We invite artists to be creatively bold, brave and daring. Calling for emerging, mid-career and professional sculptors and creative minds to apply to exhibit in the 21st annual SWELL Sculpture Festival to be a part of something extraordinary on Currumbin Beach, Queensland 8 – 17 Sept 2023. Awards of $32.5k, including the major award of …
We are excited to announce the expressions of interest for the 2023 Exhibition Program are now open. Montsalvat is now seeking expressions of interest from artists, curators and organisations wishing to exhibit work as part of the Exhibition Program for consideration in our 2023 program. We support ideas that are traditional, ambitious and experimental. Montsalvat encourages applications from …
Video Art Miden invites all video artists and video creators from all over the world to submit their videos for the next events & collaborations of Miden, which include screening events and video art exhibitions in Greece and internationally. The call is open to every creator (individuals, groups or organizations) of any nationality and background. There …
The Dobell Drawing Prize is an unparalleled celebration of drawing technique and innovation. Presented by the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, the biennial prize explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art practice. Image: 2021 Winner Euan Macleod with his work, ‘Borderlands – Between NSW and QLD’ …
Kailum Graves is an artist and binary archivist critically obsessed with the artifactual digital object. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects he investigates the hidden and invisible structures of power. He does this by contemplating themes as diverse as economic inequality, the algorithmic nature of digital photography, the bombardment of media imagery, the politics of …
Olivia Lacey employs processes of transcription and translation to explore the ambiguities, slippages or humour that can arise in interpersonal interactions. Her works combine referents appropriated from art historical texts, pop music lyrics and everyday conversations in order to examine romantic dialogue as an intersubjective space of exchange. These explorations are primarily realised as multi- …
Caroline Austin is an artist whose socially engaged practice spans a diverse range of media including sculpture, performance, sound and large-scale installations. Through the projects and programs Austin has initiated globally, she has illustrated that art can be used as a tool for generating social engagement, civic pride, and economic development. Austin is also the …
VERGE Collective is an all-female art collective formed by six photography and new media artists currently living and working in Brisbane and surrounds. The collective aims to initiate and implement artistic and professional development opportunities tailored to support its female members who manage work and family commitments as they seek to consolidate their artistic practises. …
Scott lives and paints in Stokers Siding, a small village in the Tweed Valley. He worked as a high school art teacher in Queensland for 10 years then moved to Sydney to pursue his art career full time. After 40 solo exhibitions in Australia and overseas Scott settled in Northern NSW where he built a …
Liam is a Brisbane-based artist regularly exhibiting locally. His work may be understood as an exploration of self-awareness through mediums painting and drawing. As such, instead of thinking only what the painting is ‘about,’ it moves to the idea of what the painting ‘does’ as a means for self-discovery and transformation. His visual formalities and …
Jay Younger is a Brisbane based artist, curator and academic with over 30 years of practice. Generally Younger’s artworks take form as photomedia, public art and installation with the purpose of interrogating the position and status of women within physical space, spatial politics, and the invisible socialised barriers that contain and deny access to other …
Brisbane-based artist Callum McGrath utilises screen based media to ‘disidentify’ binary representations of queer male sexuality. His practice disrupts queer representations of sexuality by exploring the in-between space in queer male identity. McGrath looks to queer historical and family narratives to explore the complex relationship between his identity and queer cultural/ lineal inheritances. His practise …
Grant Stevens is an Australian artist based in Sydney. Working predominantly with video, as well as photography, sculpture and installation, his art practice explores how the verbal and non-verbal languages of popular screen culture interface with contemporary subjectivity. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as in …
Athene Currie’s most recent video work RED (2017) screened at The Queensland College of Art’s (QCA) White Studio, February 2018. Currie’s move toward video installation developed in her final years as honours student in photography at QCA (2000). Currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Currie has developed a broad portfolio of exceptional still and …
Through solo and collaborative works, Jordan Azcune’s practice develops from the act of playing. This artistic practice appropriates quotidian materials in order to communicate a joking and formal intersection between contemporary art and architecture. Azcune utilises colour, kinetics, and improvisation in a playful yet technically sophisticated manner to respond critically yet humorously to failed 20th …
Janni Cox is a Brisbane based artist who recently completed Honours in Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology in 2017. As both an artist and skateboarder, he explores the creative potential of skateboarding. Rather than dealing with skateboarding as a subject or subculture in contemporary art, he explores his personal creative processes involved in …
Kinly Grey is a Brisbane-based artist who engages with embodiment and expanded poetics in exploration of art’s affect. Their practice includes instructional, performance, installation, and experience-based works that mostly occur outdoors. Placing viewer experience at their centre, Kinly’s works require participation or enactment for their realisation. Intuition, understandings of queerness as a state of possibilities, …
Renata Buziak is a photo-media artist, a sessional academic, and workshops facilitator. Her interdisciplinary art practice includes intercultural and art-science research, and cross disciplinary collaborations. For over a decade Renata has been developing an experimental process of images making, the biochrome, based on fusion of organic and photographic materials subject to decomposition. Her recent PhD research focused …