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…
Radius: New Art from the Region
7th - 22nd March
The Walls
ALARA CAMERON, LYLE DUNCAN, AMELIA MCLEISH, BETTY RUSS ‘RADIUS: NEW ART FROM THE REGION’ Opening Saturday 7 March, 5 – 8pm >5pm WELCOME TO COUNTRY Exhibition continues until 22 March We’re open 11am – 4pm,…
Michelle Hobbs & Dale Harding
29th February - 7th March
Webb Gallery, QCA
gamu gulindubayi / deep water, deep time is a collaborative exhibition by Michelle Hobbs (Bidjara) and Dale Harding (Bidjara, Ghungalu, Garingbal) to share new water stories. Water drawings echo old forces of water, time and…
Adrienne Fleming: Landmarks
21st February - 5th March
The Third Quarter
‘Landmarks’ stand as points of reference establishing a connection to place – locating us. Whether they are man-made or natural; iconic or arbitrary; repurposed, anonymous or unclaimed, these artworks present as an eclectic summation of…
Jonathan Kopinski : History of the Landwehr Canal
12th February - 7th March
Jan Manton Art
Jonathan Kopinski is a Brisbane-based artist with a focus on psycho-scenographic paintings that capture very particular and often peculiar moments of both personal and collective history. Each scene is painted from memory (whether experienced firsthand or…
February Exhibitions at Outer Space
22nd February - 8th March
Outer Space
Gallery One A: ‘In us our dead, so no-one is left behind’ Pamela Arce I have so many siblings that I can’t count. The valley, the mountain, the field, the sea. Pamela Arce (b. 1986,…
Amelia McLeish's: GOMA.Water.Camrip
6th March, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Boxcopy
GOMA.Water.Camrip is an installation by Amelia McLeish, which pirates elements of the blockbuster exhibition ‘Water’, currently showing at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). McLeish has recreated works from the exhibition in the style of…
Aaron Perkins: At the still point, there the dance is
12th February - 7th March
Jan Manton Art
‘At the still point, there the dance is’ continues Perkins’ exploration of history painting as a means to critically engage with the current affairs of contemporary society. Using an abstracted combination of text and image…
Leah Emery: Still Lyfe
15th February – 28th March
Artisan
Working with traditional cross-stitch techniques, Emery chooses imagery that achieves maximum contrast to the restrained, traditional female craft she employs. Emery’s works can be seen as points of collision, where social history and material culture…
Sha Sarwari: Like a moth to a flame
22nd February - 10th March
Adderton House
Sha Sarwari is a multidisciplinary visual artist who came to Australia as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2000. Like a moth to a flame is a collection of Sha’s most recent work. His work speaks…
My Imagination - The Next Generation
20th February – 14th March
Edwina Corlette Gallery
A group exhibition including artists: ALEXANDER BEECH ALAN IBELL EMILY IMESON BRONTE LEIGHTON-DORE SASSY PARK NELL PEARSON THEA ANAMARA PERKINS JULIA SIRIANNI MYLES YOUNG VIEW EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Image: MYLES YOUNG, Beach Therapy 2020
Sonic Event: Incursion #2
18th March, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Griffith University Art Museum
In the second event of our Incursion sound series, local artists and sonic explorers Primitive Motion (Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig) will be joined by experimental sound makers Amanda Terry and Michael Louttit to perform live musical responses…
Directors Choice Exhibition
28th January - 21st March
Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art begins its 2020 gallery exhibition calendar year with the personally curated exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’. Gallery Director Mike Mitchell has selected artworks from the galleries collection featuring a mix of Australian contemporary and…
Monster Creative
19th March, 5:30 - 9:30pm
Vacant Assembly
You are invited to a curated Pop Up shop showcasing quality designers, makers & artists from around south east Queensland. Monster Creative is passionate about building networks, creating community and supporting local small businesses who…
Sound Offering VIII: Robert Curgenven
14th March, 5:00 - 6:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join Ireland-based, Australian-born artist Robert Curgenven for the eighth edition of ‘Sound Offering’, Boxcopy’s monthly program that invites sound artists and experimental musicians to produce an evening of listening. “upon a threshold, where bodies corporate…
Natalie Lavelle: Flatform
10th - 21st March
Grey Street Gallery, QCA
Flatform is part of a continuing inquiry into concepts that explore surface relationships where visual perception prompts a tangible awareness of painting’s objecthood in relation to our own body and the natural world. These works…
Clare O’Callaghan: Tender Buttons
3rd - 14th March
Project Gallery QCA
The exhibition takes its title from the sentimentalist and absurdist poetry book of the same name, authored by Gertrude Stein, a 20th century queer figure in modern art and literature. This new body of work…
First Thursdays: Sancintya Mohini Simpson - Women’s History Month
5th March, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join IMA Belltower artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson and her collaborators as they take over the IMA courtyard with an evening of performance that brings together language, gesture, and ritual to invoke the stories of women…
rightNOW
5th February - 14th March
Onespace Gallery
As the first exhibition of our 2020 program, we are delighted to present rightNOW 2020 – a selection of works fresh from the studios of four exciting Australian artists. Jordan Azcune Michael Barnett Fintan Magee…
Bridie Gillman: With the Sun in My Eyes
29th January – 19th February
Edwina Corlette Gallery
With the Sun in My Eyes developed from a residency in Kedewatan in Bali in 2019 with each of the paintings based on personal observations and experiences of the area. These were often fleeting moments viewed…
AIRspace
1st - 15th February
Metro Arts
Ten local Artist-Run-Initiatives (ARIs) are taking up residence at Metro Arts’ level 3 studios. Step into level 3 for a snapshot of Brisbane’s local ARIs, a chance to explore the studios, and space to come…
Edwina Corlette Gallery represents Bronte Leighton-Dore
The Gallery is delighted to commence 2020 with the announcement of its representation of Bronte Leighton-Dore. A recent graduate of the National Art School in Sydney, Bronte was a finalist in the 2019 Wynne Prize…
January Exhibitions at Outer Space
25th January - 9th February
Outer Space
‘DEATH DRIVE’ is the product of deep collaboration and a shared interest in the baroque extravagance of survival after life-threatening periods. This exhibition understands ‘death drive’ as an experience born from a fork in the…
Scott McDougall & Ann Maree Clark
31st January - 12th February
Lethbridge Gallery
Scott McDougall’s collection of still life and landscape paintings capture his local neighborhood of far Northern NSW. A contrast to the bustle and hum of inner Sydney where he lived for forty years. Having been…
Courtney Coombs: The Time of Light
1st - 15th February
Metro Arts
For The time of light, Brisbane-based artist Courtney Coombs responds to the unique role of light in the Metro Arts galleries. Like many Brisbane-based artists, Courtney Coombs first exhibited at Metro Arts as a student, through…
Boiling Point
24th January - 6th February
The Third Quarter
The Third Quarter team and our wider community are heartbroken by the Australian bushfire crisis, and those that have been affected by it. What we are witnessing is unprecedented and catastrophic. 6.3+ million…
John Rigby: Monumental colour
30th November - 1st February
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
One of Australia’s most acclaimed painters, John Rigby enjoyed a career that spanned over 70 years. For the first time, the life and art of John Rigby will be told through the stories and memories…
8 Bit Bart: Day Dreamer
9th January - 5th February
Netherworld
Though a recent ‘artist’ in the pixel world, 8BB’s love of the medium began decades ago in the fabled era known to historians as the Age of Dial-Up. Every child craves a window through which…
MONO 36: Crys Cole, Werner Dafeldecker & Scott Morrison
1st February, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
MONO returns for 2020 with some deep listening and delicate audio explorations. Canada’s Crys Cole, known for her intimate and exploratory sound works published via Oren Ambarchi’s Black Truffle label, returns to Brisbane to launch…
Cinémathèque at GOMA
Ongoing
Gallery of Modern Art
The Australian Cinémathèque at GOMA provides an ongoing program of film and video that you’re unlikely to see elsewhere. Screenings take place Wednesday and Friday nights and Saturday and Sundays matinees. We offer a rich…
Opening Night Party: Metro Arts, with love
1st February, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Metro Arts
Join us for the Opening Celebrations of Metro Arts, with love – our love ode to the Old Broad that has supported the making of art for 40 years at 109 Edward St, Brisbane. Music,…
GOMA Talks: Beyond Eco-Anxiety
20th February, 6:30 - 7:30pm
Gallery of Modern Art
Feeling overwhelmed by the existential challenge of climate change? GOMA Talks returns during ‘Water’, to examine the rise of eco-anxiety and how we can move beyond it with action. Hear from four Australian change makers,…
Double Opening: Marianna Simnett & Sancintya Mohini Simpson
22nd February, 4:00 - 7:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions at the IMA and celebrate the beginning of our 2020 exhibition program. See London-based artist Marianna Simnett’s ‘CREATURE’, which brings together three of her most significant…
Openings: Luciana Smith + Charlie Hillhouse
13th February, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Innerspace Contemporary Art
we are delighted to present our first exhibitions of the year with luciana smith and charlie hillhouse on thursday 13 february. please join us to celebrate with the artists from 6-9pm at 22 ross st,…
Minya Birrañ: what now for Indigenous languages?
21st February, 9:00am - 5:00pm
State Library of Queensland
A day for all creatives, educators, community workers and those who work in the GLAM sector to be part of the important conversation about the future of Indigenous language and its place as a human…
Panel Discussion: Within These Walls
8th February, 2:00pm
Metro Arts
Please join us for a panel discussion with Rachael Haynes, Jeanelle Hurst and Amy-Clare McCarthy, facilitated by Simone Hine, as part of AIRplay: Metro Arts, With Love. The festival Metro Arts, With Love, celebrates 40 years of Metro Arts as…
Christine Turner: Fancy Assortment
13th - 23rd February
Vacant Assembly
As a child I had little exposure to fine art. The only still lifes I encountered were the ones on the lids of biscuit tins. One could admire the beautiful tins whilst enjoying their contents!…







































































