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…
Adam Pyett: Recent Paintings
15th September – 3rd October
Jan Murphy Gallery
“In this body of work I have concentrated on making landscape paintings where the painting is more important than the landscape. In a painting the sky need not be blue and the leaves of a…
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: DISCUSSION
7th November, 10:30am
GOMA (Online)
Gain insights into the life and work of artist Gordon Bennett. Hear from those who knew him and those who have been inspired by him, as they consider his profound influence and legacy on the art…
RAZZLE DAZZLE Webinar
6th November, 12:30 - 1:30pm
Museum of Brisbane
As part of exhibition RAZZLE DAZZLE, you are invited to join us for a lunchtime webinar. Co-curator Amy-Clare McCarthy, will be joined by exhibiting artists Chantal Fraser, Natalya Hughes and Gerwyn Davies from the RAZZLE DAZZLE exhibition to…
These Are The Things We Have Always Known
4th September - 17th October
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Larry Lanley was an activist and Leader and a founding member, way back in 1973, of the Woomera Aborigine Company that, after various name changes, became Mirndiyan Gununa that includes MIART. Mr. Lanley said: “it…
FORA / squared X SIMONE HANDSLEY
24th September, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Pps / FORA
Welcome to the first of the FORA /squared series, a project begun in reaction to our current situations. The FORA/squared series is an exercise in activating the beautiful window space that throws an oblique shoulder…
Aaron Perkins: Valdetta
22nd September - 3rd October
Webb Gallery, QCA
‘Valdetta’ is an exploration of Perkins’ genealogy that applies fiction as a method to autobiographical fact in order to examine the processes of self-narrativisation through a suite of autofictive painted, sculptural, text and video works.…
Story Lines
13th September - 2nd October
Scrumptious Reads
Story Lines illustrates the diversity of Aboriginal art practice from the desert to the sea. Featuring artists from the Northern Territory and Queensland, this exhibition showcases both traditional “dot painting”, contrasted with contemporary artistic expressions.…
Crit Sessions: Ellie Buttrose
26th September, 1pm
Outer Space Studios
‘Crit Sessions’ provides early career artists the opportunity to receive feedback on work-in-progress from professional artists and arts workers. Join us for the third event in our suite of Crit Sessions, facilitated by curator Ellie…
While You Were Sleeping
16th-18th October
Mayne Lane
If you look at the great traumatising events of the past – world wars, global emergencies of different kinds – artists have always responded. Considering the impacts of COVID-19 in 2020, this exhibition will showcase…
Illustrated Talk: Plague & Death in the Art of Albrecht Dürer
18th October, 10:30am
Gallery of Modern Art (online)
‘Anyone who is among us today, may be buried tomorrow.’ – Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) In this talk, Dr Andrea Bubenik, Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Queensland will explore how Dürer gave visual expression to…
Collection Stories: An Artwork’s Journey
15th October, 6:30 - 7:15pm
Gallery of Modern Art
Ever wondered how an artwork makes its way into the QAGOMA Collection? Philanthropy plays a fundamental role in the building of diverse public collections. Hear from QAGOMA Future Collective members Belinda Elderton and Timothy Roberts,…
Scott Breton
4th - 22nd September
Lethbridge Gallery
Scott is based in Brisbane but also makes art in Florence, Italy for some of his year. This is where he is working with the TIAC group on the establishment of an exciting new representational…
Julian Day: Please scream inside your heart
4th – 26th September
IMA Belltower
Created across distance between Brisbane and New York where the artist currently lives, Julian Day’s installation at IMA Belltower examines the power of instruction as a medium, and the embedded tensions between personal liberty and…
AFTM Queensland Outsider Art Awards
28th September - 16th October
Art from the Margins
Come and view all the finalists work selected from our 2020 Art from the Margins Queensland Outsider Art Award Exhibition. This years theme is “belonging”. A simple word for a huge concept – whether it…
OMNIPRESENCE
10th August – 5th October
Queensland Museum
Step inside OMNIPRESENCE and become a part of the installation. As your image becomes blurred by multilayered reflections, the perception of time becomes distorted and the images of you are no longer controlled by your…
Brisbane Visual Arts Advocacy
22nd Ocotber, 6:30 - 7:30pm
The Laundry Artspace
oin the founding members of BVAA (Brisbane Visual Arts Advocacy) as we officially launch Brisbane’s newest arts advocacy group, specifically focused on supporting and advocating for independent and artist-run projects across our city. BVAA is…
Paul Cadzow
29th September - 4th October
Latrobe Gallery
Paul Cadzow is a Sunshine Coast based painter. His paintings are expressive, poetic mediations on the sad beauty of the human condition in the wonderful sweep of the universe and time. In these challenging times,…
David M. Thomas: Maternal Matter
9th - 10th October
STABLE
1. Your new-found love of wool and weaving is pretty exciting. There’s so much to look at but also through. Like your collages there seems to be this reliance on outlines and block colouring, a…
Dylan Jones: Together. Alone
9th September - 4th October
Jan Manton Gallery
Jan Manton Gallery is excited to release to the public Dylan Jones’ latest catalogue for his exhibition ‘Together. Alone.’ Please note, due to the high interest in Dylan’s works, the gallery will not be taking artwork reservations at this…
Georgia Morgan: 4 Weeks in Fight Talk Place
25th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
“I’m riding my bike around, talking to people, sitting in parks and zooming in with my handy cam.” Please join us for Georgia Morgan’s show ‘4 Weeks in Fight Talk Place’. Georgia came up to…
Satellite: FOUND
1st – 16th October
Side Gallery
Satellite: FOUND is a curated satellite iteration in collaboration with the FOUND! Studio Dog exhibition held at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. Brisbane and Bundaberg-based artists will exchange places to exhibit to different audiences across the state. There are…
Myles Young: Country Invitations
27th August - 16th September
Edwina Corlette Gallery
A fresh and wild reflection on country life comes to view in Myles Young’s new work. Conceived and painted in a bright and airy studio in Byron Bay in early 2020, themes of relaxation, exploration,…
Voices of Nature
14th -18th October
Vacant Assembly
‘Voices of Nature 2020’ aims to encourage the exploration of the concepts of voice, standing, representation, and agency of the natural world within human governance systems. Rights of Nature is grounded in the recognition that humanity…
Glen Schenau: Resolution-19
17th Ocotber, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Dumb Dumb ARI
Resolution-19 marks the final dumb dumb exhibition for 2020. As per the current covid-19 restrictions, we will be limiting capacity to 30 people at a time. Please be respectful of the space and the people…
Mother
25th September - 9th October
Online Exhibition
‘Mother’ by Umwelt Collective. Sensorial agents Umwelt Collective invite you to be enveloped in an intimate audio-visual, olfactory experience that takes you out of the digital ether and lands you back in your body.…
Calling to Country
3rd - 4th October
Metro Arts
Calling to Country is an exhibition by young Indigenous contemporary artists. ‘Calling to Country’ is a group exhibition that expresses identity, culture and the desire to return home. Showcasing artworks by a new generation of…
Nicola Scott: Ocular Drift
18th September - 17th October
Onespace Gallery
Ocular Drift is an exhibition of new works by Brisbane based artist Nicola Scott that explores the ambiguity and illusory nature of visual perception “Scott’s Ocular Drift works employ the illusory qualities of paint in order to toy…
GOMA Talk: Why is everyone nude?
17th October, 10:30am - 11:30am
Virtual Talk
Confronting Contemporary Art Virtual Talk: Why is everyone nude? | 10.30am, Sat 17 Oct | Book now Contemporary art can sometimes be challenging, intriguing and confusing, but don’t let that intimidate you. In this 3-part…
René Danika: Left // Right
2nd - 4th October
Vacant Assembly
Presented at West End’s Vacant Assembly (2-4 October, 2020), ‘Left // Right’ is a series of site-specific installations by Brisbane artist René Danika. Through materiality, symbolism and immersive environments, Danika examines political extremism, inherited philosophies…
Ashlee Becks : To Have and To Hold
6th - 17th October
Grey Street Gallery, QCA
This exhibition investigates how materiality and painting can be used as a vehicle to express and heal from childhood trauma. The series includes large painted self-portraits and smaller matching works. The smaller works are cropped,…
DISRUPTION
14th – 28th September
Grey Street Gallery
Disruption is defined as “a break of interruption in the normal course or continuation of an activity or process.” There is no doubt that 2020 has been a year filled with a record amount of…
Primaveral
2nd September - 3rd October
Mitchell Fine Art
As we move into spring Mitchell Fine Art presents an eclectic exhibition of artworks that celebrates the resilience of our artistic community. 2020 has set a number of challenges that have altered our world immeasurably.…
Susan Gourley & Cosima Scales: Form and Function
7th November, 11:00am - 5:00pm
STABLE
Form and Function considers everyday objects through sculpture and painting. To make her ‘tools for regeneration’, Susan Gourley joins the handles of discarded garden tools with meticulous replicas of native Australian plants that she makes…
Triangles Are Not My Genre
8th - 19th September
Project Gallery, QCA
This exhibition has been brought together to challenge both artists and the viewing public to embrace the less serious side of the serious business of art. This set of works superimposes triangles within other significant…
Sean Crookes: Generations
18th August - 12th September
Grey Street Gallery
This exhibition is Crookes’ first solo show at QCA Galleries and brings together a collection of works created through a sustained investigation over three years of familial domestic life. Painting persists as a highly relevant…
Odd Bedfellows
Until 8th November
QUT Art Museum
Odd Bedfellows brings together the work of six remarkable Queensland artists held in the QUT Art Collection, with works spanning over five decades, a time when Brisbane was transitioning from that place ‘out woop woop’ to…







































































