WHEN : 22nd April, 1.00pm WHERE : Cinema B, GOMA Led by curator Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, this lively discussion with artists in ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ unravels the contributions female artists have made to the contemporary art of this country over recent decades. Featuring participating artists Bindi Cole,…

WHEN :21st April, 11:00 – 12:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Jon Cattapan travelled to Timor-Leste in July 2008 as an official war artist commissioned by the Australian War Memorial. Join Jon as he discusses his experience of the role of Australian peacekeepers in Timor-Leste and how it influenced his…

WHEN : 21st April, 1:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : The Edge Inspiration can come from the strangest of places. Not your traditional jewellery making class, in this workshop contemporary artist and biotechnologist Svenja Kratz, will show you how to extract DNA from a piece of fruit or vegetable and then…

WHEN : 19th April, 4:00pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum Cultural Restitution in the Digital World: Understanding a New Political Economy of Images in the Pacific The digitisation of museum collections has transformed the way people access and engage with objects. It opens opportunities for a new kind of analytical…

WHEN : 17th April, 12:00 until 12:30 WHERE : UQ Art Museum Please join us for an ‘in conversation’ with ‘Rethink’ exhibition curator Nadia Razzhigaeva and Sebastian Moody, Special Projects Officer. ‘Rethink’ highlights two Australian artists, Eric Bridgeman and Brendan Huntley, who create characters and objects that are playful yet…

WHAT : CALL OUT DEADLINE : 16th April BLINDSIDE is calling for submissions from contemporary video artists to present their work during a two week festival in August 2012 themed around the open concept of travel, transitions and place. Is there somewhere you would rather be? The inaugural BLINDSIDE Festival…

WHEN : 14th April WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Tony Albert (Artist, Brisbane) Ross Dawson (Futurist, Future Exploration Network, Sydney) Dr Melissa Gregg (Senior Lecturer, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney) Tim Longhurst (Strategy Lead, Key Message, Sydney) Hosted by Antony Funnell, Presenter, Future Tense,…

WHAT : Artist Call Out – Live Art Prize DEADLINE : 27th April Are you an established or emerging artist in Brisbane? This is your chance to get out of the studio, connect with a live audience of over 5,000 members of the architecture and design industry and auction your…

WHAT : Mentorship Opportunity DEADLINE : 10th April 2012 The Curator Mentorship Initiative, supported by the Sidney Myer Fund, provides the opportunity for emerging and mid-career curators to further their professional development by supporting mentored placements within a gallery, art institution or university. Four grants of up to $15,000 will…

WHAT : Call Out WHEN : Deadline, 15th April The Maximilian is an international online platform and publication that will publish in-depth discussion around art and theory, culture and philosophy. Our overarching ethos is one of ‘deep vs. broad’: we aim not to simply expand upon the surface of our…

WHEN : Sunday 1 April, 1.30pm-2.30pm WHERE : QUT Gardens Theatre Foyer | Free Art and fashion have always been closely aligned and nowhere is this more obvious than in the realm of fashion photography. National fashion photographers, style makers, artists and curators will talk about these ideas during this…

WHEN : 28th March, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE :QUT Creative Industries Precinct / Cnr Kelvin Grove Road & Musk Avenue Regional creative practice is often overlooked in histories that emanate from established centres of cultural activity. Australian animation production is generally associated with Sydney and Melbourne, and little of the…

WHAT : Artist Call Out WHEN : Deadline 28th March

WHERE : Tidy Contemporary Arts Space DEADLINE : Open Call Tidy Contemporary Arts Space is a new gallery located in Brisbane. We’re on the look out for new artists to exhibit, particularly street art and photography. Proposals are sought for both our hired space and free rotational space. Our main…

WHAT : CALL OUT DEADLINE : 26th March, 2012 Expressions of Interest are sought from interested artists and designers to undertake site-specific public artwork/s commissioned as part of The Corso, North Lakes project. The Artwork Program consists of five (5) Artwork Commissions. Opportunities include: cultural placemaking, integrated sculptural works, interactive…

WHEN : 24th and 25th March, 12:00 – 6:00pm, WHAT : Workshop WHERE : The Edge Auditorium/Lab 1/Lab 2 This weekend master class pairs you up with the magical artists from Greedy Hen. These DIY darlings are in demand, their stellar reputation stemming from their work with indie musos such…

WHEN : Wednesday 21 March, 6pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Get an insight into the collection of Art through a panel discussion from varying view points of public institutions, commercial galleries, collecting groups and corporate collections. Panelists include Bruce Heiser (Heiser Gallery), Jenifer McLennan (Kurilpa Group) and Megan Williams…

WHEN : 21st March, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse Donna Hewitt has been creating works for voice and technology for the past 15 years, starting out with fixed media works for processed voice and developing her practice into cross media and real time performance contexts. In this seminar,…

WHEN : Saturday, March 17, 11:00am – 12:00pm where : QUT Art Museum Join Polish contemporary artists, Dr Malgorzata Warlikowska and Dr Maja Wolinska from the Media Art Department, Academy of Art & Design, Wrocław, in conversation with Dr Beata Batorowicz as they talk about their individual practices and the…

WHAT : Lecture WHERE : IMA WHEN : Thursday 15 March at 6pm Martyn Jolly on the history of spirit photography in Australia,Europe, and America. Jolly is the author of Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography and Head of Photography and Media Arts at the Australian…

WHAT : Artist Call Out (Female) WHERE : Lust For Life Tattoo WHEN : SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA EMAIL UNTIL 5pm WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH Lust For Life gallery invites women of Brisbane to submit their artwork for inclusion in Viva La Femme – A Celebration Of Women.The exhibition will celebrate female-related…

WHEN : 13th March, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery Please join Gordon Hookey and New York art critic Eleanor Heartney as they discuss Gordon’s new solo exhibition. The event is co-sponsored by Queensland College of Art and Milani Gallery. WEBSITE

WHEN : March 5th WHERE Jugglers Art Space Urban Art Binge (UAB) is an Artist-Run-Initiative created by Emily Fong and Joannah Underhill with the aim of providing a platform for accessing creative inspiration in everyday life for everybody. To this end, UAB is currently running a series of workshops, based…

WHAT : Call Out WHEN : 5pm,Friday 9 March 2012 WHERE : Judith Wright Centre Shop Front The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts now invites applications from Queensland-based artists to take up creative development residencies under our Fresh Ground program. In 2012 we are offering both medium and long-term…

Project: art journal is calling all artists, designers, writers, photographers, and creative types to fill out an entire art journal as they please. The open theme will allow artists to use any medium in any way about whatever they like. The collection of art journals will be featured in an…

WHEN : 23rd Feb 6:00 – 8:30pm WHERE : Fireworks Gallery For Everyone Words and Paintings is a book of thirty paintings, each accompanied by some short poetic prose, which is neither descriptive nor didactic. The book is not about me or my work, rather it is about you! Each…

WHAT : Exhibition Proposals OPEN WHEN : Deadline 22nd Feb, 5:00pm WHERE : Australian National Capital Artists ANCA Gallery (in Canberra) are currently calling for Exhibition Proposals for the 2012/2013 ANCA Gallery Program. WEBSITE

WHAT : NATIONAL CALL OUT WHEN : Deadline 17th February, 5pm WHERE : Central Australia ARTIST WANTS A LIFE, a lab run by and for artists, is open to practicing contemporary artists of any form or discipline. This 14-day lab is led by Watch This Space, an Artist Run Initiative…

WHERE: Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Judith Wright Centre WHEN : 6pm, Thursday February 9th 2012 SPEAKER: Sascha Bru (Leuven University, Belgium) TOPIC: “Art in States of Exception: Notes on the Avant-Gardes and the Modern Democratic Polis”. Sascha Bru is a founder of The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism…

WHEN : Deadline 1st February WHERE : Jugglers Art Space In the coming months the second exhibition in The Word Conterminous series will be taking place at Jugglers Artspace. This is a call out to artists that are interested in taking part in the second installment. A number of nouns…

WHAT : CALL OUT FOR ALL ARTISTS WHEN : Ongoing Australian creatives and artists aged 18 – 30 are invited to enter original creative work in the 2012 Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA365) for a chance to win an overseas trip including 8 nights accommodation, airfare, $5,000 in cash…

WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : Mid January OPEN TO ALL Fashion Designers Stylists Photographers (NB: limit of only TWO photographers per issue) Artists Illustrators Bands/Musicians or ANYTHING combination of above All submissions to be sent to submissions@pitchzine.com with 7 to 9 low-res images of your work with details and…

WHEN : 10th Jan, 7:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Stitchery Collective You are invited to come and explore the intricate forms of the clothed body, learn how to comunicate the texture, drape and weight of cloth through illustration. Life Drawing with clothes on, The Stitchery’s new weekly workshop. Cost:…

WHAT : Open Call for Artists WHERE : Green Door Cafe/Gallery Stones Corner Inner City Location – street parking and bus statio Approximately 50 metres of wall hanging space No commission on your sales Great atmosphere High exposure due to combined cafe and gallery Exhibition opening night is included Weekly…