Shayle Flesser: Open, Enclose
Open, Enclose is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Shayle Flesser, presenting a substantial new body of work spanning large-scale painting, collage, hand-built ceramic vessels and sculptural objects. The exhibition brings painting and object into conversation, with the works developed alongside one another. Paintings and ceramic forms share colour, gesture…
Petalia Humphreys: Before the Object
Onespace presents Before the Object, an exhibition by Petalia Humphreys in the Lounge Gallery, featuring a collection of playful two-dimensional and three-dimensional architectonic paintings that trace the transition of an object from latent being to active becoming. Across a practice spanning approximately 30 years, Humphreys has created abstracted objects, most…
Munimba-ja Blak Creatives Collective: Nothing to Write Home About
Outer Space presents Nothing to Write Home About, a group exhibition developed through Munimba-ja Arts Centre’s Blak Creatives artist development program. Featuring artists Clea North, Brenda Mau, Lexie Abel, Tanika Orr, Nadine McDonald Dowd, Keely Eggmolesse and Desirai Saunders, the exhibition is curated by Libby Harward. The exhibition creates space…
Amy Stapleton: Do not go gentle
Do Not Go Gentle borrows its title from Dylan Thomas’s poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, I view this poem to be about resistance, defiance and refusing to simply accept the inevitable. That idea of pushing against expectation became an important thread throughout this evolving body of…
Queensland College of Art and Design Graduate Exhibitions 2026
The Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University, presents its 2026 graduate exhibitions, showcasing the creativity and innovation of emerging artists and designers across Design, Visual Art and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. The public opening celebration takes place on Thursday 22 October, with an opening ceremony and awards…
Smokescreen: A Thickness of the Air
Drawn from the Indigenous Australian Art collection, Smokescreen: A Thickness of the Air presents artworks that disguise, disrupt or conceal. The exhibition explores the different reasons elements of an artwork may be obscured, from the protection of secret or sacred ceremonial business to natural phenomena that veil or blur vision.…
Helena Jackson-Lloyd: Shorelines
Helena Jackson-Lloyd is a visual artist, based on the Queensland Sunshine Coast. Throughout her creative practice she has worked with and around the ideas of ‘landscape’. Her interest being in wildscapes. Places that are raw, wild, natural, and unkempt. Jackson -Lloyd’s work thrives on engaging with new and unfamiliar places,…
Melt Festival
Melt Festival is an annual open-access festival of queer arts and culture staged across Magandjin/Brisbane, Australia. Building on the success of its predecessor, Melt, which was staged annually at Brisbane Powerhouse from 2015, the festival showcases queer art, artists, allies, icons, sport and ideas. With Brisbane preparing to host the…
Lawrence Daws
Lawrence Daws (1927–2025) is a major figure of modern and contemporary Australian art. He sustained a successful career as a painter and printmaker for over a half a century. Daws’ depictions of the Australian landscape are as unique as the psychological landscapes he often grafts within them. His works are…
Geoffrey Batchen: Eyes Wide Shut: A History of Photography
The Institute of Modern Art (IMA), in partnership with the University of Queensland School of Communication and Arts, presents a talk by Australian photography historian Geoffrey Batchen exploring the relationship between sight and blindness in the history of photography. The talk examines a contemporary Instagram trend in which celebrities pose…
Bronwyn Hill: Bloom
Lethbridge Gallery presents Bloom, the latest collection by Brisbane-based painter Bronwyn Hill. Following a successful VIP preview, the collection features a selection of oil paintings exploring introspection, observation and the beauty of natural forms. Hill is recognised for her photorealistic oil paintings, which combine poetic narratives with gentle observation. Her…
Elysha Rei: Paper Echoes
Onespace presents Paper Echoes, a solo exhibition by Elysha Rei in the Main Gallery, exploring memory, identity and belonging through the delicate and versatile medium of paper. Returning to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, thirty-eight years after being born in Tabuk, Rei revisits a landscape previously known to her through…
Off Grid 7: Building Stories with Janina Gosseye
The Institute of Modern Art presents Off Grid 7: Building Stories with Janina Gosseye, a talk exploring how architecture and the built environment might be understood through new forms of writing, storytelling and creative practice. Drawing on feminist thinkers and writers, Netherlands-based academic Janina Gosseye asks who gets access to…
John Bokor: Personal Space
This exhibition explores the idea of personal space and the different ways it can be understood or experienced. Personal space is not simply the physical distance between people, it can also be psychological, emotional or private. Some of the paintings are drawn from spaces, places, and objects within my own…
Daniel Clifford: Nothing dumb
Nothing dumb transforms salvaged mid-century materials into playful works exploring family, communication and belonging. Through the use of familiar objects, Brisbane-based artist Daniel Clifford invites us to consider the systems we inherit, the identities we construct and the ways we learn to find our place within them. Working across installation,…
In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice
Museum of Brisbane marks ten years of its Artist in Residence program with In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice, a retrospective exhibition celebrating a decade of creative practice, artistic exchange and experimentation. The exhibition brings together works from the Museum of Brisbane Collection by artists including Mia Boe, Gerwyn…
Aleja Hine: Still Looking
Brisbane painter and muralist Aleja Hine explores modern dating, connection and the beauty of ordinary life in Still Looking, a new solo exhibition opening at The Nest Creative Space in West End on Saturday 17 October 2026. Developed throughout 2026, the exhibition draws directly from Hine’s experiences with online dating…
Monique Ross: Coping Mechanisms
Coping Mechanisms explores the messy beauty of the human experience through contemporary woven vessels by Monique Ross. Working with colour, texture, form and scale, Ross pushes the boundaries of basketry to explore feelings including anxiety, self-doubt, anger and despair alongside love, joy and hope. The exhibition considers the things that…
Kate Cooper: Infection Drivers and Untitled (After Somatic Aliasing)
Kate Cooper’s videos explore how bodies are imagined and imaged, understood and controlled, and how they resist. Her practice considers the moving image as a visual somatic experience, with recent works using CGI and the visual language of medical imaging to explore the body, identity, labour and systems of control.…
Michael Nelson Jagamara: Possum Stories
FireWorks Gallery presents Michael Nelson Jagamara: Possum Stories, an exhibition exploring one of the Warlpiri artist’s foundational narratives, the Possum Dreaming. The Possum Dreaming is an epic story grounded in complex kinship structures, taboos and tribal lore. The story of two young Possum lovers and their punishment has been central…
Rosie Lloyd-Giblett: Tread Lightly, Listen Deeply
As part of the prize for winning the Annie Tan Watercolour Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Rosie Lloyd-Giblett and Flying Arts present Tread Lightly, Listen Deeply, a solo exhibition at Flying Arts. The exhibition brings together paintings and lyrical drawings inspired by Queensland and Northern New South…
30:30 Vision: Fragments and Flow
30:30 Vision 2026 is an open mosaic exhibition presented as part of the MAANZ International Symposium 2026, celebrating mosaic art, community, creativity and education. The theme, Fragments and Flow, explores the contrasts and connections within mosaic practice, from fractured pieces to fluid forms and from individual artistry to shared experience.…
Justene Williams: Once We Were Mudskippers
Spanning performative videos, sculpture, sound and installation from the past 20 years, including a wealth of new works, ‘Once We Were Mudskippers’ emphasises the aesthetic ambition of Justene Williams’s expansive practice. Like the amphibious fish invoked by the exhibition’s title, which exist between worlds, Williams’s artworks are an amalgam of…
Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company
Celebrating 70 years of creativity and innovation, Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company is an exclusive-to-Brisbane exhibition exploring the world-building, imaginative storytelling and puppetry of The Jim Henson Company. Founded by Jim and Jane Henson in 1955, The Jim Henson Company has created some of the…
Sarah Philips: Traces
Traces is a collection of realist and semi-surrealist works by local painter Sarah Philips, exploring connection and transience against the backdrop of the ocean. The four-day exhibition includes an event night on Saturday 10 October at 6pm. Entry to the exhibition and event night is free. Four painting workshops will…
Ian Friend: The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time brings together more than 30 years of Ian Friend’s artistic practice, featuring works from 1993 through to works made at his Ipswich studio in 2026. The exhibition presents more than 30 years of works on paper, exploring the passage of time and the relationship between memory,…
Brisbane Portrait Prize 2026
The Brisbane Portrait Prize celebrates the stories and lives of the people of Meanjin/Brisbane, showcasing the talent of Brisbane artists and the breadth of Brisbane life. Each year, artists are invited to look closely at the people around them and consider the faces and personalities that make up the city,…
Boneta-Marie Mabo: In Blak and White
In Blak and White is a series of cyanotype prints by Boneta-Marie Mabo, tracing the systems that have sought to define, control and incarcerate Blak children and families. Boneta-Marie Mabo is a proud Aboriginal Manbarra/Nywaigi and Torres Strait Islander Meriam woman, as well as being of South Sea Islander descent.…
Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth
Mitch Cairns: Artist’s Mouth is a major survey exhibition celebrating twenty years since Mitch Cairns graduated from the National Art School. The exhibition brings together more than 50 works spanning Cairns’ practice as a painter and artist. Cairns’ playful paintings combine elements of Cubism, comics and concrete poetry, exploring pictorial…
Baylee Griffin: The Space Here
Onespace invites you to an exhibition of ceramics by Baylee Griffin, The Space Here, in the Lounge Gallery. Based between Bidjara lands (Charleville) and Dharawal lands (Wollongong), Griffin’s ceramic practice is grounded in resilience, reciprocity and an embodied eco-centric philosophy. Working with locally sourced materials, Griffin explores the interconnected relationships…
Jessica Dorizac: Dahan-Dahan (Tread Lightly)
Beginning with a residency in Lucban, Philippines, this project develops a large-scale installation inspired by the Pahiyas Festival. Through community collaboration and traditional kiping-making, the work explores intergenerational knowledge, ritual and material culture, creating an immersive environment reflecting the fragility and resilience of cultural memory. Jessica Dorizac is an artist…
KONSTANTINA: Wumera Nangamay: Muru Walan
Onespace presents Wumera Nangamay: Muru Walan, a new exhibition by Brisbane-based artist KONSTANTINA exploring the ancient Muru (path or journey) connecting her Gadigal ancestors in the Sydney region with the Arabanoo peoples of the central desert. Drawn to the enduring beauty and significance of Kati Thanda, KONSTANTINA’s richly layered paintings…
Alison McDonald: Progressions
Small Object Spaces: Progressions is the second iteration of artisan’s exhibition series exploring intimacy, tactility and the quiet presence of everyday materials. The series brings together Queensland-based artists working across object-based practices, inviting audiences to slow down and focus on crafted detail and process. This exhibition features Townsville-based silversmith Alison…
Alex Chadwick: Beyond the Garden
Alex Chadwick’s solo exhibition Beyond the Garden at Wild Canary explores what lingers beyond the gates of the garden. Developed through fieldwork at Brookfield Gardens and the nearby Rafting Ground Reserve, where Moggill Creek flows, the exhibition reflects Chadwick’s engagement with the ecological and cultural richness of the area. The…
Peter Booth: Paintings
Milani Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Peter Booth across Galleries 1 and 2. Painted on cigar box lids, a by-product of the artist’s long-standing habit, the works distil Booth’s visual language into miniature form, offering a concentrated survey of his imagery. Also showing at Milani Gallery are…
Essay Club No. 8: Holly Eddington on Six Years
Join the Institute of Modern Art for Essay Club No. 8 with independent curator and arts writer Holly Eddington. The session will explore a section from Lucy Lippard’s Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, an experimental publication structured as a chronological timeline of press…
A.J. Taylor
8th - 26th May
WHEN : 8th – 26th May WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery A. J. Taylor’s paintings reveal themselves slowly. To see one must be prepared to look – and willingly join the artist in his appraisal…
INTERVENTIONS # 6
6th May
WHEN : 6th May WHERE : Interventions ▐▐▐battery-operated/acovstic experimental & improv ovtdoor sqvat show▐▐ †Confirmed: → THE PERFECT LOVERS legendary outsider Jamie Hume (TYOTSO, ARLD) & His band. going on ten years, now. manifest #??…
Diagram Presents : Liam O'Brien
4th May, 7:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 4th May, 7:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Liam O’Brien will present his final performance of ‘To Laugh In The Face Of Futility’ and his first live performance of ‘I’m Too…
Muse Exhibition
4th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 4th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Cloudland A collaboration of design, fashion and inspiration, ‘Muse Exhibition’ will showcase three artists in a night of art and design. Featuring works from Benjamin Reeve,…
FELT / Space
5th May, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 5th May, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy A collaborative project by Polly Dance, Ray Harris, Matthew Huppatz, Logan Macdonald, James Marshall, Riley O’Keffe and Patrick Rees. FELTSpace is excited to announce that…
Passages
May 2, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Current ProjectsStudio 3.5, Level 3, Metro Arts, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane
WHEN : May 2, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Current ProjectsStudio 3.5, Level 3, Metro Arts, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane Passages brings together a selection of Brisbane based artists who make text-based artworks, including zines,…
Gareth Sansom
Gareth Sansom’s paintings are eclectic, studded with allusions both historical, cultural and personal. There is something almost diaristic about his work, but its presentation is anything but linear and logical. Abiding themes are mortality, ageing,…
Banner Workshop
29th April, 2:00 - 5:00pm
WHEN : 29th April, 2:00 – 5:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts, The Basement Level ARI invites you to take part in a Banner Making Workshop. The workshops are free and open to all women who…
Hold by Caitlin Franzmann
28th April, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Hangar - Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, Brisbane
WHEN : 28th April, 6:00 – 8:30pm WHERE : Hangar – Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, Brisbane Caitlin Franzmann creates work that encourages perpetual shifts between a person’s internal and external space. In ‘Hold’…
Naoya Sakaguchi
April 28th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Art Factory, 84 Merivale Street, South Brisbane
WHEN : April 28th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Art Factory, 84 Merivale Street, South Brisbane For the past few weeks Queensland College of Art’s artist in residence Naoya Sakaguchi (Tokyo), has been practicing out…
Hijacked III : Contemporary Photography from Australia and the United Kingdom
27th April - 16th June / Opening : 27th April 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 27th April – 16th June / Opening : 27th April 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Griffith Art Museum Major survey exhibition and publication featuring the best photographic talents from or within Australia and…
Jan Van Dijk
27th April - 11th May
WHEN : 27th April – 11th May WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Jan Van Dijk’s paintings explore the absurdity of human kind through explorations into gritty characters and humorous narratives in paint. His paintings…
Making the green one red (Virtual Macbeth)
26th April, 6:00 - 10:00pm
WHEN : 26th April, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : QUT Creative Industries A mixed reality artwork/performative exhibition project exploring Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Making the green one red was developed by director Kerreen Ely-Harper and new-media artist…
Achim Weippert - Raw Textures
27th April 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 27th April 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Doggett St Studio Achim is an abstract artist who moved to Brisbane from Johannesburg in 1997. Achim has a thirst for finding new and innovative ways…
Chonggang Du
WHERE : 25th April – 19th May WHERE : Jan Manton Art Chonggang Du taught at Jinan Craft Arts School and Shandong Arts Academy for 18 years before moving to Australia in 2003. He has…
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR - EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
24th April, 5:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 24th April, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Ryan Renshaw Gallery will be hosting a private, advance viewing of works to be exhibited at the 2012 Hong Kong International Art Fair,…
Perspectives Jon Cattapan and eX de Medici
21st April - 24th June
WHEN : 21st April – 24th June WHERE : QUT Art Museum Continuing a tradition that developed during the First World War, the Australian War Memorial has, in the last decade, commissioned many official artists…
Yanni Floros
21st April
WHEN : 21st April WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Yanni Floros is an Adelaide based artist that trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating as a sculpture major. Since then he has shown his…
Contemporary Australia: Women in Film
21st April – 18th July
WHEN : 21st April – 18th July WHERE : Cinémathèque / GOMA The program coincides with the Gallery’s ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ exhibition and continues the exhibition’s exploration of the rich and complex contribution of women…
Embodied Acts
Embodied Acts will present a range of free performances, events and actions in and around GOMA. See Rebecca Baumann collaborating with a pyro technician to send sheets of candy-coloured smoke into the sky; Performance fee,…
Daydream Believers + Greatist Hits Volume 3
21st April - 9th June
WHEN : 21st April – 9th June WHERE : Institute of Modern Art
Essence by Louise Sparre
18th April, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 18th April, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts The exhibition Essence depicts the artist Louise Sparre’s reflections and moods in process as a newcomer integrating into the Australian society, dealing with the…
On Hiatus | Catherine or Kate | Pear shaped: one-night edition
April 18th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : April 18th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts On Hiatus marks the first of our Pear shaped: one-night editions by collaborating artists. Catherine or Kate, the artist(s) formerly known as Catherine Sagin…
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
4th April - 5th May
WHEN : 4th April – 5th May WHERE : Andrew Baker Art Dealer Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Badtjala, Fraser Island, Queensland. She studied at the Sydney College of…
Richard Dunlop
17th April - 5th May
WHEN : 17th April – 5th May WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Dunlop often alludes to the precision of botanical art in his paintings by including realistic renderings of plants. However where botanical illustration is…
QUIVER
17th April - 28th April
Graydon Gallery
WHEN : 17th April – 28th April WHERE : Graydon Gallery QUIVER is an exhibition of new paintings inspired by concepts of Mother Nature. Using the age-old transcultural/religious tree-of-life symbol, Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox explores distance from…
John Young
17th April - 12th May
WHEN : 17th April – 12th May WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries Over the past three decades John Young has continuously negotiated with the definitions and concepts surrounding the question: what is the role of…
From the Bush II
Until 21 April
WHEN : Until 21 April WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Artists : Yessie Mosby, Judy Napangardi Watson, Dorothy Napangardi Roberston Image : Dhoeri, 2011, bamboo cane, twine, natural ochres, bird scull, goose and rainbow pigeon feathers,…
Shared Space - Brian Sanstrom
16th - 27th April
WHEN : 16th – 27th April WHERE : POP Gallery PhD candidate Brian Sanstrom is using POP in conjunction with his research to continue with a work in progress. This is in line with his…
Social Networking
Until 1st July
WHEN : Until 1st July WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art This exhibition shows how contemporary artists are exploring social contact with their subjects and audiences. Many are interested in historical events, but others look…
LMTD SPACE
13th April 6:00 - 11:00pm
WHEN : 13th April 6:00 – 11:00pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery ARTISTS:Alley cat, Aurora Braid, Chris Mckenzie, Eleven, Gus Eagleton, Mark Joncheff, Josh Rufford, Joshua White, Keiron Mcmaster, Keith Carey, Quentin Purdie. MUSICIANS: Lauren…
Keiron McMaster
13th April, 6:00 - 10:00pm
WHEN : 13th April, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space Recognised for his low brow retro pop contemporary work, Brisbane born and bred Keiron McMaster’s latest collection of vivid, iconic paintings reflect his…
Natalya Hughes
12th - 28th April
WHEN : 12th – 28th April WHERE : Milani Gallery Hughes’s work combines what are usually considered to be opposing modes in visual culture: a seductive aesthetic and aberrant figuration. “I think about these modes…
ROAM ARTS FESTIVAL
11th - 14th April, 6:30 - 11:30pm
WHEN : 11th – 14th April, 6:30 – 11:30pm WHERE : Contortionist Studios ROAM is Brisbane’s newest & most exciting creative arts festival. Held over four nights at Contortionist Studios in Woolloongabba, it will showcase…
Maureen Hansen : Close to Home
Until 21st July
WHEN : Until 21st July WHERE : Heiser Gallery Maureen Hansen is an artist living and working in Brisbane. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology and currently works…