Self Portraits
A group exhibition exploring the many ways artists can approach the idea of the self. Self Portraits brings together 26 artists working across contemporary painting and visual art, presenting distinct…
Inscribing a life
‘Inscribing a life’ brings artworks from across the QAGOMA Collection that register existence, histories, and time through the act of mark making. From the brute force recorded in paint on…
FIRE! Works on Paper
FIRE! Works on Paper 2 Queensland brings together works by seven artists exploring the breadth and diversity of contemporary works on paper. Featuring David Paulson, Ian Waldron, Jo-Anne Driessens, Juno…
Annabelle Reidy: the boat I row
Reflective in a self-effacing way, it is a beautifully crafted memoir which invites us to share a healing process made possible through exploring with an analogue camera and notebook in…
Total Vibration
Created specifically for Night Feast, Total Vibration is a major site-specific installation by Gadigal/Sydney artist Jonny Niesche, transforming the Stores Studio into an immersive environment of reflection, sound and movement.…
Choral Cthonics
A hum in the dark. Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival, Choral Cthonics is a world-premiere exhibition exploring the voice as instrument, threshold and collective force. Bringing together work…
Objects: One Day Studio Workshop in Art and Drawing
Open Field Studio presents Objects: One Day Studio Workshop in Art and Drawing, a drawing program exploring line, mark-making and form through a series of structured but open-ended studio sessions.…
Joseph Burgess: Sonotextility
Sonotextility is a multidisciplinary exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Joseph Burgess exploring the intersection of textiles and sound. The project investigates shared material ideas of tension, rhythm, repetition, pattern and embodied…
Nana Kawamura: Golden Scars
Golden Scars explores the relationship between the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy of self-overcoming. Kawamura reflects on repairing what has been broken and transforming past inner conflict…
Crafty Party
Get hands-on with Brisbane artists at Museum of Brisbane’s after-dark Crafty Party workshops. These relaxed, artist-led evenings invite participants to explore creative processes, learn new skills and create a handmade…
The Red Dress
The Red Dress brings together the work of 380 embroiderers from 51 countries in a remarkable 14-year global collaboration conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod. Created between 2009 and 2023,…
Kitty Horton: Dark Romance
Brisbane-based artist Kitty Horton presents Dark Romance, a solo exhibition exploring the materiality of oil, mixed media and drawing. Influenced by contemporary and modernist painting, Horton creates distorted forms, shapes…
Sandra Selig: Figure of 8
Milani Gallery presents Figure of 8, a solo exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Sandra Selig. The exhibition features a new body of work spanning reverse pendulum textiles, paintings…
Coral Futures
Coral Futures brings together poetic and speculative responses to coral by First Nations and contemporary Australian artists. The exhibition explores coral’s vital role in marine ecosystems, particularly the Great Barrier…
Drawing Animal
Drawing Animal brings together works from the Redland Art Gallery Collection exploring the complex relationships between humans and animals. The exhibition highlights the ways animals are deeply entangled with human…
Judy Watson: kau-in kau-in blood blood
kau-in kau-in blood blood presents recently acquired and existing works from the City of Moreton Bay Art Collection by renowned multidisciplinary artist Judy Watson. Working across textile, video and printmaking,…
Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland
Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland explores the ways people and wildlife coexist within human-altered environments. Through cyanotype photogram collages combining wildlife remnants and human-made objects, LeAnne Vincent uncovers hidden stories embedded…
Jason Fitzgerald: Unearthed
Jason Fitzgerald’s Unearthed presents a series of glazed stoneware sculptures that occupy the space between archaeological artefact, architectural fragment and imagined object. Appearing as though excavated from an uncertain past,…
Gilang Fradika & Indra Dodi
Mitchell Fine Art presents a new exhibition featuring Yogyakarta-based artists Gilang Fradika and Indra Dodi, strengthening Brisbane’s connection with Indonesia’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition brings together Fradika’s Primal Visions…
2-Day Earth Pigment Workshop with Kuweni Dias Mendis
Join artist Kuweni Dias Mendis for an immersive two-day workshop exploring the process of transforming local earth into natural pigments and paint. Participants will learn how to respectfully gather, grind,…
Bridget Hillebrand: Tidal
PARKER Contemporary presents Tidal, a new exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Bridget Hillebrand, bringing together works shaped by close and repeated encounters with water. Rather than treating water as a landscape…
Natalie Lavelle: Divine Divide
Material Encounters Is an artwork ever encountered in the same way twice? The light has shifted since morning. Bodies move through a space carrying with them their own thoughts, memories…
Lethbridge Small-Scale Art Award 2026
The Lethbridge Small-Scale Art Award returns for its 16th year, showcasing small-scale works by emerging and established artists from Australia and around the world. With works limited to 61cm or…
Lecture Me: Dirk Yates
2PP launches Lecture Me, a new series of contemporary art lectures exploring pressing ideas and issues shaping contemporary practice. The first lecture features Dirk Yates presenting The Living Dog &…
Maud Gallery: Photography Workshops
Maud Gallery is offering a range of photography workshops and courses exploring traditional analogue photography and darkroom techniques. 6-Week Darkroom Course for Beginners Starting 5 October 2026 Artist and educator…
Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards 2026
The finalist exhibition of the 2026 Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards celebrates Brisbane through the lens of local photographers, capturing the city’s familiar streets, riverside landscapes, everyday routines and the people…
Eliza Bertwistle: Sensational Nonsense
Sensational Nonsense by Eliza Bertwistle explores the sensory and emotional impacts of decoration, playfully challenging gendered hierarchies of aesthetic taste. Through a visually indulgent body of work, Bertwistle draws on…
Exhibition Opportunity: Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is calling for proposals for solo and group exhibitions in 2027, welcoming submissions from emerging and established artists and curators. With a focus on contemporary…
Queensland Regional Art Awards 2026
Entries are now open for the 2026 Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA), Australia’s largest regional art awards program for artists living in regional, rural and remote Queensland. With a total…
Tokyo Biennale 2027: Social Dive
The Tokyo Biennale 2027 Social Dive Open Call invites artists, curators, researchers, collectives and practitioners from Japan and around the world to propose projects responding to the theme “From ‘Me’…
Free Range 7: Botborg, Owchi, Tistriallal Binds
Free Range returns to the Institute of Modern Art for an evening of experimental sound, live performance and underground music culture. The program features three distinct performances exploring improvisation, electronics,…
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah: Undying
Griffith University Art Museum presents Undying, a major solo exhibition by acclaimed Australian sculptor Abdul-Rahman Abdullah. Commissioned by the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, the exhibition brings…
Women in Print
Impress Art invites women printmakers to take part in Women in Print, a two-week celebration of women working in printmaking. Artists are invited to submit recent or historical work that…
Performance: Mindy Seu: A Sexual History of the Internet
US artist and technologist Mindy Seu brings her acclaimed participatory lecture-performance A Sexual History of the Internet to Brisbane following presentations across North America, Asia and Europe. Described by the…
Huiyi Xiao Wins the 2026 Churchie Emerging Art Prize
Victorian artist Huiyi Xiao has been awarded the $40,000 Major Prize at the 2026 Churchie Emerging Art Prize, announced at Metro Arts in Brisbane on Friday 24 July. Xiao, who…
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Self Portraits
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
Inscribing a life
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Gallery of Modern Art
FIRE! Works on Paper
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Fireworks Gallery
Annabelle Reidy: the boat I row
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Chapter
Total Vibration
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Brisbane Powerhouse
Zoe Young
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Philip Bacon Galleries
Choral Cthonics
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Metro Arts
Joseph Burgess: Sonotextility
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KEPK
Nana Kawamura: Golden Scars
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Woolloongabba Art Gallery
The Red Dress
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Museum of Brisbane
Kitty Horton: Dark Romance
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Side Gallery
Sandra Selig: Figure of 8
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Milani Gallery
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Crafty Party
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2-Day Earth Pigment Workshop with Kuweni Dias Mendis
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Maud Gallery: Photography Workshops
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Exhibition Opportunity: Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
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Queensland Regional Art Awards 2026
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Tokyo Biennale 2027: Social Dive
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Women in Print
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Dobell Drawing Prize
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Australian Coin Review: Coin Design Competition
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Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award
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Kilgour Prize 2027
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Huiyi Xiao Wins the 2026 Churchie Emerging Art Prize
Victorian artist Huiyi Xiao has been awarded the $40,000 Major Prize at the 2026 Churchie Emerging Art Prize, announced at Metro Arts in Brisbane on Friday 24 July. Xiao, who…
Flying Arts 2026 Program
Flying Arts has announced its 2026 Annual Programme, delivering an expansive calendar of professional development, exhibitions, awards, education initiatives and regional touring opportunities designed to strengthen Queensland’s visual arts sector…
IMA Announces Platform 2027 Artistic Cohort
Meanjin/Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA) plays a critical role in setting the agenda for contemporary art in Australia through significant investment in the state’s artists. Today, the IMA is pleased to announce the artistic cohort of Platform 2027, its esteemed early-career professional-development project. The artist recipients are Amanda Bennetts,…
Stanthorpe Art Prize 2026 Announces Winners
The winners of the $50,000 Stanthorpe Art Prize 2026 have been announced, with KHR Stewart awarded the $20,000 2D Prize for Dollface, an oil painting praised by judge Wendy Sharpe…
GOMA AT NIGHT: How the Role of Art Museums has the Potential to Transform Third Space for Our Collective Dreaming
What occurs when Brisbane’s most prestigious art gallery opens its doors after hours – and what does it reveal about how spaces could create a better world? The museum becomes…
The Red Dress: A Global Tapestry of Stories and Connection
An extraordinary artwork stitched by hundreds of hands from around the world will be exhibited in Brisbane this winter. The Red Dress is a monumental collaborative embroidery project conceived by…
John Kotzas AM Appointed New Head of Arts and Culture at Experience Gold Coast
Experience Gold Coast has announced the appointment of John Kotzas as its new Head of Arts and Culture, overseeing HOTA, Home of the Arts. Kotzas brings almost four decades of…
State Library of Queensland x artisan: New Partnership Elevates Queensland Craft and Design
State Library of Queensland has announced a new cultural partnership with artisan, the state’s peak body for craft and design, establishing the library as a creative hub for Queensland’s craft…
Brian Robinson: Floriate
A major new public artwork by Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson has been unveiled at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in Brisbane. Titled Floriate, the four-metre-high bronze sculpture…
Exhibition Review: Anna Gonzalez, Tiny Worlds, Tall Tales
At the centre of Anna Gonzalez’s practice is the diorama. Working with fragile, hand-built materials – paper, mirrors, thread, wire, edible jelly and paint – she constructs intricate sculptural environments.…
Horizon Festival 2026
Horizon Festival returns in 2026 to celebrate ten years of creativity across the Sunshine Coast, presenting a bold 10-day program of more than 35 events across Kabi Kabi and Jinibara…
Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships 2026
Yuriyal Bridgeman (PNG/QLD), Teresa Busuttil (SA) and EJ Son (NSW) have been selected as recipients of the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship for 2026. Each artist will receive a scholarship…
Clayton Utz Art Award 2025–2026
Celebrating creative excellence across Australia’s contemporary art landscape, the Clayton Utz Art Award showcases an exceptional selection of national finalists whose works explore the richness, diversity, and imagination of Australian…
Kate Marek Wins Inaugural Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Art Prize
The Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS) Brisbane Branch has announced local artist Kate Marek as the winner of the inaugural Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Art Prize, unveiled at a glittering awards…
Cj Hendry: Pink Chairs
Two oversized, glossy Pink Chairs by internationally renowned artist Cj Hendry have found a permanent home at the State Library of Queensland. At first glance, the works resemble inflatable lounge…
BLEACH* FESTIVAL 2025
BLEACH*—one of Australia’s most vibrant contemporary arts festivals—returns in 2025 with a powerful new direction under guest Artistic Director Michael Zavros. Spanning 11 days and over 100 events, the festival…
Brisbane Festival 2025
Brisbane Festival returns with its most ambitious and city-spanning program yet — transforming the city into a stage for 23 days of boundary-pushing performance, bold public art, and deeply local…
Finalists Announced for ‘the churchie’ 2025
Now in its 38th year, ‘the churchie’ emerging art prize continues its proud legacy as Australia’s longest-running prize dedicated to early-career artists. From a competitive pool of over 450 entries,…
Max Athans wins 2025 Jeremy Hynes Award
The Institute of Modern Art is pleased to announce Max Athans as the eighth and final recipient of the Jeremy Hynes Award, which has run since 2009 thanks to the generous bequest…
Carol McGregor: Acknowledging Place
As part of Charter Hall’s redevelopment of Brisbane Square in the heart of the CBD, sustainability was embedded into every aspect of the design—from materials to process. In response, Blaklash,…
Archibald Prize 2025 won by Julie Fragar
Brisbane-based artist Julie Fragar has been awarded the $100,000 Archibald Prize for her portrait Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), a vivid and layered depiction of her close friend and fellow artist…
Artistic Director of Brisbane Powerhouse: Louise Bezzina
Brisbane Powerhouse has announced the appointment of Louise Bezzina as its new CEO and Artistic Director, commencing in October 2025. Bezzina brings a wealth of experience, having founded the Bleach…
Siliceous Award Winner Announced
A Celebration of Contemporary Australian Ceramics Ceramic Arts Queensland (CAQ) is delighted to announce the winners of the Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence and the Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Wood Fired Ceramics Award. The…
QAGOMA's 2025 Program
Experience an extraordinary year of art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). The 2025 program presents major solo exhibitions, immersive experiences, and powerful contemporary works,…
Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
Richard Bell, Megan Cope and Sancintya Mohini Simpson are exhibiting work in the 16th Sharjah Biennial. The Sharjah Biennial 16 title, to carry, is a multi-vocal and open-ended proposition. The…
Australia’s artist and curator for the 2026 Venice Biennale
Khaled Sabsabi & Michael Dagostino to Represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale Creative Australia has announced award-winning multidisciplinary artist Khaled Sabsabi and esteemed curator Michael Dagostino as the artistic…
Discover Queensland Legends and Treasures
For artists seeking inspiration rooted in the heart of Queensland, the State Library’s annual Highlights magazine is a must-read in 2025. This year’s edition celebrates iconic Queensland stories, from Stefan’s…
Outer Space 2025 Artistic Program
The Outer Space 2025 program promises a vibrant showcase of contemporary art from across Australia. Following an impressive response to last year’s open call, with over 120 submissions, eight outstanding…
Archie Moore: New Moving Image Commission
In his first exhibition since winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist, Archie Moore, presents an ambitious new moving image work at the University of…
Onespace Representation: Prita Tina Yeganeh
Onespace is proud to announce the representation of Prita Tina Yeganeh, a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and educator of Iranian descent, based in Magandjin (Brisbane), Queensland. Growing up in India and…
Museum of Brisbane x UAP
Museum of Brisbane and UAP (Urban Art Projects) have announced a dynamic new collaboration designed to provide professional development and global networking for local Brisbane artists and creatives. With mutual…
Ephemeral Mural by @MCRT.Studio
An ephemeral 400sqm mural by local artists @MCRT.Studio has emerged in South Brisbane, adding a vibrant touch to the urban landscape. The artwork, visible from both 14 Edmondstone St and…
ATTACHMENT: A new public art installation by Paula Dunlop
Paula Dunlop’s Attachment is a permanent public artwork for Metro Arts and the West Village precinct, located on the Factory Lane brick wall, just outside of Metro Arts. Thousands of reflective glass…
Archie Moore Wins Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion
Archie Moore’s exhibition kith and kin at the Australia Pavilion has been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for Best National Participation at La Biennale de Venezia 2024. This is the first time…
Museum of Brisbane 2024 Program
New mediums, fresh collabs and novel ideas shape inventive views of Brisbane Brisbane is the forever muse for Museum of Brisbane’s 2024 Program. From behind-the-scenes studio tours to interactive AI…
2024 Artisan Residents
artisan is announcing the selected artists for our new Artisan Residency Program, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. These residencies have been developed by artisan to elevate careers and offer opportunities for…
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