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…
YOUR SPACE OR MINE
22nd - 30th July
Boxcopy ARI
YOUR SPACE OR MINE brings together contemporary spaces from across the Asia Pacific region, with contributions from Art Space Pool (Seoul), Sa Sa Art Projects (Phnom Penh) and Videotage (Hong Kong). This group exhibition explores a collaborative curatorial process, with each of…
Jess Cochrane: FearLess
6th May - 24th July
Brisbane Powerhouse
Emerging artist Jessica Cochrane explores the effect of consumerism on feminism in this special exhibition. Cochrane’s work combines portrait photography and expressionism painting in order to create works that are colourful, expressive and tantalise the…
Future Collective Revel
23rd July, 7:00 - 11:00pm
QAGOMA
Join QAGOMA’s newest and youngest supporters, the Future Collective, for the first gala at GOMA as we lower the lights for an extravaganza of contemporary art, cocktails, live music and culinary delights. TICKETS $150 per…
Gambit Lines
19th - 30th July
Bosz Gallery
Gambit Lines presents new work by Carolyn Mckenzie-Craig at BOSZ Gallery, Fortitude Valley. Living in the subject body means living within certain parameters. Our bodyminds are restricted by learned behaviour, both intentional and unintentional, due…
Transformations
2nd - 13th July
Lethbridge Gallery
Recent winner of the 2016 Rotary Art Spectacular, Anne-Marie Zanetti’s, showcases her new exhibition ‘Transformations’ at Lethbridge Gallery. This collection embodies a new found vitality which is apparent through her use of rich colour and…
Geometric Asylum
13th – 30th July
Metro Arts
Geometric Asylum presents a series of sculptural and installation works that explore relationships between space, power and control. Hostile architectures, deterrent physical forms and automated kinetic systems will impose limitations on the viewer’s movement throughout the…
Margaret Loy Pula: Anatye
29th June - 23rd July
Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art presents a solo exhibition by award winning Indigenous artist Margaret Loy Pula. Hailing from Utopia in Central Australia Pula continues a legacy that dates back through millennia. Painting traditional stories handed down…
Barjai and Miya Studio
21st April - 24th July
UQ Art Museum
In 1945, at the close of the Pacific war, a group of young Brisbane artists formed Miya Studio, named after an Aboriginal word for ‘today’. Founding members Pamela Seeman, Laurence Hope and Laurence Collinson, together…
Christian Capurro: ICEdust
30th June - 23rd July
Milani Gallery
‘ICEdust’ is a solo exhibition of new work by Melbourne-based Christian Capurro. The seven large-scale photographs stage found commercial scenes cleaned, corrupted and rerendered by maverick electronic dusting. Opening Event: Thursday 30 June, 6 –…
IMA Talk: Brett Leavy
6th July, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Brett Leavy is an Indigenous artist, immersive heritage specialist, inventor, and the driving force behind Virtual Songlines. In consultation with historians and custodians of First Nations knowledge, Virtual Songlines is an immersive virtual landscape with…
Davida Allen
28th June - 23rd July
Philip Bacon Galleries
Davida has said she works in episodes. This is through personal necessity, and because the life of the painting when wet, finishes quickly. There is a very strict technical limitation to make any changes. Whereas…
Phoebe McDonald: Dust. Ashes.
30th May - 10th July
Ivory St Window, Artisan
Dust. Ashes. is the result of a recent residency at Sunday Morning@EKWC in Holland, and marks a new direction in Phoebe McDonald’s practice. The title of the exhibition refers to the craft of ceramics – a…
Queensland Film Festival - Screening
9th July, 3;00 - 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Now in its second year, Queensland Film Festival seeks to re-energise local film culture by providing a stimulating environment for thinking and talking about the best contemporary international cinema. As a prelude to the full…
MONO 22: John Chantler & Vanessa Tomlinson
7th July, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
MONO continues at the IMA this July with a very special appearance from Room40 Stalwart John Chantler. Back in Australia for the first time in too many years. Chantler will present a brand new Quadraphonic modular…
Michael Candy: Digital Empathy Device
2nd - 18th July
The Walls
Digital Empathy Device [2016], utilises open source technologies to monitor Livemap; an online, citizen-run mapping service that correlates live information on bombings, hazards and attacks in war zones around the world. A foreign air raid…
Worn & Weathered
6th - 24th July
Webb Gallery, QCA
The Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Queensland have a history of presenting work that connects with issues and ideas of the landscape. Since 2009 JMGQ has held a number of group exhibitions exploring these notions,…
Frontier Imaginaries
14th May - 9th July
Institute of Modern Art
The Institute of Modern Art and QUT Art Museum present the launch edition of roaming art platform Frontier Imaginaries across two exhibitions: No Longer at Ease (IMA) and The Life of Lines (QUT Art Museum). Frontier Imaginaries is founded by QUT…
LOVE... more than a four letter word
18th May - 9th July
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
This exhibition brings together a selection of emerging, established and significant Australian artists who engage with the complex range of emotions that we classify as love. The exhibition showcases both historical and contemporary artworks over…
Our Island, Our Story
20th May - 10th July
Redland Art Gallery
In celebration of National Reconciliation Week 2016 and NAIDOC Week 2016 Redland Art Gallery in partnership with Redland Libraries presents works by 15 Quandamooka artists from the Redland Art Gallery Collection, spanning a 35 year…
Modifyre
6th - 10th July
Natural Bridge, QLD
WHAT IS MODIFYRE? Modifyre is an annual event and a year-round community dedicated to art, self-expression, and self-reliance. It is an immersive experience created by its participants – individuals and groups just like you – for the…
Elizabeth Willing: With the Table in Mind
9th - 24th June
Side Gallery
An artist, a baker, an architect, choreographer, dinner host, scientist, designer, child playing with their food – these are all descriptions that seem applicable to Elizabeth Willing in her on-going examination of gastronomy, the rituals…
Transversing
23rd June - 2nd July
Webb Gallery, QCA
Transversing is the act of extending across and through something. While to transverse is to weave across, a through line is the invisible thread which interlocks a story together. In search of the through line,…
Studio Wars
17th May - 11th June
Jan Murphy Gallery
Every so often Jan Murphy Gallery invites one of its represented artists to curate an exhibition featuring artists selected especially by them. This year Lara Merrett has curated, Studio Wars, which will present work by…
Megan MacKenzie: Tailgater
18th April - 18th June
Artisan
Tailgater is an exhibition of jewellery objects by Megan MacKenzie. Made predominantly from car plastics found on or alongside Brisbane roads since 2013, each piece is a material documentation of a collision in time and…
The Apprenticeship
19th April - 18th June
Artisan
The Apprenticeship exhibition celebrates the work and stories of thirteen artisans, from blacksmiths and shoemakers to sign-writers and furniture makers, all striving to preserve traditional crafts and trades that have declined at the hands of…
Stella McCartney for Target
17th June, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Cut Thumb ARI
“By the time I got to the racks, half of the range was already gone.” Stella McCartney for Target is a group exhibition looking at selection of artworks by emerging Brisbane artists. The works involved…
Ali Bezer: Noisewall
4th - 24th June
The Walls
Ali Bezer is a visual artist and researcher based on the Gold Coast whose PhD (2016, Griffith University) investigating the visual and psychological effects of hearing unfamiliar sounds, including computer generated cosmic noises and Musique…
Gathering Strands
12th June - 24th June
Redland Art Gallery
Gathering Strands is a multi-layered exhibition project celebrating the vitality of Indigenous fibre work by bringing together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander weavers, visual artists and community groups from across South East Queensland. Curated by…
Kultcha
23rd - 29th June
Jugglers Artspace
A showcase of emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Including a range of paintings, prints, sculpture, mixed media and jewellery pieces by featured artists: JEREMY ANDERSON, JORDANA ANGUS ANDREW GALL, TORI-JAY MORDEY MANDY QUADRIO, MELISSA STANNARD…
Louise Bennett: The Sun from Your Past
2nd July, 6:00pm
Clutch Collective
CLUTCH collective warmly invites you to join us in experiencing Louise Bennett’s new spatial video work, ‘The Sun From Your Past’. This exhibition will be site specific and has been developed in direct response to…
The Steven Bradbury Memorial Invitational
1st - 3rd July
The Laundry Artspace
Disqualifications and fortuitous crashes paved the way for Australia’s first Winter Olympics gold medallist, Steven Bradbury. Contemporary art, as a rank outsider to sport itself in the conscious of the wider public, Bradburys its way…
Chris Trueman: LA – BNE
2nd - 30th June
TW Fine Art
In Trueman’s newest work he has developed a process of painting on large scale Yupo, a synthetic paper that is mounted to aluminum. The unique interaction of the smooth Yupo surface and various types of…
Ephemeral Traces: Brisbane’s artist-run scene in the 1980s
8th April - 26th June
UQ Art Museum
‘ephemeral traces’ provides the first comprehensive analysis of artist-run practice in Brisbane during the final decade of the conservative Joh Bjelke-Petersen government. The exhibition focuses on the scene that developed around five key spaces that…
IMA Talk: Ryan Presley
30th June, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Frontier Imaginaries: No Longer at Ease contains two works by artist Ryan Presley which traverse many of the themes and histories he has been investigating for the past several years. The new painting ‘Crown Land…
Inhouse with Louise Bennett & Franz Ehmann
1st - 2nd July
Boxcopy ARI
Inhouse ARI will be presenting a new project as part of Boxcopy’s Homeground Brisbane ARIs. Addressing the Artist Run Initiative (ARI) activity in Brisbane, the accumulative exhibition will present 5 ARI’s in succession: FAKE estate, CLUTCH…
Sarah Mitchell & George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi
17th May - 11th June
Fireworks Gallery
Sarah Mitchell: Digesting 50 Thousand Years, and George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi, are two solo exhibitions showcasing the recent works from both artists. Both exhibitions are comprised of a collection of acrylic paintings, each holding vastly different…







































































