‘Thinking Business’ explores forms of female friendship, collaboration and artistic labour. The project takes its title from Hannah Arendt’s description of her friendship with Mary McCarthy. As Arendt wrote, “it’s not that we think so much alike, but that we do this thinking business for and with each other.” Intellectual and creative connection between women […]
Deborah Kelly’s CREATION is a collaboration between artists and communities to develop an art work that offers ways to gather and commune – a counterpoint to the natural disasters, plagues and leadership failures of our era. A work drawn from politics, evidence, mysticism and collectivity, CREATION is developed through a multi-venue series of cross-disciplinary projects,
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Selig works at the intersection of visual art and experimental music, using humble materials such as thread, paper, light and sound to articulate intangible notions of form, space and time. Rather than a chronological overview, the exhibition responds to Selig’s site-specific and iterative practice. The exhibition presents six projects that address the dominant concerns, materials
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‘Fine Lines’ showcases a selection of historical Indian miniature paintings alongside those by contemporary artists. The exhibition traces the application of meticulous brushwork across a number of countries and range of pictorial styles. Emerging more than two millennia ago in Han dynasty China the delicate technique known as gongbi (meticulous brush) was prized for its technical precision.
Laurie Nilsen trained in the graphic arts and sculpture. Drawing, painting and mixed-media mediums all form part of his practice. The artist often features works with barbed wire encompassing cultural, political and environmental concerns. Although most of his work tackles issues that concern Aboriginal people, he recognises these concerns also affect non-Aboriginal people. Laurie was
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Now in its 13th year, Arquetopia Foundation is a multiple award-winning nonprofit arts and cultural foundation with a social scope that is internationally established on three continents. Our mission emphasizes critical thinking, a commitment to reciprocity, and a sense of ethics at the core of all artistic practices. Our customized, professional International Artist-in-Residence Programs are
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Join renowned Australian contemporary artist Deborah Kelly for an exciting two-day Masterclass that explores collage, collaborative art making and participatory art practices. Fresh from her recent inclusion in The National at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; APT10 at QAGOMA; and exhibitions at Lismore Regional Gallery and Griffith University Art Museum, Deborah will guide students through craft
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An exhibition of Aboriginal paintings that embrace the notion of minimalism is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from April 5th. Some of the artworks created by Central Australian Aboriginal artists at the start of the contemporary art movement in 1971 were simple designs featuring iconography used in traditional ceremonies, with only those
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Place, in Brisbane, is not a static thing. We are at a crucial point in Brisbane’s urban development, with extreme changes to the city predicted over the next decade. With the city we know shifting so rapidly, this is the ideal moment to ask—what makes a place? Which sites are significant for individuals and communities
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Sunshine Coast Council is calling for entries from artists across the nation for the acquisitive Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2022, one of the most prestigious regional 2D art prizes in Australia. This visual arts award is a showcase for outstanding contemporary 2D arts practice in Australia and offers an enticing major cash prize of $25,000
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Outer Space is delighted to announce its 2022 exhibition callout. From June 2022 to March 2023, Outer Space will present solo and group exhibitions at our gallery in the Judith Wright Arts Centre selected from the callout, in addition to projects by invitation. While Outer Space is committed to supporting early-career artists and arts workers,
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With a first prize of $20 000, the Lethbridge Art Award is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit 2D or 3D artworks up to 61cm (24 inches) in height, width or depth. The Judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and skill. More Information
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The 2022 Milburn Art Prize reflects the evolving nature and aims of the Brisbane Institute of Art (BIA) to honour Paul Milburn, a much loved and respected tutor who began teaching in 1989 at BIA until his death in 2011. Accepted media for ‘Landscape as a space of creative discovery’ includes painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed
Performance Space’s LIVE DREAMS is a platform for artists to share works-in-progress and ideas in development in a dynamic and responsive environment. LIVE DREAMS takes place both in-theatre at Carriageworks and digitally via our live streaming channel, Live On The Line. This platform offers us an exciting glimpse into current developments in experimental art, creating
Local, national and international artists are invited to create revolutionary works of art on the body for this year’s Wearable Art Mandurah competition. Wearable Art Mandurah is Australia’s premier wearable art event and is inclusive to artists of all skill levels, ages and design forms, offering many opportunities. More Information
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Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre invites craftspeople, designers, makers and curators at all levels of experience and across a variety of mediums to propose new exhibitions for the 2023 artistic program. “As a 50-year-old membership organisation, our foundation is built on collaborating with artists to curate an extraordinary artistic program which embeds contemporary craft,
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Artists and designers, Australia-wide, be a part of the conversation around our environment and share your innovative ideas for the future. Open to painting, photography, digital media, ceramics, functional and textile design and more, the Environmental Art & Design Prize is an annual non acquisitive award with nine categories and a prize pool over $40,000.
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Are you an Australian-based maker with a product that deserves a new stage to shine on? Now in its third year, Uncovered is an opportunity for local artists, makers, creatives and artisans to showcase their artistic excellence through the support of the Sydney Opera House. It’s an opportunity for Australian-designed products to headline a residency in the
International call from OCAT Institute, Beijing, for research-based exhibition proposals in Chinese contemporary art and art history. Through the exploration of modern and contemporary Chinese art, the call aims to establish a paradigm of values, a mechanism of academic study and an alternative approach, oriented by historical research. The topic of the projects can include
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Tartu in Estonia will be European Capital of Culture in 2024. A call for proposals aims to support the implementation of international cultural projects interpreting the concept of the Arts of Survival of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 in the years 2023–2024. In the call for proposals, cultural projects will be co-financed in an amount
In 2022, the Alpine Fellowship offers five prizes in the fields of academic writing, theatre, visual art, poetry, and writing. The theme of the Alpine Fellowship 2022 is Freedom. The language of freedom fires rebellions even as it inspires institutions designed to build and preserve. Freedom announces obligations and binds us to promises that are often overlooked in
Catherine Large is a contemporary jeweller and metalsmith based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Making original jewellery, objects and flatware in precious metal, she draws on her experiences of travel and the nature of ‘stuff’ both inherited and collected, to inform her work. She uses recycled metals in much of her work, and reuses materials when possible. More
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Gold Coast based Ceramic artist and Master of Creative Industries graduate Claudia De Salvo brings elements of chance and the performative to this installation, which will over time, alter itself through use of natural forces. Gravity and the process of absorption on fired and unfired clay will slowly adjust balances and modify the form of
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Net Positive: What does a better art institution look like? is a lecture series asking exciting art-world thinkers to assess the value of ‘the art institution’: its opportunities, its limits, and to ask if it is a system that can be exploited for the good of all. Can the institution be made to work better, for
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This five-day intensive masterclass will enable artists to experiment with projected imagery in the Cube at the Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima (MAP mima). The Cube is a 360-degree projection canvas powered by Resolume with eight fixed projectors and an additional projector that is currently mapped to the floor. During the masterclass, artists will learn how to manipulate video through multiple
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Jan Murphy Gallery is delighted to present ‘Repetition’, a new exhibition of hand-built stoneware vessels and timber assemblages by Brisbane sculptor Jason Fitzgerald. A professional cabinet maker by trade, Fitzgerald is acutely aware of the parameters of form and function and his latest exhibition showcases his distinct craftsmanship and design. Repetition has been a consistent
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As an annual contemporary art prize known for its scale and inclusivity, Wyndham Art Prize attracts entries from some of the best artists across Australia and offers opportunities for local and emerging artists as well. The 2021 Wyndham Art Prize attracted the highest number entries, totalling over 300 works, of which 84 artists were selected
2022 marks the 10th year the Prize has been held. This year’s theme is larrertenner and wurrawina – Light and Shadow Call for entries close on 18 April 2022 More Information Art work in image by Bryon Beggs
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The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. Internationality and networking make YICCA a huge opportunity for the artists, which can: • Win a cash prize: – Euro 3000,00 money prize to the first selected – Euro 1000,00 money prize to the second
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 –
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘Emotions Abstracted’ by Fred Fowler, his third solo exhibition with the gallery. Fowler notes, “After spending several years deciphering and creating images related to the outside world, the impetus for this body of work was to go in the opposite direction. To take away all references and symbols
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Call for individuals and organisations interested in exchanges between Australia–Korea and Australia–Japan to apply for the Australian government’s International Relations Grants Programme (IRGP) 2022–23. IRGP grants support professional, community and institutional linkages between Australia and its partners on contemporary issues. There are a number of foundations, institutes and councils working between Australia and Asia, which have
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A P A R T continues Ally McKay’s long-term investigation into articulating strength, security and doubt through material arrangement. The conflicting anxieties of isolation and connection, intensified by the pandemic experience, are explored through paper, wood and text. What does it mean to be classed as essential, and what effect can this have on our
PURE POTENTIAL: do you know when you are *working*? is a one-week intervention to interrogate The Old Lock Up as a site and space for experimentation, interaction and social practice. Presenting as a series of site-specific spatial experiments using temporary installation methods and care practices, the artists will work with both art and architecture to
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Today, the question of preservation versus innovation seems to underlie much cultural discourse, as if a choice between cultural identity and a global homogeneity were possible. This language that is every stone examines this tension through the concept of creolisation: an idea brought to prominence by Martinican writer Édouard Glissant. Widely recognised as one of the most important
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The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair invites you to apply to be a part of CIAF’s Fashion Performance. Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now being called for Queensland’s Indigenous Fashion Designers, Art Centre’s and Artists working in wearable art to showcase their collections in this year’s performance, Masters of Country- “An artistic celebration of Queensland First