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…
Book Launch: False Divides by Lana Lopesi
20th September, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
“While we may talk back to the empire, we can’t talk to each other.” Join Lana Lopesi, one of the Visiting Curators of ‘The Commute’, for the Australian launch of her book ‘False Divides’. Lopesi…
Green Screen: Queensland Shorts
20th September, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
See a screening of moving image works with a connection to Queensland as part of the IMA’s Green Program. The screening, presented in partnership with the Queensland Film Festival, brings together a selection of works by Shannon…
Sarah Rayner: Flowerbones
5th - 29th September
Onespace Gallery
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a seed as “The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant” another meaning of the word is “the cause or latent beginning of…
Sancintya Mohini Simpson: Bloodlines
5th - 22nd September
Metro Arts
Bloodlines tells the untold journey of women taken from South India to South Africa as indentured labourers. Bloodlines remembers these women, and the generations that follow. How are memories and trauma passed down, along with…
Tim Storrier
28th August - 22nd September
Philip Bacon Galleries
The tedious old adage about art, about painting, being the marriage of form and content is just that old adage because it’s true. What is Tim’s content? All art, and painting too, is essentially autobiographical…
Janni Cox: A System of Objects
21st September, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE Artspace
A SYSTEM OF OBJECTS aims to create new relationships between everyday objects to explore how they can operate outside of their intended purpose, broadening our understanding of how they exist. Using kinetic sculpture and video…
Laura Horrocks & Rachel Farlow: Slowly, subtly
14th September, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Innerspace Contemporary Art
Slowly, Subtly is an exhibition of paintings by two emerging artists, Laura Horrocks and Rachel Farlow, whose work embodies the materiality of the ephemeral through dynamic use of colour, line and form. Each painting holds…
Opening Exhibitions
8th - 29th September
Milani Gallery
To open our new premises in West End, Milani Gallery is hosting Richard Bell’s Embassy alongside a major exhibition of new work by Gareth Sansom. Also featured is a new installation by Sandra Selig, A Thin Black Line by…
Liam Hollinger: To, "human"
30th September, 5:00 - 9:00pm
Greaser Art Space
To, “Human”, To human as a verb crosses borders between the behaviors of human and animal. In a world at the frontier of globalization, technology expectation have increased, forcing mankind to rapidly or forcefully adapt…
Robert Andrew: An Unforgetting
11th - 22nd September
POP Gallery
Robert Andrew’s three-dimensional, mechanical devices question and resist the dominant narratives of colonisation in Australia. His machines visually articulate and give authority to an Australian Aboriginal experience. Combining text, organic materials, and technology, Andrew scrapes…
Warraba Weatherall: Single File
8th - 16th September
Kurilpa Bridge
Warraba Weatherall explores notions of buoyancy within the city’s landscape in a public artwork on the Brisbane River. Strategically placed near the cultural precinct, Weatherall questions the museum as a disciplinary institution where it’s archives…
Welcome to Thompson St
21st August - 15th September
FireWorks Gallery is very excited to announce that the exhibition WELCOME TO THOMPSON ST! which comprises almost 40 works by Laurie Nilsen, Rosella Namok, Tommy Watson and Ronnie Tjampitjinpa will open this Saturday. The event…
Unleashed: Emerging Craft and Design
21st September, 6:00pm
Artisan
After a seven year hiatus, Unleashed: Emerging Craft and Design is back. Artisan is set to once again capture some of the buzz being created by emerging craft practitioners and designers. Drawing together a cohort…
Bridging archives and creative practice: four responses
20th September, 6:00 - 7:30pm
SLQ Auditorium 2, Level 2, State Library
Join 2017 Mittelheuser scholar in residence Tess Maunder as she discusses the role of the archival in creative and curatorial practice with artists Sam Cranstoun, Lu Forsberg, Ryan Presley and Elysha Rei. Many Brisbane-based artists…
Summersong
9th September, 5:00 - 9:00pm
Greaser Art Gallery
Summersong is a collection of interactive sculptural work emerging together as a single cacophony. Inspired by the many deathly overtones arising from my own last summer, this installation unapologetically re-represents the same monotone crisis staring…
MONO 29: Heinz Riegler and Sandra Selig
27th September, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join Heinz Riegler and Sandra Selig for MONO 29, a free program of sound at the IMA presented in partnership with Room40. United in their interest in spatial practices, Riegler and Selig each independently create…
Defying Empire Film Screenings
12th September, 6:30 - 9:30pm
UQ Art Museum
The UQ Art Museum presents screenings of ‘Occupation: Native’ and ‘We don’t need a map’. These powerful and entertaining films interrogate Australia’s history. From film writer and director Trisha Morton-Thomas’ perspective, ‘Occupation: Native highlights’ what…
Breaking Up and Breaking Down
10th - 13th September
Queensland College of Art
Artists : Darcy Williams and Rose Manning “Breaking up and Breaking down” is the first show that combines Manning and Williams’ work in one space and exhibits previously unseen work from both artists. In this…
Sara Irannejad: A Thousand & One Interconnections
19th - 29th September
QCA Galleries
The exhibition presents selected works produced since 2014 as a result of Sara Irannejad’s research for a Doctorate of Visual Art. Comprising of various materials and visual forms, the works draw upon the artist’s experiences…
10th Anniversary Exhibition
29th August - 17th September
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Edwina Corlette Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works, one by each of its represented artists, to mark the tenth anniversary of the gallery. Opened in 2008 at the beginning of the Global…
Linde Ivimey: Conversations with a caterpillar
21st August - 15th September
Jan Murphy Gallery
Linde Ivimey was born in Sydney, Australia and obtained a Diploma of Fine Art in both printmaking and sculpture at the Claremont School of Art in Perth. She taught at the school from 1993 to 1995 and also lectured at the West Australian School of…
Amanda Penrose Hart: Beautiful One Day, Perfect the Next
22nd August - 15th September
Mitchell Fine Art
Returning home to Brisbane for the first time in over 13 years, landscape painter Amanda Penrose Hart will exhibit a series of new works for her inaugural exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art. Predominantly a landscape…
Tiel Seivl-Keevers: Unfolding Surfaces
16th August - 17th September
Side Gallery
Unfolding Surfaces; An exploration into memory and impermanence is Tiel Seivl-Keevers’ investigative series into the artist’s memory-based and site specific nostalgia of found objects. Tiel accumulates collections of botanical and fibrous items from natural surroundings and…
Sophie Bottomley: Slip of the Tongue
4th August - 15th September
Artisan
Sophie Bottomley uses humble materials to handcraft stunning sculptural objects. Focused on the body and all of its sensations, Slip of the Tongue tells an intimate story of sensuality, desire and intimacy. Devoted to grouping simple objects…
Matthew Cheyne: Theory of Flaw
28th July - 16th September
Ipswich Art Gallery
In his latest exhibition titled Theory of Flaw, local artist Matthew Cheyne is taking his work in a new direction. After graduating from Queensland College of Art in 2001, Matthew exhibited in Brisbane and Melbourne which…
Tony Albert: We Can Be Heroes
19th May - 7th October
Gallery of Modern Art
Starring the children of Warakurna, ‘We Can Be Heroes’ explores how we can all be empowered, by overcoming our fears. Tony Albert collaborated with children and artists from Warakurna to create a number of…
Salon de Fleurus
16th June - 26th August
QUT Art Museum
Salon de Fleurus is an artwork, a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein’s Parisian salon that existed at 27 rue de Fleurus from 1904–34. It is a work that displays and references a story of modern art’s…
Jennifer Bell: Variegated
6th August - 1st September
Artworld Studios
Variegated is a word we often associate with plants, but it also means multi-coloured, kaleidoscopic, patterned and intricate – so it was the prefect choice for Brisbane based artist Jennifer Bells solo exhibition that celebrates…
Thirawut Bunyasakseri: Trans-Raymayana
7th - 18th August
Webb Gallery, QCA
“In an increasingly globalized world, we are experiencing an unprecedented degree of cultural exchange through global migration and digital technologies. Whether it is positive or negative, most societies around the world have already become multicultural…
2018 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing
3rd - 17th August
Project Gallery, QCA
Jugglers Art Space is pleased to announce the Finalists of the 2018 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing, and invite you to join us for the opening of the Finalists Exhibition: Opening: Friday 3rd August:…
Abstraction: Celebrating Australian Women Abstract Artists
16th June - 26th August
QUT Art Museum
Abstraction is one of the most influential developments in art history. Female artists have been at the forefront of its development and yet, until recently, their contribution has been obscured from the art-historical narrative. This…
Haegue Yang
30th June - 30th August
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA will present the first solo exhibition in Australia by the celebrated Korean artist Haegue Yang. Known for her complex and sensorial blind installations, sculptures, and video, Yang translates her research and reflections on historical figures…
Heidi Yardley: Drifters
24th July - 18th August
Jan Murphy Gallery
Heidi Yardley eschews the vast panoramas of contemporary painting in favour of intimately scaled compositions. Her oil paintings feature figures and settings that recall film noir or the eerie magic of the occult. And just…
Our Collection: Voice in Action
28th March - 2nd September
Museum of Brisbane
Emerging in the late 1980s, a new wave of vocal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activism placed Brisbane at the forefront of an urban art movement. Drawing on the Museum of Brisbane Collection, Voice in Actionexplores…
Art Lab: Where Science and art Collide
6th September, 5:30 - 8:00pm
Ecosciences Precinct
Come enjoy art, science and drinks at the Ecosciences Precinct! The evening includes a presentation, Q&A, drinks and nibbles, plus time to view the seventh Art meets Science Exhibition. Art Lab will feature Madeleine Kersting…
Site, Sample, Sign: A Case Study
24th August, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE Artspace
SITE, SAMPLE, SIGN: A CASE STUDY is an exhibition composed by TRISTAN EYLES, HELEN HARDESS and KIERRA-JAY POWER. Their collaboration documents a series of recursive interventions into the fringes of New Chum, a suburb of…







































































