Throughout Scott Breton’s new exhibition ‘Anthropomorphisms’, figure and landscape become equal partners – performing a choreographed dance, a duet. Subtle rhythms and gestures of the landscape can be articulated in the movements of the figures, as the landscape, to some degree, gains its own interiority. The abstracted movements of dancers and life models remain a […]
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Internationally-renowned Australian artist Amanda Parer brings us Fantastic Planet – giant inflatable luminous white ‘humanoids’ who land at different sites across the globe. We are thrilled to announce one such humanoid has chosen Portside Wharf as its new home from 31 August to 26 September! The five-metre-tall figure titled ‘What’s That’ will crouch down over
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Join Dr Louise R Mayhew to learn about successfully applying for grants, focusing on the Australia Council’s Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups fund. Ask tailored questions and learn alongside other emerging creatives, including how to: Design a compelling project; Write an enticing application; Secure sparkling support letters; and Develop a convincing budget. ROUND 1:
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This exhibition of Reilly’s paintings and curiosities are inspired by the inherited Australian temperament and its interpretation in early modern Australian landscape art, exploring the awkward yet beautiful struggle between man, art and nature. The paintings are imagined landscapes and scenes that draw their narratives from the artist’s sense of nostalgia and experience contained within
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Presenting the everyday as sometimes banal, beautiful and profound, the still life genre offers up consideration of life, death and all that comes in between. Since STILL 2019, there has been no shortage of extreme events that have driven people indoors, prompting reflection, stirring dreams and uncovering truths in time to be captured in this
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Explore a patchwork of diverse stories, cultures and perspectives with renowned storyteller, Wendy Love, as she interviews some of our city’s most remarkable people whose life has been shaped by our city, for Museum of Brisbane’s brand-new podcast series, Where I Belong. Where I Belong features previously unheard stories about Brisbane and its people to inspire listeners to explore the
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Entries for the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival are open. In addition to the four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga, there will be an open call for Festival Platform Award, which is an award given to brilliant new exhibition plans using the specific characteristics of its venue (open to organizations presenting proposals in liaison with the Japan Media Arts
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The Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy has a call for papers on Arts Practices and Cultural Policies in Conditions of Disaster. This issue focuses on responses to, and long-term changes in the arts and cultural policy fields related to the current climate, health, and economic crises. Guest Editors: Keith Nurse (Principal / President at Sir Arthur
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Are you an artist with a project to fund, and are keen to learn the art of fundraising to build a sustainable arts practice? Apply now for Creative Partnerships Australia’s MATCH Lab and boost your fundraising with up to $5,000 in matched funding available per project. MATCH Lab is Creative Partnerships Australia’s matched funding program for independent artists
Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious local government art award. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in Australia and the community had very little support and few
The 2021 Hawkesbury Art Prize is a non-acquisitive award of $10,000. Two highly commended prizes of $1,000 are also awarded (one to Hawkesbury resident). 2 x 2 week art residencies at Glenhuntly Estate, Kurrajong, NSW. Packers Prize $500 and minor prizes. The art prize is for a painting or collage that is inspired by contemporary
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The BBA Photography Prize awards international photographers irrespective of their background with several Prizes incl. a solo show, cash prizes & more. The competition includes an exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin in October, one of the city’s most favoured venues for cultural events. A jury of experts debates the entries and ensures an unbiased evaluation and
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The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists. The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive award of $30,000 is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit, ‘…for
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A $30,000 Annual National Acquisitive Prize, now in its 18th year for a painting inspired by the Australian Landscape. Also includes 5 non-acquisitive prizes, among them the Defiance Gallery/Nock Foundation Residency & Exhibition for two selected Finalists. Founder & Principal Sponsor – Marlene Antico OAM Co-principal Sponsor- Chris Antico To read more about the prize
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Female artists aged 18–35 working in any media are invited to enter the Ellen José Art Award, a $15,000 non-acquisitive award Ellen José (1951–2017) was a pioneer in Australia’s urban Indigenous art movement and a radical activist and social justice campaigner. The Award is a partnership between the Ellen José Memorial Foundation and Bayside City
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The Georges River Art Prize is an opportunity for artists from all over Australia to display their best work. There are categories for painting and sculptural work, children and youth, and local artists. The Georges River Art Prize is hosted by Hurstville Museum & Gallery and the Clive James Library and Service Centre, Kogarah, and
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Overall winner of the BAM Art Prize is featured on the cover of BAM (Byron Arts Magazine) plus $5000 prize money, and interviewed in the autumn 2022 issue of BAM. All shortlisted artworks are featured in the magazine. The winner of the People’s Choice Award is also profiled. More Information Image: BAM Art Prize 2020
Call for entries for Zebrastraat Ghent’s New Technological Art Award (NTAA) – a contest which tries to fill a gap in the mainstream art world, by paying attention to the technological developments that drive our global culture. During the last few years, Zebrastraat Ghent has developed into a stimulating knowledge centre with a strong interest in art. Every
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The 9th Beijing International Art Biennale will be held in China in 2022 (Jan – Mar) and is organised in the framework of the 2022 Winter Olympics, with the theme The Light of Life. Submissions of visual artworks (painting and sculpture) are invited from artists worldwide. The Beijing Biennale attracts artworks from all over the
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Eligible Meanjin / Brisbane artists are invited to apply for 1 of 2 small scholarships to assist in showing their important work and critical practices to the world. These mini scholarships provide awarded artists opportunity to apply for any number of national and international creative prizes they wish, up to the value of $100 (negotiable);
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Outer Space is excited to announce our professional development series for 2021: The Essentials. In this series we’ll be sharing vital information for artists and arts workers with the assistance of industry leaders. Over the course of thirteen workshops, you have the opportunity to learn protocols around Indigenous artmaking, building a website, best practice for
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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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Have a social issue you’re passionate about or ever wondered how you can make a difference? Taking inspiration from Women Who Dare, come and join a creative workshop and dare to think and dream big ideas (the wilder the better!). With experienced design thinking facilitators you’ll take a walk in others’ shoes’ and learn how to
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In this series of workshops, Lisa Behan and Donna McDonald will help you to find ways to be creative in telling your personal story in words and images. Learn different ways of making marks with different materials and in different formats. Lisa and Donna will support you in your art journey with mindfulness practices and
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Mixed media artworks, sculptures, and couture form part of an inaugural exhibition for Ipswich based artist Matthew Cheyne at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. ‘Picnic’ will be Cheyne’s first commercial exhibition in Australia for almost ten years. A graduate of the Queensland College of Art, Cheyne has spent much of the last decade living
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Collective self by the Reddy Arts Textile Group shares the individual identities of the collective. Each artist has prepared a set of textile pieces reflective of their personal style and individuality. In Collective self artists explore their connections to the natural environment, their everyday lives and personal identity. Through individual and collaborative works, this exhibition
Yhonnie Scarce is an artist known for sculptural installations which span architecturally-scaled public art projects to intimately-scaled assemblages replete with personal and cultural histories. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations full of aesthetic, cultural, and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found
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‘Reality & Invention’ focuses on artist responses to social change experienced throughout Asia since the 1980s, and the emergence of realism as a defining artistic strategy of the period. Taking in movements as diverse as Japan’s New Wave, Indian figurative-narrative art and Indonesia’s politically charged New Art Movement, the exhibition features many well-known works from
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Window Commission: Dylan Mooney Dylan Mooney is a proud Yuwi, Torres Strait and South Sea Islander man from Mackay in North Queensland working across painting, printmaking, digital illustration and drawing. Influenced by history, culture and family, Mooney responds to community stories, current affairs and social media. Armed with a rich cultural upbringing, Mooney now translates the
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‘Welcome to Colour Television’ celebrates a powerful selection of Indigenous Australian video art featuring works by Richard Bell, Destiny Deacon, Vernon Ah Kee, Christian Thompson, Genevieve Grieves and Douglas Watkin. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists have engaged with screen culture for over 50 years as a way to connect audiences with Indigenous issues and address
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Michael Muir’s paintings are predominately inspired by his experience of the landscape, particularly places he has travelled to for the first time. Like many of us, his experience of travel in the past few years has changed dramatically and his trips have become closer to home, within hemmed borders. The inspiration for this body of
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In 1769, Lieut. James Cook sailed to Tahiti to record the Transit of Venus, an astronomical phenomenon that would help to determine longitude. The second part of his mission, partly funded by Botanist Joseph Banks, would also send them to Terra Australis Incognita, the Great Southern Land, which under the King’s orders, Cook would claim
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Artists represented by Lethbridge Gallery take the opportunity to explore what home means to them. Whether it be the house, the studio, a person, the mind, a suburb or a far-off place. The home is a personal space of knowing and comfort. More Information Image: Matisse’s Muse | Scott McDougall, 40 x 30cm | Oil on canvas
A series of functional objects as a response to processes, materials and actions observed on construction sites. By observing construction sites, exploring industrial materials and experimenting with found materials and objects, the artist responds to the physical layers of urban space. Laurie Oxenford is an early career Australian artist, curator and public art producer. Her
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Following his previous exhibition Foreign Language at Jan Manton Gallery in 2020, Aaron Butt’s latest exhibition Pneumatophores chronicles the moment Australian artist Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) landed on Rote Island, Indonesia, after his 16-day raft journey in 1952. Fairweather was held by the Indonesian authorities under suspicion of being a spy, but was permitted to walk the island under supervision.
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Artisan Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of Tensions 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial on show from 30 July – 4 September, 2021. The Tamworth Textile Triennial, held every three years, showcases the best of textile art from across the country, attracting artist participation from all states in Australia. The exhibition is curated by Vic McEwan
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