Margaret Loy Pula: UNJANGOLA – MY FATHER’S COUNTRY
Hailing from Utopia in Central Australia Margaret Loy Pula continues a legacy of sharing culture. Painting traditional stories handed down from her father she depicts her homelands, bush foods and ceremonial designs using…
Ross Manning: Matter and Matrix
This April we are presenting an exhibition of new works by Ross Manning. In Gallery 1 and 3, a series of new wall works continue Manning’s sculptural experiments in light…
Sha Sarwari: Archaeology of Memory
Escaping the reality of war and enduring its trauma – caught between the war of indifference and empathy – the story of refugees are often forgotten or made invisible. This…
Robert Brownhall
Robert Brownhall (b.1968, Brisbane) is a realist painter, inspired by his local environment of South-East Queensland. Over nearly thirty years of painting, Brownhall has developed a unique style characterised by…
Morgan Allender: Soft Skin Warm Earth
My work has long explored an enduring fascination with the role of flowers and plants within culture. The human impulse to gather small, fragile treasures from nature and offer them…
TEETERING, TITTERING, TITS UP
teetering, tittering, tits up is an exhibition of sculptural works that imagine structures for queer and multispecies intimacies. Playful reconfigurations of outdoor equipment such as tarpaulin, tentpoles, and trampolines offer refuge…
Dissolving Worlds: Tim and Mic Gruchy
Since their childhood years in Bundaberg, brothers Tim and Mic Gruchy have been insatiably curious about emergent innovations in image and sound technology. They have now worked in this…
Brisbane Street Art Festival 2023
AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST STREET ART FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BRISBANE FOR 2023 WITH AN EPIC LINE-UP OF LIVE MURALS, ART EVENTS & WORKSHOPS. Now in its 8th year, Brisbane Street Art Festival…
Miri Badger: IKKUNA
“This framed glass is following me, obscuring and cropping my experience. A form of shelter. Looking over my shoulder, through another window I see muted green and brown encased in…
Easton Dunne: Main Drag
Main Drag applies aesthetics of kitsch and camp queer visual culture to the stereotypical signs and signifiers of local and communal identity, often seen along the national highway running through Rockhampton,…
Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2023
The national acquisitive Sunshine Coast Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D and new media arts practice in Australia. Now in its eighteenth year, the…
Copyright Agency Partnerships
Each year one visual artist or collective will be selected from a competitive application process to develop and present a major new commission with the partner organisation, with an overall…
Jonathan Kopinski: Nervous. Solid. Nothing.
Jonathan Kopinski’s latest offering Nervous. Solid. Nothing. continues the artist’s exploration into psycho-scenographic imagery. Eschewing overt didactic arcs in favour of fragmentary and often incongruous motifs and images, Kopinski’s compositions…
Rebecca Ross: Greater Sunrise
Rebecca Ross lives on Kombumerri Country/Queensland’s Southern Gold Coast. Since completing a Master of Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology she has exhibited at the Embassy of Australia in…
We the Makers Sustainable Fashion Prize
Calling all emerging fashion designers with a commitment to authentic design and sustainable practice. The National Wool Museum and the City of Greater Geelong are challenging designers to create one…
Recovered Futures: Curator Opportunity
Are you an experienced Curator looking to be part of an iconic Brisbane exhibition? We are currently seeking expressions of interest for the 2023 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition. This is…
The JAA Australasian Jewellery Awards
The JAA Australasian Jewellery Awards celebrate and recognise design, innovation, craftsmanship and marketability in the jewellery industry. They are the ultimate industry awards that reward creativity, skill and technique –…
Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
Finalists of the MCPP are exhibited annually at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre with the prize-winning work joining the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection, and a collection of contemporary photographic works acquired…
Remagine Art Prize 2023
Open to digital stills, sculpture, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, and drawing. Entries close 26 April 2023. Artists are asked to submit works that relate to an element of…
Artisan's Workshops
artisan‘s workshop vision is to offer bespoke and intimate classes of the highest quality. Classes that are thoughtful and beautifully paced, where students have a personalised experience, and teachers feel…
Farm Studio Artist Residency: India
Farm Studio International Artist Residency hosts artists from September to March each year, with accommodations available for up to 6-8 residents at one time. Disciplines: Artists of all disciplines creating…
Gaye Jurisich: Public places private thoughts
Public places private thoughts is a small body of work that continues to explore abstracted narratives that have been part of Gaye’s creative oeuvre and exploration for several years. Gestural marks…
IMA Annual Gala: Honouring Megan Cope
The IMA is thrilled to announce that the IMA Annual Gala and Benefit Auction 2023 will be held in honour of artist Megan Cope. Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke…
LINE, POINT, PLEIN
Karee Dahl’s creative practice is primarily concern with the processes and material relationships between textiles, drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation practice. Dahl refers to her practice as, “an obsessive manipulation…
Max Athans: Late Transformation
“Late ultraviolet caress, the crawl of cells reorganised. Breath wishes whistling through a boolean cavity” Late Transformation depicts a bodily timeline, an archeology of chimerical change. Drawing from museum collections,…
Lost in Palm Springs
Lost in Palm Springs is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together 14 creative minds – including internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia – who respond to, capture,…
BRISBANE ART DESIGN 2023
BOLD, ARTISTIC, DARING and always tonnes of FUN , BRISBANE ART DESIGN (BAD) 2023 is set to highlight local art design luminaries with a program of hands-on workshops, open studios, design talks and arty parties activating three…
The Lester Prize for Portraiture 2023
Entries are open for WA’s premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize. Now in its seventeenth year, this award is one of the nation’s most recognised and prestigious art prizes.…
STILL: National Still Life Award 2023
STILL: National Still Life Award is a biennial, acquisitive award for an artwork in the still life genre. The award takes a fresh and contemporary approach to still life and its…
Rubicon ARI: Exhibition Call Out
We are now accepting exhibition proposals for July – November 2023. The deadline is 11:59pm Sunday March 26th. We are seeking proposals for solo and group shows, emerging and also…
Jane du Rand: Green, Red and Black
‘Jane du Rand: Green, Red and Black’ is a collective ceramic installation that captures Ipswich-based artist Jane Du Rand’s interpretation of the ever-evolving Australian natural landscape. Using factions of colour…
Michael Cook: Fake
Michael Cook is a Queensland-based artist of Bidjara heritage. Over the last decade, Cook has produced works that interrogate the legacy of colonisation and invite the viewer to experience the…
Katrina Garvey & Lisa Kurtz: Hear/Here
Audism is the belief that the ability to hear makes one superior to those with hearing loss, while research shows that the ‘lack of information in one sense (e.g., audition)…
North by North-West
‘North by North-West’ presents recent acquisitions and old favourites from the Gallery’s Indigenous Australian art collection, highlighting unique visual threads and continuities that traverse the top half of the continent.…
Julie Fragar: Biograph
Julie Fragar makes paintings about the stories we tell, simultaneously chronicling and critically analysing her chosen subjects. Bringing a unique level of psychological enquiry to the activity of painting, Fragar’s…
Metro Arts: Visual Arts Program 2024
For over 40 years Metro Arts has supported artists at all stages of their career, providing a space for artists across all disciplines to experiment, develop and exhibit new work.…
WHATS ON
EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS & MORE
Margaret Loy Pula: UNJANGOLA – MY FATHER’S COUNTRY
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Mitchell Fine Art
Ross Manning: Matter and Matrix
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Milani Gallery
Sha Sarwari: Archaeology of Memory
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Carpark Gallery
Robert Brownhall
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Philip Bacon Galleries
Morgan Allender: Soft Skin Warm Earth
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
TEETERING, TITTERING, TITS UP
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Metro Arts
Dissolving Worlds: Tim and Mic Gruchy
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Griffith University Art Museum
Miri Badger: IKKUNA
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Outer Space
Easton Dunne: Main Drag
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Metro Arts
Jonathan Kopinski: Nervous. Solid. Nothing.
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Jan Manton Gallery
Rebecca Ross: Greater Sunrise
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Outer Space
Gaye Jurisich: Public places private thoughts
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Side Gallery
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CALLOUTS, WORKSHOPS, PRIZES & MORE
Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2023
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Copyright Agency Partnerships
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We the Makers Sustainable Fashion Prize
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20230416
Recovered Futures: Curator Opportunity
Deadline:
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The JAA Australasian Jewellery Awards
Deadline:
20230717
Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
Deadline:
20230519
Remagine Art Prize 2023
Deadline:
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Artisan's Workshops
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Farm Studio Artist Residency: India
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The Lester Prize for Portraiture 2023
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STILL: National Still Life Award 2023
Deadline:
20230604
Rubicon ARI: Exhibition Call Out
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NEWS
MEDIA RELEASES, ARTICLES & MORE
Brisbane Street Art Festival 2023
AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST STREET ART FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BRISBANE FOR 2023 WITH AN EPIC LINE-UP OF LIVE MURALS, ART EVENTS & WORKSHOPS. Now in its 8th year, Brisbane Street Art Festival…
IMA Annual Gala: Honouring Megan Cope
The IMA is thrilled to announce that the IMA Annual Gala and Benefit Auction 2023 will be held in honour of artist Megan Cope. Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke…
BRISBANE ART DESIGN 2023
BOLD, ARTISTIC, DARING and always tonnes of FUN , BRISBANE ART DESIGN (BAD) 2023 is set to highlight local art design luminaries with a program of hands-on workshops, open studios, design talks and arty parties activating three…
Curator Ellie Buttrose and artist Archie Moore: Venice Biennale
Archie Moore and Ellie Buttrose are the artist and curator commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts to exhibit at the Australia Pavilion for the 60th International Art Exhibition of…
IMA Appoints Robert Leonard as Director
One of the Asia Pacific region’s most respected and experienced curators, Robert Leonard, is returning to head up Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA). The IMA is Australia’s oldest independent contemporary…
The Sunshine Coast Art Collection
The Sunshine Coast Art Collection is a growing collection of artworks developed to encourage enjoyment and awareness of the visual arts, contributing to the cultural development and engagement of the…
Meet The Artists
Hear their words; see their work. We invite you to engage with the James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews, a series of in-depth and intimate video interviews where you…
BrisAsia Festival 2023
BrisAsia Festival returns from 1-19 February with a stellar line-up of events to celebrate Lunar New Year and Brisbane’s rich Asian cultural heritage. Featuring 27 unique experiences across 12 suburbs,…
2023 Exhibition Program at the IMA
Art is a space that allows us to reflect on our place in the world and re-enchant, reimagine, or even revolutionise the way we exist in it. The exhibitions in…
Now all in Onespace
In 2012 co-directors John Stafford and Jodie Cox established the dynamic public art consultancy CREATIVEMOVE, delivering public art services and commissions for a broad range of partners and artists. In…
Waiting Room Launch
Launching on Sunday December 4, Waiting Room is excited to welcome the Brisbane community to a showcase of global music and local, cross-disciplinary creative talent. Drawing on co-owner Jordan Rogers-Smith’s…
Hot Hot Hot Festival
This summer, we are turning up the heat with a multi-arts festival in Moreton Bay that will delight and inspire you. Hot Hot Hot Festival will run from sun-up to…
Play Moves
Surrender yourself to the sublime art of play. “To thrive in today’s fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively and the best way to…
Darren McDonald wins the Brisbane Portrait Prize 2022
Williamstown artist, Darren McDonald has won this year’s Brisbane Portrait Prize taking home the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Prize for his artwork titled Like A Bridge. A talented painter for more…
MELT FESTIVAL
MELT FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 18 DAYS OF ARTS AND IDEAS WITH A STAR-STUDDED PROGRAM MELT Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse’s unabashed celebration of queer art, artists, allies, icons, and ideas, has revealed…
2022 Fringe Brisbane Festival
Brisbane reimagines the fringe festival. Brisbane finally gets a fringe festival with tickets going on sale Saturday 27 August. The very first reimagined Fringe Brisbane Festival is taking place across…
Pat Hoffie and Camerata at MoB
Writer and artist Pat Hoffie and Camerata, Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, make temporary homes at MoB this spring Uncovering entertaining and fascinating stories about Brisbane’s rich history are what two new…
Lemonade launches: New art criticism for the Sunshine state
Lemonade is live! The new project provides weekly art reviews of exhibitions in Queensland. Lemonade is a love letter to Queensland art and artists. The new initiative responds to a pressing need for critical…
churchie emerging art prize 2022 recipients
the churchie emerging art prize 2022 guest judge Sebastian Goldspink tonight announced Emmaline Zanelli as the recipient of this year’s $15,000 prize. Goldspink, a Sydney-based independent curator and the curator of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial:…
Tony Albert - Inhabitant
An enormous 15 metre floating art garden depicting native plants by exciting First Nations artist Tony Albert has been unveiled, adding to the growing multi-million-dollar collection of public art earmarked…
Artisan's Melbourne Street Studio
For 50 years, artisan has been enriching lives through their core activities of exhibitions, workshops, public programs, and events. Now we have an even greater opportunity to connect craft and design…
BLEACH* Festival 2022
Welcome to BLEACH* 2022. We’ve been busy weaving together stories that traverse the coastline; stories that invite us into our neighbours’ lives; and stories that celebrate our place, the Gold…
IMA Gala and Benefit Auction 2022
The IMA’s 7th Annual Gala and Benefit Auction will take a suitably experimental form, inviting cutting edge artists to perform alongside an enviable selection of artworks available to bid on…
MAVA Pathfinders 2022
Three artists have been selected for Metro Arts’ inaugural MAVA Pathfinders Program: Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing, and James Barth. Caitlin, Liz and James will soon commence their Pathfinder residency at…
The Interior
Brisbane-based artist Natalya Hughes invites gallery visitors to dive into the depths of their psyche with a psychoanalysis-inspired exhibition titled The Interior at the Institute of Modern Art, 30 July–1…
The churchie 2022 finalists announced
The churchie emerging art prize and the Institute of Modern Art are thrilled to announce the 2022 prize finalists. Over 400 entries were received from across Australia, with 12 talented artists…
REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
Drawing on the methods of remix and sampling culture, filmmaker Jenn Nkiru creates soulful and mind bendingly visceral works reflecting the dynamism of Blackness. The Grammy Award-winning artist and director’s…
Lungfish Dreamz
A supersized wall mural depicting Australian lungfish swimming into a vibrant sunrise has been unveiled as one of the feature installations in the multi-million-dollar public art roll out for the…
MoB launches SUNNIE #3
Brisbane’s international cultural stars feature in the latest instalment of SUNNIE – a cosmopolitan bi-annual lifestyle magazine, produced in collaboration with Museum of Brisbane. Offering readers a celebration of place,…
Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF)
AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST STREET ART FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BRISBANE FOR 2022 WITH AN EPIC LINE-UP OF LIVE MURALS, ART EVENTS & WORKSHOPS. Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) has been pioneering Australia’s street…
Asia Pacific Architecture Festival
The Asia Pacific Architecture Festival (APAF) returns to Brisbane from 12 to 25 March 2022 in a collaboration between founding partners Architecture Media and State Library of Queensland. The festival…
Making Place: 100 Views of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane delves deep into its collections for a new exhibition, opening Saturday 26 March, that presents multiple artist perspectives on the changing nature of our city with Making Place:…
The Kingston Butter Factory Cultural Precinct
Logan’s new cultural precinct opens on January 29 and we’re inviting you to come and celebrate! When the sun goes down the Launch Party starts on the massive open Outdoor…
THE BIG ANXIETY
The Big Anxiety debuts its transformative program of arts and creative technology to change the way we address mental health and suicide from 9 –12 February 2022, following award-winning events in…
BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
BIFF’S 2021 PROGRAM IS GUARANTEED TO INSPIRE, PROVOKE AND ENTERTAIN Discover new joys, connect with classics and celebrate a world of memorable cinema with the 27th Brisbane International Film Festival…
GALLERIES
A LIST OF LOCAL GALLERIES AND ART SPACES
BNE ART – Brisbane Art Guide respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Brisbane and surrounding areas, the Yaggera, Turrabul, Yuggarrapul, Jinabara, Quandamooka and neighbouring clan groups.