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11 to 28 May 2007 |
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Freestyle: 40 top Australia designers
After showing at Melbourne Museum,
Sydney's Object
Gallery and the Art Gallery of South
Australia, Freestyle, a
snapshot of 40 outstanding Australian designers, comes to QUT Art Museum before
embarking on an extensive international tour.
Reflecting the character and maturity of
Australian contemporary design, Freestyle encompasses a wide
range of works from all aspects of design, including textiles,
furniture, lighting and homewares.
One-off or limited edition items by
internationally acclaimed designers like Akira
Isogawa, Crumpler
and Alexander
Lotersztain are showcased alongside industrially
manufactured items and prototypes.
Featured in
Freestyle, cult bag brand Crumpler
(designers Stuart Crumpler, Dave Roper and Will Miller
pictured) was established in Melbourne in 1995 and is known
around the globe for it's practical, expressive and quirky
bags.
Brisbane fashion designers Pamela Easton and
Lydia Pearson (Easton Pearson) have 12 collection items on
show.
Freestyle:
new Australian design for living opens at QUT Art Museum
on 31 May.
For more information, see www.artmuseum.qut.com
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Art Museum
2 George Street, Brisbane
(next to City Botanic
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Baby on Board
Mon 14 May, 9.30am
Open especially for parents/guardians and their
babies only |
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Demystifying the public art process, part III
Wed 16 May, 6-7pm
The nuts and bolts of making public art
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Urban Art Foundry Tour *OFFSITE*
Sat 19 May, 10-11.30am
RSVP essential 07
3138 5370
Visit the Tobin brothers at the Urban Art Projects
Foundry. RSVP essential as numbers limited |
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creative industries precinct
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Ave
Kelvin
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Fashion Talks @ QUT: So you want to be a stylist or
fashion photographer?
Thurs 17 May, 5-6pm @ the shed 2
Stylist Liz Golding and photographer Ian Golding give
you insider tips |
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Meet the Artist: Brendan Lee
Tues 22 May, 5-6pm @ the block
Video artist Brendan Lee's work explores
cinema-tropes and movie conventions to examine ideas
about history, place and identity |
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Guided exhibition tour
Thurs 24 May, 5-6pm @ the block
Join curator Simone Jones for an informal tour of
Figuratively Speaking: the figure in contemporary video
art |
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Gardens Theatre
2 George Street, Brisbane
(next to City Botanic
Gardens)
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XLD3 - A Water Story
17-18 May, 11am & 7pm
19 May, 2pm
& 6pm
Tickets $12-$15
GardensTix 07 3138 4455
Young people from Brisbane schools who have worked
collaboratively with professional artists and their
drama teachers to create a compelling ensemble
performance which combines shadow puppetry, physical
theatre and soundscapes
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Coming Soon...
Essentially Dance
12-16 June, 7.30pm
Matinee 14 June,
11.30am
Tickets $10-$18
GardensTix 07 3138 4455
Exploring the bare essentials of contemporary dance
with a variety of inspired and entertaining works, from
a trip down disco alley to a gritty urban ballet.
Features QUT dance students
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creative industries precinct
cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Ave,
Kelvin
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Elemental: 2007 Postgraduate Dance
24-26 May, 6.30pm
Tickets Gold coin
donation at door
QUT Precincts 07
3138 5495
Five short new dance works of explosive and flowing
energy, with contemporary and Asian
sensibilities
More info ...
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At the Roundhouse Theatre: The Year Nick McGowan
Came to Stay
17 May to 2 June
Tickets
$22-$35
Book online
It's 1989, everyone's wearing fingerless gloves,
legwarmers and ra-ra skirts while roller-skating to the
DIRTY DANCING soundtrack. It's the year Barbie turned
30, the Berlin Wall fell, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and Kylie
and Jason took the UK by storm! Meanwhile in Brisbane,
teenager Rachel Hill is slowly losing her cool ...
More info ...
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The Betty Quelhurst Gift
Until 20 May
Showcasing major works by contemporary Australian
women artists
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15 years of Urban Art Projects
Until 20 May
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of Urban Arts
Projects' Foundry in Brisbane
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creative industries precinct
cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Ave,
Kelvin Grove |
Free entry |
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Figuratively Speaking
Opens 23 May
At The Block
Examines how the figure is used in contemporary video
art.
Using methods from performance to sampling
pop-culture movies, artists examine themes of the
gendered body, human endurance, cinematic conventions,
memory and everyday life
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Freestyle: new Australian design for living
Opens 31 May
40 outstanding Australian designers from the fields
of furniture, lighting, textiles, homewares, fashion,
jewellery and accessories
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creative industries precinct
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Ave
Kelvin
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