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…
Picasso: The Vollard Suite
2nd December - 15th April
Queensland Art Gallery
Pablo Picasso’s ‘Vollard Suite’ is a set of 100 etchings, engravings and aquatints created by the artist in the 1930s and named after Ambroise Vollard, his sometime art dealer and publisher. It contains several themes…
Courtney Coombs: Building Bridges
16th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
An exhibition of new work. Courtney Coombs makes art, writes, facilitates and collaborates to try to make sense of the world and their place in it. They respond to the cis-heteronormative, patriarchal structures of both…
Ross Manning: Ambient Works Vol. 2
22nd March - 14th April
Milani Gallery
Ross Manning creates kinetic sculptures made from everyday unpretentious materials such as domestic fans, fluorescent lights, household twine and electronics. Revealing both the construction and materials in his installations, Manning playfully dissects overlooked technologies to…
Yuguburra (A land story): In conversation with Danie Mellor
17th May, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Museum of Brisbane
Join internationally acclaimed artist Danie Mellor as he reflects on his Natura Pacifica series for Life in Irons in conversation with Museum of Brisbane Director Renai Grace. His work delivers us vignette-style glimpses of lush…
Brisbane Street Art Festival
31st March - 14th April
Various Spaces
Brisbane Street Art Festival returns in 2018 bigger and better than ever before with over 55 pieces being created by some of the best street art talent from Australia and beyond. Running from March 31st…
The Conspirator - Launch Party
5th May, 6:30 - 10:30pm
Outerspace
The Conspirator is a professionally-printed, full-colour, 272-page book by House Conspiracy. The anthology features every single one of the 90+ artists we’ve hosted as residents throughout our first year of programming. All their work is…
QFF Screening: Memory Jackets
17th May, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
This free screening, ‘Memory Jackets’ draws on three studies of terror forensics to examine how both media and society are steeped in voyeuristic tendencies and narrative bias. Presented in partnership with Queensland Film Festival, see…
All That Remains
20th May, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Captain Burke Park, Kangaroo Point
in a city full of concrete that never misses a beat do we really understand what is beneath our feet? beside a river that shapes us to do what it pleases, do we really know…
Brian Robinson: Elixir - Blended Cosmologies
6th - 28th April, 2018
ONESPACE Gallery
Onespace is very excited to present our latest exhibition by nationally acclaimed artist Brian Robinson. Elixir – blended cosmologies comprises a selection of recent linocuts, and etchings, in addition to a major work – a four-metre wall sculpture, Containment…
Mitjili Napurrula: Watiya Juta
4th - 28th April, 2018
Mitchell Fine Art
A solo exhibition showcasing Aboriginal artworks that portray stories relating to the ancient ritual of the spear straightening ceremony will open at Mitchell Fine Art on April 4th, 2018. Mitjili Napurrula, a Pintupi artist from Central Australia paints ‘Watiya…
Ground Truth: Fire, Flood and Human Endeavour
7th - 15th April, 2018
QUT Art Museum
Surprising, vivid and revealing. The Ground Truth immersive media exhibition brings to life satellite imagery of the Greater Brisbane Region, the Channel Country and Cape York to show us how humans and nature are changing the environment we…
MONO 26
5th May, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA and Room40 present MONO 26, with Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh, with Aki Onda. Between them both, Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh chart out the most ferocious and compelling aspects of improvised music. Their union…
Tayla Haggarty: hard light
22nd April, 5:00 - 8:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
hard light aims to look at how reductive forms and un foreclosed aesthetics could be used as an open field to enact queer politics. Alongside this there is a focus on the performativity of large…
Fiona Fell: Un/comfortable Bodies
21st - 27th April
POP Gallery
Un/comfortable Bodies proposes art as an in/hospitable space for female embodiment, drawing on manifestations of the uncanny, the shadow, and the ghostly. Through inquiry into the sensorial field of clay, distinctions between artwork and the…
Blair Coffey: Recombinant Images
4th - 12th May
Webb Gallery, QCA
Recombinant Images presents work from Blair Coffey’s PhD candidature from 2015-2018. The sequencing of Coffey’s genome in 2015 has provided a catalyst to explore important correspondence between the visual image and genetic technologies. The exhibition will…
Australian Collection
Ongoing
Queensland Art Gallery
An exciting reimagining of the Australian collection opens this spring. Our curators, along with Director Chris Saines, have taken this rare opportunity to re-present the Gallery’s Australian art holdings, collected for more than 120 years, in…
The Night Watch
8th April, 7:00 - 10:00pm
The Walls
Check out an exciting collection of contemporary screen-based artworks that playfully depict life on the Gold Coast. Taking its name from a famous 16th century Rembrandt painting, THE NIGHT WATCH is a modern rekindling of…
Steel: art design architecture
17th February - 25th March
QUT Art Museum
Today steel is one of the most ubiquitous materials in the world. It inhabits the landscape of our bodies, our domestic spaces and our built environments. A material that ranges from raw and functional to…
Texta Book Club: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
20th March, 6:15 - 8:00pm
QUT Art Museum
Texta is no ordinary book club; it’s for people who love art. To coincide with the exhibition ‘STEEL: art design architecture’, our first book for the year is ‘The Museum of Modern Love’ by Heather…
Tingting Li: Through the Looking Glass
20th - 29th March
Project Gallery, QCA
Tingting Li is from a new generation of Chinese artist, who is studying in Australia. Through the looking glass is based on this dual zone between China as her home and Australia as her current…
Justin Garnsworthy: Smashed Tack
20th - 28th March
Webb Gallery, QCA
Justin Garnsworthy’s inaugural solo exhibition at the Webb Gallery comprises of large-scale digital print works on aluminium composite panels. Blurring distinctions between process and product, analogue and digital; Garnsworthy confounds viewer’s certainties about optical perception.…
The Beautiful Game
7th April, 2:45 - 3:45pm
New Farm Park
Two giant footballs, a roaming field and a surreal landscape of boulders and cakes: step up Brisbane and play The Beautiful Game. With a nod to the unruly, medieval origins of the world’s most popular…
Marisa Purcell: Transmission
16th March - 7th April
Edwina Corlette Gallery
“When I paint it feels as though the verbal part of my brain goes quiet. Its like the pre-frontal cortex wakes up. What emerges usually surprises me. The painting unfolds itself as I watch on. …
World Science Festival
21st - 25th March
Brisbane City
Hailed by The New York Times as ‘a new cultural institution’, the World Science Festival – founded by renowned Physicist Professor Brian Greene and Emmy award-winning journalist Tracy Day – has been held annually in New York…
Jonni Cheatwood: Same Hero, New Boots
24th February - 8th April
TW Fine Art
TWFINEART is pleased to announce the opening of Same Hero, New Boots by Jonni Cheatwood. Born in California, USA in 1986, Brazilian-American artist, Jonni Cheatwood currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He began painting…
The Commute
25th March, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
In 2018 the IMA has invited five Indigenous curators from across the Great Ocean to develop a series of exhibitions and programs in collaboration with indigenous artists. The group will share recent work, discuss their…
J Valenzuela Didi: Shrine of the Lost Suburban
17th March - 3rd April
Lethbridge Gallery
J Valenzuela Didi uses urban spaces and metropolitan landscapes to explore the transience of life. A detached sense of isolation and impermanence is discovered within his portrayals of Queensland houses in his latest exhibition, ‘Shrine…
Judith Wright: Reminiscence
27th January - 10th March
Pine Rivers Art Gallery
Reminiscence reflects on Judith Wright’s inspirational life in this centenary year of her birth by bringing together a new body of work by mixed-media artist, Fiona Rafferty, and ceramicist, Frances Smith. After a year in their…
Sarah Sculley: I carry your heart
17th - 27th March
Jugglers Artspace
‘I carry your heart’ – is a new collection of urban artworks by Sarah Sculley. Jugglers Art Space will be taken over by a range of colourful and emotive artworks that explore a number of…
Callum McGrath: River Torrens
13th - 24th March
Institute of Modern Art
Callum McGrath’s River Torrens, was filmed on the banks of the Torrens River in Adelaide, at the exact site where gay academic Dr George Duncan was murdered in 1972. Duncan’s alleged murder by three police officers—who were…
RePAINTING
9th - 21st March
Brisbane Institute of Art
Artists : Barbara Penrose, Nameer Davis, Sally Cox . Three artists who have been discussing art and art making for many years while working in different mediums come together with an exhibition exploring paint and the…
Ross Manning: Dissonant Rhythms
3rd February - 24th March
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
Dissonant Rhythms is the first survey exhibition from Brisbane-based artist and musician, Ross Manning. The exhibition features sculptures that include repurposed ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead projectors. Propelled by electricity and their own kinetic forces,…
Home: The art of Ian Strange
17th March, 1:30 - 2:30pm
Asia Pacific Design Library
Attend this special viewing of the film Home: The Art of Ian Strange and afterwards be part of an intimate conversation with Ian Strange. Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space…
IMA Talks: David Elliott
22nd March, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Hear from British art historian, curator, writer and teacher, David Elliott, at the IMA as part of the 21st Biennale of Sydney’s ‘Biennale Archive Stories’. Elliott will share his experiences as a prolific director of…
Ally Mckay: Taut
7th March, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
Systems of support make for precarious object interactions in Ally McKay’s exhibition Taut. Objects are assembled in tentative arrangements, expected – somehow- to support each other against inescapable physical forces. Taut invites us into a…
Queer College of Art + SOSO
14th February - 7th March
Online
S0S0 ♡ QueerCollegeOfArt A collaborative collection of essays on artistic intersections with queer culture + tech + futurism + intersectional feminism + digital agency. The aim of this project, and it’s collected library of texts, is…







































































