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…
Lawrence Daws: Held Close
26th May - 28th July
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
Lawrence Daws’ career spans more than six decades. His works are held across national and international collections, both public and private. There are some works however that Daws has retained – those that he has…
Fred Fowler: Home/Visitors
26th June – 21st July
Jan Murphy Gallery
Fred Fowler’s exhibition, Home / Visitors, features new paintings by the Melbourne based artist in his first solo presentation in Queensland. His distinctive paintings are landscapes – physical, cultural or psychological – that expose the…
We are Gold Coast
12th May - 15th July
HOTA
We are not the place you used to know, we are not what you think. We are Gold Coast. The Gold Coast is often misjudged and scorned by out-dated beliefs that it’s just surf, schoolies and…
Portrait of an Artist: Judy Watson
10th August, 6:30 - 7:30pm
State Library Queensland
Come along to the second talk in the Portrait of an Artist 2018 series and gain a unique insight into the life and works of one of Queensland’s most celebrated artists, Judy Watson at a…
Women of Utopia
27th June - 21st July
Mitchell Fine Art
Showing from 27thJune ‘Women of Utopia’ is an exhibition showcasing significant artworks by some of Australia’s most recognisable female Aboriginal artists from the Utopia region in Central Australia. Approximately 230kms north east of Alice Springs in…
Stitch Cult
3rd August, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Artisan
Stitch Cult is an exhibition that investigates the social significance of embroidery and its practice. This dynamic exhibition presents an Australian perspective on the contemporary uptake of embroidery by a new generation of artists whilst…
Katarina Vesterberg: Novus florilegium
20th June - 21st July
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
Katarina Vesterberg explores her intimate relationship with the sky, land and vast oceans surrounding our continent. She allows us to experience the environment the way she does; feeling its power, beauty, and fragility. Image: GLASSHOUSES…
Tristan Eyles: Civil Landscapes
2nd August, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Greaser Art Gallery
This single night exhibition presents Civil Landscapes, a new body of work by Tristan Eyles. Eyles’ interdisciplinary practice opens up contemporary relationships between the personal, the urban, and the natural landscape, with a focus on…
José María Peña: Night and Day
11th - 25th July
Urban Paradise Gallery
José María Peña was born and lives in Seville, Spain. He earned his Fine Arts degree in Conservation and Restoration from the University of Seville. His background as an art restorer has allowed him to have a deep…
Artist Talk: Simon Degroot
21st July, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Jan Manton Art
Please join Brisbane-based artist Simon Degroot as he speaks about his practice and current exhibition, Capricious Forms, with Jan Manton. All are welcome. In his current exhibition, Degroot translates small details from the built environment…
MONO 28: Beatriz Ferreyra
9th August, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA and Room40 present MONO 28 with Beatriz Ferreyra. Argentine-born, French-based composer Beatriz Ferreyra is a musique concrète pioneer. Now in her eighties, her works presented in an octophonic sound array typify an intensity…
Closing Celebration - Di Hall & Debbie Taylor (Worley) #OO3
27th July, 5:15 - 8:00pm
Onespace Gallery
two artists, two bodies of work, one space. Onespace is pleased to host QCA Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Honours students, Di Hall and Debbie Taylor (Worley) throughout July 2018 for their Onsite Project. The project…
Annelize Mulder: Peculiar Freedoms
1st - 11th August
POP Gallery
People often migrate in pursuit of a safer life. The commotion of the move abroad is followed by a sense of relief, breathing a bit easier. Except, what if past experiences hinder a complete surrender…
Open Studio
29th July, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Outer Space
Over the past four months, Aishla Manning, Jess Enkera, Monica Rohan, Kat Campbell, Kate McKay, Peter Kozak and Rhiannon Dionysius have been diligently working away above the gallery while walls were being erected below. With…
Eavesdropping: Susan Schuppli and Sam Kidel
4th August, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Sam Kidel and Susan Schuppli perform at Institute of Modern Art as part of Eavesdropping, a major project by Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Law School and The Ian Potter Museum of Art exploring the politics of listening and being listened-to. MATERIAL WITNESS A lecture performance by…
Queer College of Art panel discussion
11th August, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Griffith University Art Museum
On Saturday the 11th of August at 2pm the Queer College of Art are pleased to present a panel discussion alongside dark rooms: women directing the lens, currently showing at Griffith Art Museum. The panel…
Foot Square
1st - 11th August
Aspire Gallery
Every winter, Aspire Gallery hosts it’s second annual small pieces competition, ‘Foot Square’. Much like it’s big sister competition, ‘Petite Pieces’, there is no limitation on medium, theme or skill for artists looking to enter.…
In Conversation Rachael Haynes and Courtney Pedersen
11th August, 11:00am
Kuiper Projects
Please join us for a discussion with Courtney Pedersen and Rachael Haynes about the current exhibition Affirmative Action. This exhibition is part of Haynes’ ongoing Project for the Affirmation of the Voice, and addresses the polyvocal nature of contemporary feminism.…
Clare Rae: The Wait
22nd June - 21st July
Kuiper
The Wait is a stop motion animation by artist Clare Rae. Constructed from a string of photographic stills, The Wait is one of a series of videos that explore female identity via a persona that appears continuously throughout…
Kimberly Rowe: Finding Grace
14th June - 10th July
TW Fine Art
Following her residency at the Wool Factory in Barcelona, Kimberly Rowe will return to Australian shores with her new body of work. Notable for her highly experimental approach, the artist’s return to the canvas is…
Rachael Haynes: Affirmative Action
27th July - 11th August
Kuiper Projects
Rachael Haynes is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Her art practice engages with feminist ethics and activism by examining the social and personal constructs of language and gender. This exhibition…
Artist Talk: Haegue Yang
26th July, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Hear from South Korean-born artist Haegue Yang, in conversation with IMA Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh. Known for her complex and sensorial blind installations, sculptures, and video, Yang translates her research and reflections on…
In Conversation: Starting Young
29th July, 1:30 - 2:30pm
Gallery of Children's Art
Join us for a conversation with Vernon Ah Kee, Patricia Piccinini and Luke Roberts about their early lives as artists. About this Event Join us for a conversation with Vernon Ah Kee, Patricia Piccinini and…
First Thursdays: Eric Bridgeman
2nd August, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join artist Eric Bridgeman for an interactive evening titled ROT BÜNG (Crossroad), dissecting the sounds and texts of Tok Pisin (Pidgin English) from the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Bridgeman, from the Yuri Clan of…
moment & method
18th - 27th July
POP Gallery
moment & method provides an opportunity for early career researchers at the Queensland College of Art to share their art-practice. As a collective, the group exploration illustrates the multitude of ways in which artists use…
Makers Take III
27th July, 6:00 - 10:00pm
UAP Brisbane
Please come along and join the third installment of the Makers Take exhibition series. For this show we’ve extended our reach to find 20 leading furniture and home-ware designers from South-East Queensland and New South…
Pru Morrison and Sharon Muir
16th June - 28th July
Artisan
Two of our community’s most skilled studio potters – Pru Morrison and Sharon Muir – will be celebrated in Artisan’s two upcoming exhibitions, Yesterday’s Favourite and Scenes for Hearts and Flowers, opening 16 June. Yesterday’s…
Alex Pyren: Throwin' a big rock
27th July, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE
THROWIN’ A BIG ROCK is an exhibition of new work by ALEX PYREN (www.alexpyren.com). The work draws from Queer Theory and reconstructs lived experiences in order to interrogate the visibility and interferences of queer identities…
Converse
14th - 28th July
Boxcopy
This exhibition emerged out of conversation about Australian feminist performative artworks and embraces conversation as a curatorial method. Each curator suggests an artwork, that the other responds to with another artwork. A printed conversation accompanies…
Judith Sinnamon: Bimblebox
19th July - 9th August
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Bimblebox Nature Refuge is situated 1,120 km northwest of Brisbane in the heart of cattle and coal country. The fourteen-hour drive to this remnant semi-arid woodlands transforms an artist’s eye along the way. One leaves…
Simon Degroot: Capricious Forms
4th - 28th July
Jan Manton Art
Simon Degroot translates small details from the built environment into abstract shapes that are useful for painting in Capricious Forms. In this exhibition of new paintings, details are collected, re-formed and re-arranged as flat abstract…
First Thursdays: Elisa Jane Carmichael
5th July, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Elisa Jane Carmichael has curated an evening to celebrate saltwater resources through gathering, feasting, storytelling, yarning, and weaving. Carmichael is Ngugi woman from Quandamooka Country (Moreton/Moorgumpin and Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah, Queensland), whose practice draws inspiration from her…
Chrys Zantis: Internal Landscapes
3rd - 14th July
Project Gallery, QCA
Ground breaking advances in neuroscience imaging are the primary inspiration for Internal Landscapes. The exhibition explores parallels of terminology and meanings shared by biological science and my chosen media. Interactive sculptures, encased objects and images…
Cherie Noble: Poly_Amorous
7th - 21st July
The Walls
Micro-plastics and ocean currents are mapped-out in a multi-channel video installation that links our love affair with plastics to the health of ocean environments and the evolution of marine ecosystems. “It is a curious situation…
James Turrell Lights Up GOMA
13th July, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Gallery of Modern Art
A major architectural light installation by internationally renowned artist James Turrell (United States, b.1943) is set to transform the face of GOMA at night. The commissioned installation will dramatically illuminate GOMA’s eastern and southern facades…
She Sees, She Feels, She Makes
17th - 28th July
Project Gallery, QCA
This group exhibition is a trans-disciplinary conversation between three Indigenous and three non-Indigenous women, who find themselves coming together for the first time through the commonality of the ‘she aspect’ of humanity, the feminine. Presenting…







































































