Mutualisms (2022) collates beeswax sculpture, ink drawings, video, and soundscapes with a strong focus on the mutualistic phenomena of pollination. The exhibition presents various visual depictions of mapping practices, emphasising topographical terrain and pollination tracking/mapping. As the title suggests, the theme of Mutualism is intrinsic, where the relationship of a hive to its environmental surroundings […]
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Unbroken Connections reflects on Megan Cope’s family stories of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) and the wider Quandamooka Country (Moreton Bay) over thousands of years, and the unbroken connections between family, in an ever-changing world. Cope gives new life to important historical narratives by casting bones of her peoples’ old ancestor Yungun (Dugong) in recycled television glass,
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An exhibition of Contemporary and Aboriginal artworks highlighting the classic palette of black and white is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from May 3rd. Showcasing visually striking monochromatic themed paintings, drawings and artefacts, the exhibition celebrates artworks where the spectrum of colour is reduced to a minimum. Aboriginal artists featured, such as Lily Kelly Napangardi and Kay Rubuntja Napurrula,
Since 2017, David Spooner has set himself an annual drawing challenge, beginning with a drawing a week, and since 2018, completing a drawing a day, using permanent markers to produce a series of same-sized works. They are vignettes into a psychedelic subconscious populated by salivating T-Rexes, fluro-patterned aliens, smirking dogs, and smiling daisies whose pearly
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Drawing from the traditions of 19th century Realism and its direct observation of the modern world, DIS/CONNECTED translates our obsessive behaviours with mobile phones into the analogue medium of paint. With our devices becoming increasingly advanced at keeping us engaged for longer periods of time, through their use of colours, sounds and vibrations, it can
The Paul Guest Prize is an award and exhibition held biennially that highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge and Olympic rower, The Honourable Paul Guest OAM QC and encourages artists from across Australia to engage with the important medium of drawing in contemporary art practice. The
K-Lab calls for applications from professional, international artists to make site-specific land art projects in Kjerringøy, Northern Norway. The six to eight artists will be selected to plan and develop a site-specific work of art to be presented as part of the 9th Kjerringøy Land Art Biennale, during the European Capital of Culture 2024 in Bodø. For
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Drawing on the methods of remix and sampling culture, filmmaker Jenn Nkiru creates soulful and mind bendingly visceral works reflecting the dynamism of Blackness. The Grammy Award-winning artist and director’s first solo exhibition in Australia, REBIRTH IS NECESSARY, opens at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art 14 May, on view until 9 July 2022. The exhibition
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The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works. Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set
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Remagine Art Prize has a focus on sustainability and the environment. There is $11,000 in total prize money to be won and is open to digital art – stills, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, painting, drawing and printmaking. This year’s theme ‘Planet Earth: The future is Circular’ relates to the reduction of Earth’s raw materials and
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Looking Back, Looking Forward, examines the past, present and future through the eyes and hands of 15 Australian artists who are respectfully navigating their way through the politics and sociologies of the culturally diverse society in which they live. Featuring: Ruth Cho, Casey Coolwell, Paula Cordoba, Mark du Potiers, Madison Hargraves, Leigh Lynam, Sally Malloy,
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A supersized wall mural depicting Australian lungfish swimming into a vibrant sunrise has been unveiled as one of the feature installations in the multi-million-dollar public art roll out for the transformational Queen’s Wharf Brisbane urban renewal project. Titled ‘Lungfish Dreamz’ the 16m x 2m panoramic mural, comprising pixilated squares of blue, violet, orange and yellow
For this landmark tenth edition, QAGOMA’s Asia Pacific Triennial looks to the future of art and the world we inhabit together. It’s rich with stories of how to navigate through time and space, reimagine histories and explore connections to culture and place. ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10) will include 69 projects
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This April we are presenting new and recent works by Raquel Ormella across Galleries 1 & 2. Recent experimental abstract textiles will be shown alongside the Blockade in the Studio series. Image: Raquel Ormella, Installation view: Craftivism, 2019. Photo by Christian Capurro.
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Brisbane’s international cultural stars feature in the latest instalment of SUNNIE – a cosmopolitan bi-annual lifestyle magazine, produced in collaboration with Museum of Brisbane. Offering readers a celebration of place, its cultural influence and the power it has to weave and connect people, SUNNIE is a fascinating take on contemporary life in South-East Queensland. This
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Established under the patronage of acclaimed artist Dr Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher (Thainakuith), the acquisitive prize attracts ceramic works from Indigenous artists across Australia and builds on SAM’s significant holdings of Indigenous ceramics. Presented on Yorta Yorta Country, this Award provides a national platform to share personal, historical and deep cultural learnings from artists and Country.
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Artist submissions are now being accepted for The Doyles Art Award (previously the d’Arcy Doyle Art Awards). The Doyles exhibition is held in Mudgeeraba (Gold Coast) from 22nd June to 3rd July. Major art prize of $10,000 for the landscape winner, with minor prizes for figurative, still life, people’s choice and junior art categories. More
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AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST STREET ART FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BRISBANE FOR 2022 WITH AN EPIC LINE-UP OF LIVE MURALS, ART EVENTS & WORKSHOPS. Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) has been pioneering Australia’s street art festival movement year after year and will be returning May 7-22 with its largest program yet, presenting 50 live public murals and installations, a
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Outer Space is delighted to announce the following successful artists as part of our SUPERCUT program. More than forty Queensland practitioners will present new works on billboards across Queensland, in our Window Gallery space and a series of curated online exhibitions. SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund –
The Asia Pacific Architecture Festival (APAF) returns to Brisbane from 12 to 25 March 2022 in a collaboration between founding partners Architecture Media and State Library of Queensland. The festival will deliver an exciting program of exhibitions, installations, symposia, lectures and workshops that promote and celebrate architecture’s contribution to the culture, sustainability and economy of
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Museum of Brisbane delves deep into its collections for a new exhibition, opening Saturday 26 March, that presents multiple artist perspectives on the changing nature of our city with Making Place: 100 Views of Brisbane. Featuring artwork depicting views from as early as the 1820s, the new exhibition presents more than 100 historical and contemporary depictions
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Logan’s new cultural precinct opens on January 29 and we’re inviting you to come and celebrate! When the sun goes down the Launch Party starts on the massive open Outdoor Stage. We’ll be marking the arrival of Logan’s first-ever cultural precinct with a host of local legends, culture, and spectacle, with the Logan community at
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The Big Anxiety debuts its transformative program of arts and creative technology to change the way we address mental health and suicide from 9 –12 February 2022, following award-winning events in Sydney in 2017 and 2019. The Big Anxiety will explore how arts-based experiences – from high-tech interactive environments to innovative conversation formats – can help us
Churchill Fellowships offer everyday Australians the life-changing opportunity to explore international best practice and innovation in a field of their choosing. This non-academic program is open to people from diverse walks of life. No specific qualifications are needed to apply. Recipients will receive an average of $28,000 and Trust support to travel in 2023. More
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This leading multidisciplinary program is unique to Western Australia, offering a supportive environment in a regional setting for creatives to conceive and develop new works and ideas. The residency focuses on site-specific projects and is open to Western Australian professional creatives of all disciplines, both early and established within their career. For the duration of
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Celebrated artist Shannon Novak aims to use his socially engaged and collaborative practice to build spaces that acknowledge, celebrate, and support diversity and inclusion. In this webinar, Shannon Novak will discuss the importance of LGBTQI+ friendly spaces in schools and what tools visual art can offer to create a welcoming environment for all. Online Webinar:
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The work of Jamie North operates at the intersection of the natural and the human-made. In his cast concrete sculptures, native Australian plant species are employed to seek out natural growth lines and explore the landscape of the work. In time, the selected plants become entangled with the inorganic concrete, creating a continuously evolving and
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Patricia Gimeno is a Brazilian/Australian visual artist based in Brisbane. In this exhibition, Patricia presents a series of works made in recent years, semi-abstract landscapes and still-life, born from the need to reflect on her place in the world, looking for clues to how we got here and where we may be going.
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In Transit will transform Museum of Brisbane’s (MoB) entry into a colourful celebration of cultural diversity and creativity. Presented in partnership with BrisAsia Festival, the exhibition and residency aim to provide a platform for conversation and reflection, using themes of intersectionality, language, displacement and reclaiming history as an opportunity for growth and healing. Filipino-Australian artist
Latin American born artist Paula Quintela, trained in Painting, Printmaking and Photography in Chile and Canada before making Brisbane her home. She has exhibited her installation, printmaking and mixed media works in Chile, France, Argentina, New York and Hong Kong and was the recipient of the 2018 Clayton Utz Art Award. Her individually crafted mixed-media works explore displacement by an intermingling
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Looking Glass is an important and timely exhibition which brings together two of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists—Waanyi artist, Judy Watson and Kokatha and Nukunu artist, Yhonnie Scarce. At its heart, the exhibition is both a love song and a lament for Country; a fantastical alchemy of the elemental forces of earth, water, fire and air.
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This latest body of work continues Kitson’s exploration of the world around her, most recently she has turned her gaze towards her immediate surroundings. A wanderer and gatherer, Kitson, had until the pandemic divided her time between the South Coast of Australia and Jingdezhen, the ‘porcelain capital’ of China. ‘The delight of future eyes’ sees
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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 Pine Rivers Art Gallery and DIG into contemporary art to find out more about the concepts in Barbara Cleveland: Thinking
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As part of QAGOMA’s APT10, Queensland Museum has partnered with New Zealand artist Shannon Novak to host his Make Visible: Queensland work at South Bank called Biological Exuberance. Seen in museums and galleries around the world, Novak’s practice creates spaces of safety and inclusion, while supporting recognition and visibility for LGBTQI+ communities. Highlights include: The vivid and uplifting large
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“Lottie Consalvo’s exhibition No entry but through the sky continues her exploration of formlessness and the unknown. Shortly before starting this body of work, the artist began a practice of walking through dense bushland. The walks were taken without goal or intention, in an area where there were no tracks to follow, and each path
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AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST STREET ART FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BRISBANE FOR 2022 WITH AN EPIC LINE-UP OF LIVE MURALS, ART EVENTS & WORKSHOPS. Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) has been pioneering Australia’s street art festival movement year after year and will be returning May 7-22 with its largest program yet, presenting 50 live public murals and installations, a
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