The Backbone Festival returns this October with Look Up — a bold, three-week program of performance, sound, and visual art transforming Seven Hills Hub into a thriving site of curiosity, resistance, and imagination. Brisbane’s leading youth arts organisation, Backbone Youth Arts, invites audiences to “look up from the noise” and engage with a generation of […]
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Something Wild brings together Clare Purser and Jude Taggart Roberts, two leading Brisbane-based contemporary artists, in a joint exhibition that explores the physical and emotional terrain of the landscape. For both artists, the ‘wilds’ of nature become a mirror for feeling—spaces of untamed reverie and deep observation. Jude Taggart Roberts’s gestural works on paper evoke
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The Homiens Art Prize is an internationally recognised award celebrating creativity across all art forms and disciplines. With over $12,000 USD awarded annually, the prize supports emerging and established artists worldwide, providing global exposure and professional development opportunities. Open to artists of all backgrounds, the Homiens Art Prize welcomes entries in any medium, size, or
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Edwina Corlette Gallery presents Omnivorous Cast, a new exhibition by regional Victorian-based artist Pia Murphy. The title reflects Murphy’s approach to painting as a gathering of experiences, inspired by her residency at The Barn in Montauk, New York. There, she embraced an “omnivorous cast” of observation, experimentation, and engagement with the natural environment. Working directly
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Adelaide-based artist Tim Edwards returns to Jan Murphy Gallery with his second solo exhibition, In between space. With a practice spanning over four decades, Edwards continues to refine his bold and distinctive glass vessels that blur the boundaries between drawing and sculpture. The exhibition explores the optical and conceptual space between two and three dimensions,
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Celebrating creative excellence across Australia’s contemporary art landscape, the Clayton Utz Art Award showcases an exceptional selection of national finalists whose works explore the richness, diversity, and imagination of Australian visual art. The 2025 winner, Francesca Owen, received the major award for her work The Banya (Fine Art Print, 125 × 85 cm), praised by
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Michael Zavros (b.1974) is one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary artists, known for his hyper-realist depictions of beauty, luxury, and the often-unsettling allure of perfection. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, Zavros constructs meticulously detailed images that are both visually sumptuous and deeply reflective. Raised on the Gold Coast, Zavros graduated from the Queensland
Are you a maker looking to turn your craft into a sustainable business? Brisbane City Council’s Maker Entrepreneurship Program is a free initiative tailored to local artists, designers, and makers in Brisbane. The 2026 program offers a series of expert-led workshops designed to build practical business skills in planning, finance, marketing, and product storytelling. Running
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Media artists worldwide are invited to submit work for the 39th European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück, Germany. The festival features film, media, installations, performances, hybrid and experimental works. Key Info Submission Deadline: 22 December 2025 Accepted categories: • Film (experimental shorts & features) • Installation (interactive, spatial, sculptural, etc.) • Expanded (performances, live events, workshops) Entry
The world is full of contrasts, contradictions and ironical phenomena. The physical, spiritual and intellectual aspects of existence are continually throwing perceptual “curve balls” at us to influence and enhance our experience of “this life”. Since moving to Brisbane in the late 80s its landscape and architecture has dominated my painting and the subjects of
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The YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art (2025–26) invites artists from around the world to participate in one of the most dynamic global competitions for contemporary art. Open to both emerging and established artists, the contest provides a unique opportunity to gain visibility, connect with international curators and critics, and exhibit work in Venice, one
Kitty Horton is an architect of composition. Growing up surrounded by carpentry, and with a formal background in drawing and printmaking, Horton builds her work in raw material layers – expressive line, solid form, oil stick, charcoal and conte. Her practice has always focused on the process of resolving the image through building, layering, concealing
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softwash’s final live program returns to the riverbank and public parklands for an artist-led afternoon exploring interdependence, place, queering, and multispecies connection. The event features live performance, ephemeral sculpture, and participatory activities. Contributing artists include Norton Fredericks, Tay Haggarty, Ruby Donohue, Anna Whitaker, Kinly Grey, and Kim Stokes, with a Welcome to Country by Aunty
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Terra Culture is an exploration of terra-biomes — symbiotic bodies of flora and microfauna, intimately connected by underground fungal networks. Audiences will encounter an immersive space, where interaction with living sculptures invites sensual encounter with the artist’s terra-biomes to reveal our parallel and synergetic existences. The exhibition will also provoke a visceral self-identification, uncovering the human
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In gallery one is a selection of works by Judy Watson made between 1992–1999, centred around her monumental work ground piece from 1993. This was a formative period in Watson’s practice during which she won the Moet Chandon Art Prize (1995) and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale alongside Emily Kam Kngwarray and Yvonne Koolmatrie
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In gallery two is The Future was Femme by Natalya Hughes. For this body of work, Hughes quotes Russian-born French artist and designer Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, 1892–1990), whose androgynous images held allusions to aesthetic transgression. Hughes dissects the images, leaving abstracted associations of the feminine, the body and excess. About the ArtistNatalya Hughes (b.
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In gallery three we are presenting Inferno — the Arcade Game — by Ryan Presley, an arcade video game borne out of his narrative painting Aeronautics: what goes up must come down. The work takes Presley’s practice further into participatory engagement, employing the arcade game as a site of learning and resistance. About the ArtistRyan
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Join IN | artist run initiative for the next two hands-on workshops in our Studio Tactics For The End Of Capital series. Led by Indy Heath (aka Spiraro), these workshops explore how materials can breathe, change, and collaborate with us. These workshops invite you to step into the living studio — a space where art,
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Looking Forward // Looking Back brings together emerging artists who respond to, reflect on, or reimagine the QCAD printmaking folio box archive as both object and idea. Featuring students from print: praxis at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, the exhibition considers the folio’s dual role—as a vessel of memory, history, and process,
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Demo 3/4 → Round three descends. The after-hours art experiments crawl back into the shadows at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, where Brisbane’s creative pulse throbs louder once the lights dim. Demo 3/4 slinks through hidden corners and dim-lit rooms, unfolding performances, exhibitions, workshops and activations that defy expectation and etiquette. It’s art unchained. No
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Red Gallery is inviting artists from the queer community to be part of a group exhibition coinciding with the Midsumma Festival 2026. This exhibition will celebrate queer voices and creative expression across all mediums — painting, sculpture, photography, textile, installation, and beyond. It’s shaping up to be a beautiful and dynamic show that highlights the
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PARKER Contemporary presents revisiting the bush, the first major body of work in several years from contemporary artist Tim Mosely. This new series of multi-layered reductive lino prints sees Mosely return to the Australian bush as subject and site, exploring its textures, rhythms and shifting presence through the hand-printed surface. A significant figure in contemporary
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The Brisbane Portrait Prize celebrates the city of Brisbane/Meeanjin and its people through contemporary portraiture. It recognises the courageous, creative and passionate individuals who shape our community, while showcasing the talent and vision of Brisbane’s artists. About the Prize Encourages artists at all stages of their careers, offering mentoring, peer recognition and career advancement opportunities.
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The Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS) Brisbane Branch has announced local artist Kate Marek as the winner of the inaugural Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Art Prize, unveiled at a glittering awards night at The Star Brisbane Event Centre. Chosen from a field of 45 exceptional finalists, Marek received the $20,000 prize from Her Excellency the Honourable
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Melbourne-born, France-based artist Ces McCully presents Home to Home, a new exhibition exploring the tactile and emotional dimensions of human connection. McCully’s distinctive ‘soft paintings’—made by embedding wool into raw canvas before painting—occupy a space between abstraction and language. Each work merges opposing forces: masculine and feminine, hard and soft, intuitive and structured. Through texture,
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Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theatre, music, sound, performance art, writing, painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, culinary, photography, video/film, animation, architecture, sculpture (any material), ceramics, pottery, mixed-media / multi-media, interdisciplinary, installation, and other new/alternative media. Researchers, curators, and art critics are also welcome to apply. Open to emerging
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Both playful and disquieting, Local Guide by Grant x Wilkes interrogates the reliability of online knowledge in an era defined by surveillance capitalism — where data is mined, images are automated, and trust itself becomes a traded commodity. Through a series of fabricated suburban landmarks covertly entered into Google Maps, the artists mischievously adopt the
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Rick Amor (b. 1948, Frankston, Victoria) is one of Australia’s most prominent figurative painters and a highly regarded printmaker and sculptor. Amor lives and works in Melbourne. His supreme grasp of tonality allows him to masterfully manipulate light and transport the viewer into his images. Filled with light and shadow, Amor’s brooding and nostalgic works
Jaydon Martin is a multi-disciplinary filmmaker and artist whose practice explores maligned cultures, the mundane, and spiritual modernity. His emotionally charged docufiction approach draws a direct line between lived reality and the subconscious, seeking what he calls an “ecstatic truth.” Martin’s cinematic language and visual intensity invite viewers into environments shaped by identity, agency, and
In Visitors, Monica Rohan presents a captivating new body of work in which chairs — long-time domestic companions — find themselves adrift in the landscape. Removed from their familiar interiors, they become uncanny stand-ins for the human form: both present and absent, invited and forgotten. For Rohan, these bentwood chairs carry deep personal resonance. “They
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Between Places presents a new body of work by painter Matt James, exploring how memory transforms our experience of landscape. Rather than recording a single location, these paintings merge recollections of different environments — places that overlap, dissolve, and re-form on the canvas. Through expressive brushwork and palette knife marks, James builds rhythmic layers of
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Yuriyal Bridgeman’s SUNA (Middle Ground) is a monumental installation and a living site for storytelling, connection, and cultural exchange. Located on the front lawn of UQ Art Museum, the work takes the form of a raun haus — a traditional Papua New Guinea Highlands round house — representing both the artist’s home and the central
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Duane Doyle is a proud Jiman (yimen) artist from Central Queensland. He identifies with his mother’s animal totem, the Googoobing (scrub turkey), which is central to his practice and storytelling. Through his work, Duane honours the Googoobing by sharing stories of Gummoo Wongarra (one water), which flows from the Carnarvon Gorge ranges. His art invites
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Showcasing emerging and early-career artists from Brisbane and across South East Queensland, Here & Now explores how we experience and are transformed through sustained attention. This collection of works reveals moments of quiet revelation and contemplation, evoking a profound sense of humility and wonder at the interconnectedness of life and landscape. Artists:Kurt BlackAlex ChadwickSophie FarquharMartina
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Subversive Threads is a new solo exhibition by Meanjin-based artist Rae Haynes, whose contemporary feminist practice interrogates gender ethics, language, and abstraction through text, textiles, and installation. Emerging from Haynes’ ongoing research into the legacies of embroidery in feminist art—particularly inspired by Rozsika Parker’s landmark text The Subversive Stitch (1984)—the exhibition connects personal genealogy with
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This October, Milani Gallery presents Serial Music, a major exhibition by Eugene Carchesio across Galleries 1, 2 and 3. Bringing together Carchesio’s recent works on paper — including intricate drawings, watercolours and meditative compositions — Serial Music continues the artist’s long-standing exploration of rhythm, pattern, and minimal form. The exhibition also introduces a new collaborative
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