Rebecca Belmore: Turbulent Water is the first solo Australian exhibition of major contemporary artist Rebecca Belmore. Co-curated by Wanda Nanibush and Angela Goddard, Turbulent Water will feature key video installations from her three decades of practice. Rebecca Belmore (1960) was born in Upsala and currently lives in Vancouver, Canada. Belmore’s multidisciplinary works address social and […]
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Experience major works from the Gallery’s collections in new contexts, and include early European religious painting, British portraits, Dutch painting, and East Asian and European porcelain. From the influence of Japanese art on French Modernism to the representation of daily life, the display explores rich dialogues across time and between cultures, punctuated with contemporary works
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Artist Zanny Begg notes that her and Elise McLeod’s film installation The City of Ladies (2016–2017) is: inspired by the fifteenth century proto-feminist novel of the same name by France’s first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan. ‘The City of Ladies’ was written in 1402 and creates a utopian city built, populated and governed by women. De Pizan
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OCCURRENT AFFAIR is a major exhibition featuring new and recent works by Brisbane-based Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW, who have had a five-year hiatus to focus on their individual careers. Established in 2003, proppaNOW is one of Australia’s leading cultural collectives, exploring the politics of Aboriginal art and culture, and provoking, subverting and re-thinking what it means
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An initiative of the Museum of Brisbane (MoB), BAD champions the movers and shakers of the Brisbane art and design sector, and spotlights our thriving cultural identity through the places, histories and climate that bring our collective creativity to the fore. BRISBANE ART DESIGN (BAD) 2021 will be profiling over 60 venues across four weekends
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On Earth traces conceptions of landscape and the environment as it is expressed and represented through the poetic devices of art. The exhibition examines the ways landscape manifests through culture, or personhood, and attempts to bring the two together, rather than separating them. On Earth includes artworks from the QUT Art Collection alongside the work of contemporary Australian artists. This
‘Momentum’ is a solo exhibition by Sharna Barker that explores the strategy and role of chance in artistic practice, and its relationship with chaos and order. Using methods of chance, Barker takes existing forms, colours, and textures into new works, allowing each to inform the next in multiple directions. In this there is a sense
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Artist Colleen Sam (Ngungurnnumma Kalkadoon) and designer Keith Weribone (Mandandanji) together form Moonks Indigenous Art on Furniture. This truth-telling exhibition features their new paintings and furniture, and untold stories from the Kalkadoon people. The artworks respond to the wider story of Colleen Sam’s cultural identity and her family’s journey throughout history. Visitors can read, view
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Ruth Cho’s first online exhibition with Onespace Gallery, Australian Knockoffs, challenges the dominant Eurocentric representations in Australian art history, despite our longstanding cultural diversity. Cho appropriates very familiar compositions from iconic Australian art images – including Down on His Luck by Frederick McCubbin; Spring Frost by Elioth Gruner; Shearing the Rams by Tom Roberts and Charles Meere’s Australian Beach Pattern – to question the
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For this exhibitiion Anna Boghiguian’s The Uprooted is presented across Galleries 1 and 2. Commissioned for the 2020 Sydney Biennale and made during her residency at Monash University, this installation draws parallels between the artist’s Armenian ancestry and the Australian context. She has said: My work centres around the ways in which humans are uprooted from their
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Peter Drew’s flags are not for flying overhead, a remote and abstracted symbolic ideal, always out of reach. These flags are remade in the artist’s hands and given a palpable materiality. Aggressively stripped of their official governmentality with various power tools, they are enmeshed with another layer of official government record. Photographic portraits from the
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Sculptors Queensland welcomes everyone to visit the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens to view this year’s beautifully created sculptures. The Festival will be running from Friday 11th – Sunday 13th June 2021. Our members’ artworks are for sale. Come and enjoy a coffee or lunch at the Café, bring a picnic or a stroll in the
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William Robinson (b.1936, Brisbane) is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most distinguished contemporary artists, best known for his landscape and portrait painting. Robinson is critically acclaimed for his arresting landscape compositions of South East Queensland rainforests and seascapes of northern New South Wales. Robinson’s landscapes, with their multiple, ever-shifting perspectives generate a hallucinatory yet
Welcome to Designing Culture, the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University‘s creative inoculation to fight the global malaise brought by the Covid pandemic. This exhibit features the works of the QCA’s multi-talented design faculty who are exploring unique facets of design that will shape our futures. The idea for the exhibit was germinated during a research
Melbourne’s Lisa Lerkenfeldt presents A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk, a 40 minute work exploring magnetic tape erosion, crumbling textures, and distant melodies of a dissolving world. Join us for an exercise in inter-species listening, analogue mutations and reciprocal relations as night fades to black. She is joined by Sydney-based artist Megan Clune whose divergent acoustic undertakings consider the complex
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Bridie Gillman is an alumna of Queensland College of Art, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours) in 2013. In 2019 she was a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, winner of the Moreton Bay Art Award and finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Award at Campbelltown Art Centre. She is
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Featuring nationally recognised artists Tsering Hannaford (multi-Archibald prize finalist), Andrew Bonneau (works collected by the National Portrait gallery), Bronwyn Hill (Winner Clayton Utz art award and Brisbane Portrait Prize category winner) and Oliver Shepherd, Moments: A Still Life Exhibition celebrates the still life genre through the painting medium. Each artist approaches the genre with their own unique
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Memories of travel and the gardens of Monet, Van Gogh and Renoir have formed the inspiration for a new exhibition by Sydney based artist Bernard Ollis. In his typical whimsical style Ollis has produced artworks of lush, kaleidoscopic renditions of gardens of artists from all over the world as well as his own. Confined to his home Ollis spent
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LINK is a series of new object-based works that explore slowness, productive ambiguity, and shared experience. These objects presented as reductive forms will be specifically placed within the gallery space, to encourage us to slow down and take care. LINK invites us to foster this culture and practice of care, and apply the same attention to bodies, gender
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An exhibition exploring material and process by Jordan Azcune and Kirralee Robinson. Over the past 6 months, artists Jordan Azcune and Kirralee Robinson have been collaborating with local design studio, Five Mile Radius on new material experiments. Through an exchange of practice and knowledge, the artists and Five Mile Radius have explored the environmental impact
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The Indigenous Art Program transforms Brisbane’s streets into an exhibition of Aboriginal artworks. The artworks use engaging places and spaces, including large-scale banners, vitrines, and projections, in Brisbane’s laneways. Recent events have changed our ability to travel and during 2020 there was a recognisable shift in our appreciation for community resources, homegrown produce, and locally
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‘Figments of Figures’ is an exhibition featuring the work of four emerging artists concerned with figuration in painting; or perhaps with ‘re-figuration’, as Dana Schutz recently put it. Unlike Schutz’s approach however, the works in this exhibition do not start somewhere in the public imagination, but rather in the quiet and personal recesses of memory,
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Be shared! Or be scared! Ever wondered how dangerous Kim Kardashian’s booty is? And just how far social media and celebrity culture will invade? MEAT MIRROR asks what is beauty, what is horror? Through absurdity and humour MEAT MIRROR tackles the alarming normalisation of life-threatening surgical enhancement. MEAT MIRROR throws gullibility, butchery, beauty, Orwellian satire,
May 2021 sees Onespace Gallery launch a solo exhibition entitled, Evidence, by Cairns based artist, Arone Meeks. Creating works of art that speak of cross cultural interaction, relationships, gender, traditional and modern spirituality and his environment – this body of work also delves into notions of anthropological fetishisation of First Nations people. Paintings and prints punctuated by
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Seth Ellis is a Senior Lecturer in Design at the Queensland College of Art, as well as a narrative artist and installation designer. ‘Sugar Ghosts’ arises out of the work that he has recently completed as 2019 Mittelheuser scholar-in-residence at the State Library of Queensland (extended to December 2020 due to COVID-19). This work investigated
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A new exhibition in collaboration with A Natural Low. An ephemeral, degenerative sound-focused happening featuring enigmatic local & interstate multidisciplinary artists in a collaborative, experimental installation discarding mercantile tools for amplified found/recycled/stolen objects while rejecting anticipated latent profound purpose and celebrating the unexplainable intrinsic fascination toward the unaesthetic discord. Immaterial Counterpoint Act is curated by
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Author Nick Earls and artist Lawrence English present an immersive exhibition of words and art. The exhibition brings the book to life, with an audio book recording guiding visitors through artworks, photographs and artefacts referred to in the text. By the Book also features a new collaborative sound work produced by artist Lawrence English, which
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to debut Arryn Snowball in his latest exhibition i have had the privilege of seeing dawn and dusk bite through daylight hours on show from May 12 – 30 2021. Driven by a constant ‘open process’, his new works are injected with effervescent colour. Each piece is drenched in the ambiguity of
The subtle hum of vast inner worlds dwells within each of us, a space where our hopes, dreams, desires, thoughts, feelings and fears reside. In this group exhibition, the gallery features the work of three emerging Australian artists who navigate the theme of self-reflection in distinctive ways. Artists: Carla Adams, Kevin Diallo and Hal Witney
Presented as a part of BAD STUDIO CITY, Bridging the In-Between explores the intersections of meteorology, technology and spatio-temporal experience. Comprised of the works Yaw and Way, this show encourages audiences to reconsider the impact of climate and the role of technology within the discussion of these themes. Both works play with structures of space
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A pop-up art exhibition featuring First Nations, Pasifika and, culturally and linguistically diverse artists. CTRL ALT DEL creates a space of cross solidarity between diverse intersections of cultures and communities. We activate exhibition space through cultural ceremony, song, dance and spoken word. CTRL ALT DEL offers artists a network to connect, meet like minded creatives
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An artifact is typically an item of cultural or historical interest. It is often said, you can judge a person’s character by the company one keeps, or the ingredients of one’s refrigerator, or one’s choice in fashion. These images of collected ephemera feature a few of my valued possessions, acquired over the years by various
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A showcase of the best glass artists in South East Queensland. The Glassery is a co-operative collective of artists who work with glass. Our wide range of unique skills and expertise includes hot and cold glass working. Members of the collective are represented both nationally and internationally including at the National Gallery Collection (Wagga Wagga),
The annual MELT Portrait Prize returns, celebrating heroes in the LGBTIQ+ community, attracting exceptional artworks from across Australia. The annual Melt Portrait Prize gives visual artists the creative license to celebrate heroes in the LGBTIQ+ community; whether it be a local icon or an internationally acclaimed personality. Having developed a reputation for attracting exceptional works of art from across
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Three new kinetic sculptures by Kirralee Robinson. Clutching the southern corner of the CBD, Brisbane Quarter is set to become the home of three new kinetic sculptures courtesy of artist Kirralee Robinson. Building on Robinson’s 2020 work In Unison, Move Together stimulates a dynamic conversation about perspectives and relationships. Guaranteed to beguile audiences with its
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Experience a live art remix as a group of artists test their creative agility this May at Museum of Brisbane. Over the course of three weeks, participants will draw and paint on a large purpose-built environment guided by a series of prompts delivered via the big screen. RMXTV is the latest in the RMX series of