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…
Wild Remembering
19th - 30th June
Webb Gallery, QCA
Artists: Rachael Wellisch and Emma Gardner Wild Remembering features new work from Emma Gardner and Rachael Wellisch. The exhibition is a dual exploration of vulnerability and strength. Both artists curiously explore their positions as global…
Art In Design
9th June, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Maud Creative
A 2 hour presentation including a short audio-visual and followed by Q&A, covering the topic of ‘what is the base of every good design’. From this presentation, you will take home the understanding of why…
Ontogeny
30th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Spring Hill Reservoir
Featuring Madeline Holt, Quincy Raw and Black Mannequin A purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level. Ontogeny is a multimedia exhibition that celebrates all forms…
The Call from Papunya
10th May - 16th June
Fireworks Gallery
Two major artists, Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, were ‘re-united’ in 2001 at the Winn Street Studios in Fortitude Valley; in the month of July they completed their first collaborative work Nature Speaks Y /…
Robert Smithson: Time Crystals
10th March - 8th July
UQ Art Museum
‘Robert Smithson: Time Crystals’ is the first exhibition in Australia dedicated to the work of American artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973). Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Smithson is…
Alex Buckingham: PUNK
19th May - 3rd June
Maud Creative
Punk had become a major subculture that included a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film. Alex Buckingham’s PUNK exhibition is a personal recollection of the very…
Stewart MacFarlane: Coastline
2nd - 26th May
Mitchell Fine Art
Stewart MacFarlane is a figurative artist whose work is saturated with contrasting blocks of colour and exaggerated angles. In his return to Brisbane, Mitchell Fine Art is hosting a solo exhibition from the 2nd – 26th May 2018 in Fortitude…
Marisa Veerman: Quietude
19th May - 6th June
Lethbridge Gallery
Through the physical act of stitching, Marisa seamlessly paves the way for fusions between contemporary and traditional arts. A discerningly subtle application of warm brushed wax reflects and absorbs the light, changing the tones of…
Caroline Phillips
12th - 26th May
Boxcopy
Using objects and photographs, Caroline Phillips is interested in reconfiguring relationships of power, sexual politics and embodied experience to (re)present the relational art object as a feminist object. Through modes of connection and inter-relation in…
Taylor White: Who Ain't Got Time for Hickies
4th May - 3rd June
TW Fine Art
Taylor White is a rule breaker, leading the current movement of artists bored with the traditional methods of constructing a painting. Almost anything is fair game: construction tools, a drywall knife, broken wood. Sometimes, White will hit…
Clare Opatra: Pear Shaped
26th May, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Bunyapa Park, West End
Pear Shaped is an ephemeral public artwork by Clare Opatra inviting passers-by to anonymously share an experience of failure. The work arises from an encounter with the writings of queer theorist Jack Halberstam in 2014…
Against Entropy
29th May, 6:30 - 7:30pm
UQ Art Museum
Drawing on science fiction tonalities and aesthetics, ‘Against Entropy’ explores our prurient interest in entropy as something to be thwarted and as part of human nature. Against Entropy is the first in a series of…
Lu Forsberg: Transparency and Other Worries
5th May - 2nd June
Institute of Modern Art
Historical and contemporary depictions of the Australian landscape are a core interest of Lu Forsberg’s practice. Transparency and other worries engages with the landscape of central and north Queensland: home to rugged bushland, cattle stations, the Great Barrier…
Transboundaries: Art + Connection
7th April - 3rd June
QUT Art Museum
Transboundaries features a number of QUT-trained artists whose practices cross over many disciplines. This triennial exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of interactions between the social and political, ecological, and psychological. It encompasses the larger vistas of…
Michelle Vine: Surrogates For Social Touch
16th - 26th May
Project Gallery, QCA
Skin. Our largest organ, our greatest sensory membrane, and how we perceive and receive the intimacy of the world. Skin is for touch. To touch and be touched. And yet, the pressures of contemporary life…
Tom Nicholson: Drawings and correspondence
24th March - 2nd June
Institute of Modern Art
Tom Nicholson’s solo exhibition surveys the central role drawing plays in his engagement with contemporary political realities in Australia and beyond. The show presents works from 2005 to 2018, focusing on both the histories and…
Liminality
24th May, 5:00 - 8:00pm
South Bank TAFE
University of Canberra, Bachelor of Visual Art Graduate Exhibition. “Liminality can be understood in the anthropological sense to be a temporary transition through which identity is reconstructed, and/or it can be thought of as a…
Delta Venus: Other Worlds
18th - 19th May
Innerspace Contemporary Art
Other Worlds is a collection of works heavily inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology. Delta Venus engages with paint and sandstone to explore the concept of mythical and historical worlds through shape and form. For the…
Christopher Bassi: Documents of Distance
25th May, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE Artspace
Presenting a body of work that continues the artist’s critical exploration of place, presence and the entangling of racial and cultural identity. In a practice the oscillates between representation and material concerns, history and heritage…
In Conversation: Caroline Phillips and Louise Mayhew
26th May, 3:00pm
Boxcopy
Join Boxcopy on Saturday 26th May, 3pm for our In Conversation series, where artist Caroline Phillips will discuss her new exhibition with Australian feminist art historian Dr Louise Mayhew. Louise Mayhew is the Foundation Theory Convenor at QCA,…
Boxcopy Annual
1st June, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Boxcopy ARI
Boxcopy is hosting a one-night exhibition and silent auction on Friday 1st June (6-8pm) THE ANNUAL, to raise funds to keep Boxcopy running and to support our exhibition program in 2018. For this event Boxcopy alumni…
Carla Hananiah: Fleeting Wonders
22nd May - 9th June
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Intimate knowledge of colour frames the foundation for Carla Hananiah’s balancing act between nature and artifice. Her paintings depict vast stretches of mountain and sky most often at the “magic hour” – at dawn or dusk…
The Chiaroscuro Effect: In film, photography and painting
14th June, 6:30 - 9:00pm
Outer Space
The Chiaroscuro Effect: In film, photography and painting is the second public program facilitated by one of Outer Space’s current studio artists, Kate McKay. Join us on Thursday June 14th from 6:30pm for a screening…
Kat Campbell: Show and Tell
8th June, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Outer space
Kat Campbell presents the first in a series of public programs by current Outer Space studio residents. Show and Tell invites you to bring an object of significance to share in an intimate, vulnerable but…
Carl Warner: Dark Mirror
2nd - 26th May
Jan Manton Art
Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition Dark Mirror by Brisbane based artist Carl Warner. In the Eighteenth century it was the height of fashion for tourists to venture out into a landscape turn their back…
In Conversation: Clare Land & Bogaine Spearim
24th May, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Hear activist and writer Clare Land in conversation with activist Bogaine Spearim, presented in conjunction with Tom Nicholson’s exhibition at the IMA ‘Drawings and correspondence’. Land is the author of the book ‘Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas…
NETHERWORLDS
9th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Spring Hill Reservoir
NETHERWORLDS: NAOMI BLACKLOCK, ANASTASIA BOOTH, CAITLIN FRANZMANN, CHANTAL FRASER, CLAY KERRIGAN, & BLAKE LAWRENCE NETHERWORLDS brings together the work of six artists, exploring the relationship between magic, mysticism, and artmaking. Drawing on ideas of communitas and of perceived…
First Thursdays: Naomi Blacklock
7th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
You’re invited to an evening of meditative breath work led by artist Naomi Blacklock and her mother Charlie Blacklock. Take part in participatory meditation and ritualised body practice, blending the yoga practice of Charlie with daughter Naomi’s sound…
Book Launch: The Artist As
2nd June, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
After launching in Sydney and Melbourne in March, the IMA is proud to host the Brisbane launch of The Artist As, edited by Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, and Tara McDowell and published by Sternberg Press, Curatorial Practice at MADA, and the IMA.…
Symposium - Robert Smithson: Time Crystals
2nd June, 1:00pm - 5:30pm
UQ Art Museum
Join us for an afternoon of lectures and discussion in conjunction with our current exhibition Robert Smithson: Time Crystals. 1:00 – 1:10 pm: Welcome and Acknowledgments: Dr Campbell Gray, Director, University of Queensland Art Museum…
Crystal Constructs
12th June, 6:30 - 9:30pm
UQ Art Museum
‘Crystal Constructs’: an evening of films in conjunction with ‘Robert Smithson: Time Crystals’ Tuesday 12 June 6.30 pm Shifting from the microscopic to the macroscopic, ‘Crystal Constructs’ builds a model of the world, paralleling chemicals…
Independent Publishing Now
8TH June, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Museum of Brisbane
NAVA in partnership with Museum of Brisbane and independent writer and curator Tess Maunder present Independent publishing now: a public forum which discusses the opportunities that independent writing and publishing that present for artists and…
Down Here #3
10th June, 5:00pm
Common House
Down Here is an ongoing series focused on presenting local, inaccessible experimental/noise/etc projects. A Natural Low is a small, fiercely independent artist-run initiative founded & operating in Brisbane, Queensland | Australia. With a focus on experimental audio…
Tim Woodward: Central Station
18th - 26th May
Kuiper
Central Station is a new exhibition by Narrm/Melbourne based artist Tim Woodward. Woodward’s practice engages with the lineages of conceptual art, initiating a range of negotiations, conversations, proposals and collaborations. His projects typically introduce an unlikely social contract or materialise specific relationships to power.…
Karen Napaljarri Barnes: Budgerigar Dreaming
15th - 24th May
Jan Murphy Gallery (Online)
Budgerigar Dreaming (Ngatijirri Jukurrpa) is a new series of paintings by Karen Napaljarri Barnes, a Warlukurlangu artist based in Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. The series of works refers to the Budgerigar Dreaming story. The…
Panel Talk: The Search for Warrajamba
27th May, 10:30am
Redlands Art Gallery
The Search for Warrajamba is the culmination of Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins’ Doctor of Philosophy research in Indigenous Perspectives (Creative Arts) at the Batchelor Institute. Through installations, prints and ceramics, Cockatoo-Collins explores identity and artistic…







































































