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…
Beyond the Bauhaus?
16th November, 3:00 4:30pm
QUT Creative Industries
2019 will be the centenary of the Bauhaus. In 1919 the Bauhaus sought to overcome the divisions between art and technology, art and applied design and sought create a new paradigm overcoming both social and…
Crest – QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
13th - 17th November
QUT Creative Industries
Crest features Visual Arts students graduating from QUT’s unique open studio program, working across diverse media, including performance, moving image, installation, drawing, sculpture and more. Exhibition open to the public: 13 – 17 November, 10am–6pm…
Vipoo Srivilasa: Opulent Blossom
22nd November, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Edwina Corlette Gallery
A series of new Bronze Sculptures. Vipoo Srivilasa has exhibited both internationally and throughout Australia, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Saatchi Gallery, London; Ayala Museum, Philippines; Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan; Nanjing Arts Institute,…
Indigenous Architectures: Transforming & Transformed Symposium
9th November, 8:45am - 4:45pm
State Library Queensland
Indigenous Architectures: Transforming & Transformed Symposium brings together a stellar cast of Indigenous architects and academics from Canada, New Zealand, the Pacific and Australia alongside their non-Indigenous colleagues, to discuss the transformation, application and investigation…
No Clique
9th November, 6:00 - 9:30pm
Bib'n'Brace Collective
This event will take place on the unceded land of the people of the Yuggera Nation. We would like to pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that this land was…
Naomi Blacklock: Conjuring Alterity
31st October- 7th November
Outer Space
Conjuring Alterity presents the performative sound rituals of Naomi Blacklock. Employing sound, voice, breath and ritualised objects, the exhibition addresses the cultural and creative significance of the witch archetype as an emancipatory symbol for alterity in…
Min-Woo Bang: The Immensity of Sky
17th October - 10th November
Mitchell Fine Art
Min-Woo Bang’s cloudscape paintings are both ethereal and mesmerising. Struck with the charm of the Australian landscape and the absolute enormity of our skies Min-Woo Bang’s primary subject matter is the allure of our natural…
Susan Lincoln: The incredible lightness of being
11th October - 1st November
Side Gallery
Susan Lincoln is an established contemporary visual artist with a rich connection to regional and rural Australia, and the women in Lincoln’s family who have shared experiences of these landscapes. It is the nostalgia, unique…
Malu Mabaigal: Seafaring People
2nd October - 3rd November
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Malu Mabaigal – Seafaring People is the latest exhibition from Moa Arts (Ngalmun Lagau Minaral). The exhibition, a collection of works on paper and woven objects, showcases the cultural stories and unique way of life…
With Heart & Hand
13th September - 3rd November
Griffith University Art Museum
With Heart & Hand: Art Pottery in Queensland 1900–1950’ is the most comprehensive survey of the art pottery produced in an Australian state. It includes over one hundred potters from Brisbane and regional areas, whose…
Margaret Ingles: These Hands
28th September - 28th October
Lethbridge Gallery (Bulimba)
Hands are as unique as faces not just in their physical characteristics, but in their tremendous capacity to express feelings and emotions, communicate ideas and tell stories. Margaret’s new collection of paintings aims to put…
Welcome Two
19th September - 3rd November
Fireworks Gallery
FireWorks Gallery is excited to announce the second exhibition in the new Bowen Hills gallery, WELCOME TWO. This wide-ranging show comprises works by Joanne Currie Nalingu, Kudditji Kngwarreye, Glen Mackie, Yvonne Mills-Stanley, Fiona Omeenyo and…
Dark Rituals, Magical Relics
14th September - 3rd November
University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery
Dark Rituals, Magical Relics is an exhibition of the work of seven contemporary women artists from Australia and abroad. What links the work of Amalie Atkins (Canada), Margaret Baguley (Australia), Beata Batorowicz (Australia), Linda Clark (Australia),…
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year
30th August - 4th November
Brisbane Powerhouse
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition harnesses the power of photography to promote the discovery, understanding and responsible enjoyment of the natural world. Brisbane Powerhouse is excited to present this world-class exhibition for the first…
Iconic Australian Houses
1st September - 18th November
Ipswich Art Gallery
Iconic Australian Houses, curated by Karen McCartney and presented in partnership with Architecture Foundation Australia is a behind-the-scenes exploration of 30 of the most important Australian homes of the past 60 years. The exhibition explores the…
Scott Breton: Whispered Ocean Hymns
13th - 31st October
Lethbridge Gallery
Scott Breton’s new series of paintings range from simple plein air watercolours and compositional sketches to larger canvases and panels. “Technically, I have been experimenting with varying paint application to a larger degree than previously,…
Michelle Gilbert: Surge
3rd - 27th October
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Surge by Brisbane based artist Michelle Gilbert. “This series continues my investigation of landscape as a means of self portrait. The works consider personal encounters I have had with…
James Guppy: The Venal Garden
9th - 27th October
Jan Murphy Gallery
In England, he was noted for his huge murals. In Australia, however, James Guppy is known for his exquisitely executed, small, evocative paintings. His art displays courage and honesty in the way it explores human…
Justin Garnsworthy: Smashed Tack
26th September - 6th October
POP Gallery
Justin Garnsworthy’s inaugural solo exhibition at POP 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. Each…
Backbone Festival: How Soon Is Now?
4th - 27th October
Multiple Venues
Video killed the radio star, and the internet brought it back from the dead! The tyrannical grip of the internet incites rebellion against cold and passive interactions, leaving humanity searching for places to be touched…
In Conversation: Karen Black
16th October, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Griffith University Art Museum
Join contemporary painter and ceramicist Karen Black and Griffith University Art Museum Director Angela Goddard for a discussion on Black’s practice, exploring her expressive approach to painting aon canvas and how it translates across to…
Dana Lawrie: Deathfest 2.0
15th - 21st October
Flowstate
Combining handmade botanical inks and textiles, artist Dana Lawrie creates a new installation reflecting upon permanence and impermanence. This textile-based artwork will incorporate both photosensitive and indelible flower and botanical inks that have been handmade…
Thcat: Beautiful Lie
26th September - 6th October
Aspire Gallery
Thcat is a socially conscious and political artist whose work is heavily influenced by society’s pop and consumerism culture. New to the art world, Thcat is a manufactured identity whose work uses the street-scape scene…
A Plant is a Community
3rd November, 1:00 - 5:00pm
Mt Coot-tha Botancial Gardens
WHY LISTEN TO PLANTS? A plant knows and makes worlds. It communicates. When we regard a plant, we usually only see what’s above the surface: stems, trunks, branches, leaves, buds and flowers. But there’s so…
George Gittoes: LOVERS
19th September - 13th October
Mitchell Fine Art
The mythical power of love is the theme behind Sydney Peace Prize WinnerGeorge Gittoes latest exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. In a complete stylistic shift from his figurative documentation of conflict, Gittoes revisits…
QCA Graduate Exhibition and Awards Evening
1st November, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Queensland College of Art
Towards the end of each year, the Queensland College of Art (QCA) hosts a number of showcase exhibitions featuring the work of graduating students from the disciplines of fine art, photography, design and digital media,…
Robin Greer: Cyclical Patterns and Burning Lights
13th September - 5th October
Side Gallery
Cyclical Patterns and Burning Lights presents a mixture of new and some previously exhibited works which builds on the ideas and methods explored in Greer’s previous solo exhibitions. This exhibit will feature a combination of two…
First Thursdays: Anastasia Booth
1st November, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA will be transformed into a one-night-only club by artist Anastasia Booth in this First Thursdays event not-to-be-missed. ‘Preaching to the Perverted: Club Issue’ is the collision of Booth’s interests in fetish culture, Freudian…
John Nicholson: Drop Downs
18th September - 6th October
Jan Murphy Gallery
For his inaugural solo exhibition with Jan Murphy Gallery, John Nicholson will present a new body of works that extends his interest in technology. Drop Downs will feature colourful, layered sculptural acrylic works with matte,…
Nature's Right
28th October, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Spring Hill Reservoirs
In the historic setting of the Spring Hill Reservoirs, an experimental listening session tracing root systems of botany, psychology, language and colonisation. Artists use voice to unearth subterranean threads, tapping chambered memories and generating new…
Julian Meagher: Tidelines
18th September - 10th October
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Julian Meagher’s latest exhibition ‘Tidelines’ came from three unusual sources of inspiration: a National Park location, a visually impaired student, and the impending birth of his first child. The result is a departure for the…
Miranda Skoczek: Permission to Play
11th - 31st October
Edwina Corlette Gallery
‘Unselfconsciously playful, my work examines a process of art making devoid of stringent conceptualism. It is about the physical act of painting, exploring the role of play, intuition, improvisation and the potentiality of paint. A…
Talking Film: Cinematic Storytelling – Colour And Light
20th October, 1:00 - 2:00pm
GOMA Cinema
In a discussion inspired by renowned artist James Turrell’s architectural light commission ‘Night Life’ 2018 at GOMA, a panel of cinematographers and designers will explore the role of light and colour and its importance in…
Angela Tiatia: Tuvalu
12th - 20th October
Kuiper Projects
Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Tiatia’s work has been…
Scroll
19th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE Artspace
Pairing the age-old salon hang with new media and contemporary techniques Scroll explores the analogue digital boundary through a variety of media and artists. While curatorially drawing a connection between the salon hang and its…
Skye Fordham: Sheila Situation
16th - 24th October
Project Gallery, QCA
An exhibition of performance and video narrating power dynamics, pop culture, gender performance and sex. “Sheila is a gagger, a twerker, a consumer. She is a performer, a gazer, a spectacle. Sheila is a response,…







































































