True to the Nordic love of nature, Katarina Vesterberg’s paintings explore the natural world and the meaning of existence within it, capturing elements of the immense and sometimes unforgiving, yet beautiful, environment of her Scandinavian birth home and her current home, Australia. Vesterberg studies the effects of sea and sky in every kind of weather. […]
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Museum of Brisbane welcomes Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra as Artist in Residence in August. Through musical play and composition, the eight musicians will respond to and activate the City in the Sun exhibition. The exhibition explores Brisbane’s history of migration, tourism, climate, environment and geographic location, resulting in an identity promoted as a subtropical oasis of leisure and abundance.
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Examine your career and goals and make plans for the next stage of your career. Work with an industry career mentor and your peers to share ideas and knowledge, build a staged plan for your business, and redefine your work goals and tasks for the next few years. This weekend intensive workshop is designed for
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The recent residency at Side Gallery allows the artist in residence, Kate Barry, to expand and focus on her process-based experimental works. Kate’s signature mark-making process has previously centered on the painterly quality of the material, emphasizing the colour palettes inspired by nature and memory. In this instance, Kate uses the gallery as a new
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Expressions of interest are being sought from emerging artists who have recently arrived in Australia as refugees or people seeking asylum to participate in HOME 2022, alongside other emerging and established artists. HOME aims to recognise and nurture the talents of artists who are establishing a new life in Australia and provide opportunities to develop
You could be eligible to take part in Creative Partnerships Australia’s Plus1 program, with up to $25,000 or $50,000 in matched funding available, depending on the size of your organisation. As well as the dollar-for-dollar matched funding incentive, Plus1 also provides you with the opportunity to attract new donors to your organisation, build valuable relationships
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Weltformat Graphic Design Festival is again looking for the most exciting newcomer poster designers! An international call is open to u.27 yrs designers, on the theme: Representing Generation Z. Winning works will be presented in Lucerne and across Switzerland. We look forward to your submission – everyone younger than 27, whether student, intern or at
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Discuss your career or practice one-on-one with a respected arts industry professional. Bronwyn Davies is both a practising artist and arts administrator based in regional Queensland. She manages a cultural development program for the Scenic Rim Regional Council and has worked as a venue manager, and arts festival director. Her experience is broad and she
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The Ukraine-based V-Art and UK-based Electric Artefacts platforms are pleased to announce their cooperation to launch the Digital Art Observatory, a first-of-its-kind residency aimed to provide an example and roadmap for cross-border partnerships amongst cultural institutions. With the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the British Council as a part of the Culture For
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Join artist Holly Anderson to consider the sensations of light and landscape in a roaming plein air drawing class. In the grounds surrounding Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, participants will explore surprising ways to depict how their body might be involved with the landscape. How do we draw the sun’s circular shimmers through trees, the heat
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Join former Redcliffe artist, Leah Emery, for a cross stitch workshop that focuses on fun. Catering for beginners, you will receive expert guidance through the process of designing and creating a brooch, badge, keyring or bag tag. You will receive: All necessary tools and materials Handout with instructions A tote bag providing everything you need
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Enter your image in the 2021 Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards from 10am on Wednesday 7 July until 4pm on Wednesday 11 August 2021 for a chance to win cash prizes across six categories. Simply snap a photo of something that shows how your local Brisbane life just keeps getting better. Perhaps it’s the friendly faces at your favourite cafe, getting
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Held every two years, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize is designed to attract some of Australia’s finest contemporary artists, awarding a generous acquisitive cash prize of $50,000. The Prize was initiated by Mr Allen Guy CBE (1917-2007) to honour his brother Arthur Guy (1914-1945) whose life was tragically cut short whilst in service in
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Noosa Regional Gallery invites contemporary Australian artists to submit works for entry into the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize 2021, dedicated to the memory of the late Lyn McCrea (1944 – 2015); contemporary visual artist, art educator and art collector. The Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize was established by John McCrea in 2015 to honour
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The Prize is open to all artists who reside in Australia, with the exception of employees of Central Coast Council. All artwork must have been produced within the last 12 months. The Aboriginal Artist Prize is only awarded to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander entrants. Selected finalists must be able to deliver the selected artwork
PROJECT GALLERY | Play Ground: Charlotte Tegan, Christine Ko, Felix Merry, Isobel Hood, Joe Ruckli, Julia Scott Green, Louis Lim, Luke Thomasson, Marc Pricop, Mardi Reardon-Smith, Nina White, RIFFRAFF, Tara Fraser and Toby ScottPlay Ground: noun: Playground; (informal) (figuratively) Any physical or metaphysical space in which a person or group has free rein to do as
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SAAI Factory invites artists, designers, coders, technologists and creatives from all disciplines to explore artificial intelligence as a means and field of artistic practice. Our Open Call invites proposals that curiously, critically, and enthusiastically engage with the current possibilities of AI technology and propose alternatives to current developments such as style transfer. The project aims to
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Tim McMonagle has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize as well as the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales three times (2015/16/18) for his series of tree landscapes. A veteran of over forty solo and group exhibitions, McMonagle’s work is held in major public and private collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National
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The Photo Fair aims to bring together photographers to showcase and sell or swap their images and books in a community environment. All photographers welcome. Book a table for one or both days (each day requires a separate booking), to sell your printed photography-related items at the Centre’s inaugural PHOTO FAIR. A few tables still available
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After receiving almost 500 entries, 14 finalists have been selected for the churchie emerging art prize 2021. 2021 finalists are: Akil Ahamat, Tiyan Baker, Christopher Bassi, Leon Russell (Cameron) Black, Ohni Blu, Riana Head-Toussaint, Visaya Hoffie, Kait James, Alexa Malizon, Kyra Mancktelow, Ivy Minniecon, Nina Sanadze, Jayanto Tan, and Joanne Wheeler. Pre-selection was undertaken by this year’s curator Grace Herbert, representatives from the IMA and Churchie, and a guest artist. About
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Through movement, materiality, and a texturing of sensation, the artworks in Fleeting bring into sight the intensities of the ordinary in compositions of disparate scenes and transient fragments. Fleeting is things in motion. Things defined by their capacity to affect and can only be seen obtusely in the haptic space in the middle of things—a space that exists
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Born in 1970, Narrogin Western Australia, Lori spent her early adult life on her husbands family’s cattle station in the Pilbara Western Australia, but has now relocated her studio to their cattle property in Boyup Brook, Western Australia. After graduating from Narrogin High School 1987, she completed an Architectural Drafting Certificate, Perth, 1991, before refocusing her skills to fine arts and design 1992. She has
Learn electronics while you create an embroidery with embedded responsive lighting. In this workshop you will get an introduction into wearable technology (soft circuitry), electronics and some basic embroidery techniques. You will create a bacteria inspired character and embed some LED sequins and a light sensor to control them. You will: * Gain an understanding
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Dai’s artworks are drawn from everyday life and the art and culture of the world at large. Her work focuses on people’s emotional states, how these manifest externally, and the mystery of how they arrived at this point. It is this same quality of intrigue that she seeks to engender in the experience of her
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Gain first-hand experience in creating forms from plaster bandage with professional artist Simone Eisler and learn how to use this fast-drying material out in environments. This workshop connects with the Queensland Senior Visual Arts Curriculum Unit: Art as Knowledge. Educators will gain first hand experience in creating work to respond to a stimulus – forms
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Curated by Outer Space’s programming committee, ‘Snapshot’ brings together the work of four emerging artists – Holly Anderson, Madeline Bishop, Edwina Green, and Nicholas Tossmann. Holly Anderson works with painting to explore sensory experiences with light and landscape. In continual reference to the familiar bathers and sunlit subjects of romantic Australian landscape painting, various ways the
This exhibition takes tape (flagging tape, sticky tape, masking tape…) as a starting point, but presents an array of outcomes. The variation permits a reflection on where one material can lead to and how materials can unite us. Tape then becomes the thread that links all the artists in the exhibition even though each of
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Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present ‘New Ground’, the new solo exhibition from A.J. Taylor. At a distance, A.J. Taylor’s paintings offer convincing glimpses of the Australian landscape. Forests, rivers and beach scenes from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and Stradbroke Island are captured in gentle sun-soaked tones. Taylor’s distinctive surfaces are created through a time
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Cornelia Van Rijswijk is A Dutch/Welsh Artist & Designer based in Brisbane, Australia. Her work explores the world of online technology, digital landscapes and hyper realities. Her solo exhibition ‘HYPER REAL’ will showcase around twenty paintings and a number of fine art prints that were created in response to conversations and collaborations that were had
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Have you ever looked at an artwork and thought ‘I just don’t get it’? Or visited an exhibition that has left you wanting to dig deeper into the artwork? Come along to Caboolture Regional Art Gallery and DIG deeper into contemporary art. Facilitated by gallery staff, this immersive experience will engage participants with the themes
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Join members of the Redcliffe Art Society for artist demonstrations in the gallery. While observing the artists in action feel free to ask questions about their creative practices! This demonstration series is in conjunction with the exhibition Redcliffe Art Society Exhibition of Excellence, celebrating the rich artistic community that exists within the Redcliffe region.
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Jun Chen (b. 1960, Guangzhou, China) emigrated to Australia in 1990 and currently lives and works in Brisbane. Chen has become one of Australia’s most prominent impasto painters – working in both landscape and portraiture, his luscious oil renderings are admired for their exquisite execution and allure. Growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Chen
The Space Between Us is a major mid-career survey of the past two decades of Lincoln Austin’s practice. Through artworks of varied scale, from delicate miniature assemblages to expansive installations, the artist’s work playfully captivates the viewer in an immersive experience of colour, design and whimsy. The exhibition draws together works from public institutions and private
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Across June and July, Onespace Gallery presents its second iteration of PIVOT – a group exhibition dedicated to the exploration of the ‘artist book’. PIVOT II sees a focus on the complexities surrounding where 2D works stops and 3D forms begin. Viewers will explore this oscilation across an array of practices and mediums as PIVOT aims to investigate this ‘hinge’, which shifts an
The art of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is a modern vibrant expression of many Indigenous nations. Representation of Country is full of associative information connecting the past, present and future which always begins with Country in mind. Working primarily with the USC Art Collection, this exhibition focuses on work from the central desert,
Returning again in 2021 Brisbane: Landmarks, Landscapes & Personalities will include the Popular Paint–out as well as featuring southeast Queensland’s places and people. Artists are asked to engage with the unique heritage and characters of Brisbane, the surrounding cities and hinterland: from Noosa down to the border and out to the Great Dividing Range, show us what you love about
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