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…
World Press Photo 2018
30th June - 22nd July
Brisbane Powerhouse
See the world’s most compelling, controversial and intimate moments as captured by award-winning photojournalists from around the globe at World Press Photo Exhibition 2018. The annual exhibition profiles the world’s top press photographers, photojournalists and documentary…
Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award
12th - 22nd July
Lethbridge Gallery
For the ninth year, Lethbridge Gallery has supported artists and held the Award offering $10 000 prize money to the winner. The exhibition will showcase a variety of artworks all measuring less than 60cm in…
n o t i o n s
3rd - 21st July
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
n o t i o n s brings together the collaborative works of Brisbane based artists Glen Skien and Michelle Wild. Within the collision of discarded materials and the use of collage and assemblage, their…
Callum Galletly: Venting Air Condition
18th July, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
Callum has been making new work in the space for the last month. Come join us for the opening on 18th July. Exhibition is open by appointment from the 19th – 27th July. For more…
Escapism
5th July, 6:30 - 9:00pm
Analogue Gallery
“As human beings, sometimes we want to simply escape, whether that’s through different uses of technology, what we eat, see and/or feel, everyone conjures their own version of escape.” ‘Escapism’ is a group exhibition curated…
Don’t Drink the Milk?!
3rd - 14th July
Webb Gallery, QCA
The exhibition title references the popular children’s game known as ‘Telephone’, in which a message is created and whispered one child to the next around a circle. The ‘aim’ of the game is for this…
Mandy Quadrio: Speaking Beyond The Vitrine
11th - 28th July
Metro Arts
Palawa artist Mandy Quadrio exposes Australia’s historic and continued denial of the existence of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. In Quadrio’s sculptural installation, Holes in history, abrasive steel wool becomes a metaphor for the erasure and ‘whitening’…
Davida Allen: In the Moment
3rd May - 30th June
Griffith University Art Museum
Griffith University Art Museum is proud to present the first museum survey in 30 years of distinguished contemporary Australian artist Davida Allen. Admired for her expressive style and her brutally honest depiction of domestic life,…
Up Late: Cable Ties & The Gooch Palms
29th June, 5:30 - 9:00pm
Gallery of Modern Art
Experience GOMA after dark at Up Late during ‘Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection’. Enjoy live music from cutting edge performers and guest DJs in the heart of GOMA. Melbourne-based punk band Cable Ties comprises three friends who weld…
Mitchell Donaldson / Tyza Stewart & James Barth
22nd - 27th June
Outer SPace
Outer Space presents the first two exhibitions in its new Montague Rd home. Join us for the opening on June 22nd for Mitchell Donaldson’s ‘Worm Runner’s Digest’ and Tyza Stewart and James Barth’s ‘Assuming A…
Focus Points
26th June, 6:30 - 9:30pm
UQ Art Museum
‘Focus Points’ consists of four documentaries on Robert Smithson and his work. Whether engaging with his life, criticism, entropy, or cosmic time, each documentary is marked by form precisely tailored to the content, whether in…
MONO 27: William Basinski with WPH
3rd July, 7:00 - 9:00
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA and Room40 are pleased to present MONO 27 featuring William Basinski and WPH. Basinski, possibly the 21st century’s most important voice in ambient work, debuts a brand-new work On Time, Out Of Time…
Kylie Spear: Footsteps on the back path
23rd June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE Artspace
Footsteps on the back path is a new work made in collaboration with Thomas Kidd. Drawing on childhood experiences of auditory hallucination, this exhibition considers processes of crossmodal perception, as well as the spaces between…
Tjala Arts: Seven Sisters
29th May - 23rd June
Jan Murphy Gallery
Jan Murphy Gallery will present an exhibition featuring artwork from the acclaimed Tjala Arts centre in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. In a first for both organisations, the upcoming show will solely focus on artists…
Panel Discussion: Speculation
23rd June, 11:00am
Kuiper
Please join Kuiper Projects for a conversation with Baden Pailthorpe, alongside local artist and academic Daniel McKewen , scholar Paolo Magagnoli and Kuiper co-director Kyle Weise. Pitch Deck, the current exhibition at Kuiper Projects, presents a humorous, yet darkly dystopic vision;…
Lecture: Fassbinder’s Women
23rd June, 2:00 - 3:00pm
Gallery of Modern Art
Join Juliane Lorenz, President of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and editor of several of Fassbinder’s major films, as she discusses the role of women in Fassbinder’s life and work at this free talk. Rainer…
Poetry Reading: Louise Bennett
28th June, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
In conjunction with Louise Bennett’s ‘Light Between Our Oceans’, hear a spoken word poem by the artist that shares some of her idiosyncratic experiences living in Lima. Filmed in Peru, Louise Bennett’s ‘Light Between Our…
Conversation & Screening: Water Mirrors
30th June, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join the IMA for the event ‘Water Mirrors’ organised by Vivian Ziherl of Frontier Imaginaries in conjunction with the opening Karrabing Film Collective’s exhibition ‘The Mermaids: Mirror Worlds’ at the IMA. Moderated by Ziherl, the event will…
Artist Relay
23rd June, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Boxcopy
Join us on June 23, 4:00pm for Boxcopy’s Artist Relay series. Artists Charlie Hillhouse, Annie Macindoe and Martin Smith will discuss their art practices in dialogue with our current exhibition by Stephen Palmer and Utako…
In Conversation with Lu Forsberg
21st June, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Outer Space
The Queer College of Art will be joined by Lu Forsberg as we have the chance to collectively engage with their practice. Focusing on Lu’s recent exhibition Transparency and other worries alongside their work shown…
Gerwyn Davies: Idols
5th - 19th June
Jan Murphy Gallery (Online)
Combining photographic self-portraiture and costume making, Gerwyn’s work is an ongoing inventory of selves that are assembled, worn and performed for the camera. Through the layering of dress, the body is used as a platform…
Jane James: Affirmative
30th May - 23rd June
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Affirmative by Brisbane based artist Jane James. Signalling the word ‘equality’, the eight paintings from this new body of work, Affirmative, examine the layers of meaning and visual symbols, and our ability to…
Callum McGrath: Poofta
13th - 30th June
Metro Arts
On Saturday the 24th of June 1978 the first ever Mardi Gras parade was held in Sydney; simultaneously at the Sydney Cricket Ground, a Rugby League match between Australia and New Zealand was played. POOFTA…
Benjamin Werner: Night Blooms
6th - 30th June
Onespace Gallery
Onespace Gallery is very excited to present Night Blooms, our first opportunity to showcase a stunning new series of paintings by Brisbane artist Benjamin Werner. Werner has developed a world of dark forest interiors that are…
Ian Burn: Systematically Altered Photographs
25th May - 16th June
Milani Gallery
Marking 50 years since Ian Burn’s groundbreaking xerox works, this exhibition centres around working copies of the Systematically Altered Photographs,made at the Speed Copy Centre Inc. on 32nd Street, New York in 1968. These are exhibited…
Simon Gende: Mirror to the World
23rd May - 16th June
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
Simon Gende: Gilas bilong lukim papa graun (Mirror to the world) My name is Simon Gende. I was born on the 17th of September 1969. I was born in the village called Gere in the Gembogl District,…
Fred Williams
5th - 30th June
Philip Bacon Galleries
“If there is one reputation in Australian art that is surely unassailable, it is the reputation of Fred Williams. He died in 1982, and it is now clear, if it was ever in doubt before,…
UnStable
2nd June - 16th June
The Walls
Artists: Kiera Brew Kurec, Dana Lawrie and Sarah Poulgrain. Curated by Bridie Gillman and Alexander Kucharski [STABLE] unSTABLE brings together the work of three artists whose multimodal practices exploit materiality and foreground the instability of…
Franck Gohier: Dirty Deeds
30th May - 23rd June
Mitchell Fine Art
Born in France, Franck Gohier has an extensive portfolio as a painter, sculptor and printmaker. His artwork is steeped in his political and social consciousness. Satirical, politically and socially motivated his work is a reflection of society…
Baden Pailthorpe: Pitch Deck
8th - 23rd June
Kuiper Projects
Baden Pailthorpe’s Pitch Deck (2017) explores the potential application of financial analysis and machine learning in contemporary art. Combining elements of high quality 3D animation, custom gaming PCs, liquid cooling, roman armour, web scrapers, champagne and startup chic, Pitch…
Louise Bennett: Light Between Our Oceans
5th - 28th June
Institute of Modern Art
Louise Bennett‘s Light Between Our Oceans focuses on the measurable and immeasurable space between ourselves and others, as well as the distance between the artist’s current and past experiences. Recorded in Peru, the camera lens becomes Bennett’s…
Stephen Palmer & Utako Shindo
8th - 23rd June
Boxcopy
You are warmly invited to the opening event of a new collaborative exhibition project by Stephen Palmer and Utako Shindo on Friday 8th June. postscript/追伸is a collaborative project between Melbourne-based artist Stephen Palmer and Tokyo-based…
Blackout
22nd June, 5:30 - 9:00pm
Queensland Museum
Queensland Museum will host its first ever 18+ Blackout event on Friday 22 June, in celebration of Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islanders culture, history and heritage. Featuring talented young artists from Digi Youth Arts and Queensland Museum‘s…
Claudia Greathead: Wanblut
13th - 30th June
Metro Arts
Through gestural painting and sculpture, Claudia Greathead’s exhibition dwells on familial relationships. For Greathead, making and painting is marked by isolation, and this series of works emerges from the process of uncovering its potential for…
Cosima Scales: Portals
19th - 30th June
Project Gallery, QCA
Portals is an exhibition of landscape paintings which engage with Romantic sentiment for nature, yet at the same time, interrupt this sentimentality through painterly means. Picturesque gardens, mountains and shoreline are represented through hurried brushstrokes,…
Cinémathèque Live: Charlemagne Palestine & Drew McDowall
30th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Gallery of Modern Art
Presented in partnership with Room40, the Australian Cinémathèque welcomes two of the world’s leading exploratory musicians to Brisbane for one unique evening of transcendental performance. Drawing on the vast tonal and dynamic abilities of the Gallery’s…







































































