Gulbuuygu celebrates eight years of collaboration between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Fashion students and artists from the Hope Vale Arts and Culture Centre in Cape York Peninsula. The exhibition takes its name from a Guugu Yimithirr word meaning “together”. The exhibition features garments and textiles developed through the partnership,…

Logan Art Gallery presents The White Portal, an exhibition by Bruce Reynolds exploring change and memory through sculpture and two-dimensional artworks. Using materials including linoleum and plaster, Reynolds will construct a large sculptural gate that separates linocut works from plaster reliefs. This division represents a journey between past and present,…

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…

INTERLUDE is the 2026 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, presenting the work of 37 emerging artists at the transition between university study and their developing creative practices. Framed as an interlude — a pause, interruption or space between one stage and the next in an artist’s career — the exhibition…

Urbania #3 is a post-graffiti-themed group exhibition that forms part of an ongoing series bringing together small groups of independent artists connected to Brisbane. Hollie Cassidy — Fragments Fragments explores a period of deep reflection in which major life changes and formative influences are revisited. Cassidy considers the balance between…

Museum of Brisbane presents In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice, a landmark exhibition celebrating ten years of its Artist in Residence program and the artistic innovation, collaboration and creative exchange it has fostered. The program has welcomed more than 100 artists and supported over 50 original projects, engaging millions…

Albert Tucker (1914–1999) was one of Australia’s renowned artists and a key exponent of Australian modernism. Primarily known as a figurative painter, he critically responded to the world around him through his art. In 1939, Tucker acquired his first camera and began documenting his life and the people and places…

15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance the City of Moreton Bay Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, 15 artists are invited by City of Moreton Bay Galleries to exhibit recent work, showcasing diverse artistic voices and ideas. The winning artist receives $20,000, and their work…

Kirsten Coelho (b. 1966, Denmark) is a leading Australian contemporary ceramicist living and working in Adelaide, South Australia. Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. Her work has been recently influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 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 (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…

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…

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…

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,…

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’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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…