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As We Stand: Ruaa Al-Rikabi Ruaa Al-Rikabi, Portrait of Promise

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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Judith Sinnamon: Foliage

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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Kate Bohunnis: Mucosa

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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Come As You Are

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,

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Fiona Hiscock: Parkland

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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Grounded in Place: Dialogues Between First Nations Artists from Australia, Taiwan and Aotearoa

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

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Adrienne Gaha: Verdure

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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Astro Ark

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

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Emily Howard: Personalised Fragments of Culture

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

“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,

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Ellenbrook Arts

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

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Bluethumb Art Prize

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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Rod Moss: All My Fat Country

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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Sunshine Coast Art Prize

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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Stitching Histories

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

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

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Garden Variety Tour

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

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

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Second Bloom

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

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Out from the Mist

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.

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Scott Breton: Anthropomorphisms

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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Amanda Parer: Fantastic Planet

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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Dean Reilly: You Beauty

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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MoB launches its first-ever podcast series: Where I Belong

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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Japan Media Arts Festival

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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Arts Practices and Cultural Policies in Conditions of Disaster

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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