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 of consequence. Dependent on circumstance, personal definitions of decadence can shift quite suddenly. In 2020, artists were encouraged to explore the complex notion of decadence within their own communities and households […]
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Judith Wright’s recent exhibition Covid Carnivale showing from 10 February – 28 February. Wright’s latest series of works contain a sense of the carnivalesque and chaotic now whilst continuing her preoccupation with theatricality, transience, physicality and the macabre. As stated by Michele Helmrich, ‘Covid Carnivale marks these moments of remembrance at
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Drawn Thread is the first of 5 iterations of The Hand-made Tale; 50 years of craft and design in Queensland, a series of curatorial offerings celebrating artisan’s influential 50 years’ of operation. Over the course of the last half-century, artisan has championed an ongoing conversation around feminism, fiber and emancipation and draws attention to the
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION GROUP EXHIBITION CALLOUT Curated by emerging curator Alice Maia Rezende Where: JWAC façade Dates: 7 May – 1 August, 2020 Location, location, location will examine the issue of ‘location’ as landscapes of centrality vs. periphery, and as inhabitable sites of desire and longing. As guideline starting points, we ask you to engage with questions
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As part of Brisbane City’s Outdoor Gallery exhibition Sunny Side you are invited to join us for an artist panel discussion. Join Sunny Side Up artists Tay Haggarty, Julia Scott Green and Jordan Azcune, alongside co-curator Alex Holt, as they discuss their work in the outdoor exhibition Sunny Side Up and living and making art in Brisbane. The artists will share how they
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Capturing a time of quarantines and lockdowns, ADAPT reflects on the collapse of the neat separations between work and home. Undressed bed sheets and steel ball-chain, window dressings and clothes-lines, canvas-based studio traditions and creative practices in home spaces all come together gently, magnetically… ADAPT focuses us on the forces that condition our home lives and work lives;
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J6 March – Sunday 21 Marchay Jermyn is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer and musician based on the Gold Coast. His work is layered, collaged and spliced with an aim to create new ways of looking and listening by establishing multiple focal-points and planes of reference for his audience. He graduated with a Bachelor of Digital
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Flight Into The Unknown explores the connections between Western art history, imaging technologies and networked cultures. Through the use of 3D imaging, drawing machines and AI networks, this exhibition questions how we understand historical genres of art and how they inform our contemporary view of the world. Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer is an artist whose practice is concerned
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A Drowning Sim’s Cry for Help humorously tries to make sense of the absurdity of the everyday, mental health, and mortality by taking cues from computer games and children’s entertainment. Various works in the exhibition celebrate and critique the naive and humorous ways the media censors explicit content to provide a temporary relief from reality. The
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15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, 15 artists are invited by Moreton Bay Regional Council to participate in the exhibition, with the winning artist awarded $15,000 and their work acquired into Council’s art collection. The exhibition aims to highlight recent
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Robyn Stacey’s exhibition Nothing to see here showing from 3 March – 21 March. The exhibition will present a series of photographs and lenticular images. Made by projecting film onto a curtain, the works are as much about the curtain as they are about light and colour. ‘To draw a curtain’ can mean
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Join Tammy Law, Vernon Ah Kee, Tin Tin Wulia and a special guest facilitator sit down to discuss the impacts of forced migration and how it can be applied through art. MoB Artist in Residence Tammy Law, explores how immigration laws and processes impact family narratives and histories. To highlight some local stories of migration and displacement,
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Pat Hoffie: Prediction Proposals & Jennifer Herd: Underfire. Launching FireWorks Gallery’s 2021 program are two solo shows by female artists, Pat Hoffie (AM) and Jennifer Herd. Both prolific multi-disciplinary artists and educators, their exhibitions complement each other through exploration of social issues and histories. Pat Hoffie (b. Scotland) presents a collection of 16 new works on
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Dark Moon Rising is a collaborative body of work created by Matthew Lys and Louis Lim. Between 2012-2015, Louis has visited Matthew consistently in assistance with his photo and video skill development. Every visit comes with a surprising creative outburst, and over time, both artists have built an archive of photos and videos of Matthew’s
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Artists: Anastasia Booth, Sophie Bottomley, Madelaine Buttini, Exotic Cancer, Amy Crow, Leah Emery, Rene Garza, Tracey Gordon, Harley Apollonia Saintclair, Tamara Scheiwe. For our first exhibition of 2021, we have invited artists to participate in a group show coinciding with Valentine’s Day, a ritualised day synonymous with hallmark greeting cards and teenage admiration. Naked or Nude? aims to
When I began working towards this exhibition in late 2019, I was compelled to interpret my surroundings through an abstract, geometric filter. This interest in structure and nuances of the natural environment has driven my practice for many years. When our world began to shift in 2020 I retreated to my safe place, my studio.
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The IMA’s current exhibition ‘On Fire: Climate and Crisis’ offers 15 diverse responses from Queensland artists considering our precarious future and the knowledges we have to create alternatives. Join the film screening exploring feminist and environmentalist Donna Haraway’s ground breaking work in science, technology, gender and trans-species relationships over the last four decades. Refusing to
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The 2020 Graduate Exhibitions will be on view across Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, South Bank from next week. We invite you to view work from our Fine Art, Photography and Contemporary Australian Indigenous (Art) students. This is an excellent opportunity to experience contemporary creative practice and to celebrate the achievements of our graduating
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In this exhibition Robert Andrew presents three new site-specific works across Galleries 1 and 2. Because of the visually accumulative nature of the works there will be a closing event. IMAGE: Transitional Texts (detail), 2016, ochres, oxides, chalk and water, Installation view at TWMA.
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‘Translating’ political art into language, in particular, can be accused of treacherously softening its blow” Adam Szymczyk With a warm welcome the National Rug Association is hosting its inaugural altercation at KEPK. Weaponizing the tufting gun to render imagery of violence into a medium that is commonplace, the NRA is producing work that has a
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The Developing Artist-in-Residence (DAIR) program offers a year-long opportunity for young and emerging Brisbane artists by supporting their skill development and knowledge of visual arts. Based in Visible Ink’s Youth Hub in the Fortitude Valley, the residency gives an artist a chance to practice in a creative, shared co-working environment, with access to multiple resources
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As the weather in Brisbane became cooler I travelled north to visit the Tablelands region, where my late father spent his idyllic school years. I hoped to capture the warmth and distant memories of the stories he told. The distinct environmental changes as I travelled inland from Cairns to the Tablelands were captivating. The landscape
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Living in Ipswich presents a charismatic and quirky selection of Ipswich’s ‘Queenslander’ houses, each recreated in miniature as a glazed ceramic sculpture. Reminiscent of little stage sets, the sculptures first project the homes’ façades, timber fretwork and iron balustrades, and then, looking through the windows they reveal the intimate narratives of the lives lived within. South
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Using art to transform waste, a hovering line of birds flies across the Performance Lawn towards the river, a hopeful reminder of the need to protect the habitat of migratory shorebirds, who travel the East Asia-Australasian Flyway every year. FLOCK was created in recognition of this incredible journey and to highlight our responsibility to manage MOOP (Matter
Raelean Hall is known for her highly detailed beachscapes, with cascading spinifex and golden highlights. Her new series continues with these summer vibes, exploring still-life in a beach setting. Sand mixed with bright beach towels and cold drinks evoke feelings of warmth and joy in this new series of oil paintings. Lethbridge Gallery, 136 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064 Image: Down
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Working closely with collaborators from different disciplines and with the particularities of sites, Caitlin Franzmann creates participatory works which take shape around slow practices, conversation, critical listening, and collective forms of care. Co-commissioned with Tarrawarra Biennial, to the curve of you is a series of sonic and relational artworks focused on the movement and connections of plants, people and
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On Fire: Climate and Crisis profiles contemporary Queensland art in a time of significant ecological change. It situates this analysis during the emergence of what fire historian Stephen Pyne describes as the Pyrocene—the fire equivalent of an ice age, with Australia as one of its major epicentres. One year on from Black Summer, the devastating 2019-20
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Expressions of interest have been extended for our Meet the Makers: Re-imagining Connectivity mentoring program. If you are a regional Queensland craft and design practitioner who would like to be considered for extensive digital mentorship in the areas of: * Developing skills to deliver public programs and delivering workshops online * Exhibition and curatorial support * Retail support * Marketing and communications of
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A street is a place full of life, activity, and drama. Follow internationally renowned photographer Shehab Uddin in an exploration of Brisbane’s subtropical street life. This workshop is designed to build your skill and confidence as a street photographer. Topics of discussion Selection of locations Subject matter Photographic equipment Camera techniques How to approach strangers
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An online exhibition from the Edwina Corlette Gallery artist stable. To view the artists included in the exhibition, please see the artist bios. Sally Anderson’s bio John Bokor’s bio Bridie Gillman’s bio Belem Lett’s bio Bundit Puangthong’s bio Paul Ryan’s bio Miranda Skoczek’s bio To view the online exhibition – Click Here Image: BUNDIT PUANGTHONG, Crying
The freshest talent. The boldest artists. The hack and reboot of creativity. The launch of Metro Arts’ January to June 2021 program sets the intention for their biggest year yet. Opening the new West End location six months ago, Metro Arts has already presented a bold and diverse offering of cutting-edge cabaret, contemporary dance, spoken word
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The fruit of mudded fingers stuck in momentary lapses and solice. None of the lamps match, really. The moment imposes. I like that they’re different, as if they’re living. And they’re more expensive than last time, ’cause they’re better. A note on COVID-19 Maximum of 5 people inside the gallery at any one time. We
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Panel Discussion: Cultural Fire and Art (1:00pm – 2:15pm) Join artists Dale Harding and Judy Watson, Firesticks Alliance representative Leeton Lee, and panel host Shannon Brett, in the first of a series of three panels expanding on key themes of the exhibition ‘On Fire: Climate and Crisis’. This discussion looks at fire as a colonised
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he seventh year of the internationally successful Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize is open for entries! The prize is open to artists working across all genres, styles and backgrounds. PRIZES INCLUDE: – £10,000 prizes and exhibitions, for the Overall Winner, the Choice Award, the Sculpture Award, the New Media Award with partners Rich Mix and Photography
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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Carl Warner’s latest exhibition Between Two View’s showing from 22 January – 7 February, 2021. Please RVSP below to attend the exhibition’s opening, Sunday 24th January from 4 – 6 pm. We welcome you to visit the gallery, Wednesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm & 11- 4pm Sunday.
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‘Petite Pieces’ is Aspire’s annual business inspired art prize, run every year in February to launch another calendar year! Whilst many art competitions focus on the technique of an artist, ’Petite Pieces’ looks to promote the other aspects of an artist’s career that are just as important – from branding, to innovation, to commercial capacity.