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Queensland slow fashion fashion practitioners bring on the revolution
It is time for a Fashion Revolution – and Brisbane slow fashion practitioners are bringing together an immersive experience on April 26-28 to celebrat
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Bright Bold Boundless: Designing the Queen's Baton
Passed from hand-to-hand in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, the Queen’s Baton is the symbolic heart of the ‘Friendly Games’– a tangible symbol that has u...
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Siganto Foundation Artists’ Books Lecture Series 2017: Helen Douglas
Hear Dr Helen Douglas, an artist and publisher from Scotland who is renowned for her poetic visual narratives in artists’ books, deliver the 2017 Siganto Founda...
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Queensland slow fashion fashion practitioners bring on the revolution
It is time for a Fashion Revolution – and Brisbane slow fashion practitioners are bringing together an immersive experience on April 26-28 to celebrat
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Johnstone Gallery Annexe and courtyard, Cintra Road

The Johnstone Gallery Archive
The Johnstone Gallery was a commercial art gallery that operated in Brisbane from 1950 to 1972 during a seminal time in the development of an audience for conte...
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Bright Bold Boundless: Designing the Queen's Baton
Passed from hand-to-hand in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, the Queen’s Baton is the symbolic heart of the ‘Friendly Games’– a tangible symbol that has u...
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Magnificent Makers
Magnificent Makers tells seven stories of canny creations, daring discoveries and imaginative inventions that trace a path through Queensland’s history since th...
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Artists' books with Keith Smith and Scott McCarney
Leading book artists, Keith Smith and Scott McCarney, develop contemporary interpretations of books and bookforms.
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Siganto Foundation artists’ books lecture: This Other Southland
There is always more than one story: about place, about ancestry, about our culture. Susan King’s artist's books express this multiple narrative we all live.
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