The Guide: May 2024
Photo: Courtesy of Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival.
Celebrate the art of storytelling at Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival 2024
6-9 June
Featuring internationally celebrated classical music artists, alongside First Nations, jazz and world musicians. The festival is presented across some of the most stunning natural locations and intimate venues across the Sunshine Coast. The three day program commences with a welcome to country from Aunty Helena Gulash including a moving blend of traditional and contemporary songs, poetry, and yarning.
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Sugar Ghosts x Inmates | Aunty Hope O'Chin x Perrin Ellis | Featured work by Aunty Hope O'Chin | IN|ARI 2023 Destabilise Program | Supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program (CIIP) and is jointly funded by Sunshine Coast Council Arts and Heritage Levy and RADF in partnership with QLD Government and Arts Queensland.
Expressions of interest now open for Sunshine Coast’s Arts Advisory Board
Applications close: 10 May
Sunshine Coast Council is calling for Expressions of Interest from an experienced, professional and experienced creative arts sector leader to fill a vacancy on the Sunshine Coast Arts Advisory Board. The vacant position is for an Arts/Policy and Advocacy professional with a strong commitment to helping drive arts and culture in the region.
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Detail of Ross Manning Matter & Matrix 2023. 13 channel HD video sculpture installation with mirrors. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. Photo: Louis Lim.
Exploring aspects of atmospheric strangeness: A new exhibition at UniSC
25 May—3 August
Presented for ISEA2024, Strange Weather brings together artworks that broadly consider how our contemporary understanding of the environment and our place within it is mediated by technology.
The artists in this exhibition use photography, moving images, sound, data, mapping and weather monitoring technologies, among others, to explore aspects of atmospheric strangeness that shape our understanding and experience.
WEBINAR
NAVA Talks AI: Online sessions is a collaborative series of good practice conversations on the use and impacts of AI on work and practice in visual arts, craft and design.
WEBINAR
Public Art Made Public with UAP will showcase a range of UAP’s public art projects and delve into how public artworks evolve from the initial concept stage to design fabrication and installation in the public realm.
ARTIST RESIDENCY
R|Artist Residency: Sub Tropic is a six-month artist residency for early-career visual artists. It provides studio space and mentorship for both creative and professional growth, and opportunities to show new work.
The Samstag Scholarship
The annual scholarships enable Australian artists to develop their artistic capacities and skills through a dedicated period of practice-based learning.
Each scholarship covers reasonable costs for twelve months overseas, including institutional fees for one academic year of study (where applicable), a generous tax-exempt stipend of $70,000, return airfares, and travel and medical insurance.
ACMI X + Ludo Studio
Submissions for the ACMI X + Ludo Studio Residency are open now until Mon 20 May 2024. The winning recipient will be selected by ACMI and Ludo Studio and announced in late June.
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust
Applications are now open for the Emerging Artist Grants program, Funding Round 2, 2024.
Grants of up to $15,000 will support emerging artists working across the spectrum of the arts in their pursuit of professional development opportunities.
AMPED - Product Release Workshop (music)
AMPED - Grant Writing Workshop
VACS Major Commissioning Projects (Individuals and Groups)
Australian Cultural Fund (ACF)
The Artists in Residence program
Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
ARTIST SHOWING
Sub Tropic’s current artist in resident Grace Herrmann and Brisbane-based design agency Ancient Monkey present an exciting new work using technology, digital animation and paper carving.
EVENT
Join local laundros Libby Harward (Quandamooka) and Dom Chen (Gamilaroi) for The Blak Laundry Takeover, an agitation session at Richard Bell's Embassy.
EXHIBITION
This work is an immersive exhibition of light, video, sound animation and augmented reality. Wish you were here began as a response to the stop-start movement of COVID-19 by artist Kellie O’Dempsey.
DANCE: Adorned
PHOTOGRAPHY: Portraits of You
EXHIBITION: about-place / about-face
ORCHESTRA: A Night of Romance with the Orava Quartet
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