‘Unbound’ presents a dynamic body of large-scale abstract oil paintings by Sunshine Coast–based artist Odessa Mahony-de Vries. Working through a process-driven approach, her compositions unfold intuitively—guided by gesture, movement, and the physicality of paint rather than a fixed outcome. Beginning with an initial mark or wash of colour, each work evolves through responsiveness, where layers […]
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Join for a special screening of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith as part of Dylan Bolger’s exhibition Prologue at Wreckers Upstairs. Commissioned by SharingStories Foundation, the project has been supported through the First Nations Commission Fund by the Queensland Government via Arts Queensland. Prologue engages with themes of history, sovereignty, storytelling and representation, creating space
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Sibling Rivalry brings together the contrasting yet connected practices of siblings Stephen Stockwell and Lisa-Jane Stockwell in a shared exhibition exploring creativity, memory, experimentation and personal expression. Lisa-Jane Stockwell presents vibrant landscape and observational paintings inspired by places across Australia, from Minjerribah and Tallebudgera Creek to Kangaroo Island and the Border Ranges. Her works reflect
The Five Sisters Funded Artist Residency is a unique opportunity offered by Edenhope Artist Residency (EAR), supporting artists to immerse themselves in a quiet regional environment in western Victoria. Funded by the descendants of David and Mary Burns and their five daughters—Teenie, Belle, Jean, Nellie and Jessie—the residency honours deep family connections to Edenhope and
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Waiheke Art Gallery (WAG) invites proposals from emerging and established artists, groups, and collectives for its 2026/2027 exhibition programme. Located on Waiheke Island, the gallery presents a dynamic mix of local and international practices, with a focus on connecting people to the essence of Waiheke through contemporary art. Successful applicants will be considered for exhibitions
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Submissions are now open for Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2026, inviting artists from Australia and around the world to present sculptural works along Sydney’s iconic coastal walk. Sculptures of all types, forms, sizes and materials are eligible for entry, with submissions open to artists at all career stages from emerging to established. Selected works
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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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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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The early decades of the twentieth century marked an extraordinary period in German art, as artists responded to a rapidly changing modern world shaped by social, political and cultural upheaval. Towards a Collapsing World explores this moment of intense cultural flourishing through a focused survey of works on paper by leading figures of German Expressionism.
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My Soil Farsh is an ongoing, participatory project by artist Prita Tina Yeganeh exploring place, diaspora, and community-building. Grounded in the Iranian concept of Farsh (Persian carpet) as both a physical and symbolic site of gathering, this third iteration reimagines the tradition as an evolving ecological artwork that fosters connection and togetherness. For the first
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Yield is a contemporary unearthing of Australia’s cultivated identity, delving into the deep impacts of agricultural history on the landscapes, cultures, and communities of today. Featuring works from local, national, and internationally recognised artists, the exhibition traces the legacies of early agricultural practices—beginning with the pioneering work of local figure Dr Joseph Bancroft, a leader
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Machine, Man explores the fragility of digital memory and the inevitability of technological obsolescence. Through a blend of obsolete media, interactive digital works, and sculptural forms, Christopher Bentley creates an immersive environment that positions the viewer inside the body of a cyborg — part flesh, part machine. The exhibition reflects on how we store, lose
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Night & Day is a solo exhibition of new works by Cairns-based Umpila artist Fiona Omeenyo, presenting refined figurative paintings alongside sculptural works developed during workshops in Brisbane in 2025 and 2026. Known for her graphic confidence and minimal colour palettes, Omeenyo’s paintings depict family, ancestral spirits, and memories of country and culture in Lockhart
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The Australian Cinémathèque at GOMA presents an ongoing program of film and video that you’re unlikely to see elsewhere. With screenings on Wednesday and Friday evenings, and matinees on Saturdays and Sundays, the program offers a rich and diverse experience of the moving image. Screening in January is Perceptions of Light, accompanying the exhibition Olafur
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The 2027 Tertiary Artists Book Prize is an invitational award open to Australian artists currently undertaking, or who have recently completed (within the last two years), tertiary studies in art, fine art, or design in Australia. Up to seven tertiary students will be selected to receive a $750 non-acquisitive artwork commission to create a new
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Kuwarritja Irriitinguru: A Way Before and a Way Now brings together works by Candy Nelson Nakamarra and Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, exploring cultural continuity, ancestral knowledge, and the enduring relationship between Country and contemporary painting. Through distinct yet deeply connected practices, both artists draw on inherited Tjukurrpa (Dreaming), mapping water sites, landforms, and seasonal change through
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Jan Murphy Gallery presents Water and Stone, Marina Strocchi’s 10th solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition brings together large-scale paintings developed following the artist’s return to Italy in 2025, reconnecting with her family’s history in Emilia–Romagna. While in the village of Granarolo Faentino, Strocchi was invited to create a mural centred on the local
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Inspired: A Mind’s Eye is a group exhibition bringing together emerging artists exploring the relationships between nature, identity, culture, and place. Through diverse visual approaches, the artists reflect on personal and collective experiences, inviting viewers to see the world anew through creativity and imagination. The exhibition presents works that weave a rich tapestry of visual
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Mono 57 presents a live performance by Merzbow, widely regarded as a foundational figure in noise music. With a practice spanning nearly five decades, Merzbow’s concerts are immersive, full-spectrum sonic events—dense, visceral, and physically affecting. Merzbow is joined by Lawrence English, whose work explores the edges of harmonic ambience and low-energy sound pressure, creating charged,
Gestures of Atmosphere brings together works by Skye Jamieson, Eduard Niznik, and Nataly Lee, exploring painting as a record of movement, sensation, and place. Across varied palettes and surfaces, each artist uses gesture as a way of shaping atmosphere—through layered marks, shifts in colour, and the tension between control and chance. Rather than depicting specific
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The Brothers Gruchy presents nine key artworks by acclaimed digital artists Tim and Mic Gruchy, exploring intersections between technological innovation and biological forms, human perception, artificial intelligence, and synaesthesia. Raised in Bundaberg, brothers Tim and Mic Gruchy have worked both individually and collaboratively since the mid-1980s. This exhibition brings together key works from their shared
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Are the Arts for Everyone? brings together arts leaders to question assumptions around access, audiences, and cultural democracy. As institutions balance artistic integrity with funding pressures and public expectations, this panel explores whether broadening audiences always benefits art—and whether artists want to speak to everyone. The discussion considers the tensions between idealism and pragmatism, asking
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Hot Source presents a speculative relationship between Outer Space and the sun, imagined as a flirtatious, reciprocal, and ongoing (if seasonal) crush. Through installation and text, Kirralee Robinson responds to the gallery’s materiality and architecture, proposing how this relationship might feel, unfold, and linger. Robinson’s sculptural practice engages light, optics, and tactility, drawing influence from
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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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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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DEMO 4/4 marks the final instalment of DEMO, an after-hours program transforming the Judith Wright Arts Centre with performances, exhibitions and workshops. Presented by the Institute of Modern Art and Outer Space, the evening brings together artists and musicians for a night of experimental performance, sound and moving image. The program features live music by
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Electric Windows presents recent works by Australian artist Belem Lett, whose practice explores perception, light and the visual language of abstraction. Lett graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Sydney with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class 1) in 2008 and a Master of Fine Art in 2012. In 2010 he received the Brett
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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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New School of the Living and the Dead is an exhibition of new works by Brisbane-based artist Bill Platz. The exhibition draws on the discovery of the famous Riace Warriors — Classical Greek bronze sculptures found on the Mediterranean seabed in 1972. While two of these sculptures are now celebrated museum pieces in Calabria, Platz
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Andrew K and Martina Latimer present Sightlines, their second group exhibition at The Nest Creative Space in West End. In Sightlines, perspective becomes both method and inquiry — an ethical act of looking that invites understanding and questioning. Andrew’s paintings resist descriptive detail in favour of an expanded field of vision, revealing broader conditions of
Cassandra Lehman presents THE WAITING ROOM, a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Imogen Corbett. Corbett’s intricate and highly realistic oil paintings examine the shifting social implications of space in a world increasingly shaped by digital technologies. Her work explores the tension between digital and physical realms, where online, two-dimensional environments begin to rival lived, material
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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
Field Trip Gallery presents Two Solos, featuring two distinct bodies of work shown side by side by Sona Babajanyan and Billy Shannon. Sona Babajanyan’s Echoes and Imprints comprises a new body of work situated between dream, memory and reconstruction. The works return to questions the artist has been circling for years, exploring layered impressions and
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Gasworks Arts Park invites applications for its 2026 Exhibition Program, open to artists across Australia, including Brisbane-based practitioners. This opportunity includes two gallery spaces: the Angela Robarts-Bird (ARB) Gallery, a white box exhibition space, and the James McCaughey Foyer Gallery, a high-traffic, multi-use space ideal for group exhibitions. Gasworks welcomes multidisciplinary proposals from emerging to
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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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Deep Marks (Paper) brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists exploring the limitless possibilities of paper as both medium and message. Spanning drawing, printmaking and expanded material approaches, the exhibition considers paper not simply as surface, but as substance — a site of mark-making, layering, fragility and transformation. Through varied practices, the artists demonstrate
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