teetering, tittering, tits up is an exhibition of sculptural works that imagine structures for queer and multispecies intimacies. Playful reconfigurations of outdoor equipment such as tarpaulin, tentpoles, and trampolines offer refuge in their corrugations and curvatures. Developed in response to wetland bird hides and other cruising sites, the exhibition takes an…

  Since their childhood years in Bundaberg, brothers Tim and Mic Gruchy have been insatiably curious about emergent innovations in image and sound technology. They have now worked in this field both collaboratively and individually for four decades, exploring the use of moving image, sound and the body not only…

“This framed glass is following me, obscuring and cropping my experience. A form of shelter.  Looking over my shoulder, through another window I see muted green and brown encased in a red trim.” I spent 2012 in Turku, Finland. After 10 years, in August 2022, I found myself there again…

Main Drag applies aesthetics of kitsch and camp queer visual culture to the stereotypical signs and signifiers of local and communal identity, often seen along the national highway running through Rockhampton, the town in Central Queensland where Dunne resides. Dunne resurfaces images that the area uses to market itself to visitors,…

Jonathan Kopinski’s latest offering Nervous. Solid. Nothing. continues the artist’s exploration into psycho-scenographic imagery. Eschewing overt didactic arcs in favour of fragmentary and often incongruous motifs and images, Kopinski’s compositions present scenes severed from reality, with trace elements of it. The strange blend of visual language across photorealism, abstraction, collage and…

Rebecca Ross lives on Kombumerri Country/Queensland’s Southern Gold Coast. Since completing a Master of Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology she has exhibited at the Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C. and Festival 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, and was awarded the Rome Studio at the British School at…

Public places private thoughts is a small body of work that continues to explore abstracted narratives that have been part of Gaye’s creative oeuvre and exploration for several years. Gestural marks paired with sharp and organic edges of shapes marry the composition and mix jarringly with the artist’s intense use of colour. Earthy,…

Karee Dahl’s creative practice is primarily concern with the processes and material relationships between textiles, drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation practice.  Dahl refers to her practice as, “an obsessive manipulation of thread – a continuous drawn line of fibre.” Her works range in a variety of sizes, colours, pattern, working…

“Late ultraviolet caress, the crawl of cells reorganised. Breath wishes whistling through a boolean cavity” Late Transformation depicts a bodily timeline, an archeology of chimerical change. Drawing from museum collections, speculative furry futurities and and biological fantasy to explore a queer body that is fractured and ever-progressing. Max Athans is…

Lost in Palm Springs is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together 14 creative minds – including internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia – who respond to, capture, or reimagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture found in the desert city. Connections…

‘Jane du Rand: Green, Red and Black’ is a collective ceramic installation that captures Ipswich-based artist Jane Du Rand’s interpretation of the ever-evolving Australian natural landscape. Using factions of colour as categories, each shade of green, red and black is a careful examination that responds to place. When displayed collectively…

Michael Cook is a Queensland-based artist of Bidjara heritage. Over  the last decade, Cook has produced works that interrogate the legacy  of colonisation and invite the viewer to experience the other side of the  coin, roles in reversal and histories re-written. His latest series of 12 large  scale photographic works…

Audism is the belief that the ability to hear makes one superior to those with hearing loss, while research shows that the ‘lack of information in one sense (e.g., audition) somehow instigates the deprived cortical area to process information from the intact modalities (e.g., vision and touch)’[1]. Hearing and not…

‘North by North-West’ presents recent acquisitions and old favourites from the Gallery’s Indigenous Australian art collection, highlighting unique visual threads and continuities that traverse the top half of the continent. From the Tiwi in the north to the Pitjantjatjara people of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the south,…

Julie Fragar makes paintings about the stories we tell, simultaneously chronicling and critically analysing her chosen subjects. Bringing a unique level of psychological enquiry to the activity of painting, Fragar’s practice brings into focus the slippery relationship between reality and fiction. Through her unique language and remarkable aptitude as a…

An incredible selection of works ranging from the late nineteenth century to today, the exhibition features major works by Fred Williams, William Robinson and Ian Fairweather. Also included are works by Indigenous painters Rover Thomas Joolama and Paddy Bedford along with paintings by Rupert Bunny, Grace Cossington Smith, Clarice Beckett,…

A Matter of Looking: 20th century works from the QUT Art Collection. This exhibition introduces audiences to rarely seen paintings, prints and drawings by female artists across the broad spectrum of the 20th century held in the QUT Art Collection. We often forget that art is fundamentally about not only…

The Solace of Grass is the fourth in what has become a series of group exhibitions featuring painting by Sally Cox, Nameer Davis and Barbara Penrose. In this show the work has a common direction towards figuration emerging from concerns with painting as a medium and the body /self as…

Onespace warmly invites you to COUNTERWEIGHT  by multidisciplinary artist, Brontë Naylor. Naylor’s first solo exhibition with Onespace examines our tolerance for grief and longing, while considering the passing of time, and the unfolding of healing. Through performance and composition, the works layer and distribute ‘weight’ in different ways, exploring the…

Naomi Blacklock, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Bonita Ely, Chantal Fraser, Sally Molloy, Elisabeth Willing Taking Bonita Ely’s work A Mother Shows Her Daughter to the Universe (1982) as a starting point, An Offering presents new works from five contemporary Brisbane artists relating to their own experiences of motherhood. This exhibition has…

The main feature of this group show are new works by Renee Wilson, who has been working on a series of paintings called Ngithhan Ngnma Dulka that, in Lardil language, translates to My Mother Earth. The highly detailed paintings feature a sinuous ribbon snaking across a field of optically captivating dots that…

Presentness is Grace by Aaron Butt is an exhibition that will explore the present moment through colour, space, light and objecthood. Consisting of compositions encountered by the artist in the landscape while going about his daily life, as well as travels through Australia and overseas, Presentness is Grace document a life of looking.…

From the Heath Interwoven experiences of hope and happenstance are intricately detailed in Summer Aldis’s new collection of chiaroscuro drawings. Sentimental musings on fate as a woven fabric of thread informs the repeated symbolism. Conceptualised at a personal crossroad- to become a teacher, or to pursue a career in the arts- this…

Sally M. Nangala Mulda lives at Abbott’s Town Camp, near the riverbed of the Todd River in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Born in Titjikala, 130 km south of Mparntwe, she went to school in Amoonguna. Her childhood wasn’t stable because she had difficulties with her vision and lost the use of…

Lyndal Hargrave’s work is a celebration of the beauty of the natural world and the power of art to capture the essence of time and place. There is progression and impermanence across the work, mirroring moments of personal transition Hargrave herself experiences while in the studio. Her shimmering compositions inspire…

  “Home Grown is the title of my latest bunch of paintings. All painted in the past year, mostly in Spring. It’s all about my garden around my home. A big garden with neat bits and out of control bits. Then up the hill is 10 acres of bush that…

This March we are presenting two exhibitions. Across Galleries 1 & 3 will be an exhibition by Yugambeh / Kudjela poet and activist Lionel Fogarty titled WUNGUMBIL MIBANY JALGANY. In Gallery 1 is a selection of poem paintings and poem drawings (c 2000 to 2023). In Gallery 3 manuscripts and…

The exhibition encapsulates the creativity, patience, and social and ethical concerns of its many makers and aims to celebrate the versatility of the textile medium. All works in the exhibition have been selected in response to the theme, ENTWINE, and curated to represent contemporary and traditional approaches to working with…

  Fireworks Gallery will be presenting a new exhibition; Eternity by renowned artist Andrew Arnaoutopoulos comprising of recent paintings and installations displayed in the mezzanine gallery. Arnaoutopoulos, who is being exhibited for the first time at FireWorks gallery, has invited Nicholas Tsoutas as the curator; both boast distinguished professional careers…

New works by artist Michael Georgetti. Image: Michael Georgetti ‘Cappella’ Acrylic on Canvas with custom brass frame 108 x 87cm

‘When I look at the sport of rugby league, I see the body colliding with the earth like barrows in dramatic formations, a repetitive display of rainbow coloured armour, a dance, a singsing of shields that hover before the skin, flesh and bones.  Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman Weaving together imagery, colours…

Thinking Business is a survey exhibition of the Australian art collective Barbara Cleveland. Working together for over 15 years, Barbara Cleveland’s practice draws on the historical lineages of both the visual and performing arts. The Barbara Cleveland artist collective was originally established in Sydney on Gadigal land. Founded by Diana Baker…

Suspended Moment includes key works by Katthy Cavaliere alongside the fellowship artists who benefited from her enduring legacy. The exhibit brings together new works by three recipients of The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship: Frances Barrett Sally Rees Giselle Stanborough. The fellowship was established in the name of Italian-born, Australian artist Katthy Cavaliere…

HOTA Gallery’s first ever international blockbuster exhibition invites you into the world of iconic artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, with a collection of works never before seen in Australia. In a world exclusive exhibition, Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York, pairs these three superstars alongside…

We Are Electric is an exhibition about energy: its bodily and planetary flows, the politics of its extraction and exchange, and its inextricable connection to human evolution and industrial expansion. From the frequencies that careen between our cells—communicating with our hearts, instructing them to beat—to the electromagnetic fields that encompass…

Hear their words, see their work We invite you to engage with the James C. Sourris AM Collection of Artist Interviews, a series of in-depth and intimate video interviews where you will hear the words of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists and see the work of selected artists.   Featured artwork…