer, how do we prepare to face the heat? In Swelter, Australian artists consider how heat affects our bodies, our communities and our planet. New commissions and existing works share different perspectives of the effects of heat on the body and how to beat
The artist’s and writer’s call for the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal Journey issue is now open. The current issue theme is journey. We are all on a journey to another space. Sometimes our journey is an adventure, a quest, a road trip to push our limits or just to taste life’s pleasures. Other
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Exploring ideas around depicting our landscape and the sublime, Zac Moynihan, in collaboration with Side Gallery, presents Out There, an exhibition capturing the beauty and magnetism of our natural world. Working en plein air and reflecting further in the studio, Zac’s connection to place is evident in the hurried, loose brush strokes of the plein air
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Held annually since 2000, the Ipswich Art Awards is the foremost visual arts awards for the Ipswich region and celebrates emerging and established artists. There are eight categories open for entries, with a total prize pool of $16,500: – Painting – acrylic and oil – Painting – watercolour – Three dimension (including sculpture and textiles)
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Fluid Bodies, bodily fluids, wild juices in flux and flow. In this work-in-progress, cultural and feminist fermentations lie across each other, intersecting and intermingling, finding flow and remembering relations. (The movement needs to move). In this digesting space, the more-than-human generously speaks for the artists, to notions of labour, de-service, connection, containment/leakage, and nourishing systems
Synonymous with the computer system command pressed by a user to terminate an application and shut down the operating system, CTRL+ALT+DEL: RECLAIM is a multidisciplinary arts event that reboots and reclaims arts and cultural spaces. Building on previous Ctrl+Alt+Del events, this iteration will be in the form of an exhibition and publication. Expect visual art,
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There will be a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that it is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and
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To commemorate the Year of the Rabbit, Woolloongabba Art Gallery is staging On Repeat. The exhibition features the participatory artwork Second Nation, which is facilitated by Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling), and Free Alba 2.0 a digital artwork by Robert Mercer. The latter marks the 20th anniversary of the death of a rabbit, called Alba, who was genetically engineered to
Postcards from here is a year-long collaboration between artists Julie Paterson and Jo Breneger. The artists have been sending handmade, artistic postcards to Side Gallery from their respective locations. The postcards are a mix of painted, drawn, or mix-media and display a beautiful original artwork on the front of the card. Collectively, this body of
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It’s hot and humid in BNE, perfect weather for the start of the forest foraging season, and inspiration for February’s Cut X Paste theme : MUSHROOMS. Join us as we share real-world space, conversation and materials and make collages exploring the weird, wild and wonderful world of fungi. Hosted by Emma Anna @emma_anna_chatter and The
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Layered, symbolic and hypnotic, Hal Witney’s work attempts to offer a postmodern mash of pain and pleasure, identity, desire, and transcendent spirituality in a frenetic world of often-contradictory selves. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking he seeks to reflect, process and overcome the influx of hyper-sexualised imagery in today’s visual material-based culture. Synthesizing a
Mitchell Fine Art presents a summer exhibition of Aboriginal and Contemporary artworks drawn from the Gallery’s stockroom. Mitchell Fine Art is closed for the Christmas period however these and other artworks in the Gallery Stockroom can be viewed on the website. Showcasing a diverse collection of Aboriginal and Contemporary artists, Mitchell Fine Art presents an annual exhibition calendar
2022 has been a tumultuous ‘year of the tiger’ – but it has also been a productive one. It has been a year of change and chance, and of course, hard work and opportunity. Onespace artists have been active in many places this year – Busan, Brisbane, Cairns, Logan, Shepparton, Sydney, Toronto, to name a
Put on your dancing shoes and grab a drink at the bar as Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra brings Play Moves to life with a roaming performance party. Welcome to the Obscure Orchestra, a curious world of intricately crafted experimental music, made with world instruments and rethought everyday objects – the brainchild of award winner Dr Matt Hsu.
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How does a body of water move? How might we describe an experience of viewing water with watercolour’s fluid logic? Join artist Holly Anderson for a playful painting workshop and explore the materiality of watercolours in producing images of water. Around a makeshift fountain you will be guided through speculative activities that explore this formal tension. Expect
Submitting your artwork for judgement can be a daunting process but it does not need to be. Join art writer Dr Louise Mayhew in this hands-on session designed to help you put your best foot forward when applying for art prizes and artist opportunities. During this session, Louise will give you insightful tips on writing
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Join us from 6pm on Friday the 24th of February at the Precinct’s Dimbin-Mil Seminar room for a showcase of work created during Cyber Palace’s Fashioning Technology workshops held throughout 2022. There will be soft circuitry and textile works on display. We will have artist talks from some of the workshop participants as well as
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Following on from our ‘Naked or Nude?’ exhibition in 2021, Side Gallery revisits the sometimes taboo concept of human relationships in time for Valentine’s Day. We give you ‘Saint’, an online-only exhibition of new (and revisited archive) artworks that focus on love, lust, erotica, censorship and fantasy. Image: She knew I loved collecting silly things
Learn how to create multi-layered digital collage using MS Word and your own photographs. You will create three finished digital collages and have the best one printed to take home as an A4 artwork. Perfect for beginners wanting to enter the world of digital art. Everyone will experience success and be inspired. The digital collages
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You are invited into the gallery space to create your own intuitive artwork, learning basic watercolour and charcoal drawing techiques. We will also work with tarot, astrology and runes to guide a process that is nurturing and builds self awareness. No drawing or painting experience is necessary. Materials provided. SWAY is an exhibition of layered
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The Harden Art Prize is in its second year following a very successful inaugural event held in the twin towns of Harden-Murrumburrah on the south-west slopes of NSW in May 2022. Entries were received from across Australia for the acquisitive prize and the inaugural winner was Melbourne artist Domenyk Eades. On offer is a $10,000
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ANAT is calling for applications from artists and scientists for the prestigious Synapse Residency program, which, since 2004, has enabled research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists. ANAT Synapse brings artists and researchers together in partnerships that generate new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial beyond both fields. A distinguishing feature of the residencies
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From now until 2 March 2023, entries are open for the World of WearableArt (WOW) Awards Competition, the world’s leading wearable art competition which brings the work of designers to life in the most extraordinary of ways each year in the WOW Awards Show, a large-scale theatrical spectacle held in Wellington, New Zealand attracting an
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Artists are being invited from throughout Australia to investigate their concept of ‘earth’; our home, the environment, soil, land, fragility, strength or purpose. We ask that you embrace your imagination with a sense of play, political activism, boldness, experimentation, thoughtfulness, or contemplation. We welcome contributions from all ages, viewpoints and levels of experience. Artists working
BrisAsia Festival returns from 1-19 February with a stellar line-up of events to celebrate Lunar New Year and Brisbane’s rich Asian cultural heritage. Featuring 27 unique experiences across 12 suburbs, BrisAsia Festival brings together over 400 artists and creatives who have shaped the most expansive and culturally rich program to date. From Lunar New Year
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Dr. Ryan Presley was born in 1987 in Alice Springs, and currently lives and works in Brisbane. His father’s family is Marri Ngarr and originate from the Moyle River region in the Northern Territory. His mother’s family were Scandinavian immigrants to Australia. Presley’s practice wrestles with themes of power and dominion—in particular, how religion and
Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures is the focus of her practice. Boe’s paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to historical and contemporary acts of violence perpetrated on the people and lands of Burma and Australia. Boe received a Bachelor of Art, majoring in
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
Bridie Gillman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is informed by ideas of place, and the ways in which experiences and memories shape our perspective of a site. Living and working in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia, she completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at the Queensland College of Art in 2013. Since graduating she has exhibited in solo
Sam Cranstoun’s multidisciplinary practice combines various forms of research with a wide array of media to create work that investigates different systems of representation. His work regularly focuses on historical figures and events as a way of exploring how history is shaped, how it functions and how we as spectators rely on different visual systems
Born 1982, Moranbah, Queensland. Lives and works Brisbane, Queensland. Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples. D Harding identifies as a descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of central Queensland and their work is informed by this heritage, in terms of both an oral history tradition and the artistic techniques they have inherited. Stencilling, for