15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, 15 artists are invited by Moreton Bay Regional Council to participate in the exhibition, with the winning artist awarded $20,000 and their work acquired into Council’s Art Collection. The exhibition highlights recent works by Australian artists, presenting diverse voices and ideas. Gallery is […]
This exhibition opens the closet doors to Australia’s skeletons. An invitation to explore an alternative national narrative. Discovering buried evidence within the state’s archives, bringing light to undisclosed happenings, validating the mistruth of terra nullius, subsequent colonial conflicts, and the continuation of Aboriginal resistance. Judy Watson’s video works are presented alongside her raw, unframed and
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Beacons line the coast of Moreton Bay, ensuring safe passage for thousands of water travellers, both human and aquatic. Drawing from the Maritime Safety Queensland publication of the same name, Beacon to Beacon examines the effects and influence of beacons along the coastline of South East Queensland. Through painting, sculpture, textiles and drawing, the artists of the Tidal Collective focus on the
‘Still Life Now’ considers the way artists today are drawing on the ideas of the still life tradition to create contemporary commentary on the nature of life and existence — including the memento mori (the stoic visual reminder of the inevitability of death) and the vanitas still life (the use of elaborate spreads to highlight
Kenzee Patterson invites you to an open studio and exhibition of two new major artworks Fountain (2022) and Seven Sleepers (2022), created during his three-year period of residence in Meanjin/Brisbane. On the site of the old Taubmans paint factory in Brisbane’s inner south, this one-off event spans two locations at The Paint Factory, home to
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Hayley Megan French paints the streets of suburbia, homes, yards, and memories of landscapes. Her paintings are a form of meditation on the details that create our sense of home and neighbourhood. This growing body of work engages in a conversation about what suburbia means in the Australian imagination. At the centre of this conversation
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Not my first rodeo is a linocut triptych based on the old Chinese proverb ‘he who rides the tiger is afraid to dismount’ used to describe a risky situation where it is safer for someone to continue rather than stop. The proverb was translated into the popular Western sport of rodeo to comment on the
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Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery turns into a <play/ground> with its latest must-see exhibition launching today. Eleven Brisbane-connected artists are showcasing 37 breathtaking artworks in light boxes, banners, vitrines, and evening projections across iconic CBD locations, such as Howard Smith Wharves, Ann St and Fish Lane, to name a few. Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said
Inspired by the ebb and flow as well as the mangroves of our city’s river, Anita’s exhibition Estuary explores the presence of water in our lives and bodies. During the residency at Museum of Brisbane, visitors can see how Anita applies her unique interpretations of the river in three ethereal embroidered artworks that are reminiscent of the
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Over the past two years we all have learned new ways to work together, leading to more innovative and collaborative partnerships. To create Come Together, we asked artists to share with us their most recent creative collaborations. The five new contemporary works in this exhibition explore many aspects of working together, including creating across physical distance;
The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony is the National Gallery’s flagship exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Ceremony remains central to the creative practice of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. From the intimate and personal to the collective and collaborative, ceremonies manifest through visual art, film, music and dance.
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Showcasing over 100 works from HOTA’s Collection across three galleries HOTA Collects reflects key developments in Australian art over the past 50 years including abstraction, feminist art, Indigenous art, ceramics, and twenty-first-century photography. Image: Karla Dickens Hard-Hitting Sister 1, Hard-Hitting Brother 1 2019. Images courtesy the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf.
Artists: Amrita Hepi, Madison Bycroft, Ensayos Collective, Angela Tiatia Explore multiple, complex narratives of the ocean as Oceanic Thinking continues with new artists in the second half of 2022. Using the ocean – both its form and its enduring connection to human experience – as a starting point, artworks delve into personal histories and imaginings, and provoke expanded
‘Kin’ explores how contemporary artists in Papua New Guinea draw on traditional kinship structures to create families of support and inspiration for their work. The exhibition explores the work of Chimbu artist Mathias Kauage alongside the men and women from his family and village who have followed him; the kinship structures that exist between key
‘Transitions Now: Contemporary Aboriginal Forms and Images from the Collection’ (6 August 2022 – 18 June 2023) and ‘Transitions: Historic and Contemporary Barks from the Collection 1948–2021’ (20 August 2022 – 10 April 2023) are dovetailing chapters of an exhibition that offers a unique experience of innovative contemporary Aboriginal art alongside eight decades of Australian
Joe Furlonger is well known for his expressive, painterly figurative images and vast landscapes. ‘Horizons’ traces the Queensland artist’s career through an expansive presentation of more than 80 works across a range of media from painting to ceramics, sculpture and drawing. Image: Joe Furlonger, Australia b.1952 / Bathers 1987 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper
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One of the most powerful voices in art today William Kentridge emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Grounded in the violent absurdity of that period in his country’s history, his artworks draw connections between art, ideology, history and memory. Kentridge’s practice reveals the ways in which ideas and images echo
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Geelong Gallery’s 25 year survey of Melbourne based jeweller, Blanche Tilden, will showcase her remarkable and critically acclaimed practice in contemporary jewellery. Celebrating Tilden’s career in innovative contemporary design, this first major survey of the artist’s work will include both historical and contemporary works loaned from Australian public and private collections, in addition to a
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Onespace Gallery is pleased to present Luminous: microhabitats, an exhibition of contemporary prints by widely respected Townsville-based artist, Jo Lankester. For Luminous: microhabitats Lankester has created a stunning new series of unique state prints depicting the exquisite presence of lichen on natural substrates. Her exhibition encourages a conversation about ecology and the effects of climate change on a micro level. Lichens
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Curated by Djon Mundine OAM FAHA, Three Echoes – Western Desert Art is a stunning exhibition exploring the poetic notion of echoes – how metaphorically and metaphonically we can echo a thought, a sentiment or a consciousness. In the 1970s, Australian Aboriginal people from the desert began talking to the world through art, transferring their creation stories
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To support artists in their creative endeavours, the Australian Cultural Fund (ACF) has removed the service fee from all new donations, ensuring 100% of funds go directly to artists’ creative projects or initiatives. If you have a project to fund, the ACF can help you fundraise. Register online and start your campaign now.
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To Be Human is the first major survey exhibition of Australian-Japanese artist duo Ken + Julia Yonetani. Working together since 2008, the artists have built a collaborative practice that unearths and visualises hidden connections between people and their environment. Responding to environmental degradation and global economic systems, their work addresses coral bleaching, increasing salinity levels,
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Celebrating the vision and generosity of Queensland art collector and philanthropist James C. Sourris AM, ‘Courage and Beauty’ is dedicated to Mr Sourris’s gifts of the past decade, with major works by contemporary Australian artists including Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Vivienne Binns, Jon Cattapan, Peter Cripps, Bonita Ely, d harding, Robert Hunter,
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‘Embodied Knowledge’ is a focused survey of new work by Queensland artists. This group of commissioned and recent projects brings to the fore the voices of women, people of colour and LGBTIQA+ artists, all with a close connection to the sunshine state. It includes a vast installation of new paintings by Jenny Watson; a towering work
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MELT FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 18 DAYS OF ARTS AND IDEAS WITH A STAR-STUDDED PROGRAM MELT Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse’s unabashed celebration of queer art, artists, allies, icons, and ideas, has revealed its fabulous full program. From global headliners, award-winning cabaret and high-energy music club nightsto a queer comedy gala, cutting-edge contemporary dance and First Nations art,
Entries for the Ramsay Art Prize are now open. Held every two years, the $100,000 acquisitive prize invites submissions of new or recent work by Australian artists under the age of 40 working in any medium, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, installation and time-based art. Presented by AGSA since 2017, the prize is generously supported
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Entries for the 2023 Nillumbik Prize Contemporary Art responding to the theme ‘Future’ are now open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia. The competition includes four monetary prizes with a total prize pool of $31,000. This includes a $20,000 Acquisitive Open Prize, $10,000 Acquisitive Local Prize, $500 Mayors Award and
Brisbane reimagines the fringe festival. Brisbane finally gets a fringe festival with tickets going on sale Saturday 27 August. 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
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Blindside invites applications for the 2023 Exhibition Program. For our annual open call, Blindside invites proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists, curators, collectives or collaborators to present solo or group exhibitions, as well as events, performances, screenings and ephemeral projects. An inclusive space that supports a thriving arts community of emerging and established artists,
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Employing elaborate costumes made by the artist himself, Sydney-based photographer Gerwyn Davies’ art explores identity and the fictitious possibilities of digital images. In early 2022, Gerwyn was invited to check-in at The Calile Hotel as their artist in residence, utilising the distinct architecture as the inspiration for his new body of work‚ Pleasure. “Over five
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Brisbane based artist Kim Wilson mixes the surreal with the hyper real to highlight the natural beauty of the landscape around us in her first solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art from 23rd September. Working primarily with painting, Kim Wilson’s practice moves between realism and surrealism as she explores the beauty of nature and the
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Heysen Prize for Landscape is a contemporary art prize established in 1997 to commemorate the life and work of the internationally renowned, artist, Sir Hans Heysen. It is a biennial event celebrating emerging, mid-career and established artists and their connection to landscape and place. The word ‘landscape’ includes all possible aspects of the natural, rural,
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The City of Sydney is seeking expressions of interest for an artwork by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist or collective. The artwork will acknowledge and pay respect to Country, celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures, and be used as the visual identity for NAIDOC in the City – the City
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Writer and artist Pat Hoffie and Camerata, Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, make temporary homes at MoB this spring Uncovering entertaining and fascinating stories about Brisbane’s rich history are what two new Artists in Residence at MoB are tasked with via the written word and a new musical composition. Responding to the museum’s major exhibition, Making Place:
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Lemonade is a new weekly reviews platform for exhibitions in the Sunshine state. Lemonade is inspired by the yellow glaze that filters Queensland’s sky. It references the effervescent sensation of quenching a summer’s thirst, and is a subtle ode to the state’s first art critic—Gertrude Langer—and her penchant for describing art as fresh and refreshing.
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Please join David Nixon and Casselle Mountford in their exhibition VERVE, and Grace Herrmann for her solo exhibition Landslide. VERVE includes sculptures by Casselle Mountford and works on paper by David Nixon. The soft tactile forms, rounded fluidity and exuberant, vibrant colour combinations of Casselle’s sculptures express a playful, joyous harmony. Complementing these, David’s contemplative