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…
GOMA TALKS: Country
5th September, 6:30pm
WHEN : 5th September, 6:30pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Hosted by Daniel Browning, presenter of ABC Radio National’s Awaye! Explore writing as a medium for expressing ideas about country, including identifying with, being…
Grace and The Kissing Swans : Artist Talk by Chris Bennie
4th September, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Fish Lane Studios The Fox Hotel, Level 2
WHEN : 4th September, 6:30 – 8:00pm WHERE : Fish Lane Studios The Fox Hotel, Level 2 Grace and The Kissing Swans is a project that uses flood-affected caravans sourced from Bundaberg Council’s Waste Management…
Quilts 1700-1945
Until 22nd September
WHEN : Until 22nd September WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery Explore over 200 years of British quiltmaking. Every stitch tells a story. Quilts stimulate memories of warmth, comfort and security. They are familiar objects, yet…
Claire Stening
20th Aug - 7th Sep
WHEN : 20th Aug – 7th 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…
John Honeywill
6th - 31st August
WHEN : 6th – 31st August WHERE : Philip Bacon Galleries “I paint the quiet visual conversations between everyday objects; paintings that explore presence and stillness in the genre of the still life—a genre that…
'WOULD' by Megan Starr-Thomas and Jeff Paton
1st - 7th September
Ugees Espresso, 80 Boundary St, West End
WHEN : 1st – 7th September WHERE : Ugees Espresso, 80 Boundary St, West End The Brisbane Collective proudly presents an exhibition of the recent artworks by Megan Starr-Thomas and Jeff Paton. The Brisbane Collective…
Thornton Walker : Myself and other animals
27th August - 28th September
WHEN : 27th August – 28th September WHERE : Heiser Gallery Thornton Walker was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1953, and emigrated to Australia, settling in Melbourne in 1965. He graduated with a Diploma…
Slide Night - Christopher Howlett
31st August, 7:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 31st August, 7:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Boxcopy Join Boxcopy Slide Night featuring Chris Howlett who will talk about recent developments in his new work titled ‘New Dawn’. Christopher Howlett graduated with a…
Zine & Indy Comic Symposium
30th Aug – 1st Sept
WHEN : 30th Aug – 1st Sept WHERE : The Edge The Zine and Independent Comic Symposium (ZICS) is a 3-day festival to be held in Brisbane, Australia at The Edge on Friday 30th Aug,…
Thoughts on Humans and other Animals
30th August - 14th September
Blake House Gallery, 35 Adelaide St, Brisbane
WHEN : 30th August – 14th September WHERE : Blake House Gallery, 35 Adelaide St, Brisbane Thoughts on Humans and other Animals serves as a showcase for two emerging Brisbane based representational artists. Ray and…
Dualism
28th - 31st August
WHEN : 28th – 31st August WHERE : Jugglers Artspace Dualism can be simply defined as a set of opposites that exist in our lives ie white│black, love│hate, hot│cold, good│evil, male│female etc. It is the…
Open Studio Event: Derek Kreckler
30th August, 5:00 - 8:00pm
MAAP SPACE 111 Constance Street, Fortitude Valley
WHEN : 30th August, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : MAAP SPACE 111 Constance Street, Fortitude Valley Derek Kreckler is completing a MAAP artist-in-residence project. The residency will culminate in a one night only public presentation…
Wood, Water & Stone: Hidden Worlds
30th August, 6:00pm
Art & Design Precinct - 10 Bailey St West End Brisbane
WHEN : 30th August, 6:00pm WHERE : Art & Design Precinct – 10 Bailey St West End Brisbane Wood, Water & Stone: Hidden Worlds is the first solo show from artist Dave Newman. Exhibiting 20+…
Mono 15
29th August, 7:00pm
WHEN : 29th August, 7:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Auditory hallucinations from Japan’s godfather of sound art Akio Suzuki and legendary English experimentalist David Toop. A joint project with Room 40. Image: Akio…
MADE TO LAST : THE CONSERVATION OF ART
3rd August - 22nd September
WHEN : 3rd August – 22nd September WHERE : QUT Art Museum The conservation of art is commonly associated with the restoration of seventeenth century easel paintings or marble sculptures from antiquity. Materials used in…
Liu Zhuoquan
27th August – 7th September
WHEN : 27th August – 7th September WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Liu Zhuoquan has taken the traditional craft of ’snuff bottle’ painting – painting on the inside of glass bottles – and created a…
Kirra Jamison: New works on paper
24th August - 7th September
Jan Murphy Gallery
Kirra Jamison cultivates ideas. Initial kernels of intuition germinate into lines, forms and patterns that branch and weave and interlay the picture plane with snatches of narrative. Floating amongst the fragments of decorative motif and…
you & I : panel discussion
24th Aug, 11:00am - 1:00pm
The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End
WHEN : 24th Aug, 11:00am – 1:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End Join The Hold Artspace for a panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibition, ‘you & I: thoughts…
Just Looking, Thanks
23rd August - 1st September / Opening 23rd August, 6:00pm
WHEN : 23rd August – 1st September / Opening 23rd August, 6:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studios CATC Photoimaging students and The Love Love Art Gallery is excited to present “Just Looking, Thanks”. This free…
GOLDEN SOLUTION PRESENTS: SHOWER PARTY
23rd August, 8:00pm
Witchmeat ARI, 80 Hampstead Rd
WHEN : 23rd August, 8:00pm WHERE : Witchmeat ARI, 80 Hampstead Rd AN ADEQUATE RESPONSE TO GAMES, PERMISSION, THE TENSION OF ETHICAL PLAY, AND THE REQUESTS OF HEDONISM. A TERMINAL TO RECORD YOUR CONCERNS WILL…
Richard Bell : New Work
22nd August - 7th September
WHEN : 22nd August – 7th September WHERE : Milani Gallery Richard Bell was born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, and is a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities. Based in…
MONO.PANEL
22nd August, 6:00pm
WHEN : 22nd August, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art The Future Is Noise! Amelia Barikin and Greg Hainge (both University of Queensland, Brisbane) and David Toop discuss. Plus, we launch Hainge’s book Noise…
New Dawn: New work by Christopher Howlett
24 August – 14 September / Opening Friday 23 August 6pm
Boxcopy
New Dawn explores the mysterious nature of reality in the objects and the mediatized spaces that surround us day-to-day; how do notions of the body, speed, excess, morality and even revolution translate from a purely…
Mild Manners presents : Stephen Mok - Face Facts
22nd August - 13th October / Opening 22nd, 6:00pm
Mild Manners Upstairs at Ksubi, Shop 2/30 James St,Fortitude Valley
WHEN : 22nd August – 13th October / Opening 22nd, 6:00pm WHERE : Mild Manners Upstairs at Ksubi, Shop 2/30 James St,Fortitude Valley Having last shown solo in late 2009 at the late Doggett St…
FAUX PAS
August 21st - September 7th
WHEN : August 21st – September 7th WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery New work by artists : Antoinette J Citizen, Charles Dennington, Genevieve Reynolds, Jared Worthington & Matthew Greaves.
Strangely Familiar
20th Aug - 21st Sep
WHEN : 20th Aug – 21st Sep WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Strangely Familiar investigates the ‘unseen’ side of a differently-abled narrative effectively disrupting the ableist presumption of people labelled ‘disabled’ as inferior. Over the past…
Spare Parts Brisbane 2013
20th August - 15th September
WHEN : 20th August – 15th September WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Spare Parts brings together a diverse range of artists who each use pre-loved prosthetics as their canvas. Curator of this exhibition, Queensland amputee, Priscilla…
Gary Warner
3rd August — 14th September
Pestorius Sweeney House 39 Eblin Drive, Hamilton,Brisbane
WHEN : 3rd August — 14th September WHERE : Pestorius Sweeney House 39 Eblin Drive, Hamilton,Brisbane David Pestorius is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Sydney artist Gary Warner (*1957). In the…
Cherry Hood : Works on paper
30th July - 24th August
WHEN : 30th July – 24th August WHERE : Heiser Gallery Cherry Hood was born in Sydney in 1950. She studied Fine Art at The National Art School, concentrating on painting. In 2000 she attained…
Ray Cavill talks ceramics
17th August, 6:00pm
150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane
WHEN : 17th August, 6:00pm WHERE : 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane As part of their month long residency at Substation Gallery and Studio, Liv Vesnaver and Rachael Archibald have asked Ray Cavill, of Clayschool…
'Therapies' by Christine Webster
17th August - 15th September
WHEN : 17th August – 15th September WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography Meditating upon the landscape, scenes are constructed in collaboration with the subjects that provide the possibility for creating an intimate shared space…
Box Monthly presents : COLLECTIVE COMMONS
17th - 19th August / Opening 17th August 6:00 - 10:00pm
The Box, 29 Vulture St, in West End, Brisbane
WHEN : 17th – 19th August / Opening 17th August 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : The Box, 29 Vulture St, in West End, Brisbane Recently returned from the US on an investigation into models of…
Reframed 13
16th - 28th August
Bleeding Heart Gallery 166 Ann Street, Brisbane
WHEN : 16th – 28th August WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery 166 Ann Street, Brisbane Reframed13 is the fourth show in a series of annual exhibitions by a group of local Brisbane artists These exhibitions…
New 2013
10th August - 15th December / Opening 16th August, 6:30pm
WHEN : 10th August – 15th December / Opening 16th August, 6:30pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum NEW 2013 features a selection of artworks acquired for The University of Queensland Art Collection during 2012–2013. The…
Down the Rabbit Hole
8th - 31st August
Project Gallery, Webb Gallery QCA, 226 Grey Street / POP at the Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merivale Street, Brisbane
WHEN : 8th – 31st August WHERE : Project Gallery, Webb Gallery QCA, 226 Grey Street / POP at the Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merivale Street, Brisbane This exhibition showcases the works of emerging artists…
'you & i: thoughts on intimacy'
15th - 31st August
WHEN : 15th – 31st August WHERE : The Hold Artspace you & I is an exhibition of nine emerging artists which examines ideas of intimacy and shared experience. With works from individuals and collaborative…





































