“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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David Humphrey is a New York artist who has maintained a forty-year commitment to making formally inventive, psycho-socially engaged paintings. Over this time he has continued to transform images from the public realm into imaginative hybrids of the social and eccentrically individual, the historic and vividly contemporary. His work celebrates the peculiar nesting within the
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A mother and daughter duo, Debbie and Sophie Taylor have strong matriarchal Gamilaraay heritage. Gunimaa- Source is a celebration of their strong family bond and highlights their respect for cultural responsibilities in caring for the earth. Connection to the feminine is intrinsic to connection to nature. This exhibition is a visual representation of the source
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Sihot’e Nioge reveals the centrality of nioge, painted, and sihot’e, appliquéd, beaten bark cloths in Omie culture and life from the first Omie man and woman who arrived on the earth until today. Working from the remote mountain rainforests of Oro Province, not so far from Kokoda, Papua New Guinea, the Omie Tapa artists continue to develop the
The publication of limited-edition art books in Australia underwent a remarkable flourishing in the last decades of the twentieth century. These deluxe editions, with their special bindings, were often accompanied by an original artwork. Richard Griffin led the way in the 1970s with his new imprint Gryphon Books. He was followed by others such as
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Mudgee Arts Precinct is delighted to present its inaugural Portrait Prize with $17,500 in prizes to be won. MAP Portrait Prize is open to submissions in all media to artists at any level of their artistic practice – from beginners right through to arts professionals – encouraged to enter. The exhibition will take place from
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Lemonade is live! The new project provides weekly art reviews of exhibitions in Queensland. Lemonade is a love letter to Queensland art and artists. The new initiative responds to a pressing need for critical discourse and promises to showcase the best of Queensland art to local, national, and international readers. Founding Editor, Louise R Mayhew, says: “I’m excited to celebrate
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the churchie emerging art prize 2022 guest judge Sebastian Goldspink tonight announced Emmaline Zanelli as the recipient of this year’s $15,000 prize. Goldspink, a Sydney-based independent curator and the curator of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial: Free/State, said, “The winning video work is a choreographed montage of the artist with her Nonna in suburban Adelaide. Drawing on the aesthetics and politics
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The National Regional Arts Fellowship Program is a strategic project, supported by the Regional Arts Fund and managed by Regional Arts Australia. The Fellowships Program is an investment in the development of artistic and creative practice. The program is contemporary, flexible and relevant to artists practicing, working and living in regional, rural and remote Australia.
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The acquisitive Sunshine Coast Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D arts practice in Australia. Now in its seventeenth year, the exhibition presents the remarkable finalist works by established and emerging artists from across the country. Presented in partnership with Horizon Festival. Image: Paula Mahoney’s Grief makes us strangers, 2022.
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An enormous 15 metre floating art garden depicting native plants by exciting First Nations artist Tony Albert has been unveiled, adding to the growing multi-million-dollar collection of public art earmarked for the transformational Queen’s Wharf Brisbane. Titled Inhabitant, the bold, botanical artworks of Australian flora, including Banksia, Desert Pea and Waratah, will be fabricated in
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On the ground level, and fresh from her mini survey show at Caloundra Regional Gallery, Mbararrum artist Jennifer Herd presents Mother’s Country including 20 new works that feature her signature pin-holing technique and geometric shield patterning on both paper and canvas. Herd tells her stories of displacement and fortitude not with aggression or vengeance but
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‘The Soul Trembles’ highlights twenty-five years of Chiharu Shiota’s artistic practice. She’s renowned internationally for her transformative, large-scale installations constructed from millions of fine threads that cluster in space or form complex webs that spill from wall to floor to ceiling. Shiota’s beautiful and disquieting works express the intangible: memories, dreams, anxiety and silence. Curated by
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abbe (artists books brisbane event) is welcoming applications from artists/designers for the abbe 2022 print culture fiesta. The fiesta will feature artists / designers / small publishers who are invited to apply for a table at the event. All applications will be considered in the context of creative print cultures and the number of tables
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Waverley Woollahra Art School’s 9×5 Landscape Prize is now in its 7th year and continues to attract artists wishing to explore the tradition of Australia’s Impressionists. Entry in the 9×5 Landscape Prize may be paintings in any medium, including oil, acrylic or watercolour on a 9×5 plywood board, supplied free with each entry. The theme
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Artists are invited to submit a work in any medium with a Major Prize of $8,000. A non-acquisitive award that engages with and responds to the Halloran Collection: Science & the Sea at the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum & Gallery. The Collection is internationally significant and contains a diverse range of scientific and maritime instruments, artworks and ephemera. The
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Calling All Emerging Artists and Students: Museum of Brisbane Wants You MoB is looking for emerging talent for a professional development summer internship programMuseum of Brisbane’s objective as an organisation that cultivates and supports the arts has been bolstered by securing $300,000 in RISE funding. The RISE Fund was established to support the arts and
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Powerhouse’s Research Fellowship Program provides a supportive environment for researchers to undertake research related to the museum’s collection, education, conservation and museum practice. The fellowships enable researchers to access the museum’s resources to support their research for a short period of time. The visit will initiate and develop collaborative research and facilitate interaction with, and training of,
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Attracting thousands of visitors to its showcase exhibition, and featuring hundreds of artworks from artists from all across Australia and beyond, the Small Works Art Prize is Australia’s largest open call art prize for artworks measuring 35x35x35cm or less. All levels of experience welcome, all mediums, themes and styles welcome, with ALL ENTRIES EXHIBITED from
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McClelland is calling for expressions of interest from First Nations artists to join a residency program aimed at developing skills and capacity in public art and delivering major creative outcomes. The Bunurong Fieldwork Residency at McClelland will enable four First Nations artists or artist teams to reside in McClelland’s studio cottage over a period of
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The BAM Art Prize 2022 is open to all artists nationwide. All shortlisted artworks are featured in the magazine. The overall winner appears on the cover of BAM, along with $5000 prize money. A Finalist Exhibition at NRCG Ballina runs from October 19-December 11, 2022. Image: BAM Art Prize 2020 – installation view. Artworks l-r:
Celebrate the man behind the game-changing Native Title Act, Eddie Koiki Mabo. Co-curated by his daughter Gail Mabo, Dr Jonathan McBurnie and Kellie Williams, the exhibition brings together a selection of work by 24 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in the spirit of reconciliation, three decades after the historic achievement Reflect on his legacy with 24
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Visit the Open Studio for insights into the creative practice of contemporary Australian artists. For four months at a time, we invite an artist to share their studio practice in Brisbane and provide insights into how they work. Artist Space: Explore the Open Studio to develop new understandings about creativity and wellbeing. Artist Gallery: Visit
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With a lifetime dedicated to luxury, Australian jewellery designer Margot McKinney is one of the world’s boldest talents. The very definition of timeless elegance and bespoke excellence, Margot’s extraordinary pieces are a celebration of the world’s rarest gems. For four generations, the McKinney family name has been synonymous with luxury jewels. However, it is Margot herself
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The Drawing Prize has been a staple in M16 Artspace’s exhibition Calendar since 2006. It attracts hundreds of entries from across Australia and internationally. The M16 Drawing Prize is for drawing in either traditional drawing media and techniques, or non-traditional works that extend understanding of what drawing may be within contemporary art practice. The judges
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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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