Logan Art Gallery presents Holding Force, an exhibition by Eliza Adam exploring the histories embedded within the landscape, with a focus on the Logan River environs and catchment. Responding directly to her surroundings, Adam examines the lasting effects of human intervention on ecological systems. Through this investigation, the exhibition reveals…

Eleanor Louise Butt is a Melbourne-based artist. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2013, and a Master of Fine Art by Research at Monash University in 2026. She has presented solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and…

Melbourne’s MARS Gallery arrives in Brisbane for its second curated pop-up exhibition, presenting works by established gallery artists alongside new favourites at Miss Midgley’s in New Farm. The exhibition celebrates Brisbane through a curated selection of contemporary artworks by 17 artists working across diverse practices. Participating artists include Dani McKenzie,…

Simpson extends the materiality of her miniature painting practice by working on corrugated iron, a material widely used for shelter by indentured labourers. Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendent of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa. Her work navigates the complexities of…

In Natural Disasters, Max Athans explores the limits of the mind’s ability to imagine catastrophe and the ways disaster becomes embedded in memory, imagery and the surrounding world. The exhibition statement traces the imagined moment of collision backwards, suggesting that disaster carries a symbolic weight that extends beyond the event…

Jan Murphy Gallery presents Don’t Forget to Breathe, an exhibition of approximately 60 small paintings by Australian artist Richard Lewer, exploring the fragmented nature of contemporary experience and the constant flow of information, memory and everyday encounters. Drawing on news stories, personal experiences, observations and passing moments, Lewer’s paintings move…

Archibubs and the Australian Institute of Architects’ Emerging Architects and Graduates Network (EmAGN) present Value Talk 08: Public Space, Play and Possibilities, a conversation exploring how art, architecture and design can make public spaces more inclusive, engaging and welcoming. The discussion considers how play can spark curiosity, connect communities and…

Chaired by Samid Suliman, Panel: Ruined brings together Susan Best, Dirk Yates and Joanne Choueiri to explore ruins and the ways we live with what remains. Moving between Beirut’s shattered grain silos, Queenslander homes and their yards, and the ways artists’ behaviour can affect our experience of their work, the…

Tempest brings together 21 contemporary artists from Brisbane, across Queensland and beyond, each offering their own interpretation of turbulence, transformation and change. Featuring local and regional artists including Andrew K, Nicole Fearfield, Trisha Lambi, Angie Summa, Jennifer Bell, Kathleen Rhee, Rachel Prince, Kate Chadwick and Claire Stapleton, the exhibition explores…

Meanjin/Brisbane-based visual artist Phoebe Fleming presents Pulling at the Form World, an exhibition of surreal and psychedelic painted works at Land Street Gallery in Toowong. Working primarily in abstract surrealist painting, Fleming responds to the overflow of modern visual media, creating dreamlike scenes that explore new visual narratives. The opening…

The Renshaws presents Edge Condition, an exhibition by Australian artist Jamie North, whose sculptural practice explores the dynamic interplay between the industrial and the organic. North’s works juxtapose industrial materials with plant life, challenging conventional ideas of order and control in art and nature. His sculptures often resemble wild, lithophytic…

Logan Art Gallery presents The White Portal, an exhibition by Bruce Reynolds exploring change and memory through sculpture and two-dimensional artworks. Using materials including linoleum and plaster, Reynolds will construct a large sculptural gate that separates linocut works from plaster reliefs. This division represents a journey between past and present,…

This exhibition features recent miniature paintings and textiles. Through a confluence of contemporary and ancient imagery, the works address the historical nature of current tensions in the Middle East. Born 1978 Quetta, Pakistan. Khadim Ali currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. After growing up in Pakistan, Ali was trained…

INTERLUDE is the 2026 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, presenting the work of 37 emerging artists at the transition between university study and their developing creative practices. Framed as an interlude — a pause, interruption or space between one stage and the next in an artist’s career — the exhibition…

Urbania #3 is a post-graffiti-themed group exhibition that forms part of an ongoing series bringing together small groups of independent artists connected to Brisbane. Hollie Cassidy — Fragments Fragments explores a period of deep reflection in which major life changes and formative influences are revisited. Cassidy considers the balance between…

Museum of Brisbane presents In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice, a landmark exhibition celebrating ten years of its Artist in Residence program and the artistic innovation, collaboration and creative exchange it has fostered. The program has welcomed more than 100 artists and supported over 50 original projects, engaging millions…

Albert Tucker (1914–1999) was one of Australia’s renowned artists and a key exponent of Australian modernism. Primarily known as a figurative painter, he critically responded to the world around him through his art. In 1939, Tucker acquired his first camera and began documenting his life and the people and places…

15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance the City of Moreton Bay Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, 15 artists are invited by City of Moreton Bay Galleries to exhibit recent work, showcasing diverse artistic voices and ideas. The winning artist receives $20,000, and their work…

The University of Queensland Society of Fine Arts (UQSoFA) presents its annual Industry Night, bringing together emerging arts professionals and established curators for an evening of conversation, career insights and networking. This year’s panel features three Brisbane-based curators: Jocelyn Flynn from UQ Art Museum (UQAM), Lizzie Riek from Griffith University…

Kirsten Coelho (b. 1966, Denmark) is a leading Australian contemporary ceramicist living and working in Adelaide, South Australia. Coelho works in porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse the formal and the abstract. Her work has been recently influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and…

Open, Enclose is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Shayle Flesser, presenting a substantial new body of work spanning large-scale painting, collage, hand-built ceramic vessels and sculptural objects. The exhibition brings painting and object into conversation, with the works developed alongside one another. Paintings and ceramic forms share colour, gesture…

Onespace presents Before the Object, an exhibition by Petalia Humphreys in the Lounge Gallery, featuring a collection of playful two-dimensional and three-dimensional architectonic paintings that trace the transition of an object from latent being to active becoming. Across a practice spanning approximately 30 years, Humphreys has created abstracted objects, most…

Outer Space presents Nothing to Write Home About, a group exhibition developed through Munimba-ja Arts Centre’s Blak Creatives artist development program. Featuring artists Clea North, Brenda Mau, Lexie Abel, Tanika Orr, Nadine McDonald Dowd, Keely Eggmolesse and Desirai Saunders, the exhibition is curated by Libby Harward. The exhibition creates space…

The Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University, presents its 2026 graduate exhibitions, showcasing the creativity and innovation of emerging artists and designers across Design, Visual Art and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. The public opening celebration takes place on Thursday 22 October, with an opening ceremony and awards…

Drawn from the Indigenous Australian Art collection, Smokescreen: A Thickness of the Air presents artworks that disguise, disrupt or conceal. The exhibition explores the different reasons elements of an artwork may be obscured, from the protection of secret or sacred ceremonial business to natural phenomena that veil or blur vision.…

Helena Jackson-Lloyd is a  visual artist, based on the Queensland Sunshine Coast. Throughout her creative practice she has worked with and around the ideas of ‘landscape’. Her interest being in wildscapes. Places that are raw, wild, natural, and unkempt. Jackson -Lloyd’s work thrives on engaging with new and unfamiliar places,…

Melt Festival is an annual open-access festival of queer arts and culture staged across Magandjin/Brisbane, Australia. Building on the success of its predecessor, Melt, which was staged annually at Brisbane Powerhouse from 2015, the festival showcases queer art, artists, allies, icons, sport and ideas. With Brisbane preparing to host the…

Lawrence Daws (1927–2025) is a major figure of modern and contemporary Australian art. He sustained a successful career as a painter and printmaker for over a half a century. Daws’ depictions of the Australian landscape are as unique as the psychological landscapes he often grafts within them. His works are…

Lethbridge Gallery presents Bloom, the latest collection by Brisbane-based painter Bronwyn Hill. Following a successful VIP preview, the collection features a selection of oil paintings exploring introspection, observation and the beauty of natural forms. Hill is recognised for her photorealistic oil paintings, which combine poetic narratives with gentle observation. Her…

Onespace presents Paper Echoes, a solo exhibition by Elysha Rei in the Main Gallery, exploring memory, identity and belonging through the delicate and versatile medium of paper. Returning to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, thirty-eight years after being born in Tabuk, Rei revisits a landscape previously known to her through…

Nothing dumb transforms salvaged mid-century materials into playful works exploring family, communication and belonging. Through the use of familiar objects, Brisbane-based artist Daniel Clifford invites us to consider the systems we inherit, the identities we construct and the ways we learn to find our place within them. Working across installation,…

Museum of Brisbane marks ten years of its Artist in Residence program with In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice, a retrospective exhibition celebrating a decade of creative practice, artistic exchange and experimentation. The exhibition brings together works from the Museum of Brisbane Collection by artists including Mia Boe, Gerwyn…

Kate Cooper’s videos explore how bodies are imagined and imaged, understood and controlled, and how they resist. Her practice considers the moving image as a visual somatic experience, with recent works using CGI and the visual language of medical imaging to explore the body, identity, labour and systems of control.…

FireWorks Gallery presents Michael Nelson Jagamara: Possum Stories, an exhibition exploring one of the Warlpiri artist’s foundational narratives, the Possum Dreaming. The Possum Dreaming is an epic story grounded in complex kinship structures, taboos and tribal lore. The story of two young Possum lovers and their punishment has been central…

As part of the prize for winning the Annie Tan Watercolour Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Rosie Lloyd-Giblett and Flying Arts present Tread Lightly, Listen Deeply, a solo exhibition at Flying Arts. The exhibition brings together paintings and lyrical drawings inspired by Queensland and Northern New South…

Spanning performative videos, sculpture, sound and installation from the past 20 years, including a wealth of new works, ‘Once We Were Mudskippers’ emphasises the aesthetic ambition of Justene Williams’s expansive practice. Like the amphibious fish invoked by the exhibition’s title, which exist between worlds, Williams’s artworks are an amalgam of…