Khadim Ali: Unsafe Haven
This exhibition features recent miniature paintings and textiles. Through a confluence of contemporary and ancient imagery, the works address the historical nature of current tensions in the Middle East. Born 1978 Quetta, Pakistan. Khadim Ali currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. After growing up in Pakistan, Ali was trained…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Joanna Logue: I was the River Gum and the Pond Lily
To respond intimately to a landscape is to engage in a process of sustained observation and translation. I was the River Gum and the Pond Lily brings together paintings inspired by two geographically disparate places –works made at a residency at Fowlers Gap, in the far North West of NSW,…
Idris Murphy: Incantation
Mitchell Fine Art presents Incantation, a major exhibition by one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape artists, Idris Murphy. The exhibition brings together two significant bodies of work: a rare collection of previously unseen dioramas alongside a new series of paintings inspired by the Australian outback. Combining three-dimensional works with expansive,…
Pep Talks: Yuriyal Bridgeman
Join Griffith University Art Museum for a Pep Talk with Yuriyal Bridgeman, following his inclusion in the 18th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale in France. The event begins with a free BBQ in the QCAD Courtyard from 4:30–5:30pm, followed by an artist talk and Q&A from 5:30–7:00pm at Griffith University Art…
Trade Practice
Trade Practice examines the divergent creative lineage of labour through the shared history of blue-collar work. Daniel Wallwork, Jack Rodgers and Matthew Rees draw on techniques and experiences from signwriting, automotive spray painting and commercial trades, integrating these practices into their artistic processes. Their work includes unsettling, metallic-sheened creatures, abstracted…
Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes: (In)Sight
Part of NIGHT MOVES, exploring what we keep hidden in our darkest corners. (In)Sight is an immersive installation by Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes that explores perception, representation and the relationship between seeing and being seen. Mirrors fracture perspective, screens shift with changing images, and handmade objects create…
ALONG THE WAY
Your Pals presents Along the Way, an analogue photography exhibition featuring the work of 20 artists. The exhibition brings together photographs captured during three photo walks, each shaped by a different prompt and location. Every artist has selected five photographs from each walk, resulting in a total of 300 images…
Adam Pyett: Stories of daylight
Stories of daylight presents a new body of landscape paintings by Adam Pyett, developed through his long-term engagement with the Macedon Ranges in Victoria. Pyett’s paintings explore how landscapes are experienced through repetition, memory and changing light. Working from drawings made on site, he develops his paintings later in the…
MADE 2026: Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium
MADE 2026 is artisan’s inaugural Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium, bringing makers, designers, arts organisations and sector leaders together to discuss the future of contemporary craft and design in Australia. The program explores the priorities, partnerships and actions needed to strengthen the sector, with discussions around visibility, skills, access…
Road Trip, A Residency
Road Trip, A Residency is the third iteration of Side Gallery’s residency project, curated by Laura Brinin and directed by Leesa Hickey. A small group of artists travelled to Armidale for a long weekend to explore how their practices might shift when removed from their usual studios and routines. Artists…
Scott Breton: Fragments from the Fire
Lethbridge Gallery presents Fragments from the Fire, an exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Scott Breton. “The various works of this collection are not neatly harmonised. Rather they are fragments from my own fire – from my diverse obsessions, drives and discoveries. They are somewhat in tension with each other visually and…
In The Now
2nd Aug, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Pickle Gallery, Contemporary Artisans Collective, 20 Lyons Terrace Windsor
WHEN : 2nd Aug, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Pickle Gallery, Contemporary Artisans Collective, 20 Lyons Terrace Windsor In the Now – an exhibition of current work & works in progress by the Jewellers &…
Night of Terror
29th July, 6:00 - 9:00pm
The Scratch Bar, 8/1 Park Rd Milton, Brisbane
WHEN : 29th July, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Scratch Bar, 8/1 Park Rd Milton, Brisbane Joseph Breikers will host a metal night at the Scratch Bar in Milton. Breikers mines his long-term investigation…
EGGVEIN Performance
28th July, 7:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 28th July, 7:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy A Sound performance collaboration. Level 1, 129 Margaret Street Brisbane.
Cleanskins
28th July, 5:00 - 7:00pm
The Hangar, Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill Brisbane
WHEN : 28th July, 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Hangar, Lower 151 Musgrave Road, Red Hill Brisbane Featuring Michelle Knowles, Melissa Ryke, Erika Scott and Jemima Wyman. Curated by Brooke Ferguson Cleanskins is a…
CHROMOPHILIA
27th July 6:00 - 8:00pm
Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street, South Bank
WHEN : 27th July 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street, South Bank Chromophilia – An abnormal attraction to colour. Not nearly subtle enough to be eroticism and…
Memory Motel
28th July, 6:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 28th July, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Anthea Polson Art The quite extraordinary Memory Motel exhibition of paintings, drawings and installation pieces continues Peta Houghton’s “ongoing autobiographical project.” This new body of work…
Zammit Projects presents Chris Bennie
27th July, 6:00pm
WHEN : 27th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Zammit Projects presents a series of exhibitions in the Ryan Renshaw Window Space. Launching with the work of Brisbane artist Chris Bennie, the space acts…
Yvonne Todd + Charles Robb
27th July, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 27th July, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Yvonne Todd : ‘65% Seahorsel’ / Exhibition Dates : May 30 – June 23, 2012 Image : YVONNE TODD Moonsap, 2012, Type-C photograph,…
Faust and the Effective Echo
27th July, 6:30pm
The Red Herring: 9 Alcester St. Grange
WHEN : 27th July, 6:30pm WHERE : The Red Herring: 9 Alcester St. Grange Laura Brinin is a Brisbane-based, emerging contemporary artist. Her practice explores relational aesthetic notions with an emphasis on domesticity, the home,…
TRUTH-WORSHIP
27th July, 5:00 - 10:00pm
80 HAMPSTEAD ROAD, HIGHGATE HILL
WHEN : 27th July, 5:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : 80 HAMPSTEAD ROAD, HIGHGATE HILL Truth-worship is a first solo exhibition by Alrey Batol. Starting out primarily as a performative sound and video artist, now exploring…
Bill Viola's The Reflecting Pool Collected Works 1977-1980
27th July, 6:00 - 7:30pm
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
WHEN : 27th July, 6:00 – 7:30pm WHERE : QUT Creative Industries Precinct A special screening event of Bill Viola’s The Reflecting Pool Collected Works 1977-1980 (duration: 62 minutes), including Ancient of Days (1979-81) and…
Parallel Universes
26th July, 6:00pm
The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct
WHEN : 26th July, 6:00pm WHERE : The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct A retrospective of seminal video art from 1970 to 1985. To be opened by David Perry Click here to RSVP
No Worries by Martin Parr
26th Jul - Sun 23rd Sep
WHEN : 26th Jul – Sun 23rd Sep WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Comissioned by FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography in 2011, Martin Parr documents the work and leisure of people in Western…
JUDITH SINNAMON
Until 28th July
WHEN : Until 28th July WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery My current paintings explore the subtle beauty of colours present in the remnant native flora of the coastal areas of southeast Queensland. I have long…
SILENCE : Henri van Noordenburg & Eryn Begley
Until 11th August
WHEN : Until 11th August WHERE : Wooloongabba Art Gallery ‘Silence’ an exhibition by Henri van Noordenburg and Eryn Begley. This exhibition includes solo and collaborated works concentrating on the theme of silence created around…
So where the bloody hell are you? | Clark Beaumont | Pear shaped: One-night edition
July 25th, 6:00pm
WHEN : July 25th, 6:00pm WHERE : Current Projects Current Projects presents recent video work by Brisbane emerging artist duo Clark Beaumont, in which the artists unpack the ‘Aussie’ identity and construct new narratives for…
HUANG XU
Until 4th August
WHEN : Until 4th August WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Abject waste or nature’s jewels, each are treated to the same forensic reckoning at the hands of Beijing based photographer Huang Xu. His lavish, closely…
Beyond Landscape : Marian Drew & Jorge Deustua
Until 12th August
WHEN : Until 12th August WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography This exhibition explores landscape at night in Peru and Australia. Jorge Deustua and Marian Drew began this project in 2010 after a chance meeting…
Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters
Until 22nd July
WHEN : Until 22nd July WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Carl McConnell (1926–2003) was the most important potter in the post-World War Two generation in Queensland, introducing stoneware and porcelain firing to the state.…
Wilgefortis
20th July 5:00 - 9:00pm
The Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merivale St., South Brisbane
WHEN : 20th July 5:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merivale St., South Brisbane A unique exhibition (20-25 July 2012) inspired by St. Wilgefortis, featuring the diverse creative approaches of 10…
Peter Churcher
10th July - 4th August
WHEN : 10th July – 4th August WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries “Since graduating from art school, I have been primarily concerned with the painting of the human figure in a narrative context and the…
MONO 12
19th July, 7:00pm
WHEN : 19th July, 7:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art American analog-synthesiser guru Keith Whitman. Plus Dean Roberts and Timothy Tate. A joint project with Room 40.
The Word Conterminous 2
20th July, 6:00pm
Jugglers Art Space 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
WHEN : 20th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Jugglers Art Space 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley A number of nouns are drawn out of a proverbial hat and arranged into combinations of two. These combinations are…
Brisbane Lowbrow
19th July, 5:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 19th July, 5:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery Lowbrow Art can be many things, drawing, painting, sculpture, digital or street art. 13 Brisbane-based emerging artists working in the Lowbrow sphere and…
JUDY WATSON AND ALAN MICHELSON
6th - 28th July
WHEN : 6th – 28th July WHERE : Milani Gallery Image : JUDY WATSON AND ALAN MICHELSON : rainbow tea, pigment, pencil, and acrylic on canvas, 2012
Rise and fall, again : Phoebe McDonald
Until 14th July
WHEN : Until 14th July WHERE : Metro Arts Gallery Phoebe McDonald’s practice is concerned with interconnectedness and impermanence, and she has an ongoing interest in light, time, space and perception. She is also interested…
Level II Exhibition
13th July, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Level Two - 51 Mollison Street, Brisbane
WHEN : 13th July, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Level Two – 51 Mollison Street, Brisbane Level II is hosting an exhibition featuring local artists : koren wheatley – scuba d kate jolly – justin…
The First Cut
12th July, 6:00pm
WHEN : 12th July, 6:00pm WHERE : IMA Live criticism Curator Kyla McFarlane (Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne) and video-performance artist Justene Williams dissect our Queensland new-artist show, Fresh Cut 2012. Hear what they have…
Art Expo Brisbane
13th - 15th July
Brisbane Convention Centre
WHEN : 13th – 15th July WHERE : Brisbane Convention Centre Providing an opportunity for art-minded people to get together in a friendly creative atmosphere, the Brisbane Art Expo is an exciting brand-new event to…
White Heat: Sur Polar
12th July 6pm-9pm
WHEN : 12th July 6pm-9pm WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Liquid Architecture, DNA and the Antarctic foundation presents – White Heat: Sur Polar. Curated by Andrea Juan and Room40 White Heat:Sur Polar is an exhibition of…
COLOURISE MEDIA ART
11th July
WHEN : 11th July WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery Colourise Festival joins a showcase of Brisbane Urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artists with a screening of short works by Brisbane Indigenous media artists:…
David M. Thomas | A Party Disguised as Work or Work Disguised as a Party
7th July, 6:00pm
WHEN : 7th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy New work by David M. Thomas With Joseph Breikers and Stephen Russell Exhibition Dates : 7 – 28 July 2012 Opening Saturday 7 July 6pm, Artist talk…
CLAIRE STENING
7th Aug – 1 Sep
WHEN : 7th Aug – 1 Sep WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery Claire Stening makes art to enrich our lives. On one hand her paintings offer perfect illusions of reality, rendered out of the play…
CURRENT
6th July, 6:00 - 8:30pm
WHEN : 6th July, 6:00 – 8:30pm WHERE : POP Gallery Exhibition Dates : Wednesday 4th July til Saturday 14th On Saturday 7th July starting at 2pm there will be a panel discussion involving some…
Kent Gration - 'Outtakes' and Keith Burt - 'Repose'
6th July, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 6th July, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Keith Burt – ‘Repose’ Keith Burt’s exhibition ‘Repose’ is a collection of studio paintings observed from life. Burt poses everything in the…