The Footscray Art Prize is a biennial visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines. It is open for entries nationally and does not have a theme. Established in 2016, it contributes to Footscray’s reputation as a thriving cultural hub that supports and fosters the arts, and provides an opportunity to celebrate […]
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Twice a year Landskrona Foto Residency welcomes an early to mid-career photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens-based media, who wishes to further and challenge their practice, to Landskrona, to engage in a project related to the city. PRACTICAL INFO It’s an opportunity for a non-Swedish photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens
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Submissions open 27 Nov 2020 | Submissions close 24 Jan 2021 Are you a teen who is passionate about design and art? The national Teens: Motorcycle Helmet Design competition invites budding designers and artists between the ages of 13 and 18 to submit a design for a motorcycle helmet. Take inspiration from ‘The Motorcycle: Design,
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The virtual residency is a gathering of artists. …who work in sync, support one another and use a change in pace to think differently about their creative practice. Now recruiting artists for the following dates: 24-29 January 2021 (Deadline for applications 27 December 2020) 31 January – 5 February 2021 (Deadline for applications 3 January
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WE INVITE ARTIST APPLICATIONS FOR THE 19TH SWELL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION TO BE HELD ALONG CURRUMBIN BEACH & WALKWAY ON AUSTRALIA’S GOLD COAST FROM SEPTEMBER 10-19 2021. HIGHLIGHTS Artist submissions can comprise of completed works, works in progress or concepts Entries close 31st January 2021 at midnight Exhibition dates for our 2021 exhibition are September 10 – 19 on Currumbin
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“My paintings speak of a desire to create sanctuary for the self” says Miranda Skoczek. In her work, combined energies of gestural freedom, opulent colour and the physical qualities of paint emanate from the field of the canvas, extending to the viewer a sensual immersion within a haptic, temporal space. Further playing on a connection
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XMAS Show 2020 Artists: Ali Bezer, Clare Purser, David Jones, David Nixon, Domenica Hoare, Doreen Munn, Ian Smith, Jennifer Stuerzl, John Hockings, Kazumi Daido, Leigh Camilleri, Maureen Hansen, Mitch Donaldson, Nathan Shepherdson, Robert Mercer, Rose Moxham, Sandy Herberte, Stephen Nothling, Susan Leway, Susie Hansen, Warren Palmer. Fresh Coats Artists: Angelica Roache-Wilson, Benjamin Hale, Jack Rodgers, Jacob
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The 15 contemporary Australian artists represented in ‘Full Face: Artists’ Helmets’ each accepted our invitation to individualise a Biltwell Gringo ECE ‘full face’ helmet, the quintessential motorcycling accessory. The display was conceived in response to ‘The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire’, and includes work by a broad cross-section of practitioners. Their artworks engage with the interwoven
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Man & Wah’s creative practice is an attempt to inspire reconnection with the dimensions of nature and the cosmos, elements that greatly influence their creative work and lives. Their artworks are an invitation to slow down and reflect on the interconnectedness between humans and the universe in its micro and macro states. CELESTON 2 extends on
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The third round of Making Art Work commissions are now live at makingart.work! We are excited to launch twelve new projects by Queensland artists spanning artworks, events, performances, and for the first time, limited edition works available to purchase. View the projects by Mia Boe, Michael Candy, Emil Cañita, Natalya Hughes, Peter Kozak, Archie Moore, Shandy, Jacqui Shelton, Hannah Smith, David Spooner, Grant Stevens, and Tyza Stewart online here. Plus see a selection of
Daniel Agdag is an artist and filmmaker based in Melbourne, Australia whose practice sits at the nexus of sculpture and motionography. Agdag’s practice is directly and indirectly absorbed by systems and the interactive nature from which they derive their functions and purpose. The work collectively and as a whole is made by hand into subtle
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Marian Tubbs works with poor and found materials to question ideas of value and raise economic, social and ecological issues. The artist’s assemblage-focused practice brings together images, objects and text in unexpected combinations to create new knowledge and ways of thinking. For we need privacy guys here too, Tubbs presents new and existing works in a
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An exhibition re-imagining the landscape of our now – capturing the streets, the constructs and built environments where most reside, and our relationship with same. A collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures from around the country, the works investigate both the celebratory and condemning aspects of urban sprawl. More Info Image: Matthew de Moiser |
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Drawn Together, a solo exhibition of new work by Erin Dunne, offers an autobiographical account of contemporary life in rural and regional Central Queensland from a queer perspective. The work’s presentation seeks to embody the fluidity and porousness of boundaries that demarcate queer bodies, experiences and geographies. Reflecting on moments of intimacy, vulnerability, playfulness and
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Screens are part of our daily habits, yet their perpetual place in our consciousness is physically provisional, requiring constant updates, maintenance and replacement. Bringing together work by Australian and international artists, New for Old uses the figure of an obsolete screen technology, the Cathode-ray tube (CRT) television, to reflect on cycles of technological obsolescence, exhibition
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Miles Hall’s latest exhibition PETIT POIS showing from 2 – 24 December, 2020. We welcome you to visit the gallery space from Wednesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm and 11-4pm Sunday. Hall is an Australian born artist, currently residing in Montpelier, France. His recent series of work titled ‘Petit Pois’ makes reference to the fairytale of the Princess
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Social distancing, lockdowns and border closures can make it difficult to stay connected with others. Through wearing sentimental jewellery close to the body when we cannot hug a loved one, or cherishing a gifted object during isolated lock-downs we are able to evoke feelings and memories and hold onto and maintain these connections even when
A group exhibition of Fireworks Gallery stable of artists. To view the exhibition and artist details please click HERE.
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In Her Hands. Strong Women Talking, Marigurim Mubi Yangu Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander group presents In Her Hands. Her future… their future… our future… In her hands. “Sands fall through her fingers. Her feet connected. Her heart yearning. Yearning for a safe space. Crying songs, with words long forgotten. She finds her strength. She finds her voice. She places the ochre in her hands. Her future…their future…our future…In her hands.” Words by Jasmine Roberts
In 2020 the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) celebrates 10 years, a decade of rewarding and celebrating Queensland regional arts and the wealth of creativity and imagination thriving in the regions. Decadence may invite notions of luxury and self-indulgence. It may evoke ideas of wanton excess or wastefulness, perhaps with a casual or deliberate disregard
The Tidal Collective is nine Brisbane-based artists who come together to research and collaborate on issues and themes relevant to our local environment. During 2019 we have been investigating the Bribie Island environment through the lens of John Olsen’s comment that Ian Fairweather was “writing the landscape”. We followed in the footsteps of Ian Fairweather,
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In his fifth solo exhibition at Logan Art Gallery, Daisy Hill artist Richard Blundell has created a new series of paintings celebrating 50 years of living in Logan. More Info Image: Richard Blundell Door 3: Procession of the autopoietic dawn-state through the PureLand@DaisyHill (2003-2019), 2020 (detail), tempera, acrylic, imitation gold foil, graphite, matte varnish on door.
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A region-wide exhibition of paintings, watercolours and ceramic forms that celebrate the extraordinary work of contemporary Australian painters, Joe Furlonger and the late Joy Roggenkamp, alongside contemporary Australian ceramicists; Carl McConnell, Errol Barnes and Joe Furlonger, Harry Memmott, Rowley Drysdale, Rolf Bartz, Milton Moon, Chiko, Jane Harthoorn, Johanna DeMaine, Tatsuya Tsutsui, Ian Jones, Warren Palmer
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When Paul Ryan paints the landscape, it’s not the scenery so much as the forgotten histories of his local area that he seeks to explore. Never straying far from his home base in Thirroul, a suburb of Wollongong noted for post-colonial industries including whaling, logging, and mining, Ryan repeatedly finds himself searching for the footprints
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The Collaborative Mentorship Initiative offers early-career practitioners the unique opportunity to work one-on-one with advising artists and arts workers to inspire confidence and self-awareness, and to build the knowledge, skills and capacity to pursue projects and goals. This program, to be completed over four months, is based on a mutual mentorship model that provides both the adviser
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Deggendorf City- and Craft-Museum will present the 5th Paper Global, the International Paper Arts Triennale in 2021. A call is open to paper artists to submit artworks. The focus is on the large judged art exhibition of paper art. It will open on 19th June 2021 to celebrate a large paper festival where the focus will be
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A call for artworks and for papers is open on the theme ‘Cities of the future: living together’ for Creativity and Cognition 2021, a global conference and exhibition on creativity and cognition to be held in Venice in June 2021.Note different deadlines for the two calls. Creativity involves the generation, exploration, and interpretation of novel and valuable ideas, and
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Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF is a biennial for contemporary art that takes place in the Lofoten Islands and the wider Northern Norway region. LIAF now seeks a curator or curators for LIAF 2022, with a project period extending from April 1, 2021 to November 1, 2022. The biennial has roots dating back to 1991, when
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The Seventh Edition of the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC 7) 2020 is open to candidates from anywhere in the world writing in Chinese or English about any contemporary art exhibition held anywhere in world or, for the first time this year, on-line between 15 September 2019 and 20 December 2020. Candidates are invited
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The museum residence ‘Artкommunalka. Erofeev and Others’ and Kolomna Old Merchant District Creative and Museum Cluster, with support of the Culture Ministry of the Moscow Region and the Center for Creative Initiatives, are holding an open international competition among artists and writers to receive grants for the realization of creative projects in the visual arts and literature in
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AADK Spain invites all artists and researchers who wish to work on the topics of body, territory and spatiality to participate in its Artistic Residency Program 2021. For this call, priority (not exclusive) will be given to intervention proposals developed in the landscape, conceived from any creative discipline (sound, performance, visual arts, architecture, agriculture or
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Emerging from the rainforest canopy of Far North Queensland and a culture spanning countless generations, ‘Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering’ shares knowledge through the recent works of 19 Indigenous artists from Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre alongside collection objects from the South Australian Museum. ‘Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering’ is a travelling exhibition in partnership between
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Il Varco invites you to join the second edition of the Passepartout Photography Prize, a photography contest born to promote and widen the exposure of emerging photographers. Our mission is to be your “Passe-partout” – which means a master key and also a framing method to enhance the power of the artwork within. Passepartout Photography
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Darwin-based artist Franck Gohier returns to Mitchell Fine Art with a new series of artworks that continue his appropriation of 1950’s and 60’s vintage comic books and popular culture. #ozpop is Gohier’s homage to the history of Australian Pop. Satirical, politically, and socially motivated his artworks are a reflection of society and its faults, frailties
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All UK & International artists are invited to apply for the Visual Art Open Prize 2021. Presented by the Visual Artists Association, the prestigious VAO 2021 Prize is now celebrating its fifth edition and offers an £8,000 Prize Fund. • All mediums across 5 categories: Painting/Mixed Media/Printmaking – Illustration/Drawing – Sculpture – Photography/Digital – Young
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Take part in our Scheduled programs for Educators, Artists + Artsworkers and Young Artists, and check out our brand new Program Hotspots in Brisbane. Don’t see what you need? By Request programs are also available for on-demand delivery. Download the full 2020 Annual Program For more information please visit the – Website
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