Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present Cut through the circle with Sydney-based artist Drew Connor Holland.    Underpinning Holland’s work is an interest in how we catalogue memories: in digital archives, in junk drawers, in our heads. Using screenshots as the starting point, Holland corrodes each image with analogue reproduction…

The Pile is a work emerging from two weeks spent studying a mass of dumped rubbish in a Reservoir shopping centre car park. During this time video, writing, performance and public readings were employed to contemplate the pile as a living abject body that was in a perpetual state of…

WHEN : 10th – 12th May WHERE : Boxcopy Launch & ‘Tag Team’ Discussion : Friday 10 May 8:00pm Presented in partnership with Accidentally Annie Street Space, Current Projects, David/David, Inbetweenspaces and Level. Collaboration by way of the artist run initiative and the art collective is a mainstay of Brisbane’s…

Rising artist Maaret Sinkko will hold her first Brisbane solo exhibition at Woolloongabba Art Gallery on Friday 9 December. Titled ‘moon of suburbia’, the exhibition explores the transient nature of people in Queensland regional towns – in this case, Yeppoon – on the coast near Rockhampton. Sinkko’s work has become…

An exhibition featuring artists: Rosella Namok, Sharonne Solk, Yvonne Mills-Stanley. Rosella Mamok Rosella Mamok first appeared on the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s to become the most successful artist to come out of Far North Queensland’s renowned Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. Her paintings revolve around several narratives relating…

WHEN : 28th November – 7th December / Opening 28th Nov, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Bird Studios The Laneway, 181 George Street, Brisbane LIFE IS. 2013 is a study of portraiture, drawing on some of the most influential artists from the Renaissance Period, described by Christopher Inwood as an…

Artists: Barbara Penrose, Sally Cox, Nameer Davis When the flexible distinction between inside and outside is intensified… This is when events emerge – chains of events, cascades of events that withhold themselves from language, to which every word, every sentence, every speech can only react.  Reinhardt Koselleck 

Born Brisbane 1960; lives and works in Brisbane Eugene Carchesio collects the images that emerge from the subconscious. Since the early 1980s he has built a solid reputation producing small scale watercolours and minute sculpture. Carchesio’s works fuse plays with geometric patterns and figurative symbolism. Through his subtle images Carchesio…

A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist in Brazil. Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process. The route is comprised of poignant encounters with healers and sages from the Brazilian countryside, exploring the limits between art and…

Conjuring Alterity presents the performative sound rituals of Naomi Blacklock. Employing sound, voice, breath and ritualised objects, the exhibition addresses the cultural and creative significance of the witch archetype as an emancipatory symbol for alterity in contemporary art.  The contrast of meditative breathing and primal screaming are engaged as deliberate rituals…

Anastasia Tyurina’s visual art project involves aesthetic approaches to scientific photography made by a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), a tool that has expanded the boundaries of observation and representation of the micro world since it was introduced to scientific research in the mid-1960s. Scientific photography is commonly perceived as a way…

Belem Lett graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Sydney in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class 1) and a Master of Fine Art in 2012. In 2010 he was the recipient of the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, the highest award for an Australian…

Spanning 500 years, ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’ offers a breath-taking journey from the 1420s and emerging Renaissance to conclude at the height of early twentieth century post-impressionism. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity also allows visitors to experience works by painters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Turner, Degas,…

Helen Wyatt uses narrative jewellery to explore edges, walls and fences as the material expression of transitional sites – places where nature and culture intersect. Consequently, she has been walking through landscapes, studying ordinary elements that define ownership and use of land. I Walk the Line will showcase a selection…

Robyn Stacey: as still as life leads audiences into the tantalising world of still life. The exhibition opens with a collection of still-life photographs drawn from the Monash Gallery of Art – placing Stacey’s work into a wider context. Following, you’ll get to explore the works of Robyn Stacey, one of…

SCOTT MCDOUGALL In these Covid-19 times, Scott’s travels have been somewhat curtailed and he has been inspired to look at landscapes closer to home. His neighbourhood of the Tweed Valley has provided a wealth of subject matter to paint – both in flora and fauna, from the bushfire ravaged hillsides to the regeneration…

Since 2008, Dr Angus Cameron has acted as ‘spokesperson’ or ‘emissary’ for the Goldin+Senneby artwork Headless wherever it has been exhibited, performed or otherwise displayed around the world. We are excited that Cameron will perform this ongoing role in person for Goldin+Senneby’s Brisbane exhibition, Standard Length of a Miracle (The…

Ten years ago, students of the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) researched, wrote and performed a stage show called Reflections: Referendum 40 years and to the future at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) under the artistic direction of Leah Purcell. The show was a creative response to the 1967 Referendum, when Australians…

Ken Done is one of Australia’s most iconic artists. His hyper-coloured paintings have become engrained in this country’s visual vernacular. Paintings you probably haven’t seen brings together a collection of previously unseen works selected by Done and the Ken Done Gallery. Immerse yourself in a world of colour and delight…

WHEN : 27th Oct, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy The Holy Trinity (THT) comprises the fictional egos of Alicia King, Mish Meijers, and Tricky Walsh. THT explores experiential installation that engages cross-media to construct an interconnected circularity of disparate components exploring parallel worlds, bodily metamorphosis and ritual within hallucinatronic-fetishistic…

This month in CARPARK we are presenting an exhibition by Ensayos, a nomadic collective research program initiated in Tierra del Fuego in 2010. The artists, scientists and scholars who partake in Ensayos meet intermittently to cross-pollinate and share their experiences on archipelagic intersections of identity, history, geography, language and law. In…

Sculptors Queensland welcomes everyone to visit the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens to view this year’s beautifully created sculptures. The Festival will be running from Friday 11th – Sunday 13th June 2021. Our members’ artworks are for sale. Come and enjoy a coffee or lunch at the Café, bring a picnic…

THE END OF THE WORLD is an exhibition of new multimedia/multidisciplinary work by Madeleine Stack and Romii Fulton-Smith. Consisting of sculpture, text, and installation, TEOTW brings art objects from both artists’ practices to a space of post-world remnants, of mourning and celebration of what was and what can never be…

Brisbane-based artist Anastasia Booth is undertaking the 2015 Summer Residency at Boxcopy, utilising the gallery as a studio space, to create a new body of work exploring specific mythological figures and contemporary rituals, and themes of volition, desire, pleasure and disillusionment. Anastasia works across sculpture, moving image, photography and poetry.…

Whenever I step away from the imperious forces and influences of centuries-old, colonialist-based assimilative practices, I find I’m able to express my relationship to my heritage and history. I feel it is important and necessary to look beneath the illogical façade of cover ups and historical blindness. Precisely programmable machines…

Featured in The Condensery’s historic bomb shelter, DE-compose is a single channel video work that explores some of the hidden ecological players, such as termites, microbes and fungi, that perform an intrinsic role in the health of our planet. Often regarded as pests, germs or as rotting decay, these valuable…

Abstraction is a way of art making that goes beyond the physical appearance of things to express a hidden meaning. It is non-representational, meaning the artwork does not depict the way things look in real life. Instead the artists in Direction Now want us to look at paintings in a…

Come explore, click and play on Lemonade Stand ARI’s online exhibition House Warming. You can View and interact with works by emerging artists Georgia de Koning, Jasmine Megson, Lili Mikami and Abby Rutter. Click on everything, and have fun. Lemonade Stand is an online Artist Run Initiative comprised of four emerging…

WHEN : 28th – 30th March WHERE : QUT Creative Industries Precinct Daniel McKewen’s artwork explores the intersection between the roles of the artist and the fan, as they engage with popular culture. His video installations appropriate and reconfigure elements from mass media to explore how our interactions with pop…

WHEN : 4th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Cloudland A collaboration of design, fashion and inspiration, ‘Muse Exhibition’ will showcase three artists in a night of art and design. Featuring works from Benjamin Reeve, Matt Stewart & Cezary Stulgis. Each artist will showcase a collection of their own work…

Step inside the magical world of ballet costumes as Queensland Ballet and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University present Secret Lives of Costumes. This visually sumptuous exhibition features costumes from Queensland Ballet’s rich and diverse repertoire ranging from the much-loved classics The Nutcracker, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Don Quixote…

Martin Edge is an emerging naïve painter, based in Brisbane. As a purveyor of colour, Edge seeks to capture moments from everyday life – inflicting a personal vibrancy into each. Life according to Edge is exhilarating, and this is depicted in his diary like record of events. Edge’s work is…

The way patterns surface in nature is a phenomena an artist can parallel, developing personal visual vocabularies. ‘Veil’ presents recent work, culminating from more than ten years of print making and drawing, extensive and responsive experimentation, overcoming a demanding myriad of difficult technical challenges, and fine tuning processes to broaden…

Join artist Sandra Selig after hours in-gallery at Meet the artists for an intimate sound performance. Surrounded by her most contemporary artworks, you will enjoy a never-seen-before performance from Selig as she responds to the exhibition. This is a rare opportunity to experience Selig’s work solo as she usually extends her multi-disciplinary artistic…

As a once-upon-a-time advertising art director and writer, Greville Patterson progressively became more and more educated in the art of photography, both commercial and otherwise. “While there is much to be appreciated in commercial photography, it was the ‘otherwise’ that I found the most compelling. Discoveries such as the Swiss…

The Carriers  Traded with the half time sirens. A team of robotic footballers infected with the ‘Tiger Slime’ virus.  The Visitors seep into their clockwork socks. Sixteen footballers break away from the EFL code and journey from freezing stadium home world to over time across the cold mountains. On the other…