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 street-based events in Maroochydore. Horizon Festival explores connections between people and place, bringing together local and national artists in a program designed to transform everyday spaces into sites of creative encounter. The festival includes First Nations-led gatherings, immersive experiences and new works developed in response to the Sunshine Coast’s unique landscapes and communities. Presented by Sunshine Coast Council, Horizon Festival has become a key cultural event in the region, supporting artists while inviting audiences to experience art in unexpected places. Full program and tickets available online.
Four Walls
Working closely on common themes to intertwine their visual poetry, Mulder and van Vuuren explore the incapturable essence of memory and experience through a connection to objects, images and the passing of time. There is…
Subject Line
5:49PM. The sun disappears below the horizon of the Gold Coast Highway and the neon signs flicker to life. The textual message is saturated with light. At a glance, we fail to see text, only…
Michelle Eskola - Räjäyttää
If one task of representation is to show us how the world looks, abstraction is free to do something else, and reflecting our sense of the world, rather than what’s otherwise visible to the naked eye – whether…
A Little Car Crazy
Despite a proud history, the place of the motorcar in Australia may well be at a turning point. In the current frenetic era of innovative technology and inbuilt obsolescence, many of the items we only…
Warren Palmer: Now and Then
I’ve watched Warren Palmer’s work since the 1970s. He is an artist who exemplifies that feeling we get that something is happening in our own backyard comparable in concept, style and quality to the latest…
Dog Show (wow. much wiki. so amaze.)
Dogs. Why a show on dogs? What kind of cues does a show centred around dogs send out? Too much potential for cuteness, the vernacular, the sentimental. Too much probability of strained humour – of…
Piet Noest: Chrome
Last year, when Piet Noest began a series of paintings in response to Kent Farbach’s compositions Chrome (1995) and Chrome II(2014), his goal was to visually express the dynamics of sound through line, form and colour. He…
2970Degrees – The Boiling Point
2970Degrees – The Boiling Point: Friday Now that the 2.5 days of explosive thought and action that was 2970Degrees – The Boiling Point has ended, I can breathe and process my thoughts into somewhat of…
The Conception Of Abstraction In Audio/Visual Installation: Appropriation, site specificity and reflexivity in the work of Jake Sun
There is no question that the contemporary subject navigates the world via mass-media and televisual representation. As Amelia Jones surmised, those born post-1960 are ‘conditioned on the deepest level by what we might call…
Base Perceptions
‘To learn how to use forms … is above all to know how to make them one’s own, to inhabit them’ -Nicolas Bourriaud, 2002 “Select Reshape” examines the tension between technologically created images and…
PISSWRECK DESTINY
My Kind of Soldier Australia’s “Rum Rebellion” had almost nothing to do with rum. On the 26th of January 1808, exactly twenty years after the foundation of the Colony, Australia had its first and only…
Low Blow: The Myth of Man in the Paintings of Yannick Blattner
What is it that makes someone a fair dinkum, true blue, Aussie bloke? In Larrikins: A History, Brisbane based historian Melissa Bellanta posits that an understanding of larrikinism ‘unlocks the secret to Australian national Identity’.¹…
Facts, Fictions and Fabrications: The Work of Svenja Kratz
Between the 1840s and the 1860s, a rather curious artifact circulated sideshows and carnivals. The Fiji Mermaid, as it was titled, comprised of the mummified head and torso of a monkey, attached to the…
COLD SHOULDERED
In a city weeks after the snow filthy chunks of ice remain in the streets, in gutters and on freeway verges. Cars that have been parked for a number of months drive away leaving holes…
PRESENCE/ABSENCE: the artist’s body in work
Since the twentieth century the tradition of self-portraiture has been re-evaluated, making way for a new physical and psychographic assessment of the artist’s body in art1As a consequence, artists have increasingly employed their own…
Megan Cope: Twice Removed
Recently on a train I overheard some teenagers mocking the name of a station. “What a dumb word – what does Kuraby even mean?” I knew what it meant. ‘Place of many springs’, a Bundjalung…
OUR MEMORIES ARE NOT OUR OWN
NIGHTFALL RECOLLECTIONS An exhibition by Pirrin Francis “He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function had been to leave behind nothing but memories. He wrote: I’ve been…
FINDING THE LENGTH OF A PIECE OF STRING
How long is the coast of Britain? This question formed the basis of a research paper by mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot, published in Science magazine in 1967. What seems like a straightforward question with a finite answer is…
Alasdair Macintyre: The Long Martch
The stormtroopers, in the epic Star Wars films, were a collective of military personnel. They carried out Imperialist duties, prescribed by the evil Lord Vader, with cool efficiency. This is an interesting choice of imagery,…
Fiona Foley: Courage
Fiona Foley has had significant success. Ever since her beginnings with Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Ko-operative in Sydney in the early 1980s, her stature has increased – as an Australian artist with national and international standing.…
Camille Serisier’s ‘Ovid’s Medusa'.
‘In the performative spectacle everybody is a potential performer, from movie stars to next-door neighbours’ – Sven Lutticken, 2009 Borrowing classic tales and characters from Greek mythology, Serisier’s Ovid’s Medusa, a one-night event at InHouse…
Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties
An exhibition of work by contemporary Australian artist, Danie Mellor, is on display at the University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia Campus, from 18 January to 27 April 2014. The exhibition includes works on…
Fred Williams: Painter, Printmaker
As a painter, Fred Williams (1927-82) is renowned for his innovative use of aerial perspective and abstract forms to represent the Australian landscape. Trained in Melbourne and England, Williams began his career as a figurative…
Transplantation
The word Transplantation by definition means “something or someone moved to a new place”, and the exploration of this notion is something deeply personal. With our ever increasing methods of travel and international interaction via…
'Dark Matter' at the Hold Art Space
The Universe is made up of 90 percent dark matter – the only way we know it is there is from it’s gravitational pull. The exhibition Dark Matter a collaboration between Ali Bezer and Mitchell…
Reflections of the glitch
If you have ever experienced that moment of despair after forgetting your next point of conversation then you will easily understand the concept of Glitch art. Imagine the expression on your face as you tried…
Queensland Design, 'High Tide'
High Tide; Queensland Now Project presents the crème de la crème of design from Queensland past and present at Artisan Gallery. The collection is a direct reflection of a new book by Jason Bird, a…
Stephen Hart: Fellow Humans
Fellow Humans, Stephen Hart’s latest exhibition at Museum of Brisbane is a riveting collection of 20 sculpted timber humans. Some of the people chosen to be represented in sculptural form are close to the artist,…
An exhibition of paintings by Ben Quilty
An exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed contemporary Australian artist, Ben Quilty, is currently on display at Jan Murphy Gallery, Fortitude Valley. As viewers approach the gallery space they are first accosted by the dark…
Archer Davies, “Altogether Elsewhere”
Archer Davies’ exhibition Altogether Elsewhere at the Hold Artspace in West End featured a showcase of Davies’ works spanning from 2012 and 2013. These new works were created both locally in Davies’ Brisbane studio,…
Remix. Post. Connect
This year marked the fourth incantation of the UQ Art Museum’s ‘National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize,’ inviting artists to explore modes of self-expression and to reflect on the individual in society. Self portraiture has undergone many changes over…
Queensland Small Towns: Photo-documentary Project
Often forgotten Queenslanders – both people and places – brought into focus last month, with the exhibition of more than 100 photographs, stories and video portraits at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The Queensland Small Towns:…
Simon Starling In Speculum
The Simon Starling exhibition showing at the Institute of Modern Art from October 5th to November 30th 2013 presents a series of visual puzzles using an extensive array of materials. From sculpture and installation to…
Vernon Ah Kee: Invasion Paintings at Milani Gallery
An exhibition of new works by Vernon Ah Kee, titled Invasion Paintings, is currently on display at Milani Gallery. Ah Kee is a contemporary Aboriginal artist based in Brisbane and his oeuvre, which…