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…
Platform 2013
15th - 31st Aug
WHEN : 15th – 31st Aug WHERE : Metro Arts Jan Manton Art and Metro Arts are proud to announce Platform 2013, featuring Brisbane-based artists Judith Wright, Carl Warner, Shayle Flesser, Indonesian artist Jumaadi and…
Motto Pop-Up and Book Launch
15th August, 6:00pm
WHEN : 15th August, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Berlin-based art-book merchants Motto create a one-night pop-up store. They will use the occasion to launch Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction, an anthology…
Retro-active: A 25 year survey of Fiona Foley
24th July - 24th August
Andrew Baker Art Dealer 26 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills, Brisbane
WHEN : 24th July – 24th August WHERE : Andrew Baker Art Dealer 26 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills, Brisbane Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Badtjala, Fraser Island, Queensland. She…
Parallel Nippon: Contemporary Japanese Architecture 1996 – 2006
9th - 31st August
WHEN : 9th – 31st August WHERE : Artisan This exhibition, brought to Brisbane by the Japan Foundation, is a celebration of contemporary Japanese architecture as a reflection of Japan’s history, people and culture. Including…
Gerard Glynn : Dry Dreams
9th - 23rd August
Loading Dock Espresso, 2 Edmondstone St, South Brisbane
WHEN : 9th – 23rd August WHERE : Loading Dock Espresso, 2 Edmondstone St, South Brisbane West End photographer and muso Gerard Glynn is holding his first exhibition ‘Dry Dreams’ at Loading Dock Espresso. Better…
Centre Of The World featuring Ben Hackworth
6th August - 24th August
WHEN : 6th August – 24th August WHERE : Woollongong Art Gallery Ben Hackworth’s feature film and short films that have screened in official selections at many festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Toronto, Montreal and Melbourne…
Paintings by Adam Lester
7th August – 17th August
WHEN : 7th August – 17th August WHERE Jan Murphy Gallery Adam Lester’s work comes from a need to make sense of cultural ’noise’. Travels in Greece and Asia, and an interlude in the hippy…
Level Discussion Series – LAURA CASTAGNINI
7th August, 6:00pm
The Glasshouse, QUT Kelvin Grove Brisbane
WHEN : 7th August, 6:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse, QUT Kelvin Grove Brisbane Join Melbourne-based curator Laura Castagnini in a discussion about Feminism and Art. Laura will also be mentoring Level’s 2013 Emerging Curator in…
Artist Residency at The Substation
5th - 30th August
Substation Gallery & Studio, 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington.
WHEN : 5th – 30th August WHERE : Substation Gallery & Studio, 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington. For the month of August Liv Vesnaver and Rachael Archibald will be the artists in residence at the Substation…
Daniel Templeman : Four Rings
3rd - 24th Aug / Opening 3rd Aug, 5:00 - 7:00pm
WHEN : 3rd – 24th Aug / Opening 3rd Aug, 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Join SGAR for the unveiling of Daniel Templeman’s newest exhibition ‘Four Rings’. The evening will showcase…
Chicks on Speed : Scream
3rd Aug - 21st September
WHEN : 3rd Aug – 21st September WHERE : Institute of Modern Art In 1997, Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and formed Chicks on Speed.…
Ari Athans : Rockheads
30th July - 17th August
WHEN : 30th July – 17th August WHERE : Edwina Corlette Gallery “The starting point for this work is about rocks, minerals and object collecting. I enjoy working with steel as a canvas because it…
ART/LIFE
3rd Aug - 15th Sep
WHEN : 3rd Aug – 15th Sep WHERE : QUT Art Museum In 2009, Shane and Sally Thompson bequeathed in their Will a personal collection of just under 400 artworks to the QUT Art Collection.…
Will Irving : Food For Thought
2nd - 11th August / Opening 2nd August, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Three White Rooms - 138 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane
WHEN : 2nd – 11th August / Opening 2nd August, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Three White Rooms – 138 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane Art lovers will have their hunger stimulated by a striking new…
Middle Ground
1st Aug - 10th August / Opening 2nd Aug, 6:00 - 8:00pm
The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane
WHEN : 1st Aug – 10th August / Opening 2nd Aug, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane ‘Middle Ground’ presents the current stages of studio research by…
Fresh Cut 2013: Part 1
3rd Aug - 21st Sep
Institute of Modern Art
WHEN : 3rd Aug – 21st Sep WHERE : Institute of Modern Art This year’s show features Joseph Breikers, Caitlin Franzmann, Anita Holtsclaw, and Ruth McConchie. They were selected by Leonard and artist and QUT…
Julia deVille and Leslie Rice
30th July - 17th Aug
WHEN : 30th July – 17th Aug WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Leslie Rice has spent more than15 years as an established tattoo artist (from a lineage of tattooists including his father and sister) and…
Beautiful Dreamers Awake Unto Me
2nd - 13th August / Opening 2nd August, 5:30pm
WHEN : 2nd – 13th August / Opening 2nd August, 5:30pm WHERE : Bird Studios Beautiful Dreamers Awake Unto Me is an exhibition to mark the launch of Michelle Fleur Photography. Michelle Fleur is a…
Vie de Pacifique - Pacific Life
1st - 31st August
Brisbane Square Library,2nd floor, 266 George Street, Brisbane
WHEN : 1st – 31st August WHERE : Brisbane Square Library,2nd floor, 266 George Street, Brisbane Vie de Pacifique-Pacific Life is a unique exchange of original contemporary prints by 51 artists from seven countries in…
Image World
1st August 6:00pm
University of Queensland Art Museum
WHEN : 1st August 6:00pm WHERE : University of Queensland Art Museum On August 1st, SoFA continues its productive association with Diagram, with the latest installment of the Salon entitled Image World. Supported by UQAM,…
Artist Talk : Baden Pailthorpe
31st July, 6:00 - 7:00pm
WHEN : 31st July, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Please join Sydney-based artist Baden Pailthorpe in a discussion about his work in The Games of Art exhibition as well…
Simone Eisler : Artist Talk
27th July, 2:00 - 3:00pm
WHEN : 27th July, 2:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms Simone Eisler’s practice focuses on recreating natural figures and materials into new fantastical forms that emit an ethereal, other-worldly energy. Over the…
Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013
27th July, 6:00 - 11:00pm
WHEN : 27th July, 6:00 – 11:00pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts The 2013 Brisbane Emerging Art Festival will focus on presenting Brisbane’s leading emerging artists from across visual art, performance, experimental…
Gavin Hipkins & Karl Fritsch : Der Tiefenglanz
24th July - 18th August
WHEN : 24th July – 18th August WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery Gavin Hipkins is an Auckland-based artist who works with photography and moving image. He has been described as a ‘tourist of photography’ reflecting…
Andrew McNamara Lecture
25th July, 6:00pm
WHEN : 25th July, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art We Petty Bourgeois!: Comrades and Contemporaries was one of Sigmar Polke’s last major exhibitions. In examining it, Andrew McNamara (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane)…
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize
12th July - 7th September / Opening 26th July, 6-8pm
Griffith University Art Gallery, 226 Grey St, South Brisbane
WHEN : 12th July – 7th September / Opening 26th July, 6-8pm WHERE : Griffith University Art Gallery, 226 Grey St, South Brisbane
Addition #5
July 25th - 1st August
WHEN : July 25th – 1st August WHERE : Addition Gallery Addition #5 explores an alternative approach to visual practice based on a materialist ontology for the work of art. Mitchell Donaldson, Llewellyn Millhouse, Shanna…
Gareth Sansom
25th July - 17th August / Opening 25th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 25th July – 17th August / Opening 25th, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Milani Gallery Gareth Sansom (born 1939, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian artist, painter, printmaker and collagist. Sansom has had a…
Sugar
Until 7th October
WHEN : Until 7th October WHERE : Queensland Art Gallery ‘Sugar’ reflects on the history of the industry that first brought South Sea Islanders to Australia. The exhibition features a selection of historical photographs documenting…
Shilpa Gupta
24th July - 30th August / Opening 26th July, 5:00 - 8:00pm
WHEN : 24th July – 30th August / Opening 26th July, 5:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : MAAP The MAAP Board invites you to the opening of a solo exhibition by Indian artist Shilpa Gupta. Gupta…
PARTICIPATORY ART AND THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY
24th July. 6:00pm
WHEN : 24th July. 6:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Just as Pop Art depicted the abundance of material products in a postwar consumer society, Participatory Art represents today’s experience economies. Participatory Art’s engagement with…
The Games of Art
23rd July - 2nd August / Opening 25th July, 6:30pm
The Block QUT Creative Industries Precinct
WHEN : 23rd July – 2nd August / Opening 25th July, 6:30pm WHERE : The Block QUT Creative Industries Precinct The Games of Art will investigate artists who use gaming as a framework and medium…
The Central Queensland Project
23rd July - 18th Aug
WHEN : 23rd July – 18th Aug WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse The Central Queensland Project is a photographic exploration of a largely invisible but economically powerful region. Given the complexity of the modern economy and…
Dispatch 04: Hair Today - Jenny Mai Hall
24th July - 17th August
Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Windowbox.
WHEN : 24th July – 17th August WHERE : Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Windowbox. Jenny Mai Hall is a visual artist who lives and works in The Hills of outer Melbourne. Her work explores…
Firebrand III
24th - 31st August
WHEN : 24th – 31st August WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Firebrand III at FireWorks Gallery focuses on Queensland painter David Paulson and will showcase his new series Maleny Creek 2013. David has been painting from…
Simon Starling Lecture
21st July, 1:00pm
Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank.
WHEN : 21st July, 1:00pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank. English artist Simon Starling, who won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2005, is celebrated for his erudite projects. His works…



































