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…
The Sex-Positive Art Show
10th May, 5:00pm - Late
Prestige Bar
Enticing and confronting in equal measures, SX+ is a visual and performance art exhibition brought to you by SX+ Collective and Brisbane’s Anywhere Festival. Through a diverse range of traditional, contemporary and conceptual art forms,…
‘Something like this, but not this’
20th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
The Laundry Artspace
This exhibition features works from current QCA Honours students. ‘Something like this, but not this’ is an in-between stage. A stage of still trying to work it out. A stage of kind of knowing what…
Claire Stening: Grey
19th April - 14th May
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Surface. Texture. Shadow. The play of light on fabric, the transparency of glass, the softer structures of draped silk and the pure contours of ceramics, eggs or a pear. Painting the unique in the commonplace…
Kenji Uranishi: Momentary
19th February - 22nd May
Museum of Brisbane
Kenji Uranishi is a Japanese-born ceramic artist who relocated to Brisbane more than a decade ago bringing with him ancient Japanese ceramic techniques and a deep understanding and respect for the surrounding environment. Inspired by his Japanese and Australian…
Snakes and Bends
27th May, 6:00 -10:00pm
Mount ARI
Snakes and Bends presents new works by Heidi Cutlack, Skye McNicol and Glen Schaneu. Individually, they have performed in an exhausting list of bands, produced works on paper, paintings, sculptures, shirts, records, videos and everything…
Aishla Manning: Making Puddles
27th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Oral ARI
Aishla Manning takes a page from the book of Rihanna and work work work work works in Making Puddles. Desperately futile and futilely desperate, Making Puddles reads as a modern retelling of the ‘Myth of…
The Absolutely Calculated Risk That Something Can Go Wrong
27th May, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Metro Arts
The Absolutely Calculated Risk That Something Can Go Wrong: New work by Joseph Breikers. http://josephbreikers.tumblr.com One night Exhibition :: Friday May 27, 6-8 PM This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.…
Road Trip
19th April - 14th May
Jan Murphy Gallery
Road Trip is a group exhibition featuring the work of significant Australian artists Juz Kitson, Fiona Lowry, William Mackinnon and Guy Maestri. The show considers the long held presence of the ‘road trip’ in the…
Real to Relic: Museums in 3D
26th May, 6:30pm
UQ Anthropology Museum
A unique exhibition showcasing innovations in 3D technology and their applications within museums will be on display for one night only at The University of Queensland. The Real to Relic: Museums in 3D exhibitat UQ’s…
Geek Girls
19th April - 13th May
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
In the Creative Industries, women have been at the forefront of art and technology creation and have played a central role in the development of new media practice. ‘Geek Girls’ presents experimental and cutting edge…
Sandra Selig: Pattern ghost
30th April - 21st May
Boxcopy ARI
‘If you drop a stone into a quiet pond, waves spread out over the surface of the water…A scientist would say that a tossed stone has energy, and that water waves can carry some of…
Super Art
14th April - 15th May
Fireworks Gallery
SUPER ART celebrates a collection of important works from legends of the Indigenous Art Movement including a seminal painting by deceased artist Lin Onus; watercolours from the Central Desert; classic dot and circle composition by…
Robert Dickerson
3rd - 28th May
Philip Bacon Galleries
Robert Dickerson is one of Australia ‘s best known painters. Born in Sydney , Australia in 1924, he is the son of a tinsmith. He worked as a boy fashioning tin funnels and scoops in…
Jannah Quill: NO INPUT
27th April - 14th May
FAKE estate
NO INPUT considers moments of stasis and futile circulation in information transfer. What stasis looks like and the apparent failure of the (in)action, but then also the constant energetic transduction in both stasis and movement.…
Nipple Net
Ongoing
Online Event
How it works Nipple Net is a user-generated, internet artwork. Anyone can submit a photo of their nipple and a short comment or story about their experience of their body to add to the work.…
Your Movement Through Life
19th May, 7:00 - 9:00pm
The Edge
The origin of astrology is universal, through both ancient and modern times. Almost every culture has its own astrology: a large group of systems, beliefs and traditions unique to places, time and people. The manifestations…
crosseXions
27th April – 14th May
Metro Arts
crosseXions draws together the work of 12 early-career artists who are inscribing feminist and environmental concerns within their art practice. This project rejects the cadaverous relationships of patriarchy and capitalism which continue to represent the world as…
David Creed & Jamie Mumford: Ring Road
27th May, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Metro Arts, Studio 4.6
You are invited to an exhibition of new artworks by David Creed and Jamie Mumford done during their recent residency at Fjúk Art and Design Centre in Húsavík, Iceland. Our works were inspired by our…
MAYO Arts Festival
27th - 28th May
St Margaret’s Arts Centre
This popular festival is named in honour of prominent sculptor and St Margaret’s Old Girl Daphne Mayo, one of Australia’s finest sculptors. Throughout her life, Mayo was an energetic and tenacious advocate of the Arts…
Forum: Culture in Fashion
31st May, 6:30 - 8:00pm
State Library Queensland
Join kuril dhagun for an engaging panel forum to conclude our latest ‘A night by the fire’ conversation series. The discussion will continue to explore the practice of cultural expression through fashion as it evolves…
IMA Talk, Gordon Hookey & Michael Aird
2nd June, 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Artist Gordon Hookey will be in conversation with curator, publisher, and historian Michael Aird to discuss the visual language of Hookey’s major new painting ‘HISTORY is his story, MYSTERY is my story (A History according…
Motion Picture
16th - 29th May
Parer Place QUT
Motion Picture considers art’s relationship to the cinematic through the work of six contemporary Australian artists. At first glance, the content and style of these works are seemingly familiar, however any initial sense of familiarity…
Brooke Ferguson: Refrain/Reprise
3rd - 12th May
Frank Moran Memorial Hall (QUT)
Refrain/Reprise is an exhibition showcasing Brooke Ferguson’s abstract drawings on paper that use chance based strategies and simple everyday objects to form the basis of the compositions. The works form part of an ongoing series that…
Ryan Presley: Themesong
10th - 28th May
Webb Gallery, QCA
Themesong is a body of work that explores deeply embedded links between religion, economics and power in colonial societies of the ‘West’, with a particular focus on Australia. Themes of power and dominion – in particular,…
Benjamin Crowley and Llewellyn Millhouse: IN DREAMS YOU'RE MINE
7th - 21st May
The Walls
In Dreams You’re Mine explores intimacy, loneliness and sexuality in a domestic context. The works speak to the presence and absence of the body, dignity and abjection, in digital image-based culture, and to the warm…
Women in Art
28th May, 10:00am - 12:00pm
South Bank TAFE
As a part of University of Canberra’s “UNIFi Creative Student Symposium” Forum Speakers: Jenny Watson, Julie-Anne Milinksi, Zoe Porter, Naomi Evans and Mary Letain. Chaired by Grace Herrmann What: An insight into the firsthand experiences…
SELF
29th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
BUSYBRICK ARI
SELF is a group exhibition showcasing 6 artists responding to the concept of self. SELF explores themes of identity, gender, perception, documental and material through a range of practices that engage with performance, process-driven work,…
Romii Fulton-Smith: Slowspace
2nd April - Ongoing
One Place After Another ARI
Walking to work. Walking home. Walking to a place. Walking from a place. Walking mindfully. Walking and observing. Walking for the sake of walking. Walking for the sake of art. The artist often makes the…
Resonance
22nd April - 15th May
Newstead House
Discover timeless connections to Brisbane’s early histories through the Sara Irannejad and Sally Molloy, at Newstead House, as they explore themes of cross-cultural exchange and legacies of exploration. Resonance features the work of Sara Irannejad,…
Theo Angelopoulos
15th April - 22nd May
GOMA Cinema
Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012) is widely regarded as the greatest Greek filmmaker, having crafted an epic vision of modern Greece and the Balkans through allegories of its turbulent social and political history. His films are celebrated…
Raquel Ormella
6th - 28th May
Milani Gallery
Raquel Ormella (b. Sydney 1969) is an installation artist working at the intersections of art and activism, investigating the means by which critical reflexivity in contemporary art encourages processes of self-examination regarding political consciousness and…
Barney Ellaga: Place of Stones
6th - 30th April
Mitchell Fine Art
A major survey show by Aboriginal artist Barney Ellaga will open at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley on April 6th. The exhibition ‘Place of Stones’ is a collection of artwork never exhibited in its…
Dis-order
1st - 12th April
Jugglers Artspace
Dis-order brings together the works of six artists: Vanghoua Anthony Vue, Carol Mac, Caitlin Halsall, Kevin Foo, Mark Feiler and Chris Kunko. This exhibition will explore the themes of order and disorder from different perspectives,…
Brutal Truths
19th November – 9th April
Griffith Uni Art Gallery
‘Brutal Truths’ presents preeminent voices in contemporary Australian art: Vernon Ah Kee, the late Gordon Bennett, and collaborative artists Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser. Grounded in debates relating to Australia’s Indigenous histories, these artists present…
The Dark Hour
6th May, 6:00pm
Poly Gone Cowboy
Dark Hour is an exhibition of works, found items & projections inspired by symbology, the occult, black metal, xeroxed posters, horror films, and all forms of dark matter. The collection of works explores our fascination…
Bruce Reynolds: Fixed
6th April - 7th May
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce Fixed by Brisbane artist Bruce Reynolds. “The notion of the passage of time and the fixed or ‘set in stone’ notion is one of my interests in the making…







































































