Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts (Umbrella) and James Cook University (JCU) have partnered to support one contemporary Australian visual artist with accommodation, a $2,500 artist fee and a travel fee for a one-month residency at JCU’s Special Collections at the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library and The Studio at Umbrella. Research themes for the residency could include […]
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Entries are now open for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023. One of our most popular annual events, the prize promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. The winner will nab a $30,000 cash prize from us AND photographic equipment courtesy of our Imaging Partner, Canon Australia. There
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Rotterdam Photo, part of Rotterdam Art Week, is calling for submissions of one photo (series of 5 images) from professional and amateur photographers on the theme “Freedom Redefined”. The theme was inspired by the COVID-19 crisis and the drastic events of recent times. The message Rotterdam Photo wants to convey is one of resilience and authenticity. Freedom Redefined shows
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Museum of Brisbane is seeking submissions for an upcoming exhibition in 2023. Artists working in ceramics in the Greater Brisbane Region are invited to submit their own original “memory vessel”. Right now, the medium of ceramics is experiencing a cultural renaissance across the globe and we want to celebrate its impact in Brisbane. Let your
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Our Artist Residency Expressions of Interest submissions close on the 31st of January, 2023. If you wish to participate and learn more, please email residency@uapcompany.com. Our program provides access to workspace, limited tools, and equipment for artist exploration. In addition, we offer the opportunity to engage with our consultancy, design, and fabrication departments to review
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You’re Invited: Lemonade virtual discussion forums To open up Lemonade: Letters to Art to all of your wonderful advice, thoughts, energy, support and feedback, Founding Editor, Louise Mayhew, is hosting a series of virtual discussion forums. Each forum will be small (approx. 10 participants x 50 minutes each) and semi-structured. Join fellow artists, writers, and
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We are excited to announce the expressions of interest for the 2023 Exhibition Program are now open. Montsalvat is now seeking expressions of interest from artists, curators and organisations wishing to exhibit work as part of the Exhibition Program for consideration in our 2023 program. We support ideas that are traditional, ambitious and experimental. Montsalvat encourages applications from
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Launching on Sunday December 4, Waiting Room is excited to welcome the Brisbane community to a showcase of global music and local, cross-disciplinary creative talent. Drawing on co-owner Jordan Rogers-Smith’s background as a hospitality specialist and DJ, and co-owner Emily’s Devers’s background as a practicing artist, curator and arts facilitator, the pair have brought together
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Artists of all abilities are invited to submit textile works that respond to the theme “ENTWINE” to be exhibited in the Ipswich Community Gallery. The exhibition will present a curated selection of artists working across textile mediums which may include soft sculpture, contemporary soft installation, tapestry, wall hangings, quilts, crochet, felt and lacework. Artists
Submissions are invited from emerging, mid-career and established artists and photographers worldwide to participate in PHOTO 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. Following the success of PHOTO 2021 (originally PHOTO 2020), and PHOTO 2022, Photo Australia will deliver the third edition of the biennial – PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography – in collaboration with over 50
Outer Space is delighted to announce its 2023 Window Gallery callout. From February to December 2023, Outer Space will present 8 exhibitions by emerging artists in our Window Gallery at the Judith Wright Arts Centre. Successful applicants receive: $500 artist fee per exhibition Consultation and feedback on work in development Installation support and AV equipment
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Video Art Miden invites all video artists and video creators from all over the world to submit their videos for the next events & collaborations of Miden, which include screening events and video art exhibitions in Greece and internationally. The call is open to every creator (individuals, groups or organizations) of any nationality and background. There
Metro Arts is calling for applications for a moving-image program in February 2023. Metro Arts invites artists to submit recent or new moving-image work to form a group exhibition in the Metro Arts Galleries at West Village from 11 February – 4 March 2023. Up to four artists will be selected, each receiving an artist
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Do you have a professional development program, project or event that needs quick turnaround funding? Regional Arts Fund Quick Response Grants aim to support small arts or cultural projects that cannot be funded by other means because of their nature or timing. For example, you may wish to attend a workshop or complete a project
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Proposals for our 2023 exhibition program are now open Wreckers Artspace is currently seeking exhibition proposals for our downstairs space for 2023. Solo artists, groups, collectives, and curators are invited to submit. Wreckers focuses on experimental contemporary art and seeks to offer opportunities to artists at a turning point of their career and ready to
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As part of the Festival’s Homegrown program, organisers are now calling for submissions from established Sunshine Coast based artists to present new or existing works to participate in the 2023 Homegrown program, ‘The Forgotten Coast’. Sunshine Coast Council’s Horizon Festival Director Hannah Clissold said the festival was seeking projects that uncovered forgotten or invisible places on the Sunshine Coast and
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The APA Art Prize showcases the work of hundreds of artists to raise awareness for the irreplaceable Park Lands, which garland Adelaide city. All artists, nationally and internationally, are invited to be inspired to make a statement on or capture the essence of your Park Lands. Entries open to artists of all ages and stages
This summer, we are turning up the heat with a multi-arts festival in Moreton Bay that will delight and inspire you. Hot Hot Hot Festival will run from sun-up to sun-down from 8 December 2022 to 28 February 2022. Discover visual arts, performances, history, after-dark events, art installations and creative workshops. Celebrating all the incredible
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A love of process and insatiable curiosity for life’s contradictions are the hallmarks of Sally Anderson’s painterly style. Abstracted and instinctual, her compositions are intangible landscapes of vaguely constructivist forms, reactionary mark-making and opaque references to past experiences. Comprised of layers, both physical and metaphorical, they catalogue a practice of meditation and technical application that
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The gallery welcomes applications from established and emerging artists and curators. Proposed exhibitions may utilise single or multiple exhibition spaces. Applications assessed upon receipt by our curatorial team, so don’t delay your submission. The gallery is currently accepting proposals for March – October 2023 Please be aware we only have a couple of exhibition spaces
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A monthly meet up of Brisbane collage artists, and the collage curious. We share real-world space, conversation and materials and create collages related to a different theme each month. Some materials are provided, but please feel free to bring along your own paper resources, and your favourite scissors / blades. January’s theme : ANATOMY Cut
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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