An exhibition of vibrant, colourful paintings by some of the foremost Aboriginal artists from the remote Northern Territory community of Ngukurr. Bursting onto the national art scene in 1987, their artwork was considered some of the most innovative and groundbreaking work to be produced in the history of Aboriginal art. The antithesis of what was […]
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Jan Murphy is proud to present Guido Maestri’s latest solo exhibition Middle Brother Mountain. ‘I plant beds of flowers, pave custom paths, carve out cliffs and shape the flow of rivers. Exercising total control of the landscape means I can believe this space is uncomplicated—I don’t need to look beyond the boundaries of my island’
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25 YEARS: The Ipswich Art Gallery Foundation celebrates the Foundation’s 25th anniversary with a large-scale exhibition that highlights its significant contribution to the Gallery’s collection. Founded in 1997, the Ipswich Arts Foundation, as it was known, managed the funds to refurbish the Ipswich town hall into a new gallery. Over the past 25 years the Foundation has raised
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Kahli Perkins skilfully creates luminous abstract paintings that reveal her commitment to materials, surface, light and colour. Evoking stillness, her works convey the beauty found in order, patterns and moments of quietude. Her meditative ethereal paintings on canvas are borne of a painstaking process that involves physically manipulating the canvas into geometric forms prior to
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To celebrate NAIDOC week and farewell Jenn Nkiru’s show REBIRTH IS NECESSARY join us for an evening of Hip Hop music, culture, party and performance by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, curated by Shannon Brett. SHOW UP and hit the dancefloor to classic 90s RnB and hip hop tunes spun by DJ Baddz, and enjoy performances by Meanjin-based
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As state borders reopened after their viral hiatus, artist Jane Guthleben found herself visiting two starkly different landscapes half a continent apart in a short period of time. One arid, the other lush, each salved the jaded eye after months of covid isolation and government travel restrictions. What followed is the series WOLLEMI TO WILPENA,
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Uncover the PRIDE in Queensland’s LGBTIQA+ histories and communities with State Library’s $15,000 inaugural Rainbow Research fellowship. Use the John Oxley Library and State Library collections and resources, to research, explore and create new knowledge about Queensland’s LGBTIQA+ history and communities. You’ll receive a stipend of $15,000, a personal workspace within the Neil Roberts Research Lounge for
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Join Queensland conceptual artist Sebastian Moody and compete in a fast-paced Fluxus style art making contest. Equal parts Squid Games, speed dating, Iron Chef, and Arte Povera, ‘Studio Stadium’ will test your lateral thinking as you battle for glory against your fellow participants. About the Artist: Sebastian Moody is an Australian artist living in Meanjin
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PhotoAccess and Plumwood Mountain are delighted to launch the Forest Stories artist residency program. This program supports one photographic artist, or artist duo, to explore possibilities for creating visual narratives that respond to Plumwood Mountain, a unique conservation property located in the dense temperate rainforest to the south-east of Braidwood, NSW. PhotoAccess is the ACT
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Sculpture on the Edge is Arts Connect Inc’s annual sculpture competition held in the stunning Sunshine Coast Hinterland. In 2022 the competition will be hosted at Flaxton Gardens, with views looking out over the Glasshouse mountains toward the coastline. The competition will include indoor and outdoor sculptures across a variety of media and the winner
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In this workshop, you will create your own textile work to take home using the punch needle tufting technique. Natalya will lead participants through some of the techniques and processes she has employed to create custom textile works in The Interior. Participants will design their own motif to tuft, extracting imagery from their experiences in conversation
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Artist Cost Contribution is available for Australian Artists exhibiting at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2023. Australian artists at all career stages are encouraged to apply for Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2023. All types, forms and sizes of sculpture, in all materials, are eligible for entry. With thanks to the Federal Government RISE Fund, up to $4,500 as
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The Renshaws’ present THE BOWERMAN COLLECTION, Featuring 43 Australian and New Zealand Contemporary Artists. Featuring Artists: , Nick Mangan, Mark Hilton, Laith McGregor, Jon Campbell, Rebecca Baumann , James Barth, Sally Ross, Ryan Presley, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Justine Varga, Kate Tucker, Karen Black, Sam Cranstoun, Dale Harding, Riley Payne, Danie Mellor, Coen Young, Jake Walker, Susan
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Call for entries is now open for the Basil Sellers Art Prize, a biennial competition celebrating classic artistic excellence in 2D artworks and offers a prize pool of over $30,000. The art prize champions artists working in traditional mediums of painting, drawing or unique state printmaking. Housed in the Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre (the Bas)
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Ralph Wilson (b.1955, Brisbane) is a Brisbane based artist well recognised for his practice that focuses on depicting the coastal landscape and waters of south-east Queensland and northern NSW. Wilson’s practice begins with careful observation, often from the water, watching the way weather, tide and light can alter the landscape at the edge of the
Inaugurated in 2000, the Prize is named after John Leslie OBE (1919—2016), Patron of the Gippsland Art Gallery. The continuation of the Prize is made possible by the generous ongoing support of the John Leslie Foundation, and 2022 marks its 12th iteration. Prizes include the John Leslie $20,000 Acquisitive Prize as well as a $1,000
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The Perth Centre for Photography invites all photographic artists to enter the 2022 CLIP Award. The CLIP Award is the Perth Centre for Photography’s biennial award for contemporary urban, natural, and conceptual landscape photography. CLIP celebrates new international photography, that exemplifies excellence and intrigue. Selected works will be critically engaging, innovative, and reflective of global,
Join exhibiting artist Laith McGregor for a floor talk and collage workshop reflecting on his installation artwork Some Days, featured in the After Fairweather exhibition. Spend time making while you hear about the inspiration behind the creation of Laith’s artworks. Laith McGregor has explored both real and fictional identities throughout his two-decade practice, which encompasses drawing, painting,
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Join a live art experience with local artist Aaron Butt as he creates a new portrait artwork inspired by the famous Bribie Island artist, Ian Fairweather. Learn more from Aaron as he paints about the influence Ian Fairweather has had on his art practice. Aaron Butt is an exhibiting artist in the After Fairweather exhibition which is
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A group show by Thomas King and Olivia Chapman (bugdumb) in Practice Studio’s new exhibition space in Bowen Hills. Exhibition Opening: 22nd July, 6:00 – 9:00pm
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World Science Festival Brisbane (WSFB) invites expressions of interest to participate in Curiocity Brisbane 2023, an annual temporary public art event. Artists can submit ideas for artworks that celebrate the interconnectivity of art and science. The festival is seeking a diverse array of artworks varying in scale, budget and type of public engagement strategy from
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Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz Art Award. The Award offers a $20,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to an outstanding artwork by a Queensland-based artist, or an artist with a strong connection to Queensland. We are looking forward to seeing the rich diversity
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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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