Direct from its premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne, Brisbane Powerhouse hosts Kaleidoscope, the latest project from Melbourne installation artist Keith Courtney. Scaling a deceptively simple device to epic proportions, Kaleidoscope is a world of constantly shifting illusions. An immense artwork made from 700sqm of glass, steel, mirrors and moving prisms, visitors navigate a maze of corridors witnessing a […]
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Our stories told through tea towels The humble tea towel can be many things to many people – decorative décor, cherished souvenir, stylised reminder of a treasured time. Queensland to a T gives a unique look into Queensland’s culture and identity between 1950 and 2016, reflecting changing ideas and interests—and the stubborn longevity of some stereotypes. Get
Underlying all of Barwick’s work is a deep love of painting itself – of shape and colour – as well as a singular fascination with the expressive potential of what can be achieved in a given composition merely through the juxtaposition of a flat plane and a textured plane, through the careful balancing of different
Opening Event: 19th August, 6:00 – 8:00pm Image: Chequered Dreams, 2022. Acrylic and sublimation dye print on velvet and sequins, thread, interfacing. 120 x 177cm
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There are new elements in this collection of works. It encapsulates raw, explorative self portraiture, which was a new avenue for Mitchell in the last 12 months due to COVID. It draws on both traditional digital photographic techniques as well as more complex digital techniques. It explores a myriad of emotion, from the searching for
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Join the Institute of Modern Art for the churchie emerging art prize 2022. Since its inception at the Anglican Church Grammar School in 1987, the churchie has profiled rising artistic talent. Today it is one of Australia’s leading prizes for emerging artists. The finalists’ exhibition, presented at the IMA since 2019, provides a survey of
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Jan Murphy is proud to present Adam Pyett’s latest solo exhibition, ‘New Paintings’. “Art is not found in the subject but in the interpretation. Realism is not as interesting as poetry; poetry is art. I am trying to interpret the subject of the Australian landscape with poetry of colour and paint. Whilst I always aim
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Join us for an informative and inspiring discussion about artistic collaboration and creative partnerships with curator Hannah Williamson and artists from our exhibition, Come Together. The panel will be discussing what makes a partnership successful, how they work together and learn along the way. We’ll also open up to the audience for questions and contributions as
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Tim Storrier (b.1949, Sydney) is an award-winning artist based in Bowral, New South Wales. Storrier’s career spans fifty years, beginning at the age of nineteen when he was awarded the 1968 Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It precipitated the career of the young artist into the mystery of the art
It does not just reflect a literal reworking of the artist’s archive through a process of remaking, overlaying and inserting people and place. But it also echoes a few words used when an acknowledgement of country occurs, often taken out of context but having a much deeper meaning. Past, present, future; explores the notion of time
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The Apple and the Knife brings together work by award winning artist Merton Chambers produced over the past 40 years. This late career survey exhibition focusses on recent oil pastel works by the Canadian-born, Toogoolawah-based artist, which showcase his unique graphic style and vivid use of colour, a response to the luminosity of the light of
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Darwin-based artist Franck Gohier returns to Mitchell Fine Art with an exhibition of artworks that explores his interests in appropriation and iconoclasm. Born in France but raised in and identifying as Australian, Franck has always been intrigued with concepts of identity. Utilising Andy Warhol’s Soup Can imagery, Gohier ponders the concept of identity. Can we
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‘(w)Hole Thing Theatre’ is an exhibition completed in fulfilment of the requirements of Anthony Elliott Baker’s degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Baker’s candidature inquires how dissociative phenomena can re-imagine self-portraiture and destabilise interpretation of the by-proxy encounter. (w)Hole Thing Theatre explores the disintegration and creation of narratives constructing self-identity within the Interpassive experiences of an
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Aha Ensemble invite you to participate in their installation ‘Absolutely Everybody Judges’. For fifteen-minutes you will experience an intimate interaction which involves members of Aha Ensemble improvising a descriptive dialogue that paints a speculative portrait using your visual characteristics. This new work aims to create an experience and space where hierarchies are upended, limits are
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For the final MONO event this year, we head to the Old Museum for a special evening of effortless harmony, shimmering timbre and hovering harmonics. Chris Abrahams, known for his work with The Necks, will perform his first ever organ solo in Brisbane. American artist Chuck Johnson transforms the wavering qualities of his pedal steel
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Hold Your Horses is the culmination of three years of slow and steady work. Drawing on myth, symbolism, and medieval-inspired imagery, Rhiannon creates snapshots from a fantasy realm which functions as a mirror for real experiences. Considering themes of interconnection, immunity, isolation, and illness, this body of work serves as a means for the artist to
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Join curator Cassandra Lehman in conversation with international residency artist Claudia Kogachi as they discuss Claudia’s practice and her time in Brisbane. Join us as we delve in to discussions around the importance of collaborations, awards and international residencies, while learning about the important of craft and arts in today’s society. We
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David M Thomas – in collaboration with Weekend Immendorff, Suzanne Howard, Bridie Gillman, Queena Grot (AKA Pamela Rosel), Erika Scott, Rebecca Ross & Callum Galletly Sub Urban Mystic is an integration of art, philosophy and exhibition practice. The central works are a series of large biomorphic and geomorphic paintings. The paintings or wall hangings expand
Sasha Parlett’s The Valley (2022) features a living, breathing Buderim rainforest on Kabi Kabi country. Alternating between the macro and the micro, the mindful lens of photographer and filmmaker Sasha Parlett demonstrates her connection to country and appreciation of the many facets of its most life-nurturing element: “Water is a big part of many Dreamtime
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What possesses people to make art? What to paint and how to paint it? Paintings can take on so many different appearances. When does the act of painting become something profound for the painter and the audience? I have found that the best work is the most personal. Some years back I found myself in
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Hoffie’s new body of work includes both domestic & larger scale oil paintings on canvas & paper created since 2019. Here, figures both recognisable & imagined, float in fanciful landscapes, teasing the viewer’s curiosity. These works reflect the chaotic state-of-play in the world since (& before) the impact of the global pandemic. Drawing from epic
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Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Brisbane. We believe that a Festival should be festive and celebrate the personality of its city. We are Brisbane’s most anticipated event of the year, bringing people together as they awake from their winter slumber for an explosion of arts performances and experiences. Brisbane Festival is unlike anything else you
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In Impossible Depth, Nicola Scott explores ‘holography’, a three-dimensional illusionary technique that records the liquidity and reflective ability of layered light waves and colour, onto a 2D picture plane. The curious, multilayered textures contained in each work suggest traces of plastic, brushes, alternating opacity and gesture. Due to the depth created by interlocking and overlaying shapes
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This September across Galleries 1, 2 & 3 Milani Gallery are presenting an exhibition of new work by D Harding. The exhibition includes new paintings, sculpture and installation. Image : D Harding body of objects (bularru woomeras) 2022, black pigmented industrial silicon rubber, dimensions variable 70 x 8 x 15 (approx.), 2 parts (one Rockhampton
Internationally acclaimed biological artists Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, and Jestin George join co-hosts Elizabeth Stephens and Grayson Cooke for a discussion on the art and science of synthetic biology. This talk is part of an international series of public talks that pair artists and scientists for an evening of discussion on subjects of shared concern.
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Do we take the L and move on, or do we use this opportunity to learn and change our approach to earn a win? L in the chat, internet terminology referring to the word lose / loss, aims to explore how emphasising the feminine in contemporary installation art can disrupt the masculine conventions of minimalist
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Susan Hawkins and Jan Oliver are Brisbane-based artists who have been working collaboratively towards their exhibition: From Diffractional Conversations. Susan continues to metaphorically draw and grow something out of the potential of dismembered, found objects and includes sound that is created from the objects. Jan uses force and delicacy to alter the surface of her
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A fine art photographic exhibition by David Symons at The Maud Street Photo Gallery in Newstead, QLD. David’s work has been variously described as ‘the recognition of glass cutting skin” and “a Festival of Photo Noir, theatrical juxtaposition and semiotics”. For David, the idea that the photograph can traverse the line between the real and
An exhibition exploring the queer community of the Gold Coast through a new lens. Contemplating ideas surrounding people, art and place through experimental moving image, sound and storytelling, this project showcases an artist-led adventure to the agricultural backdrop of the scenic rim presenting work from both the artist and participants. Friday 7 October, 6 –
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A celebration of fascinating and rarely seen independent filmmaking from the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Continuing the Australian Cinémathèque’s ongoing exploration of regional filmmaking communities – as seen in programs such as ‘APT9 Cinema: Microwave Films of the Marshall Islands’ and ‘APT10 Cinema: Under the Radar’ – these short films showcase a selection
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Artist: Paula de la Rua Cordoba, Yulia Skorina, Adam Southgate, Renee Kire, Lorissa Toweel. Our insatiable desire to construct our environment and experience has resulted in a cataloguing of information and knowledge. Information so easily retrieved and consumed that it no longer functions as knowledge but rather as data. That is to say, what humankind
Can we use the talking cure to solve society’s ‘problem’ with women? Natalya Hughes’s The Interior invites audiences into an exaggerated consultation room playfully furnished for psychoanalysis. This immersive installation combines sculptural seating, richly patterned soft furnishings, and uncanny object d’art, nestled around a hand-painted mural to generate a stimulating space to unpack our collective and unconscious biases.
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At its heart, Horizon Festival is deeply connected to place. Celebrating the spectacular natural landscape of the Sunshine Coast region, honouring the stories and artworks of our First Nations people, providing a platform for local artists to extend their practice, and a way for communities to engage, experience and be inspired. We are the Sunshine
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Domina is a new series of photographic and digital works by Logan City artist Mark Kleine. The exhibition narrates the fictional relationship between a parent and their gender fluid child. The story is illustrated through the artist’s performance of both characters. Mark Kleine is an artist based in Logan City on Yugambeh land. In 2013,
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Featured in The Condensery’s historic bomb shelter, DE-compose is a single channel video work that explores some of the hidden ecological players, such as termites, microbes and fungi, that perform an intrinsic role in the health of our planet. Often regarded as pests, germs or as rotting decay, these valuable organisms create beauty, in their
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Jan Murphy Gallery is proud to present ‘Araltjarinyi – Unlace’, our first solo exhibition with Zaachariaha Fielding. Raised on desert country in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Zaachariaha comes from a long line of multi-disciplinary artists. His energetic and visceral paintings are embedded with iconography that reflects the way he lives his culture in
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