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…
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…
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…
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…
Pat Hoffie: Party Gone Bad
FireWorks Gallery presents Party Gone Bad, a new exhibition of large-scale paintings by acclaimed Australian artist Pat Hoffie. Bringing together works produced between late 2025 and 2026, the exhibition responds to the anxieties, fractures and absurdities of contemporary life, including the challenges of free speech and the online “Hateosphere”. Hoffie’s…
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…
Charmaine Davis: Jugun – Country
As part of the prize for winning the First Nations Artist Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Charmaine Davis presents Jugun – Country, a solo exhibition at Flying Arts. A proud Goori woman with connections to the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung Nations, Davis draws deeply on the landscapes and…
Lisa Ray: Alter
Alter is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based photographer Lisa Ray, presented at Jan Manton Gallery in Teneriffe. Working across flowers, portraiture and elemental forms, Ray explores moments suspended between dissolution and emergence. Light resembles fire, water becomes atmosphere, and organic forms drift between the familiar and imagined. Created through a…
Jenna Catchpole: Her Flame, My Hands
Her Flame, My Hands A daughter’s journey through grief, growth and clay Her Flame, My Hands is an annual solo exhibition by Brisbane/Meanjin ceramic artist Jenna Catchpole, presented each September in honour of her mother, Jennene – a gifted potter whose love of clay continues to shape Jenna’s practice today.…
Diverse Perspectives
Diverse Perspectives brings together twelve photographers from the Fine Monochrome Print Group in a celebration of contemporary monochrome photography. Rather than following a single theme, the exhibition presents twelve distinct approaches to photographic practice, exploring subjects including personal narratives, landscape, architecture, abstraction and the human form. Together, the works consider…
Rachel South: Beautifully Tangled
Rachel South presents Beautifully Tangled, a solo exhibition exploring the intimate and emotional qualities of hair through highly detailed, large-format paintings. Drawing on her connection to nature and the Australian landscape, South transforms strands, coils and textures of hair into expansive, almost landscape-like forms. Opening Night – Thursday 3rd at…
Cassandra Louttit: Big Blue/Rothko Worship Current Year
Cassandra Louttit presents her second solo exhibition, Big Blue/Rothko Worship Current Year, at Wreckers Artspace in Woolloongabba. The exhibition centres on a painting and series of paintings shown in full for the first time, alongside new work. Louttit will also present an artist talk exploring the arcane technical processes behind…
Tim Price: The moon's raining
Jan Murphy Gallery is delighted to present The moon’s raining, an online exhibition by Tim Price. “I’ve been painting everyday things from around the city. Ordinary moments drift into view while I’m walking, a plane flying in over the buildings and trees, flowers growing in the suburbs. They feel meaningful…
Self Portraits
A group exhibition exploring the many ways artists can approach the idea of the self. Self Portraits brings together 26 artists working across contemporary painting and visual art, presenting distinct interpretations of identity, perception and personal experience. Featuring James Drinkwater, Vipoo Srivilasa, Cosima Scales, Eliza Gosse, Sally Anderson, Stefan Dunlop,…
Inscribing a life
‘Inscribing a life’ brings artworks from across the QAGOMA Collection that register existence, histories, and time through the act of mark making. From the brute force recorded in paint on a canvas that expresses strength and vitality, to the time commitment captured in the repetition involved in making intricate forms,…
FIRE! Works on Paper
FIRE! Works on Paper 2 Queensland brings together works by seven artists exploring the breadth and diversity of contemporary works on paper. Featuring David Paulson, Ian Waldron, Jo-Anne Driessens, Juno Gemes, Michael Aird, Paul Bong and Vincent Serico, the exhibition presents drawing, photography and print-based works that engage with people,…
Annabelle Reidy: the boat I row
Reflective in a self-effacing way, it is a beautifully crafted memoir which invites us to share a healing process made possible through exploring with an analogue camera and notebook in hand. There is an ethereal dimension to Reidy’s photography — as if her work were from another time. Some of…
Zoe Young
Sydney-born artist Zoe Young (b. 1978) explores still life, portraiture and abstraction, transforming everyday settings and objects into idyllic and evocative scenes. Drawing on a childhood shaped by travel, different cultures and her family’s history in hospitality, Young creates compositions that evoke nostalgia while connecting personal memories with broader human…
Choral Cthonics
A hum in the dark. Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival, Choral Cthonics is a world-premiere exhibition exploring the voice as instrument, threshold and collective force. Bringing together work by Dean Ansell, Cicadas (Maria Molina & Celeste Ricci), CAConrad, Léuli Eshrāghi, Mikhail Karikis, Jazz Money and Tina Stefanou, the…
West Space Window
West Space is inviting applications for its 2027 West Space Window program, supporting artists to present work in its micro-project space on the public façade of the gallery in Collingwood Yards. The Window is a small, site-specific project space on the balcony outside West Space’s gallery and office in the…
Nana Kawamura: Golden Scars
Golden Scars explores the relationship between the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy of self-overcoming. Kawamura reflects on repairing what has been broken and transforming past inner conflict into a source of resilience and strength. The exhibition considers how accepting our imperfections and experiences can become an act…
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah: Undying
Griffith University Art Museum presents Undying, a major solo exhibition by acclaimed Australian sculptor Abdul-Rahman Abdullah. Commissioned by the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, the exhibition brings together intricately carved and painted sculptures exploring humanity’s relationship with life, death, the afterlife and the natural world. Inspired by…
Ties that Bind
Ties that Bind brings together leading Australian artists to explore the many ways people connect to home, Country, memory and one another. Through diverse contemporary practices, the exhibition considers belonging as something shaped by place, ancestry, migration, displacement and lived experience. Rather than presenting a single idea of home, the…
The Red Dress
The Red Dress brings together the work of 380 embroiderers from 51 countries in a remarkable 14-year global collaboration conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod. Created between 2009 and 2023, the dress features 87 panels of burgundy silk dupion and an estimated 1–1.5 billion stitches. Contributions from women, men and…
artisan: UNLEASHED+
UNLEASHED+ 2026 is a major exhibition celebrating Queensland’s emerging craft and design practitioners, presented by artisan in collaboration with HOTA, Home of the Arts. For more than two decades, UNLEASHED has provided an important platform for early-career makers and designers, connecting emerging practitioners with national curators, collectors and industry professionals.…
Sha Sawari: liminal
برزخ liminal brings together the English word “liminal” with the Farsi term برزخ (barzakh), a concept that evokes a state of suspension – a threshold between death and resurrection, presence and disappearance. While the two terms resonate with one another, they are not fully interchangeable; each carries its own cultural and philosophical…
Sandra Selig: Figure of 8
Milani Gallery presents Figure of 8, a solo exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Sandra Selig. The exhibition features a new body of work spanning reverse pendulum textiles, paintings on cork, sculpture, and a charcoal wall drawing, continuing Selig’s exploration of materiality, movement and spatial relationships. Closing Event: Saturday…
Coral Futures
Coral Futures brings together poetic and speculative responses to coral by First Nations and contemporary Australian artists. The exhibition explores coral’s vital role in marine ecosystems, particularly the Great Barrier Reef, while considering its wider cultural, economic and environmental significance. Responding to the increasing threats posed by climate change, including…
Judy Watson: kau-in kau-in blood blood
kau-in kau-in blood blood presents recently acquired and existing works from the City of Moreton Bay Art Collection by renowned multidisciplinary artist Judy Watson. Working across textile, video and printmaking, Watson draws attention to underrepresented histories of Australia and the enduring presence of First Nations people and culture. Connected to…
Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland
Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland explores the ways people and wildlife coexist within human-altered environments. Through cyanotype photogram collages combining wildlife remnants and human-made objects, LeAnne Vincent uncovers hidden stories embedded within Queensland’s urban spaces. The exhibition invites audiences to consider their relationship with place and reflect on the ways human…
Jason Fitzgerald: Unearthed
Jason Fitzgerald’s Unearthed presents a series of glazed stoneware sculptures that occupy the space between archaeological artefact, architectural fragment and imagined object. Appearing as though excavated from an uncertain past, the works explore ideas of ruin, displacement, memory and transformation. Fitzgerald’s forms suggest objects that were once whole but have…
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…



































