‘Wonderstruck’ explores the wonder that can be found in the ordinary and the extraordinary. Presented throughout the ground floor of the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), the exhibition invites visitors on a journey from spectacular large-scale artworks to captivating small treasures and immersive experiences. Featuring more than 100 artworks and…

French-born experimental artist Félicia Atkinson will brings her captivating sounds to the IMA . Through the lush sounds of her Fender Rhodes, field recordings, and speech in both French and English, Atkinson brings a unique experience of stretching and folding time in-place. She has been renowned for her works on her label…

Leading Queensland artist and ‘rogue archivist’ Sam Cranstoun‘s first decade work is now available in print, launching at the Institute of Modern Art. Curator Hamish Sawyer chats with Sam Cranstoun about the new book release, Sam Cranstoun: You Are Neither Here Nor There. The publication documents key projects from Cranstoun’s first decade of practice,…

Transitory Stories is an exhibition centred around a large-scale linocut print by Chilean-born, Australian-based artist Miguel (Andy) Villanueva. Previously exhibited as part of the 2024 Burnie Print Prize in Tasmania, this latest iteration in Brisbane extends the work’s evolving narrative—one shaped by movement, shifting perspectives, and the layered experiences of…

NEAR ENOUGH (IS GOOD ENOUGH) II explores Australian photographer Frank Hurley’s documentation of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917), led by Ernest Shackleton, which aimed to cross the Antarctic continent. After their ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice and sank, the expedition turned into a remarkable tale of survival. This…

skeletons is an invitation to explore an alternative national narrative. Responding to the Queensland State Archives collection, Waanyi artist Judy Watson opens the closet doors to Australia’s skeletons. She uncovers buried evidence within the archives, bringing light to undisclosed happenings, validating the mistruth of terra nullius, colonial conflicts, and the…

Art, History and Change: Step into Brisbane’s Story at Queen’s Wharf Brisbane After a sold-out summer debut, Museum of Brisbane, in partnership with The Star Brisbane and Queen’s Wharf Brisbane, proudly returns with Season 2 of its acclaimed Public Art Walking Tours. This newly expanded 90-minute tour goes beyond the…

Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) presents Collecting the Future: 50 Years of the Griffith University Art Collection, a landmark exhibition running from 29 May to 16 August 2025. Celebrating the University’s 50th anniversary, the exhibition brings together over 190 works that chart the evolution of Australian artistic practice and reflect…

A body of work close to Gordon’s heart was a project of figure studies which he called Of Woman, Love and Beauty.   In Gordon’s words: “This book is a catharsis from commercial boredom, satiety of a deep desire to perpetuate some beauty before I go.” For someone who was a full-time…

In The Bottle, I subvert still life beyond its traditional role as a static study of objects. The bottles, though familiar as everyday domestic forms, become figures with human qualities. They slump, stand tall, lean, and twist, embodying bodily presence, vulnerability, and gesture. This anthropomorphism invites viewers to see them as…

Jan Murphy Gallery is proud to present Portals, a new exhibition by Guido Maestri. After spending many years living in the city, Maestri has recently returned to Pittwater—an area where he spent much of his youth. This landscape has long captured his imagination, especially the nearby Ku-ring-gai National Park, which…

‘Byte Back’ is a digital art exhibition that explores how Blak artists are imagining the future—on their own terms. Blending digital expression with cultural memory, the show brings together works that reflect the strength, adaptability, and creativity of First Nations identity in a rapidly changing world. With retro-futuristic influences and…

Wendy Sharpe (b.1960, Sydney) is a major Australian figurative artist who divides her time between living and working in her two studios in Sydney and Paris. Sharpe is known for her confident, exuberant figurative and narrative style paintings which depict love, passion and daily life. Sharpe draws with paint – her…

Guan Wei was born in Beijing in 1957 and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University in 1986. He first came to Australia in 1989, and from 1989 to 1992 he completed art residencies at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University. During this…

This body of work spans two years of my practice and reflects a period of personal and artistic transition, including a significant relocation to Germany. These lifestyle changes have deeply informed my process, grounding my work as a space of response, reflection, and reinvention. At the core of my practice…

Danie Mellor’s multidisciplinary art practice explores Australia’s shared history through the lens of his Ngadjon-jii, Mamu and Anglo-Celtic ancestry and ongoing connection to Country in the Atherton Tablelands and rainforests of far north Queensland. ‘marru | the unseen visible’ brings together works examining memory and remembrance; the relationship between First…

What if we find our souls to be enmeshed in media and fictional imaginings? That the ghosts of us reside and stir within other vessels or interfaces; our realities (re)written, performed, and embodied even though we know it all to be a story. To describe a feeling through giving it…

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…

This showcase exhibition highlights the work of James Randall, winner of the Metro Arts Experimental Portraiture Prize at the 2024 Brisbane Portrait Prize. “I used to think that art was all about the artist – the style, the artist’s own presentation, all the crazy stuff that swirls around them. Artists…

The Shadow That Follows Me, features a new body of work by Quintela that extends upon her existing practice. Drawing from her early childhood memories in Chile, a country ruled at the time by dictatorship, she vividly recalls long and difficult years of hardship that have vehemently shaped her artistic…

This May in galleries 1, 2 and 3, we are presenting Optics, an exhibition of new paintings by Richard Bell. In these new works Bell pushes his abstract language to new levels of opticality, burying text within them like Ishihara tests for colour-blindness. Equally concerned with the legacy of abstraction and…

Memo Review is Naarm/Melbourne’s only platform for weekly art criticism, offering critical perspectives from Australian artists, writers and scholars. Join us at the Institute for Modern Art for the launch of Memo 3, a contemporary art critical writing glossy magazine from Memo Review. Editors Paris Lettau and Hilary Thurlow will introduce…

This exhibition brings together a group of artists who consider the sun’s influence and journey on our world. Each day, the sun can be sensed constantly moving through the sky, it’s light bringing brightness, casting shadows, illuminating colour and nourishing life. As our planet Earth revolves around the sun, the sun…

In her latest collection Down the Rabbit Hole, independent artist Bel Parsons presents a series of large-scale abstract paintings inspired by the playful chaos of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. Through vivid colour, contrast, and movement, the works explore the messy beauty of being human, touching on self-reflection, mental health, identity, and societal…

Jennifer constructs images which straddle the line between realism and illusionism. In her surrealistic portraits she explores the uncanny, the unconscious mind, transformation and identity. Her works often grapple to find a way to visually express feelings and desires that we repress. Finding inspiration in dreams, mythology, personal experiences and…

Darren Knight Gallery and The Renshaws warmly invite you to celebrate the opening of Ecstatic horizon, a new exhibition by Louise Weaver. Ecstatic horizon features woven paintings combining hand-painted Japanese paper and linen thread, creating a rich dialogue between poetic landscape and vivid abstraction. Weaver’s practice is shaped by the…

Sonya is an emerging artist who began painting at home in the Burringurrah community, between Carnarvon and Meekatharra, where she grew up and attended School of the Air. She later studied Visual Arts at Carnarvon TAFE and was invited to teach during NAIDOC Week. Creativity runs in her family—her late father,…

Celebrating 40 years as an exhibiting artist, Cairns-based painter and sculptor Roland Nancarrow presents his latest solo exhibition, Colour, Leaves, Light and Feathers, at Woolloongabba Art Gallery. Since his first show at Brisbane’s Metro Arts in 1985, Nancarrow has held over 40 solo exhibitions, developing a practice that blends painting…

Blatt & Matonelli is a collaboration between artist Katherine Palella and multidisciplinary designer Sirena Varma, both based in Magan-djin, Australia. Their work celebrates and reimagines cultural heritage, merging the tile-making traditions of Lebanon and Sicily with contemporary design to explore how aesthetics are shaped by geography, memory, and the fluid…

Flood Lines is a collaborative project and exhibition by artist Kylie Stevens and historian Margaret Cook. Artist Kylie Stevens and Historian Margaret Cook have created a multi-modal exhibition that combines community stories, historical documents, photography, and painting. They are motivated by the desire to share knowledge in different ways to…

Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland by Queensland-based environmental photographer LeAnne Vincent celebrates natural environments within urban areas. This exhibition gently reminds us of the importance of unseen ecosystems and the need for place-responsive habitation. Vincent’s childhood experiences led to Solastalgia, a feeling of distress caused by changing landscapes due to natural causes…

Stockroom brings together a selection of works by Kate Barry, including pieces never before exhibited. Known for her award-winning practice and a career spanning exhibitions across Australia and New Zealand, Kate continues to explore new ideas and expand her distinctive visual language. Image: Eclipse   2025, Oil on canvas, 125 x…

Acclaimed artist Bernard Ollis OAM invites art lovers to experience his latest exhibition, From the Inside Looking Out, at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, from May 13–31. Known for his vibrant and dynamic depictions of life, Ollis presents a fresh collection of works that transform everyday scenes into…

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…

Jan Murphy Gallery proudly presents Midnight Blue, the inaugural solo exhibition by Archibald Prize–winning artist Laura Jones. This new body of work offers a tender, atmospheric exploration of colour, memory, and emotional resonance. Jones turns her gaze inward to moments of quiet beauty and vulnerability—flickers of late-night conversations, the hush…

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…