Character Limit is a collaborative exhibition from Lyle and Keemon, exploring the impact and utility of emojis in everyday virtual spaces, specifically in the realm of queer intimacy and communication. Filling in for the deep nuances of non-verbal interpersonal engagement, emojis act as gateway to emotional understanding and personal storytelling. A smile evokes the image […]
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In conjunction with Jeff Gibson: Countertypes we’ve put together a fantastic series of free events with local Brisbane artists and creatives. Join us each Saturday in August for some in-depth discussions, and refreshments from our partners Lock, Stock & Barrel and Newstead Brewery. Jeff Gibson was part of the 1980s alternative art communities of Brisbane,
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Join artist Sidney McMahon to delve into your inner weird and make some art that celebrates you, just as you are. A workshop as individual as you, we’ll start out by sharing what we’re into at the moment (TikTok? Six the musical? Long furbies?), and work together on using these interests to think about and
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present … out of time by Carl Warner. Alongside new works, the exhibition presents a selection of Warner’s archival prints in four genres: Concrete Pasture, Nature, Wood, and Metal. The gallery invites visitors to leaf through Warner’s unseen working photographs spanning back to his first exhibition from 1988. Each of the prints is
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First in a series of iterative projects that – through collaborative practices – aim to build a houseboat. This extended project will be brought to bear using a skill-sharing methodology, engaging with boat-builders, lead-light-makers, contemporary artists, ecologists, and people currently living on houseboats. DREAMBOAT will serve as both an art space and a space for
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Vanishing Point brings together the work of three contemporary artists who approach the body as a site for thinking, being and becoming. Holly Anderson, Isabella Catenaro and Phoebe Kelly investigate the material possibilities of painting, sculpture and photography to evoke the body and examine the shifting relationships we form with ourselves, each other and our surroundings.
We are again excited to share that this years exhibition will again run during October and early November. Entries are open to all Artists who live in Australia working in two and three dimensional mediums. Subscribe to the mailing list for notification when the call for entries open. Opening Night: Friday 14th October Exhibition: 15th
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In its 65th year, Redcliffe Art Society’s annual Exhibition of Excellence is a calendar favourite and brings together the best works by society members from the past year. Prizes are awarded across a number of categories including landscape; still life, portraiture; and abstract/contemporary. During your visit you can vote for your favourite artwork in the People’s Choice Award. Image credit: 2021 overall winner,
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Opinion Fatigue marks another turn in the wide-ranging practice of Queensland conceptual artist Sebastian Moody. In this new body of work, he fuses his love of modern painting, language, and meaning. These paintings continue in the tradition of 1960s and ‘70s Australian concrete poetry, which used mechanical and commercial applications of text to expand possibilities for
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Cressida Campbell (b. 1960, Sydney) is an award-winning artist living and working in Sydney. She is renowned for her highly detailed woodblocks and unique woodblock prints depicting scenes of domestic interiors, Australian landscapes and still life. Like artists Giorgio Morandi or Margaret Olley (her great friend), Campbell recognises the beauty of the everyday, capturing the
The Artist Talk event will see Sebastian Moody talk to his current exhibition Opinion Fatigue. The audience will have the opportunity to engage with the artist and gain meaningful insight into Moody’s practice and conceptualisation of this latest suit of works. RSVPs are encouraged to attend the event. Opinion Fatigue marks another turn in
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Jeff Moorfoot’s ‘conTEXT’ presents a tongue-in-cheek dialogue between image and text, bringing together several discrete bodies of work in a broad pastiche of pictures + words. As Moorfoot says “any art that doesn’t offend someone, somewhere at some time, ain’t art – it’s decor!” What do a gravedigger, uni lecturer, gardener, festival director, oil rig
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Mixed media & photographic artist Phoebe Hofsteede presents Flora, Fauna, Fading; a remembrance of native animals, respectfully adorned with native fauna, reflecting the stories that lay within the cracks & fibres of their bones. By combining imagery of Australian native animal remains with real pressed native flowers, Phoebe creates works that confronts the idea of
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“INFERNO is a current incarnation of a body of work that has been steadily developing over the past eight years. It seeks to highlight deeply embedded links between religion, economics, and power in colonial societies of the ‘West’, with a precise focus on Australia. It is informed by my own Catholic upbringing and experience, having
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After the successful residency and sell-out exhibition Boundary earlier this year, we wanted to see how the residency with Side Gallery impacted Kate’s general practice. The residency shifted process practices for Kate, and the emphasis when approaching a new piece has since been on continuing a considered and harmonious work. This more recent body of work captures
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The Kennedy Arts Foundation presents the Kennedy Prize, an annual Australian arts award of $25,000. The prize is based and exhibited in Adelaide but open to Australian artists nationwide, and is awarded to works that embody, comment on or celebrate the theme of beauty. The prize is open to Australian artists, with the sole category
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Handbuilt Ceramic Slab Vases with Michelle Le Plastrier When: Thursday 22 September | 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Where: artisan’s workshop location South Brisbane, 170 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101 Cost: $150 per person, limited to 10 places Skill Level: Suitable for beginners About the workshop: Join HOTA ArtKeeper Program ceramicist Michelle Le Plastrier
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present GRAPHEMISM by Miles Hall on show between 20 July to 7 August, 2022. By using a range of both linen and aluminium supports, Hall’s new works evolve from an active dialogue between material, gesture and surface. Paint is not considered as passive matter but an active element – its inherent properties contribute to the development and
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If there is an animating principle at work on our planet, it is embodied in the capacity of all living things to briefly overcome gravity to stand upright. That dogged perseverance to prevail is writ large in the term “pertinacity” — a tenacious perseverance that living invariably draws upon. Pertinacity is used here as a
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Presented by Brisbane City Council and produced by Museum of Brisbane, Botanica is Queensland’s premier outdoor exhibition of site-specific contemporary artwork, taking place in Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens. Featuring artworks and installations from some of Australia’s leading contemporary artists and designers, this open-air exhibition at the nexus of art and design practice inspires conversations about our built,
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Archibald Prize finalist Mirra Whale examines the way humans personify, interpret and curate the world around us in her second solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. Mirra Whale is a Sydney based artist who explores everyday subjects and presents them from another angle. Her artworks explore the formal and conceptual limits of
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Julian Spooner takes each participant on a step-by-step journey towards developing a dynamic and ‘cinematic’ solo performance style. Drawing on his training and the techniques employed in his Stage Award- winning performance in Mistero Buffo, participants can expect to learn exercises which will allow them to embody multiple characters, change physical space in the blink of
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Scott McDougall’s career spans an impressive four decades. Since beginning his career in Queensland, Scott has travelled extensively, capturing intimate moments across the globe. His highly refined techniques allow Scott to not only capture a picture perfect scene but the mood. He truly captures life as it is with his careful choice of subject matter.
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Mara Ala – Open Hands’ brings together acclaimed senior Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara artists and Ngangkari (traditional healers) Iluwanti Ken and Betty Muffler. Showcasing the distinct styles and visions of both Ken and Muffler, the exhibition features expansive collaborative paintings by these award-winning female Indigenous artists. “Ngayuku mamaku ukari. Iluwanti-ku ngunytju, ngayuku mamaku malanypa ka ngayuku kuntili pulka.
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The IMA’s 7th Annual Gala and Benefit Auction will take a suitably experimental form, inviting cutting edge artists to perform alongside an enviable selection of artworks available to bid on in support of the gallery. Dress Code: Glamorous Dining Style: Cocktail event with food by the teams at Agnes, Anges Bakery and Jocelyn’s Provisions. Drinks by Pommery,
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Applications are now open for the Museum of Art and Culture yapang’s (MAC yapang) Lake Art Prize 2022. MAC yapang is situated on the shores of Lake Macquarie in NSW, Australia’s largest salt water lake. The theme for the prize is ‘The Vessel: contained within and moving between’. In working with the theme, we invite
A group exhibition of paintings by Candy Nelson Nakamarra, Dan Kyle and Miranda Skoczek. Join ‘In Conversation’ with the artists, moderated by Dr Louise Martin-Chew, Saturday 2 July at 3pm Image: Dan Kyle – Joy Painting For Andy, 2022, oil and mixed media on canvas, 200 x 170 cm
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Across and down. The directional designation of clues in a crossword puzzle’s spatial grid. Down and across. The literal reverse, yet not at all equal and opposite – particularly if applied to the puzzle of life. Across and down deploys and controls from the high ground. Down and across struggles to rise back up from
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Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious local government art award. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in Australia and the community had very little support and few
This unique site-specific installation creates dialogues around identity, migration, society, superstition, familial narratives and solidarity. Through mundane materials, the work is rendered as a moving ‘still-life of soul food.’ It is an offering from culture past to the present, from trauma to healing, to a diverse future of togetherness in our multicultural Australia. In Ritual Ceng
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A collection of exceptional Aboriginal paintings by some of Australia’s foremost Indigenous artists feature in the exhibition ‘Important Aboriginal Art #1’, showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from June 21st. Australian Aboriginal art is very diverse and stems from a culture that can be traced back thousands of years. What once would have
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EDIT-ism is an exhibition curated by Studio 26 and features the works of six artists from the Sunshine Coast who create works that embody the concept of EDIT-ism. To edit means to assemble, to cut, rearrange, alter, adapt, or refine, to direct, delete, or to modify – in order to bring about conformity to a
Kim Ah Sam’s art practice ex across printmaking, painting, papermaking, and sculptural weavings and is means of connection with her spiritual and cultural identity. Ah Sam’s weaving practice embodies storytelling and knowledge-sharing and is tied to the renewal and reconnection with her father’s country the Kalkadoon people. Ah Sam explores weaving as a therapeutic practice towards a process of
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adventure play ground consists of 39 works (comprising 27 paintings and 12 sculptures) which will be exhibited at Newstead Studios, a short walk from Ghost Ship Studios established by the artist Michael Eather in 2019. Most of the works in this exhibition have been completed in the past 12 months. The artist’s personal visual language,
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present Protégé artist India Mark’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, ‘From Steel City’. Working predominately in still life, India Mark’s paintings are intimate compositions that have been shaped and inspired by the artists immediate surroundings and her hometown of Wollongong, the ‘Steel City’ of Australia. “Only in the
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Three artists have been selected for Metro Arts’ inaugural MAVA Pathfinders Program: Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing, and James Barth. Caitlin, Liz and James will soon commence their Pathfinder residency at the newly refurbish MAVA Substation and spend the following 12 months developing new work and career models that prioritise creative practice AND financial stability. As
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