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Ipswich photographer Jason McNamara wins the $25000 Stanthorpe Art Prize
BY Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery | 15-Jun-2018
This year the overall winner who received $25,000 prize money was Jason McNamara from Ipswich, with his work Clyde & Mary. The subjects of the photograph, Clyde and Mary Towler, are often seen walking the streets of Ipswich hand in hand. In this piece they were photographed in their home in Woodend, Ipswich.
Screenings, panels, workshops and more at Melbourne WebFest 2018
BY Lauren Colosimo | 07-Jun-2018
Australia’s international web series festival, Melbourne WebFest is celebrating its sixth anniversary this year from 28 June - 1 July. Over four days, the festival will honour innovative creators, screening 85 of the best web series from 16 different countries. In addition to screenings, the 2018 program will include professional development and networking events, industry panels and a live pitching competition.
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Ryoji Ikeda brings monumental installation micro | macro to Sydney's Carriageworks
BY Articulate PR | 25-Jun-2018
The internationally acclaimed Ryoji Ikeda returns to Carriageworks with micro | macro. Developed during a residency at CERN, European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, micro | macro is an immersive installation which sits at the intersection of art and quantum physics.
STC's 'Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark' returns to Sydney for the Winter School Holidays
BY Kabuku | 25-Jun-2018
After winning over kids and adults alike in 2016, The Listies' very cheeky, very clever, utterly irreverent riff on Hamlet - made especially for children and their families- is back for a return season at the Seymour Centre and Riverside Theatres this July, followed by a tour which includes shows in Canberra, Wagga Wagga, Wollongong and Belrose.
The Isthmus - Cameron Robbins + Jon Tarry
BY Heathcote Cultural Precinct | 24-Jun-2018
'The Isthmus' responds to conditions of site. Cameron Robbins and Jon Tarry collaborate using site, sounds and sensing the surrounds. With the scent of Ocean merging with dynamic natural light, shifting by day as the celestial sky by night assures the vastness of time passing. The light and air influence state of mind, health and wellbeing. @heathcoteculturalprecint
Shaping the Cross talk series: Interwar Apartments; Minerva-Metro; Sulman
BY The Cross Art Projects | 23-Jun-2018
The Kings Cross Arts & Cultural Festival, Inc. and The CrossArt Projects are co-hosting three talks about aspects of our heritage.
CHANGES Reveals Full Talks Program and Tonnes of Love Music
BY Little Giant | 22-Jun-2018
CHANGES are coming. On July 4 and 5 2018, CHANGES, a collaboration between The Push, Yarra City Council, Music Victoria and the Victorian music community, assembles a roster of ground breaking voices, programming and events to reshape the Australian music industry.
Seymour Centre presents an Illbijerri Theatre Company production of WHICH WAY HOME By Katie Beckett
BY Kabuku Public Relations | 22-Jun-2018
The Seymour Centre is thrilled to present the critically acclaimed, smash-hit darling of the 2017 Sydney Festival, Which Way Home, in the Reginald Theatre this July as part of the show's national tour and The Seymour Centre's 2018 season.
Expressions Of Interest Open For Brunswick Music Festival 2019
BY Deathproof PR | 22-Jun-2018
With local legend Emily Ulman at the helm as Music Programmer, Brunswick Music Festival 2019 is set to once again shake things up – continuing to reflect, embrace and challenge this diverse community and place. Brunswick Music Festival is one of Melbourne’s longest running inner city music festivals and in 2019 celebrates 31 years. Over three decades the festival has reflected the changing face of Brunswick – continually showcasing the best local talent, presenting high calibre international artists and embracing a movable feast of musical genres and events.
Elbow Room Offer Melbourne Audiences a Limited Season of their Award-Winning Production, Prehistoric
BY Sassy Red PR | 22-Jun-2018
After sold out seasons at the Brisbane Festival and 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Elbow Room’s award-winning production, Prehistoric, returns for a limited season at the Meat Market Stables in North Melbourne. #PrehistoricMelb #ElbowRoom
Musical Animal Adventure For Kids With TMO
BY Event Manager | 21-Jun-2018
The Metropolitan Orchestra’s Cushion Concerts return to Balmain Town Hall on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of July. Hear birds singing, lions roaring, elephants stomping and even an unhappy Aardvark, all played by the orchestra! Join Zookeepers Sarah-Grace and Nat for this fun concert that will ignite imaginations in a kid friendly environment.
Charlemagne Palestine - Exclusive One Night Only Melbourne Performance
BY PBP | 20-Jun-2018
The SUBSTATION in association with ROOM40. presents Iconic Avant Garde artist Charlemagne Palestine. Saturday 23 June @ Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 2 Pasco Street, Williamstown
FORTE Presented by PROJECTion Dance Company
BY Projection Dance | 20-Jun-2018
The FORTE program is a modern dance bill curated to fulfil an insatiable curiosity about movement and its expressive potential. It dives into an exploration of strength in its many forms and uses exquisite design and musical composition to push the dancers to their physical and emotional boundaries.
2019 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund opens new-look grants program
BY Adelaide Fringe | 20-Jun-2018
Australia’s largest arts festival is shaking up the way it provides grants to independent performers as part of the 2019 Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund, for which applications open today.
SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS | MELBOURNE WEBFEST INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT DAY
BY Lauren Colosimo | 19-Jun-2018
Get ready for a day of hands on workshops delivered by the best in the industry, hosted by La Trobe University (City Campus). You’ll learn new tools to assist with directing screen writing and lighting techniques.
Treasure Hunt
BY Ipswich Art Gallery | 19-Jun-2018
Experience the thrill of discovery these school holidays!
Applications now open for the NSW Regional Arts Fund
BY Katelyn-Jane Dunn | 19-Jun-2018
Applications are now being accepted for the NSW Regional Arts Fund (RAF), an Australian Government initiative that supports sustainable cultural development in regional and remote communities in Australia. The program is managed by Regional Arts Australia and Regional Arts NSW, and is designed to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities.
The Talk by Mish Grigor
BY PBP | 18-Jun-2018
Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents THE TALK by Mish Grigor. The Talk is a terribly undomesticated evening. It’s one account of what happens when you start talking about sex with your family: what ‘the talk’ is, and what it shouldn’t be.
My Monster: The human animal hybrid
BY RMIT Gallery | 18-Jun-2018
The desire to merge human and animal into one creature has fascinated artists for 40,000 years.
Parenthesis
BY Aridhi Anderson | 18-Jun-2018
Fairy tales aren't just for kids. Check out this refreshing new take on a Grimm Brothers classic about love, money, magic and karma!
Gallery talk with David Fairbairn
BY Marina Dobson | 18-Jun-2018
Line is the foundation of David Fairbairn’s art: from a density of line work, form emerges. In this exhibition of large scale portraiture, Fairbairn works with etching, extending his previous exploration of drawing by working directly on the copper plate
Exhibition Opening - David Fairbairn and Aleph Geddis
BY Marina Dobson | 18-Jun-2018
In these large-scale, etched portraits, the face and personality of each sitter emerges from a density of line work: Fairbairn’s exhibition is both a culmination of intense artistic investigation and a psychological journey. The sculptural works of Aleph Geddis live at the intersection of traditional methods and modernist forms, informed by woodworking and carving practices of the Pacific Northwest (USA) and Japan, and the essence of Platonic solids.
Submerged - Stories of Australia's Shipwrecks
BY Marina Dobson | 18-Jun-2018
Submerged – Stories of Australia’s Shipwrecks is a nationally touring panel exhibition from the Australian National Maritime Museum uncovering Australia’s rich shipwreck history.
Windsong Series #2 Joyce Yang (piano)
BY Four Winds | 17-Jun-2018
Windsong Series #2 | Joyce Yang (piano) | Saturday 7 July | 1 – 3pm Gates open: 12noon | Windsong Pavilion
The Alcove Art Shop Winter Warmers Exhibition
BY The Alcove Art Shop | 16-Jun-2018
Come and enjoy the textures and colours of winter during the Winter Warmers exhibition from artists of the Alcove Art Shop. All our creations are hand made and include ceramics, jewellery, paintings, woodwork, cards and textiles. All artworks are for sale. We invite you to celebrate the launch of the exhibition with finger food and drinks on our opening night. @alcoveartshop
Ipswich photographer Jason McNamara wins the $25000 Stanthorpe Art Prize
BY Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery | 15-Jun-2018
This year the overall winner who received $25,000 prize money was Jason McNamara from Ipswich, with his work Clyde & Mary. The subjects of the photograph, Clyde and Mary Towler, are often seen walking the streets of Ipswich hand in hand. In this piece they were photographed in their home in Woodend, Ipswich.
The 3 Musketeers
BY Curious Cat | 15-Jun-2018
This new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel brings the classic characters to the stage in a fast-paced romp through 17th-century France – a rip-roaring, gender-bending, breakneck tale of passion and intrigue, comedy and tragedy, with splashes of music. Embracing the familiar themes of loyalty and camaraderie, ‘The 3 Musketeers’ also explores the dark side of one of its ostensible heroes, to bring you the ultimate swashbuckling adventure ... with an edge.
Ovariacting: A Period Drama
BY Jamie Boiskin | 15-Jun-2018
Jamie Boiskin’s a menstrual activist. Wait, wait, come back! I promise it’s okay! Fighting the good fight to make the world comfortable with talking about the bloody elephant in the room, her period. Get ready to paint the town red, and become comfortable with terms such as blood, tampons, diva cup, and raw meat.
2018 Adelaide Fringe increases visitor expenditure in SA by 19.3%
BY Adelaide Fringe | 14-Jun-2018
The 2018 Adelaide Fringe dazzled, inspired and delighted its way into the hearts of its audiences to generate a staggering 19.3 per cent increase in visitor expenditure to $29.5 million and a record $90.6 million in gross economic expenditure for South Australia.
AA&ADA ANTIQUES FAIR SYDNEY ART-DESIGN-LIVING
BY AA&ADA | 14-Jun-2018
We are back in a brand new location and bringing together many of Australia's top antique & art specialists, the AA&ADA Antiques Fair Sydney, has established itself as this country's leading art & cultural event, presenting an exceptional four-days of social experiences. There is nowhere more glamorous to view and buy the finest works of art, antiques, design and jewellery; from antiquity to the present day. The AAADA fairs are Australia’s only international quality fairs, backed by the reputation of Australia’s finest antique and art dealers. View and buy items with confidence - the AAADA difference. All items for sale. aaada.org.au/sydney. For updates please join our mailing list.
Because of her, we can! NAIDOC Week 2018 Exhibition
BY City of Melville | 13-Jun-2018
To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2018 the City will be exhibiting selected works from the Art Collection by Indigenous women artists alongside ‘OUR PLACE – OUR TIME’, an exhibition of paintings and sculpture from remote desert communities presented by Artitja Fine Art.
You Can't Stop The Music - celebrating the singers and songwriters from the 1980's!
BY CarolineK | 13-Jun-2018
On Sunday the 1st of July at 3pm in the Collingwood Town Hall, sing along to all your favourite hits from Cyndi Lauper, Bon Jovi, U2, Madonna, Tears for Fears and more! You Can't Stop The Music is presented by THECHO!R with Artistic Director Dr Jonathon Welch AM. A fundraising concert in support of the CWA - Alphington Branch ‘Celebrating 90 years of Diversity’. @THECHOIRFanPage @cwaofvic
Applications now open for Country Arts Support Program (CASP) 2019
BY Katelyn-Jane Dunn | 13-Jun-2018
Applications are now being accepted for the Country Arts Support Program, an annual small grants program administered by Regional Arts NSW on behalf of Create NSW.
Winter Warmers at Wireless Hill - 'Lost Perth' with Warren Duffy
BY City of Melville | 13-Jun-2018
The City of Melville’s Winter Warmers series at Wireless Hill Museum begins this June with a talk by Warren Duffy, founder of ‘Lost Perth’.
Silver & Gold: unique Australian objects 1830–1910
BY Ipswich Art Gallery | 13-Jun-2018
The Ipswich Art Gallery is delighted to present a National Gallery of Australia Exhibition.
Komeshian • Group Painting and Sculpture Exhibition • Sareban Art Gallery, Tehran- Iran
BY D'Angers Press News Team | 12-Jun-2018
Sareban art gelley is pleased to present ‘Komeshian’, a group exhibition in collaboration with d’Angers gallery. Artists: Ahmad Amin-Nazar | Mohammad Ali Baniasadi |Leili Derakhshani | Mohamad Hassan Javaheri | Masoud Sadedein | Bahman Sehatlou | Seyed Assadollah Shariatpanahi | Ebrahim Yaghmaei Curator: Javid Ramezani
Lamine Sonko and The African Intelligence
BY Boroondara Arts | 12-Jun-2018
Featuring a 10-piece ensemble led by Senegalese singer/dancer Lamine Sonko, The African Intelligence performs a percussive blend of jazz, funk, afrobeat, reggae and salsa.
MARS Gallery presents Daniel Agdag at Volta14
BY MARS Gallery | 12-Jun-2018
Melbourne's MARS Gallery is off to Switzerland. The gallery will present a solo installation by sculpture Daniel Agdag at VOLTA14, Basel, as the only Australian Gallery exhibiting at this year's fair. VOLTA 14 will mark the first time Agdag has exhibited his work in Europe and comes after his recent solo exhibitions in New York and Melbourne. Daniel Agdag, 'Sample of No Value' exhibiting at VOLTA14 from June 11 - 16
Lab.10 art contest
BY Malamegi Lab | 11-Jun-2018
Lab.10 art contest, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks in September 2018 and much more.
City of Melville Art Awards Call for Entries
BY City of Melville | 11-Jun-2018
Art Award open to West Australian artists with 4 categories along with 4 specialist awards and a total prize pool valued at $17,000. Share your work with us!
Life Abstracted 2018
BY Cambridge studio gallery | 10-Jun-2018
The annual competition for exceptional 2D abstract art from around Australia. Opening and announcement of winner: Sunday 1 July, 2 to 4pm.
