Artists: Amrita Hepi, Madison Bycroft, Ensayos Collective, Angela Tiatia Explore multiple, complex narratives of the ocean as Oceanic Thinking continues with new artists in the second half of 2022. Using the ocean – both its form and its enduring connection to human experience – as a starting point, artworks delve into personal histories and imaginings, and provoke expanded […]
‘Kin’ explores how contemporary artists in Papua New Guinea draw on traditional kinship structures to create families of support and inspiration for their work. The exhibition explores the work of Chimbu artist Mathias Kauage alongside the men and women from his family and village who have followed him; the kinship structures that exist between key
‘Transitions Now: Contemporary Aboriginal Forms and Images from the Collection’ (6 August 2022 – 18 June 2023) and ‘Transitions: Historic and Contemporary Barks from the Collection 1948–2021’ (20 August 2022 – 10 April 2023) are dovetailing chapters of an exhibition that offers a unique experience of innovative contemporary Aboriginal art alongside eight decades of Australian
Joe Furlonger is well known for his expressive, painterly figurative images and vast landscapes. ‘Horizons’ traces the Queensland artist’s career through an expansive presentation of more than 80 works across a range of media from painting to ceramics, sculpture and drawing. Image: Joe Furlonger, Australia b.1952 / Bathers 1987 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper
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One of the most powerful voices in art today William Kentridge emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Grounded in the violent absurdity of that period in his country’s history, his artworks draw connections between art, ideology, history and memory. Kentridge’s practice reveals the ways in which ideas and images echo
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Geelong Gallery’s 25 year survey of Melbourne based jeweller, Blanche Tilden, will showcase her remarkable and critically acclaimed practice in contemporary jewellery. Celebrating Tilden’s career in innovative contemporary design, this first major survey of the artist’s work will include both historical and contemporary works loaned from Australian public and private collections, in addition to a
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Onespace Gallery is pleased to present Luminous: microhabitats, an exhibition of contemporary prints by widely respected Townsville-based artist, Jo Lankester. For Luminous: microhabitats Lankester has created a stunning new series of unique state prints depicting the exquisite presence of lichen on natural substrates. Her exhibition encourages a conversation about ecology and the effects of climate change on a micro level. Lichens
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Curated by Djon Mundine OAM FAHA, Three Echoes – Western Desert Art is a stunning exhibition exploring the poetic notion of echoes – how metaphorically and metaphonically we can echo a thought, a sentiment or a consciousness. In the 1970s, Australian Aboriginal people from the desert began talking to the world through art, transferring their creation stories
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To support artists in their creative endeavours, the Australian Cultural Fund (ACF) has removed the service fee from all new donations, ensuring 100% of funds go directly to artists’ creative projects or initiatives. If you have a project to fund, the ACF can help you fundraise. Register online and start your campaign now.
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To Be Human is the first major survey exhibition of Australian-Japanese artist duo Ken + Julia Yonetani. Working together since 2008, the artists have built a collaborative practice that unearths and visualises hidden connections between people and their environment. Responding to environmental degradation and global economic systems, their work addresses coral bleaching, increasing salinity levels,
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Celebrating the vision and generosity of Queensland art collector and philanthropist James C. Sourris AM, ‘Courage and Beauty’ is dedicated to Mr Sourris’s gifts of the past decade, with major works by contemporary Australian artists including Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Vivienne Binns, Jon Cattapan, Peter Cripps, Bonita Ely, d harding, Robert Hunter,
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‘Embodied Knowledge’ is a focused survey of new work by Queensland artists. This group of commissioned and recent projects brings to the fore the voices of women, people of colour and LGBTIQA+ artists, all with a close connection to the sunshine state. It includes a vast installation of new paintings by Jenny Watson; a towering work
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MELT FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 18 DAYS OF ARTS AND IDEAS WITH A STAR-STUDDED PROGRAM MELT Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse’s unabashed celebration of queer art, artists, allies, icons, and ideas, has revealed its fabulous full program. From global headliners, award-winning cabaret and high-energy music club nightsto a queer comedy gala, cutting-edge contemporary dance and First Nations art,
Entries for the Ramsay Art Prize are now open. Held every two years, the $100,000 acquisitive prize invites submissions of new or recent work by Australian artists under the age of 40 working in any medium, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, installation and time-based art. Presented by AGSA since 2017, the prize is generously supported
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Entries for the 2023 Nillumbik Prize Contemporary Art responding to the theme ‘Future’ are now open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia. The competition includes four monetary prizes with a total prize pool of $31,000. This includes a $20,000 Acquisitive Open Prize, $10,000 Acquisitive Local Prize, $500 Mayors Award and
Brisbane reimagines the fringe festival. Brisbane finally gets a fringe festival with tickets going on sale Saturday 27 August. The very first reimagined Fringe Brisbane Festival is taking place across Brisbane with extraordinary experiences set to captivate audiences from the 14th of October to 6th of November 2022. Two years in the making, 2022 Fringe Brisbane
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Blindside invites applications for the 2023 Exhibition Program. For our annual open call, Blindside invites proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists, curators, collectives or collaborators to present solo or group exhibitions, as well as events, performances, screenings and ephemeral projects. An inclusive space that supports a thriving arts community of emerging and established artists,
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Employing elaborate costumes made by the artist himself, Sydney-based photographer Gerwyn Davies’ art explores identity and the fictitious possibilities of digital images. In early 2022, Gerwyn was invited to check-in at The Calile Hotel as their artist in residence, utilising the distinct architecture as the inspiration for his new body of work‚ Pleasure. “Over five
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Brisbane based artist Kim Wilson mixes the surreal with the hyper real to highlight the natural beauty of the landscape around us in her first solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art from 23rd September. Working primarily with painting, Kim Wilson’s practice moves between realism and surrealism as she explores the beauty of nature and the
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Heysen Prize for Landscape is a contemporary art prize established in 1997 to commemorate the life and work of the internationally renowned, artist, Sir Hans Heysen. It is a biennial event celebrating emerging, mid-career and established artists and their connection to landscape and place. The word ‘landscape’ includes all possible aspects of the natural, rural,
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The City of Sydney is seeking expressions of interest for an artwork by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist or collective. The artwork will acknowledge and pay respect to Country, celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures, and be used as the visual identity for NAIDOC in the City – the City
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Writer and artist Pat Hoffie and Camerata, Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, make temporary homes at MoB this spring Uncovering entertaining and fascinating stories about Brisbane’s rich history are what two new Artists in Residence at MoB are tasked with via the written word and a new musical composition. Responding to the museum’s major exhibition, Making Place:
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Lemonade is a new weekly reviews platform for exhibitions in the Sunshine state. Lemonade is inspired by the yellow glaze that filters Queensland’s sky. It references the effervescent sensation of quenching a summer’s thirst, and is a subtle ode to the state’s first art critic—Gertrude Langer—and her penchant for describing art as fresh and refreshing.
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Please join David Nixon and Casselle Mountford in their exhibition VERVE, and Grace Herrmann for her solo exhibition Landslide. VERVE includes sculptures by Casselle Mountford and works on paper by David Nixon. The soft tactile forms, rounded fluidity and exuberant, vibrant colour combinations of Casselle’s sculptures express a playful, joyous harmony. Complementing these, David’s contemplative
The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. Internationality and networking make YICCA a huge opportunity for the artists. • Prizes: – Euro 3000,00 money prize to the first selected – Euro 1000,00 money prize to the second selected • Promote their art
The annual Side Gallery end-of-year show is titled ‘Burn’ for the 2022 iteration, which will run from December 1 – 10. We are seeking expressions of interest and submissions in various media before November 15. As always, the exhibition is a “smalls” work collection, restricting the size of work to 30cm x 30cm *max* for
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Brisbane-based artist Kitty Horton completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited solo shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, along with group shows nationally throughout Australia and in Miami, Florida. Kitty’s artworks are represented in private collections in Australia, New Zealand and France. My artworks explore the materiality of
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Are you interested in broadening your arts practice? Undertake a mentorship as Project Curator for Helpmann Academy 2023 Graduate Exhibition. The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition has an established reputation as the showcase exhibition of South Australia’s best emerging artists and shines a spotlight on the top emerging artists from Flinders University, and the University of
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The Brisbane based fine art photographer, is recognised throughout the world for her creative take on modern art with her surrealist, graphic photography, being featured by New York City’s famed The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) digital platform. Jane beautifully transforms vintage photos into colourful, surreal and whimsical pieces of modern art that are described
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Wash over me continues my response to a feeling I find hard to articulate. Small moments of awe, usually late in the afternoon. A feeling of breathing in the sky, and exhaling out the day; of the sky washing over me, engulfing me; of staring into the ocean from above. The paintings are not a representation
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The Spatial Herbarium | QCA Interior Design Students A herbarium is a collection of once living specimens that are preserved, labelled and stored in an organized manner, for both education and research. Interior design is more than a spatial arrangement or a collection of objects. Interiors constitute the most fragile feature of design because they
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June Tupicoff (b.1949, Healesville, Victoria) is a Brisbane based artist whose work focuses on an inherent interest in the Australian landscape. Tupicoff pays particular attention to ‘wallum country’, an ecosystem of coastal south-east Queensland extending into north-eastern New South Wales, characterised by flora-rich shrubland and heathland. Originally an abstractionist, over the course of time Tupicoff’s
Ricky Larry is an Australian artist currently based in Brisbane (Meanjin) and graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2014, currently studying Masters of Fine Art at QCA. Ricky’s multidisciplinary practice is informed by a pop sensibility with elaborate, surreal installation and sculptures of banal objects and consumer goods.
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A mainstay on the Brisbane arts calendar and major event of Queensland Mental Health Week, the 2022 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition will run from 8 to 13 October in Brisbane City Hall and King George Square. Entry is free. Curated by Mandana Mapar, 200 remarkable artworks will be on show. Every exhibiting artist has a lived
Artists to Watch presents a collection of artists new to the Gallery. Featured artists: Howard Searchfield, Rachel Perrin, Todd Simpson. Image: GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE By Rachel Perrin. Oil and pyrography on timber, 40cm by 40cm.
“In Simultaneous Disguise, all the works reveal evidence of their history through close examination of the painted surface. I’m fascinated by the possibilities of a flat surface. How can we use layering to better understand ideas of concealing and revealing? What happens when the most visible, anterior, or frontal form is hiding something that is behind?
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