The Guide: June 2024
ISEA presents an unmissable program on the Sunshine Coast
29 June
The 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) is a key event for artists, researchers, and professionals in experimental and electronic media arts. This year, ISEA is hosting an immersive field trip to the Sunshine Coast, featuring a program you won't want to miss. Highlights include exhibitions, live performances, and captivating augmented reality experiences. This event brings together top artists, academics, theorists, and Traditional Owners, creating a vibrant forum for exchanging ideas.
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Support The Keeper Project
Local performing arts organisation Red Chair has launched a fundraising campaign to pay artists and deliver The Keeper Project for free to the community.
The Keeper Project is a live public art initiative embedded in local communities and this year makes it’s home in Nambour. Eleven local artists have been selected to explore, collect, and create within the community. They become the archaeologists of local stories, uncovering the uniqueness of a place and making visible the things that go unseen. Learn more about how you can engage with the project and your lend support to their campaign.
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Get hands on with creative technologies on K’gari
Applications close 10 June
The Refinery presents R|Short Program: K’gari Field Trip, a multi-day workshop conducted on World Heritage listed K’gari. It offers a unique opportunity for artists to explore the convergence of art, science, technology and the environment. Artists will be introduced to cutting-edge tools opening up new opportunities for creative expression and enabling them to respond to the environment in nuanced, ethical and innovative ways.
FUNDING
Sunshine Coast Council invites EOI’s from arts organisations to its Creative Industries Investment Program (CIIP). Funding is available for established arts and cultural initiatives that support the strategic development of the local arts ecology.
AWARD
IMA Brisbane is calling out for applications to the Jeremy Hynes Award. Early career experimental Queensland artists can apply now. Applications close 23 June.
WORKSHOP
Understanding Artists' Fees and Wages, a presentation by NAVA will walk through the minimum standards for artist fees and wages in the new Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design.
RAF Quick Response Grants
Quick Response Grants aim to support small arts or cultural projects that cannot be funded by other means because of their nature or timing. For example, you may wish to attend a workshop or complete a project within a certain time frame and cannot access appropriate funding through any other means.
This type of grant would also suit individual professional development.
Public Art Opportunity: Caloundra Library+
Sunshine Coast Council is seeking submissions from established artists for two significant sculptural public artwork opportunities for the new Library+ building on Omrah Ave, Caloundra. The new Library+ is a state of the art contemporary library and community space.
Public Art Opportunity: Maryborough Hospital
This project forms part of the Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service (WBHHS) ‘Arts in Health’ Pilot Program, which is funded in partnership with Arts Queensland. There are several creative opportunities within the scope of the project, and Expressions of Interest are now being welcomed from artists with a strong desire to showcase the power of art to bring comfort, hope, and positive health and wellbeing outcomes to otherwise austere clinical environments.
WEBINAR: Tax for creatives
FUNDING: The Music Australia Export Development Fund
FUNDING: First Nations Arts Business Grants
FELLOWSHIP: Imago Fellowship (writing)
ART PRIZE: 2024 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
ARTIST SHOWING
Join Sub Tropic’s artist in residence Grace Herrmann and Brisbane-based design agency, Ancient Monkey, for the premiere of Careful Creature, on Thursday 13 June.
ARTIST SHOWING
This month is the final Project 24 artist residency for a while at 2ND Space. Don't miss out on the showing on 26 June featuring Ruby Donohoe and Joseph Burgess and, Cat Jones and Ingrid Vranken.
EXHIBITION
Contemporary Songlines: Dhakkan/Mundagudda (Rainbow Serpent) and Maroochy (Black Swan) Project is a collaborative First Nations youth and women’s exhibition showcasing First Nations stories and culture.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Sustainably Made Design Feat Karina Seljak
EXHIBITION: Mimburi Remembering at Munimba Ja
MUSIC FESTIVAL: Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival
EXHIBITION: Connections - A NAIDOC Exhibition
EXHIBITION: IMAGINATE FEATURING PIP & POP: SUNSHINE DAYDREAM
Image credits (from top): Photo by Dim Gunger; Photo by Lindy Storee Smith. Courtesy of Red Chair; Photo courtesy of Leah Barclay; Image Courtesy of SCC; Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery.
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