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…
Friday Nights @ !Metro Arts
7th June, 5:30pm
Metro Arts Level 1 to Level 4
WHEN : 7th June, 5:30pm WHERE : Metro Arts Level 1 to Level 4 Friday Night: June is shaping up to be another great evening. Thomas Quirk will offer a taste of his new work…
First Light
5th - 9th June / Opening 5th 6:00 - 9:00pm
The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End.
WHEN : 5th – 9th June / Opening 5th 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End. The Hold Artspace warmly welcomes you to ‘First Light’ – a photography exhibition…
ÖMIE ARTISTS : Suja's Daughters
5th June - 13th July
WHEN : 5th June – 13th July WHERE : Andrew Baker Art Dealer ÖMIE ARTISTS (Inc.) is a cooperative of Ömie tribeswomen barkcloth painters from Oro Province in Papua New Guinea. Barkcloth is the traditional…
McLean Edwards : New works
4th - 29th June
WHEN : 4th – 29th June WHERE : Heiser Gallery McLean Edwards (born 1972 in Darwin) is a painter who currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. McLean has been an Archibald Prize finalist in…
Scaffold : by Kieran Swann ·
3rd June, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Room60 Shop 22, Carraway St, Kelvin Grove
WHEN : 3rd June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Room60 Shop 22, Carraway St, Kelvin Grove Ruminating on the task and effects of bracing, Scaffold conflates physical support structures with the human body. Foregrounding strain,…
Lost Movements VI
2nd June, 3:00pm - 10:00pm
WHEN : 2nd June, 3:00pm – 10:00pm WHERE : Coniston Lane Lost movements is a not for profit artist run initiative that was developed by a group of Brisbane based musicians, artists and performers. Since…
Heavy Weights International Work on Paper from the Collection
1st June - 28th July
WHEN : 1st June – 28th July WHERE : QUT Art Museum QUT holds a significant collection of international works on paper by 20th century luminaries such as Alexander Calder, David Hockney, William Kentridge, Fernand…
My Country - UP LATE
1st June, 5:30pm - 9:30pm
WHEN : 1st June, 5:30pm – 9:30pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Celebrate the opening of ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’ with a night of music, and…
New Arcadia: Contemporary Australian Photography
1st - 16th June / Opening 1st June, from 10am
Bleached Gallery 75 Vulture Street, West End.
WHEN : 1st – 16th June / Opening 1st June, from 10am WHERE : Bleached Gallery 75 Vulture Street, West End. ‘New Arcadia: Contemporary Australian Photography’ is group exhibition featuring 11 artists from around Australia.…
Tracing the Ephemeral: Towards a History of Artist Run Initiatives in Brisbane
1st June, 2:00 - 3:00pm
State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 2, Level 2
WHEN : 1st June, 2:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 2, Level 2 Join Peter Anderson, our 2013 Australian Library of Art Siganto Foundation Fellow, for an insightful discussion of the…
Mild Mutant : Newspaper Launch
1st June, 2pm till late
WHEN : 1st June, 2pm till late WHERE : Love Love Studios This Saturday Love Love will be hosting a newspaper launch from the brilliant collective Mild Mutant. There will be live bands, a BBQ,…
Calling the Past
1st - 30th June
WHEN : 1st – 30th June Artists Laura Luck and Nick Nielsen will be turning Brisbane’s public phone booths into places to experience stories from the city’s past. The stories are taken from an extensive…
The Prince
24th May - 7th July / Opening 31st May, 6:00pm
WHEN : 24th May – 7th July / Opening 31st May, 6:00pm WHERE : Griffith University Art Gallery In New York in the late 1970s a young Richard Prince, working in the tear sheet department…
Room 60 and exist presents: Cultural Cartography by Eloise Maree
31st May, 6:00 - 11:00pm
WHEN : 31st May, 6:00 – 11:00pm WHRE : Room 60, 22 Carraway Street, Brisbane Inspired by the National Cultural Policy. Join performance artist, producer and theatre-maker Eloise Maree in an intimate, one on one…
James & Eleanor Avery : The Gold Room
29th May - 22nd June / Opening 31st May, 6:00pm
WHEN : 29th May – 22nd June / Opening 31st May, 6:00pm WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Gallery James and Eleanor Avery work both individually and collaboratively, and have been collaborating on large scale sculpture and…
Dispatch 02: Closed for re-invention
29th May - 22nd June
WHEN : 29th May – 22nd June WHERE : Ryan Renshaw Window Gallery Box Dispatch 02 sees Alexander Jackson Wyatt dispatched from SLOT in Sydney to Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Windowbox. Currently based between…
Titanium Anvil - Artist Talk
28th May, 6:00pm
WHEN : 28th May, 6:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace Join the closing event for Simon Degroot’s exhibition ‘Titanium Anvil’. Taking place in the standard artist talk format, Degroot will discuss the work included in…
Going Public
26th May – 30th June / Opening Event 26th May, 11:00am
Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
WHEN : 26th May – 30th June / Opening Event 26th May, 11:00am WHERE : Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland Photographer Richard Nolan-Neylan brings the private space of the artist’s studio or workspace into the public…
Earth and Elsewhere Curatorial Tour
25th May, 2:30pm
WHEN : 25th May, 2:30pm WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art José Da Silva, Senior Curator, Australian Cinémathèque, QAGOMA, will give insights into ‘Earth and Elsewhere’ an exhibition of contemporary Collection works that connects personal…
The Box Monthly
25th May, 6:00pm
The Box 29 Vulture St. West End
WHEN : 25th May, 6:00pm WHERE : The Box 29 Vulture St. West End The monthly celebration of the arts community & fundraiser for The Box artspace. Art: Romii Fulton-Smith, Erin Groennenboom, Kinly Grey, Lucy…
Andy Harwood : New Studio Exhibition
24th May, 6:00pm
1/11 Leonard Street Woolloongabba, Brisbane
WHEN : 24th May, 6:00pm WHERE : 1/11 Leonard Street Woolloongabba, Brisbane A collection of works from 2009 to 2013 (one night only). Harwood’s paintings are given breath by an antithesis of mark making techniques…
Sans Love
24th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Love Love Studio, 27 Florence St Teneriffe
WHEN : 24th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studio, 27 Florence St Teneriffe This show explores how our society represents and copes with the emotional trauma of falling in and out of…
kOMA Project // Part 2
23rd May - 30th May / Opening 23rd May, 6:00pm
Upstairs, Shop 2/30 James St, Fortitude Valley Brisbane,(above Ksubi)
WHEN : 23rd May – 30th May / Opening 23rd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Upstairs, Shop 2/30 James St, Fortitude Valley Brisbane,(above Ksubi) ‘This Is How Memories Are Made: Woodcuts by Alex Gillies’ Brisbane woodcut…
Darren Jorgensen on Esoteric Art
23rd May, 6:00pm
WHEN : 23rd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Darren Jorgensen (University of Western Australia) traces a history of esoteric art in Australia, looking at how Norman Lindsay, Danie Mellor, and others mobilise…
'Kanazawa Study' by Rohan Hutchinson
4th May - 2nd June
WHEN : 4th May – 2nd June WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography Kanazawa Study was completed whilst on an artist in residence at the Centre for art and architecture Kanazawa and the Kanazawa Art…
Seeing Things : Mitchel Donaldson and Dan McCabe
22nd May - 8th June / Opening 22nd May, 6:00pm
WHEN : 22nd May – 8th June / Opening 22nd May, 6:00pm WHERE : Metro Arts Seeing Things presents new work by emerging artists Dan McCabe and Mitchell Donaldson, co-founders of Addition Artist-Run Initiative. Incorporating…
Clark Beaumont in conversation with Bree Richards
22nd May, 6:00pm
WHEN : 22nd May, 6:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Nicole Beaumont and Sarah Clark began their collaborative performance-based practice in 2010 when studying together at QUT. Through live and mediated performance works, they investigate…
Michael Muir
21st May - 8th June
WHEN : 21st May – 8th June WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Honing his studio skills through formal studies in painting and design, Muir has departed from traditional plein-air painting to describe more ambiguous visual…
Sliding into the Surface of Things by Rob McLeod
3rd May - 1st June / Opening 3rd May, 6:00pm
WHEN : 3rd May – 1st June / Opening 3rd May, 6:00pm WHERE : SmallWorks Gallery McLeod is one of New Zealands most respected painters. His recent large scale exhibitions at the Wellington City gallery…
Hej Hej by Lucinda Wolber
18th - 24th May / Opening 18th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 18th – 24th May / Opening 18th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Box Westend Lucinda has been creating illustrations exploring the notion of nostalgia. “I think subconsciously it has something to…
New Paintings : Simon Degroot
17th - 26th May / Opening 17th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
WHEN : 17th – 26th May / Opening 17th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace New work by Brisbane-based emerging artist, Simon Degroot. This exhibition is a display of bright and colourful…
Food Show
17th May, 6:00pm
WitchMeat ARI 80 Hampstead Rd, Highgate Hill
WHEN : 17th May, 6:00pm WHERE : WitchMeat ARI 80 Hampstead Rd, Highgate Hill An exciting exhibition engaging the concept of food through performance, sculpture, painting, installations and consumables. Artists: Harry Pearce, Rachael Archibald, Michael…
Lets Face It
16th May, 5:00pm
Ross Street Studio 22 Ross Street, Newstead
WHEN : 16th May, 5:00pm WHERE : Ross Street Studio 22 Ross Street, Newstead Let’s Face It, an evening of live collaboration with twelve of the region’s leading artists and graphic designers is set to…
The Contemporary Australian Family Photographic Project
30th April - 26th May
WHEN : 30th April – 26th May WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse Photographing the diversity of contemporary family lives and relationships in Australia. The aim of The Contemporary Australian Family Photographic Project was to photograph the…
Firebrand
15th May - June 1st
WHEN : 15th May – June 1st WHERE : Fireworks Gallery Firebrand is a 20th Anniversary Group Exhibition focusing on artists Michael Nelson Jagamara & Laurie Nilsen.
LEVEL @ CIP with Debra Porch
14th May, 6:00-7:00pm
The Glasshouse, QUT, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
WHEN : 14th May, 6:00-7:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse, QUT, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane Join Debra Porch and three of her past students, Caitlin Franzmann, Kat Danger-Sawyer, and Chantal Fraser as they discuss the relevance of…



































