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Essay Club No.1: Madeline Brewer on The Collaborative Turn

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The Institute of Modern Art launches its new Essay Club series with a discussion led by Madeline Brewer exploring ideas around collaboration, participation and community in contemporary art practice. Blending a reading group, salon and informal networking event, Essay Club invites artists, students, arts workers and anyone interested in critical conversations about culture to gather […]

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Brian Robinson: Floriate

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A major new public artwork by Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson has been unveiled at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in Brisbane. Titled Floriate, the four-metre-high bronze sculpture was officially launched on Friday 6 March 2026 with a smoking ceremony by Tribal Experiences at the newly opened Glasshouse Theatre. The site sits on

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Warrajamba: Delvene Cockatoo-Collins

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Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins presents Warrajamba, an immersive Artist in Residence project that transforms Museum of Brisbane’s Creative Space into an environment shaped by story, material and connection to Country. The project explores the ancestral story of Warrajamba, the mermaid — a significant narrative passed down through generations of the artist’s family from Minjerribah (North

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Leonard Brown: Painting the Celestial

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Painting the Celestial is the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of Ipswich-based painter Leonard Brown, tracing more than five decades of practice. Widely regarded for his sublime minimal abstract canvases, Brown’s works are held in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia

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Counter Gaze: Tamana Alizada, Razia Ghazal, Alia Qasimzada

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Counter Gaze is a curated exhibition by Sha Sarwari featuring works by Afghan-Australian artists Tamana Alizada, Razia Ghazal and Alia Qasimzada. Presented in response to Andrew Quilty’s Afghanistan photography exhibition, Counter Gaze offers a personal and reflective counter-narrative shaped by lived experience, memory and cultural resilience. Through painting, installation and mixed media works, the artists

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AMPLIFY

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AMPLIFY at Side Gallery presents the original artworks featured in AMPLIFY ME!, Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery exhibition celebrating local artists with lived experience of disability. This exhibition offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the detail, materiality and creative processes behind the large-scale public artworks currently installed throughout Brisbane’s city streets. By bringing these

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Karlina Mitchell: Homeplace

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Homeplace is an immersive installation by multidisciplinary artist Karlina Mitchell that explores ideas of home, rising tides, and memories embedded within landscapes. The exhibition reflects on cultural practices and histories that have been disrupted or lost due to ecological disasters across the Pacific. Through photography and installation, Mitchell examines how environments carry memory and how

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Joachim Froese: Alchemy

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‘The painter is a medium who doesn’t realise what he is doing.No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy’ said Marcel Duchamp¹. Jazz pianists, writers of fiction, photographers, printmakers, ceramicists — and no-doubt Joachim Froese — would

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Exhibition Review: Anna Gonzalez, Tiny Worlds, Tall Tales

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At the centre of Anna Gonzalez’s practice is the diorama. Working with fragile, hand-built materials – paper, mirrors, thread, wire, edible jelly and paint – she constructs intricate sculptural environments. The miniature worlds are later translated into large-scale archival inkjet prints. Most of the works presented in Tiny Worlds, Tall Tales are these resulting photographs,

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Blaklash Built Environment Scholarship

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The Blaklash Built Environment Scholarship supports Indigenous Australian students studying architecture and built environment disciplines, encouraging them to connect their university studies with First Nations stories, culture and knowledge. Offered through Queensland University of Technology in partnership with Blaklash, the scholarship aims to strengthen representation of First Nations voices within the built environment and design

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Mono 59: Tujiko Noriko and Unregistered Master Builder

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Mono 59 presents a live performance by Tujiko Noriko alongside Brisbane-based artist Joseph Burgess (Unregistered Master Builder) at the Institute of Modern Art. Since the early 2000s, Tujiko Noriko has redefined the possibilities of avant-pop. Her albums Girl City and Make Me Hard, released through Mego, transformed song structures through extreme processing and real-time manipulation

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QRAA Emerging Artist Exhibition

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The QRAA Emerging Artist Exhibition presents a selection of 20 works drawn from the 2025 entries in the Emerging Artist category of the Queensland Regional Art Awards. Hosted at Flying Arts Alliance in Fortitude Valley, the exhibition showcases emerging artistic talent and highlights a diverse range of contemporary practices from across Queensland. The selected works

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TALL GRASS

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TALL GRASS is a curated group exhibition presented by Field Trip Gallery featuring artists Gemma Raponi, Danielle O’Brien and Cheryl Dundas. The exhibition explores parallels between the artists’ practices, examining how dreams and subconscious imagery inform creative processes. Through analogous works, the exhibition brings together distinct yet connected approaches to image-making and material exploration. Viewing

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The Wider Earth

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The Wider Earth by Dead Puppet Society, written by David Morton, is a theatrical reimagining of Charles Darwin’s research as he embarks on the voyage that reshaped scientific understanding of the natural world. Presented at The Condensery, this exhibition displays puppets from the internationally acclaimed stage production for the first time, offering audiences a rare

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Andrew Quilty: Afghanistan

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Afghanistan is a powerful photographic exhibition by award-winning photojournalist and author Andrew Quilty, presenting images captured during his time living and working in Kabul between 2013 and 2022. Curated by Ellie Waterhouse, the exhibition offers an intimate and reflective portrait of Afghanistan during a period of profound political and social upheaval. Quilty describes the work

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Sonja Carmichael: Giibum, Gulayi Murmurings – Story Bags

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Sonja Carmichael presents Giibum, Gulayi Murmurings – Story Bags, an exhibition grounded in deep connection to Quandamooka Country. The exhibition features Carmichael’s exquisite installation Wunjayi Wagariinyai Quandamooka Jagun – Yarabin Ragi, comprising 237 handwoven copper wire birrepi bunbi (little dillybags). Each bag contains elements gathered from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), including shells, pippies, oyster, banksia

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Delvene Cockatoo-Collins: When Dilly Bags Catch the Light

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When Dilly Bags Catch the Light is an inspiring installation by Delvene Cockatoo-Collins exploring matrilineal storytelling and cultural knowledge through contemporary installation. Presented at Brisbane Quarter, the work reflects the artist’s time spent with her mother and the influence of her great-great-grandmother’s dilly bags. The installation honours her maternal lineage while adapting traditional weaving techniques

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Lewis Miller

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Lewis Miller (b. 1959, Melbourne) is a celebrated figurative and still life painter. Painting from life; the close observation of Miller’s subjects is revealed through bold linework, vivid colour and expressive brushstrokes. Miller trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he also completed his post graduate studies. One of Australia’s leading portrait painters,

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Betty Muffler: Kalaya Tjina Tjuta – Emu Tracks

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Kalaya Tjina Tjuta – Emu Tracks presents new paintings by acclaimed senior Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara artist Betty Muffler. Betty Muffler is a respected Ngangkari (traditional healer) whose paintings reflect her deep spiritual and cultural connection to Country. Born near Watarru on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, her work is shaped by personal and cultural histories

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Bruce Reynolds: How Soon Is Now?

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How Soon Is Now? brings together a selection of Bruce Reynolds’ cast relief works alongside painterly collaged linoleum pieces that explore the physical qualities of materials and making. The exhibition highlights a strong sense of materiality and craftsmanship, celebrating the tactile presence of artworks in contrast to today’s increasingly digital environment. Reynolds’ works reference antiquity,

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Shields: Design and Functionality

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Shields: Design and Functionality explores the history, artistry and cultural significance of traditional Aboriginal shields through a major exhibition at The University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum. The exhibition presents more than 130 shields dating from the early 1900s, highlighting the regional diversity of shield design across Australia. Traditionally used for demonstrations, conflict resolution and symbolic

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Workshop: (Un)Disciplined Works: Public Social Art in Brisbane

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Metro Arts presents (Un)Disciplined Works: Public Social Art in Brisbane, a two-day workshop exploring experimental approaches to engaging communities through creative work in public places. Facilitated by artist, curator-producer and facilitator Dan Koop, the workshop draws on his practice of creating performance works in unexpected public spaces that encourage audiences to shift from observers to

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Stardust Residency 2026

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Applications are now open for the Stardust Residency 2026, a studio residency program hosted by Watch This Space in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). The Stardust Residency was established in honour of artist and educator Suzi Lyon, whose practice explored the connections between everyday life, community and broader social and ecological systems. The residency reflects Lyon’s inclusive

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Curator Position: Metro Arts

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Metro Arts is seeking a Curator to join its team and support the design and delivery of the organisation’s artistic program. Working closely with the CEO, the Curator will collaborate with artists and key stakeholders to realise public outcomes across Metro Arts’ annual exhibition program. The role also involves working alongside venue and cross-disciplinary programming

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Horizon Festival 2026

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Horizon Festival returns in 2026 to celebrate ten years of creativity across the Sunshine Coast, presenting a bold 10-day program of more than 35 events across Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country. The milestone program spans visual art, performance, music, workshops and public experiences staged across diverse locations — from shoreline performances and hinterland settings to

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Artist Talk: Stelarc

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The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) presents an Artist Talk with Australian performance artist Stelarc in collaboration with World Science Festival Brisbane 2026. For over fifty years, Stelarc has tested the limits of the human body, positioning art at the intersection of science, technology and performance. His pioneering practice incorporates prosthetics, robotics, medical imaging and

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