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Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary A
http://www.visualarts.net.au/grants/art-and-australia-award
Closing date: 1 March 2012

The Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award supports emerging professional artists through publishing an image of the winner's work on the back cover of Art & Australia magazine and an article on the winner's practice, as well as giving them an opportunity to be selected for the acquisition of their work for the Art & Australia collection.

Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2012
http://www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au/exhibitions/future-exhibitions/rick-amor-drawing-prize-2012.aspx
The Rick Amor Drawing Prize (the Prize) is an acquisitive drawing prize to the value of $10,000 and exhibition. The winning entry will enter the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Entries close: Friday 24 February 2012

The Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2012
http://www.theartscentregc.com.au/whats-on/whats-on-items/2012-josephine-ulrick-photography-award
ENTRIES OPEN
Deadline Date : Friday, 10 February 5pm

Photography is the medium of our age – everyone has a camera now and if you are in a public place a camera is most certainly watching you.

This annual exhibition of the best work by over 55 selected Australian artists working in photo media is a must see exhibition for any student interested in photography and media.

Tyrone Noonan - Up Late @ GoMA
http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/matisse_drawing_life/up_late
Friday 3 February

6.30pm TALK ‘Approaches to drawing’ with contemporary artist Marian Drew

8.30pm MUSIC - Tyrone Noonan
Brisbane-born singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Tyrone Noonan is well known for his Aria-award-winning and multiplatinum-selling band george. Noonan has subsequently released the self-titled jazz debut Palimpsest (2004), followed by the critically-acclaimed rock mini-album Heavy Soul Part One (2006), and the full length debut album I Believe (2011).

Short talk: perspectives on Picasso with Deborah Kelly
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/short-talks-picasso/
Wednesday 8 February 5.30pm @ AGNSW
Free, in the Gallery’s modern European gallery

Artists and curators discuss their personal experiences and views on Picasso’s work in a series of half-hour talks, surrounded by the Gallery’s modern European collection.

Surveillance as an Art Form
http://mcarecorders.com.au/events.html
Saturday 11 February 2.00 – 3.00pm
Free Talk @ MCA, Sydney

Join Dr Gavin J. D. Smith, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy and Convenor of The Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group, as he discusses the social and political contribution of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s exhibition and its relationship with contemporary theoretical articulations of surveillance.

Feast for the Senses @ NG Art Gallery and Mission Restaurant
http://www.ngart.com.au/feast.html
TUESDAY 14TH FEBRUARY - VALENTINE'S NIGHT. 6.30PM FOR 7PM

3 COURSE DINNER WITH WINE $75.

Join us on Valentine's night, for a sumptuous and love inspired Feast.

The Good, the Bad and the Pretty - Sins of Originality in Art -Owen Craven - Editor of Artist Profile Magazine in conversation with Richard Morecroft - television presenter & photographic artist, Kon Gouriotis - Director of the Australian Centre for Photography and curator and photographic artist Sandy Edwards.

Call 9318 0815 to book a seat at the table! Selling Fast!

PROPOSALS FOR TOURING PERFORMANCE WORKS IN 2013
http://performinglines.org.au/about-us/initiatives/mobile-states/
Mobile States is a national consortium of Australia’s major contemporary performing arts spaces who are committed to presenting the best of Australia’s contemporary performance. Their focus is on showcasing the work of artists who investigate, research and experiment with ideas and form.

Applications close 6 Feb 2012 (6pm EST)

Summer Nights at PICA

http://www.pica.org.au/view/Summer+Nights/1346/
Get ready for Summer Nights at PICA! In partnership with the Blue Room Theatre and as part of Fringe World, PICA presents nine productions of new local, national and international theatre, comedy and dance taking place from 29 January to 19 February 2012.

Sascha Bru Lecture/Sweat Book Launch
http://www.ima.org.au/pages/events.php
Thursday 9 Feb 2012, 6:00 pm @ IMA Brisbane

Sascha Bru (Leuven University, Belgium) on 'Art in States of Exception'. Plus we launch our new book, Sweat: The Subtropical Imaginary. Half price on the night. A joint project with Urban Modernities Research Group, QUT.

Rebecca Baumann at IMA@Ksubi
http://www.ima.org.au/pages/events.php
Rebecca Baumann’s flickering colour fields may be motor driven but the effect is like falling leaves, evoking the random beauty of nature. The Perth artist talks about her 2011 work Automated Monochrome, on show at our new satellite space. Join us for champagne and cupcakes. IMA@Ksubi is a joint project with Ksubi.

Sunday 5 February at 2pm
IMA@Ksubi, 30 James St, Fortitude Valley.

New Directions in Textiles
www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery
In association with Sensorial Loop: 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial showing at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

Friday 10 February; 10.30 am - 12 pm.
Presented by TTT curator Patrick Snelling and Tamworth Regional Director Sandra McMahon with artists; Michele Elliot, Cecilia Heffer and Michelle Hamer.