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25.01.2022 Susan Balbunga’s 'Bamugora' is an object that has both function and metaphor for child conception, birth, women’s business, coming of age, and death. It is a womb that holds a fertile egg; a fishing net that catches a newborn; a tool for young men and women during initiation; a source of protection from sun, wind, rain and insects; a ground cover and shelter for a mother and her newborn; and a safe place for an Elder nearing the end of life. https://ima.org.au/exhibition...s/long-water/ Image: Susan Balbunga, 'Bamugora', 2020. Installation view: 'long water: fibre stories'. Photos: Marc Pricop. #longwater #SusanBalbunga #weaving See more

24.01.2022 "What’s in the back of their mind, they keep worrying about money, money, money, so they dig up the land, destroy the land, and that’s also fracking doing the same thing. They can never tell us what damage can happen down the bottomThis land, it will give up somewhere on us, you know? Jack Green Jack Green (Garawa, Gudanji) paints mine power in Gulf Country since the 2006 McArthur River Mine expansion cut sacred sites and leaked toxic waste into the river. The featur...e length video installation 'INFRACTIONS' was produced in dialogue with frontline Indigenous cultural workers’ struggles against threats to more than 50% of the Northern Territory from shale gas fracking. https://ima.org.au/exhibitions/infractions/ Image: 'INFRACTIONS', 2019, 1:03:00, HD video, split screen with text, Dolby 5.1.

21.01.2022 This is your last week to spot Jenna Lee's 'Archive of an Invasive Native' projected onto the façade of the Judith Wright Centre. This work, developed in collaboration with Sai Karlen, is part of an ongoing response to a collection of Australian native gum trees in the Kew Gardens, London. https://ima.org.au/exhibitions/jenna-lee/... Video: Charlie Hillhouse #MakingArtWorkIMA #JudithWrightArtsCentre #JennaLee #Projection See more

20.01.2022 Virtual Shandy party incoming

19.01.2022 You're invited to our first IMA Gallery Shop After Hours event for the year this Friday night, 69pm. Join us for the launch of a new limited-edition bag by local designer Yani Bags, produced in collaboration with artist Visaya Hoffie. Named Cendol (pronouned chen-doll), this new design is inspired by an Indonesian iced sweet dessert that contains uniquely shaped, bright green jellies made from rice. The texture and mixture of different ingredients in this dessert is e...choed in the tactility and unique combination of materials used to form the bag. No mask required, but please register here: https://ima.org.au/ima-events/gallery-shop-after-hours-yani/ See more

19.01.2022 As we near the release of the fourth and final round of 'Making Art Work' commissions, we’re excited to launch a new edition by artist Tony Albert in support of the forthcoming 'Making Art Work' publication. Albert’s work 'You Wreck Me' has taken the world by storm, beginning as a video work commissioned by the IMA, expanding into a series of collage works, and making headlines across the country as we saw historical narratives challenged and colonial statues toppled. ... Now is your chance to own a piece of history with this ‘smashing’ lenticular print. https://ima.org.au/product/tony-albert-you-wreck-me/ Tony Albert, 'You Wreck Me', 2020, lenticular print, 14.8 x 21 cm, edition of 150. #TonyAlbert #MakingArtWork #IMABrisbane #YouWreckMe #ColonialStatues

19.01.2022 'the churchie' finalist Athena Thebus' 'Angel's Warning' is inspired by the biblical story of Lot's wife, who turned back to look at the burning city of Sodom and is transformed into a pillar of salt. Hear Athena chat to exhibition curator Talia Smith in our artist interview podcast series. https://ima.org.au/ex/the-churchie-emerging-art-prize-2020/... 'the churchie' continues at the IMA until 19 December. Image: Athena Thebus, 'Angel's Warning', 2020, custom wallpaper, 300 x 200cm. Photo: Louis Lim. #athenathebus #thechurchie #contemporaryart See more

17.01.2022 Mia Boe's 'Making Art Work' commission is in response to the Black Lives Matter protests within Australia. The paintings 'The Struggle to Maintain Human Dignity' and 'Call to Arms' speak to a lineage of state sanctioned violence against the Indigenous peoples of this land. See these newly commissioned paintings at #IMABelltower and spy them on the streets of West End https://makingart.work/projects/mia-boe

16.01.2022 Today we are excited to launch the latest and final round of #MakingArtWorkIMA projects! Over the last seven months 47 artists, writers, collectives, and facilitators responded to the provocations of Unprecedented Times, Permanent Revolution, Relief Measures, and Industrial Actions. Collectively these projects demonstrate the value and ‘use’ of art in 2020to document, speculate, bring together, and create change through their work. Head online to https://makingart.work/ and ...visit IMA Belltower to see new works by Maeve Baker, Richard Bell, Jacquie Chlanda, Digi Youth Arts, Channon Goodwin, Daisy Hamlot, Rachael Haynes, Inkahoots, Mia McAuslan & Jon Tjhia, Amelia McLeish, and Liesel Zink. 'Making Art Work' is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

15.01.2022 Are you the future of arts leadership? Firstdraft is seeking diverse and dynamic people to join its Board of Directors for 2021 and 2022. Open to applicants from across Australia. Apply by 6 December 2020: https://bit.ly/36qdqik Image: Connie Anthes and Julia Bavyka, Soft Infrastructures, 2019, installation view (detail), Firstdraft. Photo: Zan Wimberley

15.01.2022 IMA Open Day is a chance to come together to celebrate our 2020 programjoin us for talks and tours of our current shows, market stalls, a workshop and performance, and book launches.

14.01.2022 Marina Pumani Brown's diptych 'Ngayuku Ngura Kuwari (My Home Now)' references the artist's connection to Country, intergenerational storytelling, and knowledge sharing. Pumani Brown was born in Mimili Community on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the far northwest of South Australia and is from a long line of strong female painters. She was awarded a Commendation Prize for these striking works, sponsored by Madison Cleaning ... https://ima.org.au/ex/the-churchie-emerging-art-prize-2020/ Photo: Louis Lim #marinapumanibrown #APYlands #aboriginalart #thechurchie

14.01.2022 'long water: fibre stories' illuminates spiritual, ancestral, and physical connections to water through fibre practices of artists from Yuwaalaraay (North West NSW), Quandamooka (Moreton Bay, South East QLD), Kuku Yalanji (Far North QLD), Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait Islands, QLD), Yurruwi (Milingimbi Island, NT), and surrounding homelands. Together this groupAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, spanning different generations and ancestriesshare an inseparable relat...ionship to water, be it the vast sea, inland waterways, or expansive river systems. https://ima.org.au/exhibitions/long-water/ Image: Ruth Nalmakarra with pandanus, Langarra (Howard Island), November 2019. Photo: Rhett Hammerton. #longwater #RuthNalmakarra #weaving #fibrepractice

14.01.2022 Ruth Nalmakarra, Helen Ganalmirriwuy, and Mandy Batjula’s five Giwiirr (Garrawurra sacred dilly bags) represent the fresh water created by the Dja’kawu Sisters at Gärriyak as well as the knowledge they gave to Garrawurra people. 'long water: fibre stories' brings together 11 artists that share an inseparable relationship to water, be it the vast sea, inland waterways, or expansive river systems. https://ima.org.au/exhibitions/long-water/... Image: 'Giwiirr (Garrawurra dilly bags)' by Mandy Batjula, Helen Ganalmirriwuy, and Ruth Nalmakarra. Photo: Marc Pricop.

13.01.2022 The third round of #MakingArtWorkIMA commissions are now live at https://makingart.work/! We are excited to launch twelve new projects by Queensland artists spanning artworks, events, performances, and for the first time, limited edition works available to purchase. View the projects by Mia Boe, Michael Candy, Emil Cañita, Natalya Hughes, Peter Kozak, Archie Moore, Shandy, Jacqui Shelton, Hannah Smith, David Spooner, Grant Stevens, and Tyza Stewart online.... Plus see a selection of these new works at #IMABelltower at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, opening this Wednesday 14 October and evolving over the coming months. Read more: https://ima.org.au/news/making-art-work-r3/ 'Making Art Work' is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland See more

11.01.2022 13 artists from across the countrya snapshot of the diversity and strength of emerging art today Visit the churchie emerging art prize finalists' exhibition until 19 December (and vote for your favourite in the People's Choice Award!) https://ima.org.au/ex/the-churchie-emerging-art-prize-2020/... Image: Georgia Morgan, 'This dream is real', 2020. Photo: Louis Lim. @scorpiopork @churchieemergingart #thechurchie #georgiamorgan See more

08.01.2022 Delissa Walker's peices in 'long water: fibre stories' highlight the resourceful objects of past generations and their daily engagement with river, sea, and fresh water streams that meander through the fertile rainforest. https://ima.org.au/exhibitions/long-water/ Images: Delissa Walker (Kuku Yalanji people, Mossman and Daintree Rainforest, Qld), 'Guppy Catcher 13', 2020, black palm, guava wood, native bee wax. Photo: Marc Pricop.

06.01.2022 Opening today at Western Plains Cultural Centre Dubbo is touring exhibition Ross Manning: 'Dissonant Rhythms', first presented at the IMA in 2017. The survey exhibition of Manning's work features sculptures that repurpose ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead projectors, creating exquisite interplays of light and sound. https://ima.org.au/exhibitions/ross-manning/... Image: Ross Manning in his studio, 2018. Photo: Dylan Evans See more

05.01.2022 Photos: Marc Pricop

04.01.2022 In this week's artist interview finalist James Nguyen chats to curator Talia Smith about his work 'Monochromes', which uses skin whitening products and the form...at of the monochrome as a nod to the white paintings of art history. Stream via ima.org.au/podcasts or subscribe to the Institute of Modern Art Podcast via iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com//interview-with-j/id1459966079

03.01.2022 We're excited to announce that our latest IMA Edition is a work by currently exhibiting artist Khadim Ali. You can now own a piece by this globally renowned artist while helping support the IMA's artistic program. 'The Other Gods' is a digital print with gold leafing detail. With just 12 available, these editions will sell out quickly: https://ima.org.au/product/khadim-ali/... See more

01.01.2022 Open Day is this Saturday! New additions to the Open Day program have been announced including protest letter writing with Richard Bell and spoken-word poetry with Digi Youth Arts, plus 'the churchie' curator Talia Smith will join us for a tour of the exhibition. See the full Open Day schedule: https://ima.org.au/ima-events/ima-open-day/... Image: 'the churchie' finalist Nathan Beard, 'White Gilt 3.0', installation. Photo: Marc Pricop. See more