Sally Anderson curates Houses and Horses for Dad, a group exhibition exploring the cyclical nature of grief, care and domestic life through recurring motifs of houses and horses. These forms become allegories for shelter, endurance, containment and belonging. Presented in the year following Anderson’s father’s death and shortly after the…

Presented by artisan and Metro Arts, Small Object Spaces: Familiar features new work by Selene Mauri Cochrane, exploring the symbiotic connection between humans and animals. Drawn to what is strange and beautiful, Cochrane uses thread and fabric to mimic fur, feathers, flesh and antlers, creating richly textured surfaces that evoke…

Matthew Cheyne is a Queensland-based artist working across oil painting, drawing and sculpture. After graduating from the Queensland College of Art in 2001, Cheyne also undertook studies in film and literature. His practice combines oil painting with hyper-colour drawing, exploring figurative subjects through dark humour, vibrant colour and abstracted backgrounds.…

UQ Art Museum and the Climate Aware Creative Practices Network (CACP) present Reflective Motives, a two-day gathering exploring climate-responsive contemporary art through workshops, conversations, shared meals and collaborative publishing. Bringing together artists, researchers, educators and curators, the program investigates creative approaches to ecological thinking and relational practice. Inspired by Dr…

Interior is a duo photography exhibition featuring Alexandra Davies and Jana Koelmel, presented as part of the Head On Photo Festival Open Program. Bringing together two distinct photographic practices, the exhibition explores the relationship between home, identity and everyday life through analogue photography. In Motherhood Sway, Alexandra Davies captures the…

Outer Space and Fish Lane Arts Precinct join forces for a spring art market celebrating local artists, makers and creative communities across Magandjin/Brisbane. Following the success of their April markets, this expanded event brings together a curated selection of local creatives working across a wide range of mediums, including prints,…

Pat Hoffie is an Australian contemporary artist, educator and writer whose multidisciplinary practice spans more than five decades. Working across painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation and video, her work explores themes of power, identity, cultural diversity, labour and postcolonial histories. A significant figure in Australia’s contemporary art landscape, Hoffie has…

Logan Art Gallery presents Holding Force, an exhibition by Eliza Adam exploring the histories embedded within the landscape, with a focus on the Logan River environs and catchment. Responding directly to her surroundings, Adam examines the lasting effects of human intervention on ecological systems. Through this investigation, the exhibition reveals…

Eleanor Louise Butt is a Melbourne-based artist. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2013, and a Master of Fine Art by Research at Monash University in 2026. She has presented solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and…

Shifting Strands presents a new series of paintings and sculptures by Queensland artist Rachel South, exploring hair as a site of sensation, identity and transformation. Working across canvas and metal surfaces, South investigates how painting can become a vehicle for transcendence through meditative and sensory processes. The exhibition explores a…

Melbourne’s MARS Gallery arrives in Brisbane for its second curated pop-up exhibition, presenting works by established gallery artists alongside new favourites at Miss Midgley’s in New Farm. The exhibition celebrates Brisbane through a curated selection of contemporary artworks by 17 artists working across diverse practices. Participating artists include Dani McKenzie,…

Simpson extends the materiality of her miniature painting practice by working on corrugated iron, a material widely used for shelter by indentured labourers. Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendent of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa. Her work navigates the complexities of…

In Natural Disasters, Max Athans explores the limits of the mind’s ability to imagine catastrophe and the ways disaster becomes embedded in memory, imagery and the surrounding world. The exhibition statement traces the imagined moment of collision backwards, suggesting that disaster carries a symbolic weight that extends beyond the event…

Jan Murphy Gallery presents Don’t Forget to Breathe, an exhibition of approximately 60 small paintings by Australian artist Richard Lewer, exploring the fragmented nature of contemporary experience and the constant flow of information, memory and everyday encounters. Drawing on news stories, personal experiences, observations and passing moments, Lewer’s paintings move…

Archibubs and the Australian Institute of Architects’ Emerging Architects and Graduates Network (EmAGN) present Value Talk 08: Public Space, Play and Possibilities, a conversation exploring how art, architecture and design can make public spaces more inclusive, engaging and welcoming. The discussion considers how play can spark curiosity, connect communities and…

Chaired by Samid Suliman, Panel: Ruined brings together Susan Best, Dirk Yates and Joanne Choueiri to explore ruins and the ways we live with what remains. Moving between Beirut’s shattered grain silos, Queenslander homes and their yards, and the ways artists’ behaviour can affect our experience of their work, the…

Tempest brings together 21 contemporary artists from Brisbane, across Queensland and beyond, each offering their own interpretation of turbulence, transformation and change. Featuring local and regional artists including Andrew K, Nicole Fearfield, Trisha Lambi, Angie Summa, Jennifer Bell, Kathleen Rhee, Rachel Prince, Kate Chadwick and Claire Stapleton, the exhibition explores…

Meanjin/Brisbane-based visual artist Phoebe Fleming presents Pulling at the Form World, an exhibition of surreal and psychedelic painted works at Land Street Gallery in Toowong. Working primarily in abstract surrealist painting, Fleming responds to the overflow of modern visual media, creating dreamlike scenes that explore new visual narratives. The opening…

The Renshaws presents Edge Condition, an exhibition by Australian artist Jamie North, whose sculptural practice explores the dynamic interplay between the industrial and the organic. North’s works juxtapose industrial materials with plant life, challenging conventional ideas of order and control in art and nature. His sculptures often resemble wild, lithophytic…

The Noise of Time brings together more than 30 years of Ian Friend’s artistic practice, featuring works from 1993 through to works made at his Ipswich studio in 2026. The exhibition presents more than 30 years of works on paper, exploring the passage of time and the relationship between memory,…

Logan Art Gallery presents The White Portal, an exhibition by Bruce Reynolds exploring change and memory through sculpture and two-dimensional artworks. Using materials including linoleum and plaster, Reynolds will construct a large sculptural gate that separates linocut works from plaster reliefs. This division represents a journey between past and present,…

This exhibition features recent miniature paintings and textiles. Through a confluence of contemporary and ancient imagery, the works address the historical nature of current tensions in the Middle East. Born 1978 Quetta, Pakistan. Khadim Ali currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. After growing up in Pakistan, Ali was trained…

The Great Boat Approaches brings together poetry, archival works and recent artworks by Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist Deborah Norrie-Jones. The exhibition traces a deeply personal journey through relationships, mortality, illness, travel, memory and life after loss, bringing together works created across almost two decades. ​ “I am an interdisciplinary visual artist, poet,…

INTERLUDE is the 2026 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, presenting the work of 37 emerging artists at the transition between university study and their developing creative practices. Framed as an interlude — a pause, interruption or space between one stage and the next in an artist’s career — the exhibition…

Urbania #3 is a post-graffiti-themed group exhibition that forms part of an ongoing series bringing together small groups of independent artists connected to Brisbane. Hollie Cassidy — Fragments Fragments explores a period of deep reflection in which major life changes and formative influences are revisited. Cassidy considers the balance between…

Museum of Brisbane presents In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice, a landmark exhibition celebrating ten years of its Artist in Residence program and the artistic innovation, collaboration and creative exchange it has fostered. The program has welcomed more than 100 artists and supported over 50 original projects, engaging millions…

Albert Tucker (1914–1999) was one of Australia’s renowned artists and a key exponent of Australian modernism. Primarily known as a figurative painter, he critically responded to the world around him through his art. In 1939, Tucker acquired his first camera and began documenting his life and the people and places…

15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance the City of Moreton Bay Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, 15 artists are invited by City of Moreton Bay Galleries to exhibit recent work, showcasing diverse artistic voices and ideas. The winning artist receives $20,000, and their work…

The University of Queensland Society of Fine Arts (UQSoFA) presents its annual Industry Night, bringing together emerging arts professionals and established curators for an evening of conversation, career insights and networking. This year’s panel features three Brisbane-based curators: Jocelyn Flynn from UQ Art Museum (UQAM), Lizzie Riek from Griffith University…

Kirsten Coelho (b. 1966, Denmark) is a leading Australian contemporary ceramicist living and working in Adelaide, South Australia. Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. Her work has been recently influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and…

Open, Enclose is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Shayle Flesser, presenting a substantial new body of work spanning large-scale painting, collage, hand-built ceramic vessels and sculptural objects. The exhibition brings painting and object into conversation, with the works developed alongside one another. Paintings and ceramic forms share colour, gesture…

Onespace presents Before the Object, an exhibition by Petalia Humphreys in the Lounge Gallery, featuring a collection of playful two-dimensional and three-dimensional architectonic paintings that trace the transition of an object from latent being to active becoming. Across a practice spanning approximately 30 years, Humphreys has created abstracted objects, most…

Outer Space presents Nothing to Write Home About, a group exhibition developed through Munimba-ja Arts Centre’s Blak Creatives artist development program. Featuring artists Clea North, Brenda Mau, Lexie Abel, Tanika Orr, Nadine McDonald Dowd, Keely Eggmolesse and Desirai Saunders, the exhibition is curated by Libby Harward. The exhibition creates space…

The Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University, presents its 2026 graduate exhibitions, showcasing the creativity and innovation of emerging artists and designers across Design, Visual Art and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. The public opening celebration takes place on Thursday 22 October, with an opening ceremony and awards…

Drawn from the Indigenous Australian Art collection, Smokescreen: A Thickness of the Air presents artworks that disguise, disrupt or conceal. The exhibition explores the different reasons elements of an artwork may be obscured, from the protection of secret or sacred ceremonial business to natural phenomena that veil or blur vision.…

Helena Jackson-Lloyd is a  visual artist, based on the Queensland Sunshine Coast. Throughout her creative practice she has worked with and around the ideas of ‘landscape’. Her interest being in wildscapes. Places that are raw, wild, natural, and unkempt. Jackson -Lloyd’s work thrives on engaging with new and unfamiliar places,…