What is it to confess? A secret, hidden beneath the public face, is surrendered to view. In this collection, Scott Breton turns to experiences connected to shame and pain, to the eternal struggle between despair and the vital lust for life. The results are dreamscapes. Or perhaps nightmares, with some containing confronting surreal imagery. […]
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A collaborative exhibition between Mitchel Cumming and Kenzee Patterson, this project gathers ethical, material and political strands associated with the idea of redistribution, embodied within two colonial-era basalt millstones. Resisting dominant Western narratives of settlement, growth, industry and the developmental, the artists instead follow the poetic, speculative threads that the stone itself suggests. Artist Talk:
Regional Arts Fund Quick Response Grants aim to support small arts or cultural projects that cannot be funded by other means because of their nature or timing. For example, you may wish to attend a workshop or complete a project within a certain time frame and cannot access appropriate funding through any other means. Quick
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Join us for the Australian launch of our new publication ‘Richard Bell Reader: documenta fifteen’, and hear all the latest from the biggest of the international art world’s biennials, triennials and group exhibitions held every five years in Kassel, Germany! Richard Bell, on a brief return visit home from Europe, will be joined co-editor Megan
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International Photographers of the Year Ian and Erick Regnard will exhibit their award-winning Floating Bits collection at Brisbane’s Maud St Gallery for the first time on Australia’s East Coast. The twin brothers achieved the almost-impossible in 2007 by taking photos underwater on Polaroid 4×5 large format film to create Floating Bits. The resulting incredible photos
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Are tea towels important markers of change in social values, culture and identity? Join our panel of experts as we take a look at Queensland’s past and future culture and identity through tea towels, travel art, amateur collecting and the changing depiction of Queensland through our enduring motifs. Hear from historian Emeritus Professor Peter Spearritt;
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Williamstown artist, Darren McDonald has won this year’s Brisbane Portrait Prize taking home the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Prize for his artwork titled Like A Bridge. A talented painter for more than 25 years, Mr McDonald said he was overwhelmed to take out first place, honoring his mother in his acceptance speech, whom his portrait is
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Holly Anderson is concerned with perceptual affect: the smorgasbord of stimuli that our physiological system is immersed in as we traverse our way through a world of liquid experience. Those familiar with her work will recognise the sun as an almost omnipresent character. When the artist describes to me how disorienting and consuming it feels
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Shapeshifters brings together works by David Usher, Gary Abkin and Peter Berner, three mid-career Australian artists who share a fascination with the shifting nature of perception, memory, and landscape. Their intuitive approach to artmaking invites the viewer to rethink what constitutes ‘landscape’ and how we might understand our environment, our stories, and the places we
The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. To view the exhibition is free – but you must book tickets Image: Asha by Monica Rohan. Oil on board, 63 x 93cm.
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International and Australian artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, film making, curating – are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2022. Two Winners of the Awards will each receive (4) free weeks of BigCi residency and $4,000 prize money. The winning artists will have an
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ONE + ONE = THREE: NATALIE RYAN, PIP RYAN AND THE RYAN SISTERS. While Natalie and Pip Ryan maintain celebrated solo art practices that span, drawing, watercolour, sculpture and installation, together they collaborate of projects that delve into the surreal, the kooky and the macabre. Image: The Ryan Sisters, Farqutwo, 2013, wax, finger puppets, bandaid,
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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) Art Competition is back again in 2022, with the theme ‘Emergence’. In quantum physics, emergence can be described as a phenomenon whereby a collective group of interacting objects can have vastly different behaviour to isolated objects. Visual, audio, written—any kind of art is welcome, as long as it
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The Mistra Environmental Communication team at the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) are excited to facilitate one paid artist-in-residence (AiR) from 1 March to 30 April 2023! The AiR@UniSC offers the opportunity to investigate and explore the environment and sustainability through immersion in the Mistra Environmental Communication research that is ongoing at UniSC. In intersecting academics
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Northern Rivers Creative is calling out to artists for inclusion in <cite>, an upcoming group exhibition at Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay. The exhibition will open from 28 Jan – 25 Feb 2023 and will feature up to 5 artists from the directory. A salute to emerging technologies, <cite> invites applications from artists who are exploring digital processes
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Art in Conflict is a new touring exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. A showcase of diverse responses to war, the exhibition includes more than seventy paintings, drawings, films, prints, photography and sculptures. Leading Australian artists are represented, such as Khadim Ali, Rushdi Anwar, eX de Medici, Denise Green, Richard
Revered as one of Australia’s foremost landscape painters, William Robinson is also celebrated for his iconic series of self portraits, two of which were awarded the highly influential Archibald Prize. While Robinson is not widely recognised for depicting the human form in art, one figure is central to his practice and represents the most consistent
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The Hayward Street Theatre Art Gallery is seeking expressions of interest from visual artists and guest curators for their new gallery programs. The Hayward Street Theatre Gallery is an exciting new initiative that supports the visual arts community in Brisbane and beyond. Our vision is to create an accessible arts hub located on the Northside
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From tales of love, to sweeping landscapes to stories of exile, this survey highlights perspectives embedded within Tibetan culture. While Tibet has often been the subject of many factual and fiction productions by filmmakers based outside of the region, it was not until the early 2000s that a local filmmaking culture gathered momentum. For a
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What does the future of earth look like? In light of the current climate crisis, this question evokes anxiety and uncertainty, undermining safe distinctions between present and future, fate and determinism. My practice seeks answers in abstract collages which visualise chaotic and unfamiliar futures. Beginning with randomly generated plywood cutouts, I extensively re-paint and rearrange
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With the support of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Museums & Galleries Queensland (M&G QLD) is offering the Mentorship and Internship Program 2022–2024 for paid staff and volunteers in public, not-for-profit museums and galleries located in Queensland. The Program makes possible opportunities for staff and volunteers to access expertise in cultural institutions in Australia, to learn from leading
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QCA Galleries are now accepting proposals to exhibit at one of our four exhibition spaces between May – December 2023. We accept proposals from Queensland College of Art students, staff, and external applicants. Please take the time to read through the information listed on the QCA Galleries website, including the Terms and Conditions prior to applying. All proposals
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Although titled The Glow, there is nothing diffuse about the paintings in this exhibition. Here, Quilty’s canvases act as the collision point of external and internal forces, confronting in their assessment of the current state of affairs. The exhibition features a series of portraits, many of which are self-portraits including a large-scale Rorschach painting, a visceral
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Are you interested in presenting an event (exhibition, open studio, in conversation, workshop) as part of BAD 2023? Review the BAD BRIEF, then apply through the expression of interest to be considered. EOIs close COB Friday 14 October 2022.
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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.