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…
Swell Sculpture Festival
9th - 18th September
Pacific Parade, Currumbin Beach
SWELL facilitates high quality outdoor art and cultural events, connecting people, art and place. Our signature event is the SWELL Sculpture Festival held annually on Currumbin Beach in early September. Now in its fourteenth year,…
Ken Fero's: Injustice
6th October, 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
In conjunction with Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition Misadventure, we present a free screening of Ken Fero’s Injustice (2001), a film that The Guardian called ‘one of the most powerful and despairing films ever to have been made’ in the…
Blind Coven: Listening Sessions
22nd September, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
New Globe Theatre
A dark, foggy, ethereal installation with a curated listening session. The Coven meets to embrace the act of listening. Blind Coven III is a response to Blind Coven II, which was held last Wednesday at…
Ross Booker
22nd September - 7th October
Side Gallery
Ross Booker – Mapping Location: Ross River, Central Australia My current art practice is the result of many years spent camping, walking and drawing in central Australia. Walking is pivotal to my experience of the…
Green Screen: Caitlin Franzmann
17th September, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Red Hill, QLD
An off-site experimental film screening and audiovisual performance with Caitlin Franzmann, Dale Gorfinkel and Ross Manning. The short films (co-curated with John Edmond) and performance will offer insight into the artists’ process and thinking in…
Fragments II Belgrade
2nd August - 3rd October
QLD Multicultural Centre
Fragments II: Belgrade is a series of artworks that depict vignettes of the architectural cityscapes of Belgrade, one of the oldest European cities. Remembered images of the city are overlaid with a map that describes…
Unbuttoned: A Festival Of Gender, Art And You
15th - 18th September
Metro Arts
Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival, UNBUTTONED is an electrifying four day program of performance, visual art, film, and party. With affordable prices and promised surprises, book tickets to a show, or just turn up…
Title Optional
14th September - 1st October
FAKE estate
Title Optional, as a group exhibition, critiques prevailing representations of gender variance in wider culture. With commonalities such as self-imaging and humour, the works release gendered identity from archetypal narratives, and reframe the queer body…
15 Artists
26th August – 24th September
Redcliffe City Art Gallery
This is an $8,000 annual acquisitive award and exhibition, which plays a pivotal role in the ongoing growth of the Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection. Fifteen artists are invited to submit work that reflects…
Guan Wei: Bird, Map, Shadow
23rd August - 17th September
Heiser Gallery
GUAN WEI was born 1957, Beijing, China. In 1989, three years after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University, Guan Wei came to Australia to take up an artist-in-residence at the…
HANAKO: Art Inspired By The Performance
30th August - 25th September
Brisbane Powerhouse
Curated by Tiffany Atkin and featuring twelve local artists, the exhibition is a mash-up of pop culture, desire and eroticism juxtaposed against traditional Japanese art and iconography. Sparked by a classic Japanese tale of dominance…
Anastasia Booth: Preaching to the Perverted
15th - 24th September
Metro Arts
Preaching to the Perverted presents a new series of sculptures and digitally mediated performances by Anastasia Booth. Employing the material sensuality of Baroque sculpture and the humour of goddess ritual performance, the exhibition poetically investigates…
Emma Wright: Persona Non Kata
21st September - 9th October
POP Gallery
Persona non kata is the first solo exhibition by photo media artist Emma Wright. An exploration of stereotypes, Persona non kata considers the ease with which we use such social shortcuts, and the misunderstanding they facilitate. Using…
One Size Fits Most
20th September - 1st October
Project Gallery, QCA,
Tessa Bergan, Deborah Eddy and Alicia Hollier are undergraduate students in their final year at QCA. They represent three different experiences of feminism. One Size Fits Most is an exhibition of installation and video works.…
Lin Onus : Yinya Wala (Light/Water)
9th - 24th September
Jan Manton Art
‘I kind of hope that history may see me as some sort of bridge between…cultures’ Lin Onus 1990 Jan Manton Art and Mossgreen Gallery Melbourne are excited to announce the first international exhibition dedicated to leading Australian…
Leonie Chinn: Drawing Breath
15th - 28th September
Jugglers Artspace
Jugglers Art Space Inc. is pleased to host ‘Drawing Breath’ the first solo exhibition of works by Brisbane based artist, Leonie Chinn. The human subject, in states of spiritual exaltation, expansion and contraction, is the…
High Rise Low Rise
24th September - 8th October
The Walls
High Rise Low Rise is a contemporary art Contiki Tour: artworks packed in suitcases, curators on flights to far-flung locales and artists emerging from airport terminals to the sea air of the Gold Coast. It…
Lynden Stone: Sacred Gaia Healing
13th September - 1st October
Bosz Gallery
Lynden Stone’s parody, Sacred Gaia Healing™, examines how capitalist positioning of over-valued services and products targeting New Age gullibility mocks the feminine, nature and ecology as well as ridiculing and devaluing possible underlying merit in…
Clark Beaumont: Missing One Another
20th - 24th September
Theatre Republic
Missing One Another is a special Brisbane Festival commission – an invitation to one of our most exciting visual art duos to create a performative work for Theatre Republic’s big space ‘The Block’. Brisbane-based artistic…
Re: Out and On
18th September, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
BUSYBRICK ARI
Re: Out and On is a collaborative project between Queensland poets and jewellers. Running off the back of the Queensland poetry festival, and interested in collaboration and connecting creatives, BUSYBRICK has coupled poets with jewellers.…
AV Short Film and Video Art Festival
8th Ocotber, 7:00 - 11:00pm
Jugglers Artspace
AV is a short film and video art festival that will showcase works from local artists. AV is an all ages event so join us from 7pm for popcorn, baked goods and drinks. Entry is…
Richard Bell's Embassy
24th September, 2:00pm - 6:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the parliamentary lawns in Canberra to challenge the status, treatment, and rights of Aboriginal people in Australia. As a direct quotation of this activist strategy of…
Grace Kevill-Davies: Venus
24th September, 6:00 - 9:00pm
FAKE estate
Investigating perceptions of ideal beauty and femininity, ~VENUS~ aims to reconsider representations of female purity and perfection in popularised western art and film. Kevill-Davies uses humour as a vehicle to challenge the illusion of feminine…
Future Proof
24th September, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Boxcopy ARI
Curated by Katherine Dionysius and Amy-Clare McCarthy, FUTURE PROOF showcases new work by four recent Queensland graduates: Holly Bates, Spencer Harvie, Annie Macindoe and Matthew Sneesby. This exhibition is part of the 2016 BARI program.…
HyperHyper
7th Ocotber, 7:00 - 10:00pm
The Whitney
HyperHyper brings together a diverse body of work from several Brisbane-based artists. Across a range of mediums the work interrogates themes of material supremacy, new media, gaze, perception and visibility. Process and product map a…
Yonder
8th October, 6:00pm - 11:45pm
Newstead Warehouse
Yonder is a collaborative multi-arts warehouse event curated by three Brisbane based arts organisations featuring performances from a number of emerging Brisbane bands, visual art exhibitions, live painting activations and physical performances. Each of the…
Sound Of Silence
30th September - 9th October
Jugglers Artspace
Part of Peter Breen’s life narrative is his unavoidable attraction to silence, stillness, thresholds and liminal spaces in the pursuit of mystery and spiritual realities. This exhibition of working drawings and painted sketches represent his…
Unique Forms
6th October, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Analogue Gallery
‘Unique Forms’ is an exhibition showcasing artists who explore the abstraction and reduction of the human form through continuous line work, photography, collage and paint. The exhibition encourages the audience to create their own interpretation…
Guy Maestri: Unearth
30th August - 1st October
Jan Murphy Gallery
Guy Maestri will present a new series of paintings and sculptural works in his exhibition, Unearth, at Jan Murphy Gallery. The much-admired artist has exhibited widely nationally and won numerous awards, including the 2009 Archibald…
The Life of Lines
14th May - 14th August
QUT Art Museum
Frontier imaginaries is a new multi-platform project that explores the condition of the frontier with the era of globalisation, conceived by guest curator and QUT alumnus, Vivian Ziherl, through a one-year Institute of Modern Art…
Kirra Jamison
9th – 27th August
Jan Murphy Gallery
Kirra Jamison’s latest body of work is a continuation of her exploration into large scale botanical shapes and forms. Currently based in Melbourne, Jamison hails from Byron Bay and is graduate of the Queensland College…
Jenny Watson: Chronicles
14th July – 3rd September
Griffith Uni Art Gallery
Jenny Watson is a Melbourne born artist with a career spanning over 30 years of art practice. She received a diploma of Painting from the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in 1972 and a…
Marnie Edmiston : A Plant is a Plant
17th August - 3rd September
FAKE estate
From targeted espionage to automated spyware and data retention, the common idea of spying has morphed alongside the capabilities of government agencies and global businesses to widely harvest large amounts of data. Spying is no…
Capital's End – Communion of the Human
30th July - 14th August
The Walls
Artist – David M. Thomas I have exhibited my work for a quarter of a century. I have seen the idea of art change a lot in this time. This exhibition will map the shifts…
Listening at the Edge of a Knife
26th August - 27th August
Institute of Modern Art
Liquid Architecture Brisbane 2016: Puce Mary Johannes Kreidler Thembi Soddell Tralala blip Listening at the Edge of a Knife: a tension and a balance between a sense (that one listens to) and a truth (that…
Meconnaissance: New Rites of Passage
27th July - 14th August
POP Gallery
Artist: Athene Currie These performative videos act as a rite of passage, the desire to find the true or whole self in the transformation through midlife. Jacques Lacan used the term méconnaissance to designate an imaginary misrecognition, reflecting…







































































