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…
Margaret Ingles: Moods and Muses
15th - 26th October
Lethbridge Gallery
‘Moods and Muses’ is a series of paintings by Margaret Ingles exploring the emotional qualities of the human experience. Some are simple and classical portraits with a contemporary twist, whilst others convey more of a…
Camille Serisier: Ladies of Oz
10th - 22nd October
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
Ladies of Oz is a contemporary portraiture project by CAMILLE SERISIER that explores the lives of Australian women. This exciting project uses the language of theatre to create fantastical still and moving images that critically engage with the intersection of art history and…
Karen Stephens: BORN OBSELETE
4th - 15th October
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
BORN OBSELETE – an exhibition of plein air paintings by Karen Stephens that form a commentary about automation and the end of work by investigating the discarded object in the urban landscape. Opening: Friday 7th October, 6:30pm –…
Philip Aitken: Useful Tasks #7
12th - 23rd October
POP Gallery
Philip Aitken is a sessional arts tutor and doctoral candidate with the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. In his upcoming solo show, Aitken explores the relationship between cultural orders and material objects, posing the…
Addis (Adis Elias Fejzić): A (dis)continuity of the Art of Stećak
12th - 22nd October
Webb Gallery, QCA
This visual art research project responds to the sculptural and social phenomenon of the Stećak (pronounced steh-chuck, pl. Stećci, pronounced steh-chtzi), a type of monumental tombstone that was prolific in medieval Bosnia (later Bosnia and…
Kenneth Beck: Connect/Disconnect
4th - 22nd October
Bosz Gallery
Kenneth Beck investigates the events that bring people together but can also isolate like picnics, playing music, workplaces and technologies. Connect/Disconnect explores the tensions that lie between people and objects and the spaces they inhabit. Kenneth lives…
Simone Hine: Split Screen
19th October - 5th November
Metro Arts
Split Screen presents a curated arrangement of new and existing video installations by Simone Hine. Across these works the borders of the screen, as both a conceptual and material limit, are explored, ruptured and tested. Playing…
Fabio Giocondo: The Fallen Human
27th October - 9th November
Jugglers Artspace
Rising to prominence in the last decade, Italian artist Fabio Giocondo quickly achieved national and international recognition for his art, winning numerous prizes throughout Europe. His thought-provoking work is classic, oil on canvas with a sixteenth…
Juz Kitson - You are here; right here, right now
8th – 29th October
Jan Murphy Gallery
Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to announce Juz Kitson’s exhibition, You are here; right here, right now. Her first solo exhibition in Queensland, this body of work is ‘quintessential Kitson’ and combines an array of…
BARI Festival Public Forum 1
13th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Brisbane Powerhouse
Find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about ARIs with two panel discussions in one night, featuring some of the most experienced – and some of the newest – members of the Brisbane ARI…
Hew Chee Fong: Don't Dive Shallow In Deep Dark Water
3rd September - 9th November
Caboolture Art Gallery
Walking into a gallery of Hew Chee Fong’s work evokes an immediate sense of reflection; a moment of quiet contemplation. Don’t dive shallow in deep dark water is a meditation on Hew’s more than three…
Traverse
20th October, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Brisbane Powerhouse
Traverse: one island. twenty+ artists. one night only. Showcasing new works from more than twenty emerging photographic artists, Traverse is a collective response to the physical and metaphorical landscape of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) explored…
Annie Macindoe: Between You and I
19th October - 5th November
FAKE estate
Between You and I presents an excerpt of the artist’s current exploration of video installation work that investigates themes of personal narrative surrounding loss and trauma and how these experiences can be poetically reimagined. The…
2016 Daphne Mayo Lecture
13th October, 6:00pm
UQ Art Museum
‘Disalienation: ownership, performance, repatriation’ Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Artist, art historian, Professor of Global Art University of Birmingham, UK This lecture reflects on a process of disalienation that drives repatriations, the performances, replications, and provenance…
Lightening Field
19th October, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The Laundry Artspace
LIGHTENING FIELD brings together, for the first time, the diverse and fluctuating practices of performance drawer Kellie O’Dempsey, installation butoh artist Megan White and sonic artist Luke Jaaniste in a new collaborative work. The Laundry…
Zoe Porter : Tactilus Umbravi
15th October, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Bowen Hills
Zoe is a Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist exploring primarily a drawing practice, which also extends into painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. ‘Tactilus Umbravi’ will consist of a live collaborative performance bringing together…
Sarah Rudledge : The Pile
14th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Teneriffe, Brisbane
The Pile is a work emerging from two weeks spent studying a mass of dumped rubbish in a Reservoir shopping centre car park. During this time video, writing, performance and public readings were employed to…
Seeing You: A Portrait in Miniature of Susan Frances Fragar
20th September - 15th October
Heiser Gallery
Julie Fragar was born in Gosford, NSW in 1977. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney in 1998 and returned to the university three years later completing her…
Johnny Romeo: Wasteland
21st September - 15th October
Mitchell Fine Art
A raucous and rollicking journey through the wild frontiers of Pop culture “Wasteland’, is the exhibition of new works from Australia’s leading Pop artist, Johnny Romeo. Opening at Mitchell Fine Art on September 23rd this…
Saffron Newey: The Immediate Past
28th September - 22nd October
Jan Manton Art
The Immediate Past is a series of 8 oil paintings that employ two key themes of the Romantic landscape – sky and sea. Here, these two motifs are characters in a play about time. Newey’s…
BARI Festival
6th - 23rd October
Various Spaces
The BARI(Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives) festival is a biennial event aimed at providing a fresh creative platform and promoting audience development for Brisbane based ARIs. BARI has been running in Brisbane since 2008. Running…
BARI Festival Public Forums 2
20th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Brisbane Powerhouse
Session One – The Climate of ARI’s: Politics and the Environment This discussion will focus on the space in which Artist-run initiatives in Queensland have evolved and the impact that our unique climate has had…
Bundit Puangthong: Reliving
20th September - 15th October
Edwina Corlette Gallery
In this new work I have created abstract landscapes through layers of colour. The landscapes represent the imaginary worlds of my childhood. Worlds I imagined and played in. Worlds that were inspired by things around…
Still Life: Reanimating the Inanimate
9th September - 2nd November
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
Still life painting – alongside portrait and landscape – is one of the best known and loved of all painting genres. Still life: Reanimating the inanimate celebrates the perseverance of the still life and its…
Ambience Store Project #7
9th September - 10th October
Ambience Store
Ambience Store and Cultural Flanerie are hugely excited to announce the lineup for The Ambience Store Project #7, opening Friday 9 September 2016. Now entering the final leg of the 2016 series, The Ambience Store Project is…
Luke Willis Thompson: Misadventure
30th July - 8th October
Institute of Modern Art
Shown across three galleries at the IMA, Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition of conceptual sculpture and film binds together three projects that mark the first five years of the artist’s work. The exhibition as a whole…
Disappearing Landscape – Passing II
7th May - 9th October
Gallery of Modern Art
Disappearing Landscape – Passing II 2011 is three-channel HD video installation by Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang-Ming. Yuan often draws on personal experience in creating his works, and this powerful installation reflects on the relationships and…
William Robinson: Genesis
28th June – 18th June 2017
Old Government House
William Robinson: Genesis explores the rich experimental spirit and inimitable mastery of Robinson’s works on paper to show that rather than being a minor interest, this medium has contributed greatly to the development of his…
Reproduction
18th September, 5:00pm - 9:00pm
The Sword in the Shell
ARTISTS Aishla Manning Angelica Roache-Wilson Callum Galletly Jaden Gallagher Naomi O’Reilly Patrick Zaia Rhiannon Dionysius Saara Roppola S & M PERFORMANCE TIMES 7:00pm – S & M Star Cryogenics institut-ov Mortality Prolongation (SCiMP) Celebrity Time…
Blair Coffey: Disembodied
20th - 30th September
Webb Gallery, QCA
In 2015 my entire genome was sequenced from a vial of my blood. The genetic information contained in my DNA (some 3.2 billion letters) was delivered to me on a cloud-based server where it is…
Time of Others
11th June - 18th September
Gallery of Modern Art
‘Time of others’ is a curatorial collaboration between four of the Asia-Pacific region’s leading institutions for collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting contemporary art. An exhibition project evolving as it travels between each venue throughout 2015 and…
Hannah Bronte: Still I Rise
15th September - 1st October
Metro Arts
This new video work explores feminism, Indigenous issues and the changing role of young women within today’s society through the mechanism of rap. Through densely loaded visuals Brontë explores an alternate universe where the governing body…
Natalya Hughes: All Of Your Women And Some Of Mine
15th September - 1st October
Milani Gallery
The exhibition presents new paintings examining representations of “the female form”. Opening event: Thursday 15 September 6.00-8.00 pm Image: Natalya Hughes, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 2016, acrylic on poly cotton, 200 x 200cm
Luke Roberts - Margin Through Centre: Fairweather Drawings
15th September - 1st October
Milani Gallery
“In Chinese, the written language and art are one. With each character the calligrapher’s line encircles, summarises and so defines the subject.” Murray Bail, ‘Fairweather’ The exhibition will present a new body of drawings by…
Cindy Sherman: Up Late
9th - 30th September
Gallery of Modern Art
MUSIC LINE UP: A dynamic line up of international, national and local, all-female musicians in the heart of GOMA 9 September: Double bill with Sarah Mary Chadwick and Summer Flake. 16 September: Sydney’s Sampa the…
The X Show
16th - 28th September
Jugglers Artspace
Jugglers’ Annual X Show celebrates the work of artists in residence, staff, volunteers, board, friends and family. Artists: Aaron Micallef | Aaron Veryard | Adam Buchanan | Alex Freitas | | Bohdi Gardner | Carmel…







































































