Via a direct approach to mark making and a refined choice of materials, Hall’s recent paintings celebrate line, colour and surface, and in doing so question our tactile relationship to the painted image. Visual tensions between chaos/order, organic/geometric, sumptuousness/raw, sight/touch, colour/black & white are exploited by the artist to generate…

A mesmerising display of photography spanning 1890 to 2024. With the power to freeze and preserve time, photography has captured imaginations for centuries. This August, step into New Light: Photography Now + Then, an exhibition where past and present converge in a mesmerising display of photography spanning 1890 to 2024. Immerse…

Kitchen Studio is a place where sculpture, food and ideas are interchangeable and digestible. The rules of hospitality will be broken, and nourishment redefined. During the day, Kitchen Studio opens its doors to those who are curious to explore the sculptural dining room. And when the sun sets, the exhibition plays host to…

‘My work is grounded in the beauty and meaning that can be found in the everyday, in the mundane and the utilitarian, and in the unremarkable corners of home. It is an exploration of household objects and familiar surroundings and of the humour and significance of ordinary things. I am interested…

Florescence, shapes that form and the compositions that bloom. Always leaning into curiosity and finding my way as I go, I follow what surprises and excites me. Layers of colour & texture; droplets, flowers, stems, bulbs and blocks. ‘Murphy’s paintings aren’t formed by sketches or miniatures, there’s no guidelines. They…

Join us for an evening with Artistic Director of the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Hoor Al Qasimi. Accompanied by artist Richard Bell and GUAM Director Angela Goddard, Al Qasimi will introduce her curatorial practice and discuss the themes and frameworks for the 25th Biennale of Sydney, scheduled to open in 2026.…

Creative constraint has made Matmos one of the most consistently exciting acts in electronic music. Since the mid-1990s, the American duo of M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel have created playful, conceptual productions that straddle the line between musique concrète electroacoustics and dance music. On releases for labels including Thrill Jockey, Smithsonian Folkways, and…

Robert Bresson (1901–1999) is one of the monumental figures of French cinema. Over an iconoclastic career spanning six decades, he embraced poetic asceticism in his pursuit of a new kind of truth in filmmaking. This program presents a rare comprehensive retrospective of Bresson’s films, from his early comedy short Public Affairs 1934…

This June we are opening a selected survey of Gordon Bennett’s work. Divided Unity tracks the development of Bennett’s exploration of self and other through various periods of his practice from 1991 – 2012. It is presented on the tenth anniversary of his passing to commemorate his life and work.…

Sunshine Coast based artist Peter Hudson presents a body of en-plein air paintings in his new exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from July 23. Peter Hudson is a landscape and portrait painter, and accomplished musician who draws largely on contemporary Australian history for inspiration in his practice.…

Inter-Vene: Re-En-Vision is an anarchival assemblage and installation by current Queensland Art and Design student Paula Condon. Everyday objects and materials are recontextualised and embedded within the architecture of the site, fracturing and reframing the space. Informed by a critique of archival logics, these material explorations seek to reveal and inform…

The term ‘as above, so below’ has its origins in an ancient, cryptic text known as the Emerald Tablet. Drawn from a Latin interpretation and adopted by a number of different belief systems, the phrase is commonly used to describe the idea that the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm and vice…

“Standing in a foreign desert under a vast night sky, the stars seem foreign too. When the moon rises, it is upside down. Why does consciousness insist on the consistency of being? Astronomers tell us the earth and the moon and the sun are all spinning through space at incredible…

Fred Williams (1927–1982) was a painter and printmaker whose distinctive vision of the Australian landscape fundamentally altered the way the Australian continent is viewed and depicted. One of Australia’s most eminent and influential landscape artists, Williams’ work can be seen as a modernist reinterpretation of the Heidelberg tradition, representing the…

Pears have always seemed like an interesting form to paint & I particularly enjoy the colours of yellow to red. From Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh & Baldessin we see the importance of pears in their work. Through the love of repetition & a nod to what has come before, I…

Fashion, art, design, science and technology collide in the world of endlessly innovative and internationally acclaimed Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Exclusive to Brisbane, this exhibition is an immersive sensory exploration of her practice with close to 100 garments in conversation with contemporary artworks, natural history specimens and cultural…

Bringing together works from the UQ Collection and beyond, this exhibition is attentive to the agency of materials and to the vibrancy of matter. The artists included in Vibrant Matter have co-produced their work with material components of drawing, sculpture, and sound art. Welcoming the active participation of these more-than-human materials and…

An exhibition of paintings where the canvas becomes a mirror to the artists innermost feelings is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane from 2nd July 2024. Min Woo Bang’s paintings are both ethereal and mesmerising, where his primary subject matter is the allure of our natural surroundings and the…

Experience a journey of queer desire with the garden of forking paths, an immersive experience merging art, technology and nature. Explore the overlap of historical cruising grounds and city reserves in a slow cinematic descent from satellite imagery to a digitally rendered treetop in a virtual night. Multi-channel soundscapes entice and provoke…

The World Press Photo Foundation is a global platform connecting photojournalists, documentary photographers and our worldwide audiences through trustworthy storytelling. World Press Photo was founded in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized a contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to an international audience. Since then, the…

The Machinery St Gallery space will show evolving exhibit outcomes from a series of workshops conducted for the ISEA2024, disability and artisan communities – these outcomes promise to generate a fascinating installation at the intersection of art and science that explores concepts around disability identity.   Image: Habitation, 2021, Helen Pynor. Unglazed…

The Moreton Bay Art Prize brings together artists from the region through an annual exhibition and prize that supports and celebrates diverse artistic practice in the City of Moreton Bay. Shortlisted Artists Joanne Braddy, Aaron Butt, Kirsten Button, Glenys Cadman, Lisa Christensen, Jamie Congdon, Bill Cotching, Leanne Margaret Day, DELTAVENUS,…

Erik Johansson, based in Prague, Czech Republic, is celebrated for his surreal style, blending hundreds of photographic elements to create seemingly realistic yet impossible scenes. His work challenges the boundaries between reality and fiction, offering a unique and captivating experience.Growing up in the Swedish countryside has deeply influenced Johansson’s visual style, with…

A design exhibition that unravels the intricate relationship between language and its profound influence on cultural and social dimensions through objects and space. Using the three Greek concepts relating to words – ‘Logos,’ the uttered word; ‘Graphe,’ the written or codified word; and ‘Rhema,’ the revelatory word, the designers and…

Join us for a night of story and insight for the second guest in our ‘Making of’ series; prolific artist Tony Albert ⁠ In this session, Tony will share insights about his early career explorations, and walk us through the opportunities and decisions significant in his artistic journey that has…

The first major solo exhibition by one of Australia’s most innovative and unflinching photomedia artists Through her photographs and moving image works, Iranian-born, Melbourne-based Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image-making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her work can be seen as a form of activism as much as an…

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual Primavera: Young Australian Artists exhibition showcases the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. In its 32nd year, Primavera has been guest curated by Talia Smith, who considers what artists are creating to challenge society’s prescribed structures. Through works of various media, including installation, video,…

Jason Phu’s brand-new installation is a reimagining of his 2022 artwork everyone is dead, except for me. everything is futile, and i am tired. i wait in my little house, for the winter to take me.  Originally commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne as part of the…

Dusk of Nations features selected works by leading Australian-based artists drawn primarily from the UQ Collection. Spanning painting, photography, sculptural objects and moving image, artists explore ideas of national identity and nationhood, and how these concepts are defended and maintained, resisted and subverted. Critical hinges of ‘Australian’ national mythology, including the…

My most recent google searches: “cyclops” “disc they send into space” “mini dv sp vs lp” “average length of a song” “earlobe reconstruction” “reggae 4/4 time signature” “big day out” “sydney to manila”   David Griggs has an alien tattoo on his left hand but denies visitation. I am skeptical…

Artists: Alicia Allan,  Ash and Kirralee Robinson, Anita Wano-Sumner, Aurora Elwell, Bunda Art, EB Jewellery, Julya Hegarty, Rick Hayward. Celebrating Queensland’s rising craft & design practitioners.   artisan is thrilled to present the 2024 edition of our long-standing Unleashed exhibition, shining a spotlight on the next generation of Queensland’s most promising craft and design…

Panopticon is a series of digitally animated GIFs, displayed on large LCD screens, partially concealed by prison-cell window frames. Dustin Voggenreiter’s work explores the idea of our limited capacity to understand the world around us. As creatures born with perceptions geared towards survival, we grasp at making sense of the complex, chaotic…

In the art world, there’s a new emphasis on care, with a focus on gentle attentiveness and good works, and a fear of triggering hurt. In curatorial practice—and in culture more broadly—‘care’ has become a buzzword, and is being used to reset policy and practice. However, too often, the complexity…

Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm invites visitors into the spectral spaces where AI, health data, and artistic and scientific research converge, interrogating the porous boundaries where data ownership and algorithmic agency bleed into the realities of healthcare and wellness industries. This immersive, multi-sensory installation is born from six months of…

As Seen on TV is an exhibition that looks at 30 years of digital art tools and how advanced they’ve become, and easier than ever to use. It’s called As Seen on TV because it all started with working on a Sega Mega Drive, a console from 1988, and a…

A sculptural exhibition of light, optics and found objects, where materiality meets daydream. Based in Ipswich, Kirralee makes sculptures that engage with elemental phenomena such as light, optics, kinetics, and tactility. Kirralee is influenced by science fiction, ecofeminist theory and material conservation, Kirralee works intrinsically and explicitly exploring concepts and…