Author name: admin

Dan Molloy ft The Runway Movement: Silenced in the Shadows

What's On /

Silenced in the Shadows (photographed by Dan Molloy, curated by Ella Ganza, the founder of The Runway Movement) is a series of strikingly raw photographs portraying the emotional internal battle that LGBTIQ+ Pacific Islander and Indigenous people often face. These intimate portraits, featuring members of The Runway Movement, explore and represent the reality of living […]

Dan Molloy ft The Runway Movement: Silenced in the Shadows Read More »

Eliza Adam: Submerged

What's On /

In this new series of works, Eliza Adam responds directly to the river systems of the Moreton Bay Region in her ongoing investigation, which examines landscape as an informal archive. Adam’s work explores how past incidents and experience directly and persistently impact the present, and how previous actions and energies are transferred and retained in

Eliza Adam: Submerged Read More »

Alexandra Matthews: Home by Nightfall

What's On /

Alexandra Matthew’s paintings juxtapose urban landscape within boundaries both limited and expanded by light. Each work is its own entity but comprise multiple constituent compositions with light, natural and artificial, the defining and amalgamating theme. Daytime sees the sun dominating light and shadow, with the verandahs, awnings and landscapes of Queensland architecture responding and protecting.

Alexandra Matthews: Home by Nightfall Read More »

Janine Dello: Inhabit

What's On /

Drawn to the beauty of everyday rituals, Janine Dello’s new body of work, Inhabit, plays upon the feminine in domesticity through a series of intimate moments.  Pastel coloured hues and playful narratives show these characters caught in that space between longing and contentedness. Inspired by domestic subject matter and covetable objects, this work explores ambiguous emotions in

Janine Dello: Inhabit Read More »

Aster + Asha Gallery

Stories /

New online commercial gallery featuring emerging Australian artists. Launching on 21 May 2021, Aster + Asha Gallery is an online contemporary art platform dedicated to bringing a curated selection of collectable art to a national audience. Featuring emerging artists from across Australia, it has a strong focus on presenting artists that reflect the multiplicity of

Aster + Asha Gallery Read More »

Teho Ropeyarn included in 23rd Biennale of Sydney

Stories /

Onespace Gallery is proud to announce that represented Cairns-based artist Teho Ropeyarn has been invited to participate in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, titled rīvus. Open to the public from 12 March – 13 June 2022, the exhibition will bring together existing and commissioned projects worldwide around the theme of water, rivers, wetlands and other salt and freshwater ecosystems. Artistic Director, José Roca and

Teho Ropeyarn included in 23rd Biennale of Sydney Read More »

Look At/Look Through

Stories /

‘Look At/Look Through’ is a group exhibition that explores the relationship between people and the landscape. In some works, figures with their backs turned act as surrogates for the viewer, surveying the landscape in front of them. In others, the viewer acts as an absent figure, with the work inviting them beyond the gallery to

Look At/Look Through Read More »

Passepartout Photo Prize

Opportunities /

Passepartout Photo Prize aims to support the development of talented photographers from all over the world by providing 1,000 euros in monetary awards every year, exhibition opportunities in a prestigious venue in the heart of Rome, Italy, publication opportunities and more. Among the jurors are the american photographer Richard Tuschman, World Press Photo Awards winner

Passepartout Photo Prize Read More »

Queensland Centre for Photography Workshops

Opportunities /

APRIL  8 – PHOTO CAFÉ TALK – Mirrorless Camera System by Canon 10 – STREET PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP 11 – CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP 17 – BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES 21 – LSD WORKSHOP #1 – One light headshot setup 24 – EMBRACE LIGHT WORKSHOP MAY  5 – LSD WORKSHOP #2 – One Light Low-Key/Dramatic setup  8 – CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP 19 – LSD WORKSHOP #3 – One Light High-Key

Queensland Centre for Photography Workshops Read More »

Helle Cook: Sheer Light

What's On /

Brisbane-based Danish/Australian painter Helle Cook, draws parallels between Nordic and Queensland light and environment. Her art practice expands beyond the studio as she embarks on field trips into nature, often accompanied by her sheer textile paintings. In her exhibition, Sheer Light, Cook explores the sensory experience of light and place in expanded painting, embracing the

Helle Cook: Sheer Light Read More »

Cut Copy

What's On /

If you love Brisbane’s music scene, be sure to visit Cut Copy. Step back to Brisbane in the 70s and 80s, where the city’s conservative climate sparked youth rebellion, do-it-yourself expression and underground music. In suburban halls, corner pubs and seedy clubs, Brisbane bands thrived. Made with whatever was on hand, music posters were a creative outlet for

Cut Copy Read More »

Weapons For The Soldier

What's On /

A major exhibition bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian artists to examine complex themes of weaponry, warfare, and protecting land and Country. It was initiated by the young men of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Vincent Namatjira, Aaron Ken, Derek Jungarrayi Thompson, Anwar Young and Kamurin Young, with support from senior artists Willy Kaika

Weapons For The Soldier Read More »

Lesley Kendall: MOTHS

What's On /

Normally a paper artist, Lesley Kendall felt compelled to use clay to express the significant beauty and transitory nature of living creatures for her exhibition Moths With meticulous attention to detail,  Kendall has delicately hand-crafted over 300 life sized porcelain moths.  Each of these tiny, white-winged insects is unique and extraordinary in its detail. The moths were

Lesley Kendall: MOTHS Read More »

Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarships

Opportunities /

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity open to Australian visual artists to complete a year-long placement in an international learning institution. Each scholarship covers institutional fees for one academic year and costs for twelve months overseas including a US $50,000 tax free allowance, airfares, and travel and medical insurance. The annual scholarships enable Australian artists to develop their artistic

Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarships Read More »

KILGOUR PRIZE 2021

Opportunities /

The KILGOUR PRIZE is Newcastle Art Gallery’s annual art prize for figurative and portrait painting. It awards $50,000 for the most outstanding work of art as determined by a panel of three judges, and $5,000 for the People’s Choice Award, as determined by votes from the public. In 1987 artist Jack Noel Kilgour bequeathed funds

KILGOUR PRIZE 2021 Read More »

Botanica

What's On /

Discover a stunning open-air art exhibition in the heart of Brisbane City at Botanica – Contemporary Art Outside from 7-16 May 2021, in the City Botanic Gardens from 5-10pm daily. As the sun sets over Brisbane’s iconic urban skyline, Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens will come to life with large-scale projections, surprising installations and interactive artworks to captivate children and adults. Enjoy

Botanica Read More »

REFLECTION DISTORTION

What's On /

There is a common misconception that the purpose of highly crafted work is to primarily demonstrate technique or skill. Craft based practices may be less likely deemed as conceptual. Reflective material requires a spatial engagement; as you move, so does the reflection.  The nature of highly polished, reflective material is to blur the division between

REFLECTION DISTORTION Read More »

Michael Cook: Natures Mortes

What's On /

In this new series, Michael Cook moves into the art-historical tradition of still life, while continuing to explore the devastating impact of colonisation on Australia’s First Nations peoples. Cook’s narrative broadens to encompass the global repercussions of environmental degradation. Grounded in a photographic aesthetic that echoes Dutch Old Master paintings, these images are invested with

Michael Cook: Natures Mortes Read More »

Ngale Sisters

What's On /

Soft pastel hues and multiple layers of colourings form the common thread in an Aboriginal art exhibition by a dynamic artistic sister trio showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. Utopia is the traditional land of the Alyawarre and Anmatyerre Aboriginal people, located 230kms north east of Alice Springs in Central Australia. This region

Ngale Sisters Read More »

Spencer Harvie: Dungeon Master

What's On /

This exhibition draws from Spencer’s recent experience in running sessions of the fantasy role playing game Dungeons and Dragons for friends in the Brisbane art scene. Featuring drawings created based on the rules of Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeon Master aims to examine the unclear boundary between fantasy and reality in online spaces. In a broad sense, Dungeon Master examines

Spencer Harvie: Dungeon Master Read More »

Brodie O’Loughlin: Chromium SS

What's On /

CHROMIUM-SS is the first major solo exhibition by Gold Coast based artist BRODIE O’LOUGHLIN. The exhibition reforms salvaged and decrepit materials from our kerbsides and op-shops and utilises donated paint and no-longer wanted or used objects. Brodie adopts an improvisatory approach to making art, allowing materiality, colour and form to guide him produce abundantly and

Brodie O’Loughlin: Chromium SS Read More »

Radical Localism

What's On /

An installation, community intervention and fashion symposium. Radical Localism is an installation, community intervention and symposium that showcases Brisbane’s independent fashion community. Co-designed by artisan and Practice Studio, and in collaboration with QUT Fashion, Radical Localism will highlight Brisbane’s growing cohort of skilled makers and designers. Presented by artisan in association with Museum of Brisbane. BAD is

Radical Localism Read More »

Linde Ivimey: Bonafides

What's On /

Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present the new exhibition from Linde Ivimey, ‘Bonafides’. Ivimey’s otherworldly creatures are layered with totemic and autobiographical significance. The hybrid figurative forms borrow from the artist’s life directly, bringing animation and resonance to her personal memories. Like Ivimey, many of us share a tendency to privilege certain objects, holding

Linde Ivimey: Bonafides Read More »

12 HRS DRONEFEST

What's On /

12 hours of long form ambient-grind and bliss in equal measure. Featuring a range of artists from across the spectrum of electroacoustic, sound-collage, lo-fi doom, sonic theatre, and free improvisation. ARTISTS Sonny O’Brien Timothy Fairless Mekema Unregistered Master Builder Dr Thom Ryan Lindsay Crawford Ghost Bird Amber Evans & Orthotyp-a Tess King Flickachu Romantic Insects

12 HRS DRONEFEST Read More »

Jennifer Hillhouse: Stones and Structures of the Sea

What's On /

Jennifer Hillhouse’s first solo exhibition, “Stones and Structures of the Sea” is an arrangement of objects, imagery and installation based on both ancient and contemporary forms that exist along coastlines. The work is an observation of the relationship between man-made structures and natural rock formations along the shorelines of Australia & France. There is a

Jennifer Hillhouse: Stones and Structures of the Sea Read More »