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Betty Russ: A Leakage of Wholes

  “I am drawn to the unreal, unimaginable, the weird and eerie, and provocative ideas that emerge from experimental investigations and other possible worlds, to describe these tensions.” Working across sculpture, assemblage, installation, sound, and embodied research, Betty Russ’s practice refers to science fiction, hauntology, spirituality, the-weird-and-the-eerie. A Leakage of Wholes is an installation of living

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EDGE

An exhibition of hard edge painters is the final show for 2022 at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley Brisbane. Showing from 29th November ‘Edge’ presents the artworks of Sydney artists Annalisa Ferraris and Maximillian Daniels, and Central Australian Indigenous artist Kudditji Kngwarreye Their paintings are interpretations of an artform that combines hard edged geometric

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Tony Albert: Valley Walkabout

Tony Albert’s projection Valley Walkabout (2022) considers the surrounding night sky as an infinite canvas, featuring flying creatures such as Superman, bats, spaceships, rockets and planes, and even a flying goldfish – because “the water was getting too hot and it needed to leave its home” (1). Ever the self-professed Australien, Albert might be taken

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Kevin Diallo: unrooted

unrooted features cyanotype prints on Dutch wax fabric and canvas. Kevin’s work has long explored institutionalised ideas of Black and African authenticity. He breaks down and challenges these concepts through a variety of mediums. This exhibition is an intimate exploration of ritual haircutting and the transformative experience lived by the artist after cutting his dreadlocks of ten years.

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Ready Steady Panic Stations

Artists: Robert Andrews, Rin Charlton, Ari Fuller, Sarah Gillow, Matt Glegg, Louise Gow, Kate Hallen, Nectaria Hatzipetrou, Madonna Morrison, Rachael Sedgman, Melanie Stewart, Gabrielle Tucker, Vanessa Wallace Many of us spend far too much time considering the power we wield in our own lives and communities. How can I get people to like me? How

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Indigenous Art Program

Brisbane City Council is seeking proposals for one producer, curator or cultural organisation to develop, program, and deliver the Indigenous Art Program for 2023. The successful applicant will present a six-month program that celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, heritage and community. Since 2016, the Indigenous Art Program has transformed Brisbane’s streets and laneways into an

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PROJECT/REFLECT

PROJECT/REFLECT is on the evening of Friday 25 November in the Judith Wright Arts Centre Foyer to celebrate the end of the year with Outer Space. PROJECT/REFLECT is a celebration of our public art program, Outer Face, which in 2022 commissioned a series of monthly digital art projections over the façade of The Judith Wright

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Waiting Room Launch Event

Waiting Room is a virtual retail space that finds premises in its community. Operating primarily online, we pop up in beloved venues and unconventional spaces across Brisbane to showcase emerging and established artists, and facilitate the discovery of diverse and enduring music. You’re invited to our Launch Event, Brisbane 13a Gladstone Road, Highgate Hill Sunday

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Claire Grant: Up in the Air

After working in aviation for over a decade, ‘Up in the Air’ surveys Grant’s unique perspective as a flight attendant, throughout the major upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grant combines landscapes and personal experiences with alternative photography, taking inspiration from the aerial viewpoint and restricted perspectives observed in flight. Using light as her medium, she

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Kirsten Coelho

Kirsten Coelho (b. 1966, Denmark) is a leading Australian contemporary ceramicist living and working in Adelaide, South Australia. Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. Her work has been recently influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and the abstracted surface possibilities these

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Artist-In-Residence: Dylan Mooney

MELT artist-in-residence Dylan Mooney makes his mark on Brisbane Powerhouse. Given free rein to stake claim on the building, Mooney’s trademark, powerful, pride-ful style will morph multiple surfaces to create a slow-growing, evolving and high-impact exhibition. Mooney’s acclaimed works fuse ancient storytelling, queer culture, social commentary and contemporary digital illustration to amplify the voices of his

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David Hayes: Brave New World

Following on from two sellout solo exhibitions, Brisbane artist David Hayes tells his story – a chronological depiction of life events at a point in time during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through his paintings, Hayes examines the relationship between the global and the personal; strength and vulnerability and how they are linked. ‘The story is mine,

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Stella Danalis: The art of pattern

Stella Danalis presents The Art of Pattern, an engaging visual assault of bold colour, geometry, and pattern, paired expertly with the comforts of functional interior items and objects. The Art of Pattern delivers a striking assemblage of beauty and functionality, rubbing shoulders with the Bauhaus ideology of removing borders between the artist and the craftsperson. The exhibition includes

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Isabel Hood: Data Capture – Four Days in May 2022

Isabel Hood’s practice explores the limitations of data as a tool for understanding a subject, and the way datasets can never adequately represent the complex and subjective realities of an individual’s existence. While traditional displays of data focus on efficient analysis and presentation, Hood’s work emphasises a slower engagement with information and atypical reporting metrics.

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Ming Chun Chung: Driftwoods

After the “Tokyo time-lapses” last year, Ming released a new photo series—”Driftwoods — the afterlives of trees”. The “Driftwoods” series is an unexpected discovery. I was on a journey around the south island of New Zealand and was shooting time-lapses of the lakes andmountains. I saw a lot of driftwood by the lakes and on

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Your Pals

Your Pals is a brand new art collective based in Brisbane. This exhibition will be the first of many, showcasing the works of local artists, and local pals: Izzy and Sam! Izzy is in her second year of Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) at QUT, she paints portraiture most of the time. Particularly self

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Dylan Jones: Rising Tide

Jan Manton Gallery is proud to present Rising Tide by Dylan Jones, showing between 8 November – 3 December, 2022. Within his practice, Jones’ focus rests with his immediate surroundings and an interest in colour, composition and the simplification of form. Having long been inspired by the great Arthur Boyd, Jones draws on nostalgia and memory rather than reference

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Play Moves

Surrender yourself to the sublime art of play. “To thrive in today’s fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively and the best way to do that is by focusing more on imagining, creating, playing, sharing and reflecting, just as children do,” – Ken Robinson, author Liftlong Kindergarten: cultivating creativity

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rightNOW: place and belonging

November sees our third iteration of rightNOW – an exhibition model which fast tracks very recently completed works straight from artists’ studios to our gallery walls. This allows fresh ideas and experimentation to gain a much earlier audience. rightNOW presents works to collectors and curators in a more immediate way. It also provides the opportunity for some artists

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Miranda Hine: A Great Pair

‘A Great Pair’ continues Miranda Hine’s fascination with our instinct to create stories from images placed together. Playfully painted fragments are paired together like a game of ambiguous and open-ended snaps to encourage meaning-making and connections that may be different for each viewer. Miranda Hine is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based writer, curator and artist fascinated by how

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ArtTreasury

2023 ArtTreasury Collector’s Annual Call For Artists  ArtTreasury is an annual time capsule of global creativity, a treasure box of artwork by diverse artists. This magazine provides a special feature on each artist, complete with their art, artist statement and contact information. Book your space in this special catalogue of talented of artists from around

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Fringe Brisbane Festival

The very first reimagined Fringe Brisbane Festival is taking place across Brisbane with extraordinary experiences set to captivate audiences from the 14th of October to 6th of November 2022. Two years in the making, 2022 Fringe Brisbane Festival gives audiences everything they want and all the things they didn’t know they wanted with over 300 performances across

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Backbone Festival

Backbone Festival roars into Seven Hills Hub 28 October – 12 November, presenting 9 days of youth arts and culture that celebrates the curious, untamed and experimental. Presented as a part of the inaugural Fringe Brisbane, join us at Backbone Festival to find new worlds, explore new visions, and dive into the unexpected. ARTISTS: DAKOTA

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Queensland College of Art Graduate Exhibitions

The Queensland College of Art (QCA) Graduate Exhibitions will showcase the work of graduating students from the disciplines of Visual Art, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Photography, Design, and Creative and Interactive Media. Each year, we host a series of innovative and inspiring student-curated exhibitions and presentations featuring the next generation of creative thinkers, as they

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Lillian Whitaker: Empathetic Ethnography

Empathetic Ethnography is the culminating exhibition outcome of this research project. The exhibition title, Empathetic Ethnography, draws upon the key multispecies ethnographic research approach undertaken in this project, whilst also foregrounding the artwork’s intentions to celebrate a sense of empathetic kinship with other-than-humans. Comprising beeswax sculpture, video projection, soundscapes and installation, this exhibition showcases four

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Robert Andrew

Robert Andrew is a descendant of the Yawuru people, whose Country is the lands and waters of the Broome area in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Andrew’s work investigates the personal and family histories that have been denied or forgotten. His work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary relationship to his Country—using technology

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Michael Zavros

Michael Zavros (b.1974) is a leading Australian artist whose work has been exhibited in major museums throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. Predominantly a hyper-realist painter of ‘beautiful things’, Zavros’ practice extends to drawing, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. The artists’ meticulously constructed images with their inclination towards themes of luxury, beauty and decadence are

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Tristan Eyles: Perceived Aesthetic and Moral Tension

In Perceived Aesthetic and Moral Tension, lightly mediated sculpture and video are used to interrogate civil land use through the lens of environmental cataclysm. The works employ a contrast of affects, reflecting feelings of both loss and complicity evoked by ambivalence towards the material histories of domestic, civil and recreational settings. Catalogue essay written by Georgie

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Footscray Art Prize

Applications are now open for the 2023 Footscray Art Prize, and this year the Main Prize money has doubled to support artists emerging from the pandemic.  This biennial visual art prize welcomes entries from local and national artists, providing an opportunity to celebrate the artistic vibrancy and creativity within the local Footscray community and beyond. Winners will share in $33,000 worth of

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