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The Atrium: Call for proposals

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Call for exhibition proposals: Incinerator Gallery Atrium Space  Incinerator Gallery exhibits work by emerging and established artists in the Atrium each year.   The Atrium is suited to sculptural and spatial practices that are site-considered. All applicants are encouraged to visit the exhibition space before submitting your application.  New works designed specifically for the site are highly encouraged.    Successful applicants […]

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Jordan Azcune: Green sky, orange clouds, purple rain

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Green sky, orange clouds, purple rain presents new and recent artworks from Meanjin/Brisbane artist Jordan Azcune. Fascinated with colour, optics, and spirituality, his artworks relate to the natural world, the body, and architecture. This exhibition will explore Azcune’s personal connection to the Redlands Coast, having grown up in the area, and will reinterpret local built and

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Compositional Utterances

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Compositional Utterances is a site-responsive, collaborative exhibition by three artists whose material-led practices share feminist and ecological concerns. The exhibition is the product of deep conversation and collaboration between Brisbane-based artists Mandy Quadrio, Susan Hawkins and Jan Oliver. All three artists have practices centred on the formal and narrative potential of their chosen materials: Quadrio works with sea

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Amy Sargeant & Arianna Nixon: Climate of Violence

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Climate of Violence: Directions in sound and vision by Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon. Amy Sargeant is a Meanjin based visual artist, musician and trans justice advocate. Through installations of sculpture, audio and video Amy’s work responds to her disillusionment with the dysfunctions of the Australian political establishment by reframing the elements of political spectacle.

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Portrait of an artist: Richard Bell

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Don’t miss our final Portrait of an artist event for 2023 featuring nationally and internationally acclaimed First Nations artist Richard Bell, fresh from his recent exhibition at the Tate Modern in London! Richard will be live and in-conversation with renowned First Nations photographer Michael Aird, also Director of University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum. Richard Bell (Kamilaroi, Kooma,

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Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others

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The National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Rauschenberg & Johns: Significant Others reveals how – at the height of the Abstract expressionist movement – a new avant-garde began to materialise from the same-sex relationship between two young artists – Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. The exhibition highlights how Rauschenberg and Johns expanded on ideas developed through their

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Linda Zucco: Close to Home

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Linda is a Brisbane (Meanjin) based painter using oil on linen. In Close to Home, she applies her strong sense of shape and rich but restrained palette to familiar Brisbane landmarks and scenes. Linda’s fashion background is evident in the simple, bold compositions, as is her nostalgic instinct in the colour schemes and figures that

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Winner of the churchie 2023: Joel Sherwood Spring

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Joel Sherwood Spring was announced as the winner of the churchie emerging art prize 2023 at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) on Friday night. The Sydney-based Wiradjuri artist took home the $15,000 non-acquisitive cash prize donated by long standing prize money sponsor, BSPN Architecture. Spring’s video, Diggermode (2022), was selected as the Overall Prize winner by judge Tara McDowell, Associate Professor and Director

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Asia Pacific Video

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Asia Pacific Video is an exhibition developed by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). It focuses on performance, experimentation and theatricality in video art from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition highlights artists experimenting with video as an art form capturing bodily actions and performative practices, creating intersections between contemporary art and

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eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness

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‘Beautiful Wickedness’ will be the most significant exhibition of work by celebrated Australian artist eX de Medici yet staged. The survey will examine the artist’s central concerns, including the fragility of life, global affairs, greed and commerce, and the universal themes of power, conflict, and death. Exhibition highlights include de Medici’s intricate botanical studies and

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Alice Lang: Flowah Powah

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Flowah Powah: Alice Lang borrows from a vibrant counterculture aesthetic that rose out of LA in the 1960s, while playing on a uniquely Australian vernacular, through goading and sometimes humorous painting, text and sculpture. Lang taps into the current political and cultural climate to deliver a high impact visual journey full of kitsch, vulgarism and the

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Adam Lester: Shape I’m In

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‘Shape I’m In’ is Adam Lester’s eighth solo exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery. Steering a course between figuration and gestural interpretation, Adam Lester’s observations of contemporary culture are bought to edgy resolution in his latest exhibition, ‘Shape I’m In’. Drawing inspiration from recent trips to Woodford Folk Festival and coloured by fading memories of early

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Margaret Olley

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Margaret Olley AC (1923 – 2011) is one of Australia’s most celebrated painters. Focussing largely on still life and interiors, Olley drew inspiration from her home studio and the beauty of the everyday objects she surrounded herself with. Olley was born on 24 June 1923 in Lismore, New South Wales. In 1925 the Olley family

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Jacqueline Hennessy: This night, this garden of light

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Jacqueline Hennessy’s feminine figures offer themselves to our gaze, conditionally: a body, a gesture, the minutiae of fabric or hair — faces are rare. Hennessy builds her images slowly over time, transparent washes of raw umber are gently painted onto linen then disrupted by overbrushing. “My process involves playing between binary opposites to create a

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Milan Milojevic: The Land that never was (or Is)

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The Land that never was (or Is) will be Milojevic’s first solo exhibition at FireWorks Gallery comprising of nine limited-edition prints. Contemporary cultural identity and the complexities of a cross-cultural position are explored through imagery evolving from two worlds – one evocative of a European landscape and the other reminiscent of a Tasmanian one. Milojevic utilises

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Head On Photo Awards

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At the heart of Head On Photo Festival are the Head On Photo Awards across four categories;, Portrait, Landscape, Student, and the brand-new Environmental Awards by Australian Geographic all judged by a diverse panel of Australian and international photography industry leaders, from creators to curators. Head On’s philosophy hinges upon the belief that all artists

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Artefacts of the working process

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After a year creating work at the Norman Park Substation… the Pathfinders provide reflections on their Metro Arts’ journey. Artists: Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing and James Barth At the close of their residency, MAVA Pathfinder Artists, Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing and James Barth share developments and learnings from their time in the MAVA studio. Upskilling

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Things I want to say

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Things I want to say brings together artists from across the country whose practices negotiate identity in contemporary Australia. Focusing on artists with a connection to Queensland, the exhibition will encourage conversation around navigating one’s sense of self within the pressures of broader society. Curated by Imogen Dixon-Smith and Rachel Arndt. Artists: JORDAN AZCUNE | TYZA HART

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Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three decades of APT

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Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT is an exhibition from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). This exhibition shares highlights from the long-running Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) series and features art commissioned or collected from APT1 (1993) to APT10 (2021-22). Including works by: Heri Dono (Indonesia) Lee Wen

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Art + Yoga

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Take a moment for yourself at this yoga session and be surrounded by art. Led by Yasuyo Anne Uehara (Holistic counsellor, life-long meditator, and mindfulness yoga teacher), you’ll be instructed through yoga poses, with a focus on breath and mindfulness practices. Enjoy the benefits of attending this morning yoga session: Practice yoga postures as mindfulness

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The Visual Field

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Curious about a career in the arts after school or wanting to immerse yourself in the world of contemporary art? The Visual Field is a professional development program for young and emerging creatives (15-18yrs), delivered by Flying Arts Alliance and the Institute of Modern Art.  Meet artists and arts industry professionals to explore career pathways and connect with

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Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award

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The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023 is open to original works made on, or principally with, paper. Mediums may include but are not limited to drawing, painting, watercolour, collage, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and video. Awards include the $15,000 major award, the $5,000 Young and Early Career Artist Award, the $5,000 Friends of Hazelhurst Local

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Fiona Omeenyo: Double Trouble

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Although Fiona Omeenyo is based in Cairns, since 2016 she has completed commissioned and collaborative works with FireWorks Gallery at their Brisbane studio. This has resulted in large scale experimental paintings, and the development of her imagery into three-dimensional forms in a variety of materials and scale. This includes acrylic table sculptures, aluminium and bronze outdoor

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Innovate Grants

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Innovate Grant awards $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, honorable mentions (3 in art and 3 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners

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Citizens’ Armory: Decorative Life Drawing

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Life drawing with collage for The Ascended Connect with Chantal Fraser’s The Ascended by making your own artwork inspired by the artist’s protective uniforms, masks and shields. In a life drawing style workshop facilitated by Rachel Monique Walker participants will make their own mixed-media collages with inspiration from Fraser’s Citizens’ Armory. Riot shields, welding masks

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Simone Hine: Assets

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Assets brings together new artworks by Simone Hine that playfully engage with the condition of contemporary visual culture, through the lens of art history, to create a dialectic between liquidity and capital, liquidity and data, and liquidity in the natural and material world. A television leaning against a rock is overtaken by live plants, glitter

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Mosman Art Prize

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Entries are now open for the 2023 Mosman Art Prize. The annual exhibition will take place 23 September – 29 October. The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since

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