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Teho Ropeyarn included in 23rd Biennale of Sydney

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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 […]

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Look At/Look Through

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‘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

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Passepartout Photo Prize

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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

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Queensland Centre for Photography Workshops

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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

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Helle Cook: Sheer Light

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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

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Cut Copy

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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

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Weapons For The Soldier

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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

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Lesley Kendall: MOTHS

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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

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Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarships

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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

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KILGOUR PRIZE 2021

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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

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Botanica

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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

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REFLECTION DISTORTION

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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

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Michael Cook: Natures Mortes

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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

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Ngale Sisters

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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

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Spencer Harvie: Dungeon Master

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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

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Brodie O’Loughlin: Chromium SS

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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

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Radical Localism

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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

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Linde Ivimey: Bonafides

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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

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12 HRS DRONEFEST

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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

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Jennifer Hillhouse: Stones and Structures of the Sea

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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

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Callum McGrath: Deviations

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‘Deviations’ is a collaborative video project dedicated to celebrating and highlighting the importance of queer space and time that sits outside the hegemonic structures governing daily life. The work has been specifically produced for installation in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane a site where queer spaces have been carved out for decades. From nightclubs, sex clubs, art

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Queer spaces, collaboration & generating community in Brisbane

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How can we imagine a collective queer future? In a panel discussion facilitated by 4ZZZ’s Dykes on Mykes hear from current exhibiting artist Tay Haggarty, Shady Party’s Thomas Parer, and Mo Chan and Shelley Cheng, members of FERN collective, as they explore how queer community spaces can be fostered in Brisbane. Each panellist is invested

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Amy Sargeant: CLIMAX

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Meanjin (Brisbane) based protest artist Amy Sargeant takes over CONTRA with a new performance and installation: CLIMAX. Through sculpture, audio and video installations, Amy’s work responds to her disillusionment with the dysfunctions of the Australian political establishment by re-framing the elements of political spectacle. Amy deploys the Situationist method of détournement to destabilise motifs from

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Marisa Purcell: Endlessness

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These paintings insist on communicating with you. It’s hard to escape the colour that reflects on and around these works. Without explanation, colour beckons you to feel and connect, rekindling our awareness of the most essential aspects of our being which is the very essence of communication. ‘Endlessness’ sees a shift in my work. The

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Excerpts

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The exhibition features a selection of artworks, produced by five artists concluding their Masters and PhD research in Visual Arts, and by five award winning graduates from the 2020 BFA (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology. The exhibition is open at The Block, QUT from Saturday 24th April – Saturday 1st May (12-4pm), with

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Leigh Lynam + Stuart Meyer-Plath

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Unravel | Leigh Lynam – Webb Gallery Unravel is an investigation into embracing decolonial methods. This installation adopts a socially responsive approach to disentangling post-colonial conventions of landscape art. Challenging uncomfortable traditions, the work subverts ideas of ‘capturing’ a landscape embarking instead on a deeper discovery. This interrogative process explores respectful ways of unknowing and

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