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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Reflecting the persistent engagement with literature throughout his painting practice, Aaron’s PhD defines criteria for the classification of a painting as fiction. Drawing upon the literary autofiction of Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk, Aaron argues that this shift away from painting’s art-historical preoccupation with ‘truth’, through the explicit use of fiction as a method, allows
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Chimera presents the drawings and paintings of Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist Ella Senbruns. Titled after the mythological goddess and monstrous amalgam, Chimera pushes representations of the body into the realm of the sensuous and unrecognisable. Executed within graphite, oils and mixed-media mark making, Senbruns’ figures are grotesque and alluring assemblages of flesh, objects, and plant
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Unpack the big ideas and ‘art speak’ behind contemporary art, featuring artworks from QAGOMA’s Collection. Presented by Dr Louise R Mayhew, in conversation with special guest artist Sebastian Moody. WTF….What the Fluxus? Can I hang out with my friends and call it art? Can I sit in silence, unpeel an orange, or let myself fall
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Arryn Snowball’s latest exhibition Moon Spill showing between the 7 to 25 September, 2022. Moon Spill explores the patterns, rhythms and polyrhythms, the vibrations, and the movements created in Snowball’s paintings. “I’m interested in movement and light, structure and change, uncertainty and ambiguity. I’m into the basics: triangles, circles, lines, colour. I try to
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Artist collective Aha Ensemble present a newly commissioned participatory installation Absolutely Everybody Judges, developed with the 2022 Jeremy Hynes Award. Working across Southeast Queensland and driven by an ethos of connection, curiosity, and care, Aha Ensemble use their bodies to explore representation, question value, and challenge assumptions about ways of being in the world. Having worked primarily in performative practices Absolutely Everybody
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Veiled is a group show exploring notions of existentialism, the divine other, celestial connection, astrology, relational connection, and all things thinly veiled beyond the realm of modern human understanding. Artists have presented works across a range of media, including ceramics, illustration, sculpture, digital art and photography. Artists: Rich Allen / Madelaine Buttini / Shane Drinkwater / Melanie Hinds
An exhibition reflecting a painters life growing up influenced by the gift of the Australian landscape is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from 6th September. Sunshine Coast-based artist Peter Hudson’s exhibition is a homage to whomever your creator may be, an appreciative recognition of what we have and all that we should
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??? ????????? | We warmly invite you to the opening of three new exhibitions at QCA Galleries on Thursday, 29th September from 5.30pm. ???? ?????? ???????: Here Now Past This exhibition from current Master of Visual Arts students examines time – the way time marks memories, the way time marks people, the way time makes
JamFactory’s annual ICON exhibitions celebrate the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Kunmanara Carroll (1950–2021) was a Luritja/Pintupi/Pitjantjatjara artist who worked at Ernabella Arts at Pukatja in the APY Lands. Concerned with passing on cultural knowledge, his paternal homeland was an unwavering source of inspiration and the recurring subject
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An event showcasing the practices of five emerging local sound and video artists. Curated by ‘the churchie emerging art prize 2022’ finalist, Lillian Whitaker, this dynamic up late event will respond to the themes of collaboration, inclusivity and intersectionality in creative communities. Experience pop-up video and sound installations by Guy Lobwein, Amelia McLeish, Arianna Nixon
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This event will take place on the unceded land of the people of the Yuggera Nation. We would like to pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging. We acknowledge that this land was violently invaded, that colonisation continues to this day and that sovereignty was never ceded. Set in so-called Australia, Suburban Apparitions
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Step into Eephus and Sudo’s Funderdome. A playful reimagining of the classic video game arcade, this exhibition will transform the gallery into an interactive space filled with eccentric games and friendly monsters. Alongside fellow humans and virtual monsters, visitors are invited to play the digital attractions in unexpected and collaborative ways. And don’t forget to
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We would like to invite you to join us on Saturday 8 October for Enter Outer Space. We will be opening our doors for a day of community-centred programming focusing on the Meanjin arts community. Program of Events 1:00 – 2:00pm – Arts Writing 101 with Miranda Hine 2:30 – 3:30pm – ARIs,
GOMA Talks returns during ‘Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles’, to examine the powerful role arts and culture plays in our wellbeing. From a never-ending global pandemic, to natural disasters and war, have these ‘unprecedented times’ left you feeling flat? In a world where nothing seems certain, art continues to provide joy and solace. Many of
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Step inside the magical world of ballet costumes as Queensland Ballet and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University present Secret Lives of Costumes. This visually sumptuous exhibition features costumes from Queensland Ballet’s rich and diverse repertoire ranging from the much-loved classics The Nutcracker, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Don Quixote to recently celebrated original creations
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