Azadeh Hamzeii presents new work commissioned by Metro Art in association with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. With a focus on the dialogues between the individual and the universal, Azadeh Hamzeii mines her personal history and cultural background as an Iranian based in Meanjin (Brisbane). Hamzeii draws from a range of subjects and materials […]
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Liquid Dreams by Jumaadi on show at the gallery between 1 – 23 December 2021. Liquid Dreams continues the artists’ exploration of watercolour and gouache on paper and delves into the artists’ portrayal of isolation through a series of bare horizons. Jumaadi’s new works acknowledge the landscape’s continuity and finds solace in
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Katsugi (ancient term from Ijika, Japan which can be translated as ‘dive’ in English) is a two-person exhibition that brings together Japanese Ama diver Aiko Ohno’s documentary style photography, and recent works by Zoe Porter featuring depictions of the ama (female free divers) and other plant-human, animal-hybrid forms within otherworldly landscapes. The two artists have collaborated
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Have you ever wondered how an artist can capture a tree, a mountain or a body of water and bring it to life? Join exhibiting artists Holly Anderson and Laura Patterson for an artist-led tour of City in the Sun, and dive into their approach to contemporary landscape painting. Discover how Holly captures a shimmer
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Join City in the Sun exhibiting artist Laura Patterson in this hands-on workshop and learn how to unpack complex landscape subject matter to create your own two-dimensional compositions. Drawing inspiration from dense Queensland rainforests, Laura translates her research, photographs and field studies into intricate and skilful arrangements in her studio. MoB is bringing this idea
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Passepartout Photo Prize aims to support the development of talented photographers from all over the world by providing 1,000 euros in monetary awards every year, exhibition opportunities in a prestigious venue in the heart of Rome, Italy, publication opportunities and more. Among the jurors are the American photographer Richard Tuschman, GUP Magazine editor Erik Vroons
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Prisma Art Prize is an art prize created to promote emerging visual artists and painters. As our name and logo suggests, we want to be a Prism that refracts all possible results of the painting process. At the base of our project, there is the inclusiveness and constant research and enhancement of artists from various
Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize. $25,000 major acquisitive St John of God Health Care Prize, $42,000 total prizes. Theme: Metamorphosis – a profound or radical change. Reference: “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19) See theme commentaries and Theme Forum live
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Join our free online Art Café with VAA arts marketing expert & mentor, Shirley-Ann O’Neill, where we will discussing how self-representing artists can prepare for 2022 and to find and engage with art buyers in a more meaningful way. This session will include how to increase your visibility and making the most of opportunities. Whether
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Source Materials brings together the work of six artists whose materiality and forms reflect philosophical attentiveness to conceptions of time and transcultural practice. Working from distinct cultural and political contexts, multi-disciplinary artists Ómra Caoimhe, Nicole Foreshew, ektor garcia, D Harding, Bronwyn Katz and Shireen Taweel draw from post-minimalist studio training and conceptual art theory augmented by
After a year of unsteadiness, false starts, and other frustrations, we cast our ears close to home and finish MONO’s 2021 actions with a sense of resilient determination and persistent aspiration. Across three sets, some of Brisbane’s most evocative artists create a series of transcendent sonic microcosms. Naomi Blacklock, whose works explode outward through embodied performance, cultural heritage, and gender identity,
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Bundit Puangthong’s perceptive search through worldwide cultural imagery is grounded in traditional technique and the buzz of the street. He’s a bit of a flaneur, mixing new meaning from sources like religious iconography, contemporary corporate advertising and the personal, internal dialogue that accompanies studio work. His dreamlike compositions draw on childhood experience stenciling puppet theatre
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Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘The cubensis head butt’ by Sydney based artist David Griggs, his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Paintings by David Griggs may be read as narratives, drawn from incidents he observes in the city streets that relate to the texture of our times. Even more they emerge from
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ASAP recognises urgent and important Pre-emerging creative practice of Meanjin / Brisbane. Highlighting Australians who happen to have Asian heritage/s and Asian disaporic lineage; and are not too sure about their professional direction, are uneasy about all that big institutional gatekeeping and tastemaking, but also just really need a little bit of cash to do
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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
Platform LAB comprises three residency programs that offer digital and onsite engagement, including a designated studio for a First Nations arts practitioner. LAB provides each participating artist or collective with $5000, studio and/or venue space, tailored mentorship, group intensives and presentation opportunities, as well as in-house technical, producing, and marketing support. Platform LAB champions the creative
Entries are now open for the annual Port Lincoln Art Prize and close Monday 6th December 2021 at 3pm. It is open to all Australian residents, providing a prestigious competition for the many artists who enter and the opportunity to have their efforts publicly acknowledged with the chance to win awards from a $10,950 prize
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Art and science collide as artists investigate the natural world around them. The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize commemorates the birth of the South Australian Museum’s first curator, Frederick George Waterhouse. This biennial prize provides an opportunity for artists to investigate the world around them and present their perspectives on natural science and offers a
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The Ceramic Awards is a showcase for both well-known and emerging artists and has a major acquisitive prize of $10,000. Apply now Image:Mahala HILL, Armoured Mist Frog 2020. Bone china, porcelain, stoneware, volcanic glaze. Major acquisitive prize winner of the City of Townsville Art Collection Award, 2020 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards, Townsville. City of Townsville Art
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The Alice Prize is a national contemporary art prize and welcomes artists from around Australia to submit their works in any medium or on any theme. Held in Alice Springs biennially at the Araluen Arts Centre, the Alice Prize is coordinated by the Alice Springs Art Foundation, a voluntary not-for-profit community organisation that has been
The Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowships support Brisbane artists, arts workers, cultural workers or creative producers wishing to develop and expand their careers in the arts and cultural sector by participating in: skills development masterclasses/workshops art residencies attendance at conferences short course training mentorships structured learning experiences. Funding The Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowships has two funding categories.
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In this new body of work, I AM THE MUSE, Jasmine Mansbridge explores ideas of inspiration, progress and the relentless pursuit of creative joy through making. Mansbridge says, “I had been thinking about the idea of the external muse; about it being someone or something, about it being outside of me. The possibly losing that external
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Tawny Trails Launch day celebrations are on Sunday NOVEMBER 28 & Sunday JANUARY 30. Tawny Trails is The Creative Living Experience. Not your average trail; this one is accessible year-round, so we are ready when you are. Mixing the beauty of nature and the magic of creativity into an art and lifestyle trail that shares
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Open Call – UK & International artists are invited to apply for the inaugural VAA Professional Artist Award 2021 with a £5000 Prize Fund The aim of the Award is to promote the artworks of member artists, whilst helping them to gain momentum and grow their art business. The prize winners will receive access to
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Ken Done is one of Australia’s most iconic artists. His hyper-coloured paintings have become engrained in this country’s visual vernacular. Paintings you probably haven’t seen brings together a collection of previously unseen works selected by Done and the Ken Done Gallery. Immerse yourself in a world of colour and delight with landscapes and interiors that
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Through the process of reshaping and re-evaluating a collection of photographic imagery from 1988 to 2021, I have attempted to negotiate a place and cultural identity of a diasporic person: a person who has moved between people, cultures and landscapes. It is the allegorical nature of reading a text through another that is a central
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This exhibition begins in part with a trip not taken. Artist Helga Groves, inspired by landforms, geology and earth’s deep time, had planned a visit to Greenland in 2020 to travel to the country’s ice sheet, the largest in the northern hemisphere, and to take up a residency at the Nuuk Art Museum where she
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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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A group exhibition showcasing the depth and diversity of the gallery’s stable of female artists is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from November 10th. The final exhibition for 2021, ‘Twenty’ is an eclectic collection of represented, gallery and invited artists and includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics. Celebrating the artistic skill of this group
Our latest online feature, Welcome to the Dreamhouse by Amy Carkeek, examines the American neoliberal dream’s influence on Australia and our increasing aspiration for homeownership and the commodified good life. The work employs the suburban gothic to interrogate the dream’s decaying and anachronistic façade as conveyed through the suburban fantasy. Through the found, readymade object and newly formed
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Samuel Tupou is a Brisbane based artist specialising in screen-printing. He creates artworks that respond to his Tongan and Polynesian heritage, incorporating patterns derived from and inspired by traditional Pacific Island Tapa cloth design. Observing Patterns is Samuel Tupou’s first solo exhibition at Logan Art Gallery. The exhibition investigates geometry and colour, with a focus on human memory,
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The lyrical splendour of the Australian bush is captured in Dan Kyle’s painterly mark. Hovering somewhere between figuration and abstraction, his landscapes play with surface and texture to recreate the majesty and intrigue of the dense scrub that surrounds his Blue Mountains studio. Using a proliferation of marks and tones, Kyle builds his work into
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In this conceptual drawing class, artist and Queensland College of Art alum Natalie Lavelle will ask participants to consider where the pictorial diverges from the physical, and where they convene. Participants will learn how to identify the gap between a shape’s physical attributes and pictorial qualities as perceived by the viewer, explore the line between pictorial
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Joseph Daws’ exhibition Resolution on show from 10 – 28 November 2021. Joseph Daws describes the effect of these seemingly pixelated paintings, stating: Allowing the works to have the openness to connect with a wider discourse is an important aspect. I’m not going to say what it is or isn’t.
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As Australia gingerly emerges from Covid lockdowns, opening its borders within the country and to the world, it seemed fitting to include the horse in Jodie’s latest collection of works. The horse is a universal symbol of freedom, a symbol of travel, movement, and desire. In seemingly effortless bold broad strokes, generously thick layers of
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