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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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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