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…
John Morris, Ai Shah, Scott McDougall
30th October - 17th November
Lethbridge Gallery
SCOTT MCDOUGALL In these Covid-19 times, Scott’s travels have been somewhat curtailed and he has been inspired to look at landscapes closer to home. His neighbourhood of the Tweed Valley has provided a wealth of subject matter to…
Imants Tillers: Terra Nullius
17th October - 14th November
Milani Gallery
This exhibition presents a suite of new paintings by Imants Tillers centered around Terra nullius, the 11th work in his ‘Diaspora’ series of paintings. These will be shown in galleries 1 and 2 alongside a key…
Christopher R. Inwood: Black Colour White
23rd October - 1st November
The Ferryman’s Hut
Opening at The Ferryman’s Hut in Teneriffe Friday 23rd October, Inwood’s multi-faceted exhibition blends exquisite portraiture with experiential lighting which throws the audience into a sensory deprivation tank that will shock and delight. Featuring the…
Matthew Newkirk and Sebastian Moody: Hold the Dopamine
30th October - 5th November
Webb Gallery, QCA
Hold the Dopamine is an exhibition of new artworks by Matthew Newkirk and Sebastian Moody. Both artists create large-scale outdoor projections and for Hold the Dopamine they have turned their public-facing practices towards a gallery…
INSIDE (AGAIN)
30th October - 11th November
Brisbane Institute of Art
Artists: Barbara Penrose, Sally Cox, Nameer Davis When the flexible distinction between inside and outside is intensified… This is when events emerge – chains of events, cascades of events that withhold themselves from language, to…
Saffron Newey: Lost Pastoral
7th October - 1st November
Jan Manton Gallery
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Saffron Newey’s latest exhibition Lost Pastoral showing from 7 October – 1 November, 2020. We welcome you to visit the gallery space from Wednesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm and 11-4pm Sunday. Lost Pastoral…
Steve Lopes: Still and Still Moving
7th October - 7th November
Mitchell Fine Art
Influenced by his extensive travels over the past three decades, Sydney artist Steve Lopes presents an exhibition 3 years in the making. The son of migrant parents, Lopes’ upbringing was a clash of two worlds.…
Where the heart is…
Until 20th November
Various Locations
In ‘Where the heart is…’ eight people from refugee backgrounds share, through a photographic exhibition, their stories of survival, who they are now and how they want to be seen. The ‘Where the heart is..’…
PATTERN & PLACE
7th - 14th November
Metro Arts
An exhibition of contemporary works exploring lines and journeys and journey lines, movement, rhythm, routines and visceral impressions of place. Experience the relationship between significant locations, repetition of action, and the formation of tradition. Curated…
BRAZEN HUSSIES
2nd - 5th November
Dendy Coorparoo
Dendy Coorparoo will be releasing the Australian Documentary Film, BRAZEN HUSSIES. The film is directed by Catherine Dwyer. It is releasing at Dendy Coorparoo on November the 5th 2020. BRAZEN HUSSIES reveals a revolutionary chapter…
Sally Molloy: Rhizomes
13th – 22nd November
Innerspace Contemporary Art
Innerspace Contemporary Art are pleased to present new paintings by Sally Molloy in this significant exhibition Rhizomes, Reverberations and Response-ability. The exhibition is on between 13 – 22 November at 14/64 James Street, Fortitude Valley. Attached…
Kinly Grey: endless part II: paradise
21st November, 11am - 1pm
IMA Belltower
endless part II: paradise will be a one time only live performance and audience discussion presented at IMA Belltower. Developed as a companion piece to Kinly Grey’s endless (presented by IMA and Brisbane Festival for Making Art Work in September), this…
In Conversation: IMANTS TILLERS
14th November, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Milani Gallery
Join us at the gallery for a conversation between Imants Tillers and Prof. Ian McLean on Tillers’ current exhibition, his practice and new body of work. This event will mark the end of the exhibition TERRA…
Reading and Conversation: Jacqui Shelton
21st November, 1:30 – 2.:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join Jacqui Shelton for a live reading via Zoom of Enlarge my coast, an essay commissioned by the IMA for Making Art Work. Following the reading Jacqui will be joined by artist Kinly Grey for a discussion on the ways writing…
Julian Meagher: Sleepwalking
28th October - 18th November
Edwina Corlette Gallery
An Essay by Sebastian Goldspink, October 2020 Painting Farther, Painting Further A young man wakes with a start – his newborn daughter’s cries pierce through the silence of a family home nestled in the darkness…
Know my Name
15th November, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Online Event
Join Vault Art + Culture Magazine editor Alison Kubler and UAP’s Principal and Curatorial Lead Natasha Smith as they showcase a handful of Australia’s influential women artists in celebration of Know My Name. In this…
Lucy Culliton: Stay warm, be cool
6th - 24th October
Jan Murphy Gallery
‘Stay warm, be cool’ is the new exhibition by Lucy Culliton. The subjects for Lucy’s paintings are always close to home, and close at hand. Painted during winter, this exhibition documents the domestic appliances that…
Mad Hatter’s Festival
9th - 24th October
Various Locations
Welcome back – to the 2020 Mad Hatter’s Festival – Celebrating creativity, community and connection The Festival is a showcase for the achievements, talents and creativity of artists with a lived experience of mental health…
A Sign of the Times
13th - 24th October
POP Gallery, QCA
‘A Sign of the Times’ explores creative cultural identity in tumultuous times. Facing political and meteorological chaos, and the end of life as we know it by 2050, this group of artists will explore their…
Bauhaus Now
18th September - 25th October
Museum of Brisbane
art+design+architecture A legacy of migration and modernism in Brisbane. Bauhaus Now brings to life the little-known story of how revolutionary ideas of the Weimar Republic in Germany influenced modernist art, design and architecture in Brisbane and…
Making Art Work
Ongoing
Online
Explore new projects by Tony Albert, Kieron Anderson, Mariam Arcilla, ∑gg√e|n, Hannah Gartside, Mindy Gill, Kinly Grey, Susan Hawkins, Tori-Jay Mordey, Sally Olds, Amy Sargeant, and Des Skordilis. The Institute of Modern Art is excited to share with you the first outcomes of this commissioning initiative, Making Art Work, which includes…
First
5th September - 31st October
Redcliffe Art Gallery
South East Queensland is a testing ground for many Australian First Nations artists. It is a place of experimentation and interrogation where artists share their own stories in their own words. With a focus on…
churchie emerging art prize
18th September – 19th December
Institute of Modern Art
The 2020 finalists’ exhibition, curated by Talia Smith, will showcase work by Nathan Beard, Tom Blake, Jessica Bradford, Marina Pumani Brown, Martin George, Yasbelle Kerkow, Guy Louden, Lachlan McKee, Georgia Morgan, Nabilah Nordin, James Nguyen, Emily Parsons-Lord, and Athena Thebus. ‘the churchie’ offers a prize pool of $25,000,…
Thea Anamara Perkins: Glimmer
17th September - 7th October
Edwina Corlette Gallery
‘This series continues my work with imagery from my archives, my investigation of family history and its impact on identity’. Glimmer is a term used in psychology to describe something that is the opposite of trigger. It is an…
Bronwyn Hill
25th September - 13th October
Lethbridge Gallery
Bronwyn Hill is known for her photorealistic oil paintings, using a contrast of high detail and soft layering techniques. Completing her Diploma of Fine Arts in 2011, Hill has since been involved in many exhibitions…
Elizabeth Newman: Is That a 'No'?
8th September - 21st November
Griffith University Art Museum
Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’? surveys 30 years of the career of Australian artist Elizabeth Newman. Formal structures in the work of Melbourne-based artist Elizabeth Newman (b.1962) resonate and repeat. Newman’s paintings, cut-fabric pieces, collages,…
RAZZLE DAZZLE
Until 22nd October
Various Locations
McCarthy-Swann Projects is excited to share RAZZLE DAZZLE a Brisbane City Council Outdoor Gallery exhibition, featuring works by Richard Bell, Eric Bridgeman, Gerwyn Davies, Chantal Fraser, Hannah Gartside, Rachael Haynes, Natalya Hughes, Luke Roberts, Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra, Sancintya Mohini…
Dirty Laundry Day
1st September - 11th December
Various Locations
The Dirty Laundry Day Project is being activated in Queensland for the first time through Adderton Everywhere. The Dirty Laundry Day Project, an initiative of Social Futures, began in Casino, Northern NSW in 2009 and has been run annually since.…
Melissa Stannard: Fragments of Remembering
3rd August - 30th September
Queensland State Archives
Fragments of Remembering is a new body of work by Yuwaalaraay, Gamilaraay and Koama artist Melissa Stannard. Developed from her research into archival records of Aboriginal reserves, missions and family members, Melissa’s works in jewellery,…
Riley Beaumont: If I Were A Racehorse They'd Have Shot Me By Now
28th August - 28th September
TW FINE ART
It is with great excitement that we announce the opening of our first solo exhibition with Riley Beaumont – ‘If I Were A Racehorse They’d Have Shot Me By Now’ on Friday August 28th. Given…
Richard Bell: White Lies Matter
5th – 26th September
Milani Gallery
This exhibition will present new paintings by Richard Bell made over the past two years, including his monumental protest painting From little things, big things grow. Richard Bell (b. 1953) lives and works in Brisbane, Australia.…
Brisbane Festival
4th - 26th September
Various Locations
Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Brisbane. We believe that a Festival should be festive and celebrate the personality of its city. We are Brisbane’s most anticipated event of the year, bringing people together as they…
The Allure of the Unaesthetic Discord
10th – 28th September
Wreckers Artspace
‘The Allure of the Unaesthetic Discord’ An evolving exhibit over three weeks featuring 15+ local & interstate multidisciplinary artists in a collaborative experimental installation discarding mercantile tools & utilizing only amplified found/created/repurposed objects rejecting anticipated…
Robert Andrew: A Connective Reveal – Community
3rd – 27th September
Metro Arts
A Connective Reveal – Community, is a new work by local artist Robert Andrew. In the work, Andrew explores the interconnections, links and the layering within local communities. This kinetic work comprises an intricate mass…
Sally Golding: Assembly Now
3rd – 27th September
Metro Arts
Assembly Now is a newly commissioned participatory installation, set to inaugurate Metro Arts’ Main Gallery at West Village, and transform it into a light and sound reactive environment. Developed as a collaboration between Sally Golding and…
idlewild
4th - 26th September
Side Gallery
Idlewild brings together artists who are continuing their creative practices during this pandemic and making sense of this stillness and pause in productivity. Many of these artists have begun to explore how this shift has shaped…







































































