The ‘Self’ in Self-Portraits
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This widely known and used proverb refers to…
Siganto Foundation Artists’ Books Creative Fellowship
13th October, 2016
Thanks to the generosity of the SigantoFoundation through the Queensland Library Foundation, the Australian Library…
Uncanny-self
We are looking. Seeing. Peering, through the two skin-wreathed holes in our skull. The two…
Art in the Time of Colony
15th Ocotber, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Artist, art historian, and Professor of Global at Art Birmingham University, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll…
MuseumNext Melbourne 2017
30th September, 2016
MuseumNext is a global conference series on the future of museums, taking place in the…
Everything That Rises Might Converge
Snatches of conversation and the sounds of cars are rising from the street to be…
crosseXions
crosseXions is an exhibition where feminist and environmental concerns can be said to cross over.…
Young Art Journalism Awards
September 2016
What’s YAJA? YAJA gives journalism, media and art students the opportunity to showcase their talent…
The Transcendence Of Time In Australian Indigenous Art
Time is a fundamental and axiomatic philosophical concept that has long been a chief subject…
you, me and a weirdo
The story goes: As a child, D discovered a Zero fighter plane crashed in the…
Writing About Your Art Work For Grants And Proposals
30th August, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
A vital part of making a career as a visual artist is securing grants and…
The Alien Show
The first aliens I saw were in the house of my grandmother in Townsville. Constrained…
The Cult of Forgetfulness
When you move away from a home, a place that feels so familiar, almost part…
Fraction Magazine
Ongoing
Fraction Magazine is an online venue dedicated to fine art, contemporary photography and brings together diverse…
Frieze Writer’s Prize
18th July, 2016
Frieze Writer’s Prize, the annual international award to discover and promote new art critics, is…
Jannah Quill: NO INPUT
Do you suffer from the 31st Century’s Sickness? Am I suffering? I don’t want to…
Catharcissism (save me make me keep me take me)
Catharcissism (save me make me keep me take me) dredges Katie Porter’s creative and written…
Dominic Byrne: Bust This Flesh Pit
“The body is our general medium for having a world.” ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception…
IMA Reading Group
9th April, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA Reading Group is a monthly assembly held in the Motto IMA bookstore designed…
Wandering, Wondering
We are taught to think of time as a resource, that we can manage and…
LANDSHAPES
IS ART NATURAL? The question concerning Art’s relation to Nature is one central to Aesthetics…
Dhana Merritt: DM Teahouse
Make a delicious bowl of tea: Lay out the wood charcoal to heat the water.…
Discipline 4 Launch
2nd April, 3:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Melbourne-based contemporary art journal Discipline published its fourth issue in December 2015. Edited by Nicholas…
Oberon 2 Launch
22nd March, 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
From the publishers of Das Superpaper comes Oberon, a new periodical on art in the…
Jordan Azcune: Raw Prawn
Dear Diary, Jordan Azcune’s object relations are familiarly uncommon. They negotiate actions of strapping, balancing,…
Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Call For Papers
30th April, 2016
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES, 2016. For the first time in its history,Crossroads…
BOOKSHOP
14th February, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Boxcopy ARI
Join us on Sunday afternoon for a pop up Bookshop at Boxcopy and browse through…
Taste with your eyes, see with your mouth
Elizabeth Willing’s Between Courses Eat to live, or live to eat? On one hand sustenance,…
Parallel Park: Tandem
Holly Bates and Tayla Haggarty explore themes of gender, sexuality and representation in their respective…
Eyeline Magazine #84
Out Now
Online and Print
Eyeline #84 is out now. Featuring: Zombie Formalism, Song Ling, Louise Haselton, Ian Fairweather, Fiona Macdonald,…
Repurposed Magazine: Call Out
30th January, 2016
CURRENT CALL-OUT FOR SUBMISSION TO ISSUE THREE OF REPURPOSED: Issue Three of Repurposed will be…
PINKING. Decorative. Edge.
In an art world marked by big business sponsors and French champagne it is refreshing…
Jason Haggerty: BODYPOD
Sphereology noun. the study of the human need for interior space. On a metaphysical…
Private Places for Public Crying
Hello Possums! Caitlyn “Caity” Reynolds has made some art for you and asked me to…
Erin Groenenboom: Leave (Get Out)
But now there’s nowhere to hide Since you pushed my love aside I’m out of…
A Synthesis of Abstract Constructs
With an opening on 10 September 2015 at POP Gallery Woolloongabba, Indirect Response is a selection…