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…
Twenty: two decades of Queensland photography
15th June - 31st Dec
State Library of Queensland (Online)
Remember, see and feel the last 20 years through Twenty – an online exhibition of State Library of Queensland’s contemporary photography collections. What memories do the images spark? How might we learn from the first…
Northshore Sculpture By The River
3rd October - 6th December
Northshore Riverwalk
The Northshore Sculpture by the River Exhibition will showcase excellent outdoor and indoor sculptures at the newly emerging precinct – Northshore. Northshore and this Hamilton stretch of the Brisbane River continues to transform from an…
Cleverman
26th September - 5th December
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
Cleverman stormed onto ABC TV in 2016 as a dystopian sci-fi with a difference. With predominantly Indigenous cast and senior crew, the series explores a series of Aboriginal origin stories in a contemporary context, with political…
Marc Clark: A life in art
10th October - 28th November
Redcliffe Art Gallery
Marc Clark has lived a rich and varied life. He has lived in different countries, served in the Second World War, and taught at numerous art institutions, all the while committed to the pursuit of…
The Marginalised Chair
18th October - 28th November
artisan
The Marginalised Chair refers to 100 years of Bauhaus design and reinterprets the fundamental values and societal influences of the time embedded in the modernist chairs. Selected students from Interior Design and Environments, Queensland College of…
Genevieve Memory: Object Memory Poem
14th - 16th November
Old Museum
Sculptors Qld invites you to experience Object Memory Poem by outgoing artist in residence Genevieve Memory. Tied to the historic Sculptors Qld shed as well as the Old Museum Building itself, Object Memory Poem is…
Ian Smith: So You Want It In Black & White
23rd October – 28th November
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
For an artist black & white are colours, as far as I’m concerned; and come from the paint box in as many variations as skin colours on the human race – where the two words…
Sally Molloy: Smart Lasso and Details of Disquiet
24th November - 5th December
POP Gallery, QCA
‘Smart Lasso and Details of Disquiet’ presents the studio outcomes of Sally Molloy’s PhD research, which responds to the denial of Indigenous sovereignty and ongoing processes of colonisation in Australia from a white, non-Indigenous perspective.…
Jon Cattapan - James Barth & Harvie Spencer - Courtney Coombs
21st November - 19th December
Milani Gallery
In December we are presenting three exhibitions. In Galleries 1 & 2 are new paintings by Jon Cattapan. In Gallery 3 we are presenting ZONWEE: The first known recording of a daydream (2019) by James Barth and Harvie…
Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize
26th November - 12th December
Webb Gallery, QCA
Thirty-six artists will showcase their work in the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting finalist exhibition. Featuring the best watercolour artworks from across Australia, the exhibition opens Thursday 26th November at Griffith University’s…
Tara Pattenden and David Spooner: Story Bridge Run
4th - 13th December
Various Locations
Delivered as part of Brisbane City Council’s Temporary Art Program 2020. Inspired by a shared interest in geocaching and mobile location based games, Story Bridge Run is an augmented reality location based experience where the audience…
Teho Ropeyarn: Ayuva Meenha
6th November - 5th December
Onespace Gallery
Onespace Gallery is excited to present Ayuva Meenha (‘My Mark’) a suite of vinyl-cut prints by by Cairns-based artist, Teho Ropeyarn. Ayuva Meenha is Teho Ropeyarn’s first solo exhibition in Brisbane. Teho Ropeyarn is an early mid-career artist and curator from the…
IMA Open Day
5th December, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join us to send off the year that was! Our end-of-year open day is a chance to come together to celebrate our 2020 program with a full day of talks, tours, performance, book launches, workshops,…
Home
5th - 6th December
House Conspiracy
Home is where the heart is, but where is the heart? We move for different reasons, and the exhibition intends to capture different experiences of uprooting and rerooting, and the hopes and the traumas that…
Crit Sessions: Gordon Hookey
28th November, 1:00 - 3:00pm
Outer Space
The Crit Sessions are an opportunity to have in depth discussions about your practice or specific works with a range of other practicing artists and a special guest critic for each session. These events are…
Vivien Bedwell: Expanding Jewellery
24th November - 12th December
Grey Street Gallery, QCA
Expanding Jewellery delivers ways of viewing body-object relationships and experiences. When objects are worn on the body they are activated, becoming a performance which highlights the spatial awareness and the intimate void between the self…
Alice Lang: Slow Reveal 2020
4th - 11th December
Outer Space (Online)
Slow reveal examines the body as a site of objectification. Clothing and fashion are a form of social communication that is often perceived to play a key role in encouraging the objectification, dehumanization and denial of…
Unleashed 2020
Until the 28th November
artisan
Unleashed 2020: Emerging Craft & Design brings together six exciting emerging Queensland artists whose practices take us beyond the worn and utilitarian to a more complex and challenging conceptual realm. What might appear initially to be…
Loom
3rd - 11th December
Side Gallery
A group exhibition of Side Gallery artists. To view the exhibiting artists – Click Here
GOMA Talks: The Future of Protest
1st December, 6:00pm
Gallery of Modern Art (Online)
In the age of COVID-19, is it now more than ever important to have the right to protest? GOMA Talks returns during the Children’s Art Centre exhibition ‘Now is the Time’, for a virtual session…
Samantha Hobson & Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
23rd October – 28th November
Fireworks Gallery
Samantha Hobson’s (Lockhart River, FNQ) solo show Fracture will be featured in the mezzanine gallery at FireWorks. Eleven paintings express the development of new works alongside the artist’s existing and well-known bushfire and reef imagery. …
Joanne Choueiri: Archive of Loss
28th November - 5th December
Metro Arts
‘Archive of Loss’ gathers approximately 60 buildings demolished under Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen in the 70s and 80s around Brisbane city and Queensland in an archive that commemorates their loss. Organised in an obituary format, the…
Rebecca Ross: Dark Entries
25th November - 5th December
Metro Arts
Dark Entries delves into the simultaneity of experience, the act of looking back whilst looking forward, and the interpolation of memories into a single, yet multi-dimensional timeline. Extending on Ross’ July 2020 residency and exhibition Dark Matter(s) at…
Lyle Duncan: Only This Will Last
4th December 6:00 - 9:00pm
Nextdoor ARI
‘Only This Will Last’ is a multimedia exhibition which primarily examines the ways cultural institutions establish and maintain a range of control over the visitors to their space. Whether it be control over how to…
Hold Sway: 2020 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
11th - 28th November
Queensland University of Technology
Hold Sway is the 2020 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition. This online platform captures this year’s exhibition and showcases the art practices of 32 emerging artists. Hold Sway features an online exhibition catalogue and presents virtual events including…
Monster Creative
12th December, 1:00 - 9:00pm
Vacant Assembly
Curated Pop Up shop showcasing quality designers, makers & artists. For more information on featured artists check out @_monstercreative
Sarah Hickey: Home, Hearth and Harbingers
13th - 20th December
Graydon Gallery
Sarah Hickey’s latest work, “Home , hearth & harbingers” is an invitation to share in her personal keepsakes, everyday arrangements and simple pleasures found at home. The art of contentment – of looking around and…
Jacinta Giles: Becoming
27th November - 13th December
Judith Wright Centre
Delivered as part of Brisbane City Council’s Temporary Art Program 2020. Becoming invites viewers to experience the space between personal memory and shared understanding through combining photography and architecture. Within this project photographs, which have been created…
Rose Manning: Bed Bound
24th November - 5th December
Project Gallery, QCA
Bed Bound showcases Rose Manning’s most recent exploration into feelings of comfort and discomfort. Domestic spaces and bedrooms have been heavily associated with rest and recuperation. The impact of being confined to these spaces for…
Collective: Ghost
27th November - 11th December
Outer Space (Online)
Collective: Ghost – Jazz Money, Katy B Plummer, Meng-Yu Yan, Pony Express & Sancintya Mohini Simpson. Dim the lights. Close the door. Light a candle. Sit very still… We gather here today for Collective: Ghost, a vigil to the year…
Lee Wilkes: Retracing Steps
4th - 29th November
Jan Manton Gallery
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Lee Wilkes latest exhibition Retracing Steps showing from 4 – 29 November, 2020. We welcome you to visit the gallery space from Wednesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm and 11-4pm Sunday. Wilkes is a Brisbane…
Adam McFillin: Circuitous City
30th October - 13th November
Outer Space ARI (Online)
Circuitous City challenges the worth of the internet’s ideals of speed and efficiency. The work asks us to consider our ability (as users) to shape our technological and interpersonal networks with our own values, rather…
The Brisbane Portrait Prize
Until 1st November
Brisbane Powerhouse
The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. The sitter must…
Reading Bennett: The Artist in his Own Words
14th November, 10:30am - 11:30am
Online Event
Join the launch of Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings with an online event, presented by Power Publications. Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings is the first publication to survey the writing practice of the late Gordon Bennett (1955–2014), profiling the importance of the written…
Ben Quilty: Still life after the virus
27th October - 21st November
Jan Murphy Gallery
Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present, Still life after the virus, the new solo exhibition by Ben Quilty. Quilty makes no fuss in selecting his objects, leaving the studio in search of ‘beauty’ was…
Art for Armenia
17th October - 15th November
Plexus Gallery (Online)
Art for Armenia is a Plexus Gallery Online Exhibition to raise funds for the children and families affected by the current crisis in Artsakh. Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) is a small independent region connected to Armenia, bordering…







































































