It is awarded annually by The John Glover Society Inc. for the work judged the best contemporary landscape painting of Tasmania. Landscape painting is defined in its broadest sense. The aim is to stimulate conversations about the meaning and possibilities expressed in the words landscape, painting and Tasmania. The winner receives $50,000 plus a bronze […]
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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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Sculpture on the Edge is a contemporary site specific outdoor sculpture prize held annually on the escarpment of the stunning Sunshine Coast hinterland town of Maleny at Spicers Tamarind Retreat. It attracts renowned artists from all over the region and is open to public over 17 days from 22nd October – 7th November. Sculpture on
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Presented as part of Platform Arts’ LAB residency program, Debrief: Tools for Creative Practice and Fundamentals: Tools for Professional Practice are online, open-access seminar series designed to meet the needs of early and mid-career artists. Open to artists of any discipline, age or location, these sessions are designed to build artists’ professional capacity in studio practice, research
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The Creative Sparks Grants Program is an arts and cultural grants program managed by Council in partnership with the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. The grant program aims to: support practitioners and producers to develop products, partnerships and new work that grow Brisbane’s reputation as a global city for creativity ensure that Brisbane residents and visitors
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Since its inauguration in 2016 the Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award has quickly established itself as an important award in the ecology of the arts. With finalists selected from across the country, the non-acquisitive annual award is a survey of outstanding queer artists working across mediums reflecting their potent personal and political perspectives on
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The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. Internationality and networking make YICCA a huge opportunity for the artists, which can: • Win a cash prize: – Euro 3000,00 money prize to the first selected – Euro 1000,00 money prize to the second
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Flying Arts Alliance are now taking Expressions of Interest for the By Request 2022 Facilitator Team!. The By Request Program delivers creative projects to communities throughout Queensland, including schools, local government agencies, youth organisations and community groups. Flying Arts match artists and arts professionals with opportunities throughout the state and provide administrative support to bring creatives and communities together to present quick-turnaround workshops anywhere in Queensland.
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In this time of self-isolation, we may reflect on the quieter aspects of everyday objects or places and contemplate their balance and harmony. ‘seeing STILLNESS’ is an exhibition observing the subtlety of familiar interiors, surroundings or vignettes of belongings. The colours, the composition, the mood, the stillness; a celebration of beauty in the ordinary. Lucy
Discuss your career or practice one-on-one with a respected arts industry professional, Jonathan McBurnie. Jonathan McBurnie is an artist, a PHD Candidate at Sydney College of the Arts with a focus on Contemporary drawing, and the Visual Arts Editor at Sneaky Magazine. He was Creative Director of Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and Pinnacles Gallery in
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Brisbane based artist, Kitty Horton completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited solo shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, along with group shows nationally throughout Australia and in Miami, Florida. Kitty’s artworks are represented in private collections in Australia, New Zealand and France. My artworks explore the materiality
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M16 Artspace is pleased to announce the doubling of our main prize for the 2021 Drawing Prize, now valued at $10,000. The drawing prize has been a staple in M16 Artspace’s exhibition Calendar since 2006. It attracts hundreds of entries from across Australia and internationally. The M16 Drawing Prize is for drawing in either traditional drawing
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The yapang Emerging Art Prize is an acquisitive art prize developed to celebrate, promote and support emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country. Contending artworks will reflect each artists practice across all media and can take any form, including (without limitation) sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, installation, sound digital, net or live art etc. Lake
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Entries are now open for the 2021 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Awards (LRMYAA) at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios. The biennial Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award is a national prize established in 1981 to promote and support talented young emerging artists in Australia, initiated by the Lane Cove community in honour of
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Vivid Sydney warms the soul of our city with light artists, music makers and brilliant thinkers. From 27 May – 18 June 2022 Sydney will transform into a playground of the unexpected and we want you to get involved. We are inviting artists, innovators, musicians, speakers and creatives to be part of the festival that
This year’s Burwood Art Prize has expanded to accept entries in the form of a painting and digital-still medium. Total Prize pool is $13,500, with Burwood Art Prize $10,000 (acquisitive), New and Emerging Artist $2,500 (acquisitive) and People’s Choice $1,000 (non-acquisitive). It is free to enter. The entry closing date has been extended until 5pm 1 November
Expressions of interest are sought from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to design a new permanent art wall on Clayton campus at the high-profile entry to the Faculty of Information Technology. The selected artist/s will work with Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) to turn their creative concept into a wall treatment integrated into
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Conceived as the second film in CALLUM’s FILM ARCHIVES trilogy, this new video work continues CALLUM’s interest in the re-articulation of history, conceiving the past in new ways that challenge typical forms of historiography. This project reconstructs specifically the history of queer organisations and societies, to consider how conservative politics has perversely shaped their trajectories.
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A group exhibition of artists from Jan Murphy Gallery. Featured Artists: Natasha Bieniek, Keith Burt, Lucy Culliton, Peter Drew, Jason Fitzgerald, Fred Fowler, Celia Gullett, Jacqueline Hennessy, Richard Lewer, Guido Maestri, Adam Pyett and Monica Rohan. Image: Jacqueline Hennessy. Untitled (what happens to the heart) III2021, oil on linen, 102.0 x 102.0 cm.
Outer Space is delighted to announce it will increase opportunities for emerging Queensland artists thanks to a funding boost of $400,000 to be delivered over a four year period as part of the Queensland Government’s Organisations Fund 2022-2025, delivered through Arts Queensland The multi-year investment will allow the not-for-profit contemporary arts organisation to expand its
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‘Whoever’s is the soil’ is a translated section of the property law doctrine, Cujus est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos (Latin for “whoever’s is the soil, it is theirs all the way to Heaven and all the way to Hell”). This exhibition questions our assumed ownership of the soil, and is
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ONE NIGHT | EIGHT ARTISTS | LIVE SOUND | LIVE MURAL PAINTING | EXHIBITIONS | PERFORMANCE ART IN | artist run initiative are the newest contemporary arts collective on the Sunshine Coast. For the next ten months, IN | get to call The Old Lock Up home thanks to the support of Creative Spaces x
Painting K’gari now runs up against the problems of the island’s ecological and colonial unsettlements: how does one get a clear view of a place which is burning, recovering, mutating, damaged? But then again in art K’gari has always been a changeful, unstable presence, especially in Sidney Nolan’s complexly menacing paintings of Eliza Fraser (the
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Sam Cranstoun is an artist based in Meanjin (Brisbane). Encompassing drawing, painting, video and sculpture, Sam Cranstoun’s practice examines power structures and the potential for images to shape historical narratives. Cranstoun’s research-driven projects often consider hidden or tangential aspects of 20th century historical events, places and figures. The source material for much of his work
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James Barth is a visual artist who primarily works within painting, photography, and digital media. Barth’s practice is an ongoing play and formal exploration of photo-painting and self-portraiture. Thematically their work investigates transgender self-representation and image production, focusing on the ambient emotions that manifest beside the visual discourses and politics of transgender visibility. Barth is
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John Young (b.1956, Hong Kong) is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice is informed by formal philosophical and theoretical tenets. Young’s interest in examining and engaging with conceptual art and post-modernist concepts has him placed among the forefront of those involved in the critical assessment of contemporary art practice since the 1980s. Arriving in Australia with
Lincoln Austin is known for his sculptural and multi-media works employing geometry, optics and scale to playfully explore the blurred boundaries between Ideal and Physical realities. Austin employs art to investigate ideas circulating around notions of perception. Specifically, how perception effects understanding, and how interaction can alter perception. This analysis of perception has prompted him
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Participants will experiment with the latest technologies at The Edge exploring contemporary approaches to art making and digital media such as laser cutting, 3D printing, electronics and much more. Led by expert makers and facilitators, participants will get the opportunity to make objects to take home, take part in a make-a-thon and be featured in
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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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