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…
Dana Lawrie: Grasp The Nettle
21st February - 10th March
Metro Arts
Utilising handmade dyes and pigments from natural materials, Lawrie’s experimental and naïve works are a dialogue between permanence and impermanence, creating a quiet personal engagement with mortality. Subtleties of flowers and natural imagery, such as…
Amalia Pica: Please Open Hurry
18th November - 10th March
Institute of Modern Art
Amalia Pica’s two-part exhibition will begin with recently made works that respond to the artist’s 2014 residency at the Gashaka Gumti National Park in the rainforest of Nigeria. Pica’s practice often explores communication, misunderstanding, translation and…
Mao's Last Dancer the exhibition: A portrait of Li Cunxin
1st December - 29th April
Museum of Brisbane
Discover one man’s incredible journey from poverty to world-famous artist in this exclusive Museum of Brisbane exhibition. Features never-before-seen interviews, performance footage and personal artefacts in an intimate portrait of a contemporary Australian icon. Born…
Director's Choice
31st January - 29th March
Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art launches its 2018 exhibition calendar with the annual group exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’. Curated from the gallery collection, Director Mike Mitchell has carefully selected artworks from various artists, showcasing some of the galleries finest works.…
Anne Scott Wilson: Every Day I Wait
11th November - 8th April
Museum of Brisbane
Artist Anne Scott Wilson draws on 30 years of live performance and exhibitions to explore the relationship between movement and meaning. Her works meditate on the years of strenuous practice and endurance dancers undertake relative…
Goldin+Senneby: Standard Length of a Miracle
18th November -10th March
Institute of Modern Art
For the past ten years, Goldin+Senneby has used methods and tools inspired by the financial sector to illuminate and subvert our late-capitalist system. The IMA is pleased to present the second iteration of their mutating retrospective, Standard Length…
Noel McKenna: Landscape - Mapped
18th November - 2nd April
Queensland Art Gallery
For the very first time, Noel McKenna’s fifteen-year project of large ‘Map’ paintings are presented in full. The series takes a marvellous approach to ordering the contents of Australia along ingenious themes such as public…
The Critic as Artist: Mieke Bal
10th November - 25th February
UQ Art Museum
UQ Art Museum is pleased to present two film works, drawn from large-scale multimedia installations, that explore new possibilities in literary and art criticism. Creative, collaborative, and highly experimental, Simon Palfrey’s Demons Land: a poem come…
Zoe Porter: Penumbra
7th - 24th February
ONESPACE Gallery
Onespace is pleased to commence our 2018 Program with Penumbra – an exhibition comprising recent works on paper, artist’s books and photographic documentation of recent live collaborative performances by Zoe Porter. Penumbra brings together a…
The National Self-Portrait Prize
11th November - 18th February
UQ Art Museum
The National Self-Portrait Prize is a $50,000 invitation only, biennial prize. Previous winners include Ben Quilty (2007), Julie Rrap (2009), Domenico de Clario (2011), Nell (2013) and Fiona McMonagle (2015). 2017 ARTISTS Davida Allen |…
Slow Clothing with Jane Milburn
10th February, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Artisan
Join Jane Milburn in store as she shares her approach to thoughtful clothing choices, as written about in her self-published book: ‘Slow clothing. Finding meaning in what we wear’, soon to be available at Artisan.…
Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow
4th November - 11th February
Gallery of Modern Art
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is an international phenomenon. Her beguiling creations and unique perspective, irrepressibly expressed across a career of more than 60 years, have made her a pre-eminent figure in 21st century contemporary art.…
Forging Ahead: STEEL panel discussion and floor talk
17th February, 1:00 - 2:45pm
QUT Art Museum
Join us for the launch of Steel: art design architecture at QUT Art Museumwith a panel discussion hosted by Exhibition Curator Margaret Hancock Davis, Senior Curator at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide. Dating back 4000 years, the era…
Love and Other Crimes
16th February, 5:30pm - 12:00pm
Betty's Espresso & Bar
Love and Other Crimes proudly brings you the first installment of LaOC community arts events. This fundraising exhibition is a cultural conversation of queer arts in contemporary Australia and as a response to our current…
Alphabet Soup
23rd February, 6:00 - 10:30pm
The Culprit Club
The Culprit Club is excited to announce our first exhibition of 2018, ‘ALPHABET SOUP’. This highly anticipated A-Z art show will feature 26 local, interstate and international artists, each selected for their style, strength and…
Moji Khakbaz: You are She, and She is You
16th February, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Jugglers Artspace
Iranian artist, Moji Khakbaz invites us to consider: “You are reading her story.She is seeing it through your eyes.You watch her expressing herself, she sees you being you, you are she, and she is you.…
Paula Payne & Annique Goldenberg: Translations
24th January - 10th February
Webb Gallery, QCA
The rationale driving the work in this exhibition is a consideration of the effects of human-induced global warming on the environment. Both artists approach their investigations through an interest in the nature of the ‘material’…
History of Emotions Lecture in Art History
15th February, 6:00 - 7:15pm
UQ Art Museum
Mieke Bal: Standing Outside the Center: Ecstasy as a Political Act Taking my starting point from the dialogue between Louise Bourgeois’ bronze Arch of Hysteria and Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, I will…
Sally Anderson: Self Storage and the Really Real
1st - 22nd February
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Self Storage and the Really Real looks at ways we authenticate experience and store memory in object and place. The work’s hero items and landscapes, which hold significant memories from a specific place and time, such…
Perceptions of Reality
23rd Janauary - 10th February
Project Gallery, QCA
The realities we have are diverse. Defining and describing it will depend on who you talk to at any given time. This group of postgraduate adventurers are delving deep into themselves to bring you visions of…
Sally Molloy: Tobacco Rose/Cow Itch
14th February, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
Wreckers Artspace proudly presents: TOBACCO ROSE/COW ITCH by Sally Molloy. “fold up horse – I mean crocodile – person on dunes is floating not-really-running in a blank space, and the glowing eyes of feral felines…
Green
20th - 25th February
Percolator Gallery
United by a passion for painting, twelve artists respond to the exhibition theme, Green, according to their own personal style and interpretation. Green, as a word, has a variety of connotations including growing, developing and…
Andy Harwood: Incremental Structure
17th February - 3rd March
Maverick Hair & Art Space
Maverick Art Space is proud to present an exhibition by Andy Harwood titled; Incremental Structure. Andy Harwood is a Brisbane based artist focusing on non-representational mathematical geometric painting. Opening Night: Saturday 17th February / 6-9PM…
William Mackinnon: Twin Palms
27th February - 24th March
Jan Murphy Gallery
Twin Palms is a culmination of William Mackinnon’s experiences over the past year. Currently based in Australia and Spain, Mackinnon and his partner undertook architectural pilgrimages to the USA, including Fallingwater (a Frank Lloyd Wright…
Contemporary Sculpture in Context
23rd February, 12:00pm
Online Show
Contemporary Sculpture in Context is an online exhibition of three sculpture practitioners whose works, when presented as images, take on graphic, formal qualities. Exploring this translation from object to image, the exhibition aims to extend…
All the World's Memories
5th January - 24th February
GOMA Cinema
‘All the World’s Memories’ brings together a collection of celebrated documentaries, film-essays and artist videos that present cinema as a repository of past knowledge. The program features works that reflect on humanity’s engagement with the…
Ben Crowley: Local Solutions for General Anxieties
9th - 10th February
STABLE
Local Solutions to General Anxieties is an exhibition concerned with the value of art as determined by a specific social function. The work is influenced by the advanced state of contemporary institutional critique, focused on…
Quick-fire Ecstasy
20th February, 12:00 - 1:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Join UQ Art Museum for quick-fire talks about ecstasy and catch our ‘Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond’ exhibition in its final days. Be here in person or stream it live on Facebook. Speakers include: • Dr Melissa…
Panel Discussion: Reinterpreting the Senses
13th February, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Griffith University Art Museum
We’re kicking off our 2018 Program with a special panel discussion inspired by our current exhibition ‘Angelica Mesiti: Relay League’. Featuring contemporary artists Eric Bridgeman, Kinly Grey, and Tintin Wulia, and chaired by Griffith University’s…
Marcel Desbiens: Transition
17th - 28th February
Lethbridge Gallery
Marcel Desbiens aims to initiate a dialogue with the observer, to offer a subtle reminder of our fundamental task, a search for happiness. By painting a representation of a real object and achieving the illusion…
No Lights No Lycra
23rd February, 7:00 - 9:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Join UQ Art Museum for a No Lights No Lycra event and catch our ‘Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond’ exhibition in its final days. Immerse yourself in the ecstasy of dance. Spend two hours dancing like…
SUPERCELL: Festival of Contemporary Dance
10th - 18th February
Bris Powerhouse & Judith Wright Centre
SUPERCELL: Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane is co-curated by Kate Usher and Glyn Roberts. Two colleagues who became friends, drink too much coffee and commiserate about Brisbane’s humidity, share a mutual a love for dance. Joining…
Farsh-e-Parandeh (Flying Carpet)
12th - 16th February
Griffith Film School
Farsh-e-Parandeh (Flying Carpet) is an interactive exhibition of projection-based animation inspired by 19th century optical toys, Persian carpet patterns, and Attar’s “The Conference of the Birds” by Leila Honari, who is an illustrator, animator and…
BrisAsia Festival
10th February - 4th March
Brisbane City
BrisAsia Festival showcases traditional and contemporary Asian arts and cultural events. Now in its sixth year, the festival is held over three weeks from Saturday 10 February through to Sunday 4 March with more than…
Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond
16th September – 25th February
UQ Art Museum
Almost four centuries after its creation, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa(1652) remains the supreme emblem of religious visionary experience and the Baroque sensibility in art. Understanding ecstasy to encompass states of exaltation beyond the…
David Don: The In-Between
2nd - 17th February
Innerspace Contemporary Art
Brisbane artist David Don works with multiple disciplines to examine physical and virtual spaces and time. In this new series of paintings, Don creates forms by building layers of spray paint on the canvas with…







































































