After a year creating work at the Norman Park Substation… the Pathfinders provide reflections on their Metro Arts’ journey. Artists: Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing and James Barth At the close of their residency, MAVA Pathfinder Artists, Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing and James Barth share developments and learnings from their time…

James Barth’s self-portraits use avatars as a means to explore their transgendered identity and representation. Through painting and 3d modelling, Barth’s works combines photography, painting, science fiction, cinematic language, and poetic gestures. Barth’s recent solo and dual exhibitions include:The Placeholder Milani Gallery (2021), ZONWEE: the last known recording of a daydream in collaboration…

Philip Wolfhagen (b.1963, Launceston) is a leading Australian contemporary landscape painter who lives and works in Longford, Tasmania. He is inspired by the atmospheric landscape of northern Tasmania and the emotive qualities of light and weather. Wolfhagen’s paintings are unique in his use of beeswax mixed with oils. His work…

noun: sunk-cost fallacy the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial. Keemon Williams (b.1999) is a queer Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist of Koa, Kuku Yalanji and Meriam…

“…infinite, expansive… like tides pulled by the moon, uncommon energies – the intertwining of creativity and transcendence.” A wonderfully evocative quote from Jennifer Higgie’s latest book ‘The Other Side’, referencing ‘Oceanic States’, a term used by Freud to describe the mystical experiences of the preverbal stage of development. It is…

Hoda Afshar was born in Tehran, Iran (1983), and is now based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a Bachelor degree in Fine Art– Photography in Tehran, and her PhD thesis in Creative Arts at Curtin University. Hoda began her career as a documentary photographer in Iran in 2005, and since…

Kristen Lethem’s artwork focuses on landscape and the exploration of patterns within the environment formed as a result of the interplay between topography, vegetation and by extension – shadow and light.  Through the use of a restricted palette, these light and shadow patterns appear script like, coalescing into Lethem’s personal,…

Entries are now open for the 2023 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. Held every two years, this prestigious acquisitive cash pirze attracts some of Australia’s most accomplished artists, awarding a generous cash prize of $50,000. The Prize provides Bendigo Art Gallery with the opportunity to survey contemporary painting by established and emerging…

Onespace is excited to present Any way, shape or form, a vibrant exhibition of new sculptures by Renee Kire. Renee Kire is an early career artist who primarily uses installation and sculpture to revise the Minimalist agenda from a feminist perspective. Kire has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (Queensland…

Living between Sydney and South West France for family reasons affords Adrienne Gaha the benefit of avoiding a full winter in either location. “I never have a whole summer, either, but I do have two whole autumns, one here and one in Quercy,” Gaha says of the rural area situated…

A rare opportunity to hear from renowned Australian contemporary artist Luke Roberts; the artist behind Her Divine Holiness Pope Alice/Santa Alicia. In conversation with curator Nicholas Tsoutas, Luke will share intimate details of the spectacle and grandeur of HDH Pope Alice. What is it that creates such an awe-struck audience,…

Ipswich artist Matthew Cheyne is fascinated by space and time. In his latest exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane, Cheyne creates an otherworldly park to delve into our relationship with public space and its hidden power structures and absurdities. Following on from his first sellout solo exhibition Matthew Cheyne…

Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘The Argument of the Eye’ by A.J. Taylor. In ‘The Argument of the Eye’, A.J. Taylor presents landscapes from recent travels around Queensland, including Carnarvon Gorge and the Daintree Rainforest as well as his homebased Sunshine Coast hinterland. “The works are closely observed…

Now in its 36th year, ‘the churchie’ has become one of Australia’s leading prizes for emerging artists, offering a $25,000 prize pool to support artists at a critical moment in their careers. The finalists’ exhibition will take place at the Institute of Modern Art from 20 May to 19 August 2023, featuring compelling…

Searching through an ocean of tidal waves for you is an exhibition that honours the artist’s ongoing desire to connect with South Sea Island culture and to create a sense of connection to her ancestral heritage. Shari’s work is informed by deeply reflecting on childhood memories and delving into the…

Join us on the opening night of the Moreton Bay Region Art Prize 2023 at the Pine Rivers Art Gallery as we come together to congratulate this year’s shortlisted artists. We’ll be bringing the fun as we celebrate the creativity and talent of Moreton Bay’s artists with music, drinks, snacks…

Marking Chantal Fraser’s first solo exhibition in an Australian public institution, The Ascended brings together new works across photography, video performance and sculpture that represent the culmination of recent research into capitalism and violence in Australia, and reflections on living as a Samoan-Australian artist in Queensland. Featuring a new five-channel…

Vivienne Binns is an important figure in the history of Australian visual art. Binns rose to prominence in the 1960s with her psychedelic depictions of sexual imagery, which anticipated the feminist art movement. Since that time, she has continued to shape some of the most significant developments in Australian visual…

Ariki Vaine (Chiefess Woman) is a two-part video series reflecting the story and importance of Mother Earth through Cook Island dance, while exploring the importance of cultural lineage and connection to her ancestors. “Women in my family have been vital role models in my upbringing, and Ariki Vaine displays a…

In a world where filters are omnipresent, Jacinta Giles’ exhibition Filter asks us to reflect on the ways in which we interact with and interpret the visual world around us. In using coloured filters— both physically within the work and as the conceptual theme behind the series— Giles also explores the filtering…

Perennials features a series of mixed media works depicting sculptures and artefacts evoking associations with his Australian-Thai heritage. By thrusting these ancient fragments into the present moment, the artist seeks to agitate the colonial context in which they were found by filtering them through a nuanced, personal perspective which is interested in…

Susie Choi is a Sydney-based contemporary artist who works across ceramics, sculpture and installation and is guided by ideas that confound and amuse her. The sources of inspiration for her work stem mainly from childhood including toys and playgrounds, the material culture of South Korea, and elements of Australian popular…

For the 2023 Brisbane Art and Design (BAD) Festival, FireWorks Gallery is staging Halfway House. This mixed media exhibition poses questions about what a halfway house might mean through the work of 16 Brisbane-based artists. As an intersectional place that has become home for so many travellers, Brisbane’s rich cultural…

The intimacy and theatre of family life and everyday events are at the core of James Drinkwater’s art practice. Inspiration might be found in the coastal life he shares with his partner and children in his hometown of Newcastle, or in something as obscure as the architecture of his son’s…

Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present Cut through the circle with Sydney-based artist Drew Connor Holland.    Underpinning Holland’s work is an interest in how we catalogue memories: in digital archives, in junk drawers, in our heads. Using screenshots as the starting point, Holland corrodes each image with analogue reproduction…

Material Culture in a Material World is a temple-like conglomerate of recent workings of three Brisbane-based artists; Miguel Aquilizan, Jordan Azcune, and Jessica Dorizac. Their practices are deeply rooted in the act of creation as research, and they rely on fundamental principles of artistic production. Approaching the gallery as a…

Contemporary society has become increasingly attuned to the self-image through social media’s ‘selfie’ culture and reality TV, providing a fascinating backdrop in which to examine the self-portrait today. ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ explores the genre of the self-portrait, a distinct form of portraiture in which subject and artist are one.…

Unbecoming is Lincoln Austin’s first solo exhibition with Jan Murphy Gallery. Lincoln Austin’s sculptural works play across materials and scale, from intricate assemblages to expansive installations. Their artworks invite the viewer to engage and experience shifting fields of colour, movement and form. The works in Unbecoming span a variety of…

Precision: The Art of Cutting engages with the process of paper cutting as a medium, to transcend the folk tradition and aesthetically shift the practice into the realm of contemporary art. At a time when climate change and the environment are central, this approach to a traditional, recyclable and renewable art…

Anywhere Festival is a globally unique and local cultural experience where locals and visitors alike discover shows in nooks and crannies anywhere but a theatre: where local businesses and homes host performances so artists can creative incredible work without all the financial burdens that are often placed on them when…

You’ll Know It When You Feel It is a socially engaged art project that seeks to resist bureaucratic representations of women whose lives intersect with the prison industrial complex. Co-created by Raphaela Rosella with several women in her life, this intimate archival project has emerged over fifteen years. From phone calls to photographs, the exhibition unveils the ineptitude…

Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT is an exhibition from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). This exhibition shares highlights from the long-running Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) series and features art commissioned or collected from APT1 (1993) to APT10 (2021-22). Including works by:…

  Since their childhood years in Bundaberg, brothers Tim and Mic Gruchy have been insatiably curious about emergent innovations in image and sound technology. They have now worked in this field both collaboratively and individually for four decades, exploring the use of moving image, sound and the body not only…

  The Australian landscape can instill fear and inspire awe – it is an ecosystem that is entirely its own. The picture of Australia evoked by Dorothea Mackellar’s prose in ‘My Country’ still rings true more than 100 years later. She is a land that is beautiful and terrifying, she…

A Matter of Looking: 20th century works from the QUT Art Collection. This exhibition introduces audiences to rarely seen paintings, prints and drawings by female artists across the broad spectrum of the 20th century held in the QUT Art Collection. We often forget that art is fundamentally about not only…

Things I want to say brings together artists from across the country whose practices negotiate identity in contemporary Australia. Focusing on artists with a connection to Queensland, the exhibition will encourage conversation around navigating one’s sense of self within the pressures of broader society. Curated by Imogen Dixon-Smith and Rachel Arndt. Artists:…