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UQ launches a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

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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Location, Location, Location

‘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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Unpacked

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,

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Tanya Wales: Liminal Spaces

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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Hal Witney: Pepper Grinder

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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Sites of Connection

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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Herston Quarter – Public Art Program

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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Rhythms of Nature

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

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Panel Discussion: Emerging artists and diasporic spaces

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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Conversations on Shadow Architecture

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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Stephen Mok & Pru Morrison

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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QCA Graduate Exhibitions

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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Tyza Hart: Inside Sky

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: SPIRAL

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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Brisbane Portrait Prize

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

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

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Sam Bullock: Autistic Spectrum – Darkness and Light

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

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

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 Springfinity

Spring has sprung and our new free outdoor art exhibition – Springfinity – is inviting people back into the city and outdoors to celebrate. Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said as the city bounced back to life post-lockdown, the new Outdoor Gallery, launching on 28 August, would light up streets and laneways with exciting new artworks. “Springfinity is

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Brisbane Portrait Prize

The exhibition will showcase the 75 artists who were selected as Finalists including 71 entrants from the main competition and 4 from the Next Gen Competition. We’d love for you to join us for this celebration of art, Brisbane artists and the characters who make our city, what it is. Attendance at this exhibition remains free, however,

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Claudia Greathead: Flowers

Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘Flowers’ – the new exhibition from Claudia Greathead. Claudia Greathead’s latest body of work continue the artists personal journey and exploration of the world around her. Her work blurs the line between figurative and abstraction, reality and dreams, memory and feelings, creating a visual language for Greathead to

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Stewart MacFarlane: Odyssey

An exhibition of artworks by Stewart MacFarlane three years in the making, impacted by the changing world and restrictions to global travel, is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from October 6th. Odyssey is Stewart MacFarlane’s first Australian exhibition since 2018. It has been a time defined by experiences fraught with adversity, discomfort,

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Len Fox Painting Prize

The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The award is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox, with $50,000 awarded to the winner.   The Len

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