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…
Panel Discussion: The Apprenticeship
24 June, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Artisan
Join us for this closing event for our exhibition The Apprenticeship featuring a panel of craftspeople and industry experts exploring how learning pathways can evolve to better serve craft practice today and into the future.…
Marisa Purcell: Screen
20th May - 11th June
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Marisa Purcell holds a Master of Visual Arts from the Sydney College of Art, University of Sydney and a Master of Art Administration from University of New South Wales, College of Fine Art. She has received…
William Platz: The Didn't Ought Model
14th June - 2nd July
Bosz Gallery
The life studio is an obscure area of tolerance, a zone of sexish work, which cannot utterly escape the regimes of power that circumscribe it, but which can slowly corrupt them from within. In the…
Tom Alberts: Observational Collage
31st May - 25th June
Heiser Gallery
Tom Alberts was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1962. In 1970 Alberts and his family moved to Perth where he later completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in painting at the Western…
Smoke Filled Room
10th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
The Laundry Artspace
The Laundry Artspace invites you to ‘Smoke Filled Room’, an exhibition of zine, illustration, animation, interaction, conversation and dialogue. ELLISE BOURNE ANNA CARLSON LAUREN EDMONDS BRONTE MARK Image: Ellise Bourne ‘Stockades: Destroy’ 2016
Untitled #5: Drawing Session
11th June, 1:00 - 3:00pm
Metro Arts
On the final day of Untitled #5 join Zoe Knight from 1pm for a drawing session after FAKE estate’s ‘Critical Brunch’ for Sean Kenny’s exhibition ‘Woomb’ in Metro Arts Gallery 2. This will be open format…
Homeground
29th May - 2nd July
Boxcopy ARI
Brisbane Artist Run Activity, Today and Tomorrow HOMEGROUND addresses the local context of artist run culture in Brisbane. The gallery at Boxcopy will become a site for process-based and dialogic exchange between six local ARIs,…
Jeffrey Smart
31st May - 25th June
Philip Bacon Galleries
“Smart’s work may be understood as evoking the energy and hope and the intellectual ambition of the Renaissance, only to show us simultaneously how the humanist adventure that began five centuries ago has led to…
Publication Launch: Kiah Reading
18th June, 4:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Between November 2015 and January 2016 Australian and Peruvian artists Kiah Reading and Pamela Arce worked at torna, Istanbul, to develop an online piece ‘In Each Other’s Lectures’. The project focussed on a collection of…
The Alien Show
25th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
FAKE estate
The space alien is an immediately recognisable icon of otherness in western popular culture. Alien visitors are frequently depicted as culturally and technologically advanced throughout the science fiction canon but are also frequently shown to…
Ross Jones
7th June - 3rd July
REDSEA Gallery
REDSEA Gallery is delighted to announce the return of New Zealand artist, Ross Jones, for a solo exhibition. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Ross’ recent body of work is created to tell stories. Ross constructs…
Dane Beesley: Shades
10th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
This Must Be The Place
Brisbane-based photographer, Dane Beesley, will release his third collection of photographs, SHADES on Friday June 10 at This Must Be The Place, Bakery Lane. In SHADES, morning seems to originate in the stillness of a…
The Lethbridge 10 000
11th - 19th June
Lethbridge Gallery
The Lethbridge 10 000, Australia’s largest small scale art award shows from 11 until 19 June. Now in its seventh year, the award supports emerging Australian artists, announcing the winner of the $10000 prize on…
Artist Talk: Robert Andrew
4th June, 3:00pm
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
Join us Saturday June 4 to hear ROBERT ANDREW dissect the historical and personal narratives embedded in his current exhibition ‘Scraping Back my Skin’. Engraving imagery of family, location, and landscape in his works Robert unearths a personal narrative to negotiate a…
Shift 2
3rd June, 6:00 - 10:00pm
In Residence ARI
In residence, a Brisbane-based Artist Run Initiative (ARI), is proud to announce that its second exhibition ‘Shift 2,’ will take place on 3 June 2016, 6pm til 10pm at 193 Arthur Street in New Farm.…
Taeyoon Kim
26th May - 1st July
Media Art Asia Pacific
Please join us at MAAP SPACE for the opening event of Tayeoon Kim’s first Australian solo exhibition. Taeyoon Kim takes the material of digital media from our everyday lives and transforms this data into hypnotic…
Kristian Williams: Electric Metropolis
5th - 31st July
REDSEA Gallery
Heralding the survival of neo-expressionism, Kristian Williams will be exhibiting his first REDSEA Gallery solo exhibition, “Electric Metropolis” this July. Mastering the vibe of high-end street art, Kristian welcomes us into the buzz of an…
Homeground Brisbane ARIs: Finale
2nd July, 4:00pm
Boxcopy ARI
Join us on Saturday 2nd July for the finale of ‘Homeground: Brisbane Artist Run Activity, Today and Tomorrow’ – with additions by Cut Thumb and Inhouse ARI. We’ll be kicking off at 4pm with a…
Weaving: Past Present Futures
1st July, 6:00pm
Gilimbaa
Elisa Jane Carmichael’s latest exhibition ‘Weaving: Past Present Futures’. Based on a collection of six sculptural forms of dress that form Carmichael’s creative practice for her Masters of Fine Art in Fashion at the Queensland…
Journeys North
13th February - 3rd July
Queensland Art Gallery
During 1988, with the financial assistance of the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the Galley commissioned six photographers to produce a portfolio on the theme of community life in Queensland entitled ‘Journeys north’. Last exhibited January 1988…
Robert Andrew: Scraping Back My Skin
16th April - 4th June
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
Split between old and new Robert Andrew explores his Australian Indigenous history with the use of contemporary technology. Water, ochre, and oxide dominate his choice of materials as he combines the personal and the local…
Robert Vagg: Lingering Thoughts of Sadness
10th - 21st June
Jugglers Artspace
Each of my days blur into the next. I’m not sure what to do with each one anymore. I like to wander up and down the hallway for some reason it makes me feel good.…
Reparative Aesthetics
30th April - 2nd July
Griffith University Art Gallery
Rosângela Rennó and Fiona Pardington, artists based in the southern hemisphere (Brazil and New Zealand), take a reparative approach to this topic. Their powerful portraits are not, however, redemptive or restorative in the straightforward way…
Zoe Knight: Untitled #5
25th May - 11th June
Metro Arts
Zoe Knight’s practice is shaped by her interest in the materiality of objects, discovering and abstracting found malleable and repurposed industrial materials, as well as relationships between object, exhibition space, and viewer. Currently, her practice…
Reveal
1st - 25th June
Mitchell Fine Art
‘Reveal’ showcases a mixture of surreal, abstract, pop, botanical and hyperrealist artworks. Featuring 7 artists of immense talent, this exhibition has been carefully curated over the past 15 months and will display some of the…
Post Datum Collective: Tender Turf
11th June, 6:00pm
Hassell
Tender Turf explores the bonds between delicate, organic forms and industrial constructions in an urban environment. The choice to exhibit at Hassell Architects studio space in Fortitude Valley emphasises the relationship between the creative team…
Michelle Gilbert: A Suitable Distance
1st June - 2nd July
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition A suitable distance by emerging Brisbane artist Michelle Gilbert. “There are times when standing in the right place, at the right time, a subtle shift occurs causing a…
IMA Talk: Sara Jordenö
14th June, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Director and visual artist Sara Jordenö is currently in Australia as part of the “Ten Women Directors to Watch” section at the Sydney Film Festival, where she is screening her new documentary KIKI. Join her…
Bruce Reynolds: Oxiana
1st - 19th June
POP Gallery
Oxiana is an attempt to reposition oneself in relation to our past. It started with the use of relief sculpture as a response to an in-between space and has been a journey negotiating dualities including…
Sonic State Queensland Week Microfestival
9th - 12th June
Metro Arts
Sonic State Queensland Week Microfestival brings together nationally significant musicians who have each been leaders in their field, setting up spaces and contexts for audiences to connect to the latest work by experimental music makers.…
Homeground Brisbane ARIs
4th June, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Boxcopy ARI
Join us this Saturday for the first iteration of HOMEGROUND with FAKE Estate – with a forum discussion at 4pm, followed by drinks. HOMEGROUND addresses the local context of artist run culture in Brisbane. The…
Charlotte Tegan: Time, Interrupted
1st June - 2nd July
Jan Manton Art
“All eight images exhibited detail a direct relationship between the analogue capture of light, and the representation of time. Bending, melding, mirroring and reflecting, the images are carefully constructed using traditional practical effects or manual…
Gordon Bennett: Home Decor / Ancestor Figures
3rd - 25th June
Milani Gallery
This exhibition presents two bodies of work by Gordon Bennett: his last paintings and his 1992 installation Self portrait (Ancestor figures). The exhibition commemorates the second anniversary of Gordon’s passing. Image: Gordon Bennett, Home Décor (After…
Ambience Store Project #4
2nd - 27th June
Ambience Store
The Ambience Store Project, now in its fourth instalment, celebrates the natural world with its latest exhibition. Headlining show #4 is Sunshine Coast artist Amica Whincop, a star well and truly on the rise after…
Eyes On Goa
15th - 18th June
Maud Gallery
EYES ON GOA is a 2 volume book on the work produced by QCA students who undertook an infield intensive to Goa, India. The book is an online printing publication and will be launched at Maud Gallery…
The Ambience Store Project #3
5th - 30th May
The Ambience Store
Sunshine Coast artist and facilitator Alison Mooney is fast making a name for herself with her vast mixed media murals and installations throughout Southeast Queensland. On canvas, her works merge elements of graffiti, art activism…







































































