Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth is a major survey exhibition celebrating twenty years since Mitch Cairns graduated from the National Art School. The exhibition brings together more than 50 works spanning Cairns’ practice as a painter and artist. Cairns’ playful paintings combine elements of Cubism, comics and concrete poetry, exploring pictorial conventions through puzzles, visual ambiguity […]
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Continuing the 2026 Making Of series, Outer Space and Griffith University Art Museum present an evening exploring the career of Richard Bell, one of Australia’s significant contemporary artists. The series invites established arts professionals and artists to reflect on their early career experiences, significant opportunities, creative processes and the decisions that have shaped their practices.
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Kairos is an interactive oculo-chrono-metric artwork that combines computer vision and real-time animation to respond to viewers in the gallery. Rather than simply telling time, the artwork records the time spent being viewed. When the computer vision detects a viewer’s face, emoji “complications” appear and interact with the simulated hands of the analogue clock, altering
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Ride the Chronovore explores time through Geoffrey Burns’ repeated encounters with locations at different times of year. The works emerge through observation, repetition and memory, tracing seasonal and environmental changes across surfaces and forms. The exhibition considers time as an active force that consumes, transforms and leaves evidence behind, bringing the shorter span of human
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Small Object Spaces: Progressions is the second iteration of artisan’s exhibition series exploring intimacy, tactility and the quiet presence of everyday materials. The series brings together Queensland-based artists working across object-based practices, inviting audiences to slow down and focus on crafted detail and process. This exhibition features Townsville-based silversmith Alison McDonald and her metal small
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Who Are These People? brings together photography students from four leading Australian art schools: the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Australian National University (ANU), University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD). Each institution has selected four students from across its photography program, spanning undergraduate through to doctoral
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The IMA presents the third and final On Rafman lecture, a series of short presentations by academics, artists, curators and writers examining the central themes of Jon Rafman’s Memento Hikikomori. Audrey Jo Pfister presents ‘Notice me senpai, notice me!’ Simps, -cels, larp and Jon Rafman, exploring fandom, in-group signalling, memetic warfare and parasocial relationships surrounding
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White Flag is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Bruce Reynolds, whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, inter-media and sculpture. Reynolds responds to the urban environment through its materiality, creating a dialogue between recent histories and the archaic. His practice is informed by research into the historic migration of ideas and forms between Europe and
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The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting is a triennial award presented by Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art and Design, celebrating excellence and innovation in watercolour. The prize is open to Australian artists over the age of 18. The overall winner will receive a $20,000 non-acquisitive cash prize, generously donated by Elaine
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The Open Cut Commission invites artists, creatives and researchers working across visual art, ceramics, photography, writing, performance, sound, moving image, interdisciplinary practice, and artistic or creative research. Applicants must propose a project with a clear connection to the Australian outback, regional communities, Broken Hill and/or the surrounding environment. Successful applicants should be willing to engage
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As part of the closing program for FORM ~ Movement, Studio Maverik presents a one-hour life drawing workshop exploring gesture, rhythm and dynamic movement. A professional dancer will act as the life model, moving continuously through the space rather than holding static poses. Participants will work with graphite on transparent paper to create free-flowing, layered
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Bus Projects invites artists, curators and collectives to submit proposals for its 2027 Artistic Program. The organisation is seeking creative practices that communicate current positionality and intersectional thinking across exhibitions, public programs, performances and interdisciplinary formats. Experimental and pivotal ideas across all creative disciplines are encouraged. Exhibiting at Bus Projects is free. Selected artists receive
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Alex Chadwick’s solo exhibition Beyond the Garden at Wild Canary explores what lingers beyond the gates of the garden. Developed through fieldwork at Brookfield Gardens and the nearby Rafting Ground Reserve, where Moggill Creek flows, the exhibition reflects Chadwick’s engagement with the ecological and cultural richness of the area. The collection brings audiences closer to
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Located in the historic village of Montegiovi in southern Tuscany, Italy, Cultivate’s La Baldi Residency is a multidisciplinary, self-directed international residency for artists, writers and researchers. The residency expands Cultivate’s investigative platform centred on land, place and the commons. Individuals and collaborative teams are invited to experiment, develop ideas and projects, rejuvenate and explore the
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The Ipswich Community Gallery (ICG) is a Council-owned venue available for hire, providing an accessible space for a variety of arts-based initiatives. The gallery aims to support professional growth and engage the local community through innovative and diverse projects. Exhibition applications are open for the 2027/28 hire period, with exhibition slots available between March 2027
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Ralph Wilson (b.1955, Brisbane) is a Brisbane based artist well recognised for his practice that focuses on depicting the coastal landscape and waters of south-east Queensland and northern NSW. Wilson’s practice begins with careful observation, often from the water, watching the way weather, tide and light can alter the landscape at the edge of the
The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize celebrates excellence, artistic merit and innovation in contemporary craft. The 10th edition invites professional artisans to submit original works that demonstrate artistic intent alongside technical skill. Eligible works must be original, handmade or partly handmade, created within the past five years, one-of-a-kind and previously without a prize. Works should demonstrate
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Larnaca Biennale 2027 is inviting artists from around the world to submit work for its fifth edition, responding to the theme Metatopies: Geographies in Motion. Curated by art historian Niki Papaspirou and visual artist and art historian Marios Fournaris, the theme considers place not as a fixed point on a map, but as a constantly
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Convergent Bodies, First Leap is a solo exhibition by Bianca Tainsh, presenting the initial manifestation of new experimental work developed during her 11-week OCCUPY Residency. The exhibition explores self-identification with other interspecies bodies and imagines a speculative posthuman future in which technology acts as an ecological steward and interlocutor for entanglement with the more-than-human. During
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Milani Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Peter Booth across Galleries 1 and 2. Painted on cigar box lids, a by-product of the artist’s long-standing habit, the works distil Booth’s visual language into miniature form, offering a concentrated survey of his imagery. Also showing at Milani Gallery are Kairos (2024–25) by Daniel McKewen
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Time Honoured explores how homes and architecture in Brisbane’s local suburbs hold collective memories and nostalgia. Alexandra Matthews considers the relationship between human memory and place, with heritage homes, timber walls and corrugated iron roofs becoming repositories for the city’s stories. The exhibition focuses particularly on the suburbs of Paddington and Red Hill, featuring recognisable
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Abandoned and Renewed is a new body of work by Sybil Curtis examining energy, fire and the industrial systems that have transformed the Australian landscape. The exhibition considers the relationship between fire and energy, from the direct use of fire through the burning of wood and fossil fuels to the generation and distribution of electricity
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FORM ~ Movement is an exhibition curated by Studio Maverik exploring the human form in movement. Bringing together a collection of artists working across drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and other visual practices, the exhibition considers movement as both physical action and expressive language. The exhibition explores how movement shapes the way we engage with one
Join the Institute of Modern Art for Essay Club No. 8 with independent curator and arts writer Holly Eddington. The session will explore a section from Lucy Lippard’s Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, an experimental publication structured as a chronological timeline of press releases, essays, interviews and notes.
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To respond intimately to a landscape is to engage in a process of sustained observation and translation. I was the River Gum and the Pond Lily brings together paintings inspired by two geographically disparate places –works made at a residency at Fowlers Gap, in the far North West of NSW, and works inspired by the
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Ecstatic Threads brings together a dynamic new series of paintings by Rae Haynes that continue their ongoing investigation into the rich intersections of textiles and painting, and the historically gendered ways these practices have been interpreted. This body of work marks a return to painterly ideas that have occupied the artist since the early stages of
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Studio Maverik is popping up at Our Space Brisbane for two cosy, social life drawing sessions in the community ceramics studio. Each session features a professional nude life model, with poses ranging from 30-second warm-ups to 15-minute studies. Sessions are self-guided and facilitated by local artists Frances and Rhianna. Basic drawing materials are provided, including
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The John Ruskin Prize returns for its ninth year, inviting artists, designers and makers from anywhere in the world to submit work responding to the theme Not for Present Delight. Taking its title from the writings of John Ruskin, this year’s theme asks whether art must serve a purpose beyond itself, or whether it can
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Mitchell Fine Art presents Incantation, a major exhibition by one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape artists, Idris Murphy. The exhibition brings together two significant bodies of work: a rare collection of previously unseen dioramas alongside a new series of paintings inspired by the Australian outback. Combining three-dimensional works with expansive, luminous landscapes, Incantation offers insight
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EWRKS and Gertrude are inviting applications for a fully funded three-month ceramic residency, offering an artist dedicated time, space and community to develop a new body of small-scale ceramic work. Two residencies are available. One will be awarded to a current Gertrude artist, while the second is an open call for artists working with clay.
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Celebrating 70 years of creativity and innovation, Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company is an exclusive-to-Brisbane exhibition exploring the world-building, imaginative storytelling and puppetry of The Jim Henson Company. Founded by Jim and Jane Henson in 1955, The Jim Henson Company has created some of the most recognisable characters and fantasy
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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 Museum. Pep Talks offer an
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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 historic imagery and objects reproduced
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 a sensory environment where light
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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 whose work is currently informed
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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 that reflect moments, observations and