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…
Point and Shoot – An Exploration of Music Photography
8th - 10th September
Crowbar Brisbane
Curated by The Brisbane Collective and showcased at Crowbar Brisbane as apart of the Big Sound live music showcase, we have enlisted 11 of the best live music photographers / videographers for a 3-day showcase…
Why Jewellery?
16th - 26th September
WEBB Gallery, QCA
Starting with the question “Why Jewellery?”, students, graduates and staff from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and Queensland College of Art seek to create their answers based on each individual’s background and…
Transgressiphoria
15th - 27th September
The Hold Artspace
Transgressiphoria explores the tenuous boundaries between children’s play and adult paraphilias through the equivalency constructed by the appropriation of found glamour photography and discarded popular culture toys. Mass cultural waste is tenderly manipulated and assembled…
disassemble | reassemble
27th June – 29th August
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
disassemble | reassemble highlights the relationship between humans and nature, and contemplates the attitudes, both caring and careless, that shape human life on the planet. The foundations of the exhibition arose from memories of the…
Craig Waddell: Highlands
3rd - 21st August
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Sensual and tactile, Craig Waddell’s work celebrates both the sublime and the imperfect. Laying down paint, wet into wet, observing while intuitive colour and gesture build and change, he destroys, renews and resurrects images from…
Robert Chalender: Incomplete Thought
6th - 31st August
Lust For Life
Incomplete Thought is a striking look into the mind and politics of Bleeding Kansas artist Robert Chalender. Owner of Strait Jacket Press, Robert set up shop in Fortitude Valley two years ago, it is in…
Nightcrawler
4th - 15th August
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
“I really am turning into a moth. The light on my phone keeps me searching for truth in all the wrong places…” ~ Nick Drake Nick Drake considers the urban landscape of Brisbane — and…
John Morris: Figments, Fragments and Fixations
1st - 13th August
Lethbridge Gallery
John Morris’s exhibition Figments, Fragments and Fixations is a collection of hand carved timber sculptures. Throughout this series John continues to explore anatomy and the human form; deconstructed, modified and added to. Contrasting elements such…
John Olsen
28th July - 22nd August
Philip Bacon Galleries
John Olsen’s exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. He is an abstract artist whose work remains grounded in…
Jemima Wyman: Tactical Frivolity
1st - 15th August
Milani Gallery
The exhibition will present new works by Jemima Wyman, including works on paper, wallpaper, collages, bronze talismans and textiles. Jemima Wyman is a contemporary artist who lives and works between Brisbane and Los Angeles. Wyman…
HELLO SELFIE MEN
29th August, 4:00 - 5:00pm
Fortitude Valley Mall
QPF presents HELLO SELFIE MEN. Curated by the 2015 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence Kate Durbin, HELLO SELFIE MEN (HS MEN) a one-hour durational performance wherein men from the Brisbane (and Australian) community will take…
Zine and Indie Comic Symposium
22nd - 23rd August
The Edge
The Zine and Independent Comic Symposium (ZICS) is a 2-day event to be held in Brisbane, Australia at The Edge on Saturday 22 Aug & Sunday 23 August. – Saturday (22 Aug) @ The Edge…
Transience: A confluence of Australian and Chinese culture
5th July - 16th August
Redland Art Gallery
In this exhibition Brisbane artists Joe Furlonger, Jun Chen and Pamela See have created new work about suburban and regional Queensland, exploring the theme ‘transience’.Transience was inspired by the example of artist Ian Fairweather (1891…
Grant Stevens: Dark Mess
25th July - 29th August
Boxcopy ARI
In a world consumed by quests for happiness and personal growth, Grant Stevens’ new exhibition, ‘Dark Mess’, delves into the psychic troubles that sometimes lie below the canopy. Working predominantly with video, photography and installation,…
Banana Sunday: Chirs Bennie
23rd August, 3:00 - 7:00pm
The Walls
BANANA SUNDAYs are a new monthly social sound series on Sunday afternoons as The Walls presents sound artists, artists who play with sound and projections, VJs and noise makers. It’s your chance to go a…
Imperturbable Mr Earle’s visit to New South Wales
26th August, 6:00pm
UQ Art Museum
The Mayne Centre Lecture 2015 by Dr Mary Eagle. Augustus Earle 1793–1838 is evoking interest internationally these days as virtually a mind-traveller whose take on events and activities in his time, long ago, chimes with our…
What Can Art Institutions Do?
19th August, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA is pleased to present a talk by artist Marysia Lewandowska. This is the sixth presentation in a series of talks running throughout the year titledWhat Can Art Institutions Do? Born in Poland, Lewandowska now…
Brisbane Fringe Festival
15th - 30th August
Various Spaces
b.f.f. is a not-for-profit event that brings brisbane’s diverse and cutting edge artistic community to new audiences. an arts festival without bureaucracy and red tape – a festival that is inclusive and supports artists who…
Dai Li: Dreams, Ghosts and Other Stories
4th - 29th August
Heiser Gallery
Cerarmicist Dai Li was born in Sichauan, China in 1987 and now lives and works in Queensland. Between the years of 2005 and 2009 she attended the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China and arrived…
Jannick Clausen: TRANSIT-ORY
22nd July - 15th August
Maud Creative
A magical landscape of another world is born in a fleeting moment. Frozen in time and only visible to those who pause to imagine. Imprinted in our memories forever, escaping the reality through the infrared…
Yuendumu Jukurrpa
28th July - 29th August
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Featuring Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu. Established in 1985, Warlukurlangu Artists’ Art Centre is recognised as one of the most active and important centres in desert art. Beautiful bright colours and intricate patterns mix to illustrate…
Slipstream / Festival of Time Based Art
13th - 15th August
Metro Arts
Slide right to the cutting edge of contemporary performance and live art. Slipstream rushes into Metro Arts, and brings with it a wide range of time-based art. Flow through one space to another to see…
Not Yr Sweetheart
1st - 14th August
The Print Bar
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” Anais Nin We live in a time of faster connectivity, more knowledge and socially acceptable self-indulgence. Where a photo on Tumblr or…
Public art: Then and now
30th August, 2:00pm
Museum of Brisbane
Today public art is often hotly debated, dividing public opinion and attracting news coverage. What is it about public art that creates such controversy? Join public art curator and consultant, Renai Grace from iAM Projects,…
Jason Haggerty: BODYPOD
1st - 15th August
The Walls
BODYPOD is the culmination of Winter Artist in Resident Jason Haggerty’s time occupying The Walls’ mezzanine studio. As Artist In Residence Jason has connected with Miami, an area of the coast that he’d never fully…
Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing
7th - 21st August
Jugglers Artspace
Celebrating its 6th year the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing is holding its annual finalists exhibition opening on August 7th at Jugglers Art Space. Under the direction of Holly Riding and Peter Breen the…
Bianca Beetson: Works from the Gushul Studio Residency
29th July - 15th August
Project Gallery, QCA
A selection of paintings, works on paper and photographs produced during an Artist Residency Program undertaken at the Gushul Studio in Alberta, Canada. Opening Event: Friday, 7 August 2015, 6 – 8pm Venue: PROJECT Gallery, QCA, 226 Grey…
Queensland Who Are We: Defining State
20th August, 6.30pm
Gallery of Modern Art
#GOMATalks returns for two Thursday evenings during #GOMAQ for a discussion of Queensland, its past, present and future. In our event hosted by Sarah Kanowski, we will discuss as a state, can we be defined…
Viz Arts Live - Richard Bell
10th August, 7:00pm
Online
John Stafford interviews artist Richard Bell. Richard Bell was born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, and is a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities. Based in Brisbane, Richard has held numerous…
Joseph Breikers: Joke Trading
13th - 15th August
Metro Arts
Joke Trading draws on the verbal tradition of humour and the act of joke telling as a site of social exchange and leisure. “Joking is a specific and meaningful practice that the audience and the…
Churchie National Emerging Art Prize
31st July - 29th August
Griffith University Art Gallery
Thirty three (33) emerging artists have been selected as finalists for the churchie national emergingart prize 2015. From a record number of over 900 artworks, received from across Australia, 38 artworks will be profiled in…
IMA Reading Group
29th August, 3:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join the forth iteration of the IMA Reading Group on Saturday, 29 August, at 3pm. The reading group is a monthly assembly in the Motto IMA bookstore designed to further activate local discussion surrounding contemporary…
TERRAFORMAS
August 28th, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Cut Thumb ARI
Installation by Angela Rossitto and live waveforms (music) by #459 SCRAPS and ZANAX. Come hang out with neon scribbles and futuristic bubbles and experience this Terraforma for one night only. The official/unofficial closing night of the…
Art / Science
11th - 27th August
Ecosciences Precinct
A group of accomplished artists have been in residence working with scientists at the Ecosciences Precinct for 6 months. The eight artists of the‘Curiosity AIRS’ collective are Alicia Lane, Ben Beeton, Jane James, Jennifer Wright,…
Anya Swan & Merete Megarrity: This Ur
26th - 29th August
The Hold Artspace
Working in the same studio space at the Queensland College of Art, Anya Swan and Merete Megarrity have discovered a certain affinity. Connecting to the bush-like area where she lives, Merete’s artwork quietly prods at…
Cast By The Sun
29th July - 15th August
The Hold Artspace
‘Cast By The Sun (Brisbane)’ is the first part of a two part exhibition between Queensland College of Art and Tyler Art School academics and higher degree research students shown in Brisbane and in Philadelphia—including…







































































