2026 Maker Entrepreneurship Program

2026 Maker Entrepreneurship Program

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Are you a maker looking to turn your craft into a sustainable business? Brisbane City…
EMAF 2026

EMAF 2026

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Media artists worldwide are invited to submit work for the 39th European Media Art Festival…
Sandy Herberte: World By Night

Sandy Herberte: World By Night

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The world is full of contrasts, contradictions and ironical phenomena. The physical, spiritual and intellectual…
YICCA Prize

YICCA Prize

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The YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art (2025–26) invites artists from around the world to…
Variegated Spaces: Kitty Horton

Variegated Spaces: Kitty Horton

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Kitty Horton is an architect of composition. Growing up surrounded by carpentry, and with a…
Softwash: At the Water’s Edge

Softwash: At the Water’s Edge

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softwash’s final live program returns to the riverbank and public parklands for an artist-led afternoon…
Bianca Tainsh: Terra Culture

Bianca Tainsh: Terra Culture

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Terra Culture is an exploration of terra-biomes — symbiotic bodies of flora and microfauna, intimately connected…
Judy Watson: ground piece

Judy Watson: ground piece

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In gallery one is a selection of works by Judy Watson made between 1992–1999, centred…
Natalya Hughes: The Future was Femme

Natalya Hughes: The Future was Femme

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In gallery two is The Future was Femme by Natalya Hughes. For this body of…
Ryan Presley: Inferno

Ryan Presley: Inferno

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In gallery three we are presenting Inferno — the Arcade Game — by Ryan Presley,…
Indy Heath (Spiraro): Studio Tactics for the End of Capital

Indy Heath (Spiraro): Studio Tactics for the End of Capital

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Join IN | artist run initiative for the next two hands-on workshops in our Studio…
Looking Forward // Looking Back

Looking Forward // Looking Back

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Looking Forward // Looking Back brings together emerging artists who respond to, reflect on, or…
Outer Space & IMA: Demo 3/4

Outer Space & IMA: Demo 3/4

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Demo 3/4 → Round three descends. The after-hours art experiments crawl back into the shadows…
Red Gallery: Midsumma Festival 2026

Red Gallery: Midsumma Festival 2026

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Red Gallery is inviting artists from the queer community to be part of a group…
Tim Mosely: revisiting the bush

Tim Mosely: revisiting the bush

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PARKER Contemporary presents revisiting the bush, the first major body of work in several years…
The Brisbane Portrait Prize 2025

The Brisbane Portrait Prize 2025

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The Brisbane Portrait Prize celebrates the city of Brisbane/Meeanjin and its people through contemporary portraiture.…
Kate Marek Wins Inaugural Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Art Prize

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…
Ces McCully: Home to Home

Ces McCully: Home to Home

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Melbourne-born, France-based artist Ces McCully presents Home to Home, a new exhibition exploring the tactile…
Farm Studio: International Artist Residency

Farm Studio: International Artist Residency

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Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theatre, music,…
Grant x Wilkes: Local Guide

Grant x Wilkes: Local Guide

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Both playful and disquieting, Local Guide by Grant x Wilkes interrogates the reliability of online…
Rick Amor

Rick Amor

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Rick Amor (b. 1948, Frankston, Victoria) is one of Australia’s most prominent figurative painters and…
Southeastern

Southeastern

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Jaydon Martin is a multi-disciplinary filmmaker and artist whose practice explores maligned cultures, the mundane,…
Monica Rohan: Visitors

Monica Rohan: Visitors

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In Visitors, Monica Rohan presents a captivating new body of work in which chairs —…
Matt James: Between Places

Matt James: Between Places

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Between Places presents a new body of work by painter Matt James, exploring how memory…
Yuriyal Bridgeman: SUNA (Middle Ground)

Yuriyal Bridgeman: SUNA (Middle Ground)

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Yuriyal Bridgeman’s SUNA (Middle Ground) is a monumental installation and a living site for storytelling,…
Duane Doyle: Art Family

Duane Doyle: Art Family

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Duane Doyle is a proud Jiman (yimen) artist from Central Queensland. He identifies with his…
Here & Now: Emerging Artists

Here & Now: Emerging Artists

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Showcasing emerging and early-career artists from Brisbane and across South East Queensland, Here & Now…
Rae Haynes: Subversive Threads

Rae Haynes: Subversive Threads

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Subversive Threads is a new solo exhibition by Meanjin-based artist Rae Haynes, whose contemporary feminist…
Eugene Carchesio: Serial Music

Eugene Carchesio: Serial Music

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This October, Milani Gallery presents Serial Music, a major exhibition by Eugene Carchesio across Galleries…
Summer

Summer

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Jan Murphy Gallery presents Summer, a vibrant group exhibition featuring works by Keith Burt, Sis…
Pecha Kucha: Visions for the Future

Pecha Kucha: Visions for the Future

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Join the IMA for the final instalment of its fiftieth anniversary forum series, Pecha Kucha:…
Chris Gaynor: 3 Boiled Eggs 5 Olives 12 Paintings

Chris Gaynor: 3 Boiled Eggs 5 Olives 12 Paintings

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3 Boiled Eggs 5 Olives 12 Paintings marks Chris Gaynor’s first solo exhibition in Magandjin/Brisbane…
Teddy Horton: Poodle Boy

Teddy Horton: Poodle Boy

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Poodle Boy is the debut solo exhibition by Teddy Horton, featuring a series of short,…
Ross Booker: The Water Diaries

Ross Booker: The Water Diaries

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In The Water Diaries, Brisbane-based artist Ross Booker presents a new body of text-based works…
Zanny Begg: These Stories Will Be Different

Zanny Begg: These Stories Will Be Different

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“If you think history is on your side, let me tell you women did not…
Paean Sarkar: How to Speak my Mother’s Caring Words

Paean Sarkar: How to Speak my Mother’s Caring Words

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How to Speak my Mother’s Caring Words is a collection of text messages in Bengali…