Public art: Then and now

Public art: Then and now

30th August, 2:00pm
Today public art is often hotly debated, dividing public opinion and attracting news coverage. What…
Metro Arts: Exhibition Program - Call for Proposals

Metro Arts: Exhibition Program - Call for Proposals

17 August, 2015
Brave and curious? Ready to ask what’s next? Join with us to discover what’s new…
Jason Haggerty: BODYPOD

Jason Haggerty: BODYPOD

1st - 15th August
BODYPOD is the culmination of Winter Artist in Resident Jason Haggerty’s time occupying The Walls’…
Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing

Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing

7th - 21st August
Celebrating its 6th year the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing is holding its annual…
Bianca Beetson: Works from the Gushul Studio Residency

Bianca Beetson: Works from the Gushul Studio Residency

29th July - 15th August
A selection of paintings, works on paper and photographs produced during an Artist Residency Program…
Queensland Who Are We: Defining State

Queensland Who Are We: Defining State

20th August, 6.30pm
#GOMATalks returns for two Thursday evenings during #GOMAQ for a discussion of Queensland, its past,…
Viz Arts Live - Richard Bell

Viz Arts Live - Richard Bell

10th August, 7:00pm
John Stafford interviews artist Richard Bell. Richard Bell was born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland,…
Joseph Breikers: Joke Trading

Joseph Breikers: Joke Trading

13th - 15th August
Joke Trading draws on the verbal tradition of humour and the act of joke telling…
Artist and curator tour: Wunderkammer

Artist and curator tour: Wunderkammer

27th August, 12.30 pm
Please join artist Luke Roberts and co-curators Emily Poore and Michele Helmrich on a tour…
Churchie National Emerging Art Prize

Churchie National Emerging Art Prize

31st July - 29th August
Thirty three (33) emerging artists have been selected as finalists for the churchie national emergingart…
IMA Reading Group

IMA Reading Group

29th August, 3:00pm
Join the forth iteration of the IMA Reading Group on Saturday, 29 August, at 3pm.…
TERRAFORMAS

TERRAFORMAS

August 28th, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Installation by Angela Rossitto and live waveforms (music) by #459 SCRAPS and ZANAX. Come hang…
Carstairs Residency Prize

Carstairs Residency Prize

29th August, 2015
Named after the Carstairs, the residency draws its name from an intriguing and eccentric blend…
Art / Science

Art / Science

11th - 27th August
A group of accomplished artists have been in residence working with scientists at the Ecosciences…
Anya Swan & Merete Megarrity: This Ur

Anya Swan & Merete Megarrity: This Ur

26th - 29th August
Working in the same studio space at the Queensland College of Art, Anya Swan and…
2high Festival: Artist Call Out

2high Festival: Artist Call Out

30th August, 2015
Over 3 days in January 2016, Backbone’s 2high Festival will inject Brisbane’s home of independence…
Cast By The Sun

Cast By The Sun

29th July - 15th August
‘Cast By The Sun (Brisbane)’ is the first part of a two part exhibition between…
Christopher Lees: Vision of Solus

Christopher Lees: Vision of Solus

9th June - 5th July
The Australian landscape is an enigma of nature’s imagination. Christopher Lees’ long awaited solo exhibition…
The height of a mountain, the width of a valley

The height of a mountain, the width of a valley

22nd July - 8th August
The height of a mountain, the width of a valley explores ways in which different…
Nancy Stilianos: All the pretty things

Nancy Stilianos: All the pretty things

24th June - 4th July
The work in this exhibition presents an ongoing search for both symbolic and pragmatic remedies…
Simone Eisler: Progeny

Simone Eisler: Progeny

16th July - 8th August
Simone Eisler’s new body of small wall sculpture titled Progeny is literally that – a…
Brian Sanstrom: When Gravity Eludes Me

Brian Sanstrom: When Gravity Eludes Me

14th July - 2nd August
Doctor of Visual Arts candidate, Brian Sanstrom, uses his poignant work to investigate the merging of…
Important Australian Paintings

Important Australian Paintings

30th June - 25th July
IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN PAINTINGS 1. Rupert Bunny Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria c.1896 watercolour 41.5…
Andy Harwood: Balance

Andy Harwood: Balance

15th - 18th July
Balance is a collection of works consisting of new and established concepts; shape, size, relative…
Sam Cranstoun: Retro Modern

Sam Cranstoun: Retro Modern

4th - 18th July
Nowhere is the rapid twentieth-century expansion of suburban Australia more evident than on the Gold…
Alrey Batol

Alrey Batol

Born in Philippines and then immigrating to Australia at the age of ten, Alrey Batol…
Makeshift Musings: A response to Makeshift Monuments

Makeshift Musings: A response to Makeshift Monuments

The spectacle is non-porous. It’s well oiled and frictionless. Like a water slide, which grates…
Air: Oil Painting Masterclass with Hobie Porter

Air: Oil Painting Masterclass with Hobie Porter

21st - 22nd August, 2015
Join Hobie Porter to explore colour and tonal analysis in cloudscape painting. Hobie will share…
Louise Bennett: All At Once

Louise Bennett: All At Once

The bulk of human activity is the creation and movement of information.  Twenty years ago…
Swell Sculpture Festival - Volunteers

Swell Sculpture Festival - Volunteers

15th August, 2015
JOIN THIS DYNAMIC TEAM AND REGISTER YOUR INTEREST TODAY! Our volunteers assist us through all…
Rebecca Daynes: Sea is Lonely

Rebecca Daynes: Sea is Lonely

A friend I spoke to soon after viewing Rebecca Daynes’ work suggested that there is…
Sense of Place Workshop with Nicola Moss

Sense of Place Workshop with Nicola Moss

18th July, 9.30am – 2.30pm
Working with textures found outdoors can develop a range of rich tactile paper surfaces for…
Abbey McCulloch

Abbey McCulloch

Abbey McCulloch holds a Masters in Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith…
The murmur of surfaces

The murmur of surfaces

For a period in 1991 I became enchanted by a series of small, suspended copper…
Weather Patterns

Weather Patterns

17th July - 20th August
Weather Patterns is a group show that umbrellas three Australian artists. All three artists work…
Wunderkammer: The strange and the curious

Wunderkammer: The strange and the curious

11th July - 13th September
Wunderkammer: The strange and the curious is inspired by those eclectic collections of objects that…