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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‘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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