Tagged with Visual and Creative Arts

A new play by Griffith University PhD student Linda Hassall will premiere at La Boite Theatre Company’s Roundhouse Theatre on September 20. Post Office Rose centres on the friendship of three women from a small country town who re-unite at the Post Office Hotel after a 15-year break. But all is not as it seems […]

The streets of South Bank will come alive to the sounds of high-tech opera when students and staff from the Queensland Conservatorium perform ”iOrpheus: Art Among Us ” on August 31. iOrpheus is the world’s first public opera combining live performance with iPods, mobile phones and laptops played by opera participants and the audience. Based […]

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music student won First Prize ($15,000), the Concerto Prize ($5000), the People’s Choice Prize ($5000) and Best Performance of an Australian Work ($1000). She also received a number of performance prizes in Australia and overseas. Second place went to Gold Coast student Roger Cui, also 18- years-old ($5000), third place […]

A major collection of works on paper by one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists is on show at the DELL Gallery @ QCA until September 8. SIGMAR POLKE: Music from an Unknown Source brings together a series of 40 gouaches, all produced in 1996, making for a rich insight into Polke’s wider practice. […]

More than 300 students from 50 schools around Australia will take part in this year’s 9th annual International Secondary Schools Digital Design Challenge. The competition will be hosted by the Queensland College of Art Griffith University (QCA) in Brisbane on July 19. Within just three hours students will have to conceptualise a product and then […]

A series of short videos first shown on ABC Television’s rage program will be screened at the DELL Gallery, Queensland College of Art from June 20 to July 22. ARTIST MAKES VIDEO: art rage survey 1994-1998 features more than 80 of Australia’s best known contemporary artists who were commissioned by independent curator, Kim Machan, to […]

Two Griffith University creative writing students will join award-winning writer, Marion Halligan to respond to the Josephine Ulrick photography awards at the Gold Coast Art Gallery from 2pm this Saturday June 16. Sue Pearson and Alinta Krauth won a student competition to produce 500-word pieces that responded to any one photo in the exhibition. Marion […]