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…
Argo presents Light Play: an immersive chamber music experience
30th October, 6:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Immerse yourself in light and sound – an evening of new chamber music by Ben Heim + Connor D’Netto. Instrumental, vocal and electronic forces combine to create a new concert experience – intimate yet expansive…
Slavs and Tatars: The Tranny Tease
25th October, 2:30pm
Gallery of Modern Art
Please join us for a special lecture-performance by Slavs and Tatars entitled The Tranny Tease. Through a focus on Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union, The Tranny Tease explores how transliteration (the conversion of…
Jessie Nash & Jack Mitchell: Gap Fillers
14th - 17th October
The Hold Artspace
An exhibition of recent works by emerging Brisbane artists Jessie Nash and Jack Mitchell exploring the tenuous boundaries between familiar and foreign in real and virtual social landscapes. Using friends, acquaintances and strangers as their…
Sally Edwards: Men in Uniform
17th October, 5:00pm
A-CH Gallery
On Saturday the 17th of October, join Sally Edwards at A-CH Gallery for an exhibition of her collection ‘Men in Uniform’, a collection created as part of a year long Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours,…
Capital and country: the Federation years 1900–1914
25th July - 1st November
UQ Art Museum
Capital and country: the Federation years 1900–1914 celebrates the art of the newly federated Australia alongside the work of Australians working in Europe during these formative years of the new century. The paintings by 25…
GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art
11th July - 11th October
Gallery of Modern Art
‘GOMA Q’ is the first in a series that will profile the innovations and achievements of leading Queensland visual artists. The exhibition will profile more than 30 emerging, mid-career and senior artists working across the…
15 Artists 2015
17th September - 24th October
Redcliffe City Art Gallery
15 Artists is an annual acquisitive award and exhibition, which plays a pivotal role in the ongoing growth of the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection. We invite artists to submit work that reflects our…
Juan Davila
24th September - 10th October
Institute of Modern Art
Juan Davila will bring together two significant works from one of Chilean/Australian artist Juan Davila’s most iconic series of paintings, Hysterical Tears, which have been loaned from a private Queensland art collection. This body of…
Virginia Fraser & Elvis Richardson: FEMMO
3rd - 31st October
Boxcopy ARI
The artists Elvis Richardson and Virginia Fraser have adopted a curatorial pose to collaborate on a series of magazine covers, combining portraiture with attention-seeking headlines for a so-far fictional publication FEMMO™. Where other curators might…
The Photograph and Australia
4th July - 11th October
Queensland Art Gallery
An historical view of Australia and its people seen through the camera’s lens will be unveiled when ‘The Photograph and Australia’ opens this weekend at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG). The exhibition, on tour from…
The Last Paul Mumme Show
10th September - 31st October
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
For a decade Paul Mumme’s work has explored the absurdities of contemporary life, the dead ends that we encounter and their various causes. Sometimes ridiculous, sometimes banal, his works usually take the form of simple…
Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies
8th August - 25th October
Gallery of Modern Art
The exhibition ‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ acknowledges Daniel Crooks’ significant contribution to new media art in Australia and traces the emergence of this recent transition into sculptural forms from his early works in video art…
Witches as ‘Others’: Mobilising Emotion in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Images
15th October, 6:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Those accused of witchcraft during the European witch-hunt were generally understood to be extremely malicious and aggressive. As a moral and social threat, they had to be excluded from the benefits and protections of church…
Intervention
2nd - 24th October
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
To coincide with the inaugural Drawing International Brisbane Symposium at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University), three artists from different backgrounds collectively share a synergy of core ideas around drawing, photo-media and performance/installation. Artists:…
Erin Groenenboom: Leave (Get Out)
9th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Cut Thumb ARI
‘Leave (Get Out)’ is a selection of new work that investigates how the body can process emotions in ways which the heart or mind cannot. Groenenboom’s performance and audiovisual installations reflect submission to the indulgence…
Victoria Reichelt: Future Ruins
6th - 31st October
Jan Murphy Gallery
In Future Ruins, Reichelt has produced a series of skillfully crafted paintings that continue her investigation into society’s shift from the analogue to digital. For this series, she considers the abandoned, haunting interiors of library…
Greetings From...
3rd - 24th October
Workshop Brisbane
GREETINGS FROM… is an exhibition of postcards and small works by local Aussie artists. It is a lighthearted look at the beautiful places, people and animals we are surrounded by. Whether it be the ocean,…
Michelle Eskola: Luminous Plastic
17th September - 3rd October
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
Influenced by her mixed Finnish and Australian cultural heritage, Michelle Eskola explores the intersection of polarities of light, space, abstraction and formation. Employing these elements and processes she considers the role of painting in contemporary…
Charles Robb: Catacoustics
16th September - 3rd October
Metro Arts
Conceived as part of Charles Robb’s ongoing self-portraiture project,Catacoustics is informed by his twin interests in figurative and incidental form – especially the tension between highly refined, modelled forms and the mundane objects and materials…
Linde Ivimey: Cross My Heart
15th September - 3rd October
Jan Murphy Gallery
The highly recognisable sculptures of Linde Ivimey will be presented in a new solo exhibition, Cross My Heart, at Jan Murphy Gallery. Using an extremely diverse and distinctive range of materials, her creatures are comprised…
Element
12th September - 1st October
Lethbridge Gallery
Element is a bright new exhibition featuring three local landscape artists; Pat Hall, Wayne Malkin and Raelean Hall. Pat Hall Pat Hall is known for her watercolour paintings with a difference. Her new collection does…
Wabi Sabi: The Beauty of Impermanence
23rd August - 4th October
Redland Art Gallery
Wabi Sabi profiles Australian and Japanese artists that explore traditional Japanese techniques such as Ikebana, shibori, woodblock printing, ceramics, irogane and tsumami zaiku. The works are fabricated using traditional Japanese processes and techniques but are…
Gary Winfield: Colour & Consciousness
8th September - 4th October
Redsea Gallery
Gary Winfield’s work focuses on the current thinking on consciousness – what it is and where it is. His unique artwork endeavours to visualise the abstract notions of consciousness through splashes of vivid colours that…
Lee Wilkes: Low Pressure (Closing In)
9th September - 3rd October
Jan Manton Art
We often forget that our natural world exists in an endless state of evolution and transformation. While human beings are also a creation of the natural world, we tend to exude an arrogant superiority over…
Blak
16th July - 2nd October
St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital
Blak features artworks by students enrolled in the QCA – Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Program and was coordinated by Art from the Margins (AFTM) in celebration of Blak History Month. Australian Blak History Month has…
Attitude As Form
25th July - 7th November
Artisan
Attitude As Form presents the work of 22 practitioners from Australia and New Zealand exposing a diversity of ideas and approaches to the creation of contemporary jewellery. The exhibition reflects current thinking in the fields…
Straddie Style: Redesigning the Beach Shak
23rd August - 4th October
Redland Art Gallery
An evocative exhibition integrating models, photographs, drawings and plans, Straddie Stylesurveys the unique and distinctive design of the North Stradbroke Island beach house. A holiday and fishing destination for those seeking escape, Straddie’s contemporary beach…
Steve Parish: As One
8th September - 4th October
Brisbane Powerhouse
This world premiere exhibition of fine art will connect you with nature via a stunning visual odyssey. After forging a long career as a publisher, naturalist, teacher and photographer, As One celebrates Steve Parish’s career with his first ever exhibition of…
We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989
Until 20th September
Gallery of Modern Art
‘We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989’ surveys the art of Heisei, the current era in the Japanese imperial calendar, through the presentation of around 100 works by over 40 contemporary Japanese artists,…
Steve Lopes: Gallipoli
28th August - 19th September
Mitchell Fine Art
‘Gallipoli’, is an exhibition by celebrated Australian artist and writer Steve Lopes. It commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, also known as the Dardanelles campaign. This work was painted primarily in Turkey during…
John Young
25th August - 19th September
Philip Bacon Galleries
Over the past three decades John Young has continuously negotiated with the definitions and concepts surrounding the question: what is the role of the artist? Throughout his long artistic journey Young’s practice has responded to and…
Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere
15th August - 15th September
UQ Art Museum
‘Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere’ considers the work of contemporary artists who employ light and related technologies, and examines their practice in relation to artistic precedents. Historically, artists invoked light’s symbolic power and, from the…
The Flyway Print Exchange
23rd July - 5th September
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
The Flyway Print Exchange is an interchange between artists living in different countries along the East-Asian Australasian Flyway, the flight path travelled by Australia’s migratory shorebirds twice annually between their breeding and non-breeding grounds. The…
Cult Japan
3rd July - 2nd September
GOMA Cinema
Japanese film will make a long-awaited return to the Australian Cinémathèque when ‘Cult Japan’ opens for the eight-week film program running from 3 July to 2 September 2015 / Tickets are now on sale. Featuring…
What Can Art Institutions Do? Lecture by Ian McLean
26th September, 3:00 - 4:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA is pleased to present a talk by art historian Ian McLean. This is the seventh presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titled What Can Art Institutions Do?, featuring a…
James Barth: Otonaroid
4th - 26th September
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Working with motifs and devices drawn from cybernetic culture, my recent body of work investigates problems of the feminised body, queer theory and transgender representations in technosexual imagery. Resultantly, these representations perpetuate issues of immobility,…







































































