Artisan

Artisan is Queensland’s centre for craft and design. The gallery is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the presentation and advancement of authentic and innovative craft and design practice.

Artisan

45 King Street, Bowen Hills QLD 4006

07 3215 0800

www.artisan.org.au

Tuesday to Friday: 10.30am – 5.30pm, Saturday 10.00am – 4.00pm, Sunday to Monday: closed.

“We are all connected”: Chiharu Shiota’s State of Being in pictures

Looking at Chiharu Shiota’s art paradoxically offers an uncanny awareness of one’s bodily existence alongside the elusiveness of time. To see Shiota’s latest installation and works at Anna Schwartz Gallery is to be awe-struck.

Art Guide Australia

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Eight artists painting outside the frame

“It’s not the last word in painting at all”: Like a Wheel That Turns at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) doesn’t focus on what painting is—but what painting can do.

Autumn Royal

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When everyone’s a Critic

Everyone is capable of taking on the posture of an art critic. An adult thinks their child could paint that, then a child comments their dog could draw that—and as illustrator Oslo Davis shows us, the cycle of criticism goes around.

Oslo Davis

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The necessity of artistic expression

Confined 13 shows how art can change lives. With 400 works created by First Nations artists either currently in or recently released from Victorian prisons, the exhibition is a tribute to how artistic expression strengthens a person’s connection to their story and culture, while giving further artistic possibilities.

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