This exhibition explores the idea of personal space and the different ways it can be understood or experienced. Personal space is not simply the physical distance between people, it can also be psychological, emotional or private. Some of the paintings are drawn from spaces, places, and objects within my own environment, while others began with […]
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Gulbuuygu celebrates eight years of collaboration between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Fashion students and artists from the Hope Vale Arts and Culture Centre in Cape York Peninsula. The exhibition takes its name from a Guugu Yimithirr word meaning “together”. The exhibition features garments and textiles developed through the partnership, alongside works on paper revealing
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Brisbane painter and muralist Aleja Hine explores modern dating, connection and the beauty of ordinary life in Still Looking, a new solo exhibition opening at The Nest Creative Space in West End on Saturday 17 October 2026. Developed throughout 2026, the exhibition draws directly from Hine’s experiences with online dating as a woman in her
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FONT is a solo exhibition by Tay Haggarty that reimagines and queers the classic water fountain structure. The exhibition features abstract splattering, misting, dripping, squirting and imperfect fountain forms made from recycled car parts. Through these installations, Carpark Gallery is transformed into an inclusive speculative sapphic sauna — a space to sweat, rest and reimagine.
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FireWorks Gallery presents Party Gone Bad, a new exhibition of large-scale paintings by acclaimed Australian artist Pat Hoffie. Bringing together works produced between late 2025 and 2026, the exhibition responds to the anxieties, fractures and absurdities of contemporary life, including the challenges of free speech and the online “Hateosphere”. Hoffie’s energetic paintings layer colour, darkness,
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The Institute of Modern Art (IMA), in partnership with the University of Queensland School of Communication and Arts, presents a talk by Australian photography historian Geoffrey Batchen exploring the relationship between sight and blindness in the history of photography. The talk examines a contemporary Instagram trend in which celebrities pose with their eyes closed, considering
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Onespace presents Wumera Nangamay: Muru Walan, a new exhibition by Brisbane-based artist KONSTANTINA exploring the ancient Muru (path or journey) connecting her Gadigal ancestors in the Sydney region with the Arabanoo peoples of the central desert. Drawn to the enduring beauty and significance of Kati Thanda, KONSTANTINA’s richly layered paintings consider deep cultural connection, Country,
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BLEACH Festival is back like you’ve never seen it before. Taking over the HOTA precinct for 11 massive days of live music, contemporary dance, world-class theatre, interactive installations and mind-altering art. The much-loved arts and culture festival welcomes a new Artistic Director, Felix Preval, who promises to deliver a fresh take on the long-running festival.
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Do Not Go Gentle borrows its title from Dylan Thomas’s poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, I view this poem to be about resistance, defiance and refusing to simply accept the inevitable. That idea of pushing against expectation became an important thread throughout this evolving body of work. This exhibition also marks
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Slowly Made Locals is a collective of Brisbane artists and makers showcasing handmade goods and art at Vacant Assembly’s Lab 266 throughout October. The pop-up celebrates local creativity, bringing together handmade pieces and artwork in a welcoming community setting. Special Event: Saturday 10 October, 10am–2pm, featuring opening celebrations, brunch and iced tea. Opening Hours: Thursday
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As part of the prize for winning the First Nations Artist Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Charmaine Davis presents Jugun – Country, a solo exhibition at Flying Arts. A proud Goori woman with connections to the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung Nations, Davis draws deeply on the landscapes and waterways of Country. Her paintings
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Alter is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based photographer Lisa Ray, presented at Jan Manton Gallery in Teneriffe. Working across flowers, portraiture and elemental forms, Ray explores moments suspended between dissolution and emergence. Light resembles fire, water becomes atmosphere, and organic forms drift between the familiar and imagined. Created through a slow and intuitive process, the
Her Flame, My Hands A daughter’s journey through grief, growth and clay Her Flame, My Hands is an annual solo exhibition by Brisbane/Meanjin ceramic artist Jenna Catchpole, presented each September in honour of her mother, Jennene – a gifted potter whose love of clay continues to shape Jenna’s practice today. What began as a deeply
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Diverse Perspectives brings together twelve photographers from the Fine Monochrome Print Group in a celebration of contemporary monochrome photography. Rather than following a single theme, the exhibition presents twelve distinct approaches to photographic practice, exploring subjects including personal narratives, landscape, architecture, abstraction and the human form. Together, the works consider memory, identity, place, ritual, labour
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Rachel South presents Beautifully Tangled, a solo exhibition exploring the intimate and emotional qualities of hair through highly detailed, large-format paintings. Drawing on her connection to nature and the Australian landscape, South transforms strands, coils and textures of hair into expansive, almost landscape-like forms. Opening Night – Thursday 3rd at 6.00 pm Artist Talk –
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Cassandra Louttit presents her second solo exhibition, Big Blue/Rothko Worship Current Year, at Wreckers Artspace in Woolloongabba. The exhibition centres on a painting and series of paintings shown in full for the first time, alongside new work. Louttit will also present an artist talk exploring the arcane technical processes behind the works, including both digital
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Jan Murphy Gallery is delighted to present The moon’s raining, an online exhibition by Tim Price. “I’ve been painting everyday things from around the city. Ordinary moments drift into view while I’m walking, a plane flying in over the buildings and trees, flowers growing in the suburbs. They feel meaningful and beautiful without having an
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A group exhibition exploring the many ways artists can approach the idea of the self. Self Portraits brings together 26 artists working across contemporary painting and visual art, presenting distinct interpretations of identity, perception and personal experience. Featuring James Drinkwater, Vipoo Srivilasa, Cosima Scales, Eliza Gosse, Sally Anderson, Stefan Dunlop, John Bokor, Jordy Kerwick, Brendan
‘Inscribing a life’ brings artworks from across the QAGOMA Collection that register existence, histories, and time through the act of mark making. From the brute force recorded in paint on a canvas that expresses strength and vitality, to the time commitment captured in the repetition involved in making intricate forms, the desire to record and
FIRE! Works on Paper 2 Queensland brings together works by seven artists exploring the breadth and diversity of contemporary works on paper. Featuring David Paulson, Ian Waldron, Jo-Anne Driessens, Juno Gemes, Michael Aird, Paul Bong and Vincent Serico, the exhibition presents drawing, photography and print-based works that engage with people, place, culture and history. Image:
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Reflective in a self-effacing way, it is a beautifully crafted memoir which invites us to share a healing process made possible through exploring with an analogue camera and notebook in hand. There is an ethereal dimension to Reidy’s photography — as if her work were from another time. Some of this is to do with
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Sydney-born artist Zoe Young (b. 1978) explores still life, portraiture and abstraction, transforming everyday settings and objects into idyllic and evocative scenes. Drawing on a childhood shaped by travel, different cultures and her family’s history in hospitality, Young creates compositions that evoke nostalgia while connecting personal memories with broader human experiences. Her paintings combine technical
A hum in the dark. Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival, Choral Cthonics is a world-premiere exhibition exploring the voice as instrument, threshold and collective force. Bringing together work by Dean Ansell, Cicadas (Maria Molina & Celeste Ricci), CAConrad, Léuli Eshrāghi, Mikhail Karikis, Jazz Money and Tina Stefanou, the exhibition moves across sound, installation
Watch This Space (WTS) is inviting applications for its 2027 program, contributing to the creative ecology of Mparntwe/Alice Springs through exhibitions, residencies and screenings. Applications are open to artists and curators local to Mparntwe/Alice Springs, across Australia and internationally. Watch This Space is an artist-run organisation that believes in the potential of art as a
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The Australian Tapestry Workshop’s annual residency program offers mid-career artists the chance to extend their practice through engagement with its resources. For over 20 years, artists in residence have immersed themselves in the vibrant studio, exchanging knowledge and skills with tapestry weavers and dye technicians. Artists are invited to further engage with local communities during
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West Space is inviting applications for its 2027 West Space Window program, supporting artists to present work in its micro-project space on the public façade of the gallery in Collingwood Yards. The Window is a small, site-specific project space on the balcony outside West Space’s gallery and office in the Perry Street Building. Artists are
Golden Scars explores the relationship between the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy of self-overcoming. Kawamura reflects on repairing what has been broken and transforming past inner conflict into a source of resilience and strength. The exhibition considers how accepting our imperfections and experiences can become an act of rebuilding — creating something
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Griffith University Art Museum presents Undying, a major solo exhibition by acclaimed Australian sculptor Abdul-Rahman Abdullah. Commissioned by the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, the exhibition brings together intricately carved and painted sculptures exploring humanity’s relationship with life, death, the afterlife and the natural world. Inspired by the Museum’s natural history and
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Ties that Bind brings together leading Australian artists to explore the many ways people connect to home, Country, memory and one another. Through diverse contemporary practices, the exhibition considers belonging as something shaped by place, ancestry, migration, displacement and lived experience. Rather than presenting a single idea of home, the exhibition reveals it as both
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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