Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
Richard Bell, Megan Cope and Sancintya Mohini Simpson are exhibiting work in the 16th Sharjah Biennial. The Sharjah Biennial 16 title, to carry, is a multi-vocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter the different formations and positions of the five curators as well as the constellation of resonances they have gathered. The exhibition will run until 15 June 2025. More information is available here. Image: Megan Cope, Kinyingarra Guwinyanba, Buhais Geological Park, Sharjah.
Queensland State Archives Artist in Residence: Matt Mawson
Queensland State Archives welcomes the first ever Artist in Residence, Matt Mawson, on Thursday 1 March 2018. The Queensland cartoonist and illustrator has been invited to create new works in response to the upcoming exhibition…
Absolute Humidity
Absolute Humidity is a volume that aims to re-position conversations about the climate, weather and the environment by placing artist’s voices at the centre of the discussion. The publication focuses on contemporary artists from the…
James Turrell - Light Installation
International artist James Turrell’s major architectural light installation commissioned to illuminate the façade of Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), will launch from 7pm on Friday 20 April, 2018. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of…
Jan Murphy Gallery Protégé
Protégé represents a fresh initiative, extending representation of young or emerging artists, while maintaining the gallery’s aesthetic, to provide a new level of opportunity for clients. Gallery director Jan Murphy has selected artists on the…
Work in the art of Gosia Wlodarczak, Dylan Jones and Chris Bennie
One of the many aspects of the contemporary art world that goes unspoken is what artists do for ‘work’. Unless an artist is in a professional or academic position in a university, a full-time practitioner…
Eyeline Magazine
Eyeline is a contemporary art magazine which publishes criticism and analysis of contemporary art, craft and related media. It is recognised for the quality of its writing, ideas and visual style, its extensive coverage and…
FireWorks Gallery Celebrating 25 Years of Exhibitions
Since 1993, FireWorks Gallery has been located in four spaces throughout Brisbane: George Street, CBD 1993-1995; Ann Street, Fortitude Valley 1995-2001; followed by Stratton Street 2002-2007 and later Doggett Street 2007-2018 (both in Newstead). Director…
JEM
ENESS’ interactive installation between shared instrument and public art reminds us we’re not alone. New media design studio ENESS is about to reveal a walk-in sculpture that redefines participation in public art. JEM is a…
Sally Molloy: Memorial To All The Animals We've Ever Had To Kill
Dog Day Afternoon I spent a mid-July weekend skirting around Sally Molloy’s show Memorial To All The Animals We’ve Ever Had To Kill. For two days Molloy took up residence in the back of a…
Oh, the Conceptual Places You’ll Go: The Spatial Paintings of Paul Bai
Alongside commercial and public galleries, as well as artworks commissioned for public places, unconventional exhibition spaces are part and parcel of Brisbane’s visual arts community. Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) exhibit out of dilapidated Queenslanders, the…
Brian Fuata at First Thursdays
Brian Fuata Will Most Likely Die From Suicide or “Minibar” was a delightful insider take on performance art. Using a sheet with a gaffa tape outline, a microphone stand, a printed poster (possibly a plan…
The Authenticity of Shatrick
Shatrick, the creative duo comprised of artists Shannon Tonkin and Patrick Zaia, briefly returned from Melbourne to their hometown of Brisbane for a series of performances at Metro Arts in mid-June. Their appearances were part…
Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy
You may be most familiar with Christian Thompson’s 2008 works Black Gum 1, 2 and 3 a series which has often been on display at GOMA over the past few years. The works feature 3…
Chase Archer: sub-urban
Chase Archer, a Brisbane-based artist, describes the work in his exhibition ‘sub-urban’ as painted collages inspired from a collection of iPhone images, childhood photographs, drawings, mass media and the historic art canon. Through these means,…
After Hours
We pause for a moment to situate ourselves, to plot out the coordinates of our subject positions [1] . As I consider the slow progression of sunbeams that will see themselves into the exhibition space…
Helle Cook - Notion of Home
—Betwixt and Between— In general understanding, the term ‘liminal’ refers to the ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a ritual. It is a term for the threshold between the way one…
Robert Andrew: Our mutable histories
Entering into Robert Andrew’s exhibition “Our mutable histories” at Museum of Brisbane, I am immediately confronted with a warping mechanical sound. This is coming from Andrew’s most recent work, “Data Stratification.” Combining the sleek aesthetic…
Sit. Pose. Snap. Exhibition Review
Sit. Pose. Snap. at Museum of Brisbane is an exhibition curated by Philip Manning consisting of photographs from the extensive collection of Marcel Safier, amassed over nearly four decades. Considering the enormity of the collection,…
The Expansive Temporality of the Duplicated Rock: a Review of Tremor of Form.
Helga Groves’ solo exhibition Tremor of Form, held at Woolloongabba’s Milani Gallery, consists of artworks which represent geological or cosmic objects whose timelines verge on the incomprehensible. These include minerals and stones which form underground…
Less Than: Art and Reductionism
“Less is more”, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s oft-quoted and appropriately sparse mantra goes. In contemporary art practice especially, it seems that sophistication is the result of simplicity. The current exhibition at QUT Art…
Connection through Difference: A Review of Folds of Belonging
Folds of Belonging, curated by Tess Maunder, is an exhibition of lightbox images in Brisbane’s CBD. It runs concurrently with the BrisAsia Festival (27th January – 19th February, 2017), and features works by both emerging…
Michael Phillips: Recent Works on Paper
For Michael Phillips – Recent Works on Paper, the artist and curator Beth Jackson have formulated a collection of minimalist installations. Throughout the exhibition, Phillips experiments with the form of the grid by manipulating colour,…
A Celebration of Queer Arts and Culture
The annual MELT Portrait Prize, a celebration of queer arts and culture, is a lively visual exhibition that showcases the works of global artists at the Brisbane Powerhouse. In MELT, it is a time of…
Mote
Many of the online definitions for ‘mote’ relate it to a perceptual impediment, a speck of dust in our eyes. The dynamic nature of perception, constantly reshaping the reception and evaluation of an artist’s creative…
Between You and I
‘Beginning to think again – to grasp, to connect, to put together, to remember… Only to remember to remember, or at least remember you have forgotten…. Each forgetting a dismembering. I must never forget again……
Don’t dive shallow in dark deep water & From ideas of tending
Don’t dive shallow in dark deep water by Hew Chee Fong and From ideas of tending… by Judith Kentish are simultaneous exhibitions at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery that juxtapose the work of two mid-career artists.…
The ‘Self’ in Self-Portraits
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This widely known and used proverb refers to the simple notion that complex ideas can be conveyed more effectively with a single image. It is important to consider…
Uncanny-self
We are looking. Seeing. Peering, through the two skin-wreathed holes in our skull. The two holes situated slightly apart from each other, each containing an evolutionary feat. An eye. Together they make our stereo vision. They give…
Everything That Rises Might Converge
Snatches of conversation and the sounds of cars are rising from the street to be funneled into this space. Passersby may look up and see—through the second floor window that Marnie Edmiston’s exhibition A Plant…
Flawed - An Annotated Interview
“I’m trying to be a realist but it’s unrealistic,” Coleman muses before considering the turn of phrase. She and I laugh, but the quote brings to mind an earlier theme of our discussion, the minimalist…
crosseXions
crosseXions is an exhibition where feminist and environmental concerns can be said to cross over. Though nothing is quite as obvious as this may suggest. Beth Jackson the curator of this quiet and somewhat diffident…
The Transcendence Of Time In Australian Indigenous Art
Time is a fundamental and axiomatic philosophical concept that has long been a chief subject in several areas of study. Numerous different values, meanings and ideologies can be linked to it, which makes defining time…
you, me and a weirdo
The story goes: As a child, D discovered a Zero fighter plane crashed in the bush behind her house. The wings were beat up, the nose was crumpled and banksias had started growing through the…
The Alien Show
The first aliens I saw were in the house of my grandmother in Townsville. Constrained safely within the television and the Dr Who universe, they could do very little to me other than give me…
The Cult of Forgetfulness
When you move away from a home, a place that feels so familiar, almost part of your identity, I knew everything, I had entered into it, I bore it within me, I made it live[1],…
Jannah Quill: NO INPUT
Do you suffer from the 31st Century’s Sickness? Am I suffering? I don’t want to believe what comes next. Perhaps it’s too late to find myself beyond clickbait retrovirals eating up cartilage across all known…