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Artist Talk: Sebastian Moody

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: conTEXT

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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Ryan Presley: INFERNO

“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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Kate Barry: Afterglow

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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Kennedy Prize 2022

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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Miles Hall: GRAPHEMISM

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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Stephen Hart: Pertinacity

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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Botanica: Contemporary Art Outside 2023

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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Mirra Whale: Orange Blue

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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Iluwanti Ken & Betty Muffler: Mara Ala – Open Hands

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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Lake Art Prize

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

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Ian Smith: Across & Down

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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Mosman Art Prize

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

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Jayanto Tan: Ritual Ceng Beng

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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Important Aboriginal Art #1

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

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

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Kim Ah Sam: Where our journey takes us

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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India Mark: From Steel City

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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MAVA Pathfinders 2022

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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Daniel Sherington: #FLOWERS

Taking cues from traditional Dutch still life painting and ‘Tulip Mania’, #FLOWERS is a program that gathers images of flowers taken from Instagram and algorithmically collages them over hand-drawn still life imagery. These images are printed in the gallery space every 28 seconds, referencing the average viewing time of an artwork in a museum context; yet also

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Rae Saheli: 12 Gauge

Rae Saheli’s work is defined by a process in which she uses a 12-gauge shot gun aimed at various supports to create explosive and gestural 2-dimensional artworks. Of particular interest to Rae is the unique results that occur when she aims her shotgun at a surface, the hundreds of small pellets that constitute a shot

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An Alternative Economics

An Alternative Economics brings together a group of Australian and international artists who each use their artmaking to explore and expand on the creation of value. Guided by the idea of the circular economy and its compelling counter-narrative to the untenable model of eternal growth, each work in this exhibition offers a provocation to make us

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Danielle Milne: The Solo Mum

The Solo Mum is an autobiographical painting exhibition based on Danielle’s experiences as a single mother. The Solo Mum breaks the negative stigma that is frequently attached to single mothers as “women with baggage” by showcasing a life with a child as being filled with opportunity and adventure, not burdensome encumbrances. “When I first fell

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Hornsby Art Prize

The Hornsby Art Prize (HAP) returns in 2022 for its 11th edition. HAP is calling all artists living in Australia. There are 5 categories: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Digital art stills, 3D works. All art works must be original, have been produced within the last 2 years (2020 and 2022) and never been exhibited before. The

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OUTstanding

Acknowledging our unsung Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heroes, whose pride and dignity lift their community to their feet in a celebration of strength and determination, and a catalyst to not only stand tall, but rise. OUTstanding also speaks to unresolved issues, conciliation, and truth-telling in this country. Including artwork from twelve of Brisbane’s most

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