artisan invites applications for UNLEASHED+ 2026, its flagship biennial exhibition supporting emerging craft and design practitioners across Queensland. A nationally recognised program with over two decades of legacy, UNLEASHED has launched the careers of leading makers including Anna Varendorff, Ebony Birks, Nicolette Johnson and Dan Watson. In 2026, the program enters a new chapter with […]
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The International FiKVA Award 2026 is a global online painting competition open to artists aged 18 and over, offering up to €5,500 in prizes. Focused on representational painting, the award invites submissions across a range of styles including realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, surrealism, and imaginative realism. Artists are encouraged to submit works that capture the essence
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Entries are now open for the Fifty Squared Art Prize 2026, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for wall-based artworks measuring 50 × 50 cm or less. Open to artists at all stages of their careers, this nationally recognised prize offers a unique opportunity where all submitted works are exhibited, culminating in a large-scale showcase featuring
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Still Life is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Andrew Arnaoutopoulos, presented at FireWorks Gallery. Born in Greece and working in Australia for over four decades, Arnaoutopoulos has developed a practice that both extends and challenges the legacy of modernism. Drawing on his experience working in a packaging factory, his work explores the material and
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Studio Maverik presents weekly social life drawing sessions at the iconic Flying Colours in West End. Designed for both beginners and experienced life drawers, these relaxed sessions combine traditional life drawing with a friendly, social atmosphere. Each session features a professional nude life model, with poses ranging from short warm-ups to longer studies. The sessions
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Emerging in the 1960s, the collectives Archigram and Superstudio responded to the pop-art, space-age zeitgeist with speculative visions for architecture defined by high-tech megastructures. Disseminated through proposals, exhibitions, publications, and films, their ideas challenged how cities—and life within them—might be imagined. Founded in 1961 in London, Archigram embraced media culture, disposability, and science fiction, proposing
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Onespace presents The Grass Tides, a solo exhibition by Paula Savage in the Main Gallery. Featuring woven works and works on paper, this exhibition marks Savage’s second presentation with the gallery and highlights her development as a senior artist at Moa Arts. Growing up on Moa Island working lugger boats alongside her father and brothers,
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Richard Dunn (1944–2024) was an influential artist and educator recognised for his rigorous intellectual approach to painting, installation and photography. Working within international contexts of abstraction, minimalism and conceptual art, his practice brought together artistic and historical references to examine the social, political and economic structures shaping contemporary culture. This Collection display presents selected works
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Elsewhere brings together new works by Gary Abkin, Peter Berner, and Todd Whisson in a group exhibition exploring place, perception, and the shifting boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. Through distinct painterly approaches, each artist offers a unique perspective on landscape and abstraction, inviting viewers into spaces that feel both grounded and otherworldly. The
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Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro are a collaborative artist duo known for their sculptural and installation artworks that combine humour with art historical references. We hunt mammoth presents a large-scale sculpture of a dismantled Honda car. A total of 121 individual parts are wrapped in jute rope and bamboo using the traditional Japanese packaging method
Tiny worlds, tall tales explores the hidden interior—the space where the inner child continues to dream, build, and remember. In this body of work, play becomes a language for emotion, and the house operates as a vessel for memory and imagination, suspended between belonging and displacement. Spanish-born, Brisbane-based artist Anna Gonzalez draws on lived experience,
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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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Fashion becomes a canvas for storytelling in this bold new exhibition celebrating First Nations art, culture, and design. Stories You Wear: Magpie Goose brings to life powerful narratives of community, culture, and Country through wearable art. Exclusive to Museum of Brisbane, the exhibition showcases vibrant designs by First Nations artists from South-East Queensland and beyond
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Onespace presents Wild Tender Close, a major exhibition by Marian Drew spanning both the Main and Lounge Galleries. Marking over two decades since the beginning of her renowned Australiana Still Life series, the exhibition brings together 46 significant works, curated by the artist herself. Drew’s practice reimagines the traditional still life through intricate and often
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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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Presented as part of UniSC’s 30th Anniversary year, Marking Time: 30 Years of the UniSC Art Collection reflects on the growth of the Collection alongside the University itself. From early acquisitions shaped by a young institution’s ambitions to recent works responding to place, sustainability, and contemporary practice, the Collection operates as a living archive that
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Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson invites us on an expansive, multi-sensory journey that engages our sense of perception. Choose your path through a primordial landscape, encounter moments that heighten awareness and envision the future form of our city. This Brisbane-exclusive exhibition draws from the three‑decade career of one of the world’s most influential living artists. Spanning
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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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AMPLIFY ME! is Brisbane City Council’s newest Outdoor Gallery exhibition, transforming Brisbane’s laneways, streets and public spaces into an inclusive, citywide celebration of creativity, lived experience, and contemporary art. Curated by Nicole Crosswell, the exhibition features the work of ten Brisbane-based artists with lived experiences of disability, presenting installations, paintings, drawings, digital works, banners, projections
Draw and collaborate on the walls of Land Street Gallery to kick off our 2026 program! All welcome. This exhibition reimagines the white-wall gallery, opening it up as a shared surface for all of us (including you!). Participants are encouraged to make their mark by drawing on our walls, shifting the gallery from a space
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
The SPRING 2026 Innovate Grant cycle is now open, offering increased award amounts of $1,800 USD. Each quarter, Innovate Grant supports creative practitioners by awarding two major grants—one to a Visual Artist and one to a Photographer—alongside 18 Honourable Mentions (9 in Art, 9 in Photography). Open to artists worldwide aged 18 and over, the
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Terra Nostra (translated as “Our Land”) is a powerful group exhibition curated by Makayla Dass, bringing together leading and emerging First Nations artists to assert sovereignty, presence, and resistance. Responding to James Cook’s 1770 voyage and the colonial violence that followed, the exhibition confronts the enduring impact of dispossession justified through the doctrine of Terra
Deep Surface is the first career survey of Los Angeles–based Australian artist and Palawa woman Jemima Wyman. Spanning three decades of practice from the mid-1990s to the 2020s, the exhibition brings together collage, textiles, installation, video, performance, and painting. Drawing from the QUT Art Collection alongside significant private and public loans, the exhibition features rarely
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The R & M McGivern Prize was established through the will of the late Muriel Evelyn McGivern, a local resident and artist of Maroondah, as a lasting legacy supporting the arts in the region. Awarded every three years, the Prize recognises outstanding, original painting in oil or watercolour (including gouache). For the 2025/26 edition, the
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Entries are now open for the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2026, an established national prize celebrating innovation in contemporary sculpture. Founded in 2009, the award showcases outstanding small-scale sculptural practices from artists across Australia, culminating in a finalist exhibition at Deakin University Art Gallery on the Melbourne Burwood campus. Each year, a panel
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Australian Parliament House is inviting visual artists from across Australia to apply for the 2026 Artist-in-Residence Creative Research and Commissioning Program. Open to artists at any stage of their career, this unique opportunity offers behind-the-scenes access to one of the nation’s most significant cultural and political sites, where politics, history, architecture and art intersect. The
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Join chapter for an artist talk with Simon Cutler, presented in conversation with curator Felix Reid. The discussion offers an opportunity to hear directly from Cutler about his first solo exhibition, Afterimage, and to gain insight into his inspirations, process and approach to painting. Afterimage explores the malleability of memory and the way images shift
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The Royal Queensland Art Society Brisbane Branch presents the May edition of ART TALKS, exploring the enduring relevance of Daphne Mayo’s life and legacy. This discussion considers Mayo’s influence as an artist and cultural advocate, reflecting on her roles as RQAS Vice-President, Life Member, Foundation Member of the Australian Academy of Art, co-establisher of the
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Quiet Conversations is a body of work by Peta St Baker that honours the depth, dignity and emotional presence of Ethiopia’s tribal communities. Through intimate portraiture, the images move beyond surface aesthetics to reveal moments of trust, resilience and unspoken connection between subject and photographer. Each frame invites viewers to encounter the humanity within these
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PARKER Contemporary presents Distorted Image, a new body of work by Brisbane artist Matthew Newkirk examining the power of visual imagery in contemporary society and its role in shaping how we understand news, commerce and social relations. Working with the visual languages and signifiers that circulate through everyday media, Newkirk explores the ways images mediate
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Celebrating ten years of Outer Space, TEN brings together works by artists from the organisation’s vibrant community. Rather than presenting a singular history, the exhibition traces connections across identity, memory and belonging, highlighting the evolving role of artist-led practice, experimentation and collective expression in Brisbane’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition includes works by Robert Andrew,
The Australian Photographic Prize is a major annual international photography competition, open to photographers at all levels—from students and amateurs to established professionals. With over 2,500 entries from 21 countries in 2025, the prize continues to grow as a global platform for photographic practice. The 2026 edition expands to 25 categories, offering a wide range
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Now in its 21st year, the Bowness Photography Prize is Australia’s most prestigious photography award, offering a total prize pool of $70,000 and significant opportunities for exhibition and acquisition. Open to artists working with still photo-based media—including analogue and digital photography—entries must have been produced within the last year. The prize supports contemporary photographic practice
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In The River, acclaimed Australian artist Ben Quilty turns his attention to a deeply personal place: a river hidden within a steep valley. Reaching this secluded location requires a deliberate descent into a landscape where towering rock walls create a sense of both protection and weight. Quilty describes this place as one where the pressures
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Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) has announced its 2027 open call for residency programs, offering international artists and curators the opportunity to live and work in Tokyo. Located in Sumida-ku, Tokyo, TOKAS Residency provides studio space, accommodation, and a supportive environment for creative exchange. Since its establishment in 2014, the residency has welcomed artists from
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