Director's Choice 2025
Mitchell Fine Art begins its 2025 gallery exhibition calendar year with the personally curated exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’ showing from January 28th. The gallery greets the year with an especially enthused spirit as it celebrates the 10th anniversary of opening its Brisbane space. A dynamic mix of artworks by represented artists…
Archie Moore: Comic Paintings
In 2005, aged thirty-four, Archie Moore undertook a residency for emerging First Nations artists organised by Campfire Group at FireWorks Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane. He produced seven large, unstretched canvases that turned on his sharing his first name with the famous American comicbook character. The paintings emphasise the difference of his childhood…
Regi Cherini: Such is Life
Regi Cherini, recipient of artisan‘s inaugural Regional Artisan Residency Program, presents Such is Life, a provocative exploration of Australian identity through the lens of “bogan” culture. This exhibition showcases Cherini’s masterful subversion of traditional embroidery techniques, challenging perceptions of class, nationalism, and cultural stereotypes. Drawing from her experiences living in regional…
Platform 2025
This is the second iteration of our annual Queensland new-artists project. It presents three artists. Shannon Toth’s assemblages combine timber, confectionary, and sound in sticky performances that evoke the body. Jarrod van der Ryken is known for his moody video installations, evoking spaces of illicit sexual encounter and discovery, dens and beats. Keemon Williams queers…
Larissa Borteh: Paintings on Paper
Larissa Borteh’s evocative paintings explore the delicate interplay between memory, mark-making, and storytelling. Her works, created on Yupo paper, reveal the layered process of their creation, reflecting the transient and fragile nature of past experiences. Inspired by the movement of her brush and the organic evolution of each piece, Borteh…
Cara-Ann Simpson: Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers)
Launching our 2025 program is a stunning exhibition, titled Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers) by newly represented artist Cara-Ann Simpson. Furari Flores is a rich visual display of the Australian landscape and Cara’s deep personal connection to it. This exhibition is a multi-sensory project celebrating the wonder and exploration of plants.…
Geoart: Mapping Nature, Culture & Climate
Dr Ata Tara, a registered landscape architect and academic, explores the intricate relationships between people, culture, and the land. Utilizing geospatial mapping and design tools, he transforms technical data into compelling visual art, offering fresh perspectives on environmental and cultural connections. His work, influenced by his Iranian heritage, employs vibrant…
Contemporary Queensland Glass
Contemporary Queensland Glass is an exhibition celebrating the exceptional talent, innovation, and craftsmanship of five accomplished glass artists from Queensland. Despite limited local glass training opportunities and facilities, these artists have excelled in their craft. The exhibition showcases a wide range of techniques and aesthetics in glassmaking, from sculptural installations to…
The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Art that takes you places. Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries feature in the eleventh chapter of the flagship Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Bringing compelling new art to Brisbane, the Triennial is a gateway…
Victoria Wareham : Contact Zone
Contact Zone by Victoria Wareham is an exhibition of new and recent work that understands screen-based technologies as temporal living entities that are subject to the mortal conditions of ageing and extinction. The included works use analogue and digital technologies to form a screen-based ecosystem that imagines future screens as mutant, vitalist forms that…
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2024 presents a diverse selection of artworks by artists at the forefront of photographic media. As a survey of contemporary practice, the award plays an important role in representing the ongoing evolution of photography and the ways in which artists use it…
Neon
Sydney has the King Cross Coca-Cola sign, New York has the lights of Times Square, and Brisbane has Stefan’s rainbow, which is one of 26 original neon signs you will see in Neon exhibition alongside photographs and original footage from State Library’s collection. Neon explores the history of neon across Queensland from the…
Sonja and Elisa Jane Carmichael: Deep Blue
Dive into the sparkling waters of the Quandamooka this summer with mother-daughter artists Sonja and Elisa Jane Carmichael. Both are proud Ngugi women from Minjerribah on Quandamooka Country. Creating alongside one another and other family members, the Carmichaels have worked to revive Quandamooka cultural practices once thought lost, and in…
Ronelle Reid: Conversations with Nature
Amidst the hum of modern life, we are quietly navigating the sixth Great Extinction Event, a stark reality where nearly 150 species of plants and animals vanish each day. Yet, rather than focusing on loss, “Conversations with Nature” invites visitors to reflect on our shared existence through 150 miniature oil-on-timber…
Artist in Residence: Sara Nejad
Museum of Brisbane is excited to welcome Sara Nejad as the Artist in Residence from January 2025. Sara’s residency will harness the mandala as a motif to explore themes of identity and belonging. Mandalas have a rich history in Persian art and architecture. Sara is drawn to the significance of…
Leah King-Smith: rhythm wRites
rhythm wRites is an immersive exhibition orchestrated by Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith, exploring simultaneity, interconnectivity, rhythm, ethereality, spatiality and sound. Rooted in a decolonising framework, the exhibition features new work produced in collaboration with leading First Nations practitioners from the fields of visual art, music and creative writing: Robert Andrew…
Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial
A contemporary art exhibition exploring the depth and dynamism of the Gold Coast’s creative community. Be immersed in the ‘Here and Now’ with an extraordinary collection of works of art by 42 artists who are deeply connected to our city. Explore seven interconnected spaces featuring works ranging from medium scale…
Arriving Slowly: Exploring the Abstract
As global unrest reaches unprecedented levels, the art world appears to be gravitating towards works that exude a profound sense of stillness and tranquillity—perhaps as a way to offer solace in these turbulent times. Arriving Slowly delves into a journey of connection with art on a deeper, emotional level while…
Yuriyal Bridgeman: yubilong(mi)bilongyu
Yuriyal Bridgeman: yubilong(mi)bilongyu includes significant new works that reflect the culmination of Bridgeman’s most recent research practice, along with a selection of works, many in bold and breathtaking bright colours, surveying the breadth of Bridgeman’s career to date. Bridgeman’s work is deeply anchored in the traditional cultural practices of his Papua…
Lionel Fogarty: Moiyum wungumbil mugerra bullonga
Lionel Fogarty since the early 2000s has been creating ‘poem paintings’, where viewers are immersed in the language written by his own hand, rather than by the mechanical typeset of publishing. This exhibition Moiyum wungumbil mugerra bullonga features new paintings that connect to Lionel Fogarty’s longstanding commitment to the liberation of voice,…
Elysha Rei: Yohaku no bi (the beauty of empty space)
In 余白の美: Yohaku no bi (the beauty of empty space) Japanese Australian artist, Elysha Rei uses hand cut paper and principles of Japanese garden design to explore transcultural identity, family history and the silent narratives of Japanese-Australian migration experience. Drawing upon ancestral connections to Tea Master Katagiri Sekishu, who used…
Genevieve Staines: Temporary Treasures
Connect with, and contemplate, artefacts from the local natural world in Brisbane, with Genevieve Staines’ current exhibition ‘Temporary Treasures’. Visual Artist and Environmental Educator Genevieve Staines extends on her work connecting with nature as meditation with this series of drawings and watercolours from 2024. Staines lives next to bushland and…
Christie-Lee Newsham: Restriction
Christie-Lee Newsham is a dynamic artist using a range of mediums—including sound, installation, and casting—she invites audiences to confront the complexities of limitation in both personal and societal contexts. “Restriction,” is a thought-provoking installation that delves into the myriad limitations and restrictions we encounter in life, exploring their impact on…
Remembering the Future
Remembering the Future brings together four remarkable artists—Megan Cope, Judy Watson, Taloi Havini, and Ruha Fifita. Image: Kato Kakala 1, 2019-2021, Ivi (Ruha Fifita, Minaira Fifita, Sheida Vazir-Zadeh), konga ngatu (cut section of painted barkcloth),’umea (earth pigments), tongo (natural dyes) 536 x 203 cm
Dylan Jones: Back to Front
Dylan’s artworks vary in subject matter and medium but regardless of what he chooses to depict there always remains an interest in colour, composition and the simplification of form. The imagery Dylan creates has a relationship to the history of art but more so to everyday life. Working from memory…
Dylan Bolger: Leaf SZN
Dylan Bolger is a proud Maiawali, Karuwali, Pitta-Pitta and Gomeroi artist. Over the past three years Dylan has been working on the Leaf SZN project; creating 100 works based on the macaranga leaf. The macaranga is a pioneer species, meaning it is one of the first to repopulate and breathe…
Strange New Ways
“Strange New Ways” invites exploration into the unexpected and uncharted territories of contemporary art, where the familiar is transformed into something strange and profound. Featuring a dynamic array of voices, this exhibition showcases the work of Andrew Arnaoutopoulos, Cheolyu Kim, Daryl Hewson, David Paulson, Dean Rusling, the Laurie Nilsen Estate,…
Prita Tina Yeganeh: The Sacred Shared Labour
Onespace is delighted to present The Sacred Shared Labour, the second iteration of Prita Tina Yeganeh’s ongoing series My Soil Farsh فرش. This iteration explores collective labour as a vessel for activating community kinship. In a deeply symbolic and physical act of cultural embodiment, women from Prita’s community came together over 145 hours to…
Peter Anderson
Peter Anderson (b.1956, Brisbane) is a mid-career Australian painter, who lives and works in his home town of Brisbane. Anderson completed a Diploma of Fine Art (Painting) at the College of Art, Brisbane between 1974-76, before completing a Graduate Diploma of Fine Art (Painting) at RMIT, Melbourne in 1977. Through…
Benjamin Werner: TOTEMS
TOTEMS is Benjamin Werner’s latest series of text-based works, humorously critiquing his experiences in the art world. As Director of All City Arts, Werner brings a nuanced perspective on both local and international art circles.In this exhibition, Werner explores rhyming and pun-laden references to well-known artists and arts workers, both…
OUT OF OFFICE
An after-hours group exhibition showcasing 45 high-calibre hybrid creatives. Opening event: Friday Novemeber 22, 6pm – late
Artist in Residence: Dylan Bolger
Dylan Bolger is a proud Maiawali, Karuwali, Pitta-Pitta and Gomeroi artist. Bold in his experimentation, he works across a variety of mediums and techniques. Most of his works are hand-drawn and exceptionally detailed, reflecting his background in architecture. As Artist in Residence, Dylan will spend over a month in the…
Carla Adams: Quite Gently
Quite Gently is a series of mixed media works featuring colourful rhinestones, as well as small watercolour paintings and unique silver charms. Carla Adams lives and works in Perth, graduating with first-class honours from Curtin University in 2014. She has exhibited locally and nationally, including in a joint exhibition with Albert Tucker, titled, sorry I was…
Carolyn V Watson: to have and to hold
In this exhibition, Carolyn V. Watson delves into the complex interplay between risk and opportunity through a meticulously curated series of tactile forms and objects. Moving beyond traditional visual appreciation, Watson’s work now invites physical interaction, fostering a profound, unspoken dialogue between the viewer and the artwork. Crafted primarily in…
Exhibition Opening: 52 ACTIONS
Join us to celebrate the opening of the our exhibition, 52 Actions from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM on Saturday, 30 November. Artspace’s acclaimed 52 ACTIONS continues its national tour at Redcliffe Art Gallery, featuring works from 52 Australian artists and collectives from each state and territory. As the title suggests,…
Suburban Sublime: Australian Photography
‘Suburban Sublime’ explores how artists have used photography to interpret the Australian suburbs. The exhibition brings together works that pause to reflect on everyday settings, places, and people, imbuing them with aesthetic, historical, and emotional significance. Image: Tracey Moffatt, Australia b.1960 / Picturesque Cherbourg no.1 (from ‘Picturesque Cherbourg’ series within the…
Daniel Templeman + Edward Niznik
Opening 6- 8pm Friday 6 May 2011
Spiro Grace Art Rooms, 255 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill
Daniel Templeman ‘Back and Forth’ + Edward Niznik ‘South’. Exhibition continues until 28 May 2011, Thursday to Saturday 11-3pm or by appointment
New Psychedelia
Friday 6 May 6.30pm
UQ Art Museum
WHEN : Friday 6 May 6.30pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum ‘New Psychedelia’ presents a range of contemporary Australian artworks that display psychedelic influences and strategies for addressing the themes of consciousness, capitalism and technology.…
Artist - Eric Bridgeman
From the series ‘The Sport and Fair Play of Aussie Rule’, 2009 Eric Bridgeman is a multi-disciplinary artist based Brisbane, Australia. Born in October 1986 in Redcliffe (QLD) to Raymond Bridgeman (from Cracow, Central…
Warren Handley
Warren Handley migrated from the south east of England to Australia in 2005 and has been living in Brisbane ever since. Believing creativity should not necessarily be restricted to the use of just one medium,…
Tracy Moffatt: Video Montages
1–29 May 2011
Gallery of Modern Art
Tracey Moffatt is arguably Australia’s best known contemporary artist working across photography and video. From 1999 to 2009, Moffatt and her editing collaborator Gary Hillberg produced seven montage videos that survey the enduring dramatic modes…
OMNIVERSAL
29 April · 19:00 - 22:00
East Brisbane Community Centre, 538 Vulture Street East, East Brisbane
An exhibition at a time and in a space by Akiko Yamasaki & Alex Cuffe. The Omniverse is the conceptual ensemble of all possible universes, with all possible laws of physics, first coined by Sun…
The Stitchery Launch
28th of April
Bell Bros. Building, 1/57 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
The stitchery collective is a fashion-based artist-run initiative. Founded by Kath Horton and Paula Dunlop in February 2010, it is a group of artists, dressmakers, designers and academics who use creative practice to connect individuals…
Disembraining Machine
24th April 6:00pm
Disembraining Machine is an evolving project showcasing experiments in noise, improvised, popular and unpopular, new and old music and art drawing from Brisbane’s underground creative scene, but also featuring national and international artists and groups..…
Kelly Hussey-Smith
Kelly Hussey-Smith is a Documentary Practitioner mainly working in photography and more recently in video and multimedia. She lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Kelly is currently undertaking a PhD at The Queensland College of…
Nine Wives
20 April at 18:00 - 08 May
Nine Wives Gallery
Nine Wives is a concept show that transforms the gallery into a contemporary domestic environment where female notions and rituals are explored. For the theme, nine female Queensland artists were invited to create artworks…
Stabilisers
20 April at 18:30 - 07 May
Studio 3.10 LVL 3 Metro Arts
Stabilisers is a site responsive installation by Jasmin Coleman with sound composition Transitioning by Cara-Ann Simpson. Stabilisers explores tensions between permanancy and flux, stability and instability through the installation of large industrial structures. In the…
Contemplation: Chinese Expression
11th to 22nd April
Contemplation: Chinese Expression presents six media artists from the Beijing Film Academy as part of an international work exchange. These art works share an aesthetic connection through the utilisation of poetic and mesmerising visual language.…
William Robinson - The Transfigured Landscape
17 April - 14 August
QUT ART MUSEUM
William Robinson: The Transfigured Landscape presents an unprecedented opportunity to view significant artworks by one of the nation’s most cherished living artists. Presented across QUT’s premier visual art institutions, The William Robinson Gallery and QUT…
Rigging Portraits
Friday 15th of April – 23rd
POP Gallery
You are invited to the opening of Bill Platz’s exhibition, Rigging Portraits where you have the pleasure to view his recent portraiture in a range of media and mediums. Bill says that portraits are rigged,…
Light Cipher
Thursday 14 April 2011 at 6pm.
IMA
WHEN : Thursday 14 April 2011 at 6pm. WHERE : IMA After dabbling in punk rock and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded Brighton-based Super-8 film collective Situation Cinema in 1986, then Loophole Cinema in 1989.…
Lemurs, roswell, wheat, pyramids, mosquitoes, yellow skin, humans that lay eggs,
Saturday 9 April 6-8pm
BOX COPY
WHEN : Saturday 9 April 6-8pm WHERE : BOX COPY Artist – Wilkins Hill Lemurs, roswell, wheat, pyramids, mosquitoes, yellow skin, humans that lay eggs, bestiality, nazi aryanism (2009) is a nine-part videowork that was…
Space Invaders
9 April – 5 June 2011
UQ Art Museum
WHEN : 9 April – 5 June 2011 WHERE : UQ Art Museum Playful, edgy, clever and satirical, the works in Space invaders have appeared in city streets around Australia. Street art has significantly altered…
My mother is water, my father is wood
9 – 29 April 2011
LEVEL ARI
WHEN : 9 – 29 April 2011 WHERE : LEVEL ARI Gallery 1 – Artist : Courtney Pederson My mother is water, my father is wood is an assemblage of materials collected over six years…
There Is No One. What Will Take Care Of You?
2 April - 1 May 2011
The Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP)
WHEN : 2 April – 1 May 2011 WHERE : The Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) Kurt Sorensen Each series of photographs relates to the other in its depiction and representation of isolation, loneliness, beauty…
Light Moves
2 APR - 7 MAY 2011
Jan Manton Gallery
WHEN : 2 APR – 7 MAY 2011 WHERE : Jan Manton Gallery Magda Cebokli – Michael Doolan Michael Doolan lives in Melbourne and works in Sydney where he is a Lecturer at Sydney College…
Warm Glow
April 1 - April 30
The Wandering Room @ Ryan Renshaw - 137 Warry St, Spring Hill
WHEN : April 1 – April 30 WHERE : The Wandering Room @ Ryan Renshaw – 137 Warry St, Spring Hill Warm Glow The April Edition of The Wandering Room’s ‘residency’ at Ryan Renshaw Gallery…
New Movement and Co
Opening Event: Thursday 26 March 6:30 PM
Studio 3.10 LVL 3 Metro Arts 109 Edward St Brisbane
WHEN : Opening Event: Thursday 26 March 6:30 PM WHERE : Studio 3.10 LVL 3 Metro Arts 109 Edward St Brisbane Working below-level, street-level, the high-way and the sky-way, New Movement & Co. guarantees universal…
GHOSTHOUSE
26 March 2011 6-9pm
BOXCOPY
WHEN : 26 March 2011 6-9pm WHERE : BOXCOPY Let’s spend the night together? You, me and a couple of videos? No one is home and the living room is free. GHOSTHOUSE is a new…
Dennis Nona, Malu Sara (Deep Sea Tern)
23 March–23 April 2011
WHEN : 23 March–23 April 2011 WHERE : www.andrew-baker.com NGAU PIKI (MY DREAM), Acrylic on linen, 2010
Soft Site
18th of March, 6:00pm
Kangaroo Motel
WHEN : 18th of March, 6:00pm WHERE : Kangaroo Motel Artist – Lou Hubbard, Tim Woodward, Chris Bennie Presented by Accidently Annie St Space WEBSITE
3 New Shows Opening @ LEVEL
WHEN : 11 March at 18:00 – 01 April WHERE : LEVEL, 11 Stratton St, Newstead, QLD GALLERY 1 – Conjure ZOE PORTER – In collaboration with Eric Rossi and Olivia Porter (opening performance) Conjure…
Three sides to every story
9 - 25 March 2011Open: Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00PM
Inbetweenspaces @ Metro Arts
WHEN : 9 – 25 March 2011Open: Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00PM WHERE : Inbetweenspaces @ Metro Arts Three sides to every story: Ernesto Love + Eve Roleston + Ernest Olove = 3SUM/3DUM. WEBSITE
Joseph Breikers
Opening Wednesday 9 March -Exhibition 9 to 26 March
Metro Arts Galleries Level 2, 109 Edward St, Brisbane
Joseph Breiker’s first solo exhibition at Metro Arts commences an exciting year for the Galleries Program in 2011. An exploration into the place of humour in contemporary visual art, Joseph will utilise drawing, painting, mixed…