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Pursuits of Comfort

Sinclair Cole, Lisa Kelly, Wendy Ma and Kiki Zeng come together to share their responses on the collective need for safety, comfort and connection in times of uncertainty, compromise, isolation and restriction of movement. Expressed through the artist’s collaborative mediums of textiles, ceramics, drawing and paintings, this exhibition invites people to gather and reflect on […]

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Evelyn Chapman Award

The Evelyn Chapman Art Award is a $50,000 scholarship is presented to an Australian painter, male or female under 45. The Award, given every two years, is intended to support a young Australian painter by furthering their art education both in knowledge and artistic practice internationally or in Australia. The scholarship will cover the reasonable

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QCA Thursdays

We warmly invite you to the opening of two new exhibitions from students of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University on Thursday, 18th August from 5.30pm. There will be free food truck, live music and a jewellery stall from the J&SO Collective. Within Cells Interlinked: Adam Southgate Grey Street Gallery This exhibition is a

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Jeff Gibson: Countertypes

Jeff Gibson: Countertypes considers one of Australian art’s most significant voices in image-based art. Shaped by his upbringing amidst punk and new wave culture in Brisbane and Toowoomba in the late 1970-80s, Gibson’s 40 year career has contributed to an international shift in the way photographic imagery is engaged with as art. Forging what is known

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Henry Wexler: After Lunch

Henry Wexler’s practice centres around everyday life, absurdity, the mundane, humour, and constant consideration of the flux between life and death. Wexler’s work plays with and somewhat mocks the ideals of art and the artist. The romantic notion of the artist slaving over a painting is not apparent here. Wexler works frantically, on dozens of

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Panel Discussion: Artist Run Initiatives in Queensland

In conjunction with Jeff Gibson: Countertypes we’ve put together a fantastic series of free events with local Brisbane artists and creatives. Join us each Saturday in August for some in-depth discussions, and refreshments from our partners Lock, Stock & Barrel and Newstead Brewery. Jeff Gibson was part of the 1980s alternative art communities of Brisbane,

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Things I Want To Say

Join artist Sidney McMahon to delve into your inner weird and make some art that celebrates you, just as you are. A workshop as individual as you, we’ll start out by sharing what we’re into at the moment (TikTok? Six the musical? Long furbies?), and work together on using these interests to think about and

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Carl Warner…out of time

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present … out of time by Carl Warner. Alongside new works, the exhibition presents a selection of Warner’s archival prints in four genres: Concrete Pasture, Nature, Wood, and Metal. The gallery invites visitors to leaf through Warner’s unseen working photographs spanning back to his first exhibition from 1988. Each of the prints is

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Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point brings together the work of three contemporary artists who approach the body as a site for thinking, being and becoming. Holly Anderson, Isabella Catenaro and Phoebe Kelly investigate the material possibilities of painting, sculpture and photography to evoke the body and examine the shifting relationships we form with ourselves, each other and our surroundings.

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Federation Art Prize

We are again excited to share that this years exhibition will again run during October and early November. Entries are open to all Artists who live in Australia working in two and three dimensional mediums. Subscribe to the mailing list for notification when the call for entries open. Opening Night: Friday 14th October Exhibition: 15th

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Redcliffe Art Society Exhibition of Excellence 2022

In its 65th year, Redcliffe Art Society’s annual Exhibition of Excellence is a calendar favourite and brings together the best works by society members from the past year. Prizes are awarded across a number of categories including landscape; still life, portraiture; and abstract/contemporary. During your visit you can vote for your favourite artwork in the People’s Choice Award. Image credit: 2021 overall winner,

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Sebastian Moody: Opinion Fatigue

Opinion Fatigue marks another turn in the wide-ranging practice of Queensland conceptual artist Sebastian Moody. In this new body of work, he fuses his love of modern painting, language, and meaning. These paintings continue in the tradition of 1960s and ‘70s Australian concrete poetry, which used mechanical and commercial applications of text to expand possibilities for

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Cressida Campbell

Cressida Campbell (b. 1960, Sydney) is an award-winning artist living and working in Sydney. She is renowned for her highly detailed woodblocks and unique woodblock prints depicting scenes of domestic interiors, Australian landscapes and still life. Like artists Giorgio Morandi or Margaret Olley (her great friend), Campbell recognises the beauty of the everyday, capturing the

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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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