Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced by undergraduate students at the Queensland College of Art. These artists and works have been nominated for invitation by Academic Staff as exemplary of the Queensland College of Art’s high standards of material inquiry and disciplinary […]
When Paul Ryan paints the landscape, it’s not the scenery so much as the forgotten histories of his local area that he seeks to explore. Never straying far from his home base in Thirroul, a suburb of Wollongong noted for post-colonial industries including whaling, logging, and mining, Ryan repeatedly finds himself searching for the footprints
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nothing, everything is an exploration of paper and clay to consider ideas of boundaries and relations, negotiating surface, substance, presence, and absence. In contouring form through the body, Sharna explores ideas of proprioception — the felt sense of the body and spatial relation through movement —questioning the location and limits of the body’s borders and
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Myles Young’s landscapes are purposefully artificial. Drawn directly from his imagination, they are fusions of reality and fantasy that synthesise distinct views from various standpoints; contemplations on the elements you can’t see – air, vibrations, sensations; and anecdotes from his childhood spent between the ocean and lush rainforest of northern New South Wales. Beginning life
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Be/Longing Babaylan transforms the Outer Space gallery as a safe space for queer bodies and identities to exist and be celebrated. Utilising a lens-based medium, Rhanjell Villanueva present visually powerful portraits centred around modern day Babaylans. Each portrait depicts a queer member of the community from the House of Alexander, utilising ancestral lineage and the
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cuttings from a homecoming’ by Carolyn V Watson is a refreshing exploration into the artist’s historical practice, reconstituting materials and revisiting previously resolved pieces. The result is a fresh, unburdened take on recurrent themes, including extensions of self, personal reflection, the hope of repair and renewal, and the pure delight of chance and studio accidents.
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Wikimedia’s gender disparity is well-documented, from the gendered imbalance of editing participants to the under-representation of articles on women/non-binary and trans folk. Let’s change that. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. More Information Image: Still from
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Explore three new exhibitions from students and alumni of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University on , . . | , : flesh, crush is a collection of works that explores the role of self- rejection and discomfort in one’s experiences of catharsis. Through the embodiment of physical and emotional anxieties, Alexandra seeks to
Are we heading for a dystopian or utopian world in 2070? In Dystopia/Utopia: 2070, artists and writers respond to speculative fiction and imagine possible future scenarios. This exhibition is designed to stimulate discussion about our future, to emphasise that the arts in conjunction with science are at the forefront of our survival, and to question what
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A group exhibition featuring Peter Berner, Brittany Jones, Isabelle Devos, Angie de Latour, Robert Riggs. Lethbridge Gallery, 136 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington. More Information Image: Isabelle Devos – Suburban Corner with Pink Trees, 61 x 76cm | Acrylic on canvas.
artisan welcomes PechaKucha back to join with Brisbane’s vibrant craft, design and architecture community for a night of ideas and stories. Meet the best and brightest creative thinkers as they discuss their work, ideas and processes. PechaKucha gives a stage to artists, architects and other designers to present their stories in a unique and accessible way. The patented format (20 slides,
Material Sound is a multi-form exhibition that draws together six art practitioners, each creating an experience of sound within installations constructed from everyday materials. Handmade instruments and electronics, recycled components, outmoded technologies, fake technologies, imagined sounds, and silences form a series of dynamic installations that challenge the way we think about materiality in a cumulative
Onespace Gallery is pleased to launch our 2022 program with a solo exhibition of recent works by Daniel Sherington. Utilising drawing as a traditional framework for his practice to operate within, Sherington often uses the medium as a means of facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to making. His work considers how historical conventions of production can
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Natasha Lawrence and From Where She Dreams presents Prisoner of the Mind, an exhibition at the Vacant Assembly in West End on the 24th-27th of February 2022. All profits from the weekend will be donated to Sisters Inside, an independent community organisation advocating for the collective human rights of women and girls in prison. The
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Stefan Dunlop studied art at the Brisbane Institute of Art from 1994-96 before undertaking further studies at the Chelsea College of Art in London, the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and the New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. In 2010 he attended the University of Texas Art Residency program, and in
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Radical Localism surveys Queensland artist Dr Elizabeth Shaw’s jewellery practice, spanning several decades. Encompassing much of the history of sustainable jewellery practice in Queensland, the exhibition explores the ethos of place, family, and fostering talent at home and beyond. More Information Image: Elizabeth Shaw, RADICAL LOCALISM, installation detail , artisan 2021. In the foreground: Caged Arm 2014, found plastic
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Zanny Begg / These Stories Will be Different brings together three of the artist’s most significant video installations that explore contested histories, including The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod), The Beehive, and Stories of Kannagi. These videos tell stories while also challenging the politics of storytelling itself and invite you to see the world differently. More Information Image: Zanny
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present, ‘Strange Magic’, the new exhibition from Sydney-based artist Gerwyn Davies. “Strange Magic was prompted by an interest in the gaudy world of stage magic, it’s elaborate displays of smoke and mirrors, spectacular tricks of the eye and confounding sleights of hand. Between Houdini’s flamboyant flights, hammy hat tricks
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Aunty Nicole Williams is a determined educator and Imagineer with over 30 years of experience. Her family, cultural and social history has ensured a relentless commitment to creating a more informed community that embraces Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ significant, ongoing historical and cultural connections to place and space. In this webinar, Aunty Nicole
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CHEAP SEATS is a new a body of work by Jack Rodgers taking inspiration from historic photographs of Brisbane. Using these resources, Rodgers deconstructs parts of Brisbane’s cultural history, creating portraits of everyday people in crowds at significant events that shaped the city we live in today. Rodgers latest work celebrates the relationship between historical
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Borrowing principles from Surrealism and its study of dreams, psychology and everyday life, Edwina McLennan’s Deep Dive (2022) responds to today’s transient, hyper-saturated and consumerist world. Drawing upon Carl Jung’s ideas on the collective unconscious, Deep Dive contemplates the primal desire for humans to connect and interact and explores how this translates in today’s consumerist
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The exhibition is an exploration of symbols and objects and is Barrios’ third solo with Mitchell Fine Art. Carlos Barrios continues to play with familiar themes of human connection and the blurred lines between reality and fantasy. These concepts are portrayed by the figures and animals that inhabit his artworks. Raised in El Salvador in
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This body of work is based on a series of en plein air studies carried out along the Brisbane river at Graceville, Corinda, and Tennyson. Matt developed the initial studies into these larger works exploring where the physical and reflected worlds meet at the river’s edge. As an extension of this theme, Matt’s work challenges
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For their first exhibition at Jan Manton Gallery, Simone Arnol (Gunggandji) and Bernard Singleton Jnr (Umpila/Djabugay/Yirrgay) present Medicine Clay, showing from 9 February to 6 March, 2022. This collaborative photographic series presents intimate portraits of three generations of family—father, son and niece—all adorned in Medicine Clay. This fine white clay is revered and sourced by family members
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Rosella Namok is a well known Australian Aboriginal artist. She grew up in Lockhart River community in North Queensland on Australia’s east coast. Rosella Namok’s lands are to the south of Lockhart River. Text More Information Image: Unchii: Regrowth after bushfire (triptych) 2021, acrylic on canvas, 180x190cm.
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Catherine Parker brings an incredible collection of work to Side Gallery to invite the viewer to feel optimism through the magnetic pull of water, to rest, and reconnect with nature’s elements. More Information Image: The Barracks Pool 2019/2020, Acrylic and ink on board, 20 x 20 cm.
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The Individuals Fund is for individual artists and cultural workers (emerging and established) to participate in transformational professional and career development opportunities. Objectives Propel careers to the next level of professionalism Fast track development of talent and leadership Develop new markets and new audiences for new work Offer significant and inspirational opportunities for professional development and to
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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The Moreton Bay Region Art Prize is an annual exhibition and prize that builds on the strong foundation and legacy of the Moreton Bay Region Art Awards, to support and celebrate local artists. Entry is free and open to local residents and/or First Nations people who identify as Kabi Kabi, Turrbal or Jinibara Traditional Owner
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Are you an aspiring or emerging writer with a passion for social change? You are invited to share your honest and authentic stories and feel the power of shared storytelling with writer, artist and all-round goddess Naavikaran, as part of her residency at MoB. This poetry workshop will examine ideas of belonging, diversity and community
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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
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Join sound artist Sascha Brosamer (visiting from Berlin) and get hands on with the history of mobile sound devices. Explore how listening has changed, from the gramophone listening culture in Parisian parks during the 1920s to the boombox and smartphone 100 years later. During the workshop we will: ** experiment with the gramophone ** learn
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CONTEXTILE Contemporary Textile Art Biennial invites all artists, national and internationally, to present artworks for selection for the International Exhibition. The call is also open for Artistic Residency proposals. Contextile 2022 Biennal takes place in Guimarães, Portugal, 3 September – 30 October 2022 International Exhibition CALL In this edition, the Contextile biennial will focuse its activities on the thematic concept RE-MAKE –
For the 2023 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, an open call is announced which does not focus on a specific curatorial theme. Read more about the thinking behind this artistic call, which aims to tackle current issues of the day. Over the past 17 years, the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival has been a key event in
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The Center for Contemporary Arts in Celje is publishing an open call for collaboration in the AIR Celeia 2022 programme, which will enable the selected curator to carry out an in-depth research of the visual art produced in Slovenia and to prepare a curatorial project that will be realised in the Center for Contemporary Arts in 2023.
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A new award open to all Australian artists offering all finalists $1,000.00 artist fee and and a chance to be awarded the first prize of $10,000.00. The first award of its kind, will be held within the streets, alleyways parks on and in the buildings of this unique heritage and culturally significant village setting. The
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