In The Water Diaries, Brisbane-based artist Ross Booker presents a new body of text-based works on aluminium, with water as the genesis of the exhibition. Growing up on the coast, water has always been central to Booker’s life—both culturally and physically. Now living beside Maiwar (Brisbane River) and swimming laps at his local pool, Booker […]
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“If you think history is on your side, let me tell you women did not write these books. If they did, the stories would be different.” – Christine de Pizan Australian artist and filmmaker Zanny Begg is known for exploring contested histories through video and installation. These Stories Will Be Different brings together three of
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How to Speak my Mother’s Caring Words is a collection of text messages in Bengali from Paean’s mother, asking about her daughter’s day and health while she was away. The phrases are projected alongside their English phonetic spellings so they can be spoken aloud by both Bengali and non-Bengali speakers. Through transliteration, Sarkar explores language
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The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) announces the final Quarter Four of its fiftieth-anniversary program, presenting exhibitions and screenings that navigate femininity in extremis, technocapitalism and First Nations worldviews, and the underground gay scene of 1960s Tokyo. Joel Sherwood Spring: Diggermode 2: Cloud CedingWiradjuri artist Joel Sherwood Spring returns to the IMA with a major
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PARKER Contemporary celebrates its inaugural year with Edition One, a spring exhibition that brings together a curated selection of works from the gallery’s stockroom. Over the past twelve months, PARKER Contemporary has presented ten exhibitions, participated in three art fairs, and established Queensland’s first dedicated gallery space for contemporary art focused on printmaking and papermaking.
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Join artisan – Queensland’s home of craft and design – for a night of creativity, connection, and collaboration. This isn’t your typical networking event: it’s a “speed crit” showcase where makers from diverse disciplines present a standout piece, deliver a one-minute pitch, and engage in fast-paced feedback and dialogue. What to Expect Exchange ideas in
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ICG welcomes proposals from community, emerging, and established artists across all mediums. As a dynamic space for experimentation and exploration, the gallery provides opportunities for professional growth while engaging the local community with innovative and diverse projects. Key Dates Monday 15 September – Applications Open Monday 20 October (COB) – Applications Close Friday 31 October
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A Seat At The โต๊ะ (Table) reimagines the gallery as a communal space for gathering and exchange, where food becomes a conduit for exploring identity, intergenerational storytelling, and connections to cultural heritage. Through lens-based storytelling and installation, the exhibition amplifies Australian Asian voices and continues vital cultural practices. Public Program: Outdoor KitchenSaturday 4 October, 3–5pmFree
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In holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly), artist Shari O’Dwyer engages visually with her South Sea Islander heritage. Drawing on her mother’s childhood memories of her father’s labour in Queensland’s sugar cane fields, O’Dwyer uses humour through documented performance to explore curiosity, memory, and identity. The exhibition considers forgotten family history, reinserting these narratives
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Here One Day presents new and pivotal works spanning Maureen Hansen’s career from 1994 (Dornoch Terrace Verandah) through to 2025 (Brisbane’s Blooming Backyard). With over 28 solo exhibitions and 37 group shows, Hansen has gathered paintings preserved for safekeeping—works that chart her growth as a painter and the city she calls home. This exhibition includes
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Chelsea Carkeet’s projection Home Away from Home (2025) reflects on displacement, drawing from their Indigenous ancestors’ evacuation from Gulumerridjin, Larrakia Country (Darwin) to Magandjin (Brisbane) during World War II. Marking 80 years since the war’s end, the work combines darkroom chemigrams and animation to embody ancestral connections to Country and the cyclical nature of Indigenous
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Mitchell Fine Art presents Contours, an exhibition of Aboriginal paintings that explore the intersection of landscape, culture, and spirituality. Running from 23 September to 18 October, the exhibition brings together works by some of the Central Desert’s most celebrated artists. Contours illuminates the deep connections between Aboriginal people and their homelands—a lived land that breathes
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Kenji Uranishi is a Japanese-born, Australian-based artist whose work draws upon the longstanding traditions of ceramics in Japanese art and culture. Kenji studied at the Nara College of Fine Arts and upon graduation, worked mostly with stoneware clay, exhibiting throughout Japan—from small gallery spaces to large municipal museums. Since moving to Australia in 2004, Kenji’s
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William Mackinnon (b. 1978, Melbourne) lives and works between Ibiza, the UK, and Australia. Mackinnon’s landscape paintings are what the artist calls ‘psychological landscapes’, drawing on personal experience of the world he inhabits. They are works of memory and discovery, of the familiar and the unknown – combining the real and the imaginary to transform
What do paintings of trucks, cars, advertising signs, ‘Big Things’, sculptures that resemble ‘Big Things’, abandoned chairs, and Ronald McDonald have in common? For one thing, at some point, I thought it was a good idea to paint pictures of them. I’m often drawn to the mundane and humorous aspects of these subjects, but that’s
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Brisbane-born social realist painter Fintan Magee returns home with his first solo exhibition in Brisbane in many years. Long Walk Home presents a powerful new series of large-scale paintings exploring themes of belonging, place, displacement, and suburban isolation. Developed between 2023 and 2025, these works reflect on nostalgia for Queensland’s architecture and landscapes while confronting
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Arundhati Roy’s evocative novel to explore the omnipresence of faith in the mundane and extraordinary alike. Centred around a rare collection of embellished oleographs by Raja Ravi Varma (India, 1848-1906), the exhibition delves into the intersection between devotional imagery and popular culture, capturing the divine as a living part of everyday life. Works from the
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Minqi Gu’s exhibition A Thousand Plateaus explores interconnected thoughts and influences, drawing inspiration from the philosophical work of Deleuze and Guattari. Gu’s ceramic sculptures reflect her journey from a fishing island, to urban Shanghai, and now to Australia—bringing together elements of architectural forms, sea creatures, and everyday objects. Through masterful earthenware pieces, Gu pushes the
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Jan Murphy Gallery presents Duality, a new exhibition by Sydney-based artist Michael Muir. In this series, Muir reflects on his formative experiences of relocating between countries during his youth—an upheaval that sharpened his sensitivity to differences in light, weather, and architecture, as well as the shifting feelings of belonging and dislocation that come with movement.
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Two oversized, glossy Pink Chairs by internationally renowned artist Cj Hendry have found a permanent home at the State Library of Queensland. At first glance, the works resemble inflatable lounge chairs—soft, playful, temporary. In reality, they are made of solid brass, each weighing 130 kilograms, and are part of Hendry’s acclaimed Inflatable series. The Pink
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Queer Readings of the QUT Art Collection diversifies writing on the QUT Art Collection and celebrates queer voices in contemporary art. Multi award-winning writers and QUT alumni Jarad Bruinstroop, Rebecca Cheers, Anna Jacobson, and Rebecca Jessen respond through poetry and prose to works by collection artists Lincoln Austin, eX de Medici, Scott Redford, and Luke
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In the main gallery this September, Am I in your way? presents recent works by Raquel Ormella. Incorporating new flags and drawings, the exhibition extends Ormella’s career-long interest in the visual language of activism and protest. Image: Raquel Ormella, future history #2 2025, Nylon, 90 × 147 cm.
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Power Ballads is a new series of paintings by Saffron Newey that summons masterpieces of French Rococo, Italian Baroque, American and Norwegian Romanticism, alongside images sourced from commonplace stock-photo archives. These works are digitally conflated, collaged, and reimagined as painterly references where value, history, and taste blur in the online environment. Countering the indifference of
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The Brisbane Sculpture Festival 2025 returns to transform the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens and Auditorium into an immersive celebration of sculpture. Presented by Sculptors Queensland, the festival features works by some of Queensland’s leading sculptors across indoor and outdoor venues. Visitors are invited to view and purchase sculptural works, meet the artists, and wander a
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Brisbane Institute of Art’s Metcalfe Gallery presents Treble Treble, a group exhibition featuring the work of Sally Cox, Barbara Penrose, and Nameer Davis. Responding to their immediate surroundings through painting, the three artists collectively explore themes of doubt and presence, drawing on Descartes’ maxim: “I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.”In our current exhibition
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Gold Coast feminist arts collective The Golden Thread (est. 2022) presents its debut group exhibition Revelations, bringing together the work of 30 women and gender diverse artists from across the region. Carefully curated by the collective’s founding members, Revelations marks the first time the Golden Thread artists will exhibit together, showcasing a dynamic range of
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Tethered ARI launches their debut exhibition Love & Rage at Vacant Assembly. As a newly formed Artist Run Initiative, Tethered brings together emerging artists Angel, Summers, Arlo Tarry, Milan, and Gretel Chapman. Love & Rage features two works from each member, delving into the interconnected and often turbulent relationship between these two powerful emotions. Through
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In the cat came back, acclaimed Brisbane sculptor Stephen Hart merges a lifelong fascination with aviation, personal family history, and five decades of artmaking into his most ambitious project to date — a four-metre sculptural recreation of the legendary PBY Catalina aircraft. The work’s origins trace back to January 2024, when Hart visited Sydney’s Powerhouse
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‘Sleepover’ by Laura Brinin builds on a decade of performance-based inquiry. The exhibition transforms dialogue, intimacy, and shared encounters into text-based works, preserving fragments of conversation and reframing everyday speech as poetic and revealing. CLOSING EVENT Side Gallery 3.00 pm Sunday 5 October, all welcome.
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In Manual Handling, Brisbane-based artist Simon Degroot reconsiders the sanctity of art history. Rather than treating canonical paintings as untouchable artefacts, Degroot approaches them as surfaces to claim, disrupt, and reimagine. Referencing artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Josef Albers, and John Coburn, Degroot engages
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In her debut solo exhibition, Chloe Forbes transforms the gallery into a space of inclusion, dialogue, and visibility—where women, gender-diverse, and queer jazz musicians take centre stage. Jazz, Gender, and the Queer Experience weaves together sound, sculpture, and personal narrative, confronting the entrenched hypermasculinity, gender disparity, and heteronormativity that persist in jazz culture. As both
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The much-loved annual Lethbridge Small-Scale Art Award returns, celebrating small works with big impact. Featuring a diverse range of national and international artists, the exhibition showcases finalists’ works across both Lethbridge Gallery and Latrobe Art Space. Visitors can discover fresh talent alongside familiar favourites. Image: Chilu, Still Believe in Good Days, 2025, Acrylic on canvas,
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Edwina Corlette Gallery presents SPRING, a group exhibition showcasing works by Sally Anderson, Jake Walker, Joanna Logue, Miranda Skoczek, Tim McMonagle, Pia Murphy, and Rhys Lee. Bringing together leading voices in contemporary Australian painting, the exhibition highlights a diversity of approaches to form, colour, and mood—reflecting the vitality of the season and the ongoing evolution
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The Darebin Art Prize is a biennial national award celebrating excellence and innovation in contemporary visual art across all media. Presented by Darebin City Council, the prize brings together leading and emerging Australian artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, video, drawing, craft, and installation. The exhibition showcases diverse contemporary practices and critical ideas shaping Australia’s
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The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is currently inviting applications for two senior roles, as well as expressions of interest for its 2026 Studio Program. Situated in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre, PICA is a nationally recognised, non-profit, multi-arts organisation dedicated to presenting and developing innovative exhibitions, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Job
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards stand as one of Queensland’s most prestigious and enduring regional art events. Established in 1976 to honour local patron and MLA Martin Hanson (1923–1976), the awards continue to recognise and support artistic excellence from across the state and beyond. Presented by the Gladstone Regional Art
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