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…
IMA Talk: Daniel Boyd
24th March, 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Daniel Boyd will speak about his Green Room exhibition and artistic practice on Thursday 24 March, at 6pm. Daniel Boyd is a descendant of the Kudjla/Gangalu peoples from Far North Queensland. Boyd’s acclaimed practice deftly…
Bleach Festival
4th - 20th March
Gold Coast
Bleach* Festival illuminates, reflects, beams, focuses and most importantly connects art, with community…come with us and challenge the conventional as we strive to change perceptions at Bleach* Festival 2016, 4 – 20 March. With sophisticated,…
APT8 Cinema: Lav Diaz
21st November - 9th April
Gallery of Modern Art
Presented as part of ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ Lav Diaz is one of the leading figures of contemporary cinema, celebrated for his intensely poetic and beautiful works exploring the social and political…
APT8 LIVE SUNDAYS
20th March, 2016
GOMA
You’re invited to engage with APT8 Live through a series of monthly event days exploring performance and the body in APT8. Monthly on Sundays, APT8 Live will feature artist performances, drop-in workshops, curator’s tours…
Stephen Nothling
16th February - 19th March
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Stephen Nothling: Peintures florales qui ne changeront pas le monde, mais peuvent paraître belles sur un mur de salon (Floral paintings that won’t change the world but might look good on a lounge room wall).
Adolphe Piche: Colours of our Skin
26th February - 12th March
Bosz Gallery
Adolphe Piche will be the first artist in 2016 for Bosz Gallery. This exhibition showcases his skill in figurative drawing, watercolours and oil paintings. Opening night at 6:30pm on the 26th February.
Michael Cusack: The other same and the other
2nd - 20th March
POP Gallery
“Blanks for when words gone. When nohow on. Then all seen as only then. Undimmed. All undimmed that words dim. All so seen unsaid.” – Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho Opening Event: Thursday, 3 March 2015, 6 – 8…
Watermarks
9th - 24th March
Webb Gallery, QCA
Four artists use diverse media to explore the traces, impacts and qualities and relationships of water. Nicola Hooper investigates Zoonoses (infections/diseases transferred from animal hosts to humans). She explores the animal body as a ‘host’…
Into Pan’s Cave: Ancient Greece meets Contemporary Art
16th March, 6:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Public lecture and panel discussion. In the history of art, classical antiquity has always had an important place. But its uses and abuses vary widely at different times and contexts. What is the status of…
The Shape Of Words
26th February - 9th March
Brisbane Institute of Art
Shape Of Words brings together three visual artists working with text, influenced by a common origin; twenty five years ago they met as students at the QUT Painting and Sculpture studios. They’ve since developed independent…
Level Forum: We Need to Care
12th March, 10:00am - 4:00pm
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Since 2013, LEVEL has presented an annual International Women’s Day forum for robust discussions on art and feminism, seeking ways to create change through dialogue and activism. This forum will address the often problematic connections…
IN SITU: New Photodocumentary Work
9th - 20th March
Maud Creative
Every photograph is a document. A photographic document may be about a friend’s smile, a family event, a dramatic storm cloud or a dent in a car door – but what about documents that tell…
On a Roll
30th January – 12th March
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
On a Roll is an exhibition and portfolio of fine art prints created in 2005 commemorating and celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights and the 40th anniversary of Indigenous people’s voting rights in…
Clark Beaumont: Then and Now
12th - 24th March
The Walls
Now and Then presents new video and installation artworks by Clark Beaumont. Clark Beaumont is the Brisbane-based artistic collaboration of Nicole Beaumont and Sarah Clark. Through both live and mediated performance works they investigate ideas…
Less
24th March, 6:00 - 9:00pm
The Laundry Artspace
‘Less’ is a group exhibition that explores the commonalities and differences between ten early career Brisbane-based artists working within the field of post-minimalism. Traversing issues of affect, perception and beauty, as well as medium and…
Summer School: Artist Discussion and Screening
19th March, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Boxcopy ARI
Join Boxcopy on Saturday afternoon at 4pm for a discussion about artist run activity as a potential site of resistance that can challenge ways of thinking and doing, with Brisbane based artist Danielle Clej and Adelaide…
2015 National Self-Portrait Prize
14th November – 13th March
UQ Art Museum
Self portraits tend to record a moment, less than a second in the case of photography, but only marginally longer in traditional art media. Yet the idea of ‘becoming’ might be useful in considering self portraiture. Movement and…
Marilyn Schneider: VVVVVIP
24th February - 12th March
Metro Arts
“For the vast majority of people, work offers no meaning, fulfillment or redemption – It is simply something to pay the bills.” – Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Nick Srnicek and…
Amy Commins: Landshapes
19th March, 6:00pm
FAKE estate
Landshapes is an exhibition of new work by amy commins using light, motion and video to creatively inquire into the tensions at work within the concept of landscape. Amy commins is a visual artist currently…
Dirty Blonde
27th February - 2nd April
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
SGAR is excited to announce we are hosting a summer residency program in the gallery with Brisbane artists Dana Lawrie and James Barth. The intensive month long studio residency will culminate in a group exhibition…
Transcendental Plains
9th February – 6th March
REDSEA Gallery
John Waller’s abstract design represent the next step in a pictorial tradition that underpins much of Australian art. After an extensive career in Victoria, this exhibition will be Waller’s first in Queensland, as REDSEA Gallery…
Joseph Breikers: Under The Surface
24th March, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Metro Arts
Under the Surface: New Work by Joseph Breikers. Of Satan, satin, l’inferno and the subterrane. This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. This exhibition is presented as part of the 2016 Metro…
Callum McGrath: Make it Pink
11th March, 7:00 - 10:00pm
CLUTCH Collective
“I have been told truck-stop blow jobs are a thing.” PS. Dad’s a Trucker. Callum McGrath is an emerging Brisbane artist currently completing his Honours in Visual Art at the Queensland University of Technology. Through…
IMA Talk: Daniel Barber
16th March, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
In this talk, Daniel Barber will discuss the role of image making and distribution as a central arena for rethinking the relationship between architecture and climate in the 1940s and 1950s. Drawing on discussions…
FEMIOKE
12th March, 7:00 - 11:00pm
Metro Arts
In partnership with LEVEL, Metro Arts presents FEMIOKE – a DIY style, feminist karaoke event as part of International Women’s Day and an after-party to LEVEL’s We Need to Care forum. Are you going to…
Banana Sunday: Eco Disco
6th March, 4:00 - 7:00pm
The Walls
Featuring ROSS MANNING (SOLAR SOUNDS) (BRISBANE) CHERIE NOBLE (PROJECTED ENVIRONMENTS) (PALM BEACH) ALICIA HARVIE (PERFORMANCE ART) (BROADBEACH WATERS) UNWAR (EARTH-FRIENDLY AMBIENT DRONE NARRATIVES) (NORTHERN NSW) + RE-CYCLED, UP-CYCLED, BI-CYCLED BEATS + PEDAL-POWERED LIGHTING & PEOPLE-POWERED…
Courtney Coombs: Urban Strolling
18th March, 6:00pm
Cut Thumb ARI
Urban Strolling presents new work stemming from a recent one-month residency in Cadiz, Spain. In Cadiz, Courtney explored the possibility of walking as a strategy for unlearning, where unlearning involves the process of moving forward…
Living in the city: New architecture in Brisbane & the Asia-Pacific
19th February - 22nd May
Museum of Brisbane
As Brisbane establishes itself as an important city in the Asia-Pacific, what do our buildings say about life here? Living in the city will explore nine new architectural projects in Brisbane currently under construction alongside one project from each of our nine…
Wide Eyed: Australian and Queensland Naïves
9th February - 5th March
Heiser Gallery
Heiser Gallery presents a group exhibition of Naïve artists. Featuring Sam Byrnes, Charles Callins, Lorna Chick, Stephen Corti-Griffiths, Roy Huff, Martin Edge, Majory Dennis, Gunther Deix, Edith R. Dunstan, Dick Roughsey and Bill Yaxley. Image: Bill…
Organic Data
11th March, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Fish Lane, South Brisbane
Immerse yourself in Friday Night Laneways, Organic Data unfolding in Fish Lane, South Brisbane on Friday 11 March during the World Science Festival. From 6-10pm experience light projections, interactivity and sampled sounds that fuse art…
100% Brisbane
From 15th July 2016
Museum of Brisbane
100% Brisbane is an exhibition like no other you’ve seen before. In an exciting world-first, Museum of Brisbane has collaborated with celebrated Berlin based theatre company Rimini Protokoll to create a powerful and unforgettable interactive…
Director’s Choice
3rd - 27th February
Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art Gallery kicks off its 2016 exhibition calendar with ‘Director’s Choice’. Gallery Director Mike Mitchell carefully selected the artworks from the galleries current collection and the show highlights some of the galleries finest…
MELT
3rd - 28th February
Brisbane Powerhouse
During MELT the walls of Brisbane Powerhouse will come alive with imagery from a diverse range of artist. The space will be transformed by the MELT group art show, which features the film work of…
Charlotte Tegan: Superimposition
23rd January – 12th February
This Must be the Place
The analogue film photography in Superimposition – taken by artist and curator Charlotte Tegan – fosters in the viewer a sense of familiarity and comfort, using identifiable locations, everyday scenarios and almost playful compositions. In…
Céline Condorelli: The Artist As… Architect
1st march, 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The Artist As… is a year-long lecture series co-presented with Curatorial Practice at MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture), Melbourne, examining the multitude of roles artists occupy and adapt today. Céline Condorelli is an artist…
Alice Payne: Garden of shrinking violets
18th January - 24th February
Artisan
In Garden of shrinking violets, designer Alice Payne explores design for re-configurability through half-scale laser cut silk garments that can ‘grow’ or ‘shrink’ with user interaction. The work features layering, threading and knotting, drawing on…







































































