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
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: value
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“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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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
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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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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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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DIVERGENT : NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AOTEAROA TIA RANGINUI TELLY TUITA CAO XUN Curated by Robert Leonard Image: Tia Ranginui, Taniwha 2020. Pigment ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 84 x 119 cm
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 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
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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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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Australian artist Briony Barr will work in situation at the gallery on large format paintings over the next two months. Briony will interact with, and visually respond to the movement & sound of musicians, dancers and other creative collaborators in real time. Each piece on view in the live exhibition, will become denser and more complex
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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
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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Featuring Artists: Sally Bourke, Lucas Grogan, Narelle Autio, Justine Varga, Sam Gold and Ildiko Kovacs. Following on from Jan Murphy Gallery’s successful group exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery (Adelaide) in 2021 we are excited to present a reciprocal exhibition in Brisbane. Hugo Michell Gallery will ‘take over’ our walls, showcasing the work of six of
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