Failure and innovation go hand in hand. We need to embrace failure to create remarkable projects, innovate better and ultimately become more successful. Stories of Failure will be an unpretentious evening filled with candour, authenticity, honesty and openness. Join a handful of the city’s best creative thinkers like Keith Burt, Kevin O’Brien, Gail Sorronda, Daniel Tobin […]
Jennifer Hillhouse’s first solo exhibition, “Stones and Structures of the Sea” is an arrangement of objects, imagery and installation based on both ancient and contemporary forms that exist along coastlines. The work is an observation of the relationship between man-made structures and natural rock formations along the shorelines of Australia & France. There is a […]
The Switchboard Project brings together visual artists, musicians, writers ,poets and other performers together to explore the border between art and experience. Art, conversation and an Arty Party! Online platforms dominate how we communicate, share ideas, form our opinions and even date. Knowledge has shed its corporeal form and algorithms and advancing artificial intelligence are […]
The Indigenous Art Program transforms Brisbane’s streets into an exhibition of Aboriginal artworks. The artworks use engaging places and spaces, including large-scale banners, vitrines, and projections, in Brisbane’s laneways. Recent events have changed our ability to travel and during 2020 there was a recognisable shift in our appreciation for community resources, homegrown produce, and locally […]
Arryn Snowball is an Australian artist who has been living and working in Berlin for the last 7 years. Snowball’s painting is multidisciplinary and process based, often involving material and form complexity. While you visit Jan Manton Gallery, catch the Nathan Shepherdson poetry event featuring more of Arryn’s work! […]
Known for being one of the city’s premiere creative learning institutions, come and explore the work of the industry’s future leaders. This free open day includes exhibitions from a handpicked selection of students and alumni. Contributing faculties include; Diploma of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Visual Arts and Visual Communications, Bachelor of Photography, and Diploma of […]
A Wet Finger to the Wind celebrates and mourns the colourful imagination of childhood innocence by reinterpreting photographs through the lens of a childhood craft. The Norman Park Substation residency will see Chapman’s photographic enquiries of home(s) reimagined in a tactile manner through a limited palette of coloured perler beads. Chapman will individually place tens […]
Deadly Threads is a new showcase examining Indigenous shirts – born from protests in the 1970s and evolving as permanent mainstays in wardrobes across Australia. In Deadly Threads, see over 170 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designed singlets, t-shirts, polo shirts, and jerseys. From colourful sporting jerseys to protest and artists shirts, Deadly Threads looks […]
Come visit ILEANA to see works by leading international artists, including the British father of Popart, Richard Hamilton, and Pop artists from the US and China. The gallery will be showing a special temporary exhibition for BAD 2021 from 14-16 May, featuring works that have not been exhibited before. To find out more about the […]
Grey Hand Press is a printmaking studio providing contract printing and publishing options for local and international artists. Their mission is to make printmaking an accessible medium for artists and to provide fine art print education to printmakers of all ages. During BAD 2021, Grey Hand Press will open its pressroom to visitors with live […]
