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…
Femel Fissions
19th July - 19th August
CI Precinct, QUT
‘Femel_Fissions’ traces the historical influence of women on scientific discovery and research through newly commissioned works from leading Australian and international artists. Featuring seven contemporary female art/science practitioners, ‘Femel_Fissions’ will showcase works that have been…
Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing
5th - 27th August
Jugglers Artspace
Please join us at Jugglers Art Space for the opening of the Finalists Exhibition for the 2016 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing. Now in its 7th year, this year’s prize attracted over 200 entries…
Green Screen: Judy Watson
10th September, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
To inaugurate the IMA’s Green Screen project, which focusses on moving image works with a connection to Queensland, Judy Watson‘s film ‘the names of places’ will be shown at the gallery from 10 September–8 October.…
23 Degrees
26th July - 27th August
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Featuring: Adrian Robertson, Chase Archer, Clare Cowley, Clare Purser, David Fenoglio, David Jones, Domenica Hoare, Euan Macleod, Henri van Noordenburg, Ian Smith, James Watts, Jewel White Stone, Jonathan McBurnie, Jude Roberts, Katina Davidson, Kym Barrett,…
Against The Grain
19th August, 6:30pm
This Must Be The Place
The opening night of GRAIN‘s Against The Grain Festival is from 6:30pm Friday 19th August and is a free event, with the following 2 nights being ticketed. There will be a video program and installation…
Strung
8th July - 3rd September
Artisan
Strung tells the stories of fibre from a diversity of cultures within our region. It celebrates the translation of techniques honed in ancient weaving crafts into contemporary forms: the weaving of new narratives through fibres…
Taloi Havini & Stuart Miller: Blood Generation
10th August - 10th September
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
Blood Generation is a retelling of Bougainville’s recent and complex history. In 1964, the Moroni people in Bougainville were subjected to harassment and exploitation and stripped of their land rights under Crown Law. Australian-owned mining…
Ralph Wilson
23rd August - 17th September
Philip Bacon Galleries
“A few years ago I found something I had been searching for – a sailing boat of a certain type. Large enough to paint on and set up well enough to stay out on in…
Cindy Sherman
28th May - 3rd October
Gallery of Modern Art
Cindy Sherman is renowned as a chameleon; her own image is at the centre of an astonishing gallery of character studies, developed over decades. Sherman has positioned photography as one of the most important contemporary art…
Point and Shoot: An Exploration of Music Photography
6th - 9th September
Crowbar
Curated by The Brisbane Collective and showcased at Crowbar Brisbane as a part of the BIGSOUND live music showcase, we have enlisted some of the best live music photographers / videographers for a 4-day showcase of their work. From…
Colour Masters
24th August - 17th September
Mitchell Fine Art
Bold expressions of vibrant colour feature strongly in the upcoming exhibition ‘Colour Masters’ at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. On display from Wednesday 24th August this striking exhibition showcases a range of Aboriginal artworks…
Julie Cane: Reflections
27th August - 7th September
Lethbridge Gallery
As an artist Julie revels in the perfection of nature and the harmony of the perfect circle from seed to compost back to seed. Utilising natural and manmade objects through her artworks, Julie highlights the…
Ari Athans: Volcanic Bloom
3rd - 23rd August
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Volcanic Bloom explores imaginative minerals in strange environments and possible futures. Ari Athans plays with concepts of physical variables such as atmospheric conditions, planet core composition, temperature, sun exposure, gravity, mineral composition, rotational energy, magnetic field…
The Artist As…Initiator
24th August, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
In the fourth lecture in our year-long series The Artist As… co-presented with Curatorial Practice at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Associate Professor Tara McDowell will focus on the ‘artist as initiator’. Lately artists have initiated, and even aimed…
Jasmin Coleman: Flawed
6th August, 6:00 - 8:00pm
FAKE estate
Flawed is a new installation work by Jasmin Coleman that responds to FAKE estate’s East Brisbane exhibition space. Coleman’s interest in exploring how inanimate industrial process and materials can be used to articulate human attributes…
Martin Smith: and that’s what tortures me
12th July - 6th August
Jan Murphy Gallery
Nationally recognised artist Martin Smith will present his solo exhibition, and that’s what tortures me, at Jan Murphy Gallery in July. Having recently joined the gallery’s stable, this exhibition of new works will showcase the…
Andy Lowrie: Sentinels and Spectres
5th July - 3rd September
Artisan
This exhibition is a continuation of Andy Lowrie’s 2014 brooch seriesSentinels and Spectres. Informed by historic jewellery and craft objects, Sentinels and Spectres captures Andy’s interpretation of landscapes he experiences by fusing natural and manmade…
The Ambience Store #5
1st - 31st July, 2016
The Ambience Store
The Ambience Store Project #5 will feature three exceptional Brisbane-based artists – Andy Harwood, Elysha Rei and Clairy Laurence. Opening Night: 1st July, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Offshoots
10th June - 16th July
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
Offshoots: A Florilegium from the Cairns Botanic Gardens is a selection of botanical illustrations by Julie McEnerny with a special focus on plants of ecological or cultural significance. The making of the offshoots collection is…
Ai Shah
16th - 27th July
Lethbridge Gallery
Ai Shah’s delicate technique is inspiring and deeply thought-provoking; offering the viewer a rare insight into the sense of space that water can enfold. Ai’s attention to detail and the subtle narrative of the passing…
Juan Leyva: All that Glitters
15th July, 6:00 - 8:00pm
TW Fine Art
Please join the opening of All that Glitters, an exhibition featuring the latest body of photographic work by Colombian artist Juan Leyva. Born in Bogota, Colombia in 1984 Juan Leyva’s latest series of photographs are an…
Rawhide
14th June - 9th July
Edwina Corlette Gallery
RAWHIDE features new work by Abbey McCulloch and Tara Marynowsky. Abbey McCulloch Women as social beings: mothers, daughters, sisters – the manner in which the feminine might present itself when the public gaze is not present…
Kieron Wilson: Retail Therapy
14th July - 24th July
Project Gallery, QCA
Retail therapy is the sensation of possessions affecting consumer self-consciousness. My themes deal with consumer culture through representation of iconic consumer brand goods. Brands don’t only exist on a shirt or a computer screen, brands…
Surface
7th - 24th July
POP Gallery
Photographer Richard Avedon once proclaimed his faith in the power of surfaces, noting that “a good one is full of clues”. Surface connects the explorations of six photo media artists drawing on themes such as disconnection,…
Joseph Daws
6th July - 6th August
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition New Work by Sunshine Coast artist Joseph Daws. Daws continues his use of muted platte and abstraction of the landscape in this new series of works. Joseph Daws’s painting practice…
Jan Van Dijk: Sugar Damn Electric
23rd June - 23rd July
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
Capturing obscure characters, gritty facades, and decrepit carnival rides, JAN VAN DIJK’s work reveals the beauty within these enigmatic people and places. Van Dijk’s gestural paintings unravel a narrative of the futility and frailty of human…
This is my heritage
Until 7th July
Queensland Museum
Viewing a photograph from the past, or holding an object of historical significance, can spark interest, emotion and dialogue. But, when a unique personal connection is established between an object and an individual, it has…
Susan Lincoln: Untitled (TIME 2011 – )
14th - 29th July
Side Gallery
To date, there is a completely natural progression in my art practice; a cumulative response from very humble beginnings. All of my oeuvre is a testament to childhood memories as a girl, completely spellbound by…
GOMA Talks: The New Feminist Frontier
21st July, 6:30 - 7:30pm
Gallery of Modern Art
We were told that new technology would unshackle women from the domestic duties of the home, and yet in the 21st-century women’s experience of online and social media is one of abuse, exclusion and exploitation.…
Space Junk Alert
28th June - 23rd July
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Featuring Leah Emery, Nicole Gillard, Angela Hughes, Thommason Longmarsh, Ron McBurnie, Jonathan McBurnie, Robert Mercer, Glen O’Malley, Sue O’Malley, Naomi O’Reilly & Phoebe Sheehy Last year I put together a show at the Uni of…
Carla Hananiah: In the Wait
12th July - 2nd August
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Intimate knowledge of colour frames the foundation for Carla Hananiah’s balancing act between nature and artifice. Her paintings depict vast stretches of New Zealand and Australian mountain and sky most often at the “magic hour”…
Anya Swan: You, Me and a Weirdo
13th - 30th July
FAKE estate
pack your bags ladies and gentlemen; it’s time to get going. there’s no stopping for folks like you and me in times like these. no knowing who’s listening, tread lightly: the weirdos are coming. brisbane…
CONFLUENCE Symposium
19th July, 11:00am - 4:30pm
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In conjunction with the exhibition Femel_Fissions, CONFLUENCE will provide a platform to discuss political and social themes of creative practice at the intersection of art, science and technology. The one-day symposium will present and discuss the…
Wo(kin)
31st July, 5:30 - 9:00pm
BUSYBRICK ARI
Wo(kin) is designed as a platform to celebrate artists representing a wide array of voices and perspectives that engage with analysing and critiquing the pervading structures of the patriarchy, the arts and capitalism. The term…
Robert Malherbe: In A Brighter Light
14th June – 19th July
Jan Murphy Gallery
Robert Malherbe’s long and self-imposed apprenticeship, driven by his passion for painting is paying off. The artist’s training has been the first-hand contemplation of master works in the galleries of Europe, and has provided him…
Self Imag(in)ing
22nd June - 9th July
Project Gallery, QCA
Teetering on the precipice that is the history of self-portraiture and social media technology, three practitioners seek to explore the contemporary nature in which we navigate issues of identity, gender and corporeal experience through a…







































































