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Mitchell Fine Art presents a follow up exhibition of paintings portraying the Australian desert landscape, highlighting the contrast of artistic influences between family members.
Providing a rare opportunity for aspiring choreographers and dancers to display their talents in a supportive environment, Sharp Short Dance is returning to the stage, both live and digitally, in 2021.
Chop Chef is a dark, satirical comedy where six contestants from around Australia enter the cooking battlefield of a fictional reality television series Chop Chef.
A one-woman physical comedy by Circus Artist Ciara Thorburn, 'The Thesis' offers audiences a 50-minute voyeuristic glimpse into the private life of an eccentric polymath. #CiaraThorburn #TheThesisCT @ciara_thorburn (Facebook)
TAFE NSW graduate Christine Smalley is exhibiting her world-class curatorial skills in her new position as Coordinator Collection and Exhibitions at Penrith Regional Gallery.
Linden New Art presents Of Slender Means, an exhibition by Linden New Art artist in residence sculpture artist and self-declared part-time optimist, Carolyn Menzies. Showing in the Linden Projects Space the exhibition will open to the public on Thursday 22 July. The exhibition will examine the intersection between art and craft through the lens of steel.
Love's Bitter Mystery is a biographical piece, reflecting on ways James Joyce mined his own life for his fiction; and fictionalised it, too. Is what we're watching fiction? Memory? Biographical fact? Speculation? Or something else entirely?
Margaret Pearson and Michelle Ledwith had planned their art show for 2020. However, a world pandemic changed all that, and their proposed installation was postponed until 2021. Throughout this time, they both painted and added these recent experiences to the exhibition. The time is coming soon for viewers to be moved and affected by the art they see at this Redcliffe Peninsula event. I would like to introduce you to their two worlds of artistic expression.
Australian comedy heavyweight Rob Andrews will have audiences busting a gut when his new solo show has its Sydney premiere at Stonecutters Ridge Golf Club in August.
Cairns indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) is back, and this year it's shaping up to be its brightest yet with a sparkling new hub, film festival after dark, music in the park, along with host of stellar events and exhibitions that focus the spotlight on Queensland's distinct and diverse Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander arts and culture.
Judy Trick's vibrant and textural mixed media works on canvas evoke the colour, feel and character of her home on the South Coast of NSW and the destinations she has visited during a peripatetic life.
TAFE NSW Katoomba is engaging Aboriginal artists in the Blue Mountains to share their stories through art in a unique Painting up Country program.
All the fabulous Play It Forward' choirs are in full swing rehearsing in 2021. You're invited to join the fun. Check if there is a choir that suits you. Jonathon Welch AM, Founding Artistic Director Innovative Inclusive Inspiring @playitforwardoz
Cancelled due to COVID-19. Babette's Feast shows how one generous heart can sweeten a souring community and the result is positively delicious.
Tarnanthi, the Art Gallery of South Australia's annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art returns for its sixth iteration in October 2021. Internationally acclaimed as the largest festival of its kind, Tarnanthi this year comprises a major exhibition at AGSA, a state-wide festival across close to 30 partner venues and the Tarnanthi Art Fair presented over the opening weekend.
Thursday, the 8th of July will see The Count's welcome proud Noongar woman, soulful vocalist and songwriter Bumpy.
Cancelled / postponed! Hush cuts through our cultural narratives about motherhood and instead dives into the real fears, ugly desires, and harsh realities of young women faced with this transformation.
Thursday, the 22nd of July will see The Count's welcome Internationally acclaimed saxophonist Solomon Sisay.
Thursday, the 29th of July will see The Count's welcome Zimbabwean songstress Thando.
Arts Project Australia is excited to bring a multi-dimensional experience to its Collingwood Yards gallery space from Saturday 10 July to Sunday 22 August titled Material World.
A contemporary neo-noir thriller spanning seven decades and set in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, this August Theatre Works proudly present The Darkening Sky - the latest premiere work from renowned playwright Richard Murphet. @Theatre_Works (Twitter) @TheatreWorksStKilda (Facebook)
The Institute for Art and Innovation (IFAI) in Berlin announced the winners of the third #Social #Art #Award. With this year's edition on the topic of New Greening, the IFAI and its partners have been looking for visionary works from artists (co-)creating #positive #futures, communicating compelling #ideas, concepts, narratives, practices and visions of #coexistence. Based on the belief that #humanity can only solve the complex #global problems with #openness, #inclusiveness, and interdisciplinary #collaboration, applications were welcome that provide hopeful prospects towards #climate change, #resource saving, #environmental protection, #ecosystem #recovery, water conservation, #biodiversity, #resilient cities etc.
KWM Live Exhibition for Contemporary First Nations Art Award
Al-Tiba9 announces its first call for Artist Books and Photobooks. Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art magazine is a leading publication in the contemporary art world, distributed and collected worldwide and showcased in art fairs around Europe. With our first call for submissions for art books, we encourage artists, galleries, museums, and art institutions to submit their publications. Selected Artbooks will get the chance to distribute their art books through Al-Tiba9, both on our online bookshop and in-person booth at established art fairs.
Alcove Art Shop Winter Warmers Exhibition
The A' Design Award and Competition in pursuit of recognizing excellent design works that were proposed and completed within the last 10 years. Every year, A' Design Award features a reputable jury panel of specialist in various categories, to evaluate design projects that submitted to A' Design Award. First phase of the A' Design Award and Competition is the preliminary round where talented designers, companies and brands submit their design works for preliminary evaluation. Design works have received a high preliminary score in the preliminaries could proceed with final nomination. However, the registration and submission a design project for the preliminaries are free of charge, there is a fee for final nomination.
TAFE NSW is helping to fuel the local handmade industry by training and supporting small business owners like jewellery store owner Connie Dimas.
South East's new home for live music, The Count's are set to welcome Barney McAll as their resident artist for August.
Playful, joyful, and deep, Torrio! comprising Paul Grabowsky (piano), Mirko Guerrini (saxes) and Niko Schauble (drums) is a trio that brings together a wealth of experience gathered over three decades of shared musical adventures. Special guests from different genres and backgrounds will join with them each week to create music without frontiers.
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