elebrate the opening of new exhibitions from Kathleen O’Hagan, Branka Sinobad, Kathy Mack & Nellie Crescent. | : Encounter probes life drawing and the relationship between the artist and the model, to explore a possibility of line and abstract form in conveying intangible thoughts about human life. The exhibition brings together different threads of Branka’s […]
Metro Arts is thrilled to offer ‘MAVA Pathfinders’, a rare and well-supported opportunity for visual artists to explore new ways forward in their career. Ensuring a strong local independent sector of artists, MAVA Pathfinders will support three Queensland, mid-career visual artists to explore new opportunities, and to purposefully harness their potential to build more sustainable
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The international call for the COAL PRIZE 2022 for Art and Environment has been launched, on the theme – ON THE OCEANS. The ocean is our geographic, dreamlike and political horizon. While the United Nations proclaimed the Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, the COAL Prize 2022 invites artists from around the world to
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Artists: Zach Blas & Jemima Wyman, Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, Simon Denny, Xanthe Dobbie, Sean Dockray, Forensic Architecture, Kate Geck, Elisa Giardina Papa, Matthew Griffin, Eugenia Lim, Daniel McKewen, Angela Tiatia, Suzanne Treister, and Katie Vida. The endlessly popular yet flawed metaphor of ‘the Cloud’ has become an effective marketing term that muddies and mystifies
Unleash your inner architect with artisan maker Tom Summers! Tome will guide you through the creation of a small ceramic sculptural piece influenced by modern architecture. Your masterpiece can be left as a standalone sculptural piece or you can choose to make it into an incense holder. You will learn the skill of working with clay slabs to
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Caboolture Regional Art Gallery invites you to join artist Michelle Vine for a floor talk as a part of her exhibition Soft Touch on 22 January, 2022 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. In conversation with Dr. Louise Mayhew (Art Historian, Writer and Editor), the artist will explore the artworks more closely and delve into
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The inaugural Paper off Skin is now calling for entries. A sister event to Paper on Skin. Since 2012 Paper on Skin has driven extraordinary innovation in the world of wearable paper art. Paper off Skin gives artists, designers and papermakers the opportunity to explore the unique and versatile qualities of paper as a medium of
Drawn to Home brings together recent work by artist Catherine O’Donnell. Known for her exquisite draftsmanship and elegant handling of architectural details, O’Donnell’s practice focuses on the suburban landscape, giving life to the commonly overlooked dwellings of everyday existence. Through large scale drawing her work examines the architecture, culture and history in the everyday-ness of the
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present The Days Run Away by Ian Friend on show at the gallery between 19 January – 6 February 2022. The survey exhibition features works from his earlier practice, as well as very recent creations including a series of sculptures, the first made by Ian in decades. Rather than provide a clear narrative for
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Ipswich City Council is seeking expressions of interests from professional muralists, artists or a consortium of artists, to design and deliver a public art concept for a high-profile space located in Ipswich Central – Bottle Alley. Bottle Alley is a laneway connecting Ellenborough Street to the Nicholas Street Precinct. The alley has played a significant
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Christine Ko is a Brisbane-based artist whose practice uses an autoethnographic methodology to interrogate spaces of liminality and hybridity to examine feelings of ambivalence—between hopes, dreams, invisibility and shame, through the lens of the contemporary Chinese-Australian migrant experience. A core focus of her practice is to explore shame, invisibility and transformation by drawing from her
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New Weave presents an international collection of 9 cutting-edge animators, responding to and reinterpreting ancient Southeast Asian traditions of weaving. At artisan, these videos are presented as an immersive experience, alongside finished products produced by the Maybank Women Eco-Weavers; Traditional woven items from Laotian, Cambodian, Malaysian and Indonesian poverty alleviation projects, producing sustainable income through eco-friendly initiatives, preserving traditional cultural craft
The Lethbridge Landscape Prize returns in 2022 after a successful inaugural exhibition. The award invites all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape, from conventional to the unusual, and from monumental to intricate. The definition of ‘landscape’ has been extended to include urban-scapes and interiors. With a $20,000 first prize, the award is open to all
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DEBRIS is now calling for pitches for Issue 02— Hospitality, guest edited by Alana Lentin, Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Anna Yeon. Contributors are invited to interrogate the theme of hospitality from all its angles: the relationship between hospitality and inhospitableness, between being a host and being welcomed or shunned—and others we are yet to discover.
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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Take a look through the lens of celebrated Brisbane artist Martin Smith and explore the professional application of his artistic practice in photography and photo media. In his work, Martin employs photography, typography and storytelling to consider how language and modes of representation are used to express and interpret personal experience. He works with concepts
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The circle is a recurring motif and features in most of the Mornington Island artists’ works – fishtraps, love rocks, mussel shells, pretty rocks, sacred and secret places, water holes, corals, etc. and it was appropriate to try a round format to echo some of these ways of depicting the world. The artists have enjoyed
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We welcome exhibition proposals from artists and curators, for both group and solo shows. Scratch Art Space supports artists and recent graduates. The Gallery has high street visibility with full glass frontage and a showcase window on Sydenham Road. Located at the centre of the creative industrial area next to Sydenham Train Station, only a five minute
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Gaffa takes proposals on an all year round basis but spaces are subject to availability, if you send in a proposal it is not guaranteed that you will have an exhibition, each submission is reviewed by the curatorial team and measured against the shows that are already in place and the overall curatorial vision of
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Adelaide Perry was a remarkable woman with an eventful career. She studied under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin and experienced early success by winning the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy in London in 1918. During her three year sojourn abroad she exhibited at the Salon in Paris and upon returning
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New Course is a guided residency program for the personal growth of artists, performers and creative professionals. The program is designed to expand and enhance artists’ creative practice, routines and way of being through new collaborative methods and professional guidance. The program helps artists establish their own rituals and guides them to best practice. The
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ENTRIES OPEN FOR THE 2022 LIBRIS AWARDS: THE AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS’ BOOK PRIZE Artspace Mackay’s biennial event, the Libris Awards, brings together works by leading and emerging artist book makers from across the country. The Awards are a chance to celebrate the art form and build on the gallery’s significant artist book collection through the competition’s acquisitive
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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
Over the coming months, Children’s Health Queensland through the Arts in Health Program, will be commissioning artists to design and create three murals within the Queensland Children’s Hospital and the adolescent extended treatment centre, Jacaranda Place. Each of these artworks create opportunities for young, emerging First Nations artists to contribute to the creation of warm,
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Joaquin Gonzales presents 777-Eleven, a Catholicised convenience store selling all the Catholic necessities nobody asked for. Open 24/7 for your convenience. This solo site-specific installation transforms Metro Arts’ window gallery and surroundings to a Catholicised convenience store composed of a series of sculptural artworks. Gonzales explores the theme of religious doubt and uses humour as a tool to
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Over a career spanning more than 20 years, Vipoo Srivilasa has created intricate and elaborate artworks that reflect his bicultural experience living between Australia and Thailand. Working mostly in ceramic, he celebrates the intersections and overlaps between our cultural, social, philosophical, and environmental ideologies with a mix of humour and reverence, iconography and ornamentalism. Almost
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In this exhibition, Kasper presents a series of intensely coloured small-scale paintings that reveal his skill in working with geometric forms and space. Each work is diffused with a sense of stillness, offering viewers a moment to marvel at the joy of perception. Adept at translating bold colours, shapes and lines into works that feel
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Gordon Hookey was born in Cloncurry, Queensland in 1961. He currently lives and works in Brisbane. Hookey belongs to the Waanyi people and locates his art at the interface where Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultures converge. He explicitly attacks the establishment and implicates our current political representatives. His style and approach is distinctive in its vibrancy
Inspired by the Hindu ritual Śrāddha, this exhibition marks the first death anniversary of my mother’s passing. Conceptually, the rice and turmeric infused oil are offerings of nourishment and healing, while the brass objects emulate the sunrise viewed from my mother’s hospital bed the morning she passed. Audiences are invited to meditate on the recorded
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A collection of paintings portraying the collaboration of the Artist with AI (Artificial Intelligence) algorithms. These technologies act as a muse for the artist or a serendipitous chance that shows itself within the creative practice. The imagery depicted in the artworks was initially created digitally by the artist, then input into an AI algorithm that
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A.A. Milne’s Cherry Stones is a children’s poem that wonder’s about what life will bring. The child asks whether they will be a tinker, tailor, soldier or a sailor; whether they will be rich or poor, virtuous or corrupt; and whether they’ll turn rabbits out of their pockets or travel through space on rockets. They
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The annual Side Gallery end of year show is titled ‘Glimpse’ for the 2021 iteration. As always, the exhibition is a “smalls” work collection, restricting the size of work to 30cm x 30cm for 2D work, 30cm2 for 3D work, and 2 minutes long for animated/video/digital work. More Information
Down to Earth draws together eight QLD artists who acknowledge the elemental spirits of the earth from where all life emanates. Focussing on botanical forms, it is a celebration of our deep and intrinsic relationship with the environment and a compelling reflection of our connection to the cycle of the earth and the cosmos. Artists:
Boy/girl; Good/bad; Happy/depressed; Tender/aggressive; Alive/dead; Perpetuating binaries are limitations for potential complexities and deeper human truths. Can we be exclusively one without the other or is our glass of happiness only carved out by the depth of our depression? Throughout an ongoing and evolving duplicate portraiture series, Lucy Nguyễn-Hunt delves into the core of what
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Maelstrom is a multi-channel, immersive 3D-animated experience that integrates sound with the choreography of digital humans. Created by digital choreographer Harrison Hall and motion graphics artist Luca Dante, Maelstrom is a sombre meditation on the unseen, hidden and destabilising forces that transform us. Combining the motion capture of dancing bodies, 3D animation and physics engines with sound by
Like a spectre, but you can feel it centres the experience of visceral forces found on both an intimate and geological scale. Through material experimentation and sensorial installation, Jefferies seeks to bring closer the spectral qualities of a biosphere in crisis. Please Join us for the opening of Tiana Jefferies Show on the 9th of
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