Live painting by Brisbane street artist bhats, Sat Oct 29 2011 at the 2high Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse
This photo of bhats’ work by ladypenrhyn on Flickr
Brisbane street artist bhats (flickr account here) will be painting a wall live in front of anyone who wants to watch next Saturday, October 29 2011, at the 2high festival at the Brisbane Powerhouse in New Farm.
This photo of bhats’ work by ladypenrhyn on Flickr
The work begins at midday and goes through to 4pm. The entire festival is free. If you like the photos you see here, there are plenty more on Flickr.
This photo of bhats’ work by ladypenrhyn on Flickr
Click here for a map showing the best way to get to the Powerhouse by public transport.
“Drums” Photo Exhibition and Drum Solos: Nine Lives Gallery, Thu Mar 10
Photographer Max Doyle has a free exhibition opening on at Nine Lives Gallery this Thursday at 6pm. The exhibition, called Drums, features drum solo work from Nick Norton, Alex Gilles from No Anchor and Susan Patten.
No Anchor playing the Judith Wright Centre in April 2010
Nine Lives Gallery is at 5F Winn St, Fortitude Valley, just around the corner of Ann St from the Zoo. Click here for a Google Map with public transport info.
If you like using Facebook to keep track of your events, the opening is on Facebook here.
Free Guided Tours – 21st Century Exhibition at Gallery of Modern Art, Southbank @qagGoMA
The free 21st Century – Art in the First Decade exhibition is on at the Gallery of Modern Art in Southbank, and if you want a bit of help to get into it, you can start with a free guided tour.
The tours are on every day at 11am and 1pm – but they are NOT running from January 13 to January 23 2011. Meet at the information desk near the front doors to join the tour.
If you want to find out more, there’s a set of photos on flickr showing the exhibition being installed.
This slideshow shows Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s work “From here to ear (v 13)”, one of the pieces in the exhibition:
If you can’t see the slideshow, click here to see the set of photos it comes from.
This video shows Boursier-Mougenot talking about his work:
For more info about what’s on at the exhibition, there’s also a blog. The Queensland Art Gallery, which includes the Gallery of Modern Art, is on Twitter and Facebook, and there’s a Facebook event for the 21st Century exhibition.
The exhibition is free, and is on until April 26 2011. The gallery is open from 10-5 Monday to Friday and 9-5 Saturday and Sundays. For a Google Map showing where the gallery is, and with public transport info, click here.
Brisbane Photographer hugo Presser Has Some Fascinating Work
Self Portrait 1 – Hugo Presser
I got an email from a local Brisbane photographer, Hugo Presser the other day, asking if I’d like to feature his work here. I had a quick glance at the link he sent me, and it took me a few seconds to decide that his work was pretty damn cool and worth sharing with you.
Study in Transformation #19 – Hugo Presser
Study in Transformation #12 – Hugo Presser
Stuffed Clown – Hugo Presser
If you like what you see, you can see 74 of Hugo Presser’s photos at his flickr account if you click here.
You can also visit his photography blog if you click here, or follow @hugopresser on Twitter.
Hugo sells his photos as fine art giclée prints so if you want to buy anything, you should contact him through his flickr profile, or email him at hugopresser@gmail.com
And if you have something you think should be on the Brisbane Blog, email me at tips@djackmanson,com
“Just in Case”: Alice Lang’s Sculptures at the Museum of Brisbane From This Fri Nov 26
Brisbane-based sculptor Alice Lang has an exhibition, “Just In Case” opening at the Museum of Brisbane this Friday, November 26 2010.
On her site, Lang says she likes using her sculpture (which she sews) to look at the ugly and the beautiful, and how they both those ideas affect with women. She likes twisting ideas of the familiar and the strange, and has been working on using technicolour vinyls to create surreal effects.
Decoy 2 and Decoy 1, from Lang’s 2007 exhibition “they suffocate at night”
Close-up detail of “Decoy 1” from the 2007 “they suffocate at night” exhibition.
You can see some more of Lang’s work if you click here
The exhibition runs until Sunday January 30. The Museum of Brisbane is open daily from 10am to 5pm; admission is free.
Ron Mueck exhibition: Sculpture of a man’s head
Dreamgirls And Candy Perfume Mountain, an art show by Yuki Nakano
Brisbane artist Yuki Nakano is having an exhibition at Hanasho Flower and Art in West End.
The exhibition is called “Dreamgirls and Candy Perfume Mountain”, and it begins on Thursday July 1st, and on Thursday July 8 Ms Nakano is giving a talk from 6.30pm, and there will be free food and drinks.
You can follow Yuki Nakano on Twitter, or become a fan of her on Facebook. You can also click here for the Facebook event for the exhibition.
The exhibition is at Hanasho Flower and Art, from Thursday July 1 to Saturday July 31 2010. The gallery is open from 7.45am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 4pm on Saturdays. The gallery is at 5/235 Boundary St, West End – click here for a Google Map with public transport details. To look up the timetables for the route 199 bus, click here to use the Translink journey planner.
Giant Rabbits at the Gallery of Modern Art
One of the great things about the Gallery of Modern Art at Southbank is that photography is encouraged. I went in yesterday to have a look around, and Michael Parakowhai’s giant rabbits Cosmo McMurtry and Jim McMurtry caught my eye.
Cosmo McMurtry sits, head cocked to one side, to your right as you walk into the gallery past the information desk and cloak room. He is placed so the enormous queue of people waiting to see the Ron Mueck exhibition wait in line right next to him. Since Mueck’s work is also about sculptures many times larger than life-sized, I suspect this was a deliberate work of “cross-promotion” to get people interested in the Unnerved exhibition of New Zealand art, of which the two McMurtry sculptures are a part.
According to the curator’s notes, one of the things the sculptures are supposed to be about is the big problem of rabbits in New Zealand. I’ve been aware since I was a young child of the similar problem in Australia, but until I read the notes that didn’t occur to me at all. I wonder if this is because Cosmo McMurtry is quite cute, with sympathetic eyes, chubby cheeks and mouth open in apparent surprise.
Further down the hall, Jim McMurtry lies on his back, one eye closed, tongue hanging out of his mouth. Instead of Cosmo’s stiff whiskers made of steel, Jim’s whiskers are limp and curled, made of plastic tubing. It’s difficult to get a proper look at this sculpture from ground level; two of these photos are taken from the balcony of level 3 of the gallery.
Jim McMurtry provoked a bit of thought in me. Is he dead? Asleep? Drunk? Are we supposed to be thinking about the cruelty of killing? The effects of booze? Or should we just be greatful that the artist used a cotton-tail instead of providing us with a realistic rabbit’s anus about thirty times the usual size?
A third Parakowhai sculpture stands guard over the McMurtrys. Kapa Haka (Whero) is a fibreglass security guard painted with automobile paint. As I walked into the exhibition I had to check to make sure this wasn’t a real security guard. I found this sculpture interesting because it made me think about my generally negative attitude towards security guards; their job is often to stop you doing things like taking photos in art galleries. After that feeling passed, I realised that unlike a real security guard, you could shove a camera right up in this one’s face.
The Unnerved exhibition is at the Gallery of Modern Art until July 4 2010. For a map with public transport details, click here. To use the Translink journey planner to check public transport routes and timetables, click here.
Originally published on the JSchool Student Blog.
Art Exhibition: 100 years of highlights from the University of Queensland Art Collection, Apr 16 – Jul 4 2010
Some of the artworks that will be in the exhibition are below:
Self-portrait, Mary Christison, c 1870s
Outsider, Gordon Bennett, 1988
Self portrait with a scarf, John Passmore, 1940
The UQ Art Museum is free to visit, and is open from 10am to 4pm every day except public holidays.
Click here for a Google Map showing the location of the University of Queensland Art Museum, including public transport details. You can click here to look up the route 412 bus timetables at the Translink website.
QUT Art Museum exhibition: Brisbane artist Dan Brock, until May 16 2010
The QUT Art Museum in town has a new exhibition, showing the work of Brisbane artist Dan Brock. Dan Brock painted the Brunswick Street mural that’s directly opposite the entrance to the Valley Metro Mall, the indoor shopping mall that has the entrance to the Fortitude Valley train station.
One of Dan Brock’s works from the exhibition
Dan Brock’s current work is in a style called “provisonal painting”. According to an article in Art in America Magazine by Raphael Rubinstein, provisional painting could be work that’s based in skepticism of the idea of fine art, or related to the “amateurish and fucked-up” art and music embraced by the punk movement. Rubinstein also thinks it may have something to with artists rejecting the art market and it’s “insatiable appetite for smart, stylish, immaculately executed canvases, paintings that left no doubt as to the artist’s technical competence, refined sensibility and solid work ethic”.
Another Dan Brock painting from his exhibition
The QUT Art Museum is open at 10am from Tuesday to Friday, shutting at 5pm each night except on Wednesday when it’s open till 8pm. On Saturday and Sunday it’s open from 12 noon till 4pm, and it’s closed on Mondays and public holidays. You can follow the QUT Art Museum on Twitter, or become a fan of theirs on Facebook.
A third Dan Brock painting from the exhibition
Click here for a Google Map showing where the QUT Art Museum is, with public transport details. To look up the free City Loop bus timetable click here (use “loop” as the route number), or you can click here to use the public transport journey planner to look up CityCat timetables.
The Brunswick St mural