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…
Jess Enkera: 11 Rarely Seen Images of Princess Diana
22nd August, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
‘11 Rarely Seen Images of Princess Diana‘ is an exhibition of new work with an accompanying essay by Caity Reynolds. Jessica Enkera has been developing her practice during her residency at Outer Space ARI for…
Panel Discussion Dark Rooms: Women Directing the Lens 1978-98
18th August, 2:00pm
Griffith University Art Museum
Join feminist art historian Louise Mayhew and artists Jill Orr, Francesca da Rimini (VNS Matrix) and Jay Younger in a discussion inspired by exhibition themes of self-representation, (cyber)feminism and materiality / technology. Presented in association…
Hakanaï
16th - 18th August
Brisbane Powerhouse
Hakanaï is an mesmerising performance weaving together digital technology, visual arts and movement. From French company, Adrien M & Claire B, experience their Australian debut. Energetic and performed in real time, the performance is a conversation…
Book Launch - Absolute Humidity
25th August, 2:00 - 3:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Absolute Humidity is a new limited-edition volume featuring over thirty conversations with contemporary artists practicing in the Asia-Pacific region. The publication, edited by Brisbane-based curator and writer Tess Maunder, addresses the conditions that many artists…
Martin Smith: The Narrated Self
21st August - 6th September
POP Gallery
I have a stammer, my father had a stammer, my brother has a stammer, my sister had a stammer, but my mother took her to a speech therapist to correct it (this is another story).…
Miles Hall: Open Ground
1st August - 1st September
Jan Manton Art
New work by artist – Miles Hall Image: Napthol Red (Pythagoras) 2018, oil on linen, 40 x 30 cm
Parallel Park: Into Another
8th - 25th August
Metro Arts
nto Another is a new video work by collaborative duo Parallel Park. In 2015, Parallel Park sacrificed their personal double-ended dildo to make a mould for 101 concrete clones, resulting in ‘Boneyard 101′. Unfortunately, the much loved toy did not…
Simone Hine: Picture
18th August, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Kuiper Projects
Picture is a new work by Brisbane-based artist, Simone Hine. Édouard Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) and Jeff Wall’s Picture for Women (1979) act as precursors for this work. Picture is a public intervention that utilises the context of the Kuiper Shop Front,…
The Wrong Kind of Beauty
13th August – 7th September
Ecosciences Precinct
The Wrong Kind of Beauty is the Bloom Collective’s embodied, experiential response to the fragility of the landscape produced by the gullying process. The harrowing and ongoing drama of the landscape, simultaneously reveals moments of delicate…
Kay Watanabe: Echo
1st September, 9:00am - 6:00pm
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Brisbane-based printmaker Kay Watanabe will show her new works, which are rich in black and texture, in her solo exhibition on Saturday 1 September 2018 at The Wag Bar of The Woolloongabba Art Gallery in…
Tara Marynowsky: Balancing Actress
9th - 29th August
Edwina Corlette Gallery
‘Balancing Actress’ combines found images from a 1930s nudist magazine with watercolour works on paper, the works suggest a sense of role playing and are influenced by cinematic and fantastical female characters from studio films.…
Keynote Lecture: Julie Rrap
22nd August, 6pm
QCA, Griffith University
Julie Rrap’s involvement with body art and performance in the mid-70s in Australia continued to influence her practice as it expanded into photography, painting, sculpture and video in an on-going project concerned with representations of…
Jacqui Shelton: Something Like Dancing
8th - 25th August
Metro Arts
Intimate performance and filmmaking are fused to explore embodied communication, familiarity and gesture; looking to the breaks between and hiding behind, the words uttered aloud. Jacqui Shelton’s work emphasises the unspoken: the rules, anomalies, proximities…
Peter Churcher
31st July - 25th August
Philip Bacon Galleries
“Since graduating from art school, I have been primarily concerned with the painting of the human figure in a narrative context and the depiction of the human presence – tht is the Portrait. This focus…
Ari Athans: Remains
9th - 29th August
Edwina Corlette Gallery
“Science underpins all my work,” says Ari Athans. Geography, geology, and topography combine in her paintings to resonate with a sense of the earth and its timeless processes, to explore the fuzzy boundary between organic…
Future Proof
11 -25th August
Boxcopy
Future Proof 2018 brings together new work by five recent Queensland graduates: Christopher Bassi, Briony Law, Torin Francis, Olivia Lacey, and Peter Kozak. Curated by Tim Walsh, Future Proof provides an opportunity for emerging artists to develop and…
Bodies
29th - 30th August
Bloodhound Bar
An group exhibition featuring some of Brisbane’s leading underground artists and their exploration of the theme “Bodies”. ‘In creation the body is a tool to express the mind; and according to Aristotle, the hand is…
Amy Carkeek: Welcome to the Dreamhouse
1st - 25th August
ONESPACE Gallery
Welcome to the Dreamhouse conveys a nostalgic world where children play happily. As if unaware of the menacing and imminent darkness that has found them—or possibly only too aware—the small figures continue about their doings, masked…
Jay Younger: Demagogues and Megalomaniacs
1st - 25th August
ONESPACE Gallery
Jay Younger’s first solo show in Brisbane for some years includes two series: Demagogues and Megalomaniacs (2018) and Queensland (2017). Her exhibition is a powerful return to earlier concerns in image making and both photographic series take politicians as…
Benjamin Crowley / Holly Anderson
3rd - 18th August
Outer Space
Benjamin Crowley Solo Show Benjamin Crowley Solo Show is an exhibition of new work concerned with pitting material values against the transcendental. The work follows a pattern of looking at codified meaning through distancing symbolic…
Judith Wright: In the Garden of Good and Evil
5th May - 2nd September
Queensland Art Gallery
Renowned Brisbane artist Judith Wright presents her most recent installation in an ongoing project to construct the imagined life of a lost child. ‘In the Garden of Good and Evil’ continues the artist’s meditation on…
Ningura Napurrula Gibson
25th July - 18th August
Mitchell Fine Art
Ningura Napurrula Gibson was born 1938 in the remote desert of Western Australia. As a yougn women she helped her husband artist Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi in infilling the backgrounds of his canvases. She did…
A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift
21st July - 9th September
HOTA Gold Coast
A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift is the story of a deep commitment to contemporary art and to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Since 2002, Tim Fairfax AC has supported…
Melissa Spratt: Essential Existence
4th -18th August
The Walls
During the cooler months, local artist Melissa Spratt has taken up residency in our mezzanine studio, weaving together notions of identity and ecology into an array of new installation-based works. Melissa’s art making process is…
CURIO
27th July - 28th August
Lethbridge Gallery (Bulimba)
This group exhibition brings together four talented oil painters: Chase Archer, Selway Lampard, Lukifer Aurelius and Ryan Daffurn. With no brief or boundaries, each artist has been allowed to wander freely through their own subconscious. Drawing…
First Thursdays: Léuli Eshrāghi
6th September, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Level 2, Metro Arts
Artist, writer, and IMA Visiting Curator, Léuli Eshrāghi, who is currently working on upcoming exhibition ‘The Commute’ will present a new performance work, ‘paper/s/kin gesture’, for First Thursdays. Eshrāghi has developed this work for the…
Bernd Oppl: Substanzaufnahme
31st August - 8th September
Kuiper Projects
Sterile spaces, white walls, black doors, no people. A fluid in shiny black swashes in, slowly spreads out on the floor, swallows the white and forms into a sculptural shape. Space-grasping substances, alien, inspirited, puzzling…
Silver & Gold: Unique Australian Objects 1830 – 1910
16th June - 26th August
Ipswich Art Gallery
The Ipswich Art Gallery is delighted to present a National Gallery of Australia Exhibition. Silver & Gold: unique Australian objects 1830–1910 showcases exceptional nineteenth and early twentieth century Australian silver and gold objects drawn from the…
Dark Rooms - Women Directing the Lens 1978-98
12th July - 25th August
Griffith University Art Museum
Group exhibition featuring artists: Maree Cunnington, Destiny Deacon, Linda Dement, Marian Drew, Bonita Ely, Fiona Foley, Elizabeth Gertsakis, Lesley Goldacre, Janina Green, Fiona Hall, Leah King-Smith, Lindy Lee, Anne MacDonald, Ruth Maddison, Wendy Mills, Tracey…
Sebastian Helling: Then Play On
3rd August - 5th September
TW FIne Art
“My paintings are neither abstract nor figurative, neither gestural nor compositional. Layers of artistic languages overlap and deny each other. In the same spirit, my wish for communication (or anti-communication) is trapped within the relevance…
A night by the fire with Delvene Cockatoo-Collins
16th August, 6:30 - 7:30pm
State Library Queensland
Designing the Commonwealth Games medals with Delvene Cockatoo-Collins. Learn about the people and places woven into the work of this local artist. Date: Thursday 16th August Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm Where: Talking Circle, kuril dhagun,…
Young Ones
30th March - 5th August
Gallery of Modern Art
‘Young Ones’ features works from six artists who are 35 or younger: Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (also known as Hahan), Tyza Stewart, Abdul Abdullah, Liam O’Brien and Vincent Namatjira. These artists were children at the…
Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection
24th March - 5th August
Gallery of Modern Art
In her most ambitious exhibition to date, globally renowned artist Patricia Piccinini will occupy GOMA’s entire ground floor with a retrospective of her most recognisable works from the past 20 years, and a suite of…
Anniversary Group Show: Country Lines
23rd June - 4th August
Fireworks Gallery
Prior to relocating to Bowen Hills in August, FireWorks Gallery would like to announce that the final exhibition at Doggett St will be Anniversary Group Show I: Country Lines; over thirty artworks by four artists…
THE PLATFORM 10
3rd - 19th July
Edwina Corlette Gallery
A group exhibition featuring: TIM ALLEN, LIAM AMBROSE, JOHN BOKOR, BRIDIE GILLMAN, JANE GUTHLEBEN, DAN KYLE, CHARMAINE PIKE, VANESSA STOCKARD, CHRISTOPHER ZANKO. Dan Kyle’s CV Christopher Zanko’s CV Bridie Gillman’s CV Tim Allen’s CV John…
Stanthorpe Art Prize
15th June - 19th July
Stanthorpe Regional Gallery
The winners of the 2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize will be announced at the Gala Opening on Friday 15 June. Established in 1968, the biennial Stanthorpe Art Prize is the second oldest art competition in Queensland…







































































