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…
Anastasia Booth: Summer Residency
31st January – 7th March
Boxcopy ARI
Brisbane-based artist Anastasia Booth is undertaking the 2015 Summer Residency at Boxcopy, utilising the gallery as a studio space, to create a new body of work exploring specific mythological figures and contemporary rituals, and themes…
On Air
27th February - 5th March
Jugglers Artspace
Artists Jordan Harris, Tanya Borg and Michelle Eskola present On Air: An exploration of digital spaces through traditional media, at Jugglers Art Space. Digital imagery and portable electronic devices have generated an endless drift of…
I knew it was wrong but I did it anyway
10th February - 7th March
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
Cameron Eaton’s upcoming exhibition “I knew it was wrong but I did it anyway” responds to his expanding awareness of a simultaneous existence as both consumer and resource. Through the work he examines feelings of…
'WE NEED TO LISTEN' Forum
7th March, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Since 2013, the feminist collective LEVEL has presented an annual International Women’s Day forum for robust discussions on art and feminism, seeking ways to create change through dialogue and activism. This year’s forum, ‘WE NEED…
Formless to Form
30th January - 28th February
TW Fine Art
The online world is re-shaping our society. From February 1st, TW Fine Art will explore the way artists are merging digital and analog thinking to create exciting new works that are quite literally changing the way…
GROUND
27th January - 28th February
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
GROUND examines the progressive investigations of intaglio printmaking in Western Cape York since 2012. It features artists based in Mapoon, Weipa, Naprunam and Aurukun. Originally shown at the Cairns Regional Gallery, many works included are…
Human Resources
25th February - 7th March
The Hold Artspace
The Hold Artspace opened March 1st 2013, and since this time the artist run initiative has hosted dozens of exhibitions and established itself as a quality space for creative practitioners to showcase their work. Commemorating…
Shandong University of Arts and Griffith University Art Exhibition
6th January - 28th February
Webb Centre Gallery
This exhibition honours artworks created by University leaders, Professional staff, Senior lecturers, longstanding educators and students from both universities during the years 2000-2014, the term of a collaborative agreement between the Universities. Styles of artistic…
The Road North to Brisbane
3rd February - 1st March
REDSEA Gallery
With inspiration taken from his recent adventures of Brisbane and its local beach scene, Craig Penny’s current body of work proves both this unbridled skill and integrity. Penny’s artistic career continues to rise after a…
SHAPE of Things to Come 2015
18th February - 3rd March
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
SHAPE showcases works by the best artists, designers and creatives of the Creative Industries Faculty 2014 graduate class, exposing future innovators in all areas of art and design, including fashion, architecture, interactive and visual design,…
Costumes from the Golden Age of Hollywood
Until 24th May
Museum of Brisbane
This exhibition will take visitors behind the scenes to gain a glimpse into Hollywood of the 1920s to 1960s through a collection of costumes, props and ephemera connected to the cinema’s most iconic stars, studios…
So in this Season
30th January - 28th February
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
The exhibition shines a spotlight on the current trends in contemporary culture and how this group of young and emerging artists deals with it – from pineapples, owls and energy drinks to the resurgence of…
Turner Collection
21st February - 5th March
Lethbridge Gallery
The Turner Collection is an exciting Secondary Market collection featuring artworks from a range of renowned Australian artist such as David Bromley, Robert Dickerson, Charles Blackman, Norman Lindsay and Geoffrey Proud. For more information about…
Chris Denaro: Nocturne
18th - 21st February
The Hold Artspace
Animation blurs boundaries of history, memory and imagination Nocturne, the latest exhibition from Brisbane animator Chris Denaro, incorporates a blend of physical stop motion and digital motion graphics to embody the genius loci, or spirit of…
Martin Edge & Bill Yaxley
17th February - 14th March
Heiser Gallery
Martin Edge is an emerging naïve painter, based in Brisbane. As a purveyor of colour, Edge seeks to capture moments from everyday life – inflicting a personal vibrancy into each. Life according to Edge is…
Vital Signs
Until 28th February
The Judith Wright Centre
Vital Signs the touring exhibition of the 2014 Queensland Regional Art Awards is now on show at the Shopfront Gallery, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. The exhibition features a mix of 2D, 3D and…
HYDRA
3rd - 22nd February
Brisbane Powerhouse
Inspired by a dark alternative vision of isolated masculinity. The black and white imagery, reminiscent of the highly contrasted nature of 1920s film, combined with modern qualities the subjects possess, meld together to create textural…
CHICKS ON SPEED: NEW WORK
13th February - 1st March
Milani Gallery
For their first exhibition with Milani Gallery, Chicks on Speed will present new and recent video alongside photographs, textiles, collages and objektinstruments (sound sculptures, often wearable). Chicks on Speed is a music and fine art…
M E S M E R I S M Summer Festival
20th - 21st February
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
Enter the hypnotic, immersive, vibrational world of sonic artist Luke Jaaniste. As part of his Fresh Ground residency, Luke is creating and curating a series of sonic immersions, to mesmerise your body, mind and soul.…
Factory/Studio/Tumblr
21st February, 2:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
On Saturday, 21 February, the IMA will host a series of lectures and artist’s presentations, Factory/studio/tumblr*, that depart from the Hito Steyerl’s exhibition Too Much World. In close conversation with Steyerl, we have invited Berlin-based…
Marisa Purcell: Unbounded
5th - 28th February
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Marisa Purcell employs her depth of experience with oil, acrylic, watercolour, and drawing media to conjure an internal landscape at symbiotic play with notions of micro and macro cosmologies. As she works, her method stretches…
Life, Death & In Between
23rd January, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Poly Gone Cowboy
Poly Gone Cowboy presents it’s first exhibition for the year. ‘Life, Death & in Between’ features new works by 3 Queensland artists whose work draw upon principals of illustration and design. Please join us to…
Lindy Lee: The Dark of Absolute Freedom
20th September - 22nd February
University of Queensland Art Museum
Lindy Lee’s work came to prominence in the 1980s and has evolved in tandem with key developments in Australian art, including the turn towards Asia. The first major survey of this artist’s practice, the exhibition explores Lee’s acclaimed…
Carte Blanch: Cover Story
22nd January - 21st February
Redcliffe City Art Gallery
Carte Blanche is an alliance of contemporary artists with diverse skills and strengths, connected by their mutual interest in artistic development, and their personal passions for varied issues. This exhibition features intriguing installations created by…
The Nat Yuen Collection of Chinese Antiquities
Until 5th July
University of Queensland Art Museum
The Nat Yuen Collection of Chinese Antiquities comprises over 80 pieces donated to The University of Queensland since 1994 by Dr Nat Yuen. Dr Yuen has long been connected to The University of Queensland. He graduated in Medicine…
IMA TALKS : What Can Art Institutions Do?
5th February, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA is pleased to present a lecture by Anne Barlow, Director of Art in General, New York. This is the inaugural presentation in a series of lectures running throughout the year titled What Can Art Institutions Do? …
Lethbridge Gallery: Annual Summer Group Show
Until 5th February
Lethbridge Gallery
Lethbridge Gallery’s annual summer group show brings all of the artists from the gallery together in a showcase of the exhibitions held throughout the year. Image: Eternal Flame by John Morris. Timber, paint, 14 x 13 x 43cm To view…
HOMEGROWN PEEP SHOW
31st January, 5:00 - 10:00pm
Metro Arts
The Brisbane Collective and To Be Continued Magazine present: HOMEGROWN PEEP SHOW. A pop-up, group collaboration of artists exhibiting in celebration of our fourth issue of TBCMAG, we are hosting COMMISSION FREE ART SALES, a…
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
1st November – 15th February
Gallery of Modern Art / Queensland Art Gallery
‘Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ explores the tremendous innovation of Japanese fashion designers from the early 1980s to the present. With nearly 100 garments featured in the exhibition, ranging from the classic and…
Extended Jewellery
28th January - 7th February
The Hold Artspace
Extended Jewellery will highlight the diverse practices of ten contemporary Brisbane jewellery and small objects practitioners. Developed through extensive periods of post-graduate study, including double degrees, Honours, Masters and pending Doctorates, each artist will present…
Gold Coast Art Prize 2014
6th December - 8th February
Gold Coast Art Centre
Now in its 46th year, the Gold Coast Art Prize provides an opportunity to showcase excellent contemporary art practice from across Australia. The prize is open to all Australian artists working in any art media…

































































