Applications are now open for the 2026 Waverley Art Prize, a long-running painting and drawing award supporting artists from emerging to professional levels. Established in 1986, the prize has become a significant platform for contemporary painters and draftspersons, offering both financial support and the opportunity for works to enter the Waverley Council Collection. The prize […]
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The Meridian Award is an independent international award offering a $1,000 unrestricted cash prize to one contemporary artist working in any medium. Founded in New York City, the award supports independent and self-directed practices, recognising artists whose work demonstrates originality, clarity, and a distinct voice within the contemporary art landscape. Open to artists worldwide aged
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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
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
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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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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Artists: Andrew Hillhouse, Shannon O’Hara, Arryn Snowball, Minqi Gu, Saffron Newey, Kenji Uranishi Between Surfaces brings together six contemporary artists whose practices explore materiality, abstraction and the relationship between surface, form and perception. Spanning painting, ceramics, textiles and mixed media, the exhibition considers how texture, process and material can shape emotional, psychological and sensory experiences.
Scrumptious is a selection of works created over the past 4 years that present a playful offering of illusory puzzle-solving. I am interested in spatial sentience – in embodied knowledge of our familiar environments and how we navigate through time and space. To consider how we perceive, understand and experience space as a shared family
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Jan Murphy Gallery presents L A Was Here, a new exhibition of sculptural works by Lincoln Austin. Taking its title from a childhood act of carving his name into a playground door, this exhibition expands on the impulse to leave a mark—exploring themes of belonging, communication, and permanence. Austin considers how humans seek connection through
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Untether Gallery invites artists to participate in WHIM, an open group exhibition exploring spontaneity, imagination, and playful curiosity. The exhibition centres on the idea of “whim” as a moment where imagination drifts beyond the sensible—embracing surprise, humour, and the unexpected. Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme freely, responding through any medium in ways that
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Still Life and Interiors brings together a selection of Australian artists exploring the quiet beauty of everyday objects and domestic spaces. Spanning early modern to contemporary works, the exhibition highlights how artists transform flowers, fruit, vessels, and interiors into moments of reflection, colour, and atmosphere. From intimate table settings to layered interior scenes, these works
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Jan Murphy Gallery presents Batch, a new exhibition of paintings by Brisbane-based artist Victoria Reichelt. This body of work draws on the visual language of mid-century Pop Art while shifting the perspective inward—into the intimate, sensory space of the kitchen. Referencing artists such as Oldenburg, Rosenquist and Wayne Thiebaud, Reichelt reimagines the motif of cakes
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Now showing at Edwina Corlette Gallery, Foliage #3 — Recent Works presents a new body of paintings by Judith Sinnamon, continuing her exploration of light, landscape, and the Australian environment. Sinnamon’s practice centres on the shifting qualities of light as it interacts with trees and foliage. These works capture the quiet luminosity of early morning,
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Metro Arts invites applications for its 2026 Visual Artists in Residence Program, offering artists dedicated time and space to develop their practice within the MAVA Warehouse. Designed as a space for experimentation and exchange, the residency supports artists through studio access, curatorial guidance, and opportunities for dialogue with peers and the wider arts community. The
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Wentworth Galleries presents a curated selection of paintings by five Australian artists: David Hinchliffe, Dulcie Long, John Maitland, Peter Coad, and Colin Parker. This weekly feature highlights a diverse range of contemporary painting practices, from expressive depictions of urban and coastal life to interpretations of landscape, abstraction, and Indigenous subject matter. Each work reflects a
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Griffith University Art Museum presents Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line, the largest exhibition of Catherine Griffiths’s work ever shown in Australia. Touring from the Melbourne School of Design and curated by Ela Egidy and Megan Patty, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience the physical, spatial, and provocative qualities of Griffiths’ practice . For
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