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…
Hannah Gutchen: KAKA NALI 'I AM'
19th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
ShareSpace
KAKA NALI – ‘I Am’ is the debut solo ‘ShareSpace’ exhibition by Brisbane Artist Hannah Gutchen. KAKA NALI offers a neutral environment that encourages self-expression through the emergence of traditional & contemporary Torres Strait Island…
Robert Vagg: My Only Friends
27th October, 7:00 - 11:00pm
Dumb Dumb
A crowd formed more or less the same stares at you, yet each is carefully considered, none a cynical replication of the last. This is true to the extent that you could see the ugliest…
Cinémathèque Live: Lawrence English's The Visitors
26th October, 6:00 - 9:10pm
GOMA
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of George A Romero’s landmark zombie film ‘Night of the Living Dead’ 1968, composer and artist Lawrence English has created a new audiovisual work titled ‘The Visitors’. Drawing on the…
Bruce Reynolds: Neapolitan Stereo
9th - 20th October
POP Gallery
“From Latvia to Malta, we were mostly children of the displaced, born to migrants on Ngunawaal land, in Canberra. Only fifty years earlier, the local people had been removed, or worse. The past is still…
Front-Inus: To Conceal The Absence Of Things We Lack
6th - 27th October
Milani Gallery (Carpark)
The exhibition presents ritual object works by Anastasia Booth in Carpark. There will be a performance at 5.30 pm. It will open concurrently with an exhibition by Rosslynd Piggott. Opening event: Saturday 6 October, 4 –…
PRIMITIVE MOTION
27th October, 4:00pm
Milani Gallery
To close Rossylnd Piggott’s exhibition Rose, rose and a shadow of violet, Primitive Motion will perform in Gallery 1 in response to the works. IMAGE: Primitive Motion (Leighton Craig and Sandra Selig) playing within Ionospheric Community of Last…
ARI Round Table
27th October, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Boxcopy ARI
Join us for an ARI Round Table discussion addressing the role that ARIs play in supporting the professional development of emerging and early career artists. We’ll be joined by representatives from Brisbane’s past and current…
Leonard Brown: Apophoria (The Way of Negation)
5th September - 6th October
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
“The only thing I know, is that which I do not” Apophatic theology: “Apophatic”, Ancient Greek: απόφασις (adjective); from απόφημι apophēmi, meaning “to deny”. “That there is a God is clear; but what He is…
Tony Albert: Visible
2nd June - 7th October
Gallery of Modern Art
‘Visible’ surveys the work of Tony Albert, one of the most exciting young Indigenous Australian artists working today. All aspects of his practice — from object-based assemblages, to painting, photography, video and installation — provide…
Glazed
19th - 28th October
Bruce Heiser Projects
Featuring Stephen Bird, Charlotte Le Brocque, Dai Li, Joe Furlonger & Errol Barnes, Brett Stone, Noel McKenna, Stephen Mok, Milton Moon. Please join for opening drinks on Saturday 20 October 1-3pm at our pop-up space…
MACHINIC IMPULSES
17th - 21st October
Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery
A collaborative exhibition of emerging Printmakers from the Queensland College of Art. Hong Heo | Summa Shing | Sarriah Tamiyajal | Rebecca Hlodik | Emily Joliffe | Shannon Camden | Ruth Cho | Maria Bourgard…
Ryan Presley: Prosperity Book Launch
13th October, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Prosperity is the first publication on Brisbane artist Ryan Presley, following his exhibition at the IMA earlier this year. It features Presley’s own writing on the history of the Australian colony’s first currency—the holey dollar—with essays by Tina Baum, Daniel…
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize
8th September - 4th November
QUT Art Museum
An annual exhibition that profiles new and emerging artists. It explores a broad range of vibrant contemporary art making, from new media and installation to more traditional mediums. A short list of 35 artists, crossing…
Bryan Ricci: Harmony in the Key of Linen
6th September - 6th October
TW Fine Art
Bryan Ricci is a US born contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally from South Korea to China and is now returning to TWFINEART for his second solo exhibition in Australia, Harmony in the Key…
Panel Discussion + Film: [Censored]
21st October, 1:45 - 3:30pm
GOMA Cinema
Following the screening of ‘[CENSORED]’, join film historian Frances Bonner and Caroline Ashworth, Assistant Director Audiovisual Preservation, National Archives of Australia, in a discussion on the history of film censorship in Australia and changing attitudes…
Life in Irons
18th May - 18th October
Museum of Brisbane
Moreton Bay penal colony was established by the British Government to “…reinstate transportation as an object of real terror to all classes of society”. It succeeded. Life in Irons provides a vivid insight into daily life in…
First Thursdays: Carol McGregor
4th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join ‘The Commute’ artist Carol McGregor for an evening of talks, demonstrations and hands-on making centred around the tradition of possum skin cloaks. McGregor (Wathaurung, Scottish) revives the traditional possum skin cloak as an art…
Rosslynd Piggott: Rose, rose and a shadow of violet
6th - 27th October
Milani Gallery
Following her recent survey exhibition at the Museo del Vetro, Murano, this exhibition presents a suite of new paintings, drawings and glasswork. It will open concurrently with an exhibition by Anastasia Booth in the Carpark.…
Leen Rieth: When I am here, what do I do?
12th - 27th October
Boxcopy
This project is a part of Leen’s development of a pedagogy focussed on studying physical and social configurations generated in and by art institutions. The pedagogy uses self-experimentation as a method to study experience. This…
Women IN … Indigenous Women in the Arts
10th October, 6:30 - 8:30pm
UQ Art Museum
The UQ Art Museum presents ‘Women IN … Indigenous Women in the Arts’. Presented in conjunction with our current exhibitions ‘Shirley Macnamara: Layered threads’ and ‘Judy Watson: concealed histories’. Join women artists, writers, performers and…
Double Exhibition: Class Act / Hailey Atkins
5th - 20th October
Outer Space
Outer Space is launching two new art exhibitions in their freshly renovated West End warehouse: Class Act and Hailey Atkins: What’s Good for You. CLASS ACT Dissecting the insidious nature of class issues within Australian…
Kate Mckay : Encounters
3rd - 27th October
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Encounters by Brisbane based artist Kate Mckay. McKay’s painting practice brings out the monumental in the small details of everyday spaces. Encounters showcases the intense focus McKay brings to her work,…
rightNow
10th - 27th October
Onespace Gallery
Onespace Gallery is very pleased to present rightNow. This exhibition will present an array of painting works by emerging and mid-career artists all based in Queensland: Georgina Hooper; Brontë Naylor; Paula Payne and Samuel Tupou This show takes the pulse of…
Barron Sherer: Obsolete Media Miami
6th - 20th October
The Walls
Our international exchange MIAMI / MIAMI enters its third year by welcoming artist BARRON SHERER from artist-run initiative OBSOLETE MEDIA MIAMI [Florida, USA] to THE WALLS. Miami, Florida based media artist, Barron Sherer will visit…
Praise You
4th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Bib N Brace Collective
UNE PIECE and Lusid Art bring to you a body of work with the power to make a difference – Praise You. Proudly supporting The Butterfly Foundation, Australia’s national organisation for eating disorders and body…
Shirley Macnamara: Layered threads
18th August, 25th November
University of Queensland Art Museum
‘A landscape of spinifex rings’ is how this acclaimed senior Indigenous artist from north-west Queensland describes the suspended woven work that forms the centrepiece of her exhibition. Working with Triodia (spinifex), a native grass common to this…
Andrew Frost: Austerity Discotheque
4th - 16th September
Queensland College of Art
An exhibition of work comprising the practical component of Andrew Frost’s MA. “Foreigners can be dogged. And can also, on account of language difficulties, fail to take a hint. Then again, let us not forget,…
People Like Us
4th August - 22nd September
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
People Like Us captures universal aspects of the contemporary human condition in film, animation, digital and interactive art. In a diverse collection of recent new media works by Australian and international practitioners, the exhibition also reveals…
Scott McDougall: Playing with Fire
8th - 26th September
Lethbridge Gallery
Recently I have become fascinated with the raw power of fire and flames, the intensity of its colour and heat. The huge cane fires that light up the Tweed Valley during harvest season have provided…
Agency : Rare Offerings from the Museum of Spent Time
5th - 29th September
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Agency : Rare Offerings from the Museum of Spent Time by Brisbane sculptor Stephen Hart. In an exhibition of sculpture and low relief wall based works, Brisbane sculptor Stephen…
Exteriors
18th - 29th September
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Exteriors literally describes that which is outside: physically, metaphorically, geographically. But how are our relationships with the outer influenced by our interior perceptions, experiences and habits? Exteriors offers this theme from a myriad of angles; organic vistas,…
Queer Pride: Closing Symposium & Celebration
29th September, 2:00 - 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join in for Queer Pride, an inclusive celebration of our LGBTQIA+ Arts Community in partnership with Brisbane Pride Festival, Serious Queer Business (Lu Forsberg and Callum McGrath), and Goose Goose Ganda. Queer Pride is a…
Amanda Jane: Gabori Dulka ("Country")
4th - 29th September
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
“I paint because I love it and I love My Country. It’s a very special place with lots of good and not so good memories. The rocks of My Country are in my paintings and…
Sculpture Speakeasy
22nd September, 6:00 - 9:00pm
QCA, Griffith University
SCULPTURE SPEAKEASY by Mark du Potiers A One Night Secret Show at Queensland College of Art, South Bank SAT 22 SEPT, 6pm – 9pm (Artist talk at 7pm) To find it, follow the directions below……
AFTM Outsider Art Awards
27th September - 1st October
The Old Museum
Everyone is invited to join us for the biggest event of the year – 2018 Art from the Margins Outsider Art Awards Exhibition. For the past 11 years, Art from the Margins has been exhibiting…
Charlie Hillhouse: Rose City
26th September, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
New work by Charlie Hillhouse Set in small country town, this film presents a series of vignettes following a couple as he visits her hometown for the first time. Video run time: 15 mins Wreckers…


















































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