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…
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31st July - 14th Agust
Outer Space
Outer Space is pleased to present the first exhibition as part of our online program, ‘Into the Ether’, res[on]ance [off]. This exhibition is a collection of intimate works, developed as a natural response to our…
Fred Fowler: This is water
4th - 22nd August
Jan Murphy Gallery
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young…
Matt James: 4068 & Beyond
14th July - 31st August
Wild Canary
Matt James is a Brisbane–based artist primarily interested in landscape painting and drawing. His studio and en plein air work aim to capture the movement and energy of the environment. Having grown up in rural…
Napaltjarri Sisters
22nd July - 29th August
Mitchell Fine Art
The spectacular ranges of Central Australia, known for their dramatic change in colour are the inspiration for the latest exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane, showing from July 22nd. ‘Napaltjarri Sisters’ is an exhibition of…
Christopher Zanko: Heretofore
16th July - 5th August
Edwina Corlette Gallery
In 1960 architect Robin Boyd wrote critically about the “satisfaction with veneer and cosmetic effects” he found in Australian suburbs. In Heretofore Christopher Zanko finds great value in the shifting textures and features of mid-20th century homes.…
Celia Gullett: Changing Places
14th July – 1st August
Jan Murphy Gallery
Celia Gullett (born 1959) began her art studies at East Sydney Technical College in 1979, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1984. At that stage she didn’t feel sufficiently “worldly” to become an…
The Storytellers
Opening 17th July
Museum of Brisbane
Uncover Brisbane’s histories, myths and tales as told by the storytellers of our city. Featuring new stories by Victoria Carless, Simon Cleary, Matthew Condon, Trent Dalton, Nick Earls, Benjamin Law, Hugh Lunn, Kate Morton and Ellen van Neerven, The…
Sancintya Mohini Simpson Kūlī nām dharāyā / they’ve given you the name ‘coolie’
Until 25th July
Institute of Modern Art
Kūlī nām dharāyā / they’ve given you the name ‘coolie’ evokes the lived experiences of indentured labourers taken from India to Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) to work on sugar plantations during the late 1800s and…
Marina Strocchi: New York, New Works
3rd - 17th July
Jan Murphy Gallery (Online)
Marina Strocchi studied art in Melbourne (1979-82). She had a two-year sojourn in Europe (mainly Paris), then returned to Melbourne and commenced her social practice as an artist. She found herself in central Australia in…
Marian Drew: Strata
Until 1st August
Andrew Baker Art Dealer (Online)
In this new series, landscapes are modelled into the humanised space of the still life. Photographic images torn from their rectilinear boundaries are rephotographed on mountainous tabletops converging photography, sculpture and collage in the context…
Figuratively Speaking
18th June - 25th July
Fireworks Gallery
A group exhibition of painting and sculpture from the Fireworks Gallery collection. Artists in the exhibition: David Paulson Fiona Omeenyo Ian Waldron Itamar Freed Michael Eather Phil Gordon Rod Moss Scott Redford To view the…
Bundit Puangthong: What Water Will Bring
19th June - 15th July
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Bundit Puangthong’s perceptive search through worldwide cultural imagery is grounded in traditional technique and the buzz of the street. His dreamlike compositions draw on childhood experience stenciling puppet theatre backdrops with his grandfather, as well…
Important Australian Paintings
Until 18th July
Philip Bacon Galleries
An online exhibition showcasing a collection of significant artworks from Australian artists. Click here to explore the catalogue. Image: Margaret Olley, Sunday flowers, 1977, oil on board, 76 x 102 cm.
Behind the lens: Twenty curator's talks
25th June - 30th July
State Library of Queensland (Online)
Join Anna Thurgood, Twenty exhibition curator, as she chats to the extraordinary photographers who have captured pivotal moments in Queensland’s history and everyday life. Talk series Thu 25 Jun, 5pm | Behind the lens with…
Artist Talk & Viewing Sessions: Natalie Lavelle
9th August
Jan Manton Gallery
We invite you to join us on Sunday 9 August between 12 – 1pm to listen to artist Natalie Lavelle discuss her current exhibition Deliberate Pictures as well as her broader practice. We will also be open for…
Kudditji Kame Kngwarreye & Idris Murphy
10th June - 18th July
Mitchell Fine Art
With the easing of restrictions and galleries welcoming back art enthusiasts, Mitchell Fine Art presents a vibrant exhibition from an artist born in the remote centre of Australia in the late 1920’s – Kudditji Kame Kngwarreye.…
Greville Patterson: Butternut Parade
Ongoing
Queensland Centre for Photography (Online)
As a once-upon-a-time advertising art director and writer, Greville Patterson progressively became more and more educated in the art of photography, both commercial and otherwise. “While there is much to be appreciated in commercial photography,…
Marisa Veerman: Human Kind
24th July - 11th August
Lethbridge Gallery
Marisa Veerman’s artworks are inspired by childhood innocence, fragility and emotion that draw the viewer inwards, making visible abstract human emotions. This vulnerability is juxtaposed against an abundant strength. Her gestural work communicates emotion to us…
Survival. Balance. Growth
1st June - 17 July
Art from the Margins
Survival. Balance. Growth: AFTM 2020 Emerging Artists Exhibition presents the work of four emerging artists as part of the Art from the Margins Emerging Artist Program. Recognising the interconnectedness of people and their environment, these…
Dana Lawrie: A Show Called Daydream
1st - 2nd August
Wreckers Artspace
Opening event on Wed 29th July 6-9pm Exhibition open on Sat 1st August 10-3pm & Sun 2nd August 10-3pm Come along to A Show Called Daydream. This event takes place on the unceded lands of…
Brisbane Street Art Festival x Ipswich
8th - 9th August
Various Locations
BSAF and Ipswich Festivals have joined forces, to adapt during Covid-19, and deliver the largest street art project the City of Ipswich has ever seen. The program was originally scheduled to launch in May, however…
Confronting Contemporary Art: Where are the women?
10.30am, 1st August
GOMA (Online)
In this talk, Dr Louise R Mayhew confronts the art world’s ‘gender problem’ and uncovers historical barriers to women’s success. Discover the new strategies being used by galleries, artists and activists to see more women…
Vipoo Srivilasa
23rd July – 30th July
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Kawaii Plate Series 2020 Kawaii is the culture of cuteness in Japan. It can refer to items, humans and nonhumans that are charming, vulnerable, shy, and childlike. The kanji for the Japanese word for cute, ‘kawaii’,…
Vulnerable Bodies
13th June - 25th July
Logan Art Gallery
Vulnerable Bodies considers the multi-faceted experience of human migration. Some people migrate due to necessity while others move by choice in pursuit of a better life. The works in this exhibition reflect the artist’s personal…
Optimistically Omnivorous
19th June - 1st August
Onespace Gallery
Optimistically Omnivorous is a small yet potent survey exhibition of photographic artists who were either born in or later moved to, and are influenced by or critical of, the locale of Queensland. This exhibition is part of Onespace…
Guy Maestri: The Lane
26th May – 20th June
Jan Murphy Gallery
We are excited to welcome you back into our newly renovated Gallery from 26 May to view Guy Maestri’s much anticipated exhibition of landscape paintings. View the work here. Image: L L 18 2020, oil on linen, 168.0…
Judith Sinnamon: Illuminations
26th May - 17th June
Edwina Corlette Gallery
‘My childhood home was an old worker’s cottage in inner city Brisbane, perched on the side of a hill that extended out into a huge Blackbean tree that filled with rainbow lorikeets in December and…
Joseph Daws: Landscapes
2nd - 27th June
Jan Manton Gallery
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present artist Joseph Daws’ recent series of work inspired by the landscape. Daws’ painting practice operates between landscape and abstract painting. It acts as an arena for the artist to explore visual…
Lethbridge 20 000
18th - 27th June
Lethbridge Galleries
We will be celebrating the 11th Lethbridge 20000 Small scale Art Award this June! We are excited to announce we will be expanding the show over two locations to include Latrobe Art Space (previously Percolator Gallery), our new gallery space. Showcasing a…
Janelle Stockman Napaltjarri: Defying Convention
29th April - 6th June
Mitchell Fine Art
A unique and contemporary reflection of country is the focus of an Aboriginal art exhibition showing at Mitchell Fine Art from April 29th until June 6th Blurring any preconceived notions of Aboriginal Art, Central Australian…
Black & White 2020
6th May -13th June
Fireworks Gallery
A group exhibition from the Fireworks Gallery collection. Featuring work by: Dorothy Napangardi Glen Mackie Ian Waldron Itamar Freed Joanne Currie Nalingu Luke Cummins Michael Nelson Jagamara Rosella Namok Serena Bonson For more information please…
Michael Cook: Livin’ the dream
Until 6th June
Andrew Baker Art Dealer (Online)
Michael Cook is an Aboriginal man whose photographic work interrogates Australian history since the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770. When British naval officer James Cook made landfall and observed Aboriginal interaction with their…
Bronwyn Searle: Close to Home
29th May - 14th June
Lethbridge Gallery
This still life collection reflects aspects of Bronwyn’s recent life, from a change of home to a stay at home in isolation. From inspiration by leaf litter seen on local walks, to a focus on…
Dan Elborne: Recent Works
15th May - 13th June
Onespace Gallery (Online)
Onespace gallery is proud to present one of our most recently represented artists, Dan Elborne. Through Recent Works, Elborne highlights his unique practice and exceptional use of the ceramic medium. Conscious of the historical and metaphorical…
Neil Duncan: HEY SPORT
Ongoing
QUEENSLAND CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
The body of work HEY SPORT by Neil Duncan is simply stunning series of impressionistic images of a range of sports, shot at slow shutter speeds. As always, be it in his commercial or art…
Alexandra Matthews: Being Still
29th May - 14th June
Lethbridge Gallery
Alexandra’s paintings narrate an intimacy with urban landscape as it transitions and transforms with light, natural and artificial. During the day, the sun dictates light and shadows, delineating Queensland architecture. But at night streetlights and…




































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