This August we are exhibiting Speak the Wind by Hoda Afshar across Galleries 1, 2 & 3. The exhibition presents video, photography and drawings made on the islands in the Strait of Hormuz. Situated off the southern coast of Iran, on these islands there is a common belief that the winds can possess a person, bringing illness and disease. […]
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SUMMER 2022 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (4) honorable mentions (2 in art and 2 in photo), will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the
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In celebration of Legacy: Reflections on Mabo exhibition, we invite you to join us for a conversation that celebrates the man behind the game-changing Native Title Act, Eddie Koiki Mabo, and the ongoing influence and impact he has had on Australian society and culture. This travelling exhibition brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in the spirit of reconciliation,
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Exhibiting Artists: Katie Bourchier, Rebekah Walkharden, Joseph Camara, Lorissa Toweel, Catherine Henley, Kitten Xaos, Isabelle Cowan, Sophie McIntyre, Richelle Rubio, Megan Gould, Onellia Slijderink ‘Home’ had us yearning to escape. Moving through unsure times navigating the surreal landscapes.. or hellscapes. Artists have come together to create their own worlds of escape and what it means
Archer Davies completed an Honours degree in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. He works primarily with oil paint and gouache and has exhibited his work in Brisbane, Melbourne and Tokyo. He has been a finalist in the Churchie Emerging Art Prize, The Kilgore Prize, the Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize
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n. sonder (as coined by John Koenig, 2012.) The realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and as complex as your own. Within ‘The Land of Sonder’ Marisa explores the concept of the fleeting figures that you will never encounter. The millions of individual lives, each with their own intricate interiority,
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Facilitated by local artists and long-time friends, Lexie Abel and Shan Michaels, the Come Together workshop mini-series explores the joy of creative collaborations. The workshops are $20 each and must be booked via our website. Come alone or bring your friends and collectively delve into the concepts of friendship, fun, creativity, and connectedness through printmaking, embroidery,
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Mas and Miek Ceramic House is excited to host Shannon Garson in her first solo show in Brisbane in over a decade. Shannon Garson is known for her thrown porcelain vessels decorated with intricate drawings exploring the relationship between domestic forms and the infinite variety of striations, spots, and marks found in nature. Intense observation
The latest art exhibition to hit Strathpine explores the new and different ways we connect with each other and how it relates to our everyday surroundings. Pine Rivers Art Gallery presents Come Together, a series of innovative artistic collaborations across five contemporary works. This exhibition will feature work from: Courtney Coombs and Antoinette J. Citizen CJ
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This is the first major solo exhibition of Lyndon Davis (Kabi Kabi). Davis is an internationally acclaimed artist, educator and cultural performer. Born and raised on the Sunshine Coast, Davis’ arts practice represents his deep connection to Country. Most recently, Davis has been making work that visualises the calls of different species on Kabi Kabi
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Across June and July, Onespace will showcase the exciting new work by two prominent practitioners from Moa Arts in the Torres Strait, Fiona Elisala Mosby and Paula Savage. Both artists have made important contributions to the development of Torres Strait art in recent years, pushing the boundaries between traditional and contemporary art practice. Their colour lino cuts and
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Brought to you by Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) Foundation’s Indigenous Fashion Projects (IFP), in partnership with iconic Australian retailer David Jones, the Pathways Program has been designed to facilitate support for First Nations designers in the commercial development of a fashion label. Providing a platform to engage in the sharing of stories and culture,
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ARE YOU OUR NEXT EXHIBITIONS ASSISTANT? Outer Space is hiring an Exhibitions Assistant to work closely with the team to deliver our diverse exhibition and engagement programs. This role will be 3 days a week for a initial 6-month contract, with the possibility of extension. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Assisting with the management and delivery of the
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Unleashed is a longstanding biennial exhibition project, drawing together a select cohort of early-career Queensland craft and design practitioners and launching their careers. Exploring the convergence between craft and design, Unleashed has been instrumental in launching some of our state’s best talent. This iteration will, for the first time, deliver a co-curated overview from across regional Queensland. An invited curatorial
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Brought to you by the 2022 Australasian Students of Architecture Congress (ASAC) A collection of five artists from different backgrounds, different places, practising with different mediums all responding to the same theme of Occupy ~ What does it mean to occupy? Not just physically but culturally, socially, mentally and politically as well. How do we
‘In Queer Time’ is a cinema program that explores the many dimensions of queer time, a body of thought developed by scholars such as Jack Halberstam that considers how queerness reaches beyond the parameters of daily routines, leading to some queer communities seeking to establish chosen families, explore hedonism, and embrace collective action. The program
Carbon Kaleidoscope: Self-portraits in Still Life by Maureen Hansen. These still life paintings are compositions of fields of colour, the way the light bounces off poured Murano Glass or reflects a painter documenting the scene. All of this is gathered in this moment but preserved in drawing with oil paint from scratch and never using
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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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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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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
The John Copes Prize for Representational Art is becoming recognised as a leading art prize for representational work.
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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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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! What are the current trends in editing, publishing and art criticism,
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Michael Nelson began painting in the early 1980’s in Papunya, Central Australia, in the classic dot and circle tradition of desert sand painting. Much of his work centres on the country in the Mt Singleton area and tells of traditional Dreaming stories including Yam, Possum, Kangaroo, Emu and Lightning. Michael Nelson was recognised nationally and
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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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Character Limit is a collaborative exhibition from Lyle and Keemon, exploring the impact and utility of emojis in everyday virtual spaces, specifically in the realm of queer intimacy and communication. Filling in for the deep nuances of non-verbal interpersonal engagement, emojis act as gateway to emotional understanding and personal storytelling. A smile evokes the image
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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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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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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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First in a series of iterative projects that – through collaborative practices – aim to build a houseboat. This extended project will be brought to bear using a skill-sharing methodology, engaging with boat-builders, lead-light-makers, contemporary artists, ecologists, and people currently living on houseboats. DREAMBOAT will serve as both an art space and a space for
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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.
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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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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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 (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
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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