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Keemon Williams: How to Beat a Dead Horse

How to Beat a Dead Horse is a solo exhibition of new work by local artist Keemon Williams. From a contemporary Indigenous perspective, this exhibition will consider the commercial production of mass-produced tourist merchandise, their construction of Australian ‘national identity’, and associated ideas of value and authenticity. The exhibition uses a Pop aesthetic that offers a

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Landing

Side Gallery’s annual small work or “smalls” group exhibition joins BAD2021 . A group show titled Landing consists of small works, no larger than 30cm x 30cm to explore the themes inspired by or relating to Brisbane/Meanjin, its people, land, objects, the environments and multitude of businesses of the greater Brisbane city. More Information Image: Designfront,

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The Tent Dress Project: IVY NIU

A fashion collaboration that brings together ten artists to create ten one-off tent dress creations. Brisbane designer IVY NIU’s Tent Dress Project is a collaboration with 10 featured artists from Australia and abroad, where fashion meets art in a colourful expression of creativity. Featured artists Frances Cannon, Bianca Mavrick, Ellie Hopley, Kitiya Palaskas, Emily Green, Rachel Burke, Chantal Fraser, Phil

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Kyra Mancktelow: As We Stand

As We Stand is a capsule exhibition series installed in the Outer Space Window Gallery, showcasing six local early-career artists; Kyra Mancktelow, Paula de la Rua Cordoba, Dylan Mooney, Ruaa Al-Rikabi, Amy Sargent and Lucy Nguyen-Hunt who each use their practice to take a stand on current socio-cultural issues through prophesying courses of action. Responding to

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Visaya Hoffie: Hot’n’Heinous

Hot’n’Heinous can refer to many things, including the experience of the worst days of a typical Brisbane summer, and the characters create a portal into the imaginary world of the artist. With one-line grabs from clickbait advertising, sweetly sinister characters from bootleg cartoon imagery, and painterly passages of descriptive familiarity, Visaya’s imagery often seems like

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Sweat on the Dancefloor

It’s sweaty. It’s safe. It’s Shandy. Brisbane’s favourite queer art and dance showcase! For most, a Shandy is a cool drink: half beer and half lemonade. However, in Brisbane (Meanjin), this humble beverage has come to mean something entirely different for its queer community. Shandy – Queer Dance Party is a regular Meanjin-based event, continuing

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Natalie Lavelle: Rekindle

Rekindle demonstrates Lavelle’s playful edge as an artist through her minimalist aesthetic, attention to detail, and love for colour, which she washes over or stains onto the canvas in thin, successive layers. Her washes create bleeds which, against the overtly rectangular compositions of her works, revel in the uninformed movement of colour. “At the centre of

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Lara Merrett: Petrichor

Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present, ‘Petrichor’ the new exhibition from Lara Merrett. Lara Merrett’s colour-rich abstract paintings reveal an intimate and intuitive approach to painting. Working on a large-scale, Merrett apposes blocks of velvety dark colour with transparent, amorphous pools of acrylic and ink. These delicately layered paintings evoke senses beyond the purely

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Rebecca Belmore, Wanda Nanibush & Angela Goddard in conversation with Shannon Brett

Join artist Rebecca Belmore and Turbulent Water co-curators Wanda Nanibush (Curator Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada) & Angela Goddard (Director, Griffith University Art Museum) in a discussion that highlights key themes within Belmore’s oeuvre, and shares the priorities that were central to this female-led, cross-cultural partnership. Chair: Shannon Brett Date: Saturday 1 May 2021 Time: 1pm Cost: FREE

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Martin Kantor Portrait Prize

Entries are now open for the 2021 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize. This is open to all photographers and photo media artists, giving you the chance to have your work displayed and viewed at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale from 28 August to 24 October 2021 in Ballarat. The Ballarat International Foto Biennale Martin Kantor Portrait Prize is both an exhibition and award for

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Laura Patterson: Groteque Grotto

‘Grotesque grotto’, is Brisbane-based artist Laura Patterson’s first solo exhibition for Jan Murphy Gallery. Informed by her background in architecture, Laura’s exquisitely detailed paintings present moments taken from nature, housed within elaborate framing devices. Her most recent series, which looks at pockets of remnant old growth rainforest ferns, began as a response to the early

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The Essentials: Professional Development Series 2021

Outer Space is excited to announce our professional development series for 2021: The Essentials. In this series we’ll be sharing vital information for artists and arts workers with the assistance of industry leaders.​Over the course of thirteen workshops, you have the opportunity to learn protocols around Indigenous artmaking, building a website, best practice for application

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Sunshine Coast Art Prize

The acquisitive Sunshine Coast Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D arts practice in Australia. The diverse range of 40 finalist works by established and emerging artists from across the country are showcased in an annual exhibition at Caloundra Regional Gallery. The winning artwork is acquired into the Sunshine Coast Art

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Behind the Mask

Feros Care invites all people living with a disability to showcase their creative talents by taking part in an Online Art Competition and Virtual Exhibition with the theme “Behind the Mask”. Masks are typically used for protection. But they can also be used for disguise, performance or entertainment. You are invited to share the significance of masks in your life

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National Capital Art Prize

Launching in 2021, the inaugural annual National Capital Art Prize is the first Australia-wide competition for paintings of any subject. The Prize has been established to support and showcase Australian artists and celebrate their skill and diversity. With a generous prize pool of more than $45,000, this competition aims to ignite the passion and courage

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Anthology Cover Art Award

Submissions are now invited for the Anthology Cover Art Award 2021.  Established to foster and support both established and emerging visual artists and provide a platform for publication, the competition is open to multiple genres including painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and digital media. Works entered must not have appeared on the cover of another publication and

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PRISMA Art Prize

Il Varco s.r.l.s organizes the 8th edition of PRISMA Art Prize, an art prize that takes place every three months online with cash award, that will end with an annual group exhibition at the end of the fourth edition of the same year at Atelier Montez in Rome, with some of the artists that took

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Simon Degroot: Transfer Echo

Jan Manton Gallery is proud to present Brisbane based artist Simon Degroot in the exhibition Transfer Echo showing from 24 March – 18 April 2021. The exhibition features paintings exploring the expanded interaction and interconnections through the use of Degroot’s iconic abstract forms. Transfer Echo investigates transient and layered abstract shapes which are quintessential to Degoot’s practice. Each

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New Light

Presented by Illuminate Adelaide and ANAT, New Light 2021 will showcase experimental and diverse moving image works by contemporary First Nations artists. Through a national call out, New Light will feature selected work by First Nations artists, exploring compelling and complex concepts. The commissioned artworks will be displayed on the media screens at the entrance to the

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Artlands: Call for Papers and Presentations

The Space Between: Conversations about practice through the intersection of people and place As Australia’s largest regional arts gathering for over two decades, Artlands is a strategic exchange that responds to emerging trends, discovers new ideas, considers adapted approaches and showcases artists as well as highlighting the creative and cultural sector across regional, rural and

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Triennale Grenchen

The 22nd Triennale Grenchen from September 10 – 26, 2021 in Grenchen (Switzerland) will be dedicated to the xylographic printing process. The works will be shown simultaneously at three locations in Grenchen, Solothurn and Evilard. With the exhibition “Mini Print 2021”, the Grenchen Triennial aims to present a comprehensive picture of current contemporary work from

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Driving the Human

Driving the Human invites designers, artists, architects, filmmakers and other multidisciplinary agents from everywhere in the world to send their applications in order to develop future-proof concepts and test them as tangible prototypes responding to complex contemporary scenarios. The scientifc and artistic collaboration Driving the Human will develop and produce the seven final prototypes which can

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Frame Finland

Frame Finland invites applications for grants available to artists, contemporary art professionals, and local and international contemporary art organisations who are planning international contemporary art projects featuring Finnish or Finland-based artists in 2021. Project grant for contemporary art organisations to exhibit work by Finnish artists abroad The purpose of the grant is to strengthen the international position

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Lab.18 Art Contest

Lab.18 art contest, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks and much more. PRIZES: 5000,00€ –

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Tammy Law: Fractured Dreams & Indefinite Scars

Fractured Dreams & Indefinite Scars, Tammy’s residency and exhibition for BrisAsia Festival will explore the ways in which immigration laws and processes impact family narratives and histories. In 1986, three generations of Tammy’s family were deported from Queensland. Her mother was pregnant with Tammy at the time. Since becoming a mother herself, Tammy has begun to

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