The longest running portrait prize in South Australia, the Prospect Portrait Prize is a non-acquisitive juried exhibition juried exhibition of contemporary portraits in any medium. More Information
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Entry in the 9×5 Landscape Prize may be paintings in any medium, including oil, acrylic or watercolour on a 9×5 plywood board, supplied free with each entry. The theme is open. Entry Fee is $35 and participants are limited to three entries. Entries Open Monday 9 August and close on Monday 4 October 2021. First
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Joachim Froese in his latest exhibition Echoes of Process on show from 15 September – 3 October, 2021. Echoes of Process illustrates the oscillation between science and art and our own rational and emotional ambiguous relationship with the non-human world through the documentation of plant seedlings. Salt printing constitutes the first negative-positive
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Seven artists from Brisbane have learned they are amongst the finalists in the inaugural annual National Capital Art Prize. Experts from across Australia’s art industry selected 121 finalists from a tremendous field of over 1,000 submissions in the Prize. Artists from all over the country entered the new competition, with category winners set to share
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The Biennale Delegates Program is a professional development opportunity for early-career arts and cultural workers based in Australia. The 2022 theme is re(situate), an offer to refocus and reposition as we step into this next era in international engagement within the visual arts. The Australia Council are inviting applications from the full spectrum of the visual
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Brisbane City Council is seeking proposals from art consultants to write new public art policy and recommend innovative public art initiatives to establish Brisbane as a world class public art city. The development of new policy and the associated guidelines is a key action in Council’s Design led City: a design strategy for Brisbane and part of the
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Botanica – Contemporary Art Outside 2021-24 Request for Proposal Botanica – Contemporary Art Outside is an annual 10 evening event (5-10pm) in May that showcases contemporary art in the City Botanic Gardens. Brisbane City Council is seeking proposals for a producer, producing team, or creative organisation to develop, program and deliver the Botanica 2022 event, with
Spanning 500 years, ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’ offers a breath-taking journey from the 1420s and emerging Renaissance to conclude at the height of early twentieth century post-impressionism. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity also allows visitors to experience works by painters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Turner, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, and Monet, direct
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Portrait of Promise: domesticated yet feral angel (2002-ongoing) is a archival work by Ruaa Al-Rikabi that resembles a shrine of her past selves. The intricate work delivers Ruaa’s collection in the form of a shrine, mourning incorrectly glorified western social constructs and beauty standards. Portrait of Promise acts as Ruaa’s healing and rerelease from engrained
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This latest body of work ‘Foliage’ stretches from across a year of relative stillness where I observed the changing seasons from my home in the Blackall Range North of Brisbane, Gubi Gubi Country and a short trip to the mid North Queensland coastal community of 1770, Bustard Bay, home of the of Gooreng Gooreng first
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Mucosa is the first collaborative project between South Australian artists Kate Bohunnis and Kate Power. The work is a consideration of shared ideas of power, desire, queer identity, social relations and how these are stored in the body. Following a decade of friendship, this collaboration embraces trust through not knowing and valuing conversation over mastery
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This exhibition is a display of works by a network of artists and artworkers both working and practising in the Moreton Bay region and greater Brisbane area. Artists were invited to ‘Come as you are’, no theme, no particular concept, just an exploration of their own unique contemporary practice. There is a variety of practices,
In 1841 the Old Windmill on Spring Hill was the site of the first public execution in the colony of Queensland: the hanging of two Aboriginal men. Their public hanging was strategic, designed to be a brutal warning from colonial forces to Indigenous people of the area. In the underground spaces of the adjoining Spring
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Fiona Hiscock’s latest body of work is a continuation of her well known artistic practice of depicting Australia’s natural environment, particularly flora and fauna that is increasingly under threat by bushfire, drought and land clearing. Having been confined to a 5km radius for the past 18 months, Hiscock connected closely with her local surroundings including
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This online symposium is a conversation between 15 First Nations artists, curators, and filmmakers, along with non-Indigenous scholars and museum professionals from Australia, Taiwan, Aotearoa, and the Philippines. It offers a space where First Nations creative practitioners who have not met, can gather, share ideas and insights, and develop connections. We hope these conversations will
Samantha Hobson grew up in the small community of Lockhart River, located 800 kilometres north of Cairns. Many of the surrounding areas such as Claudie River, Quintell Beach, Chilli Beach and the Great Barrier Reef are reflected in her painting, and although she has lived in Cairns, she is now back on country in Lockhart
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For our second exhibition at the Spring Hill Reservoir, we are presenting new works by Daniel McKewen, including the major multi-channel video work A Rising Tide. The title of this work refers to the economics adage ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’, made popular by US President John F. Kennedy as he spoke of the promise of a
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Adrienne Gaha’s mirage-like dreamscapes are an emotional and intuitive response to the world, constrained by her formal understanding of painting, surface, and form. Working with glazes, she layers and rubs colours into each other in a process of putting on and wiping off, letting the drips of paint and turpentine create interesting details in the
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The Pastel Society of Australia’s Annual Awards attract entries from the members across Australia and overseas. This exhibition comprises pastel works from those who take up the option to contribute work to be on display to the public in conjunction with the on-line competition. Categories include Scapes, People/Animals, Still Life and Abstract. Demonstrations of pastel
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Astro Ark is a group multimedia exhibition which contributes to the growing cannon of Pacific Futurism and showcases the wildest decolonial imaginings of artists across multiple mediums. The artists will explore speculations about the near and far future. Audiences are invited to step away from colonial constructs of progress and experience many possible futures through
Personalised Fragments of Culture is an interdisciplinary installation that aims to establish a connection to personalised fragments of culture through self-analysis and representation. The exhibition involves a series of paper collages that illustrate culturally symbolic objects from Howard’s familial environments. These collages are expanded into large-scale paintings, clay sculptures, and printed fabrics. Howard’s work aims
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“decennium” – an exhibition of art realised through prints and celebrating a decade of the Iain Turnbull Memorial Award. The award recognises annually an outstanding engagement with printmaking and print culture by a student studying at Queensland College of Art. Artists – Nicola Hooper, Ana Paula Estrada, Matthew Newkirk, David Jones, Grace Collinson, Jude Roberts,
Experiencing colour can be a fleeting moment. In these paintings Marisa Purcell hopes to catch the feeling before it disappears – before it gets lost in the noise of everything else. Those moments when we lie under a tree to look at the sky, or the branches – the lazy morning when a glimpse of
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Calling for artists, curators, and groups to submit a proposal for our 2022-23 exhibition program. Ellenbrook Arts is a spacious, well-appointed gallery, with all the fittings and furnishings you need to make your exhibition a success. We are seeking ideas for exhibitions from across Australia that have strong artistic and curatorial rigour and relevance within
The Bluethumb Art Prize has fast become one of Australia’s most popular art prizes. It attracted over 2,500 entries in 2020 and is expected to at least double that number this year. The first ever Bluethumb Art Prize was held in 2017, with the winner taking away a $10,000 cash prize. It’s only gotten bigger
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After graduating from a Masters of Art at Monash University, Rod moved to Alice Springs. His drawings and paintings are full of arresting imagery that offers viewers a closer look into Aboriginal daily life in the desert. Often perplexing but always engaging, Rod’s graphic works can appear both mundane and sardonic. Suggestive poses by the
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The Condensery new commission sparks curiosity around the tale of the red deer The Condensery – Somerset Regional Art Gallery in Toogoolawah is celebrating a $30,000 grant from the Australia Council for the Arts for a commission of work by Brisbane-based, Gympie-born artist Caitlin Franzmann. Somerset Deputy Mayor Councillor Helen Brieschke said Caitlin will be
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The Sunshine Coast Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D arts practice in Australia. Now in its 16th year, this significant art award is the flagship event for the Sunshine Coast’s Regional Gallery in Caloundra, attracting entries from emerging and established artists across the nation. This year we are delighted
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Take home your very own piece of embroidery in this hands-on workshop with Empty.Room, accompanying the exhibition See/Through by Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan at the IMA. This piña textile installation focusses on Filipino fibre traditions to explore the political, social and economic history of the pineapple across the globe. Piña cloth is handmade from the leaves of pineapple plant and
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Betwixt is a conversation about painting that re-interprets the space between the image and its surface. In an illusory display regional artists Petalia Humphreys, Odessa Mahony-de Vries and June Sartracom bring their practices together in dialogue about the materiality of surface and the physicality of space. Presenting bold colours, gestural marks and subtle shifting shades
Garden Variety and event partners Brisbane Open House, Milani Gallery and the Australian Institute of Architects present an island tour and speaker session with artist Vernon Ah Kee on Noogoon (St Helena Island). Join us on a gorgeous night cruise to St Helena Island, where we tour the historical landmark of Queensland’s penal settlement for
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Disturbia is a multimedia art exhibition inspired by the unnerving and unsettling, featuring 7 Installation Artists and 2 Musicians Our vision for this exhibition was for the chosen artists to produce a piece of creative work specifically revolving around the event’s central theme being ‘The Disturbing And Unsettling’. Our overall goal for this event was
Brisbane’s innovative online art gallery, Plexus Gallery, is excited to announce their next pop-up exhibition, Second Bloom, on display at Bib’n’Brace Collective (95 Commercial Rd, Teneriffe). The exhibition will run from 17-26 September, with the official opening being held on Friday 17 September from 5 – 8 pm. Second Bloom will showcase a selection of
Out from the Mist is a photography and short movie competition (one-minute) – all you need is a smartphone to enter (although more upmarket kit is OK too). The competition is about mental illness but is also about so much more. Individuals facing challenges to their mental wellbeing are varied in their experiences and their responses.
Red Hill Gallery is delighted to present ‘Setting the Scene for 100 Years of John Rigby‘. This exhibition will focus on the artist’s paintings with Queensland landscapes and scenes as their subject. Rigby draws inspirations from nature whether innate or human and describes his interpretation of this as a “poetic reality”. His work makes visual
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Vein Cage : A Praxis of Existence and Identity, is a Group Exhibition showcasing the diversity and strength of Artists, Musicians and Performers working within the experimental, underground, and emerging scenes in Meanjin. Through the use of a multitude of mediums, such as sculpture, installation, painting, mixed-media, and live sound performances, the artists create a
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