The Darling Portrait Prize is a national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015), who was instrumental in establishing the National Portrait Gallery. In 2022 the winner will receive $75,000. More Information Image: 2020 Darling Portrait Prize winner Elizabeth, 2019 by Anthea da Silva. © Anthea da […]
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Hack the Evening is a meetup for those that want to get in and apply their skills to new and crazy projects which require a little bit of technical skill and pizazz. We give you access to our power tools, soldering irons and Arduinos and just about any other gear and materials you can find in
INTRO TO CROCHET Thursday 14 October 2021 | 6:00PM – 7:30PM View full article → UPCYCLED BORO BAGS Saturday 16 October 2021 | 10:00AM – 2:00PM View full article → INTRO TO WOODCUT PRINTING Monday 18 October 2021 | 5:30AM – 8:30PM View full article → MAKE A CLAY VESSEL Tuesday 21 October 2021 | 5:30PM – 8:30PM
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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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IN invites proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists, curators, collectives, or collaborators to present solo or group exhibitions for our exhibition program Dec 2021-June 2022. We are also taking interests for events, performances, and workshops. WHERE: The Old Lock Up, 4 First Avenue Maroochydore, Sunshine Coast. WHEN: December 2021 – June 2022. Applications due
Are you a current or emerging artist, an arts graduate, a photographer, or someone who is immersed in the arts sector? The Percivals is a prestigious visual arts competition offering more than $50,000 in prize monies. Percival Portrait Painting Prize Major acquisitive prize – $40,000 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize Major acquisitive prize – $10,000 Percival
This prize encourages artistic excellence, promotes the transformative power of creativity, and raises awareness of the experiences and talent of service personnel. Serving personnel and veterans are invited to enter an original artwork and artist statement. Artworks may address any theme, with the winning artwork to be chosen by a panel of art experts and
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Patricia Piccinini is one of the most exciting and challenging Australian artists working today. Influenced by science, nature, fiction and the unconscious, Piccinini’s ongoing concern is the social impact and moral responsibility of advanced technology on people, animals and our planet. Her fantastical creatures and environments are, in a way, propositions about possible futures. Through
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Artisan is pleased to present PULP FRICTION: cutting, sewing, folding and weaving, interpretations of traditional and contemporary papercrafts from the Chinese diaspora. PULP FRICTION is a group exhibition showcasing designs, installations and complex paper works to examine cultural issues surrounding Chinese diasporic communities. Artworks by Christine Ko, Pamela See and Yanqiao Jiang investigate Chinese folk culture,
In the book Species of Spaces (Espèces d’espaces, 1974) French novelist and philosopher Georges Perec elaborates on the predicament of understanding space. “The space of our lives is neither continuous, nor infinite, neither homogeneous, nor isotropic.” To get a better sense of space, Perec argues, the challenge is not so much “to reinvent space, … but to
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The University of Queensland will welcome a strong line up of emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stars next month for its inaugural Deadly Noize concert. The Forgan Smith Lawns at St Lucia will be transformed for the event celebrating the cultures and diverse music genres of Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander artists on
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Christopher R. Inwood invites you to his 6th solo exhibition Chronocentric Sonder. You will forget what you don’t understand, so, what should we remember about the past? That is what artist Inwood asks his audience in his latest exhibition, opening at The Ferryman’s Hut Friday 22nd October. A 2019/20 Brisbane Portrait Prize finalist, Inwood combines
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‘Location, location, location’ seeks to challenge the persisting associations of the urban as a place of centrality by superimposing it with critical reflections on positionality. By harnessing the immovable concrete structure of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, artists were invited to map out their psychogeographical coordinates onto its public-facing façade. As a result,
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2021 marks the 140th year of the Queensland College of Art which has been an opportunity for QCA third year students to celebrate contemporary print practice in Brisbane. This exhibition will showcase the work of Alexandra Baxter, Tabitha Gibson, Elizabeth Grearson James Hondros, Matthew Hurdle, Alisha Kitto Kyla Levi, Courtnie McGrath, Ivy Minniecon, Crystal O’Kane,
Shoreline, Windowsill, Motherhood For an exhibition earlier this year Sea Screen Belly, I translated a painting featuring a friend’s view of the sea into a patchwork or quilt. The painting was therefore also a translation, of an image of the view. I initially experienced the view in the palm of my hand, through the screen of
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Liminal Spaces Early last year, the planes disappeared from our skies. The streets emptied. The space between others widened. The edges of reality blurred. The fabric of life, swiftly unravelling before our eyes. Neither here nor there, suspended in an indefinite state of liminality. An acute awareness that we could never go back to what
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A new online solo exhibition by Sydney based artist, Hal Witney. The threshold between repulsion and desire can sometimes be a fine line, a tension that is felt by our senses, with taste, touch, smell, sound and sight determining whether we experience enjoyment or discomfort. In this new series of small-scale paintings and drawings, Hal
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Illuminates the work of artists at the intersection of creative practice and environmental research. The works move beyond the literal presentation of scientific research to demonstrate how artists employ creative methods to imaginatively explore environmental topics which illuminate ideas, spark curiosity, and generate dialogue. Connecting audiences with a range of environmental research, Sites of Connection
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‘Feeling is everything’ is the new exhibition from Robert Malherbe. This exhibition captures the artist’s surrounds, be it the soaring landscapes of the Blue Mountains, the glimpses of domesticity in the home or the quiet moments shared between artist and muse in the studio. With a sense of urgency to capture what is immediately before
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Things Have Been Better is an exhibition of new work contemplating the constructed nature of ‘calmness’. Revering the importance of personal ritual and excessive inward reflection, the works consider the power and sadness in acknowledging impermanence. Remember it will end. Let it go. OPENS Saturday 6 November 11am – 4pm with afternoon drinks with the
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Exciting opportunity to display your 2D artwork 24/7 on three sided external totems in major health precinct in Brisbane, launching an outdoor temporary public art program in 2022. Transform the external totem displays into an engaging and creatively expressive surface. All 2D based media (painting, drawing, illustration, street art, digital media) concepts accepted. Artists residing
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57 Walls is the 2021 Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition. 57 Walls features the work of students graduating from QUT’s unique open studio program, working across diverse media including moving image, installation, performance, painting, sculpture and more. Opening night Wednesday 10th November 6pm – 8pm Visual Arts Studios and Gallery | Z11, Z12, Z13 | QUT Cnr
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Aster + Asha Gallery will present a pop-up exhibition in Brisbane from 6 – 7 November 2021. Titled Rhythms of Nature, the exhibition features Sophie La Maitre (WA), Inbal Nissim (VIC), Yuria Okamura (VIC) and Douglas Schofield (NSW). “The pulsing daily rhythms of nature are experienced by our bodies, the earth and its lifeforms, as
Diaspora (defn): the dispersion of people from their homeland or a community formed by people who have exited or been removed from their homeland. Commentary on the diasporic experience is woven through the three current exhibitions at the IMA; Becoming Alluvium by Thao Nguyen Phan, See/Through by Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan and the churchie emerging art prize 2021. This panel discussion will explore this conversation
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Explore new ways of understanding our physical environment and the potential for agency and empowerment within it. Conversations on Shadow Architecture proposes an investigation of environments through the lens of Critical Spatial Practice – a theory that seeks to facilitate understanding the social, cultural and political potential and purpose of space and architecture. Contributions from local
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Shop an exclusive range of original sculptures, functional ceramics, and accessories by two highly collectable Brisbane-based artists Stephen Mok and Pru Morrison. Join the artists for a glass of bubbles and a relaxed shopping afternoon at the Gallery Shop. Brisbane artist Stephen Mok is known for his fun, colourful scenes that depict fanciful and wildly imaginative scenes that convey both humour and narrative. He is renowned for his distinctive cartoon-like paintings
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The Queensland College of Art (QCA) Graduate Exhibitions showcase the work of graduating students from the disciplines of fine art, contemporary Australian Indigenous art, photography, design, and creative and interactive media. Each year, we host a series of innovative and inspiring student-curated exhibitions and presentations featuring the next generation of creative thinkers, as they demonstrate
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IT’S ONLY A GIFT IF YOU SEE IT AS A GIFT by Grace Dewar and Laurie Oxenford brings together the spatial practices of Megan Cope, Renato Antinao, Georgia Morgan, Shan Turner-Carroll & Elliot Bastianon. Connected by an openness to chance, this group exhibition interrogates the potentials of exhibition-making, curatorial outcomes and social practice. Exhibition text
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Robert Moore has spent the past 20-odd years living in the bush just outside of Grafton, NSW. He works either from his outdoor studio or in various plein air locations around the Clarence Valley. His painting style is dependent on mood and environment. From hungry, robust applications to seize the light and landscape, to nuanced
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Vivienne Binns is known primarily for her process-based painting practice, though she has also worked extensively across enamel, performance, installation, and as an artist-in-community. Binns rose to prominence in the 1960s with her psychedelic depictions of sexual imagery, which marked a turning point in the history of proto-feminist art. She was a key figure in
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Milani Gallery presents new works by Tyza Hart in CARPARK Gallery Tyza Hart and Jacqueline Chlanda discuss Inside Sky – An essay by Jacqueline Chlanda Exhibition Event 1pm Saturday 23 October Gallery Open Hours: 11am – 5pm Tuesday – Saturday More Information Image: Tyza Hart ‘Blank Dissipate’ 2021 (detail) Photo: Carl Warner
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Nicholas Tossmann’s practice investigates his experience of being a conceptual artist as part of his philosophical search of self and purpose. He explores these ideas methodically by analysing and questioning his art practice, which involves the process of researching, making and critically reflecting. Text, diagrams and mapping are utilized as a self-reflexive approach to art
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See the best in contemporary portraiture at this special Showcase Exhibition “In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what’s going on, but it’s representative.” – Annie Leibovitz The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging engagement with
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Jude Rae (b. 1956, Sydney) is a Sydney based artist whose practice is noted for its particular sensibility. Focusing on still life and interior compositions, Rae’s paintings and prints achieve a remarkable stillness; a quietness conjured from everyday objects, objects that might ordinarily pass our notice. Gas bottles and gas tanks, rugged plastic milk crates
Sam Bullock’s paintings are boldly energetic and bursting with vibrant colour and narrative. ‘Autistic spectrum: Darkness and light’ features a series of portraits of people Bullock loves or admires, including Brett Whiteley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, his father, friend Ziggy and his dog Honey, among others. Alongside these are Bullock’s recollections of life in lockdown, and responses
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Rick Amor (b. 1948, Frankston, Victoria) is one of Australia’s most prominent figurative painters and a highly regarded printmaker and sculptor. Amor lives and works in Melbourne. His supreme grasp of tonality allows him to masterfully manipulate light and transport the viewer into his images. Filled with light and shadow, Amor’s brooding and nostalgic works