Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence
Ceramic Arts Queensland (CAQ) is thrilled to unveil the finalists for the prestigious Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence. This highly anticipated exhibition is a premier showcase of contemporary Australian ceramics, highlighting innovation and artistic excellence. Since its inception in 2015, the Siliceous Award has gained national and international recognition, attracting…
15 Artists 2025
15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance City of Moreton Bay’s Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, Council invites 15 artists to take part in the exhibition. The winning artist is awarded $20,000 and their work is acquired into the City of Moreton Bay’s Art Collection. The…
Experiential Artist Talk & Performance: Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant
Join us for an experimental artist talk by Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant that will explore the themes of their exhibition Climate of Violence II: Lamentum through performance, sound and vision. Climate of Violence II: Lamentum is the latest ongoing collaborative series of work by Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant. The exhibition is…
Deborah Eddy: The Venuses
Deborah Eddy is exploring the Venus of Willendorf as a trope for the body type of older women. The original Venus of Willendorf is approximately 25,000 years old. Carved from limestone, she is a round woman standing with her arms resting on her breasts and belly (hence why my Venuses…
Gallery Walk Through: Cara-Ann Simpson
Onespace invites you to an exclusive walk through the gallery with exhibiting artist, Cara-Ann Simpson to explore the beautiful intricacies of Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers). Furari Flores is a multi-sensory project celebrating the wonder and exploration of plants. Filled with botanical magic, this exhibition journeys through deep listening, Earth admiration, and plant love.…
Panel Discussion: Collective and Customary Practice
Please join us for a discussion exploring the modes of collective and customary practices across contemporary art. Reflecting on Yuriyal Bridgeman: yubilong(mi)bilongyu, panellists will discuss concepts of the individual artist and collaborative ways of making and modes of belonging to multiple communities and cultural languages. Panellists: Yuriyal Bridgeman (Artist) Warraba Weatherall…
Robert Andrew: New Eyes - Old Country
This February in Galleries 1, 2, and 3 we are presenting new eyes – old Country by Robert Andrew. Four new works will be exhibited across the galleries including a major new kinetic video installation new eyes – old Country, yawuru which will combine aerial footage of the artist’s ancestral homelands to trace a…
Ultramarine Conversations: Recent Water Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
As part of our multi-year research and programming arc Blue Assembly, please join us to hear from leading voices on current water research in the humanities, arts and social sciences. This event celebrates the launch of two books; Groundwater Politics: An Ethnography of Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance (2025) by Sally Babidge and Critical Approaches…
Rachel North: Anthology of memory
Rachel North is an Ipswich based artist and educator, working across textiles and ceramics. Growing up and living in predominantly rural and regional areas, her connection to landscape is an inherent component of her artwork. This exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of connections between the landscape and memory and how…
Panel Discussion: Brain Rot in the Gallery
The Institute of Modern Art is hosting the first institutional display of the viral YouTube series Skibidi Toilet. The serialised animated narrative has prompted critical discussion about brain rot, algorithms, and digital cultures since becoming a Gen Alpha cultural touchstone in 2024. Visual artist and curator Simone Hine is joined by University of Queensland’s…
Caitlin Franzman: Recompose
recompose 2021 – onwards, is a tarot reading led by artist Caitlin Franzmann. By engaging with a deck of hand drawn divination cards, audiences are invited to attune to the understory of a forest, its leaf litter, humus, microbes, and symbiotic entanglements as analogies for personal and collective guidance. Learning from decay…
Amy-Jean Mitchell: There used to be a ship sailing
An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper, made in Barreiro (Portugal) and Meanjin. There used to be a ship sailing is a collection of compositions embedded with illusive landscapes, memories and imagined scenes.
Undergrowth 2025
Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced at a second-year undergraduate level at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. These artists and works have been nominated for invitation by Academic Staff as exemplary of the QCAD’s…
Ross Woodrow: Order from Ruins
Featuring classical fragments of columns and capitals pulled from large copper-plate etchings, Woodrow references the agency and impact of these long-established and architectural orders not to advocate for a return to rules or codes, but to their scale, coloration, and muscular surface as a material metaphor and comparison to the…
Harry Rothel: Corporeal
In his latest body of work, Rothel continues to explore fleeting moments of human experience. Paradoxically mundane and fantastical, the figures within each painting appear to be trapped within the worlds of Rothel’s creation. The works delve into the artist’s creative subconscious, negotiating the familiar and the surreal, and exploring…
These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature
Artists: Alicia Frankovich, Caitlin Franzmann, Norton Fredericks, John Gerrard, Simryn Gill, Gabriella Hirst, Angelica Mesiti, Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton, Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell), Alexandra Pirici, Susan Schuppli, Yasmin Smith, James Tylor. Curator: Anna Briers Petroleum, chemicals, and bacteria have become agents of history. Humanity, or rather the…
Michael Cook: Individuation
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘Individuation’ the new exhibition by Michael Cook. Michael Cook’s images have, for over ten years, considered Australian history and its intersection with his own biography, tracing the culture of pre-colonial times imbued with the promise of a different future. With Individuation (named for…
Artists to Watch
Artists to Watch introduces four exciting new talents to our gallery. Showcasing landscapes, still lifes, and figurative works, these artists bring distinctive voices and remarkable potential, offering fresh perspectives across diverse styles. Featuring: Nick Offer, Sachi Oizumi, Natasha Ruschka and Andrew Bennett. Image: Figure As Still Life, By Andrew Bennett,…
Judith Wright: Asemic Writing - A Space for Wonder
Judith Wright lives and works in Brisbane. She came to her work as an installation artist with a background in dance having performed with the Australian Ballet. Recipient of a fellowship from Arts Queensland in 1993 and awarded a professional development grant from the Queensland Government in 1998, Judith has taught…
Joe Furlonger: Horizons
One of Australia’s most respected landscape painters, Joe Furlonger came to prominence in the late 1980s with a series of large-scale figurative paintings. Employing a highly physical method, he applied swathes of colour with vigorous sweeps of the brush. With inspiration drawn from Matisse, Picasso, and Ian Fairweather, Furlonger has…
Napurrula
A new exhibition, Napurrula, opens at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley on 18th February, with a special focus on celebrating International Women’s Day. Curated by Director Mike Mitchell, the exhibition brings together a powerful collection of paintings from female artists hailing from remote Central Australian Aboriginal communities. The exhibition…
Essays In Light
Step into a world of monochrome mastery with Essays in Light, an exhibition featuring ten talented photographers from the Fine Monochrome Print Group. Each artist presents a thematic portfolio that explores diverse subjects, from architecture and landscapes to figure studies, portraits, flora, and still life. This exhibition highlights photography as…
Dane Mitchell: The Imponderables
Dane Mitchell’s exhibition ‘The Imponderables’ explores loss, containment, and future-contingent propositions by way of an island that is not, and a place that does not. Continuing Mitchell’s long-standing interest in the evanescent nature of loss, absence, and the porous boundaries between natural and artificial worlds, The Imponderables offers a perspective on our relationship…
SOUND PERFORMANCE: Arriving Slowly
Join Sandra Selig, Ross Manning and Robert Curgenven and experience a sound performance among artwork in the Arriving Slowly exhibition. Manning and Selig’s visual practice is featured in the exhibition, and their work explores parallel ideas. Manning will perform live with custom devices, generating sonic worlds that work with the…
Rachel Burke: Thanks for Nothing
Thanks for Nothing is a body of work born out of a recent personal experience of recurrent pregnancy loss over a 12-month period. Created with over half a million de-stashed and thrifted melty beads, these works capture fragments of conversations, clinical language, and my own reflections. The process of obsessive, repetitive…
Elysha Rei: 静寂 (Seijaku): Serenity
Brisbane Quarter, The City’s most stylish restaurant and retail precinct, marks the Year of the Snake with the striking new 静寂 (Seijaku): Serenity art installation by renowned local artist Elysha Rei on display from 24 January to 8 March 2025. The 静寂 (Seijaku): Serenity installation celebrates the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of…
Climate of Violence: Lamentum
Climate of Violence: Lamentum is the latest exploration in sound and vision by Arianna Nixon & Amy Sargeant. The dust has barely settled. A sacred tether becomes strained and defiled. Screams become whispers in the fog of war & the breath of a coming storm runs down your neck. …
Harvest Biennial: Volatile Terrain
Volatile Terrain is an exhibition that explores the intersections and divergences of geography and geology, with consideration to a world in constant flux. The exhibition provides an opportunity to examine how humanity lives on Earth, as well as interacts, destructs and rehabilitates it. Featuring work by Bonita Ely, Cassandra Hodgins, Dylan…
Kellie O'Dempsey: A Cloud Never Dies
Rooted in the experiential and gestural, this exhibition incorporates Plein-air painting, lusciously pigmented watercolours on paper, punctuated with collage and video projection. Created during a period of profound personal transition, the work attempts to translate the temporal life of clouds, sky, and the permanence of the horizon in its many…
Matthew Hurdle: Should I remember you…
With its rich textures and layers of pulped sackcloth and ash, Hurdle’s papermaking practice invites a tactile engagement, encouraging viewers to connect deeply with the subtle nuances of the surface. Beneath these layers, a compelling narrative unfolds. The artist’s raw honesty in Should I Remember You… presents a quiet challenge,…
Archie Moore: Comic Paintings
In 2005, aged thirty-four, Archie Moore undertook a residency for emerging First Nations artists organised by Campfire Group at FireWorks Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane. He produced seven large, unstretched canvases that turned on his sharing his first name with the famous American comicbook character. The paintings emphasise the difference of his childhood…
Regi Cherini: Such is Life
Regi Cherini, recipient of artisan‘s inaugural Regional Artisan Residency Program, presents Such is Life, a provocative exploration of Australian identity through the lens of “bogan” culture. This exhibition showcases Cherini’s masterful subversion of traditional embroidery techniques, challenging perceptions of class, nationalism, and cultural stereotypes. Drawing from her experiences living in regional…
Platform 2025
This is the second iteration of our annual Queensland new-artists project. It presents three artists. Shannon Toth’s assemblages combine timber, confectionary, and sound in sticky performances that evoke the body. Jarrod van der Ryken is known for his moody video installations, evoking spaces of illicit sexual encounter and discovery, dens and beats. Keemon Williams queers…
Larissa Borteh: Paintings on Paper
Larissa Borteh’s evocative paintings explore the delicate interplay between memory, mark-making, and storytelling. Her works, created on Yupo paper, reveal the layered process of their creation, reflecting the transient and fragile nature of past experiences. Inspired by the movement of her brush and the organic evolution of each piece, Borteh…
Cara-Ann Simpson: Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers)
Launching our 2025 program is a stunning exhibition, titled Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers) by newly represented artist Cara-Ann Simpson. Furari Flores is a rich visual display of the Australian landscape and Cara’s deep personal connection to it. This exhibition is a multi-sensory project celebrating the wonder and exploration of plants.…
Geoart: Mapping Nature, Culture & Climate
Dr Ata Tara, a registered landscape architect and academic, explores the intricate relationships between people, culture, and the land. Utilizing geospatial mapping and design tools, he transforms technical data into compelling visual art, offering fresh perspectives on environmental and cultural connections. His work, influenced by his Iranian heritage, employs vibrant…
Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence
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Brisbane Institute of Art
Ceramic Arts Queensland (CAQ) is thrilled to unveil the finalists for the prestigious Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence. This highly anticipated exhibition is a premier showcase of contemporary Australian ceramics, highlighting innovation and artistic excellence.…
15 Artists 2025
20250301
20250524
Redcliffe Art Gallery
15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance City of Moreton Bay’s Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, Council invites 15 artists to take part in the exhibition. The winning artist is awarded…
Experiential Artist Talk & Performance: Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant
20250306
Outer Space
Join us for an experimental artist talk by Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant that will explore the themes of their exhibition Climate of Violence II: Lamentum through performance, sound and vision. Climate of Violence II: Lamentum is…
Deborah Eddy: The Venuses
20250301
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Hub Gallery
Deborah Eddy is exploring the Venus of Willendorf as a trope for the body type of older women. The original Venus of Willendorf is approximately 25,000 years old. Carved from limestone, she is a round…
Gallery Walk Through: Cara-Ann Simpson
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Onespace Gallery
Onespace invites you to an exclusive walk through the gallery with exhibiting artist, Cara-Ann Simpson to explore the beautiful intricacies of Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers). Furari Flores is a multi-sensory project celebrating the wonder and exploration of plants.…
Panel Discussion: Collective and Customary Practice
20250306
Griffith University Art Museum
Please join us for a discussion exploring the modes of collective and customary practices across contemporary art. Reflecting on Yuriyal Bridgeman: yubilong(mi)bilongyu, panellists will discuss concepts of the individual artist and collaborative ways of making and…
Robert Andrew: New Eyes - Old Country
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Milani Gallery
This February in Galleries 1, 2, and 3 we are presenting new eyes – old Country by Robert Andrew. Four new works will be exhibited across the galleries including a major new kinetic video installation new eyes –…
Ultramarine Conversations: Recent Water Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
20250313
UQ Art Museum
As part of our multi-year research and programming arc Blue Assembly, please join us to hear from leading voices on current water research in the humanities, arts and social sciences. This event celebrates the launch of…
Rachel North: Anthology of memory
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20250413
Ipswich Art Gallery
Rachel North is an Ipswich based artist and educator, working across textiles and ceramics. Growing up and living in predominantly rural and regional areas, her connection to landscape is an inherent component of her artwork.…
Panel Discussion: Brain Rot in the Gallery
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Institute of Modern Art
The Institute of Modern Art is hosting the first institutional display of the viral YouTube series Skibidi Toilet. The serialised animated narrative has prompted critical discussion about brain rot, algorithms, and digital cultures since becoming a Gen…
Caitlin Franzman: Recompose
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20250614
UQ Art Museum
recompose 2021 – onwards, is a tarot reading led by artist Caitlin Franzmann. By engaging with a deck of hand drawn divination cards, audiences are invited to attune to the understory of a forest, its leaf litter,…
Amy-Jean Mitchell: There used to be a ship sailing
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20250301
Carpark Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper, made in Barreiro (Portugal) and Meanjin. There used to be a ship sailing is a collection of compositions embedded with illusive landscapes, memories and imagined scenes.
Undergrowth 2025
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QCA: Grey Street, Project & Webb Galleries
Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced at a second-year undergraduate level at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. These artists…
Ross Woodrow: Order from Ruins
20250214
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PARKER Contemporary
Featuring classical fragments of columns and capitals pulled from large copper-plate etchings, Woodrow references the agency and impact of these long-established and architectural orders not to advocate for a return to rules or codes, but…
Harry Rothel: Corporeal
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20250225
Edwina Corlette Gallery
In his latest body of work, Rothel continues to explore fleeting moments of human experience. Paradoxically mundane and fantastical, the figures within each painting appear to be trapped within the worlds of Rothel’s creation. The…
These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature
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20250614
UQ Art Museum
Artists: Alicia Frankovich, Caitlin Franzmann, Norton Fredericks, John Gerrard, Simryn Gill, Gabriella Hirst, Angelica Mesiti, Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton, Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell), Alexandra Pirici, Susan Schuppli, Yasmin Smith, James…
Michael Cook: Individuation
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20250315
Jan Murphy Gallery
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘Individuation’ the new exhibition by Michael Cook. Michael Cook’s images have, for over ten years, considered Australian history and its intersection with his own biography, tracing the culture…
Artists to Watch
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20250225
Lethbridge Gallery
Artists to Watch introduces four exciting new talents to our gallery. Showcasing landscapes, still lifes, and figurative works, these artists bring distinctive voices and remarkable potential, offering fresh perspectives across diverse styles. Featuring: Nick Offer,…
Judith Wright: Asemic Writing - A Space for Wonder
20250211
20250301
Jan Manton Gallery
Judith Wright lives and works in Brisbane. She came to her work as an installation artist with a background in dance having performed with the Australian Ballet. Recipient of a fellowship from Arts Queensland in 1993…
Joe Furlonger: Horizons
20250222
20250510
Redcliffe Art Gallery
One of Australia’s most respected landscape painters, Joe Furlonger came to prominence in the late 1980s with a series of large-scale figurative paintings. Employing a highly physical method, he applied swathes of colour with vigorous…
Napurrula
20250218
20250315
Mitchell Fine Art
A new exhibition, Napurrula, opens at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley on 18th February, with a special focus on celebrating International Women’s Day. Curated by Director Mike Mitchell, the exhibition brings together a powerful…
Essays In Light
20250220
20250303
Richard Randall Art Studio
Step into a world of monochrome mastery with Essays in Light, an exhibition featuring ten talented photographers from the Fine Monochrome Print Group. Each artist presents a thematic portfolio that explores diverse subjects, from architecture…
Dane Mitchell: The Imponderables
20241130
20250301
The Renshaws
Dane Mitchell’s exhibition ‘The Imponderables’ explores loss, containment, and future-contingent propositions by way of an island that is not, and a place that does not. Continuing Mitchell’s long-standing interest in the evanescent nature of loss, absence,…
SOUND PERFORMANCE: Arriving Slowly
20250216
Ipswich Art Gallery
Join Sandra Selig, Ross Manning and Robert Curgenven and experience a sound performance among artwork in the Arriving Slowly exhibition. Manning and Selig’s visual practice is featured in the exhibition, and their work explores parallel…
Rachel Burke: Thanks for Nothing
20250201
20250214
Side Gallery
Thanks for Nothing is a body of work born out of a recent personal experience of recurrent pregnancy loss over a 12-month period. Created with over half a million de-stashed and thrifted melty beads, these works…
Elysha Rei: 静寂 (Seijaku): Serenity
20250124
20250308
The Brisbane Quarter
Brisbane Quarter, The City’s most stylish restaurant and retail precinct, marks the Year of the Snake with the striking new 静寂 (Seijaku): Serenity art installation by renowned local artist Elysha Rei on display from 24 January…
Climate of Violence: Lamentum
20250207
20250315
Outer Space
Climate of Violence: Lamentum is the latest exploration in sound and vision by Arianna Nixon & Amy Sargeant. The dust has barely settled. A sacred tether becomes strained and defiled. Screams become whispers in the…
Harvest Biennial: Volatile Terrain
20250215
20250427
The Condensery
Volatile Terrain is an exhibition that explores the intersections and divergences of geography and geology, with consideration to a world in constant flux. The exhibition provides an opportunity to examine how humanity lives on Earth, as…
Kellie O'Dempsey: A Cloud Never Dies
20250121
20250207
Jan Manton Gallery
Rooted in the experiential and gestural, this exhibition incorporates Plein-air painting, lusciously pigmented watercolours on paper, punctuated with collage and video projection. Created during a period of profound personal transition, the work attempts to translate…
Matthew Hurdle: Should I remember you…
20250122
20250208
PARKER Contemporary
With its rich textures and layers of pulped sackcloth and ash, Hurdle’s papermaking practice invites a tactile engagement, encouraging viewers to connect deeply with the subtle nuances of the surface. Beneath these layers, a compelling…
Archie Moore: Comic Paintings
20250118
20250330
Institute of Modern Art
In 2005, aged thirty-four, Archie Moore undertook a residency for emerging First Nations artists organised by Campfire Group at FireWorks Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane. He produced seven large, unstretched canvases that turned on his sharing his first…
Regi Cherini: Such is Life
20241102
20250301
Artisan
Regi Cherini, recipient of artisan‘s inaugural Regional Artisan Residency Program, presents Such is Life, a provocative exploration of Australian identity through the lens of “bogan” culture. This exhibition showcases Cherini’s masterful subversion of traditional embroidery techniques,…
Platform 2025
20250118
20250330
Institute of Modern Art
This is the second iteration of our annual Queensland new-artists project. It presents three artists. Shannon Toth’s assemblages combine timber, confectionary, and sound in sticky performances that evoke the body. Jarrod van der Ryken is known for his moody…
Larissa Borteh: Paintings on Paper
20250106
20250206
TW Fine Art
Larissa Borteh’s evocative paintings explore the delicate interplay between memory, mark-making, and storytelling. Her works, created on Yupo paper, reveal the layered process of their creation, reflecting the transient and fragile nature of past experiences.…
Cara-Ann Simpson: Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers)
20250131
20250301
Onespace Gallery
Launching our 2025 program is a stunning exhibition, titled Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers) by newly represented artist Cara-Ann Simpson. Furari Flores is a rich visual display of the Australian landscape and Cara’s deep personal connection…
Geoart: Mapping Nature, Culture & Climate
20250107
20250201
Webb Gallery, QCA
Dr Ata Tara, a registered landscape architect and academic, explores the intricate relationships between people, culture, and the land. Utilizing geospatial mapping and design tools, he transforms technical data into compelling visual art, offering fresh…