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…
BARI FEST Closing event
6th Oct, 7:00pm
80 Hamsptead Rd Highgate Hill
WHEN : 6th Oct, 7:00pm WHERE : 80 Hamsptead Rd Highgate Hill Witch Meat presents an array of performance artists to close BARI’s Saturday 6th for the night. SET LIST 7.30 : Andrew McLennan &…
The Word Conterminous 3
6th Oct, 6:00pm
WHEN : 6th Oct, 6:00pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery The Word Conterminous 3 is coming up at Bleeding Heart in line with the BARI Festival This round will include artwork from Bhats, Charlie Donaldson,…
Clark Beaumont - She'll Be Right
6th – 20th Oct / Opening 6th Oct 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 6th – 20th Oct / Opening 6th Oct 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy Drawing from screen-based culture Clark Beaumont examines notions of identity, female subjectivity, intimacy and interpersonal relationships. Presented as a…
Tom Alberts
Until 13th Oct
WHEN : Until 13th Oct WHERE : Heiser Gallery Tom Alberts was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1962. In 1970 Alberts and his family moved to Perth where he later completed a Bachelor of Arts…
BARI FESTIVAL OPENING
H Block, QUT Kelvin Grove
WHEN 5th Oct, 3:00 – 6:00pm WHERE : H Block, QUT Kelvin Grove This year Post Datum is very excited to be a part of the Brisbane Artist Run Initiative (BARI) Festival. The BARI Festival…
LOVE LOVE : BARI FESTIVAL SHOW
5th - 14th October
WHEN : 5th – 14th October WHERE : Love Love Studios BARI festival 2012 celebrates Brisbane based artist run initiatives, artist collectives practicing and exihibiting outside commercial gallery spaces. Over one week the BARI festival…
RED FIVES curated by SMALL LAKES
5th Oct, 7:00 - 10:00pm
WHEN : 5th Oct, 7:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre Shop Front Small Lakes, in conjunction with BARI Festival, will be presenting Red Fives an exhibition of works and performances that explore sound,…
Brown Sugar Series & Other Contemporary Works featuring Kelli Mac
4th – 16th Oct
WHEN : 4th – 16th Oct WHERE : White Canvas Gallery Artist, Kelli McGregor, has taken a poignant chapter in Queensland’s cane history to the city. Her ‘Brown Sugar’ Series will be unveiled for the…
Riot Footage
4th Oct, 6:00pm
WHEN : 4th Oct, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Riot Footage/1980s Japanese Noise Films from Marco Fusinato’s collection.
CARLA HANANIAH
Until 13th Oct
WHEN : Until 13th Oct WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery Having spent her childhood in New Zealand surrounded by the country’s breathtaking landscape Hananiah sought to capture the raw and sublime experience of witnessing vast…
Propaganda?
Until 21st Oct
WHEN : Until 21st Oct WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art ‘Propaganda?’ considers the varied approaches of politically motivated art. From the traditional forms of painting and sculpture, to mass media such as prints, posters,…
CHOKEHOLD: CHOPSHOP: POPPYCOCK: HAMMERLOCK: HAMHOCK
29th Sep, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, Brisbane, QLD
WHEN : 29th Sep, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, Brisbane, QLD In this new site-specific object-based arrangement, Ruth McConchie explores ideas around skin, surface and barriers. Her project responds…
The Eye Not The Ear… Though Always At Hand
28th Sep - 30th Sep
WHEN : 28th Sep – 30th Sep WHERE : Love Love Studio A selection of Instagram images from Brisbane music photographers highlighting the natural photogrpahic talent of each individual in their everday life, away from…
exist@QCA Zierle & Carter
WHEN 26th Sep, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : POP Gallery This September sees Zierle & Carter for the first time in Brisbane as exist@QCA presents the first Live Art Intensive Residency at POP Gallery, Wooloongabba.…
RAW : Ensemble
26th Sep, 7:30pm - 12:00am
WHEN : 26th Sep, 7:30pm – 12:00am WHERE: RAW Brisbane Oh Hello, 621 Ann St, Fortitude Valley RAW:natural born artists is an independent arts organization, for artists, by artists. A community made up of creative…
Addition 3
27th Sep - 11th Oct
WHEN : 27th Sep – 11th Oct WHERE Addition Gallery Addition’s third exhibition will be guest curated by Lisa Bryan-Brown, featuring work by Dale Harding, Alice Lang, Dana Lawrie, Sancintya Simpson, Tyza Stewart, and Athena…
Katrin Koenning : NEAR
26th Sep - 15th Oct
WHEN : 26th Sep – 15th Oct WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Near is an on going portrait of Katrin Koenning’s family that journeys into the complexities and challenges of love and belonging. Spanning over years,…
Shannon Brett : I Didn't Get To Cry Till Now
22nd Sep - 21st Oct
WHEN : 22nd Sep – 21st Oct WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography This body of work represents a very delicate segment within the lifetime of women. It aims to highlight the emotions experienced by…
CURRENT RISING
22nd Sep, 2:30 - 6:30pm
WHEN : 22nd Sep, 2:30 – 6:30pm WHERE : Northshore Hamilton C U R R E N T , R I S I N G is an event produced by artist, curator and producer Alexandra…
Bleeched Gallery Opening
20th Sep, 6:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 20th Sep, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Bleeched Gallery Curated from Brisbane, Bleached gallery is a pop up art space with an emphasis on the aesthetics of art as opposed to an overtly…
Art From the Margins
Until 22nd Sep
Wesley House and Albert Street Uniting Church
WHEN : Until 22nd Sep WHERE : Wesley House and Albert Street Uniting Church Brisbane Festival and Wesley Mission Brisbane will again present Art from the Margins, a free exhibition that gives an important platform…
Christopher Cipollone's First and Last Show
19th Sep - 6th Oct
WHEN : 19th Sep – 6th Oct WHERE : Current Projects Current Projects is honoured to present Christopher Cipollone’s First and Last Show.
National New Media Art Award 2012
Until 4th Nov
WHEN : Until 4th Nov WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art The National New Media Art Award is the most significant new media award in the country. The biennial award program comprises the $75 000…
BRYAN SPIER 'Axiomatic Paintings' + VIV MILLER ' Parts'
19th Sep - 13th Oct
WHEN : 19th Sep – 13th Oct WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery ‘Colour is the chief protagonist in my work. I am interested in colour as a subject because it has elemental power, it is…
MOULD | RICHARD STRIDE
19th Sep, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 19th Sep, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Richard’s practice explores the tensions he observes within the built environment through a range of approaches. It seeks to question the role of geometry…
COLOUR BY NUMBER : DALE HARDING
19th Sep, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 19th Sep, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Colour By Number is a significant exhibition of new works by Dale Harding, curated by Brisbane based artist Tony Albert. The title refers both…
Desert Experiences : Rod Moss
1st - 29th Sep
WHEN : 1st – 29th Sep WHERE : Fireworks Gallery After graduating from a Masters of Art at Monash University, Rod moved to Alice Springs. His drawings and paintings are full of arresting imagery that…
Conversations with My Voice
18 - 19th Sep
WHEN : 18 – 19th Sep WHERE : The Block, QUT In a world premiere from Visual Voice (UK), this live art research project combines multimedia, theatre and music for audiences to witness the surreal,…
WATERLOGGED: SHERRIE KNIPE
Until 13th Oct
WHEN : Until 13th Oct WHERE : Artisans Waterlogged is a collection of exquisite wooden sculptures made over the past five years, capturing the ever-present influence of water in the life and work of the…
All of You : Nat Koyama
15th Sep, 10:00am - 1:00pm
A-CH Gallery 72 Vulture Street, West End
WHEN : 15th Sep, 10:00am – 1:00pm WHERE : A-CH Gallery 72 Vulture Street, West End An exhibition of recent drawings by artist Nat Koyama. Exhibition Dates : 15 September – 10th October
OUI OUI
14 – 30 September, 6pm – 6am 7 days
5/15 James Street, Fortitude Valley
WHEN : 14 – 30 September, 6pm – 6am 7 days WHERE : 5/15 James Street, Fortitude Valley Artists : LINDA DENNIS | BRIDGET CURRIE & TAMARA HENDERSON Oui Oui is an exploration of tactility…
Polly Borland: Everything I want to be when I grow up
Until 25th November
WHEN : Until 25th November WHERE : UQ Art Museum Polly Borland’s photographic practice has straddled commercial/photographic documentary, and fine art practice, and is characterised by an edgy sensibility that lends her images tension and…
Monica Rohan : Inside Out
14th Sep - 13th Oct
WHEN : 14th Sep – 13th Oct WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Monica Rohan’s work uses narrative devices to draw out an emotional response from the viewer. The situations she depicts are mundane, yet…
RYAN PRESLEY : The Good Earth
5th Sep - 6th Oct
WHEN : 5th Sep – 6th Oct WHERE : Jan Manton Art Ryan Presley was born in Alice Springs, Australia in 1987. He currently works and lives in Brisbane. His father’s family originates from the…
Guido Van Helten - Veneer Exhibition
14th Sep, 6:00pm
WHEN : 14th Sep, 6:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space ‘Veneer’ by Guido Van Helten is a new body of work that challanges the notions of conservative cultural policy vs street art and graffiti in…
Sculpture Is Everything: Contemporary Works From The Collection
Until 28th Oct
WHEN : Until 28th Oct WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Showcasing the Gallery’s Collection and featuring a group of major new acquisitions, ‘Sculpture is Everything’ explores the extraordinarily diverse and surprising field of contemporary…