‘Living Patterns’ celebrates an expansive definition of abstraction in Australian art. It highlights how artists have engaged with scientific ideas around perception and emotive reactions to colour, shape and form. Many works convey how motifs and symbols from all manner of artistic lineages – recent and ancient – can be…

The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. Finalists of the Brisbane Portrait Prize 2023 have been revealed, with 84 works selected from more than 600…

(un)grounded: as if I was releasing something is a solo exhibition by Sharna Barker that explores the boundaries of contemporary self-portraiture. Her paintings and sculptures—as somatic (re)constructions of self—foreground disintegration, unpredictability, and failure, as ‘self’ appears and disappears interchangeably. Sharna underscores material and formal precarity to propose alternative modes of…

An organic materialisation, with its genesis in human and more-than-human collectivism. In an uncanny partnership suspended by the voices of many, fungi and humans will share in the procreation of a new symbiotic body. Tender beginnings will eternally link these intimate organisms to the human sphere of Outer Space. Intimate…

Sam Cranstoun: You Are Neither Here Nor There brings together four projects made during the first decade of Queensland artist Sam Cranstoun’s research-driven practice. The subject matter reflects the artist’s interest in lesser-known aspects of significant twentieth-century figures and events. Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, the Memphis motel where Martin…

Peter Boggs (b. 1949, New Zealand) is one of the leading contemporary painters in Australia, with a career spanning nearly 40 years and 50 solo exhibitions. The award-winning painter is at home painting the mysteries of Italian Renaissance Gardens – most notably the Boboli Gardens in Florence, as he is…

ONE.5C is an exhibition by Yanni Van Zijl that explores humans’ relationships with their actions and the consequences that follow. Van Zijl takes an environmentalist approach, citing concerns of fire, flood, drought and climate change as driving forces of their practice. These concerns inform material decisions with the artist stating: “sadly…

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present DISSEVER by Miles Hall, our latest online exhibition showing from 13 September. Hall’s paper works capture the process of combining graphite pigment with an oil binder to create gestural qualities and forms. Each piece has been torn into two seperate pieces and is then recombined on the…

Woven forms are ubiquitous in the fabric of everyday life. They offer protection, privacy, means of self-expression, storage, and homogenisation. Yet, despite the ubiquity of woven forms, weaving is often unnoticed. It is merely the technical process that produces our clothing, upholstery, curtains, canvases and kitchen sieves.   The event of…

Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present Hidden mothers and ghost flowers by Amber Wallis, her first exhibition with the gallery. Working at a large scale onto both primed and raw linen, layering colour loosely and quickly, the paintings take on an intentionally diffuse and mysterious quality. “My painting practice…

Exploring how we arrived at this point – from the archaic to a language of compressed space – Bruce Reynolds’ work invites consideration of the ancient and the ‘now’. Bruce Reynolds’ work grew from collage to relief and sculpture over a number of decades. Recent residencies in Rome focused both…

Daniel Boyd is known for his multidisciplinary practice that resituates colonial history within an infinitely expansive universe. In his paintings, videos, and installations, he employs dots as a visual and conceptual tool to explore themes of identity, memory, perception, and history. Reiterated endlessly to form expansive constellations, each dot—or lens—offers a…

Celebrate 100 years of Australia’s most renowned portrait prize In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrated the 100th birthday of Australia’s oldest and most-loved portrait award, the Archibald Prize. The landmark exhibition explores the rich history of the Archibald Prize, unearthing captivating stories in the selection of…

An exhibition of Aboriginal paintings that draw inspiration from seasonal changes and showcase artworks highlighting luminosity and vibrancy is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from September 14th. Bold splashes of vibrant colour feature strongly in this collection of artworks with the overriding theme emphasizing the glowing quality…

Spectra celebrates the diversity of furniture design styles in Southeast Queensland. From established craftsmen to emerging talents, this showcase highlights the diverse range of styles, materials, and artistic expressions that define Queensland’s furniture design industry. Designers: Fearon Brothers | Mast Furniture | CJ Anderson | Studio Flek | Ross Annels | Isaac…

The exhibition Portals includes new light, video and experimental painting works by Michelle Xen. The exhibition features an abstract fluorescent series called Portals, extending the multidisciplinary and embodied gestures in Xen’s video, performance and painting works. Created using fluorescent pigment on 100% cotton rag, the artworks have ultraviolet properties referencing…

Please join the opening of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Phone by Seren Wagstaff, Emma Gow, Joseph Botica   A mass collusion to instill minor confusion at the intersection of delusion and intrusion. A sweaty scroll through personal space, roadside dining outside the footpath permit, perched on…

This September Milani Gallery will be presenting an exhibition of works by Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman and Haus Yuriyal. Haus Yuriyal consists of thirty-plus members formed in 2015 after the construction of a round house in the Waghi Valley, Jiwaka Province with members primarily from the extended Yuri tribe of the…

Yuiko uses her art to find a way out of the haze of situations she wasn’t sure about at the time and transforms them into fun and carefree moments, ready for the world to share and enjoy. Buttons Ink is Yuiko’s way of connecting with others and together making sense…

Exchange is a living process of transformation, like conversations that span across generations. To share and ignite the spirit kept alive between ancient and living relations. Our hearts beat the songs of thousand plus generations, guided in haptic practice,and embedded and encoded in our exchanges. Jody Rallah explores the Undercurrents…

My still life paintings explore the perception of light through objects in space. The interplay of light travelling through objects both translucent and opaque creates unique patterns of shadows and reflections, which play an integral part in each of my compositions. The shadows are the essence of the objects themselves…

In recent decades there has been increasing awareness and alarm about the consequences of human actions on our collective future. Human-caused extinctions, sea-level rise and habitat fragmentation threatens countless species and critical ecosystems that support all human societies. The scale of these transformations has led some to refer to this…

Onespace is proud to present Ross Booker’s latest exhibition, Hydrosphere, which marks a significant turning point in the ‘artist’s gaze’ due to recent significant changes with his eyesight. Once reliant upon personal observation of the landscape and close attention to research photography and memory, recent retina detachments and corrective surgery have…

Engage, contemplate and discover an expansive interconnected future with Patterns for Future Living, a dynamic DIY exhibition that stirs collective action for environmental and ecological justice. Inspired by the works of modernist artist Sonia Delaunay Terk, this space fosters mediation and care through an immersive installation of rhythmic colour, pattern…

Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) is delighted to present the King & Wood Mallesons First Nations Art Award from 14 September to 14 October 2023. The King & Wood Mallesons First Nations Art Award is a biennial competition that supports, showcases, and celebrates the highest standard of Aboriginal and Torres…

‘I can spin skies’ spans historical and contemporary textiles and art influenced by textile practices from across Asia. The exhibition takes its title from fifteenth century Persian poet Rumi’s reflection on the humble silkworm’s ability to spin the thread that makes one of the most prized fabrics in the world.…

We are pleased to announce a new exhibition by Brisbane artist Paul Bai, who has shown his work regularly at the Pestorius Sweeney House now for over 20 years, most recently in 2020. Bai’s latest exhibition features only four works. Selected from the artist’s studio by former Institute of Modern…

The outlook for the future can seem bleak, the doomsday clock is currently set at 90 seconds to midnight and there does not seem to be a solution on the table. With this depressing forecast how do we find hope? In Get Me Out!, artists share ways of escape from our…

No thrills is a solo exhibition of recent works by Redcliffe-based painter, Jamie Congdon. Through his work, Congdon provides an intimate portrait of his life. His pieces focus on the locations and scenes from his everyday experiences. Journey into Congdon’s living room, taxi cab, and the neighbourhood streets tucked away from…

Aboriginal people are the unsung heroes of the pastoral industry. Their labour, knowledge and know-how made its early success possible. Join a guided tour of Working Country: Aboriginal stockmen and stockwomen. Take a walk through kuril dhagun and explore State Library’s collection; stories of Aboriginal stockmen and stockwomen, the role of Aboriginal trade routes…

A series of experimental video works exploring how language connects us across oceans, rivers, lands, imposed borders, and time. Now You’re Speakin’ My Language is a new digital commissioning partnership between the Institute of Modern Art and NOWNESS ASIA. It presents five new films by artists that consider memory, language, and place through their…

A celebration of contemporary ceramics and their imaginative makers. From ancient vessels to figurines revealing the daily lives of people from antiquity, ceramics have been integral to cultures worldwide for millennia. Ceramics have stored our most precious resources, have been vehicles for knowledge and traditions, and passed between generations as…

Mare Amoris | Sea of Love gathers creative and intellectual practices that dissolve the colonial boundaries of oceans and their connected waters. Artists and their kin give language, voice, and form to these watery spaces, passed down through matrilineal storytelling, bodily memory, and land-based knowledge systems. Through artworks that confront…

The Good is a major new solo exhibition by artist Anna Louise Richardson whose practice is centred around rural life, embedded in the experience and drama of everyday reality. Working primarily in large scale drawing, Richardson’s work renders realistic scenes that speak strongly to her experience of rural life as a…

Known for his extraordinary technical prowess, Michael Zavros has captivated audiences with his sumptuous realist renderings and surreal juxtapositions. Frequently engrossed in notions of quality and luxury, fashion and appearance, Zavros’s idealised imagery has developed alongside Australia’s pronounced turn to conspicuous consumption and aspirational individualism. ‘The Favourite’ will profile significant…

Through a powerful assemblage of objects entwined around notions of the body or adornment, this exhibition delves into the textile practice of Troy-Anthony Baylis. The artist traverses disparate sources, from high to low brow and the ground in between – spanning literature, pop music, op shops and haute couture – to…