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Safdar Ahmed: Border Farce / Alien Citizen / Sovereign Murders

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Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) is delighted to present Safdar Ahmed: Border Farce / Alien Citizen / Sovereign Murders from 2 to 12 February 2023, at POP (Postgraduate and Other Projects) Gallery, on Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Destiny Disrupted curated by Nur Shkembi and currently on show at Griffith […]

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APOGEE

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APOGEE uses computer-generated imagery and game engine technology to explore the critical tensions between current technological advancements, and subsequential planetary ecocide. With the advent of space tourism, spacefaring rhetoric, and the widespread use of game engines for entertainment, the work examines the direct cost of society’s desire to explore other realities, virtual and real. Even

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Directors Choice 2023

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Mitchell Fine Art begins its 2023 gallery exhibition calendar year with the personally curated exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’ showing from January 30th. Gallery Director Mike Mitchell has selected artworks from the Gallery’s collection showcasing a mix of Australian contemporary and Aboriginal art. The exhibition highlights the gallery’s diverse stockroom and includes artists that will be exhibited

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UnitePlayPerform: Utopia Playshop

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Choose, build and embody your own wearable artwork. This is a guided experience hosted by UnitePlayPerform’s Artist, Founder and Master Facilitator ØFFËRÎNGŠ whose work features in Play Moves. In this guided Utopia Playshop™, participants use object art, space, sense, movement, language and energy to stimulate radical self-expression; gaining new insights, experiencing liberation and increasing genuine connection to

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Curator Ellie Buttrose and artist Archie Moore: Venice Biennale

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Archie Moore and Ellie Buttrose are the artist and curator commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts to exhibit at the Australia Pavilion for the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Drawing upon 25 years of practice, Archie Moore (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) is uniquely placed to confront Australia’s past and evocatively assert Indigenous sovereignty

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Burnie Print Prize 2023

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The prestigious biennial Burnie Print Prize will be the feature of the Burnie Arts exhibition program for 2023. The Burnie Print Prize presents the best works from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists.  All artists living and working in Australia are encouraged to enter a print or artist’s book created using any printing process. A record

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IMA Appoints Robert Leonard as Director

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One of the Asia Pacific region’s most respected and experienced curators, Robert Leonard, is returning to head up Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA). The IMA is Australia’s oldest independent contemporary art organisation. IMA Chair Rachel Crowley said “Robert’s tenure as Director from 2005 until 2013 is well recognised as one of the IMA’s most exciting and innovative

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Meet The Artists

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Hear their words; see their work. We invite you to engage with the James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews, a series of in-depth and intimate video interviews where you will hear the words of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists and see the work of selected artists. The exhibition will also feature contemporary works by

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Tape Art Workshop

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Fusing the principles of art, architecture, language and textile design come and learn how to make striking tape art works with Artist in Residence Vanghoua Anthony Vue. Inspired by his Hmong heritage, you will explore the artist’s vibrant signature style in this 90-minute hands on workshop that will teach you how to make linear artworks

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Caitlin Franzmann: Natural State

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Working closely with collaborators from different disciplines and with the particularities of sites, Caitlin Franzmann creates participatory works which take shape around slow practices, conversation, critical listening, and collective forms of care. Her new work for The Condensery will build on recent work and the specifics of the Somerset region and its unique landscape, ecological

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Perceptions

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Perceptions explores the observations and interpretations of the landscape through sight and sound by Jinibara artist Jason Murphy and sculptor Gabe Parker. Images of the Stanley River are projected against a kinetic sculpture containing reflective surfaces. As the sculpture moves the image is distorted and transformed before the viewer’s eyes. A soundscape of composed ambient field recordings asks the viewer to consider their

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Steve Szellz: SZEPHYR

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Brisbane based Steve Szell began Szephyr Guitars in 2020 as a sustainable Luthier & timber craft practice that focuses on building high quality, affordable instruments with Australian native reclaimed timbers sourced from old furniture, demolished buildings & leftover arborist slabs. Steve is a Graduate Interior Designer and Graduate of Architecture with work ranging across the fields of

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Minefield: The Art of Mona Ryder

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Minefield: The Art of Mona Ryder explores the many evocative and visceral works created over more than four decades by this significant Australian artist. Presenting prints created in the late 1970s, the relics remaining from a major installation of the 1980s, paintings, watercolours, textiles, embroideries, artist’s books, as well as new works, this major retrospective exhibition

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BBA Artist Prize

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The 2024 BBA Artist Prize has officially launched! Enter now to be part of an international competition for artists, open to all themes, mediums, and experience levels. Now in its 8th year, this is the perfect opportunity to take your art career further.  With an international jury of experts from across the art industry evaluating,

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the churchie 2023

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Since its inception at Anglican Church Grammar School in 1987, the prize has sought to identify and profile the next generation of contemporary artists from across Australia. The IMA and ‘the churchie’ partnership will continue to support emerging artists. The selected finalists will receive professional curatorial advice, networking and promotional opportunities, along with vital exposure

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An Acquisitive Instinct

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The story of Arija and Richard (‘Dick’) Austin’s personal art collection cannot be separated from their life story. Arija and Richard led lives marked by extraordinary experiences including travel and work opportunities that at times sound like myth or legend. They also faced significant challenges: Arija immigrated to Australia from Lithuania due to conflicts of

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Vanghoua Anthony Vue

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Vanghoua Anthony’s site-specific installation for BrisAsia 2023, Ua li ua tau – Making do, explores themes of identity and belonging, tradition and innovation, dislocation and adaption. Vanghoua Anthony reinterprets and reinvents Hmong traditions and aesthetics within an Australian context. Weaving together everyday objects and recycled materials, Vanghoua Anthony’s work speaks to his do-it-yourself attitude, instilled in

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Lyndall Phelps: The Secret Life of Objects

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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

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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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BBA Artist Prize

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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

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IN | SITE PROGRAM: destabilise

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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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Swelter

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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

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Zac Moynihan: Out There

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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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Ipswich Art Awards

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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

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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

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