A week-long residency at Side Gallery is proposed to further explore components of the artist’s relational aesthetics practice. In previous work, the artist has created installations that were conducive to conversation, prompting dialogue exchange which was later removed from context and formed separate works. Documenting private conversations and removing context from isolated sentences has been […]
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Kelp, an underwater dancer, yields to the tide, regenerating life within our ocean while drawing down carbon from our atmosphere. With rising temperatures, overfishing and lowering food supply, our ocean ecosystems are dying along with the kelp forests that sustain them. Is kelp(seaweed) a key? Kelp forest regeneration is deservingly prominent within the discourse surrounding
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Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘Distillation’ by Sydney-based artist Celia Gullett. Distillation Noun 1. the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling. 2. the extraction of the essential meaning or most important aspects of something. Celia Gullett’s atmospheric paintings capture ephemeral experiences in a more permanent form. Gullett’s
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Join organisers from Brisbane Free University and The Resistance for a collaborative and hands on workshop to further explore the themes addressed in ‘An Alternative Economics’. We gather on the unceded lands of the Yuggera and Turrbal peoples. We ground our conversations in the material conditions of continuing colonisation and unceded Indigenous sovereignty; reckoning with
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Uproar- Addressing the important issue of sexual violence towards women with the goal of promoting community awareness. UPROAR: Break the Silence on Sexual Violence. The culture of silencing survivors contributes to the impact of the abuse on women’s lives. Shutting survivors down can leave women feeling guilt, shame, isolation, confusion, and doubt and not being
Brisbane-based artist Natalya Hughes invites gallery visitors to dive into the depths of their psyche with a psychoanalysis-inspired exhibition titled The Interior at the Institute of Modern Art, 30 July–1 October 2022. Drawing on the gendered power dynamics between public and private space, the exhibition presents a playfully exaggerated consultation room. Combining sculptural seating, richly
When I lifted the first glass plate from the dirt floor of the cowshed, the excitement was overwhelming. With the light of a candle, I could see the image of Britannia in her armour holding a trident, and I knew that I wasn’t dealing with an average collection of stereotyped portraits that were so common for
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Discover a stunning open-air art exhibition in the heart of Brisbane City at Botanica – Contemporary Art Outside from 20-29 May 2022, in the City Botanic Gardens from 5-10pm daily. As the sun sets over Brisbane’s iconic urban skyline, Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens will come to life with state-of-the-art projections, unexpected installations and interactive artworks to captivate children and adults. Enjoy
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The photographic works in False Continuity are a continuation of Jacinta’s ongoing interest in questioning our understanding of our contemporary visual world, particularly our experience of the moving-image. In seeking to expose the temporal pulse, shifting velocities, and gestures of women across different genres of cinema, False Continuity materialises the language systems used by film to mediate ideas
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How would it feel to hold a crashing wave; walk across scorched earth; or illuminate the abyss? Come help Mark du Potiers haunt Wreckers with his new interactive installation. Atonement is a wave of Chinese lanterns disguised as dunce caps – a cascade of strange glowing bells falling from the roof to meet the floor.
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In conjunction with our current exhibition, join curator, writer and artist Miranda Hine, as she sits down with artist, Samuel Tupou to discuss his current exhibition, LOW RESOLUTION DREAMZ. Samuel will discuss themes addressed in his latest body work: memory; nostalgia; family; culture and speak in more detail about his vibrant, pixelated painting style. In a recent review published by Garland
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Prompt, as a verb means to cause or bring about (an action or feeling). As a noun it is an act of encouragement. Humphreys’ works are these things. They stand inert, yet they encourage the viewer to be active, to become ambulatory in the viewing and comprehension of forms that reveal the potentiality of dimensional
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Based on Lamb Island (Ngudooroo), a suburb outside of Brisbane, Nadine Sawyer is a multi-disciplinary artist with a degree in fine arts from RMIT and a Master of Arts from Monash University, Melbourne. In Flotsam Poetry, precious and discarded objects, both manmade and organic have been collected from amongst the detritus of the recent floods in
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Samuel Tupou derives traditional patterns and colours from his Tongan and Polynesian heritage, to create vivid yet nostalgic works on canvas and board. Starting with ‘found photographs’ as his initial inspiration, Tupou obscures the selected imagery by pixelating and binding together grid-like patterns based on Pacific Island Tapa cloth design. The resulting images are strikingly
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BiB’N’Brace offers 7 Creative Studio spaces situated on the mezzanine level of the warehouse. Each studio has its own unique layout. The studios are rented on a month to month basis, which gives the Artist flexibility.
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For Cynthia Breusch, a poetic painter known for her dream-like imagery, the figure can be an entire universe. It makes for lush subject matter where beauty resists being an end in itself and is instead a by-product of something deeper, even attempting the transcendent, showing us that on any day we are falling through portals
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An exhibition by artist Dennis McCart presents the artists ongoing investigations of the landscapes edging the Brisbane river and their transitory nature. McCarts practice explores landscapes within the ‘margins’, places not commonly looked upon for an experience of beauty or meaning. This exhibition focuses on the sites that edge the Brisbane river bringing together video
Within the social context of the pandemic, which created an increased collective focus on the home and garden as an expression of identity, this exhibition looks at our desire to feel kinship with the natural world. Artists in the exhibition address how plants are owned, displayed, cultivated, and related to by contemporary culture. They examine
The physical act of painting is the final outpouring of our personal observations, thoughts, experiences, life. A realisation best known through a kind of summary, a distillation. What we dream can never materialise as the subconscious has no form. The artistic process begins with the flickering of the imagination – thoughts that seem as fragile as
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Over the last 16 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. In 2005 the MGA Foundation was established with the aim of supporting MGA and its significant collection, as well as
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The churchie emerging art prize and the Institute of Modern Art are thrilled to announce the 2022 prize finalists. Over 400 entries were received from across Australia, with 12 talented artists selected by the pre-selection panel to exhibit their work at the IMA. Congratulations to the 2022 finalists: Darcey Bella Arnold (VIC), Emma Buswell (WA), Jo Chew (TAS), Kevin Diallo (NSW), Norton Fredericks (QLD), Jan Griffiths (WA), Jacquie Meng (ACT), Daniel Sherington (QLD), Linda
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The International FiKVA Award for painters 2022 is a global online competition, open to all artists age 18 or older, worldwide. Enter the paintings produced the last two years you are most proud of and you could win up to €5000 in cash and other prizes. The FiKVA Award welcomes entries in all genres: hyperrealism, photorealism, classical and modern
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AiRSpace is our new name for the Southern Midlands Artist in Residence program. Formerly located in the old Oatlands Gaoler’s Residence, our A-i-R program has a new home at 79 High Street Oatlands, Tasmania. Oatlands is one of the most iconic heritage town in Tasmania and located roughly halfway between Hobart and Launceston. Accommodation consists
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We are offering artist grants in the amount of $3,500 (2 available) and $1,000 (4 available) to artists worldwide working in all media. In total, 6 artists will receive unrestricted cash grants. Submissions will be juried by: — Jody Graf, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1 — Pamela Meadows, Curator, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Our open
Cornelia Van Rijswijk is a Multidisciplinary Artist & Designer primarily exploring the boundaries of 3D digital forms and landscapes, with an interest in the utilisation of technologies to create soothing environments and objects. These forms are initially generated in a virtual space, after being augmented and distorted, the artefacts are plucked when deemed aesthetically ripe,
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Have you ever looked at an artwork and thought ‘I just don’t get it’? Or had a tricky time understanding why an artwork makes you feel, or not feel, a certain way? Come along to Caboolture Regional Art Gallery and DIG into contemporary art to find out more about the concepts and artworks in Just Not
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Due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, Brisbane based artist Kay Watanabe stayed in her birthplace of Tokyo for nearly two years between 2020 and 2021. During this time, she created many artworks using different media. This show will feature some of her cyanotype works which reflect her life and thoughts while she was in Japan.
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This new interdisciplinary collaboration between Sharna Barker and Ruby Donohoe intersects visual art, performance, and participatory practices to interrogate the materiality of the body and the possibilities of decentralised experience. In a scoring of the space and a scoring of the body, where I end and where you begin is made both visible and estranged.
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No Edit is a new sculptural work that is the culmination of a year-long painting and photographic based project. Open Saturday 21 May 11am – 4pm, with afternoon drinks 2 – 4pm Continues Sunday 22 May 11am – 4pm
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Early career artists are invited to learn more about how to write a powerful artist statement to attract income opportunities. About this event This micro-learning webinar will be hosted by Rosalind Davis, who is an artist, Curator, Royal College of Art (RCA) graduate, and author of ‘What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School.’ It is an industry-standard that artists’
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This May we are presenting recent works and collaborations by Eugene Carchesio across Galleries 1 & 2. In Gallery 3 we are presenting his new sound installation Untitled (Ghost Money). Since the early 1980s Carchesio has built a reputation for producing small-scale watercolours and minute sculpture. Playing with geometric patterns and figurative symbolism, through his subtle
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Anywhere Festival is a globally unique and local cultural experience for locals and visitors alike: where local businesses and homes host performances so artists can creative incredible work without all the financial burdens that are often placed on them when presenting independently. Anywhere Festival began in 2011 as Brisbane’s revolutionary take on the fringe festival
One of the most significant street art and graffiti exhibitions ‘Tools of the Trade’ by HKwalls opens this Saturday 7 May as part of the Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) located in the festival’s brand new art precinct, Superordinary Northshore. BSAF is dedicated to delivering a world-class program throughout Brisbane each year, and 2022 is
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The works in this exhibition represent two facets of my painting practice. The still lifes are composed on tables and surfaces in my home using objects that are part of my everyday life. During the painting process these objects are changed and rearranged on canvas many times as I strive to find a kind of
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What is it like to face a beast? Can everybody see monsters? … Or are they invisible just to your eye? You have the answer and we want to know. Join artist and sculptor, Mark du Potiers, for a free and fun workshop combining colour, construction, and pathways to good mental health. Open to any
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Il Varco is proud to host the 10th edition of Prisma Art Prize, in partnership with Biafarin, ArtRights, Artuu and Vivivacolors, Atelier Montez and ArtUp a quarterly art contest with €2000 yearly cash prize, more than €3000 in service prizes and the possibility to be exhibited at Contemporary Cluster gallery in Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome, in