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MONO 40: Naomi Blacklock, Eugene Carchesio, and Caitlin & Helen Franzmann

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: Endless Yarn

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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Australia Shook Art Prize

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: Sunkissed

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

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

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Platform LAB

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

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North Queensland Ceramic Awards

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

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

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Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowships

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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Tawny Trails Launch

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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Catherine O’Donnell: Drawn to Home

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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TWENTY

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

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Amy Carkeek: Welcome to the Dreamhouse

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: Observing Patterns

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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Dan Kyle: Garden on the Edge

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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Joseph Daws: Resolution

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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Jodie Wells: Freedom

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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FALL 2021 Innovate Grant 

Innovate Grant  awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. We’ve simplified the grant process, so

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Fresh Eyes

Our landscape is continually changing. Delvene Cockatoo Collins, Jason Murphy, Ian Mclaren and Julie Thornton bring fresh eyes to capture our region in 2021, commenting on the surroundings as experienced today. This exhibition explores what draws artists to specific landscapes and the connections they hold to them. This biennial exhibition will continue to document the

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15 Artists 2021

15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, 15 artists are invited by Moreton Bay Regional Council to participate in the exhibition, with the winning artist awarded $20,000 and their work acquired into Council’s art collection. The exhibition aims to highlight

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Thinking into Being

The fourth in a series of triennial alumni exhibitions, Thinking into Being explores QUT’s unique cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach to teaching and learning. The exhibition brings together work by QUT graduates from the Schools of Architecture and Built Environment, Creative Practice, and Design, who have become leading creative practitioners both nationally and internationally. Thinking into Being is a

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Dylan Mooney: Blak Superheroes

Dylan Mooney’s artworks tell stories of survival, pride and power. “Blak Superheroes addresses and amplifies stories of representation, creating change that uplifts ourselves and mob. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have had important roles through history to present day. Blak characters’ representation in history has always been in the background, never the focal point,

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Evidence of Scale

A group exhibition featuring artists: Alick Sweet, Dean Rusling, David Paulson, Michael Eather, Phil Gordon & artists from Pormpuraaw Art & Culture Centre (PACC). Exhibition Opening – 23rd October, 2:00 – 4:00pm More Information Image: Christine Yantumba  Mudskipper  2018  Ghost net, twine, rope & wire   100x240x183cm (Photo credit PACC)

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A Carved Landscape: Stories of Connection & Culture

A Carved Landscape: Stories of Connection and Culture presents a bold collection of prints by Torres Strait Islander artists Brian Robinson and Tamika Grant-Iramu. What began as a formal mentorship between the two, has now progressed into dynamic parallel collegial practices. Both artists are inspired by their immediate home environments – Cairns for Robinson and Brisbane

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Don’t Be Evil

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

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Viewpoints: Contemporary Aboriginal photography

Viewpoints: Contemporary Aboriginal Photography showcases the captivating work of three contemporary Aboriginal photographers, Michael Aird, Jo-Anne Driessens and Naomi Hobson, with an emphasis on community photography. There are thousands of images in the State Library’s collection depicting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, often taken by non-Indigenous photographers. But what about photography from the viewpoint

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