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Sibling Rivalry

Sibling Rivalry brings together the contrasting yet connected practices of siblings Stephen Stockwell and Lisa-Jane Stockwell in a shared exhibition exploring creativity, memory, experimentation and personal expression. Lisa-Jane Stockwell presents vibrant landscape and observational paintings inspired by places across Australia, from Minjerribah and Tallebudgera Creek to Kangaroo Island and the Border Ranges. Her works reflect […]

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Call for Proposals 2026: Waiheke Art Gallery

Waiheke Art Gallery (WAG) invites proposals from emerging and established artists, groups, and collectives for its 2026/2027 exhibition programme. Located on Waiheke Island, the gallery presents a dynamic mix of local and international practices, with a focus on connecting people to the essence of Waiheke through contemporary art. Successful applicants will be considered for exhibitions

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Horizon Festival 2026

Horizon Festival returns in 2026 to celebrate ten years of creativity across the Sunshine Coast, presenting a bold 10-day program of more than 35 events across Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country. The milestone program spans visual art, performance, music, workshops and public experiences staged across diverse locations — from shoreline performances and hinterland settings to

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Artist Talk: Stelarc

The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) presents an Artist Talk with Australian performance artist Stelarc in collaboration with World Science Festival Brisbane 2026. For over fifty years, Stelarc has tested the limits of the human body, positioning art at the intersection of science, technology and performance. His pioneering practice incorporates prosthetics, robotics, medical imaging and

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Prita Tina Yeganeh: My Soil Farsh فرش: Iteration 3 (Place, as Guest)

My Soil Farsh is an ongoing, participatory project by artist Prita Tina Yeganeh exploring place, diaspora, and community-building. Grounded in the Iranian concept of Farsh (Persian carpet) as both a physical and symbolic site of gathering, this third iteration reimagines the tradition as an evolving ecological artwork that fosters connection and togetherness. For the first

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Yield: Cultivating Identity Through Art

Yield is a contemporary unearthing of Australia’s cultivated identity, delving into the deep impacts of agricultural history on the landscapes, cultures, and communities of today. Featuring works from local, national, and internationally recognised artists, the exhibition traces the legacies of early agricultural practices—beginning with the pioneering work of local figure Dr Joseph Bancroft, a leader

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Fiona Omeenyo: Night & Day

Night & Day is a solo exhibition of new works by Cairns-based Umpila artist Fiona Omeenyo, presenting refined figurative paintings alongside sculptural works developed during workshops in Brisbane in 2025 and 2026. Known for her graphic confidence and minimal colour palettes, Omeenyo’s paintings depict family, ancestral spirits, and memories of country and culture in Lockhart

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Kuwarritja Irriitinguru: A Way Before and a Way Now

Kuwarritja Irriitinguru: A Way Before and a Way Now brings together works by Candy Nelson Nakamarra and Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, exploring cultural continuity, ancestral knowledge, and the enduring relationship between Country and contemporary painting. Through distinct yet deeply connected practices, both artists draw on inherited Tjukurrpa (Dreaming), mapping water sites, landforms, and seasonal change through

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Marina Strocchi: Water and Stone

Jan Murphy Gallery presents Water and Stone, Marina Strocchi’s 10th solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition brings together large-scale paintings developed following the artist’s return to Italy in 2025, reconnecting with her family’s history in Emilia–Romagna. While in the village of Granarolo Faentino, Strocchi was invited to create a mural centred on the local

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Inspired: A Mind’s Eye

Inspired: A Mind’s Eye is a group exhibition bringing together emerging artists exploring the relationships between nature, identity, culture, and place. Through diverse visual approaches, the artists reflect on personal and collective experiences, inviting viewers to see the world anew through creativity and imagination. The exhibition presents works that weave a rich tapestry of visual

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Mono 57: Merzbow

Mono 57 presents a live performance by Merzbow, widely regarded as a foundational figure in noise music. With a practice spanning nearly five decades, Merzbow’s concerts are immersive, full-spectrum sonic events—dense, visceral, and physically affecting. Merzbow is joined by Lawrence English, whose work explores the edges of harmonic ambience and low-energy sound pressure, creating charged,

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Gestures of Atmosphere

Gestures of Atmosphere brings together works by Skye Jamieson, Eduard Niznik, and Nataly Lee, exploring painting as a record of movement, sensation, and place. Across varied palettes and surfaces, each artist uses gesture as a way of shaping atmosphere—through layered marks, shifts in colour, and the tension between control and chance. Rather than depicting specific

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The Brothers Gruchy

The Brothers Gruchy presents nine key artworks by acclaimed digital artists Tim and Mic Gruchy, exploring intersections between technological innovation and biological forms, human perception, artificial intelligence, and synaesthesia. Raised in Bundaberg, brothers Tim and Mic Gruchy have worked both individually and collaboratively since the mid-1980s. This exhibition brings together key works from their shared

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Panel Discussion: Are the Arts for Everyone?

Are the Arts for Everyone? brings together arts leaders to question assumptions around access, audiences, and cultural democracy. As institutions balance artistic integrity with funding pressures and public expectations, this panel explores whether broadening audiences always benefits art—and whether artists want to speak to everyone. The discussion considers the tensions between idealism and pragmatism, asking

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Kirralee Robinson: Hot Source

Hot Source presents a speculative relationship between Outer Space and the sun, imagined as a flirtatious, reciprocal, and ongoing (if seasonal) crush. Through installation and text, Kirralee Robinson responds to the gallery’s materiality and architecture, proposing how this relationship might feel, unfold, and linger. Robinson’s sculptural practice engages light, optics, and tactility, drawing influence from

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Essay Club No.1: Madeline Brewer on The Collaborative Turn

The Institute of Modern Art launches its new Essay Club series with a discussion led by Madeline Brewer exploring ideas around collaboration, participation and community in contemporary art practice. Blending a reading group, salon and informal networking event, Essay Club invites artists, students, arts workers and anyone interested in critical conversations about culture to gather

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Counter Gaze: Tamana Alizada, Razia Ghazal, Alia Qasimzada

Counter Gaze is a curated exhibition by Sha Sarwari featuring works by Afghan-Australian artists Tamana Alizada, Razia Ghazal and Alia Qasimzada. Presented in response to Andrew Quilty’s Afghanistan photography exhibition, Counter Gaze offers a personal and reflective counter-narrative shaped by lived experience, memory and cultural resilience. Through painting, installation and mixed media works, the artists

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Betty Muffler: Kalaya Tjina Tjuta – Emu Tracks

Kalaya Tjina Tjuta – Emu Tracks presents new paintings by acclaimed senior Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara artist Betty Muffler. Betty Muffler is a respected Ngangkari (traditional healer) whose paintings reflect her deep spiritual and cultural connection to Country. Born near Watarru on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, her work is shaped by personal and cultural histories

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Sightlines

Andrew K and Martina Latimer present Sightlines, their second group exhibition at The Nest Creative Space in West End. In Sightlines, perspective becomes both method and inquiry — an ethical act of looking that invites understanding and questioning. Andrew’s paintings resist descriptive detail in favour of an expanded field of vision, revealing broader conditions of

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Imogen Corbett: THE WAITING ROOM

Cassandra Lehman presents THE WAITING ROOM, a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Imogen Corbett. Corbett’s intricate and highly realistic oil paintings examine the shifting social implications of space in a world increasingly shaped by digital technologies. Her work explores the tension between digital and physical realms, where online, two-dimensional environments begin to rival lived, material

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AMPLIFY

AMPLIFY at Side Gallery presents the original artworks featured in AMPLIFY ME!, Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery exhibition celebrating local artists with lived experience of disability. This exhibition offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the detail, materiality and creative processes behind the large-scale public artworks currently installed throughout Brisbane’s city streets. By bringing these

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Gasworks Arts Park: 2026 Exhibition Program

Gasworks Arts Park invites applications for its 2026 Exhibition Program, open to artists across Australia, including Brisbane-based practitioners. This opportunity includes two gallery spaces: the Angela Robarts-Bird (ARB) Gallery, a white box exhibition space, and the James McCaughey Foyer Gallery, a high-traffic, multi-use space ideal for group exhibitions. Gasworks welcomes multidisciplinary proposals from emerging to

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Joachim Froese: Alchemy

‘The painter is a medium who doesn’t realise what he is doing.No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy’ said Marcel Duchamp¹. Jazz pianists, writers of fiction, photographers, printmakers, ceramicists — and no-doubt Joachim Froese — would

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Deep Marks (Paper)

Deep Marks (Paper) brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists exploring the limitless possibilities of paper as both medium and message. Spanning drawing, printmaking and expanded material approaches, the exhibition considers paper not simply as surface, but as substance — a site of mark-making, layering, fragility and transformation. Through varied practices, the artists demonstrate

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New Light

New Light presents a dynamic collection of new work from established and emerging artists, ushering in the year with energy, optimism and renewed perspective. Spanning painting, photography, works on paper and mixed media, the exhibition offers a preview of what’s to come across the 2026 program. Bringing together artists audiences know and admire, alongside new

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