The Red Dress brings together the work of 380 embroiderers from 51 countries in a remarkable 14-year global collaboration conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod. Created between 2009 and 2023, the dress features 87 panels of burgundy silk dupion and an estimated 1–1.5 billion stitches. Contributions from women, men and non-binary artists around the world […]
UNLEASHED+ 2026 is a major exhibition celebrating Queensland’s emerging craft and design practitioners, presented by artisan in collaboration with HOTA, Home of the Arts. For more than two decades, UNLEASHED has provided an important platform for early-career makers and designers, connecting emerging practitioners with national curators, collectors and industry professionals. Since its inception in 2004,
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برزخ liminal brings together the English word “liminal” with the Farsi term برزخ (barzakh), a concept that evokes a state of suspension – a threshold between death and resurrection, presence and disappearance. While the two terms resonate with one another, they are not fully interchangeable; each carries its own cultural and philosophical weight. Sarwari’s work weaves the
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Milani Gallery presents Figure of 8, a solo exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Sandra Selig. The exhibition features a new body of work spanning reverse pendulum textiles, paintings on cork, sculpture, and a charcoal wall drawing, continuing Selig’s exploration of materiality, movement and spatial relationships. Closing Event: Saturday August 29, 4-6pm Image : Sandra
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Coral Futures brings together poetic and speculative responses to coral by First Nations and contemporary Australian artists. The exhibition explores coral’s vital role in marine ecosystems, particularly the Great Barrier Reef, while considering its wider cultural, economic and environmental significance. Responding to the increasing threats posed by climate change, including coral bleaching, rising ocean temperatures
kau-in kau-in blood blood presents recently acquired and existing works from the City of Moreton Bay Art Collection by renowned multidisciplinary artist Judy Watson. Working across textile, video and printmaking, Watson draws attention to underrepresented histories of Australia and the enduring presence of First Nations people and culture. Connected to Waanyi Country in north-west Queensland,
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Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland explores the ways people and wildlife coexist within human-altered environments. Through cyanotype photogram collages combining wildlife remnants and human-made objects, LeAnne Vincent uncovers hidden stories embedded within Queensland’s urban spaces. The exhibition invites audiences to consider their relationship with place and reflect on the ways human activity shapes the environments we
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Jason Fitzgerald’s Unearthed presents a series of glazed stoneware sculptures that occupy the space between archaeological artefact, architectural fragment and imagined object. Appearing as though excavated from an uncertain past, the works explore ideas of ruin, displacement, memory and transformation. Fitzgerald’s forms suggest objects that were once whole but have been altered, reassembled and displaced.
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Mitchell Fine Art presents a new exhibition featuring Yogyakarta-based artists Gilang Fradika and Indra Dodi, strengthening Brisbane’s connection with Indonesia’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition brings together Fradika’s Primal Visions and Dodi’s The Company We Keep, following the gallery’s presentation of Indonesian artist Arwin Hidayat in 2025 and Gallery Director Mike Mitchell’s visits to artists’
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PARKER Contemporary presents Tidal, a new exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Bridget Hillebrand, bringing together works shaped by close and repeated encounters with water. Rather than treating water as a landscape to be represented, Hillebrand approaches it as a condition — rhythmic, unstable and beyond human control. The tide becomes a visible expression of forces operating
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Snarm takes its title from the Khmer word meaning both a scar and a trace. The exhibition reflects on how experiences of displacement leave marks that linger over time, shaping understandings of home not as something fixed or secure, but as something continually formed in response to changing conditions. While rooted in longer histories of conflict
Ho Rui An’s video Ultimate Coin Test China High-Speed Rail (2018) offers a playful critique of China’s rapid modernisation and the fetish of stability within the chaos of late capitalism. Ho appropriates a viral internet phenomenon, in which passengers on Chinese bullet trains film coins standing perfectly upright on their edges at speeds exceeding 300km/h, proving the
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Maud Gallery is offering a range of photography workshops and courses exploring traditional analogue photography and darkroom techniques. 6-Week Darkroom Course for Beginners Starting 5 October 2026 Artist and educator Joachim Froese guides participants through the complete analogue darkroom process, from film processing to producing finished silver gelatin prints. 6-Week Advanced Darkroom Course Starting 6
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The finalist exhibition of the 2026 Lord Mayor’s Photographic Awards celebrates Brisbane through the lens of local photographers, capturing the city’s familiar streets, riverside landscapes, everyday routines and the people and moments that make Brisbane feel like home. New this year, the Brisbane Postcards Collection category invites photographers to capture Brisbane’s character and energy through
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Sensational Nonsense by Eliza Bertwistle explores the sensory and emotional impacts of decoration, playfully challenging gendered hierarchies of aesthetic taste. Through a visually indulgent body of work, Bertwistle draws on euphoric memories triggered by sensory experiences with decorative objects, inviting audiences to reconsider the emotional, cultural and personal meanings attached to ornamentation and beauty. Celebration
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The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is calling for proposals for solo and group exhibitions in 2027, welcoming submissions from emerging and established artists and curators. With a focus on contemporary art practices, the gallery is seeking exhibitions that explore ideas and thinking across a range of subjects, themes and media, with opportunities to create connections
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Entries are now open for the 2026 Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA), Australia’s largest regional art awards program for artists living in regional, rural and remote Queensland. With a total prize pool of $326,800, the QRAA offers cash prizes, exhibitions, residencies and professional development opportunities across a range of categories. Categories include the Queensland Regional
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The Tokyo Biennale 2027 Social Dive Open Call invites artists, curators, researchers, collectives and practitioners from Japan and around the world to propose projects responding to the theme “From ‘Me’ to ‘Us’.” Proposals should engage directly with Tokyo through research, residency-based production and collaboration with local communities. Projects may take the form of exhibitions, performances,
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Free Range returns to the Institute of Modern Art for an evening of experimental sound, live performance and underground music culture. The program features three distinct performances exploring improvisation, electronics, magnetic tape and sonic experimentation: Botborg – A transcontinental project spanning Berlin and Meanjin/Brisbane, featuring an electronic performance by Joe Musgrove that transforms electronic signals
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Impress Art invites women printmakers to take part in Women in Print, a two-week celebration of women working in printmaking. Artists are invited to submit recent or historical work that connects with the theme. The program will include an exhibition, opening party, talks, demonstrations and more. Artists are also encouraged to share the name of
US artist and technologist Mindy Seu brings her acclaimed participatory lecture-performance A Sexual History of the Internet to Brisbane following presentations across North America, Asia and Europe. Described by the LA Times as “the internet’s sexual historian”, Seu explores the intertwined histories of digital technology and sexuality through a curated collection of internet lore, historical
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Victorian artist Huiyi Xiao has been awarded the $40,000 Major Prize at the 2026 Churchie Emerging Art Prize, announced at Metro Arts in Brisbane on Friday 24 July. Xiao, who was born in China and is now based in Victoria, works across performance, video and photography, exploring themes surrounding diasporic identity and the Chinese Australian
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As part of winning the Young Artist Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA), emerging Ipswich artist Kathryn Neilsen presents Natured & Nurtured, a solo exhibition at Land Street Gallery. Working across photography and painting, Neilsen explores relationships between the human body and the natural landscape. Her practice is informed by a deep
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For several years, my practice has explored the relationship between opposing forces—hard and soft, masculine and feminine, and ideas of self and other. Rather than treating these as fixed opposites, I am interested in the spaces where they overlap and create something new. The paintings in Holding the Centre continue this investigation through assembled forms
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Applications are now open for the 25th Dobell Drawing Prize, Australia’s leading biennial award dedicated to drawing, celebrating excellence in technique, innovation and expanded contemporary drawing practice. Presented by the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, the acquisitive prize awards $30,000 to the winning artist, with the selected work
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Australian Coin Review is inviting artists and designers from across Australia to enter its 2027 Coin Design Competition, offering a AUD $50,000 first prize for a new Australian coin design. Celebrating the magazine’s historic 1966 competition that produced the iconic Swan Dollar, entrants are invited to create both the obverse and reverse of a coin
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Entries are now open for the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award 2026, a biennial $50,000 non-acquisitive award celebrating excellence in realistic portrait painting. Presented by the South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA), the award is one of Australia’s major portrait prizes and is distinguished by its commitment to realism. Eligible works must depict a
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Entries are now open for the Kilgour Prize 2027, one of Australia’s leading annual awards for figurative and portrait painting. Presented by Newcastle Art Gallery, the non-acquisitive prize awards AUD $50,000 for the most outstanding work selected by the judging panel, with an additional AUD $5,000 People’s Choice Award presented during the finalists’ exhibition. Celebrating
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Expressions of Interest are now open for the 2027 South Side Festival Artist Commission, presented by Frankston City Council. Now in its sixth year, South Side Festival is a ten-day celebration of contemporary arts, culture and heritage across Frankston, featuring performances, exhibitions, installations, creative experiences and interdisciplinary projects. Artists from across Australia are invited to
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Entries are now open for the Kangaroo Valley Art Prize 2026, a national art prize presented as part of the Visual Arts in the Valley Festival. Offering a total prize pool of AUD $23,500, the prize celebrates contemporary visual art from established, emerging and local artists. The 2026 exhibition will be curated by Olivia Welch,
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The Straddie Arts Trail returns for its fifth year, transforming Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) into a vibrant celebration of contemporary art, culture and creativity across four days. Presented as a free, community-driven event, the trail features 70+ artists and makers across 33 creative stops spanning the island’s three townships. Visitors can explore open studios, exhibitions,
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Lethbridge Gallery presents Green Leaves, a solo exhibition of new watercolour works by Queensland artist Jane Grealy. Drawing on a career spanning decades as an architectural illustrator, Grealy brings a refined understanding of precision, perspective and observation to her contemporary art practice. Her delicate watercolours explore the relationship between natural environments and the built landscape,
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Entries are now open for the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize 2026, a national award celebrating the diversity and innovation of contemporary drawing practice. Established in 2006, the annual prize welcomes submissions ranging from traditional drawing techniques to expanded and experimental approaches that challenge conventional definitions of drawing. The exhibition has become a significant fixture in
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Applications are now open for the 2027 ANAT Synapse Residency Program, supporting Australian artists to undertake a creative research residency in partnership with a leading Australian research organisation. The program brings together artists and researchers to explore the intersections of art, science and technology through collaborative experimentation. Rather than focusing on a predetermined outcome, the
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QUT Art Museum is inviting applications for LOOKOUT, an exhibition program showcasing the research and creative practice of QUT students. Open to projects across visual art, design, research and interdisciplinary practice, LOOKOUT offers selected participants the opportunity to exhibit in the Museum’s prominent window gallery at Gardens Point campus. Visible to the public 24 hours
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Created specifically for Night Feast, Total Vibration is a major new site-specific installation by Sydney artist Jonny Niesche, presented by Brisbane Powerhouse in partnership with the Institute of Modern Art. Transforming the Stores Studio into an immersive environment of reflection, movement and sound, the installation features two monumental flexible mirrors that ripple, shimmer and vibrate
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