Pep Talks: Yuriyal Bridgeman
Join Griffith University Art Museum for a Pep Talk with Yuriyal Bridgeman, following his inclusion in the 18th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale in France. The event begins with a free BBQ in the QCAD Courtyard from 4:30–5:30pm, followed by an artist talk and Q&A from 5:30–7:00pm at Griffith University Art…
Trade Practice
Trade Practice examines the divergent creative lineage of labour through the shared history of blue-collar work. Daniel Wallwork, Jack Rodgers and Matthew Rees draw on techniques and experiences from signwriting, automotive spray painting and commercial trades, integrating these practices into their artistic processes. Their work includes unsettling, metallic-sheened creatures, abstracted…
Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes: (In)Sight
Part of NIGHT MOVES, exploring what we keep hidden in our darkest corners. (In)Sight is an immersive installation by Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes that explores perception, representation and the relationship between seeing and being seen. Mirrors fracture perspective, screens shift with changing images, and handmade objects create…
Jessica Dorizac: Dahan-Dahan (Tread Lightly)
Beginning with a residency in Lucban, Philippines, this project develops a large-scale installation inspired by the Pahiyas Festival. Through community collaboration and traditional kiping-making, the work explores intergenerational knowledge, ritual and material culture, creating an immersive environment reflecting the fragility and resilience of cultural memory. Jessica Dorizac is an artist…
ALONG THE WAY
Your Pals presents Along the Way, an analogue photography exhibition featuring the work of 20 artists. The exhibition brings together photographs captured during three photo walks, each shaped by a different prompt and location. Every artist has selected five photographs from each walk, resulting in a total of 300 images…
Adam Pyett: Stories of daylight
Stories of daylight presents a new body of landscape paintings by Adam Pyett, developed through his long-term engagement with the Macedon Ranges in Victoria. Pyett’s paintings explore how landscapes are experienced through repetition, memory and changing light. Working from drawings made on site, he develops his paintings later in the…
MADE 2026: Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium
MADE 2026 is artisan’s inaugural Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium, bringing makers, designers, arts organisations and sector leaders together to discuss the future of contemporary craft and design in Australia. The program explores the priorities, partnerships and actions needed to strengthen the sector, with discussions around visibility, skills, access…
Baylee Griffin: The Space Here
Onespace invites you to an exhibition of ceramics by Baylee Griffin, The Space Here, in the Lounge Gallery. Based between Bidjara lands (Charleville) and Dharawal lands (Wollongong), Griffin’s ceramic practice is grounded in resilience, reciprocity and an embodied eco-centric philosophy. Working with locally sourced materials, Griffin explores the interconnected relationships…
Pat Hoffie: Party Gone Bad
FireWorks Gallery presents Party Gone Bad, a new exhibition of large-scale paintings by acclaimed Australian artist Pat Hoffie. Bringing together works produced between late 2025 and 2026, the exhibition responds to the anxieties, fractures and absurdities of contemporary life, including the challenges of free speech and the online “Hateosphere”. Hoffie’s…
KONSTANTINA: Wumera Nangamay: Muru Walan
Onespace presents Wumera Nangamay: Muru Walan, a new exhibition by Brisbane-based artist KONSTANTINA exploring the ancient Muru (path or journey) connecting her Gadigal ancestors in the Sydney region with the Arabanoo peoples of the central desert. Drawn to the enduring beauty and significance of Kati Thanda, KONSTANTINA’s richly layered paintings…
Charmaine Davis: Jugun – Country
As part of the prize for winning the First Nations Artist Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Charmaine Davis presents Jugun – Country, a solo exhibition at Flying Arts. A proud Goori woman with connections to the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung Nations, Davis draws deeply on the landscapes and…
Lisa Ray: Alter
Alter is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based photographer Lisa Ray, presented at Jan Manton Gallery in Teneriffe. Working across flowers, portraiture and elemental forms, Ray explores moments suspended between dissolution and emergence. Light resembles fire, water becomes atmosphere, and organic forms drift between the familiar and imagined. Created through a…
Jenna Catchpole: Her Flame, My Hands
Her Flame, My Hands A daughter’s journey through grief, growth and clay Her Flame, My Hands is an annual solo exhibition by Brisbane/Meanjin ceramic artist Jenna Catchpole, presented each September in honour of her mother, Jennene – a gifted potter whose love of clay continues to shape Jenna’s practice today.…
Diverse Perspectives
Diverse Perspectives brings together twelve photographers from the Fine Monochrome Print Group in a celebration of contemporary monochrome photography. Rather than following a single theme, the exhibition presents twelve distinct approaches to photographic practice, exploring subjects including personal narratives, landscape, architecture, abstraction and the human form. Together, the works consider…
Rachel South: Beautifully Tangled
Rachel South presents Beautifully Tangled, a solo exhibition exploring the intimate and emotional qualities of hair through highly detailed, large-format paintings. Drawing on her connection to nature and the Australian landscape, South transforms strands, coils and textures of hair into expansive, almost landscape-like forms. Opening Night – Thursday 3rd at…
Cassandra Louttit: Big Blue/Rothko Worship Current Year
Cassandra Louttit presents her second solo exhibition, Big Blue/Rothko Worship Current Year, at Wreckers Artspace in Woolloongabba. The exhibition centres on a painting and series of paintings shown in full for the first time, alongside new work. Louttit will also present an artist talk exploring the arcane technical processes behind…
Tim Price: The moon's raining
Jan Murphy Gallery is delighted to present The moon’s raining, an online exhibition by Tim Price. “I’ve been painting everyday things from around the city. Ordinary moments drift into view while I’m walking, a plane flying in over the buildings and trees, flowers growing in the suburbs. They feel meaningful…
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 interpretations of identity, perception and personal experience. Featuring James Drinkwater, Vipoo Srivilasa, Cosima Scales, Eliza Gosse, Sally Anderson, Stefan Dunlop,…
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 a canvas that expresses strength and vitality, to the time commitment captured in the repetition involved in making intricate forms,…
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 Gemes, Michael Aird, Paul Bong and Vincent Serico, the exhibition presents drawing, photography and print-based works that engage with people,…
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 hand. There is an ethereal dimension to Reidy’s photography — as if her work were from another time. Some of…
Zoe Young
Sydney-born artist Zoe Young (b. 1978) explores still life, portraiture and abstraction, transforming everyday settings and objects into idyllic and evocative scenes. Drawing on a childhood shaped by travel, different cultures and her family’s history in hospitality, Young creates compositions that evoke nostalgia while connecting personal memories with broader human…
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 by Dean Ansell, Cicadas (Maria Molina & Celeste Ricci), CAConrad, Léuli Eshrāghi, Mikhail Karikis, Jazz Money and Tina Stefanou, the…
West Space Window
West Space is inviting applications for its 2027 West Space Window program, supporting artists to present work in its micro-project space on the public façade of the gallery in Collingwood Yards. The Window is a small, site-specific project space on the balcony outside West Space’s gallery and office in the…
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 into a source of resilience and strength. The exhibition considers how accepting our imperfections and experiences can become an act…
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 together intricately carved and painted sculptures exploring humanity’s relationship with life, death, the afterlife and the natural world. Inspired by…
Ties that Bind
Ties that Bind brings together leading Australian artists to explore the many ways people connect to home, Country, memory and one another. Through diverse contemporary practices, the exhibition considers belonging as something shaped by place, ancestry, migration, displacement and lived experience. Rather than presenting a single idea of home, the…
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, the dress features 87 panels of burgundy silk dupion and an estimated 1–1.5 billion stitches. Contributions from women, men and…
artisan: UNLEASHED+
UNLEASHED+ 2026 is a major exhibition celebrating Queensland’s emerging craft and design practitioners, presented by artisan in collaboration with HOTA, Home of the Arts. For more than two decades, UNLEASHED has provided an important platform for early-career makers and designers, connecting emerging practitioners with national curators, collectors and industry professionals.…
Sha Sawari: liminal
برزخ liminal brings together the English word “liminal” with the Farsi term برزخ (barzakh), a concept that evokes a state of suspension – a threshold between death and resurrection, presence and disappearance. While the two terms resonate with one another, they are not fully interchangeable; each carries its own cultural and philosophical…
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 on cork, sculpture, and a charcoal wall drawing, continuing Selig’s exploration of materiality, movement and spatial relationships. Closing Event: Saturday…
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 Reef, while considering its wider cultural, economic and environmental significance. Responding to the increasing threats posed by climate change, including…
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, Watson draws attention to underrepresented histories of Australia and the enduring presence of First Nations people and culture. Connected to…
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 within Queensland’s urban spaces. The exhibition invites audiences to consider their relationship with place and reflect on the ways human…
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, the works explore ideas of ruin, displacement, memory and transformation. Fitzgerald’s forms suggest objects that were once whole but have…
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 and Dodi’s The Company We Keep, following the gallery’s presentation of Indonesian artist Arwin Hidayat in 2025 and Gallery Director…
East Coast Encounter
18th November - 21st January
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
Involving Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, writers and songwriters, East Coast Encounter re-imagines the 1770 encounter by James Cook and his crew with Aboriginal people. This project has been developed by the University of the…
Meet the Makers
29th November – 24th December
Artisan
Meet the Makers showcases what is unique to Artisan: Queensland makers and their stories. With a festive marketplace atmosphere and makers in residence throughout the exhibition, visitors will be able to witness makers at work and…
Jasper Knight: Little Wonder
29th November - 17th December
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Little Wonder is a body of ten works about the Karakoram Highway. The highway connects China to Pakistan and due to its high altitude, stunning natural surrounds and extreme construction, is often referred to as the ‘Eighth Wonder…
Maaret Sinkko: Moon of Suburbia
9th - 24th December
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Rising artist Maaret Sinkko will hold her first Brisbane solo exhibition at Woolloongabba Art Gallery on Friday 9 December. Titled ‘moon of suburbia’, the exhibition explores the transient nature of people in Queensland regional towns…
The Art of Dr Seuss
16th November - 20th December
Mitchell Fine Art
‘Dr Seuss’ is the pseudonym name created by editorial cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel. Theodor began his career as a little-known editorial cartoonist in the 1920s, his artwork became the platform from which he delivered forty-four children’s books,…
Miles Hall: Pigmentum MMXVI
21st November - 21st December
Jan Manton Art
At the height of the Italian quattrocento, the prosperity of Venice was considerably strengthened by the sale of oltremare de venecia (Venetian overseas goods). Imported products such as pepper, ginger, nutmeg and cloves found themselves…
SHIFT
8th - 20th December
Judith Wright Centre
Four emerging curators and five Flying Arts Queensland artists have come together to present Shift, an exhibition that investigates the transience of change and its capacity to be both transformative and destructive. Featuring artists working…
AWOL at Vung Tau Beach
20th - 23rd December
POP Gallery
AWOL at Vung Tau Beach is a project by Isaac Brown that aims to create new dialogue in the artist’s relationship with his father. The project explores the use (and limits) of contemporary documentary photography…
Lisa Wilkinson: Women of Influence
9th - 22nd December
Maud Gallery
Supported by Canon Australia, Wilkinson presents her first photographic exhibition comprising powerful portraits of ten Australian women who have inspired her and influenced modern Australia. She shares their stories through this series of images that,…
IMA Talk, Dieter Roelstraete
13th December, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Turn! Turn! Turn! Reconsidering Art as Historiography In this lecture, co-presented with Monash University Museum of Art, international curator Dieter Roelstraete considers his past notions of art as an historical or historiographic tool using retrospective…
Brian Robinson: Myth & Marvel
1st - 24th December
Onespace Gallery
Onespace’s second exhibition profiles recent work by celebrated Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson. It is also Robinson’s first ever solo show in Brisbane. Robinson’s exhibition, Myth & Marvel, a series of dramatic linocut prints,…
House of Mirrors
18th November - 11th December
Brisbane Powerhouse
The House of Mirrors is a grotesquely fascinating walk-through installation composed of a labyrinth of seemingly endless mirrors. Since the 19th Century, mirror mazes have been trapping and reflecting participants, challenging those that venture into…
Here I Am
15th - 23rd December
Side Gallery
Side Gallery is reflecting on the first year of exhibitions. We’ve gathered together a selection of artworks by artists who participated in our 2016 program. Some of these works may be familiar while many of…
Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth
29th October – 18th December
Institute of Modern Art
Limits to Growth is the first survey exhibition of Melbourne-based artist Nicholas Mangan. Bringing together five major projects made between 2009 and 2016, the show has been co-developed by the Institute of Modern Art, Monash University…
William Mackinnon: Psychological Landscapes
29th November - 15th December
Jan Murphy Gallery
William Mackinnon will present his first solo exhibition in Queensland at Jan Murphy Gallery in November. Known for his large scale landscape paintings, Mackinnon’s richly textured and evocative works are as much a portrayal of…
Khadim Ali: The Arrivals
25th November - 23rd December
Milani Gallery
The Arrivals’ is an exhibition of new work by Sydney-based artist Khadim Ali and features sculptural installation, large-scale rugs and the artist’s distinctive paintings made in the miniaturist tradition. Opening Event: Friday 25 November, 6…
Teo Treloar: Black Geometry
23rd November - 17th December
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
“Black Geometry is produced as a primary investigation into drawing, done with the traditional approach of utilising graphite on paper. The act of drawing can represent a fluid and immediate articulation of thought and being…
Infinite Dawn
11th December, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Metro Arts
A live sonic-cinema event, fusing the surround sound atmospherica of HHAARRPP (Luke Jaaniste) with the stunning ambient landscapes of JNXYZ (Jona Nalder). A vast golden sky. A dazzling ocean shore. Music that drags your heart…
Repetitious Rituals
14th - 21st December
QCA Galleries
“The exhibition Repetitious Rituals brings together current work from 12 students in the Jewellery and Small Objects Studio at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. The exhibiting artists have utilised repetition and the empirical knowledge…
Ben Landers: Vacationer
9th - 21st December
Jugglers Artspace
Vacationer is a small exhibition of paintings and sculptures produced by Ben Landers over the past 10 years. Images of mainstream pastimes, such as mini-golf, video games and table tennis, feature in many of these…
Peter Kozak: Light Sleep
11th December, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Outer Space
Peter Kozak is an emerging artist whose practice focuses on representations of human fragility and vulnerability in video and video performance art. In this exhibition Kozak looks at our relationship with objects, marked in some…
SLIDE NIGHT: Bridie Gillman
14th December, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
Come on a journey with Bridie Gillman at SGAR as she discusses her current online exhibition ‘From here’. The slide night will allow you to peak behind the scenes of these still yet enigmatic photographs…
Lucy O'Doherty: Suburban Rituals
29th November - 17th December
Edwina Corlette Gallery
‘Suburban Rituals’ In my family home when I was growing up we had a small room filled with dollhouses that my Grandpa Jim had meticulously crafted in his old age. I had my own fake…
Bridie Gillman: From Here
16th November - 17th December
Spiro Grace Art Rooms (Online)
BRIDIE GILLMAN‘s From here is a collection of photographs that reflect the ambiguities which exist within our notions of place. Filled with signs of life, but devoid of any people, Gillman’s scenes of in-betweenness revel…
Yannick Blattner: Contrived Circumstances
5th November - 10th December
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
YANNICK BLATTNER aligns Australian cricket and art histories for his upcoming exhibition Contrived Circumstances. Blattner’s paintings interrogate cricket’s colonial past and its impact in defining Australia’s cultural characteristics and masculine ethos. Recreating imagery from the…
She Walks the Line
3rd November - 1st December
Fireworks Gallery
An exhibition featuring artists: Rosella Namok, Sharonne Solk, Yvonne Mills-Stanley. Rosella Mamok Rosella Mamok first appeared on the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s to become the most successful artist to come out of…
Poetic Licence
17th - 26th November
Griffith University Art Gallery
Griffith University Art Gallery presents Poetic Licence, a special exhibition exploring the role of the auteur in contemporary video art. Poetic Licence draws together six internationally renowned artists who explore the productive and problematic dynamics of artist and…
The DIY Festival
24th - 27th November
RAW Dance Company
The Devise It Yourself Festival (The DIY Festival) is a Brisbane-based, multi-arts festival held in November. Each year, The festival gives over 80 of Brisbane’s brightest emerging artists a platform to present fresh, original work.…
INDICATE
25th November, 6:00 - 9:00pm
The Laundry Artspace
The Laundry Artspace is proud to present INDICATE Featuring new work from Holly Bates Jaala Alex Tayla Haggarty Using humour as a gateway to seek deeper contemplation from their audience, the works within the show…
Michael Leunig: The Night We Lost Our Marbles
19th October - 19th November
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years and has often explored the idea of an innocent and sacred…
Stephen Bird
8th November - 3rd December
Heiser Gallery
Stephen Bird initially trained as a painter but now works across a range of mediums. Bird studied Fine art at Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and post graduate studies at Cyprus Art…
Courtney Coombs: Looking Out
16th November - 3rd December
Metro Arts
Courtney Coombs has spent the year as Metro Arts’ 2016 Artist in Residence unlearning. Adopting Irigaray’s ‘The Ethical Gesture towards the Other’ as gospel, she has been looking out, looking in and conversing wherever possible…
Michael Phillips: Recent Works on Paper
18th November - 2nd December
Side Gallery
“The day capitalism is forced to tolerate non-capitalist societies in its midst and to acknowledge limits in its quest for domination, the day it is forced to recognize that its supply of raw material will not…
Jake Sun: Paradise is exactly like where we are right now
4th December, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Cut Thumb ARI
paradise is exactly like where we are right now… 20161203, -27.484338, 153.007804 Join us for the end of Civil Twilight at 6.57pm and Nautical at 7.29pm. Jake Sun is a Brisbane based artist who investigates…
Grace Herbert: Show Room
16th November - 3rd December
FAKE estate
In advertising, it is commonly accepted that the voice of the [educated – middle aged] male will produce the most sales. Historically, a similar rhetoric could be applied to sculpture. For her exhibition ‘Show Room’…
GOMA Turns 10 - Opening Weekend
3rd - 4th December
GOMA
GOMA. A place where people come together to be inspired and imaginations spark. A place where ideas meet. This summer will be packed with even more excitement as GOMA turns ten. So come along and…







































































