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…
William Bustard: Painting with light
19th June - 31st January
Museum of Brisbane
Be charmed by the personality of Brisbane through the works of 20th Century artist, William Bustard, regarded for his mastery in capturing Queensland’s distinctive sense of light. Bustard (1894 – 1973) was an artist, illustrator…
Subvert Systems
25th September - 23rd October
This Must be the Place
Subvert Systems is a body of new work by Brisbane based multimedia artist Warren Handley. Through subversion of the intended function of everyday technologies Handley exposes how technology becomes normalised and interrogates the trajectory of…
incidence
9th - 24th October
Lmtdspace
Lmtdspace’s third show, incidence brings together the work of Renata Buziak, Kim Demuth, Celise Gibson and Henri van Noordenburg. The artists, each with their own techniques and material processes, explore, push and pull at the boundaries of contemporary photomedia…
Anna Gonzalez: The Preposterousness of A Mental Diary
6th - 24th October
Bosz Gallery
My work is deeply rooted in the collective memory of Spain. These memories occupy in me, psychological spaces, evoking beliefs and rituals, enforced by my catholic upbringing, and by the political madness that people of…
On an Account of Seeing and Not Seeing
30th September - 12th October
WEBB Gallery (QCA)
On an Account of Seeing and Not Seeing is the studio outcome of my Doctor of Visual Arts candidature and is an enquiry into the realm of perception, of seeing and not seeing, a metaphorical blindness,…
Numinous-i
9th - 21st October
Jugglers Artspace
Works by Darryl Rogers and David Howard “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is…
Alan Constable: Close Up
16th September - 17th October
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
Alan Constable’s lifelong interest in cameras began around the age of eight, when he started using scraps of paper and cardboard from cereal boxes to fashion his own. It may come as a surprise to…
Margaret Ingles: Above and Below
10th - 22nd October
Lethbridge Gallery
Themed on the transformation and transcendence of water, Margaret Ingles’s new exhibition Above and Below evokes a state of relaxation and letting go of the busyness of everyday life. “Water helps us to connect to…
Ian Burn: London Works
12th September - 17th October
Milani Gallery
This exhibition presents a survey of works by the late Australian artist Ian Burn, made during Burn’s time in London from 1965 to 1967. A panel discussion will precede the opening at 3.00pm. Contributors to…
Patrick Staff: The Foundation
8th August - 10th October
Institute of Modern Art
The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is pleased to present a major film installation by Patrick Staff, The Foundation, co-commissioned with Chisenhale Gallery, London; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Spike Island, Bristol. In this new work, Staff explores…
Under the House
10th October
CORFLUTE
‘friends that make music and play art’ …guest curated by Louise Bennett – ∑gg√e|n (SubTropical Goth) – ALL the Weathers (Apple core kiddie core best friends galore) – The Formaldehydes (Death pop cutie pies) –…
Kimberly Ochres
22nd September - 17th October
Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art presents a display of bold minimalist artworks from the Kimberley region of North Western Australia. Depictions of ancient sites and stories of country are portrayed through expanses of ochre colour, thickly applied…
David Don: Inside/out
30th September - 10th October
The Hold Artspace
Space is intrinsic to life. Space materialises as the channel between experiences. This channel is whole, maintaining the existence of both control and chaos operating as singular entities. Control is the physical manifestation of space…
Robert MacPherson: The Painter’s Reach
25th July - 18th October
Gallery of Modern Art
‘The Painter’s Reach’ explores the work of senior Australian artist MacPherson and includes paintings, installations, ephemera and works on paper, showing how the artist’s reach begins with the particular and extends far beyond. A constant…
What Can Art Institutions Do? Lecture by Maria Lind
31st October, 3:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA is pleased to present a talk by curator and critic Maria Lind. This is the eighth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled ‘What Can Art Institutions Do?’ Lind…
LA2015: Brisbane
3rd - 4th October
Institute of Modern Art
Liquid Architecture, Institute of Modern Art and 4ZZZ present LA2015: Brisbane…. Liquid Architecture’s 2015 Brisbane program unfolds over two evenings in various spaces at the IMA, and features a selection of international and Australian artists…
Near and Present
30th September - 10th October
The Hold Artspace
The Hold Artspace, on behalf of the artists Lucy Anderson, Freda Davies & Haruka Sawa, warmly invites you to the opening of ‘Near and Present’. There is a mystery to why a subject is chosen…
Judith Parrott: Grounded
30th September - 17th October
Judith Wright Centre
Place Matters, wherever we are. Grounded, a commission by Glasgow Life for Festival 2014, XX Commonwealth Games, is the seventh exhibition in Judith Parrott’s Place Matters series. Grounded presents the outcome of two residencies; one…
Space Betwixt
7th October - 1st November
Brisbane Powerhouse
Curated by Alexandra Winters and featuring the work from Genevieve Felix Reynolds, Freda Davies, Christian Flynn and Andy Harwood. Space Betwixt explores the representation of a gap in information; a blank space that borders the…
dhanamenta
24th October, 12:00 - 4:00pm
The Walls
6 artists in 6 sites around Miami Saturday 24 October, 12-4pm (one day only) Guided walk with curator Dhana Merritt at 2pm dhanamenta is a one day outdoor exhibition (and guided walk) that explores the…
Ali Bezer: Parallel Universe
28th - 31st October
The Hold Artspace
Parallel Universe is Ali Bezer’s PhD examination exhibition, culminating works of art developed and refined over her four-year candidature at Queensland College of Art. Bezer’s visual research project is motivated by her curiosity toward strange…
Medicinal Plant Cycles
8th -17th October
Project Gallery (QCA)
The work in this exhibition, Medicinal Plant Cycles, draws on natural science and extensive consultations and discussions with members of the Quandamooka community of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). These images of medicinal plants are based…
Lethbridge Art Auction
29th October, 6:30pm
Lethbridge Gallery
Next Thursday the 29th of October, the Lethbridge Gallery will be hosting our first fine art auction. The gallery has a collection of top line Australian artists including original artworks by Jeffrey Smart, William Robinson,…
Ross Byers: Quiet Mind
28th October - 1st November
White Canvas Gallery
“Mapping the Quiet Mind” (MtQM), is inspired by the idea of the kinds of vessels required to negotiate the internal landscape or architecture of the mind. The forms I am creating are drifters, journeyers. They…
Suspension Points
7th - 9th October
The Block (QUT)
A Communication between Students at Queensland University of Technology and Fordham University In an era when communication itself is undergoing radical reinvention, students from Fordham University, New York and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane have…
Peter Alwast: Being Together
15th - 28th October
The Block (QUT)
Being Together uses appropriated objects, constructed sculptures and video portraits to explore ideas of community, a recurring theme in Peter Alwast’s work. Relations between seemingly disparate objects are established in unexpected ways, which talk about…
Stefan Dunlop: Super Elastic Bubble Plastic
9th - 31st October
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Stefan produces works that focus on compositional elements like volume or colour, his oeuvre maps an attempt to capture the ephemeral spirit of his chosen medium. While somewhat unusual in the contemporary era, such bewitchment…
When the world was a wonder
2nd October, 5:00 - 6:00pm
Captain Burke Park
New work presented by Brooke Ferguson and Courtney Coombs When: Friday 2 October, 5:00-6:00pm Where: Captain Burke Park (under the bridge) Kangaroo Point, Q 4169
Direction Now
5th September - 17th October
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
Abstraction is a way of art making that goes beyond the physical appearance of things to express a hidden meaning. It is non-representational, meaning the artwork does not depict the way things look in real…
Float
14th October, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Brisbane Powerhouse
“Float” presents the work of 14 Queensland College of Art students at a projection event at the Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Platform on the 14th of October, 6 – 8pm. This one-night show is a response…
Karla Marchesi: Vivarium
29th September - 24th October
Heiser Gallery
Karla Marchesi was born in Brisbane in 1984. In 2004 the artist graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and later in 2007 received her Honours in Fine Art…
Together Forever Tonight
9th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
The Laundry Artspace
‘Together Forever Tonight’ is a one night only show of recent works by artists Hailey Atkins and Jack Mitchell. Working across a range of two and three dimensional media, Hailey and Jack explore how the…
Donald Blue: Blue Dragon
2nd - 10th October
Brisbane Institute of Art
Donald Blue’s interest in Chinese culture began in the 1950’s when he lived in Taiwan with his family for a 3 year period. He began making pottery in the early 70’s and soon after took…
June Tupicoff
22nd September - 17th October
Philip Bacon Galleries
“The difficulty in painting has always included the transformation of pigment into light, and in these works the artist has shaped and balanced the colour so that the image lives in the mind. They are…
Drawn to Experience V2
22nd September - 3rd October
POP Gallery
This survey explores the expansive act of Performance Drawing – the act and action of drawing, its processes as theatre, line, motion and record, positing drawing within an interdisciplinary platform. Curated by Kellie O’Dempsey, the group…
Heidi Yardley: Shapeshifting
6th - 31st October
Jan Murphy Gallery
Heidi Yardly eschews the vast panoramas of contemporary painting in favour of intimately scaled compositions. Her oil paintings feature figures and settings that recall film noir or the eerie magic of the occult. And just…







































































