What's On At GoMA 'Threads'

Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric

WHEN: Until 5 February 2012
WHERE: GoMA

Bringing together a diverse range of contemporary textiles from the Gallery's Australian, Asian and Pacific collections, 'Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric' celebrates the ways in which contemporary artists explore the textile medium.

Illustrated Talk: Unravelling ‘Threads’

TIME: 2.30pm
WHEN: Thursday 13 October 2011
WHERE: Cinema B, GoMA

Material culture and museum studies specialist Dr Graeme Were (Lecturer in Museum Studies, University of Queensland) discusses the ‘Threads’ exhibition by exploring the materials, designs and communities represented in the Gallery's holdings of Pacific textiles.

As published in Artmail E-news. 

Art & Australia Launch at the IMA

Launch night at the Institute of Modern Art - Brisbane.

Barry Schwabsky on aestheticism
Michael Zavros
Zanobi Machiavelli
AES + F
Peter Stichbury
Richard Orjis
Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont

 

Hazel Dooney At TEDx Brisbane: Taking The Art Business To Task

Exerpt from Hazel Dooney Studio Notes...

Hazel Dooney is to join the prominent speakers appearing at TEDx Brisbane this Saturday, 15th October, at the State Library of Queensland.

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a nonprofit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Founded as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. Past TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Created in the spirit of the original TED Conference’s mission, the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at a local level. TEDx events such as Brisbane's are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis but in affiliation with TED.

Tickets to TEDx Brisbane are no longer available. However it will be 'livecast' at http://edgeqld.org.au/webcast – the start time of Hazel's speech has not yet been confirmed but it will be posted on her home page on Friday, 14th October.

Hazel will be telling her own story of creating an independent career, in the hope of inspiring students and artists to exert stronger control over their art and careers. She will also explore the new paradigm within which young artists, musicians and writers are eschewing traditional intermediaries (commercial galleries, record companies and publishers) to create a direct connection with their audience. However it will be – as one might expect of one of Australia's controversial female artists – a frank, intensely personal and, at times, confronting account.

TEDx Brisbane

TEDx Brisbane Twitter

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Great opening night for 'Mamas in the Hood'

If you did not get a chance to attend the opening night for 'Mamas in the Hood' then you missed titillation of all the senses. It had a wonderfully welcoming atmosphere and was engaging the audience on varied levels. Anita West gave an insightful presentation about her personal experience of combining motherhood and a successful arts career.

All the works, whilst visually unique seemed to be connected through an underlying sense of movement.

Sandra Landolt's work is playful and her kinetic and video works allowed the audience to connect with the busy-ness and overwhelm that motherhood can encompass.

Candice Herne's collaborative work involved here local artistic community of Montville/Maleny in creating a joyous mobile like installation that invites audience participation and personal reflections on motherhood.

Katrina Stirling's work reflects a personal journey and her connection to nature and family. Using bed sheets and linen that is rusted and stained she imbues her personal thoughts and experiences using images and text.

Chrys Zantis' work is intriguing and sophisticated in its conceptual messages and quite mesmerizing with spinning disco ball bouncing patterns off walls not to mentioned the saucy burlesque performance that had every ones attention as the evening came to an end.

So, if you did not get a chance to attend, there is still time. The exhibition is on until the 5th of November and offer presentations and activities to visitors.
(See previous post for details.)

Mamas in the Hood Exhibition - Pine Rivers Art Gallery - opens October 7th

Mamas in the Hood 

October 5 – November 5, 2011

 
Opening event Friday, October 7 - Refreshments served from 6pm – All welcome

An exhibition of the works of four female artists exploring motherhood, art, politics, contemporary life and society.


Opening night guest speaker: Anita West has built a sustainable art career over 25 years whilst raising a family and understands the extra commitment and dedication needed.
She shares her experiences to pursue creative endeavours amongst the backdrop of caring for children.



About the Artists:
Candice Herne describes herself as a Pop artist who uses advertising materials, technology and everyday mundane objects to highlight the ordinary elements of culture.

Katrina Stirling combines paint, ink, collage and poetry to comment on social environments.

Sandra Landolt is a Kinetic sculptor and Video Artist who makes art that contains moving parts, generally powered by wind, motor or the viewer.

Chrys Zantis creates installations using sculptured knitting and materials. 

Workshops and Activities
Mums and Bubs workshop (children of all ages welcome)  

Wednesdays Oct 12 & 19.  FREE  (Self paced activity between 11am to 2pm)

Artist Candice Herne will work with parents and the under 5’s, using printing techniques with paint to create festive cards and wrapping paper for Christmas. Everyone welcome.

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Who Does She Think She Is? Film, Morning Tea and Artist Discussion

Saturday, October 15th 10.30am - 12.30pm FREE

 “In a half-change world, women often feel they need to choose mothering or working? Your children’s well being, or your own? Who does She Think She Is, a documentary by Academy award winning film maker Pamela Tanner Boll, features five fierce women who refuse to choose”. Join us for a special screening and discussion.

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Erosion Bundles demonstration with Katrina Stirling (as pictured)

Tuesday Oct 25 11am – 12.30pm FREE 

Katrina shares the secrets of creating the stained surfaces that inspire her whimsical works.

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Animation Workshop with Sandra Landholt 

Saturday November 5. 1.00 – 3.30pm $20.00
 

Join video artist Sandra Landholt and learn how to create a stop start animation using free animating software, basic materials such as found and recycled objects and a webcam.  Students will make a CD of their animation.

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Upcoming events

At Pine Rivers Gallery....

Mental Health Week Exhibition. October 5 – 15 

The gallery is once again hosting this annual exhibition showcasing the work of people who experience a mental illness.

Treasure Trove Exhibition. October 19 – November 5
 An exhibition of works inspired by the old masters by the students of the U3A (University of the Third Age) under the tuition of Lillian Tebesceff. See over for programme details.

Moreton Bay Region Youth Art Awards. October 22 – 30

Monday to Friday: Strathpine Community Centre 3pm - 6pm. 

Weekends: 10am – 4pm
Students from all over the region will be competing for over $4000 in prizes at this annual event. This is an exhibition to inspire and delight art lovers of every age.
 

For more information contact the Pine Rivers Art  Gallery, 

Monday  – Saturday  between 10am – 4pm, on 3480 6941

 

Arts Connect Inc August Open studio events - Sunshine Coast Hinterland

Arts Connect Inc is hosting two open studio events in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland over the weekends of 20-21 August and 27-28 August. Over 30 professional artists will have their private studios open to the public. For more see: http://www.artsconnectinc.com.au/open-studios.html

inspiration from paul klee

The light just peers through the dark

Exhibition - Logan Gallery - Chrys Zantis opens 10 August 2011

Join Chrys Zantis at her latest art installation: motherboard’s olympus

Subtle soft pink knitted yarns and beaded sharp kitchen objects are some of the incoherent elements of this installation. Pass through luscious soft embellished curtains to find the Queen Motherboard herself as she gives audience to her court. In this installation the classical world’s gods meets the matriarchal rise of the 21st century. 

LOGAN ART GALLERY  |  10 AUG – 17 SEPCnr Wemberley Rd & Jacarander Ave, Logan Central OPENING NIGHT 12 AUG, 6 – 8pm (featuring a performance by 

Cecelia Chong Wah of Spider 8)

Erotic Screen and Sound Conference

The IMA are working with their friends at Griffith Centre for Cultural Research on their conference. Erotic Screen and Sound: Culture, Media and Desire will showcase new research on eroticism in the arts, culture, and society, and will feature more than eighty speakers. It will take place at Griffith University, South Bank Campus, 15–18 February.

The keynotes are: Judith Halberstam (University of Southern California), author of Skin Shows and Female Masculinities; Alan McKee (Queensland University of Technology), author of Australian Television and The Public Sphere, and co-author of The Porn Report; and Kelly Dennis (University of Connecticut), author of Art/Porn. 

For program and registration details, check out ‘Erotic Screen and Sound Conference’ on the Griffith website (www.griffith.edu.au/ccr).

The IMA are also staging two special FREE conference events. All welcome. You don’t have to be registered for the conference to attend.

The Launch

Will be held at the IMA with champagne and cupcakes. Maura Reilly (the newly appointed Professor of Art Theory at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University) will talk to Luke Roberts about his current show AlphaStation/Alphaville, followed by a screening of Jack Smith’s notorious 1963 gender-bending film Flaming Creatures. ‘This movie will be called pornographic, degenerate, homosexual, trite, disgusting, etc—it is all that and it is so much more’, wrote Jonas Mekas. 16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project with the Centre for Cultural Research and OtherFilm. Adults only. Tuesday 15 February at 6pm

Abnormal Love: Avant-garde Erotics

Perverted films from key figures in avant-garde cinema: Peggy Ahwesh, Abigail Child, Martha Colburn, the Kuchars, Jeanne Liotta, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Gunvor Nelson, Naomi Uman, and Stan VanDerBeek. 16mm prints courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York. A joint project with the Centre for Cultural Research and OtherFilm. Adults only.Thursday 17 February at 6pm

'Women of Substance' exhibition at Red Hill Gallery

Red Hill Gallery upcoming exhibition entitled 'Women of Substance' features works by
Leigh Camilleri, Susan Gilmour, Julie Hutchings, Pam Walpole which opens on Friday 18th February 2011, 6pm-8pm

The exhibition continues until Sunday 6 March

Leigh Camilleri, About Backeringa

Red Hill Gallery 61 Musgrave Road  Red Hill   Ph 07 33681442

Please RSVP BY 5PM WEDNESDAY 16 FEBRUARY if you are planning to attend the opening

International Artist Retreats for 2011

Art Retreats International invites you to expand your art and creative writing practice with renowned artists & authors in the most beautiful surroundings possible.

These unique journeys offer exotic destinations Morocco, Tuscany, New York, Japan, Australia, France to experience the culture, customs, food and surroundings that have inspired great artists & writers for centuries.

Instructors are international artists and authors with decades of experience, masterful skills and a proven ability to support your art and writing expression – including Elisabeth Cummings, Emma Walker, Tim Maguire, Wendy Sharpe, Bernard Ollis,  Michael John Taylor, Barry Divola and Anthony Sattin.

Additional information for your reference:

This is an article on the most recent retreat in Marakesh: http://www.theage.com.au/travel/framed-in-marrakesh-20110128-1a7q2.html

For specific details visit the website. Art Retreats International

Pine Rivers Art Gallery offers Artist Talks & Workshops

In conjunction with the One More Time With Feeling exhibition, the honours graduates of the Queensland College of Art will host an exciting array of artist talks and workshops.

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February 19 

Jennifer McMahon, Artist talk - 11:00 – 12:00

Jamie Congdon, Artist talk - 12:00 – 12:45
Jamie Congdon, Encaustic painting workshop $20 
(materials provided) - 1:15 – 3:15

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February 26

Elizabeth Gray, Artist talk - 10:15 – 11:00

Nick Drake, Artist talk - 11:15 – 12:00

Lynda Shale, Artist talk - 12:00 – 1:00

Nick Drake, Acrylic painting workshop $20 
(materials provided) - 1:15 – 3:15 

Archer Davies & Nat Koyama, Artist talk 
'The role of drawing and painting in contemporary art'
10:30 – 11:30

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March 5

Sara Rumsey, Artist talk - 11:30 – 12:15

Lynda Shale, Artist talk - 12:15 – 1:00 

Ryan Presley, Small clay sculptures workshop $20
(materials provided) - 1:15 – 3:15

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March 12

Sue  Beyer, Artist talk - 12:00 – 12:45

Sue Beyer, Dreamscape painting workshop $20 
(materials provided) - 1:15 – 3:15_________________________________________________

For more information visit the Workshops page on the Pine Rivers Art Gallery web site:
http://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/subsite.aspx?id=78384&libID=80964


Bookings are essential due to limited space - Phone (07) 3480 6941 to reserve your place
 

Pine Rivers Art Gallery - 199 Gympie Road, Strathpine
Open: Monday - Saturday: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Upcoming exhibitions around Brisbane

There are a couple of upcoming exhibition openings in Brisbane that look interesting.

First the Brisbane Emerging Art Festival exhibition titled CheckIn, Opening at Metro Arts on Saturday 19th February from 6 - 10pm. The exhibition focuses exclusively on new work and seeks to create a platform to promote the most exciting visual art being made in Brisbane. The exhibition presents artists within a dynamic and critical discourse, with a purpose of creating an arena for the public to view, study and critique new modes of art practice being developed locally.
Each year the exhibition will bring together a new Director, Curator and writer to present the emerging art showcase as part of the Brisbane Emerging Art Festival.
2011 ARTISTS:
Nat Koyama, Michelle Knowles, Alex Cuffe, Rebecca Smith, Timothy P. Kerr, Erika Scott, Jason Fitzgerald, Anastasia Booth, Richard Stride and Sue Beyer.
Curated by Courtney Coombs.

The second exhibition is One More Time With Feeling at Pine Rivers Art Gallery, on show from 16th February to 12th March 2011..
One More Time With Feeling is a compelling exhibition of contemporary artworks by the graduates of the Queensland Collage of Arts. Representing the culmination of each student’s intense engagement with an area of thought this exhibition draws on histories of discourse, lineages of practice, personal experience and intuition to bring out imaginative, innovative conclusions in the visual.

Opening night: 6.30pm on Friday, 18 February 2011

Lethbridge Gallery 2011 - Small Works Competition

This small works art competition for two dimensional works under 60cm is now in its 2nd year running and again offers entrants the chance to win $10,000 in prize money.

For details on how to enter visit this link.

Here is another video. This time is shows the work of sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson. He talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.

Arthur Ganson's kinetic metal sculptures mix high art with gearhead humor. Full bio and more link.

Tom Shannon - An intimate look at his science-inspired art (13min Video)

Exerpt from TEDtalks:

Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation with John Hockenberry reveals how nature's forces - and the onset of Parkinson's tremors -- interact in his life and craft.

Tom Shannon's mixed-material sculpture seems to levitate -- often it actually does -- thanks to powerful magnets and clever arrangements of suspension wire. He designed the TED Prize trophy. Full bio and more links





This is Tom Shannon presenting at TED in 2003. He fuses are and science and presents some very interesting futuristic ideas of where is are might take us.

Colouring-in (my world 2.0) at James Dorahy Project Space

25 January - 20 February 2011

ANNIE AITKEN / PAUL DONALD / JAMES DORAHY / MARITA FRASER / MATT GLENN / ALEXANDER JAMES / JULIE KRONE / STEPHANIE MONTEITH / SARAH NEWALL / ALI NOBLE / ANTONIA RADICH / NUHA SAAD / NAIRN SCOTT / SHERNA TEPERSON

Green with envy. Out of the blue. Caught red-handed. A white lie. Tickled pink. Once in a blue moon. Black out. Paint the town red. To show one’s true colours.

Why do we love certain colours and loathe others? Why do we find some colours soothing and others nauseating? Regardless the reasons, our responses to colour are highly subjective, influenced by in-numerous personal, emotional and cultural associations.

Colouring-in’, with its connotations of child’s play and fun, is also a pun (intended) or a word play suggesting numerous interpretations and approaches to the idea. Throughout out the colouring-in series the concept has been explored through a succession of different subjects: colouring-in (material) (2010), colouring-in (paper) (2009), colouring-in (sculpture) (2008) and colouring-in (the landscape) (2007).

Colouring-in (my world 2.0), the fifth and final chapter in the series, is an investigation by each individual artist into the role of colour in their practice; may it be symbolical, spiritual, expressive or purely ornamental, spontaneously chosen or carefully considered.

James Dorahy Project Space
Tuesday to Saturday  11am - 6pm • Sunday 11am - 5pm

Suite 4 Level One Minerva Building
111 Macleay St Potts Point  NSW  2011
Phone 61 (02) 9358 2585
www.jamesdorahy.com.au

In Between - Corinne Colombo at Redland Art Gallery

Image: Corinne Colombo, Where, why, why now, 2009, oil on canvas.  Courtesy of the artist. Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland

Opens 6 FEB –  6 MAR 2011

Opens at 11am Sunday 6 February 2011
at the Redland Art Gallery - Cnr Middle and Bloomfield Streets,  Cleveland  Q  4163

To be opened by Lyndal Hargrave • Entertainment by Carisma

Exhibition is showing:
Monday to Friday 9am – 4pm, Sunday 9am – 2pm  (Admission free)
www.more2redlands.com.au/ArtGallery

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Also opening – Frank Payne: 'The forgotten artist '
Exhibitions continue to Sunday 6 March 2011  • Floor Talk 11.30am Wednesday 9 February 2011

nice day! opens at Logan Art Gallery

Mayor Pam Parker and Councillors of Logan City Council cordially invite you and a guest to the official opening of nice day! an exhibition of works by Susan Buret, Jenny Conde, Uta Heidelauf, Candice Herne, Sandra Landolt and Nicola Moss.
Opening Wednesday 19 January - 6 pm for 6.30 pm

RSVP (acceptances only) by Friday 14 January
Logan Art Gallery - Ph: (07) 3412 5519 or email
Light refreshments will be served
Exhibitions commence on 12 January and continue to 19 February 2011

Phone: (07) 3412 5519 • Fax: (07) 3412 5350 • Email: artgallery@logan.qld.gov.au • Website: www.logan.qld.gov.au/artgallery
Logan Art Gallery - Admission is free!
Cnr Wembley Road and Jacaranda Ave
Logan Central Qld 4114
Open 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday

Image above: Nicola Moss, Weather Relations - Blow Dry (detail), 2010. Photography by Carl Warner.

Japanese Story at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

Nicola Moss, 'Within the sanctuary'. Synthetic polymer on canvas. ©2010.

I would like to extend a warm invitation to the opening of Japanese Story, a group exhibition, curated by Angela D'Elia, on show at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery from 8th to 22nd December 2010.

Sophie Munns - Final Exhibition - Homage to the Seed

Sophie Munns - Artist in residence - Residency Project at the Brisbane Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens.

Final exhibition will be manned by the artist so you can ask questions about her work and the Homage to the Seed project.

Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th December 2010 10am - 4pm.

Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty

Another one of the TedTalk series...
This is a very interesting investigation on the origins and purpose of the perception of beauty. 

Print Council of Australia - Call for Artists

Artists are invited to submit digital images of current work that they would like to have considered for as an edition of the 2011 PCA Print Commission. The Print Council of Australia is a national organisation dedicated to Australian print making.
For more information and to get an application form, please click HERE.
Applications close Wednesday, 8 February 2011.

In the Light

"In the Light" is an exhibition of recent drawings by Carolyn Gardner at the Myrtle Street Studio, 39 Myrtle Street, GRANGE (Brisbane).
Opening this Saturday, 30 October and goes through to the next Saturday, 6 November (closed Mondays and Tuesdays).

Elisabeth Lawrence "Brisburbia" showing at Percolator Gallery 2-15 Nov 2010

Artists of the Month for October at the Dayboro Art Gallery - Elaine Holmes and Martin Buckingham

Here's a peak at whats on show at the Dayboro Art Gallery this month. Elaine Holmes' beautiful paintings and Martin Buckhingham's magical sculptures.

Why not take a drive to the closest country town to Brisbane before the end of the month to see these artist's work and more!

Michael Eather Sculpture viewing

The artist and Heiser gallery invite you to a studio viewing of Michael Eather sculpture
Please join us for a drink and chat with Michael Eather.
& to view
Stingray Sculptures & other studio works


where: 11 Stratton Street Newstead (lower level)
when: Sunday November 7 2010
12 noon until 4pm
Artist's talk at 1.30pm
(Louise Martin-Chew in conversation with Michael Eather)

includes Catalogue launch
A Guide to The Form: The Stingray Sculptures of Michael Eather
Refreshments will be served - RSVP please (for catering purposes) by November 4

michael@fireworksgallery.com.au

Thank you Lily for forwarding this information.

Urban Art Projects and IMA

Thank you Lily for forwarding this information. Please click on the image to read details.

Workshop - To Market, To Market

Do you know what your product is? Or what you are really selling? Click HERE for more information on this workshop being run 9am - 4pm, this Friday, 8 October at the Bribie Island Community Arts Centre. Bookings essential.

Anarchy in Art - Not so pretty Cake Decorating

A story on Hotham St Ladies was shown on Art Nation on ABC Television at 5.30pm, Sunday, 2 October and was very relevant to me in terms of our discussion about anarchy in art at the last BAD Co-op Meeting. Thought fellow members would enjoy watching if you missed it - click HERE.

call out for painters to enter this Art Award

You have until October 21 to put in an entry form - read more here at the Chapman and Bailey website or here at this blog post.

A Meet & Greet @ City Studios - 17th Sept 2010

Social Futures Initiative

The event will be held on this Friday at our Brisbane City location, and will be a great  opportunity for you to find out more about who we are, what we do and where SFI and City Studios is going in the
future, and also to meet many interesting professionals and thinkers in a friendly and entertaining environment.

Evening Schedule:
6:00pm      Arrivals for 6:15 opening
6:15pm      Start of the event
6:30pm      Presentation on Social Futures Initiative and City Studios
6:45pm      Tour of the facilities
7:00pm      socialising & networking (refreshments provided)
8:00pm      Event Close

 
 














REMEMBER!

Entry via 34 Burnett Lane or 43 Adelaide St.

There will be a short presentation about City Studios and our plans for the future. After a
tour of the facilities, guests are welcome to stay and meet others involved with the project. 

Musical Entertainment will be provided.

If you have not done it yet, please RSVP via Facebook or email by 3:00pm on 16/09/2009 (Thursday), we look forward to seeing you there.

you can RSVP  to:
Christine and Jeremy, City Studios • mailbox@citystudios.org  •  Mob. 0421 774 124

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success

This is a very succinct summary of what we need to nurture to be successful.
Enjoy. 

For more inspirational talks visit www.ted.com/talks.

Seeking advice

I regularly read Joanne Mattera's Art Blog and found todays post full of useful information. Each Monday Joanne posts under the heading of Marketing Mondays, covering many topics related to the business side of an artists' practice. This week her topic is 'Your Board of Directors', looking at areas where artists may need to seek advice from others.

Thank you to Joanne Mattera for sharing her insightful and helpful information.

Establish Your Website - Supper Talk

At 6.30pm, Wednesday, 20 October at the Pine Rivers Museum there will be a session run on establishing your Website, including the principles of good website design and step by step instructions. Its free but bookings are essential. For more information click HERE.

Percolator Gallery - CARMEN OLSEN & REBEKAH EVANS

MILF: Depictions of Contemporary Motherhood

Exhibition Tuesday 7 - Monday 13 September 2010
Viewing Times Open Wednesday - Monday 10.00am - 4.30pm
Opening Night Friday 10 September | 6.00 - 8.00pm

Image: "The Landscape Inside" (detail) by Rebekah Evans & "Constance" (detail) by Carmen Olsen - Both Acrylic on Wardrobe Doors 32x152cm

Percolator Gallery 134 Latrobe Tce, Paddington Q 4064 Tel: 3368 3315
info@percolatorgallery.com.au www.percolatorgallery.com.au

Piano for a worthy cause

We have an old upright, dark timber, piano that we really can't fit in any longer. It isn't a wonderful piano - it does play but would need substantial work to make it a functioning thing worthy of someone who cares about music. HOWEVER there are other uses for old pianos - perhaps a rebuilding for a piano cardigan wearer who likes rebuilding things, a garden folly, a school yard distraction, catapult fodder, flaming catapult fodder. An art piece for a group of kids - a how does this thing work?.... what ever.

Spider says it still belts out a good crocodile rock.

Up for grabs for about 2 weeks, before it meets the tuner in the sky.

for those who don't know where we are - we are in Pashen St Morningside. feel free to ask you friends, fit pneumatic tyres and roll it away, singing and dancing as you go. Kim

Call Jenny 0418741834 if you would like this piano.

Creating interactive artworks & performances workshop

Interactive programming with Quartz Composer, a Mac based visual programming environment

A workshop by Richard Byers

Covering;
• An introduction to Quartz Composer environment
• Examples by Richard and inspirational works of others
• How to connect audio, camera's and physical sensors to Quartz composer
• An open discussion will follow with more advanced topics, for users to swap ideas, showcase work,
• Collaborate and make contacts

11 places are available, each participant will have a computer each loaded with quartz and additional plugins for them to experiment and produce quartz compositions during the workshop.

Richard Byers, a resident artist at The Edge with a live interactive improvised music performance and installation project, more info and details about him and his projects can be found at http://sound.transmissionlight.tk/brisbane

please email Richard on email@richardbyers.tk for bookings.

Copyright issues... excellent FAQ reference (Australia)

I came across this useful site for Digital copyright laws and contact references for additional and specific questions. 

Digital Copyright FAQ
The following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) were developed to answer some common questions about copyright in digital and Internet media. Legal expertise for the answers to these questions was provided by Dr Anne Fitzgerald, co-editor of Going Digital: Legal issues for e-commerce, multimedia and the Internet (2000), and author of Intellectual Property (2002).

This FAQ is provided by the Department of Education, Science and Training, and Arts Queensland. 

This is the link to the site for detailed information and contact details. http://copyright.qantm.com.au/dig-copy-faq.htm#1

At the IMA - Cine Blatz 1

information sourced from IMA email

Jeff Keen’s Delirious Pop-Trash Films

Keen’s films are high-voltage visual shocks, eruptions of pulp imagery, eroticism, violence, language
games, uncensored imagination and sheer giddy exuberance. His early films are love-letters to cinema 
history: to silent film and B-movies, to slapstick, thrillers, exploitation flicks and sci-fi apocalypses, his later works disquieting parades of video news imagery and documentation of his own creative processes. Frankenstein and Godzilla share the screen with Keen’s own cast of heroes and villains such Motler the Word Killer, Dr Gaz, Silverhead, Omozap and Mothman (often played by friends and family). Edited into machine-gun sprays of imagery, Keen’s pedal-to-the-metal, high-speed films are like animated collages —action painting with the stress very much on action.—Dan Fox










Seminal films from 1960 to 1972 by an unsung pioneer of British experimental film. 16mm prints courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; and Lux, London. A joint project with OtherFilm.

Thursday 26 August 2010 at 6pm

INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART
at the judith wright centre of contemporary arts
420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
T: 07 3252 5750  E: ima@ima.org.au
www.ima.org.au

GALLERY HOURS
Tue–Sat 11am–5pm | Open Late Thurs until 8pm
Closed public holidays

Artists of the Month for August at the Dayboro Community Art Gallery - Warren Watson and Avril Towerton

The weather is perfect for a lovely drive in the country and where better to go than the closest country town to Brisbane - Dayboro! This month at the Dayboro Art Gallery , Warren Watson and Avril Towerton are the Artists of the Month, why not take a lovely drive out Dayboro way and check out all it has to offer.

Warren, a signwriter by trade, creates wonderful pieces in mixed media.

Avril is currently showing her unique glassware. Avril is also a very talented painter and also has many paintings in the gallery for you to see.

The Dayboro Art Gallery is open from 10am to 3pm, 7 days a week.

Swell Sculpture Fest - Call for volunteers

Swell Sculpture Festival is just around the corner... experience a wondrous display of 55 sculptures built by artists from Australia and overseas in the 8th annual Swell Sculpture Festival.

Mark your calendar now! 10 - 19 September 2010 - Currumbin Beach


:: calling volunteers

We are calling for volunteers to assist at the 2010 Swell Sculpture Festival. This is a great opportunity to meet the artists, mingle with like minded people and get into the creative and energetic atmosphere of Swell!

The Volunteer Briefing Night is on Thursday 26th August from 6.30pm at Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club and this evening will be an chance to meet and get up to speed with all that is going on this year! We hope to see you on the night.

Read all about volunteering here or please email anna@swellsculpture.com.au for more information.

Regional Arts Development Fund - Moreton Bay Region - Closes 13 September 2010

The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) provides support for arts, culture and heritage development activities in the Moreton Bay region.

Some areas of support include:
• Professional development
• Workshops
• Innovative arts, culture or heritage projects
• Concept development
• Creative industries development
• Cultural tourism initiatives

If you're considering applying for a grant, put your 'best foot forward' by attending one of the RADF information sessions:
• Pine Rivers - 12 Aug 2010
• Caboolture - 16 Aug 2010
• Redcliffe - 19 Aug 2010

For more information on these information sessions, phone 3283 0405. Round closes Monday September 13 (for projects not starting before December 2010).

Click HERE for more information on RADF in the Moreton Bay Region.

"Money for the Arts" Grant Writing Workshop - Redcliffe

The Moreton Bay Regional Council, through its Food for Thought program, is running a "Money for the Arts" Grant Writing Workshop from 9am to 4pm on Friday, 6 August 2010 at Redcliffe. Cost is $20 per person and places are limited. Click HERE for more information and to make a booking.

The extreme complexity of roughness

This TED talk reminded me of Lyndal's work, a lovely abstract concept that has its roots in order and pattern.

At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.

http://www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html

LAUNCH: Clayton Utz Art Award 2010

The LAUNCH: Clayton Utz Art Award 2010 opening and winner announcements were made last night. It is one of the country's most generous non-acquisitive art prizes; offering emerging artists with a close connection to Queensland an opportunity to profile their work in the unique environment of Clayton Utz's Brisbane premises. There are 23 shortlisted artists this year with works created in a broad range of media including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. Haruka Sawa was selected as the $10,000 award recipient, Sonya Peters received a highly commended award and Jason Fitzgerald a special mention. Other finalists this year include Lyndal Hargrave, Nicola Moss, Jan Van Dijk, Jim McDowell, Meaghan Shelton, Simone Eisler, Rebecca Ross, Phoebe McDonald, Paul Mumme, Steven Vella, Stefan Dunlop, Sandra Kane, Vivienne Kelly, Anita Hochman, Ari Fuller, Carly Scoufus, Chris Howlett, Dane Beesley, Kirra Jamison and Nikola Sweet.

ArtStart Grants

Click HERE for more information.

Nobody Knows Exhibition - Rob McHaffie, Anne Wallace and Simon Mee

Who does she think she is? Documentary

I received this email from Candice Herne, (Fellow artist and mother of 2) with a link to the whodoesshethinksheis.net site which had the trailer to a new and exciting documentary about the live and struggles of being female, having a family and children and creating a career in art.

This is the trailer to the movie. 




It is wonderful to see the light being shone on a topic that is relative to many of us as women artists.

I have my thoughts on the topic...would be great to hear yours.

Thanks Candy for sharing this thought provoking topic with us.

OPEN STUDIO WEEK: july 12 -18 ... Sophie Munns at Mt Coot-tha

Sophie Munns is conducting this week long event as part of her residency at Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mt Coot-tha for the year. Homage to the Seed is an 'art meets science' project championing seeds coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity.

 




You are warmly invited to come and spend some time over the 7 days of this event at the Randall Studio at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mt Coo-tha. The studio is easily found as its on the left immediately when you enter the main car park - a small self-contained buidling - in the style of an old school-house.
To read clear and detailed outlines of the week visit the Homage to the Seed blog where posts written July 1 and 8 contain useful information about the week. More will be added along the way.
Featured are;
Monday:  'Pop-up' Studio opens 10am-5pm each day for 7 days... 9am opening on Sunday!
Wednesday:  afternoon Art Workshop - bookings being taken.
Thursday:  1pm Public Talk by Jason Halford from the Seeds for Life/Millennium Seed Bank project.... donation entry
Saturday:  family day... kids art and a barista making seriously good coffee for adults.
Sunday:  1pm - 3.30pm Free Public dialogue - Seeds, Biodiversity and Sustainability with guest speakers. NB Studio doors will close for duration of this event.

On show all week will be completed art work from the Residency project commenced February, a temporary working studio set-up,  "Postcards from the blogosphere" - a mail art show all bloggers are welcome to add to over the week, a cafe area for coffee and cake for the week, a 'collection's corner'... seedpods, seed related books and material and a community notice board.

NB: Tuesday and Friday are excellent days to come by and enjoy the space with out an event running!
All contact details at Homage blog.
         See you there if you are free to join in!