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…
Over The Fence
6th August - 30th October
UQ Art Museum
Taking its title from an artwork by Destiny Deacon, ‘Over the fence’ features the work of 18 Indigenous artists engaged in the field of photography. Indigenous art is often political, and these artists address various…
Bridie Gillman
3rd - 12th November
Edwina Corlette Gallery - Online Show
Bridie Gillman completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours Class 1 at the Queensland College of Art in 2013. Her practice is focused on the nature and process of negotiating cross-cultural experiences. By drawing on time spent…
Bapu: Khadi Exhibition
18th - 21st October
Frank Moran Gallery
Khadi, India’s national fabric, crafts a compelling narrative linking it inextricably to the country’s history and to Mahatma Gandhi. Hand spun and hand-woven, the making of khadi today provides livelihoods to people spread out in…
Performing Cinema
25th October, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Metro Arts
Performing Cinema presents a range of video works by Australian artists that turn to cinema as a method through which to interpret performance. Each work focuses on human performance, and harkens to histories of performance…
Real Live Nude
15th October, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Analogue Gallery
For one night only, SX+ Collective presents ‘Real Live Nude’, an immersive installation and performance art exhibition where you are invited to enter an otherworldly dreamspace inspired by the oft-maligned, but mostly misunderstood realm of…
Lee Wilkes: Caricatured (and true)
28th September - 22nd October
Jan Manton Art
The vanishing point where sky and sea connect seems such a familiar concept, yet when gazing into the hazed atmosphere of a seascape we tend to lose all sense of space, resulting in an experience…
UNSEEN
7th October - 2nd November
Bean
UNSEEN is the second collaborative effort from Brisbane photographers Justin Ma and Thomas Oliver. This instalment at Bean. is a selection of street photographs, taken by Justin and Thomas, from in and around Brisbane’s CBD…
Disrupt
28th October - 6th November
Jugglers Artspace
This exhibition is part of the Year of Print Celebrations to commemorate the Print Council of Australia’s 50th year anniversary. Disrupt 2016 at Jugglers Art Space features 30 Artists engaged in Print as a democratic…
Gary Winfield: Spectrum
4th - 30th October
REDSEA Gallery
REDSEA Gallery is delighted to present the much anticipated solo exhibition, “SPECTRUM” by Gary Winfield. With a fresh collection of vivid splashes and the uncertainty of colour mixing, Gary’s work is unique and distinct in…
Now What?
10th November, 6:00pm
Kelvin Grove, QUT
Now What? is the 2016 Visual Arts QUT Graduate Exhibition Please join us for the opening night on Thursday, November 10 at 6:00pm at Z13 Gona Parade, Kelvin Grove QUT. Now What? will be the…
Horizon
9th November, 7:00 - 9:00pm
The Block, QUT
Horizon is a celebration of QUT’s graduating Interactive and Visual Design students. These fresh graduates are prepared for their ever-changing roles as creatives within the design industry. Please join us as they draw on their…
The Collector: Conal Coad
9th November, 6:00pm
Griffith Uni Art Gallery
Join renowned opera singer Conal Coad to hear insights into the art collection of him and his partner, Colin Beutel, where he will discuss his fascination with printmaking, early modernism and abstraction. Alongside his successful…
Suss It Out
15th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
HASSELL
Suss It Out is Post Datum’s second exhibition of 2016 to be held at Hassell Studio. The show will survey student work responding to the phrase and theme “suss it out” through sculpture, video, print,…
In Residence: Home 2
21st October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Teneriffe Waterhouse
In conjunction with Brisbane Artist Run Initiaive (BARI) Festival and Arts Queensland, In Residence presents Home 2. In Queensland, we are encouraged to subscribe to an ideal mode of living, one that involves working hard…
Forecasting
22nd October, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Spring Hill Baths
We are faced with interconnected disruptive events driven by rapid changes in the environment, industry, technology and migration. Emerging is a perspective where the future is no longer something we shape through positive insights or…
Benjamin Crowley: Walking To The Edge Of A Small Cliff
14th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Clutch Collective
Walking to the edge of a small cliff is a video installation by Brisbane-based artist Benjamin Crowley presented inside the CLUTCH Collective truck for BARI Festival, 2016. The work will be a reiteration developed from…
Resort 2016
12th - 15th October
James St
James Street RESORT is back for its third instalment from October 12–15 after a hugely successful showing last year. Take a hike through this year’s urban vacation as we travel headfirst into nature’s own utopia –…
Clay Mahn: Left Right Left
13th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
TW Fine Art
Clay Mahn received his BFA in painting from the University of Montana’s College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2012. He has since been living and working throughout the Pacific Northwest, from Seattle to Portland,…
Subtropical Urbanity
14th October, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Living Edge
Presented by Architecture Australia in partnership with Living Edge, AA Roundtable is a free public forum presented in the new Living Edge showroom. Join a discussion about the new urban precincts shaping Brisbane, chaired by…
No.1 Neighbour Opening Weekend
15th - 16th October
QAGOMA
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art bring you 40 years of contemporary visual art from the young and dynamic nation of Papua New Guinea – with works focusing on the country’s relationship with Australia.…
Offsite: Dhanamenta 2
22nd October, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
The Walls
Artists: RACHAEL ARCHIBALD, RACHAEL BARTRAM, CHRIS BENNIE, TOM BROOKS, DAVID DAVID, LILY HALTON, LIBBY HARWARD, DAVID SPOONER. Curated by Dhana Merritt – 8 artists in 10 sites around Miami – One day only, Saturday 22…
Meredith Macleod: Helmer’s Tragedy
30th September - 9th October
Jugglers Artspace
Helmer’s Tragedy considers significant and frequently ignored issues relating to the struggle between intellect and emotion that can occur within the family home. The home is not always a refuge. As emphasised by film director…
Katarina Vesterberg: Nature’s Tryst
30th September - 29 October
Redcliffe Art Gallery
In Nature’s Tryst, Katarina Vesterberg explores her intimate relationship with the sky, land and vast oceans surrounding our continent. She invites us to experience the environment the way she does – feeling its power, Beauty…
George Gittoes: Blood Mystic Book Launch & Talk
22nd October, 2:00pm
GOMA Cinema A
Equal parts artist and warrior, George is famous for waging war on war with art, circus, photography and film. ‘Soldiers die for flags. For me it is art,’ he says. ‘Blood Mystic’, chronicles George’s extraordinary…
Miranda Skoczek: Crazy Patchwork
20th October - 5th November
Edwina Corlette Gallery
“My paintings speak of a desire to create sanctuary for the self” says Miranda Skoczek. In her work, combined energies of gestural freedom, opulent colour and the physical qualities of paint emanate from the field of…
Kate Barry: Traces In Between
20th October - 4th November
Side Gallery
Kate Barry is a Brisbane based artist with over 25 years graphic design experience in the publishing industry before a natural progression to create her own artworks arose. Working as an abstract painter, Kate’s works…
Amanda Wolf: Dry Hump, Wet Dreams
28th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Cut Thumb ARI
A lazy stroke. A deep fist. Dry Hump, Wet Dreams engages with the body as a site of exploration and play, reinterpreting childhood and adolescent mastubatory experiments as awkward and comedic initiations into pleasure…
The Artist As Quarry - Tirdad Zolghadr
8th November, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Artists are always falling prey to something or other. Censorship, curators, bad lighting, jet lag, bigotry, cultural prejudice, institutions in particular, and The Institution At Large. Never are they complicit in any of these things.…
Walking And Listening In The Contemporary Art Gallery
2nd November, 6:00 - 7:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Ambling through the art gallery we are continually aware of our surrounds and by association with the ever present sounds that emanate from both artworks and the everyday goings-on of the gallery. This paper will…
Green Screen: Queensland Shorts
3rd November, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA has teamed up with the Queensland Film Festival to curate a selection of recent and rarely seen screen-based works connected to Queensland. From a diverse and exciting mix of practices and projects, we…
Artist Talk: the churchie national emerging art prize
5th November, 2:00 - 3:00pm
QUT Art Museum
Join Brisbane-based artists and finalists from this year’s The churchie national emerging art prize as they discuss their work and being involved with the Prize, featuring: Aaron Butt, Brooke Ferguson, Elizabeth Willing, Kate Woodcroft (Catherine or…
Excerpts
1st - 3rd November
The Block, QUT
A showcase exhibition of exceptional artworks from QUT’s third year, Honours, and Postgraduate Visual Arts students. This curated exhibition serves as a snapshot of the distinctive and diverse outcomes that are developed out of the…
Art in the Time of Colony
15th Ocotber, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Artist, art historian, and Professor of Global at Art Birmingham University, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll launches Art in the Time of Colony at the IMA. She will be in conversation with Dr Amelia Barikin, Lecturer…
Rhiannon Dionysius & Peter Kozak: The Skin Team
14th - 22nd October
CORFLUTE
The Skin Team brings together the work of two artists, Rhiannon Dionysius and Peter Kozak, and considers the juxtaposition and underlying links – or lack there of – in their works. Dionysius is an interdisciplinary…
Shida: Rights of Joy
28th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
This Must Be The Place
Shida is a multidisciplinary artist, hailing from strong Brisbane roots. Running simultaneously with this years Valley Fiesta, Shida will launch his latest exhibition ‘Rights of Joy’. The Opening event will be on the 28th of October (6-9pm)…
Nigel Lendon: Modelling The Now
7th - 29th October
Milani Gallery
For the last five years Nigel Lendon has been working on a series of three- and four-dimensional objects each carrying the generic title “model”, sometimes with a subtitle. The concept of understanding each new work…







































































