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…
Nyx + Myfanwy Gullifer: The Magical Muff
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20260710
Side Gallery
Side Gallery presents The Magical Muff, a bold and playful exhibition by artists Nyx and Myfanwy Gullifer that celebrates the female body through humour, storytelling and vibrant visual language. Challenging taboos while embracing bodily autonomy,…
Marisa Veerman: Knowing
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20260714
Lethbridge Gallery
Lethbridge Gallery presents Knowing, a solo exhibition by Marisa Veerman exploring clothing as an extension of identity, memory and human connection. Through photography, embroidery and textile-based processes, Veerman considers garments as material archives that carry…
Karla Marchesi: Till and Toil
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20260711
Jan Manton Gallery
Till and Toil presents a new body of paintings by Karla Marchesi that uses the garden as both subject and metaphor for navigating uncertainty, pressure and change. The exhibition reflects on sustaining hope through periods…
Philip Wolfhagen
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20260711
Philip Bacon Galleries
Philip Wolfhagen presents a new exhibition of paintings that continue his long-standing exploration of the atmospheric landscapes of northern Tasmania. Widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape painters, Wolfhagen is known for his…
Brendan Huntley: A Meadow, A Clearing
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
A Meadow, A Clearing presents a new body of ceramic sculptures by Melbourne-based artist Brendan Huntley. Guided by touch, instinct and material experimentation, Huntley’s practice embraces spontaneity and process. His sculptural works are built through…
MONO x IAG
20260711
Ipswich Art Gallery
MONO x IAG brings together the Institute of Modern Art’s long-running experimental sound program with Ipswich Art Gallery for a special expanded presentation as part of Spark Festival. Curated by Lawrence English, MONO has spent…
Shifting Ground
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20260712
The Condensery
Curated by artist and researcher Larissa Warren, ‘Shifting Ground’ explores the rich history of women potters from Tamborine Mountain, Queensland. The exhibition brings together works by twelve contemporary Australian artists alongside historical pieces by pioneering…
Franck Gohier: Australia Has Cowboys Too
20260616
20260711
Mitchell Fine Art
Darwin-based artist Franck Gohier returns to Mitchell Fine Art with his fifth solo exhibition, Australia Has Cowboys Too. Featuring a new body of work inspired by the iconography of Western comics, films and vintage advertising,…
Excess All Areas
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20260723
The Hub Gallery
Info: Excess All Areas explores consumer culture and society’s relationship with waste through humour, colour and critical reflection. Presented by the New Quotidian Collective, the exhibition draws upon the visual language of advertising, packaging and…
Between the Threads: Contemporary Textile Art
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The Creative Room
Between the Threads brings together eight artists whose practices find common ground in fibre, fabric, and material process while remaining distinct in vision, method, and cultural origin. Featuring artists from Australia and overseas, the exhibition…
Earthen Form
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20260712
The Condensery
Earthen form profiles the works of contemporary Somerset ceramicists who have responded to natural colours and forms of the region, whist experimenting with incorporating locally sourced materials within their practice. The exhibition includes a showcase of…
Merinda Davies: SYMBIOTIC MARATHON
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20260718
Outer Space
SYMBIOTIC MARATHON is a new exhibition by Merinda Davies that imagines an exercise program for a future shaped by ecological collapse. Set in a speculative world where breathable air is no longer guaranteed for humans…
Jon Rafman: Memento Hikikomori
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Institute of Modern Art
The Institute of Modern Art presents the first Australian institutional solo exhibition by acclaimed Canadian artist Jon Rafman. Memento Hikikomori brings together a selection of works exploring the technological mediation of memory, the formation of…
Marisa Culpo: Between Form
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20260719
Metro Arts
Presented by artisan and Metro Arts, Between Form is the first exhibition in the Small Object Spaces series, featuring Brisbane-based artist Marisa Culpo. Working across textiles and ceramics, Culpo’s practice explores the relationship between material,…
Leah King-Smith: rhythm wRites Forum
20260724
QUT Art Museum
Join a public forum with influential First Nations artists and thinkers whose practices challenge, unsettle and reimagine the creative landscape, presented as part of the exhibition Leah King-Smith: rhythm wRites. The forum brings together leading…
PLATYPUS Essentials: 00–02 Energy – Book Launch & Book Talk
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20260725
Wreckers Artspace
Join PLATYPUS and Wreckers Artspace for a two-day celebration of the launch of PLATYPUS Essentials: 00–02 Energy, a new publication exploring energy, ecology, community and justice through art, writing and lived experience. The second publication…
Kay Watanabe: Psithurism - Whispering of Trees
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Side Gallery
Psithurism — Whispering of Trees is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Kay Watanabe, presented at Side Gallery. Originally from Tokyo, Watanabe’s multidisciplinary practice spans printmaking, ceramics and other media, exploring the relationship between humanity…
Curator Talk: Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer on Memento Hikikomori
20260725
Institute of Modern Art
Join curator Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer for an exhibition tour of Jon Rafman: Memento Hikikomori, the acclaimed Canadian artist’s first major Australian exhibition. The talk explores Rafman’s practice of investigating internet culture through online archives, video games,…
Holly Anderson: Essay Club No. 6 – Hyperobjects
20260729
Institute of Modern Art
Join the Institute of Modern Art for Essay Club No. 6, led by artist Holly Anderson, exploring the chapter Viscosity from Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013). The…
Metro Arts: Rewiring Townhall #2
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Metro Arts
Metro Arts presents Rewiring Townhall #2, a free sector gathering offering an update on the organisation’s evolving artistic direction, upcoming programs and future opportunities. Following a period of strategic development, the townhall will provide an…
Guido Maestri: Arrangements
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20260801
Jan Murphy Gallery
Arrangements is a new solo exhibition of bronze sculptures by Guido Maestri that explores portraiture, memory and the changing nature of identity. Rather than presenting fixed likenesses, the sculptures depict faces that shift, fragment and…
James Guppy: Sculptures and Birds
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Jan Murphy Gallery
Sculptures and Birds is a new exhibition by James Guppy that revisits the sculptural forms which shaped his early artistic thinking. Although Guppy has spent more than fifty years working primarily as a painter, this…
claire rousay & Peter Knight: Mono 61
20260722
Institute of Modern Art
As part of the Institute of Modern Art’s long-running experimental sound program MONO, Canadian-American musician, composer and artist claire rousay performs alongside Melbourne/Naarm artist Peter Knight. Known for creating deeply personal and immersive sound worlds,…
Off Grid 5: In Search of an Architectural Culture
20260716
Institute of Modern Art
Join Meanjin/Brisbane architect Kevin O’Brien (BVN) and architectural historian Andrew Leach (Queensland University of Technology) for an informal lecture and discussion exploring Queensland’s architectural culture, its history, and future directions. The event is part of…
The Huxleys: Bad Sports
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20260801
Redcliffe Art Gallery
Bad Sports is a vibrant and theatrical exhibition by The Huxleys exploring the intersections of sport, queerness, humour and performance. Drawing on their experiences of growing up in Australia, The Huxleys transform the playing field…
Pep Talks: Karla Marchesi
20260716
Griffith University Art Museum
Join us for our next Pep Talk with painter Karla Marchesi! Pep Talks are your chance to hear from QCAD legends about their practice and career trajectory since graduating, as well as the advice they…
Carolyn Craig: Becoming Penguin (Act II)
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20260718
PARKER Contemporary
PARKER Contemporary presents Becoming Penguin (Act II), a new exhibition by Sydney-based artist Carolyn Craig exploring identity, belonging and systems of social judgement. Centred on the symbolic figure of the penguin, Craig employs performance, printmaking…
Odyssey Starlight Mandala
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20260801
Brisbane Square Library
Odyssey Starlight Mandala is an exhibition celebrating a long-term community art project that will see 10,000 handwoven star mandalas created and gifted to athletes competing at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games. Presented at Brisbane Square…
Aria Targett and Jude McClay Dwyer: Subjective
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20260725
Webb Gallery, QCA
Subjective is a collaborative exhibition by Aria Targett and Jude McClay Dwyer, presented at Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design. Developed over the course of the exhibition, the project features two large-scale wall…
Sang Ju Lee: Memories of Time
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20260725
Grey Street Gallery (QCA)
Memories of Time is a solo exhibition by Sang Ju Lee, presenting work developed during the artist’s six-month exchange at Seoul National University in 2025. Working with silk and traditional Korean Hanji (mulberry paper), Lee…
Mas{a/i}r . مسار . مسیر: The Map of Nearness
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20260829
Outer Space
A creative platform by Sirena Varma and Prita Tina Yeganeh that explores the politics of place, diasporic identity, and collective futures of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) peoples—across their homelands and the settler-lands they…
Jane Thompson: Amidst the Jewels of Us – Night Series
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Vacant Assembly
Amidst the Jewels of Us – Night Series is a multidisciplinary exhibition by Brisbane/Meanjin artist Jane Thompson, bringing together original abstract paintings, poetry and sound to explore the rhythms of time, memory and the natural…
MOTH
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20260731
Vacant Assembly
MOTH brings together eight multidisciplinary practitioners for a month-long open studio exploring themes of illumination, experimentation and creative discovery. Working across a range of disciplines, the participating artists investigate light as both material and metaphor,…
Container x IMA: Simmer
20260714
Institute of Modern Art
Container and the Institute of Modern Art present Simmer, an evening of experimental short films exploring themes of control, release and rhythm through innovative moving image practices. The two-part screening brings together works by Australian…
Merinda Davies: Symbiotic Marathon Circuit Training
20260718
Outer Space
Join artists Merinda Davies and Guy Ritani for Symbiotic Marathon Circuit Training, a participatory workshop exploring breath, movement, imagination, writing and embodied awareness as pathways into somatic and relational intelligence. Presented at Outer Space, the…
Andy Harwood: Transitional Light
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20260725
Jan Manton Gallery
Jan Manton Gallery presents Transitional Light, an exhibition introducing Brisbane abstract artist Andy Harwood as the gallery’s newest represented artist. Installed within the gallery’s stockroom, the exhibition offers an intimate introduction to Harwood’s practice, showcasing…







































































