Sleepless Nights is a monthly event of showcases, artists talks and divination practices. For our January event, we invite artist Melanie Friedman to present her body of work, ‘Art is Predictive’. Friedman’s first solo exhibition with House Conspiracy, ‘Art is Predictive’ brings together art, prompts-based performances and Tarot readings. Melanie Friedman is an Australian based […]
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‘Surface Tension’ utilises traditional sign writing materials and techniques to create a series of mirrors, which become tools for the viewer to assume an anthropological perspective. Encountering fragmented images of themselves and their companions, the artworks operate as windows into an alternate reality where presence can be shared, but physicality is disrupted. A metaphor for
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DEPART is Onespace Gallery’s final show for 2020. Showing from 11 December 2020 – 30 January 2021, the exhibition straddles the old and new year and provides artists the space to offer meaningful points of departure. All artworks included in DEPART contemplate the same question – How will we begin to respond to this unique year? As
As 2020 hasn’t exactly been the year that many of us were planning, we decided to shake up our annual 12 Days of Christmas campaign a little. Commencing Tuesday 24 November and finishing on Wednesday 9 December, we will be releasing a new artwork daily (excluding Sundays and Mondays) by each of the listed artists.
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This event is in-person. Register to let us know you’re coming and please read our COVID Safe guidelines before attending. If you are unwell please cancel your booking. To celebrate Miffy’s 65th birthday, QUT Literary Salon present an intimate workshop at QUT Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition miffy & friends. Join us for an afternoon of
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Her vibrant artwork is already wrapped around a MINI art car and roving the streets, but last night the laurels kept coming with Natalya Hughes taking out the top gong at the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2020 announcement. As the Major Art Prize winner, Hughes walks away with $25,000 sponsored by Argon Law and Sunshine
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Artists: Lincoln Austin, Eugene Carchesio, Daniel Crooks, Michaela Gleave, Tjungkara Ken, Peter Kennedy, Lindy Lee, Dylan Martorell, Leonie Pootchemunka and Rosalind Atkins, Koji Ryui, Sandra Selig, David Stephenson, Guan Wei Student Curator: Elena Dias-Jayasinha In 2018, UQ Art Museum presented Summer Mixer: New Shows, New Curators, exhibitions that were diverse in content and theme, and drawn directly from the UQ Art Collection. Based on exhibition proposals conceived during UQ’s Visual
ILEANA is delighted to announce the opening of its gallery space in November. Located on Brunswick St in the heart of New Farm, the gallery will be a platform for selling exhibitions of international contemporary art in Australia. The first exhibition, titled ‘Great Ladies’, will present a group of historically important female artists from Europe
Karla Dickens, Wiradjuri painter, was born in Sydney in 1967. Dickens enrolled in Life Drawing classes at high school where the female form was her main subject matter. She began her formal training as an artist when she enrolled at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1991, obtaining a Fine Arts Diploma in
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Fields combines drone footage of local Brisbane antennas with live radio signal recordings taken in the same area, exploring the invisible realm of radio through video. Most radio transmissions are digital, yet they can still be heard as stereo when scanning the airwaves, these sounds range from beeps and boops to harsh static chunks, or sometimes
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‘Stir crazy from the coronavirus lockdowns and with a show to paint, fellow artists Ondine Seabrook and Holly Greenwood and I made the 13 hour car trip from Sydney to Broken Hill. The car was filled to the brim, stocked up with paper, paints and camping gear. There’s something really special about hitting the road,
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Adderton: house & heart of mercy is being taken outside with innovative and exciting exhibitions, workshops, installations and events in surprising public spaces. Adderton Everywhere is a continuation of Adderton’s activation of community exploration and engagement in contemporary social justice and mercy through art and ideas. Adderton Everywhere is free and aims to be inclusive
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‘Cut It’ contemplates our voracious consumption of images, to show how artists have redeployed the meaning of images through the enduring techniques of collage, montage and sampling. Using the lenses of news reporting and entertainment media, the artworks are cropped and altered pictures from newspapers, popular movies, the internet and art history, bringing together disparate
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Artists: Zach Blas, Natalie Bookchin, Chicks on Speed, Xanthe Dobbie, Sean Dockray, Kate Geck, Elisa Giardina Papa, Matthew Griffin, Kenneth Macqueen, Daniel Mckewen, Zach Blas & Jemima Wyman Conflict in My Outlook investigates the way the Internet mediates and shapes social relations and ideas. It highlights the erosion of boundaries between online and offline, public and private.
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The Greek word ‘demos’ comes from the root of ‘demo’ meaning people, or population. Demos refers to its plural; a group, an assembly, a city, or a chorus of individuals. A ‘demo’ can also mean the “demonstration” of something, such as music, a political protest or computer software. Athens-based artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis’ ongoing project
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Lisa Behan and Donna McDonald present a lively half-day workshop titled, ‘Artful Engagement’, held in Side Gallery’s event space. The skills we learn and use to engage with art can have practical use in our daily lives. In this workshop, Lisa and Donna guide participants through immersive, artful practices for wellbeing. With a focus on
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long water: fibre stories illuminates spiritual, ancestral, and physical connections to water through fibre practices of artists from Yuwaalaraay (North West NSW), Quandamooka (Moreton Bay, South East QLD), Kuku Yalanji (Far North QLD), Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait Islands, QLD), Yurruwi (Milingimbi Island, NT), and surrounding homelands. Together this group—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, spanning different
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Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. More recently her work has been influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and and the abstracted surface possibilities these objects can show as they begin to age. Kirsten Coelho trained in Adelaide at the
Premiering in Australia at the IMA is INFRACTIONS, a feature length video installation in dialogue with frontline Indigenous cultural workers’ struggles against threats to more than 50% of the Northern Territory from shale gas fracking. As Australia becomes the leading exporter of planet-warming fossil fuels globally, and Asia and the EU plan to increase fracked gas
Lab.17 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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Remember, see and feel the last 20 years through Twenty – an online exhibition of State Library of Queensland’s contemporary photography collections. What memories do the images spark? How might we learn from the first two decades of this millennium? How much has changed in the last 20 years? And most importantly, what do these
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The Northshore Sculpture by the River Exhibition will showcase excellent outdoor and indoor sculptures at the newly emerging precinct – Northshore. Northshore and this Hamilton stretch of the Brisbane River continues to transform from an Aboriginal campsite and natural swampland, to a vibrant and evolving community, where businesses see great opportunities to operate and many
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Cleverman stormed onto ABC TV in 2016 as a dystopian sci-fi with a difference. With predominantly Indigenous cast and senior crew, the series explores a series of Aboriginal origin stories in a contemporary context, with political nuance touching on themes of class, racism and power. Exploring First Nations storytelling, language and creativity in production design, costumes
Marc Clark has lived a rich and varied life. He has lived in different countries, served in the Second World War, and taught at numerous art institutions, all the while committed to the pursuit of art. A life in art surveys the artistic ideas and principles that Clark returns to time and again. His experimentations
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CALLOUT: Artist in Residence Opportunities for Sculptors and Object Makers. 4 x 3 month residencies available in 2021 @ Sculptors Qld venue ‘The Shed’. Located at 480 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, the Sculptors QLD ‘Shed’ is a wooden building set in the grounds of the historic Old Museum Building. ‘The Shed’ is surrounded by large
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The Marginalised Chair refers to 100 years of Bauhaus design and reinterprets the fundamental values and societal influences of the time embedded in the modernist chairs. Selected students from Interior Design and Environments, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, relied on their individual reflections and creativity to develop a sustainable and re-imagined vision of a selected Bauhaus
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Sculptors Qld invites you to experience Object Memory Poem by outgoing artist in residence Genevieve Memory. Tied to the historic Sculptors Qld shed as well as the Old Museum Building itself, Object Memory Poem is both site-specific and deeply personal. Taking the form of an immersive deconstructed self-portrait, the artist looks to objecthood and memory
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Art In The Dark is an experiential workshop created by artist Katrin Terton in collaboration with blind art enthusiast Geoff Munck, who developed a unique technique that harnesses the power of language to enable both the blind and sighted to enjoy a comparable experience of visual culture. This 3-hour workshop is designed for anyone with
TELEPHONE is a global art project based on the children’s game Telephone (also called Operator, Grapevine, Telefono Roto, Dengon, Stille Poste, Telefono Descompuesto, Phonebook), in which a message is whispered from person to person. In this game, the message is whispered from art form to art form. A poem could become a painting, and then
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Since launching the Making Art Work initiative in June, the IMA has commissioned 36 new projects that not only respond to the global the pandemic and resulting lockdowns, but more importantly seek to reinforce the value of creative labour at a time of increased precarity and apathy towards the arts. We are excited to announce the final
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Our popular MoB Makers: Drawing the Body series returns to Museum of Brisbane with a twist! Join us in the Dome Gallery for a guided workshop led by Artist in Residence Tori-Jay Mordey. Learn how to join the face through contemporary portraiture techniques, in an intimate setting with all materials plus drinks and nibbles provided
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For an artist black & white are colours, as far as I’m concerned; and come from the paint box in as many variations as skin colours on the human race – where the two words are used to socially classify with brutal, generalized simplicity. Ian Smith Catalogue essay extract Catalogue (PDF) Image: Ian Smith, Tropical Colour
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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST NOW OPEN FOR PERFORMANCE MAKERS AND PRESENTERS TO BE PART OF THE 2021 ANYWHERE FESTIVAL, RUNNING 6-23 MAY. Anywhere Festival is a two and a half week festival of discovery from comedy in backyards, dance in hedge mazes, theatre in light houses, circus in driveways and music and immersive anywhere in between
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‘Smart Lasso and Details of Disquiet’ presents the studio outcomes of Sally Molloy’s PhD research, which responds to the denial of Indigenous sovereignty and ongoing processes of colonisation in Australia from a white, non-Indigenous perspective. Utilising processes of digital collage and painting, these works locate and visualise everyday manifestations of colonisation so as to acknowledge
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In December we are presenting three exhibitions. In Galleries 1 & 2 are new paintings by Jon Cattapan. In Gallery 3 we are presenting ZONWEE: The first known recording of a daydream (2019) by James Barth and Harvie Spencer. In CARPARK we are presenting I can’t sleep when I’m anxious: thinking through the blue hour by Courtney Coombs, a new
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Thirty-six artists will showcase their work in the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting finalist exhibition. Featuring the best watercolour artworks from across Australia, the exhibition opens Thursday 26th November at Griffith University’s Webb Gallery, located within the Queensland College of Art South Bank campus, Brisbane. The exhibition will run until Saturday, 12th
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