Life Framer is a platform for discovering, sharing and exhibiting contemporary photography. Calls are open for monthly photography competitions in 2021, each with a different theme and deadline. There is an obligatory entry fee. Cash prizes are awarded ($2,000 each month) and exhibitions of winning entries take place in partner galleries in London, Paris and Milan. […]
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Call for applications for the Saari Residence in Finland, for residency periods in 2022. The residency places are intended for individual professional artists, fiction writers, poets and novelists, translators, curators and critics and artistic collectives (workgroup or an established organization with a Business ID) of all disciplines and all nationalities for the purpose of carrying out a project proposal presented in
State Library of Queensland’s Queensland Memory Awards recognise the valuable contribution of individuals and organisations across Queensland in the investigation, preservation and celebration of Queensland’s memory – past and present. The Queensland Memory Awards program is dedicated to supporting researchers of all kinds to interpret the collections of the John Oxley Library. Through deep engagement and interaction with
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The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award is a biennial acquisitive award & exhibition celebrating the diversity and strength of Australia’s textile artistry. This biennial nationally significant award has been presented by Wangaratta Art Gallery since 2009, and will again be a showcase of textile artistry and talent from across Australia. Wangaratta has a long and prominent
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DEVIATIONS by CALLUM MCGRATH Facilitated by Courtney Coombs We are looking for your image recordings of queer club nights, house parties, dinner parties, dancing, DJ sets, gigs, zoom parties, performances – essentially anything that represents queer party/time to you. Your footage will be utilised by Brisbane artist Callum McGrath for his upcoming project Deviations, presented by
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The call for ideas for Forecast’s sixth edition is now open! Artistic practitioners and cultural producers working in all creative fields, anywhere in the world, are encouraged to apply with projects that could benefit from the expertise of one of this edition’s mentors and their unique approach to material and knowledge production. For each edition,
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Open call for the STARTS Prize 2021, an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. Entries are open to artists/creative professionals or the researchers/companies involved from throughout the world; STARTS is not limited to citizens of EU-member states. As part of this initiative, the STARTS Prize awards the most pioneering collaborations and
M1 SINGAPORE FRINGE FESTIVAL 2022 – international call for proposals on the theme: THE HELPERS. The Festival focuses on contemporary, cutting-edge and socially engaged performing and live art works. The Festival is an exciting and inclusive festival of live art. It is known for its strong programming. Through the Festival, we aim to present excellent and bold new works
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Announcing the new Moreton Bay Region Art Prize, an exciting exhibition and prize that builds on the strong foundation and legacy of the Moreton Bay Region Art Awards, to support and celebrate local artists. Entry is free and open to local residents only. The prize pool totals $10,000 with a non-acquisitive prize of $5,000 for
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‘Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett’ is the first large-scale exhibition of Bennett’s oeuvre since 2007. The exhibition showcases Bennett’s key series in depth, his most important and admired works, and includes many works which have rarely if ever been exhibited. Gordon Bennett voraciously consumed art history, current affairs, rap music and fiction, and
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Born 1937, Brisbane, Queensland. Lives and works Brisbane. Over the course of his 40-year career, Robert MacPherson has explored the philosophical propositions of what constitutes a work of art. He often incorporates familiar imagery, everyday materials and visual elements from daily life, honouring the beauty of the mundane. MacPherson’s fascination with systems of objects and
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Miffy, or nijntje (little bunny) has captivated children and adults alike for 65 years. First conceived by illustrator Dick Bruna (1927–2017) as a bedtime story for his son, Miffy has evolved into a globally recognised and much-loved character. A deceptively unassuming figure, Miffy’s outward simplicity belies a legacy grounded in the 20th century avant-garde–abstractionism, colour theory and
The irrepressible 78 year old Fortitude Valley resident, Millie Radovic, takes her knitting and crocheting into the immersive installation realm. Millie’s small works are unique and offbeat, and she is a regular and popular contributor to the artisan shop. In this Machinery Street Gallery exhibition, Millie goes big with an installation that will transport you
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Logan artist Ronelle Reid will be exhibiting her third solo exhibition at Logan Art Gallery starting 22nd January and continuing till 27th February 2021. The show titled Urban Menagerie is a conversation between the abundance of local wildlife in her area and their shared plight. Each work talks about eco-systems and environmental impacts on these
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Australian (and other eligible) artists are invited to enter one piece of original work produced in oil, acrylic, water colour or mixed medium in the 2021 $20 000 Gallipoli Art Prize competition. The winning painting is acquisitive by The Gallipoli Memorial Club Museum Fund Inc. The Art Prize will be awarded to the artist who
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Miri Badger presents FACES: a series documenting material experimentation in figurative representation. Distinctive combinations of material components are utilised in each portrait— choruses of pencil, crayon, pastel, oil paint, acrylic paint, and collage techniques are encouraged to coexist on canvas and wood panel. Playfully changing the ingredients of her works in this way has allowed
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The Refinery is a creative incubator designed to transform ideas into sustainable businesses. A testing ground and training platform, The Refinery connects the dots between creativity and business, with access to mentors and a network of inspiring industry leaders sharing real time knowledge. Working from The Met Maroochydore, the creative playground in the new Maroochydore City Centre project, up to 15 participants
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Innovate Grant is now accepting submissions for the Winter 2021 Cycle. Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. For more information and
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PechaKucha comes to artisan for the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival 2021 Tuesday 23 March 6:00PM – 7:30PM. Rooftop Carpark, 45 King Street, Bowen Hills. QLD. Entry via lifts behind artisan on Machinery Street. Free event – Cash Bar RSVP to attend Join Brisbane’s vibrant craft, design and architecture community for a night of ideas and stories in a
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The international call is announced for COAL Art Prize 2021, on the theme of FORESTS. In just a few decades, the forest has become both symbol and focal point of the greed, environmental disasters and struggles that are shaking up the contemporary world in crisis. Thirteen million hectares of forests disappear every year, due to
A group exhibition of artists from the Philip Bacon collection. To view the works and artists – Click Here Image: Michael Zavros, White bunny, 2020, oil on canvas, 125 x 170 cm
Threads showcases a stunning collection of fashion and art from Aboriginal Quandamooka artist Elisa Jane Carmichael. It features six hand woven sculptural dresses and artwork Weaving: past, present, future to highlight Elisa Jane’s connection to country and personal journey to insert Aboriginal narratives into Australia’s fashion history. In this exhibition, Elisa demonstrates how her arts practice creates threads
An installation of new mixed media works, reworks & a live work by LG, influenced by distractions, coloured lights, and “shiny, pretty things” Conflating dichotomies of escapism, waste, hope, resilience, gratitude, contradictions and the aspirational. Opening Night Event with special guest performances: Thursday 11th March, 6-9PM Exhibition Open/Demonstrations: Friday 12th March, 5:30-6:30PM Saturday 13th March,
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Interested artists, students, and researchers are invited to attend a day of lively discussion on the shifting role of painting in a contemporary context. This symposium provides an opportunity to meet and hear from senior and emerging artists working at the nexus of practical, conceptual and theoretical approaches to painting. Co-Convenors: Dr Julie Fragar, Angela
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PhD EXHIBITION: This research is informed by my experience of embolic cerebral stroke and subsequent damage to my brain. The research and recovery process have provided me with a theoretical and experiential understanding of the contribution of this most primitive part of the brain and the nervous system to a deep sense of feeling threatened
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Reflection Pond is a gathering of paintings on linen encircled by soft braided frames in a metaphorical web of reciprocity. These works honour cycles of nature by embracing tender moments of reemergence that follow periods of darkness. They invite you to peer through the veils to see what lies beyond, to contemplate deeper undercurrents rippling
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An exhibition showcasing the works of one of Australia’s most colourful, collectible and controversial artists is showing in Fortitude Valley from February 1st. Adam Cullen remains one of Australia’s most recognisable contemporary artists. Rising to prominence after winning the 2000 Archibald Prize his early passing in 2012 left its mark on the Australian art movement.
Honour the final month of the Bauhaus Now exhibition with a reflective panel discussion that questions the design school’s past, present and future. Join Bauhaus Now curator Professor Andrew McNamara and his panel of guests for an evening of conversation and idea sharing about the everlasting appeal of modernism at Bauhaus, Then and Now. Featuring Penelope Seidler, Ann Stephen and
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Queensland College of Art are now accepting proposals to exhibit in our South Bank Galleries: Webb Gallery Project Gallery Grey Street Gallery and in POP Gallery, Fortitude Valley. We accept proposals from Queensland College of Art students, staff and external applicants. Please take the time to read through the information listed on the QCA Galleries
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Once a month we will screen a documentary that relates to human rights, anti-fascism and dismantling violent systems of power, at House Conspiracy community space in West End. The events will take place on the stolen land of the Yuggera and Turrbal peoples of Meanjin (Brisbane and surrounds), whose sovereignty over these lands has never
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‘Oceans from here’ is an exhibition of contemporary photography exploring the aesthetics of water from mountain glaciers to the open seas. Exhibiting artists have responded to water as a vital element, which flows through the land to the seas and fills the atmosphere of our planet. Several of the works reinforce notions of an Australian
RATIONAL IDENTITY delves into the familial knowledge and histories intrinsic to each artists’ practice and dissects what it means to be people of colour working in an Australian context. Contextualizing the artists experiences as ratios within a broader national population, this exhibition presents five microcosms of identity, deconstructing and reconciling personal narratives from complex cultural
Cultivating Proxies is a mediation on possession and contentment set against the dread of late-stage capitalism and the Anthropocene. Darcy Williams assemblages explore how millennials and gen Z affected by a warming planet, a global pandemic, a tilted economy and a rental system pitted against them, cope. Behind many share house doors is a well-curated
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Old Shields New Ways will feature artworks by four Indigenous artists from Tropical North Queensland; Michael Boiyool Anning (Dulgu-barra Yidinji), Paul Bong Bindur-Billin (Yidinji), Abe Muriata (Girramay) and Napolean Phillip Oui (Djabugay). Curated by Trish Barnard, the exhibition presents contemporary artefacts and interpretations of the elaborate traditional historical shields that are decorated with important totemic designs.
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‘Motionless’ is the new solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Keith Burt at Jan Murphy Gallery. Keith Burt’s paintings evoke a darkening mood, objects from his every day have a stark presence as still life, and his portraits possess the uncanny sense of friends and family. He is compelled to accurately paint what he sees, sometimes
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‘Before & After’ is the new solo exhibition by protege artist, Mark Tweedie. These new works mark an intersection between Tweedie’s previous nostalgic figurative works and the influence recent field trips into remote landscapes have had on his practice. Visiting southern Tasmania, the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions, and Albany, inspired these intimate portraits of the
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