Logan Art Gallery Pop Up current exhibitions: Adult workshop program. Logan Art Gallery and Southside Upcycling Stitchers Collective artists are excited to offer a series of workshops which highlight the joy and creative possibilities to be found by giving unused and unwanted objects and materials a new lease on life. Workshops will be held at […]
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My Love, the Forest & I presents the collaborative artworks of Elias de Weger and Ella Senbruns. Together these artists work across the mediums of drawing, painting and photography to examine the space that exists between the body and the Australian landscape. Resonating throughout their imagery is a yearning for a human place within a
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Desire Path reflects upon a dissonance between subjective hedonic desire and modalities of pleasure in contemporary social life. The exhibition strides this rocky terrain taking the ancient Greek goddess of mirth, Baubo, as a guide, tragicomically exploring the pitfalls of modern dating and relationships. Known for her liberated sexuality and bawdy humour, the Baubo empowers
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This exhibition results from experience linked to matter, fragments of an endless work. The materials that will identify the geological age termed the Anthropocene are the substances of Parker’s art practice. Processed organic matter indexically marked by that vast pollutant – plastic. The making process leaves Parker’s work open to unstable, unexpected, and irregular results
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Want to be a part of something exceptional? Applications are now open for State Library’s research fellowships and awards totalling $85,000 as part of the Queensland Memory Awards. Use State Library’s vast resources to uncover and share your stories of Queensland’s limitless history. Australian researchers and creatives from all walks of life are encouraged to
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INSIGHT Professional Development Workshop Series delivers five cross-disciplinary practice-led workshops by some of Queensland’s leading arts professionals to Sunshine Coast based contemporary artists. IN | artist run initiative x The Old Lock Up are proud to host Hamish Sawyer, Louise R Mayhew, Kellie O’Dempsey, Daniele Constance x Aha Ensemble, and Liesel Zink. WORKSHOP SERIES
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Sharpen your sketching skills and make new friends as we combine art and local history at the monthly still life social. Featuring eclectic collection pieces for your inspiration, you’re invited to capture a new display each month. Light refreshments available – Bookings required Image credit: Photo by cottonbro from Pexels.
Just Not Australian presents Australian practitioners at the forefront of national debate and practice. Drawing together 20 artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, their differing ideas and perspectives on nationhood coexist within this timely thematic show. Showcasing the common sensibilities of satire, larrikinism and resistance so as to present a broad exploration of race, place and belonging, Just Not Australian interrogates what it means to be Australian at
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The annual Samstag Scholarships enable Australian artists to develop their artistic capacities and skills through a dedicated period of practice-based learning in an international learning institution. The scholarship provides each artist with institutional fees for one academic year of study and a US$50,000 tax free allowance and covers travel expenses to a leading international art
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With a prize pool of more than $45,000, this competition aims to ignite the passion and courage of artists across the country, many of whom lost the opportunity to display and sell their work during 2020-2021 with its devastating impact on the arts sector. The annual National Capital Art Prize is established to: Promote culturally
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Artists: Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Isha Ram Das, Elise Rasmussen, Izabela Pluta, Monira Al Qadiri, Tabita Rezaire, Stephanie Comilang, Alicia Mersy, Birrmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha, Kuruwarriyingathi Bijarrb Paula Paul, Salote Tawale, Benjamin Armstrong, Charles Callins, Andreas Angelidakis and SUPERFLEX. Oceanic Thinking presents new ways of understanding the ocean and the adjacent blue spaces of our planet. It invites
This is a reciprocal partnership program supporting regional NSW and regional QLD artists to exhibit at both Firstdraft (Sydney) and Metro Arts (Brisbane). Across two years, this program supports two projects, one by regional NSW artists and one by regional QLD artists to be presented at both Firstdraft and Metro Arts. The program will feature
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Brisbane-based artist Rachael Wellisch unifies different techniques with shades of natural indigo dye. Wellisch uses discarded, threadbare clothes and worn out bedsheets that undergo alchemical altercations to refabricate into sculptures, hand-made paper and installations. While the works may suggest abstractions of nature, such as rock sediment or vistas of water, the materials offer a view
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The Brisbane Portrait Prize celebrates the city of Brisbane and its people. We are inviting all artists with a connection to Brisbane to join us and be a part of this unique cultural prize. All entrants will be eligible for the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Award which is supported by Brisbane City Council. A further $37,000
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FREE ∑GGVEIN Pop up show at QCA Thursdays with special guests emmaserenjoeworld. Emmaserenjoeworld is a collaborative performance project between Emma Gow, Seren Wagstaff and Joseph Botica. The group explores the idea of a “band” through a contemporary art lense. Pulling from rock, electronica and other Brisbane scene “gigging“ conventions, the group parody and ponder upon
Phoebe Paradise’s sense of place is in lockstep with Brisbane’s newfound sense of confidence that it is, in fact, a city worthy of three-dimensional identity. Fiercely local and running independently as a brand since 2014, Phoebe has stuck loyally to the illustrious 4000 postcode, holding up a sort of mirror to Brisbane’s many faces and
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Pat Hall floods her stretched paper canvases with colour before sealing them in a UV stabilised and waterproof coating. The images remain vibrant and accessible without being hidden behind glass; breathing new life into the medium. Pat was born in Kent, England. After immigrating to Australia in 1991 she worked as an illustrator for many
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Mel Brady is a painter and installation artist living on Gubbi Gubbi land, who paints her love of colour and pattern, and works with fabric and paint to create site-specific, immersive installations and paintings. Mel’s deep interest in vintage art and fashion has been integral to the foundation of this body of work and is
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How can circular design interrupt and divert the systems of production and use that dominate how we consume? How much scope does ethical and sustainable design have for change in a society that still operates under capitalist systems? Join us for a panel discussion featuring hyperlocal designers and makers as they share their approaches to
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Belem Lett graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Sydney in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class 1) and a Master of Fine Art in 2012. In 2010 he was the recipient of the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, the highest award for an Australian artist under the age of
My grandfather loved to take photographs. He was an amateur photographer and built his own darkroom in an old storeroom under the house. Through the photographs he took across many decades, he chronicled periods of his life and those of his family. As a result, there is a rich vein of archival family photographs which
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Please join us for the launch of un Magazine issue 16.1, edited by D Harding and Hilary Thurlow. D and Hilary will introduce the volume and the methodologies explored around the format of annotations. Hilary states, “We initially conceived this issue with a static notion of what an annotated bibliography is and the role they
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Side Gallery invited a small group of artists to visit Armidale across a weekend. The aim was to explore how the artist’s work/process may evolve when taken from the usual surroundings and studio environment. The artists were encouraged to make work, explore, mingle, reflect on working differently, and respond authentically to Armidale’s township and environment.
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Paired is a group exhibition exploring our affinity to collect items and/or aesthetic objects to create our own still life joy at home with painting, sculpture and interior forms. Paired has a mix of sculpture and paintings; 3D work will be loosely “paired” with 2D work to create thoughtful interior collections. Artists: Peta Berghofer ,
In The Revolution Will Not Be Aestheticised, artist Warraba Weatherall considers the way that scientific and cultural perspectives inform contemporary cultural knowledge systems and forms of representation. Researched through archival materials, Australian politics, and Indigenous knowledges, the exhibition encourages a deeper insight into the construction and transmission of Indigenous knowledge systems and their direct influence in shaping
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MONO 44 welcomes two international sound artists to the IMA. Eiko Ishibashi is a Japanese composer and musician whose work sprawls across divergent sonic fields. Deeply rooted in a sense of melody and harmony, her solo works are a mesh of textured layers that intertwine to create unexpected and constantly deepening states. Her most recent
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Join Outer Space studio artist Holly Anderson for a 1.5 hour drawing workshop hosted in the Outer Space Gallery. In this session, you’ll learn techniques for capturing light, reflections and movement in your drawings and observe the surprising ways these phenomena flatten and skew our perceptual worlds. Before the large glass windows of the OS
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Join our online workshop with award-winning artist Samantha Messias and VAA artist mentor Karen van Hoey Smith. This session is for artists of all levels who would like to understand how to find their ideal art buyer to create multiple streams of income. Once artists start to understand who is their ideal customer or audience, everything else will
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Townships change. Places we call home can become virtually unrecognisable overnight as populations shift and new industries take hold. Landmarks disappear, and a district’s charm is changed forever due to redevelopment and urban renewal. Bearing witness to this loss of character is artist Christopher Zanko, who sees firsthand these changes in his hometown of Wollongong,
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The BBA Photography Prize awards international photographers irrespective of their background with several Prizes incl. a solo show, cash prizes & more. The competition includes two exhibitions – one at Berlin Photo Week in September and one at Kühlhaus Berlin in October. Berlin Photo Week is a prestigious community event and industry fair. Kühlhaus Berlin is
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Spanning all four QCA Galleries spaces, this exhibition is an exploration of half a century of photographic teaching and learning at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Persona: 50 Years of Photography at QCA explores the territory of the self, alter ego, disguise or alias. This exhibition features the work of over twenty-five QCA
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In this session, Outer Space studio artist Dhana Merritt will present you with an introduction to naturopathy practice, the benefits of naturopathy, and how tea drinking can influence your well-being. Dhana’s project DM Teahouse is an ongoing marrying of her artistic practice and work as a healthcare practitioner. After learning the basics in this workshop,
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The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is calling for applications from artists and researchers from all around the world for their residency programme. The Singapore-based, fully funded studio residencies will take place within a period of one to six months, between July 2023 and December 2024. SAM Residencies is a museum-run programme committed to supporting the development of innovative artistic
Two new exhibitions by QCA HDR candidate Joe Ruckli. Webb Gallery: The Shadow’s Edge The Shadow’s Edge is the outcome of an extended collaboration with generous participants/patients in institutional and community palliative care. The exhibition seeks to privilege the lived experiences of each participant/patient in distinctly aesthetic and affective terms. Understood through the agency of
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Scrying, taken from the English word descry, means to catch sight of something that is difficult to discern. Scrying mirrors are considered a form of divination and have been used throughout the ages and in countless cultures. Their dark reflective surface reveals messages or signs from the past, the spirit world, and the unknown future.
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PhotoAccess now invites artists and curators at all stages of their careers to propose exhibitions of contemporary photo-based art for the 2023 Huw Davies Gallery season. This is an opportunity to showcase your work in a professional gallery with an established local and national profile, engaged audiences and a dynamic network of artists, curators and
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