Month: April 2017

Reclaimed domestic and industrial objects find a new life in Susan Hawkins’ exhibition The Remainder from 10 – 27 of May at Metro Arts. The exhibition features Hawkins’ latest sculptural work and questions how our culture, reliant on rapid production and consumption, can shift to address the environmental realities facing it. Industrial and domestic objects, scavenged and rescued by Hawkins, are transformed and given a life of their own. This humanisation of these objects provides a comedic and quirky reconsideration of our future; creating an absurd, almost optimistic dystopia, Hawkins’ dismantling and repurposing of outmoded technology is unsettling in...

The Brisbane Art Prize(BAP) is an annual international art exhibition that provides Brisbane city with a high calibre art exhibition and award event. In 2017, BAP is returning to the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts from the 5th to the 28th of October. Each year, over 100 artists from across Australia, Asia, New Zealand, USA and Europe are preselected, exhibit and visit Brisbane to attend the BAP exhibition and award event. The preselection process, while inclusive is rigorous, raising the bar for all artists and ensuring a quality, high impact exhibition. In 2017, the panel includes Phil Brown...