Performances - You Are Here Too: Tay Haggarty and Ari Angkasa
The Institute of Modern Art’s exhibition You Are Here Too is activated with an evening of performance. Tay Haggarty is a Magandjin (Brisbane) based artist making at the intersections of performance, video, and sculpture. Their practice is interested in queer abstraction and explores how reductive forms can be used as an open field to reflect…
Artist Talk: Melissa Stannard
Join us at the Queensland State Archives for a special artist talk with Melissa Stannard, the artist behind the exhibition Winagaylay Ngiyani Ganunga: We Will Remember Them. A proud Yuwaalaraay, Gamillaraay and Koama woman, Melissa draws upon family histories, oral testimony, and archival research to honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
A Narrow Strip Along a Steep Edge
A Narrow Strip Along a Steep Edge is a site-responsive contemporary art exhibition set within the historic grounds of Fort Lytton. Engaging with the fort’s unique legacy as an untested military defense structure, the exhibition explores broader themes of protection, exclusion, and transformation. Through installations, sculpture, and performance, participating artists…
Horizon 2025
Welcome to Horizon 2025. As always, our program invites you to explore the whole region — from a country pub in Mapleton, to Stumers Creek in Coolum, the urban streets of Maroochydore and Nambour to the stunning coastline of Alexandra Headland. Horizon 2025 is grounded in the proposition of radical hope urging…
Artist Talk: Patricia Piccinini
For over 25 years Patricia Piccinini has interrogated the complex relationship between our natural and artificial worlds, beginning each creative project with the posing of a speculative question, a wondrous ‘What if…?’ Known internationally for her astonishing hyperrealism, Piccinini’s practice comprises drawing, photography, video, mixed-media painted compositions, large-scale installation, and…
Transfer
Transfer focuses on contemporary visual artists with connections to Southeast Asia who explore textiles as a medium. Spanning embroidery, stitching, sculptural installations, film, wall-based works, performance and participatory pieces, the exhibition showcases a proliferation of textiles and fibre art practices that aim to reinterpret cultural heritage through a contemporary lens at…
Charlie Donalson: Cubomancy
Images that exist on the internet are many times removed from their original context. At the click of a button or tap of a finger, we can utilise search engines to engage with a flourishing cross-pollination of images from every conceivable moment of history and culture. Cubomancy is an exhibition that…
Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2025
2025 marks the five-year anniversary of the Lethbridge Landscape Prize, and to celebrate, we are excited to increase the prize money to $30,000. This award invites all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape—from the conventional to the unusual, and from the monumental to the intricate. The definition of ‘landscape’ has…
Margaret Olley
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.…
Jonathan McBurnie: Omnishambles
The Condensery The exhibition presents drawing as a visual response to rapid technological advancement. We are moving quickly toward a world where corporations are given license to cannibalise artistic works of all kinds in service of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software, with no expectation of recompense, but rather, the expectation to…
Charlie Hillhouse: A Simple Lens
Charlie Hillhouse is an Australian-based artist working across film, photography and printed media. His practice employs non-traditional documentation to explore the everyday, often highlighting intimate moments of resistance to daily life. Hillhouse also established Romantic Press (Tokyo, 2014) and Small House Books (Brisbane, 2010), producing limited edition publications and print-driven…
Works on Paper
Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley proudly presents ‘Works on Paper,’ a captivating group exhibition showcasing Aboriginal and Contemporary artworks, all unified by paper as their primary medium. The exhibition brings together an exceptional group of artists who push the boundaries of traditional paper-based art, incorporating mixed media, texture,…
Dean Ansell: The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia
The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia is an immersive exhibition that explores Melanesian heritage, environmental processes, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through the lens of both ancestral and diasporic experiences. Weaving together familial storytelling, fieldwork, and cultural practices from Papua Niugini, the project interprets local mythologies surrounding the caves and boulders deep…
Dennis Golding: POWER - The Future is Here
POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School. The superhero capes were created during a workshop in 2020, led by Golding who was an artist in residence at the school through…
Paula Payne: Shifting Sands of Land and Memory
Shifting Sands of Land and Memory features a new series of acrylic paintings by Magan-djin/Brisbane-based artist Paula Payne. Drawing inspiration from recent time spent as Artist in Residence at the Broken Hill Art Exchange—located on Wilyakali Country in far-west New South Wales—this new series captures the emotive resonance of the…
Jacqueline Larcombe: Postcards from Athens
Postcards from Athens is a series of bold and energetic monotype prints inspired by the artist’s recent travels to Greece. Having been selected as finalist in the 2025 Australian Monoprint Prize, Jacqueline has recently been recognised for her talents in this medium. Connecting with her Greek heritage, the artist followed her interest…
The Shape of Time
The Shape of Time combines two compelling exhibitions from Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary craft and design practitioners. Together, these exhibitions offer a unique glimpse into the diverse and vibrant artistic making practices from across Queensland’s vast far north regions. MAIN GALLERY Explore how time is shaped by the…
Miranda Skoczek: Paradise Garden
Miranda Skoczek’s newest body of work, Paradise Garden, is imbued with moments of peace, joy, and life in bloom. This exhibition reflects her deep contemplation on our connection to nature, with electric pinks layered against muted purples and greens — an evolution of her previous palettes. Abstract flowers and organic…
Spencer Harvie: RAT BOY
RAT BOY is an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Harvie, created over the past year. Drawing from a collection of found online images—ranging from the absurd to the abject, the paranormal to the art historical—Harvie reconfigures these sources, incorporating his own likeness, imagined characters, and surreal constructs. Harvie paints…
Alethea Richter: Pulse Systems
In response to our post-digital world, Alethea Richter’s Pulse Systems extends her engagement with digital fluidity and fixed structures through screenprinting. By translating digital marks alongside hand-generated marks, Richter explores the ephemeral qualities of screens—fluctuating luminosity, transient colours, and movement to create a dynamic works of expansion and contraction, that resists static…
David Fenoglio: Breathe
‘Breathe’ is David Fenoglio’s second exhibition with Jan Manton Gallery. His previous exhibition, “Squaring the Circle” in 2023, spoke of elements, minerals, and transmutation through processes of observation. This new series of oil paintings includes plants and natural forms arranged into serene compositions painted from life. Transferred into these paintings…
Jacques van der Merwe: The morphology of transience
We are delighted to announce Jacques’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Logan Art Gallery, showcasing the culmination of his four-year research conducted at the Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University. As a Doctor of Visual Arts candidate (DVA), Jacques has dedicated his studies to exploring the visual…
Wildflowering by Design
Wildflowering by Design is an exhibition that explores contemporary responses to our botanical and wildflower heritage, presenting works by Queensland artists from various art and design fields. Many women, both well-known and unsung, have highlighted the significance, functionality and beauty of Australian wildflowers. These include Traditional Custodians, illustrators who have documented…
Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)
Please join us for the opening celebration of ‘Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)’ Open times: 6:00-8:00pm Film screening and Q&A from 6:30pm Image: Alana Hunt, Surveilling a Crime Scene, 2023 image still (detail), Super 8mm film transferred to digital file: 21:58 minutes, colour, sound, 4:3. Courtesy of the…
Danish Quapoor: Tightly Wound
‘tightly wound’ features textile works from Danish Quapoor’s recent good grief series, recontextualising them amongst related works. The title references both the laborious process of creating the works and the related personal memories, anxieties and catalytic concepts explored within. These include grief, memorialisation, prophesies, expectations, gender roles and sexuality. The…
You Are Here Too
You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, which made history as Australia’s first exhibition featuring exclusively gay artists during…
Rosslynd Piggott: In ether
This April in galleries 1 and 2, we are presenting In ether, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and objects by Rosslynd Piggott. In the words of the artist, this latest body of work explores themes of ‘grief, terror, and hope, the present fractured nature of the world, but also its…
Reece George: Martu Faces ~ Stories of Shadow & Light
Wentworth Galleries is proud to present the evocative work of Reece George, whose art practice brings Martu cultural narratives to life through a masterful fusion of tradition and contemporary technique. His work celebrates connection and identity, with a profound sense of place, offering a unique perspective on Martu culture. Reece’s…
Pamela Wardell: Still
ArtSpace Teneriffe is pleased to present Pamela Wardell’s latest exhibition, Still, a collection of still-life paintings. Image: Egg shell blue (jug, 4 bottles, 1 bowl) 2023, oil on marine ply, 32.5 x 32.5 cm
A.J. Taylor: On Surface
A.J. Taylor’s latest body of work, On Surface, continues his exploration of the Queensland landscape. His paintings capture scenes from locations close to his home in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, such as Stony Creek and Mooloolah River National Park, as well as more distant sites, including Carnarvon Gorge, Lamington National…
Topographia: harmonies of place
In richly layered prints, Jo Lankester evokes the texture of Queensland’s north. A recent move onto the foreshore of Townsville’s North Ward, an established beachside suburb which overlooks the sea toward Magnetic Island, has ushered birds into the foreground of her imagery, along with the trees, undergrowth and lichens that…
Riley P: New Paintings
Recently completed paintings by Riley P completed during the time period of 2024 to 2025. Image: Doughnuts on a Rainy Night, Medium: Acrylic on board, 50cm by 40cm
Enduring Proof: 30 Years of Contemporary Printmaking in Focus
Printmaking is often thought of as a process of multiplication, yet within each edition lies something singular—a mark of artistic exploration, a moment of innovation, a lasting impression. Enduring Proof brings together a selection of printmaking works on paper created over the past 30 years, revisiting the ways artists have engaged…
Ingrid Burkett: Feathers and Fingerprints
One porcelain pinch-pot. One bird painting. Every day, for a year. In 2024, I embarked on a daily practice—part deep dive into artistic process, part meditation, part activism—that led to a flock of 365 Australian birds. I chose a simple yet profound form: the humble pinch-pot, an ancient ceramic practice…
James Drinkwater: Kick hard off the ocean floor
How many summers do we get? how many cats eyes will pierce our feet,? How many freckles will I have? how many wild yellow flowers will sweep and carpet the salt kissed grassy hills? The southerly winds will come regardless, rattling across the sea to cool and settle our worried…
Precious
Museum of Brisbane’s major new exhibition, Precious, brings together over 3,000 extraordinary objects from 30 remarkable collections and collectors. For the first time, these treasured items—often hidden away in suburban homes and institutions—are on public display, offering a rare glimpse into Brisbane’s diverse collecting culture. From Queensland Rugby League memorabilia…
Performances - You Are Here Too: Tay Haggarty and Ari Angkasa
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Institute of Modern Art
The Institute of Modern Art’s exhibition You Are Here Too is activated with an evening of performance. Tay Haggarty is a Magandjin (Brisbane) based artist making at the intersections of performance, video, and sculpture. Their practice is interested in queer…
Artist Talk: Melissa Stannard
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Queensland State Archives
Join us at the Queensland State Archives for a special artist talk with Melissa Stannard, the artist behind the exhibition Winagaylay Ngiyani Ganunga: We Will Remember Them. A proud Yuwaalaraay, Gamillaraay and Koama woman, Melissa…
A Narrow Strip Along a Steep Edge
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Fort Lytton
A Narrow Strip Along a Steep Edge is a site-responsive contemporary art exhibition set within the historic grounds of Fort Lytton. Engaging with the fort’s unique legacy as an untested military defense structure, the exhibition…
Horizon 2025
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Various Locations
Welcome to Horizon 2025. As always, our program invites you to explore the whole region — from a country pub in Mapleton, to Stumers Creek in Coolum, the urban streets of Maroochydore and Nambour to…
Artist Talk: Patricia Piccinini
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UniSC Sunshine Coast
For over 25 years Patricia Piccinini has interrogated the complex relationship between our natural and artificial worlds, beginning each creative project with the posing of a speculative question, a wondrous ‘What if…?’ Known internationally for…
Transfer
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UniSC Art Gallery
Transfer focuses on contemporary visual artists with connections to Southeast Asia who explore textiles as a medium. Spanning embroidery, stitching, sculptural installations, film, wall-based works, performance and participatory pieces, the exhibition showcases a proliferation of textiles…
Charlie Donalson: Cubomancy
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The Condensery
Images that exist on the internet are many times removed from their original context. At the click of a button or tap of a finger, we can utilise search engines to engage with a flourishing…
Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2025
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Lethbridge Gallery
2025 marks the five-year anniversary of the Lethbridge Landscape Prize, and to celebrate, we are excited to increase the prize money to $30,000. This award invites all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape—from the conventional…
Margaret Olley
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Philip Bacon Galleries
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…
Jonathan McBurnie: Omnishambles
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The Condensery
The Condensery The exhibition presents drawing as a visual response to rapid technological advancement. We are moving quickly toward a world where corporations are given license to cannibalise artistic works of all kinds in service…
Charlie Hillhouse: A Simple Lens
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Wreckers Artspace
Charlie Hillhouse is an Australian-based artist working across film, photography and printed media. His practice employs non-traditional documentation to explore the everyday, often highlighting intimate moments of resistance to daily life. Hillhouse also established Romantic…
Works on Paper
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Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley proudly presents ‘Works on Paper,’ a captivating group exhibition showcasing Aboriginal and Contemporary artworks, all unified by paper as their primary medium. The exhibition brings together an exceptional…
Dean Ansell: The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia
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Outer Space
The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia is an immersive exhibition that explores Melanesian heritage, environmental processes, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through the lens of both ancestral and diasporic experiences. Weaving together familial storytelling, fieldwork, and cultural…
Dennis Golding: POWER - The Future is Here
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20250517
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School. The superhero capes were created during a workshop…
Paula Payne: Shifting Sands of Land and Memory
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Onespace Gallery
Shifting Sands of Land and Memory features a new series of acrylic paintings by Magan-djin/Brisbane-based artist Paula Payne. Drawing inspiration from recent time spent as Artist in Residence at the Broken Hill Art Exchange—located on…
Jacqueline Larcombe: Postcards from Athens
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Aster + Asha Gallery (Online)
Postcards from Athens is a series of bold and energetic monotype prints inspired by the artist’s recent travels to Greece. Having been selected as finalist in the 2025 Australian Monoprint Prize, Jacqueline has recently been recognised for…
The Shape of Time
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Artisan
The Shape of Time combines two compelling exhibitions from Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary craft and design practitioners. Together, these exhibitions offer a unique glimpse into the diverse and vibrant artistic making practices from…
Miranda Skoczek: Paradise Garden
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
Miranda Skoczek’s newest body of work, Paradise Garden, is imbued with moments of peace, joy, and life in bloom. This exhibition reflects her deep contemplation on our connection to nature, with electric pinks layered against…
Spencer Harvie: RAT BOY
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Carpark Gallery
RAT BOY is an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Harvie, created over the past year. Drawing from a collection of found online images—ranging from the absurd to the abject, the paranormal to the art…
Alethea Richter: Pulse Systems
20250411
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PARKER Contemporary
In response to our post-digital world, Alethea Richter’s Pulse Systems extends her engagement with digital fluidity and fixed structures through screenprinting. By translating digital marks alongside hand-generated marks, Richter explores the ephemeral qualities of screens—fluctuating luminosity, transient…
David Fenoglio: Breathe
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Jan Manton Gallery
‘Breathe’ is David Fenoglio’s second exhibition with Jan Manton Gallery. His previous exhibition, “Squaring the Circle” in 2023, spoke of elements, minerals, and transmutation through processes of observation. This new series of oil paintings includes…
Jacques van der Merwe: The morphology of transience
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20250517
Logan Art Gallery
We are delighted to announce Jacques’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Logan Art Gallery, showcasing the culmination of his four-year research conducted at the Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University. As a…
Wildflowering by Design
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Redland Art Gallery
Wildflowering by Design is an exhibition that explores contemporary responses to our botanical and wildflower heritage, presenting works by Queensland artists from various art and design fields. Many women, both well-known and unsung, have highlighted the…
Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)
20250416
Griffith University Art Museum
Please join us for the opening celebration of ‘Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)’ Open times: 6:00-8:00pm Film screening and Q&A from 6:30pm Image: Alana Hunt, Surveilling a Crime Scene, 2023 image still (detail),…
Danish Quapoor: Tightly Wound
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Metro Arts
‘tightly wound’ features textile works from Danish Quapoor’s recent good grief series, recontextualising them amongst related works. The title references both the laborious process of creating the works and the related personal memories, anxieties and…
You Are Here Too
20250412
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Institute of Modern Art
You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute…
Rosslynd Piggott: In ether
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20250426
Milani Gallery
This April in galleries 1 and 2, we are presenting In ether, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and objects by Rosslynd Piggott. In the words of the artist, this latest body of work explores themes…
Reece George: Martu Faces ~ Stories of Shadow & Light
20250412
20250420
Wentworth Galleries
Wentworth Galleries is proud to present the evocative work of Reece George, whose art practice brings Martu cultural narratives to life through a masterful fusion of tradition and contemporary technique. His work celebrates connection and…
Pamela Wardell: Still
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ArtSpace Teneriffe
ArtSpace Teneriffe is pleased to present Pamela Wardell’s latest exhibition, Still, a collection of still-life paintings. Image: Egg shell blue (jug, 4 bottles, 1 bowl) 2023, oil on marine ply, 32.5 x 32.5 cm
A.J. Taylor: On Surface
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20250510
Jan Murphy Gallery
A.J. Taylor’s latest body of work, On Surface, continues his exploration of the Queensland landscape. His paintings capture scenes from locations close to his home in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, such as Stony Creek and…
Topographia: harmonies of place
20250411
20250510
Onespace Gallery
In richly layered prints, Jo Lankester evokes the texture of Queensland’s north. A recent move onto the foreshore of Townsville’s North Ward, an established beachside suburb which overlooks the sea toward Magnetic Island, has ushered…
Riley P: New Paintings
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Lethbridge Gallery
Recently completed paintings by Riley P completed during the time period of 2024 to 2025. Image: Doughnuts on a Rainy Night, Medium: Acrylic on board, 50cm by 40cm
Enduring Proof: 30 Years of Contemporary Printmaking in Focus
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PARKER Contemporary
Printmaking is often thought of as a process of multiplication, yet within each edition lies something singular—a mark of artistic exploration, a moment of innovation, a lasting impression. Enduring Proof brings together a selection of printmaking…
Ingrid Burkett: Feathers and Fingerprints
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20250405
Side Gallery
One porcelain pinch-pot. One bird painting. Every day, for a year. In 2024, I embarked on a daily practice—part deep dive into artistic process, part meditation, part activism—that led to a flock of 365 Australian…
James Drinkwater: Kick hard off the ocean floor
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20250408
Edwina Corlette Gallery
How many summers do we get? how many cats eyes will pierce our feet,? How many freckles will I have? how many wild yellow flowers will sweep and carpet the salt kissed grassy hills? The…
Precious
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Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane’s major new exhibition, Precious, brings together over 3,000 extraordinary objects from 30 remarkable collections and collectors. For the first time, these treasured items—often hidden away in suburban homes and institutions—are on public…