PARKER Contemporary presents Distorted Image, a new body of work by Brisbane artist Matthew Newkirk examining the power of visual imagery in contemporary society and its role in shaping how we understand news, commerce and social relations. Working with the visual languages and signifiers that circulate through everyday media, Newkirk explores the ways images mediate […]
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Celebrating ten years of Outer Space, TEN brings together works by artists from the organisation’s vibrant community. Rather than presenting a singular history, the exhibition traces connections across identity, memory and belonging, highlighting the evolving role of artist-led practice, experimentation and collective expression in Brisbane’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition includes works by Robert Andrew,
The Australian Photographic Prize is a major annual international photography competition, open to photographers at all levels—from students and amateurs to established professionals. With over 2,500 entries from 21 countries in 2025, the prize continues to grow as a global platform for photographic practice. The 2026 edition expands to 25 categories, offering a wide range
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Now in its 21st year, the Bowness Photography Prize is Australia’s most prestigious photography award, offering a total prize pool of $70,000 and significant opportunities for exhibition and acquisition. Open to artists working with still photo-based media—including analogue and digital photography—entries must have been produced within the last year. The prize supports contemporary photographic practice
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In The River, acclaimed Australian artist Ben Quilty turns his attention to a deeply personal place: a river hidden within a steep valley. Reaching this secluded location requires a deliberate descent into a landscape where towering rock walls create a sense of both protection and weight. Quilty describes this place as one where the pressures
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Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) has announced its 2027 open call for residency programs, offering international artists and curators the opportunity to live and work in Tokyo. Located in Sumida-ku, Tokyo, TOKAS Residency provides studio space, accommodation, and a supportive environment for creative exchange. Since its establishment in 2014, the residency has welcomed artists from
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Luxembourg Art Week is now accepting applications for its 12th edition, inviting emerging and established galleries from around the world to participate. The fair is known for its focus on accessibility, dialogue, and close engagement between artists, galleries, and audiences. It features curated sections including the Main Section for established galleries and Take Off for
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Dark Pony Studio + Gallery is seeking submissions for Flip Through Art Fair, a one-day artist market taking place in South Brisbane. Designed around a record-store-inspired browsing experience, the fair encourages slow discovery, first-time art buying, and approachable collecting. Original artworks will be presented in flip-through racks alongside selected salon-style wall displays for larger works.
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Sympathy and Difference is a group exhibition exploring friendship, collaboration, dialogue and collective exchange through contemporary art practice. Drawing inspiration from Michel Foucault’s preface to Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari, the exhibition considers the group not as a fixed hierarchy but as a fluid space of de-individualisation, conversation and shared creative process.
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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.
CREATE EXCHANGE: Painted Up presents a powerful body of work by Dean Biŋkin Tyson (Quandamooka and Gurang), exploring the cultural, spiritual, and political significance of body painting. Rooted in stories of Country, place, and lore, being “painted up” is both a privilege and an act of cultural embodiment—one that carries deep ancestral knowledge while asserting
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David Paulson: Artist Portraits surveys the artist’s longstanding engagement with portraiture, the human figure and the discipline of life drawing. Bringing together nine major portraits on canvas alongside a series of smaller works on paper, the exhibition traces Paulson’s enduring fascination with identity, observation and the psychological complexities of representation. The exhibition features portraits of
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Samantha Hobson: Wuntalpa Time explores the macro and micro ecology of ocean and creek sites surrounding the artist’s community of Lockhart River in Far North Queensland. The exhibition draws inspiration from “Wuntalpa time” — a seasonal period marked by brown seafoam washing onto the shoreline, signalling environmental and atmospheric change. Through a new body of
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Artists Exchange: Making Work is a month-long online professional development program designed for emerging and early career artists across regional and remote Queensland. The program offers a supportive and welcoming environment where artists can connect, share current work, and participate in constructive peer critique sessions. Across four weekly online sessions, participants will take part in
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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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Museum of Brisbane presents Rearrangeable Perceptions, a large-scale installation by Brisbane-based artist Renee Kire as part of the 2026 Artist in Residence program. Transforming the entryway of Brisbane City Hall, Kire’s immersive work spans walls and ceilings through a combination of bold vinyl graphics and sculptural timber elements. The installation creates a vibrant, directional pathway
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State Library of Queensland has announced a new cultural partnership with artisan, the state’s peak body for craft and design, establishing the library as a creative hub for Queensland’s craft and design community. Through this partnership, artisan will be headquartered at State Library, working across Queensland to support emerging, developing, and established practitioners. The collaboration
The State Library of Queensland will present a new exhibition exploring one of life’s most universal yet often taboo subjects — death. Dearly Departed: death in life examines how Queenslanders talk about and experience death across both public and private realms, asking the central question: what is a good death? Drawing on the State Library’s
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A major new public artwork by Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson has been unveiled at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in Brisbane. Titled Floriate, the four-metre-high bronze sculpture was officially launched on Friday 6 March 2026 with a smoking ceremony by Tribal Experiences at the newly opened Glasshouse Theatre. The site sits on
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Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins presents Warrajamba, an immersive Artist in Residence project that transforms Museum of Brisbane’s Creative Space into an environment shaped by story, material and connection to Country. The project explores the ancestral story of Warrajamba, the mermaid — a significant narrative passed down through generations of the artist’s family from Minjerribah (North
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Painting the Celestial is the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of Ipswich-based painter Leonard Brown, tracing more than five decades of practice. Widely regarded for his sublime minimal abstract canvases, Brown’s works are held in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia
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Homeplace is an immersive installation by multidisciplinary artist Karlina Mitchell that explores ideas of home, rising tides, and memories embedded within landscapes. The exhibition reflects on cultural practices and histories that have been disrupted or lost due to ecological disasters across the Pacific. Through photography and installation, Mitchell examines how environments carry memory and how
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At the centre of Anna Gonzalez’s practice is the diorama. Working with fragile, hand-built materials – paper, mirrors, thread, wire, edible jelly and paint – she constructs intricate sculptural environments. The miniature worlds are later translated into large-scale archival inkjet prints. Most of the works presented in Tiny Worlds, Tall Tales are these resulting photographs,
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In Dissembling Assembly, Chris Hagen reflects on how we come to understand the world — and how knowledge is shaped as much by lived experience as by information. The works occupy the space between knowing and not knowing, where meaning forms gradually, layered over time and never entirely fixed. Raised in northern Wisconsin by a
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Mono 59 presents a live performance by Tujiko Noriko alongside Brisbane-based artist Joseph Burgess (Unregistered Master Builder) at the Institute of Modern Art. Since the early 2000s, Tujiko Noriko has redefined the possibilities of avant-pop. Her albums Girl City and Make Me Hard, released through Mego, transformed song structures through extreme processing and real-time manipulation
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The QRAA Emerging Artist Exhibition presents a selection of 20 works drawn from the 2025 entries in the Emerging Artist category of the Queensland Regional Art Awards. Hosted at Flying Arts Alliance in Fortitude Valley, the exhibition showcases emerging artistic talent and highlights a diverse range of contemporary practices from across Queensland. The selected works
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Afghanistan is a powerful photographic exhibition by award-winning photojournalist and author Andrew Quilty, presenting images captured during his time living and working in Kabul between 2013 and 2022. Curated by Ellie Waterhouse, the exhibition offers an intimate and reflective portrait of Afghanistan during a period of profound political and social upheaval. Quilty describes the work
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Platform 2026 is the Institute of Modern Art’s annual exhibition supporting emerging Queensland artists through the development of ambitious new projects. The exhibition presents new works by Dean Ansell, Spencer Harvie, and Seren Wagstaff, showcasing diverse contemporary practices across installation, performance, sound, and painting. Dean Ansell’s practice draws on Melanesian mythologies and rituals, exploring cultural