Dean Ansell: The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia
The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia is an immersive exhibition that explores Melanesian heritage, environmental processes, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through the lens of both ancestral and diasporic experiences. Weaving together familial storytelling, fieldwork, and cultural practices from Papua Niugini, the project interprets local mythologies surrounding the caves and boulders deep…
Unhomely
Unhomely is a collaborative crossdisciplinary installation exploring the idea of a domestic uncanny, from Sigmund Freud’s definition of uncanny. Freud’s definition owes the german word unheimlich, which literally translates to unhomely. Uncanny describes a place that is at once familiar and unfamiliar, making it unsettling, uncomfortable or frightening. Cardboard packing boxes…
Post Datum: FEED
FEED is an exploration of the influence of social media and the societal implications of its wide spread use. This exhibition seeks to critically examine how these forces shape our identities, behaviours, and perceptions, often blurring the lines between public and private, real and virtual, and empathy and apathy. Join…
Dennis Golding: POWER - The Future is Here
POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School. The superhero capes were created during a workshop in 2020, led by Golding who was an artist in residence at the school through…
Paula Payne: Shifting Sands of Land and Memory
Shifting Sands of Land and Memory features a new series of acrylic paintings by Magan-djin/Brisbane-based artist Paula Payne. Drawing inspiration from recent time spent as Artist in Residence at the Broken Hill Art Exchange—located on Wilyakali Country in far-west New South Wales—this new series captures the emotive resonance of the…
Jacqueline Larcombe: Postcards from Athens
Postcards from Athens is a series of bold and energetic monotype prints inspired by the artist’s recent travels to Greece. Having been selected as finalist in the 2025 Australian Monoprint Prize, Jacqueline has recently been recognised for her talents in this medium. Connecting with her Greek heritage, the artist followed her interest…
The Shape of Time
The Shape of Time combines two compelling exhibitions from Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary craft and design practitioners. Together, these exhibitions offer a unique glimpse into the diverse and vibrant artistic making practices from across Queensland’s vast far north regions. MAIN GALLERY Explore how time is shaped by the…
Miranda Skoczek: Paradise Garden
Miranda Skoczek’s newest body of work, Paradise Garden, is imbued with moments of peace, joy, and life in bloom. This exhibition reflects her deep contemplation on our connection to nature, with electric pinks layered against muted purples and greens — an evolution of her previous palettes. Abstract flowers and organic…
Spencer Harvie: RAT BOY
RAT BOY is an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Harvie, created over the past year. Drawing from a collection of found online images—ranging from the absurd to the abject, the paranormal to the art historical—Harvie reconfigures these sources, incorporating his own likeness, imagined characters, and surreal constructs. Harvie paints…
Alethea Richter: Pulse Systems
In response to our post-digital world, Alethea Richter’s Pulse Systems extends her engagement with digital fluidity and fixed structures through screenprinting. By translating digital marks alongside hand-generated marks, Richter explores the ephemeral qualities of screens—fluctuating luminosity, transient colours, and movement to create a dynamic works of expansion and contraction, that resists static…
David Fenoglio: Breathe
‘Breathe’ is David Fenoglio’s second exhibition with Jan Manton Gallery. His previous exhibition, “Squaring the Circle” in 2023, spoke of elements, minerals, and transmutation through processes of observation. This new series of oil paintings includes plants and natural forms arranged into serene compositions painted from life. Transferred into these paintings…
Jacques van der Merwe: The morphology of transience
We are delighted to announce Jacques’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Logan Art Gallery, showcasing the culmination of his four-year research conducted at the Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University. As a Doctor of Visual Arts candidate (DVA), Jacques has dedicated his studies to exploring the visual…
Wildflowering by Design
Wildflowering by Design is an exhibition that explores contemporary responses to our botanical and wildflower heritage, presenting works by Queensland artists from various art and design fields. Many women, both well-known and unsung, have highlighted the significance, functionality and beauty of Australian wildflowers. These include Traditional Custodians, illustrators who have documented…
Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)
Please join us for the opening celebration of ‘Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)’ Open times: 6:00-8:00pm Film screening and Q&A from 6:30pm Image: Alana Hunt, Surveilling a Crime Scene, 2023 image still (detail), Super 8mm film transferred to digital file: 21:58 minutes, colour, sound, 4:3. Courtesy of the…
Danish Quapoor: Tightly Wound
‘tightly wound’ features textile works from Danish Quapoor’s recent good grief series, recontextualising them amongst related works. The title references both the laborious process of creating the works and the related personal memories, anxieties and catalytic concepts explored within. These include grief, memorialisation, prophesies, expectations, gender roles and sexuality. The…
You Are Here Too
You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, which made history as Australia’s first exhibition featuring exclusively gay artists during…
Rosslynd Piggott: In ether
This April in galleries 1 and 2, we are presenting In ether, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and objects by Rosslynd Piggott. In the words of the artist, this latest body of work explores themes of ‘grief, terror, and hope, the present fractured nature of the world, but also its…
Reece George: Martu Faces ~ Stories of Shadow & Light
Wentworth Galleries is proud to present the evocative work of Reece George, whose art practice brings Martu cultural narratives to life through a masterful fusion of tradition and contemporary technique. His work celebrates connection and identity, with a profound sense of place, offering a unique perspective on Martu culture. Reece’s…
Pamela Wardell: Still
ArtSpace Teneriffe is pleased to present Pamela Wardell’s latest exhibition, Still, a collection of still-life paintings. Image: Egg shell blue (jug, 4 bottles, 1 bowl) 2023, oil on marine ply, 32.5 x 32.5 cm
A.J. Taylor: On Surface
A.J. Taylor’s latest body of work, On Surface, continues his exploration of the Queensland landscape. His paintings capture scenes from locations close to his home in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, such as Stony Creek and Mooloolah River National Park, as well as more distant sites, including Carnarvon Gorge, Lamington National…
Topographia: harmonies of place
In richly layered prints, Jo Lankester evokes the texture of Queensland’s north. A recent move onto the foreshore of Townsville’s North Ward, an established beachside suburb which overlooks the sea toward Magnetic Island, has ushered birds into the foreground of her imagery, along with the trees, undergrowth and lichens that…
Riley P: New Paintings
Recently completed paintings by Riley P completed during the time period of 2024 to 2025. Image: Doughnuts on a Rainy Night, Medium: Acrylic on board, 50cm by 40cm
Enduring Proof: 30 Years of Contemporary Printmaking in Focus
Printmaking is often thought of as a process of multiplication, yet within each edition lies something singular—a mark of artistic exploration, a moment of innovation, a lasting impression. Enduring Proof brings together a selection of printmaking works on paper created over the past 30 years, revisiting the ways artists have engaged…
Ingrid Burkett: Feathers and Fingerprints
One porcelain pinch-pot. One bird painting. Every day, for a year. In 2024, I embarked on a daily practice—part deep dive into artistic process, part meditation, part activism—that led to a flock of 365 Australian birds. I chose a simple yet profound form: the humble pinch-pot, an ancient ceramic practice…
James Drinkwater: Kick hard off the ocean floor
How many summers do we get? how many cats eyes will pierce our feet,? How many freckles will I have? how many wild yellow flowers will sweep and carpet the salt kissed grassy hills? The southerly winds will come regardless, rattling across the sea to cool and settle our worried…
Precious
Museum of Brisbane’s major new exhibition, Precious, brings together over 3,000 extraordinary objects from 30 remarkable collections and collectors. For the first time, these treasured items—often hidden away in suburban homes and institutions—are on public display, offering a rare glimpse into Brisbane’s diverse collecting culture. From Queensland Rugby League memorabilia…
Hollie: Some of those Spaces Tween Life and Death
I am old. My Mum and Dad are older. I am thinking about all the different kinds of spaces negotiated in a span of life and living. I like the way the fragility of paper, the transformation of recycled materials into new forms and the slightly ramshackle construction of these…
Sam Harrison: Fair Dinkies
Snowy River Toy Inc. is pleased to present its newest line of toy collectables in celebration of Australia’s rich cultural diversity! Fair Dinkies is a series of collectable Koalas ironically tasked with representing the vast cultural diversity within Australia. Simmering beneath the façade of playful innocence, along with promises of…
Danie Mellor: marru (the unseen visible)
Danie Mellor’s multidisciplinary art practice explores Australia’s shared history through the lens of his Ngadjon-jii, Mamu and Anglo-Celtic ancestry and ongoing connection to Country in the Atherton Tablelands and rainforests of far north Queensland. ‘marru | the unseen visible’ brings together works examining memory and remembrance; the relationship between First…
Group Exhibition
Jan Murphy Gallery presents a compelling group exhibition featuring a diverse selection of artists whose practices span painting, sculpture, ceramics, and photography. Each artist brings a distinct perspective, engaging with themes of culture, identity, memory, and materiality. ZAACHARIAHA FIELDING Born in Port Augusta (1991),Zaachariaha Fielding comes from a strong…
The Ancient PRESENT
The Ancient PRESENT brings together two remarkable Aboriginal artists, Tommy Yannimar Pikarli Watson (c1935-2017) and Joanne Currie Nalingu (b 1964), whose works highlight their unique journeys and shared connection to Aboriginal art. Watson, a senior elder from the desert heartlands of Central Australia, and Nalingu, who grew up beside the…
Monochrome
Mitchell Fine Art presents Monochrome, an exhibition showcasing a striking collection of Aboriginal and contemporary artworks that forgo colour in favour of a bold black and white narrative. Monochrome explores the interplay of contrast and harmony within these two shades, highlighting the depth and diversity of artistic expression. Each piece…
Caitlin Franzman: Recompose
recompose 2021 – onwards, is a tarot reading led by artist Caitlin Franzmann. By engaging with a deck of hand drawn divination cards, audiences are invited to attune to the understory of a forest, its leaf litter, humus, microbes, and symbiotic entanglements as analogies for personal and collective guidance. Learning from decay…
Harvest Biennial: Volatile Terrain
Volatile Terrain is an exhibition that explores the intersections and divergences of geography and geology, with consideration to a world in constant flux. The exhibition provides an opportunity to examine how humanity lives on Earth, as well as interacts, destructs and rehabilitates it. Featuring work by Bonita Ely, Cassandra Hodgins, Dylan…
Rachel North: Anthology of memory
Rachel North is an Ipswich based artist and educator, working across textiles and ceramics. Growing up and living in predominantly rural and regional areas, her connection to landscape is an inherent component of her artwork. This exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of connections between the landscape and memory and how…
15 Artists 2025
15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance City of Moreton Bay’s Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, Council invites 15 artists to take part in the exhibition. The winning artist is awarded $20,000 and their work is acquired into the City of Moreton Bay’s Art Collection. The…
Don’t get too comfortable
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Ipswich Art Gallery
Don’t get too comfortable escapes into a realm of imagination. There are recurring motifs: volcanoes, tents, rodeo bulls, zoos, wild animals, nature – cultured and wild, the topsy-turvy space of the picture plane. Despite its clear…
Tamara Dean: Leave only footprints
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Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
Emerging from the depths of nature, Tamara Dean’s practice examines the human condition. Leave only footprints is the first survey of the critically acclaimed photomedia artist and traverses more than 20 years of her photographic practice.…
Edwina McLennan: The Enigma Of The Day
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The Renshaws
Edwina McLennan’s work is positioned at the intersection of textiles, painting, consumerism, and digital culture. Originally trained in fashion design at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, McLennan deconstructs imagery of mass consumption, sourced largely from…
Yianni Maggacis
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Lethbridge Gallery
Yianni Maggacis creates a visual conflict between the familiar and the strange through his representation of the strangely familiar liminal space- that which we know and are comfortable with and that which is foreign and…
The unbroken spirit of the Kalkadoons
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State Library Queensland
The unbroken spirit of the Kalkadoons is a tribute to survival and the enduring power of culture to heal both the land and its people. Colleen Sam, Kalkadoon (Kalkadunga) woman and visual artist, and her mother,…
Robert Brownhall
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Philip Bacon Galleries
Robert Brownhall (b.1968, Brisbane) is a realist painter, inspired by his local environment of South-East Queensland. Over nearly thirty years of painting, Brownhall has developed a unique style characterised by a strong connection to place…
Arabella Walker: Gentle Shift
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Jan Manton Gallery
Arabella Walker is from the maternal line of Wulli Wulli the Auburn Hawkwood people and an emerging female contemporary Aboriginal artist; her practice conveys significant topics of First Nations histories with a focus on the…
Ella Senbruns & Martina Clarke: Syzygy
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Metro Arts
‘Syzygy’ presents the works of Queensland artists Martina Clarke and Ella Senbruns. Spanning across oil painting, mixed media drawing and ceramics, this exhibition investigates the qualities of stone and flesh as a recurring motif. Referencing…
These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature
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UQ Art Museum
Artists: Alicia Frankovich, Caitlin Franzmann, Norton Fredericks, John Gerrard, Simryn Gill, Gabriella Hirst, Angelica Mesiti, Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton, Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell), Alexandra Pirici, Susan Schuppli, Yasmin Smith, James…
Archie Moore: Comic Paintings
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Institute of Modern Art
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…
Platform 2025
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Institute of Modern Art
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…
Joe Furlonger: Horizons
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Redcliffe Art Gallery
One of Australia’s most respected landscape painters, Joe Furlonger came to prominence in the late 1980s with a series of large-scale figurative paintings. Employing a highly physical method, he applied swathes of colour with vigorous…
Boom: Skibidi Toilet
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Institute of Modern Art
Our screening room will host the first institutional display of Skibidi Toilet (2023–ongoing), the viral YouTube video series by Alexey Gerasimov, known as Boom, that has become a Gen Alpha cultural touchstone. Boom’s machinima series employs videogame…
Tensile Connections
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Onespace Gallery
Onespace invites you to the opening of Tensile Connections, an exhibition showcasing a dynamic collection of works on paper by Sonja Carmichael, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Niloufar Lovegrove (Pishva), and Elysha Rei. This exhibition explores the tensile qualities…
Bridie Gillman: Sight Lines
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
Sight Lines began with a stay on Bundjalung Country at Brays Creek in the Tweed Caldera, NSW, painting under the shelter of a horse stable as cloud and drizzle cycled through for days. This stay…
Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence
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Brisbane Institute of Art
Ceramic Arts Queensland (CAQ) is thrilled to unveil the finalists for the prestigious Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence. This highly anticipated exhibition is a premier showcase of contemporary Australian ceramics, highlighting innovation and artistic excellence.…
Deborah Eddy: The Venuses
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Hub Gallery
Deborah Eddy is exploring the Venus of Willendorf as a trope for the body type of older women. The original Venus of Willendorf is approximately 25,000 years old. Carved from limestone, she is a round…
Robert Andrew: New Eyes - Old Country
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Milani Gallery
This February in Galleries 1, 2, and 3 we are presenting new eyes – old Country by Robert Andrew. Four new works will be exhibited across the galleries including a major new kinetic video installation new eyes –…
Ultramarine Conversations: Recent Water Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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UQ Art Museum
As part of our multi-year research and programming arc Blue Assembly, please join us to hear from leading voices on current water research in the humanities, arts and social sciences. This event celebrates the launch of…
Panel Discussion: Brain Rot in the Gallery
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Institute of Modern Art
The Institute of Modern Art is hosting the first institutional display of the viral YouTube series Skibidi Toilet. The serialised animated narrative has prompted critical discussion about brain rot, algorithms, and digital cultures since becoming a Gen…
Amy-Jean Mitchell: There used to be a ship sailing
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Carpark Gallery
An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper, made in Barreiro (Portugal) and Meanjin. There used to be a ship sailing is a collection of compositions embedded with illusive landscapes, memories and imagined scenes.
Undergrowth 2025
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QCA: Grey Street, Project & Webb Galleries
Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced at a second-year undergraduate level at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. These artists…
Ross Woodrow: Order from Ruins
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PARKER Contemporary
Featuring classical fragments of columns and capitals pulled from large copper-plate etchings, Woodrow references the agency and impact of these long-established and architectural orders not to advocate for a return to rules or codes, but…
Harry Rothel: Corporeal
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
In his latest body of work, Rothel continues to explore fleeting moments of human experience. Paradoxically mundane and fantastical, the figures within each painting appear to be trapped within the worlds of Rothel’s creation. The…
Artists to Watch
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Lethbridge Gallery
Artists to Watch introduces four exciting new talents to our gallery. Showcasing landscapes, still lifes, and figurative works, these artists bring distinctive voices and remarkable potential, offering fresh perspectives across diverse styles. Featuring: Nick Offer,…
Judith Wright: Asemic Writing - A Space for Wonder
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Jan Manton Gallery
Judith Wright lives and works in Brisbane. She came to her work as an installation artist with a background in dance having performed with the Australian Ballet. Recipient of a fellowship from Arts Queensland in 1993…
Essays In Light
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Richard Randall Art Studio
Step into a world of monochrome mastery with Essays in Light, an exhibition featuring ten talented photographers from the Fine Monochrome Print Group. Each artist presents a thematic portfolio that explores diverse subjects, from architecture…
The Making Of: Ellie Buttrose
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Griffith University Lecture Theatre
Join for an evening of insight and exploration as we launch the 2025 ‘Making of’ series with Ellie Buttrose, one of Australia’s leading curators of visual art. This series invites celebrated arts professionals and artists…
Climate of Violence: Lamentum
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Outer Space
Climate of Violence: Lamentum is the latest exploration in sound and vision by Arianna Nixon & Amy Sargeant. The dust has barely settled. A sacred tether becomes strained and defiled. Screams become whispers in the…
Michael Cook: Individuation
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Jan Murphy Gallery
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘Individuation’ the new exhibition by Michael Cook. Michael Cook’s images have, for over ten years, considered Australian history and its intersection with his own biography, tracing the culture…
MONO 52: Senyawa and Fabio Perletta
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Institute of Modern Art
Using bespoke instruments and experimental vocals to push at the nexus of improvisation and composition, Indonesia’s Senyawa (Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi) create a unique sound world. Their work is visceral and physical, and incorporates elements of…
Artist Talk: Danie Mellor
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Queensland Art Gallery
Join artist Danie Mellor for a talk on the opening day of his exhibition, marru | the unseen visible which brings together works examining memory and remembrance; the relationship between First Nations people, culture and Country, and…
Napurrula
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Mitchell Fine Art
A new exhibition, Napurrula, opens at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley on 18th February, with a special focus on celebrating International Women’s Day. Curated by Director Mike Mitchell, the exhibition brings together a powerful…
Karl Shoobridge: Etymologies
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ArtSpace Teneriffe
Etymology: the origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning A series of paintings using the metaphor of histories, evolutions and meanings. Words are spoken and sometimes written. These painted forms consist…
TEXTILE
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Side Gallery
Artists: Kitty Horton, Claudia Mazzotta, Kymberley McElroy & Marisa Culpo. Join us for an exciting and dynamic group exhibition featuring the textile-based works of artists Kitty Horton, Claudia Mazzotta, Kymberley McElroy, and Marisa Culpo. This…
Chris Neild: Taking A Line For A Walk
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Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Chris Neild’s latest exhibition, Taking a Line for a Walk, marks a striking evolution in his artistic journey. Once rooted in landscapes, Neild’s work has become increasingly abstract, culminating in a series of free-flowing geometric…