Works on Paper
Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley proudly presents ‘Works on Paper,’ a captivating group exhibition showcasing Aboriginal and Contemporary artworks, all unified by paper as their primary medium. The exhibition brings together an exceptional group of artists who push the boundaries of traditional paper-based art, incorporating mixed media, texture,…
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…
Prita Tina Yeganeh: The Sacred Shared Labour
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Onespace Gallery
Onespace is delighted to present The Sacred Shared Labour, the second iteration of Prita Tina Yeganeh’s ongoing series My Soil Farsh فرش. This iteration explores collective labour as a vessel for activating community kinship. In a deeply symbolic and…
Peter Anderson
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Philip Bacon Galleries
Peter Anderson (b.1956, Brisbane) is a mid-career Australian painter, who lives and works in his home town of Brisbane. Anderson completed a Diploma of Fine Art (Painting) at the College of Art, Brisbane between 1974-76,…
Benjamin Werner: TOTEMS
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Allspace
TOTEMS is Benjamin Werner’s latest series of text-based works, humorously critiquing his experiences in the art world. As Director of All City Arts, Werner brings a nuanced perspective on both local and international art circles.In…
OUT OF OFFICE
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Waiting Room Gallery
An after-hours group exhibition showcasing 45 high-calibre hybrid creatives. Opening event: Friday Novemeber 22, 6pm – late
Artist in Residence: Dylan Bolger
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Museum of Brisbane
Dylan Bolger is a proud Maiawali, Karuwali, Pitta-Pitta and Gomeroi artist. Bold in his experimentation, he works across a variety of mediums and techniques. Most of his works are hand-drawn and exceptionally detailed, reflecting his…
Carla Adams: Quite Gently
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Aster + Asha Gallery (Online)
Quite Gently is a series of mixed media works featuring colourful rhinestones, as well as small watercolour paintings and unique silver charms. Carla Adams lives and works in Perth, graduating with first-class honours from Curtin University in 2014. She…
Carolyn V Watson: to have and to hold
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Side Gallery
In this exhibition, Carolyn V. Watson delves into the complex interplay between risk and opportunity through a meticulously curated series of tactile forms and objects. Moving beyond traditional visual appreciation, Watson’s work now invites physical…
Exhibition Opening: 52 ACTIONS
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Redcliffe Art Gallery
Join us to celebrate the opening of the our exhibition, 52 Actions from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM on Saturday, 30 November. Artspace’s acclaimed 52 ACTIONS continues its national tour at Redcliffe Art Gallery, featuring works…
Suburban Sublime: Australian Photography
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Queensland Art Gallery
‘Suburban Sublime’ explores how artists have used photography to interpret the Australian suburbs. The exhibition brings together works that pause to reflect on everyday settings, places, and people, imbuing them with aesthetic, historical, and emotional…
Dylan Sarra: Embers of Heritage
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Mitchell Fine Art
Dylan Sarra was born in the Bundaberg region and belongs to the Gooreng Goreng people. In his first exhibition Sarra invites viewers to explore the deep connection between fire and First Nations culture, as experienced…
the churchie emerging art prize 2024
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Metro Arts
From a pool of over 500 entrants, 16 emerging artists have been selected to exhibit as finalists and be considered for prizes totalling over $40,000 in the country’s most diverse art prize for emerging contemporary…
Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema: Tsai Ming-liang
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Gallery of Modern Art
A near-complete career survey of the celebrated Taiwan-based Malaysian filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang, this program brings together his feature films, rare early telefilms, innovative video work and non-fiction and short films, along with his acclaimed ‘Walker’…
Ben Quilty: 20 years
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Jan Murphy Gallery
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present, 20 Years,by Ben Quilty. This unique collection of artworks spans two decades of Ben Quilty’s practice and commemorates his 20th year with Jan Murphy Gallery. This period is witness…
Brian Robinson: Blooms, Beasts and Beyond
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Onespace Gallery
For Blooms, Beasts and Beyond, Brian Robinson envelopes us in the early times, ‘in the beginning’, when the spirits and deities created the Islander world. A time where deities like Sida, Gelam, and Waiet created…
Myall Creek and Beyond
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Logan Art Gallery
Myall Creek and beyond, produced in partnership with the Friends of Myall Creek Memorial, is an exhibition of newly commissioned works by a group of leading contemporary indigenous artists. The artists worked with local communities…
Karla Marchesi: Slow Growth
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Jan Manton Gallery
Karla Marchesi has Bachelor of Fine Art (2004) and Honours in Fine Art (2007) degrees from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, where she received the University Medal for academic excellence and the Honours Thesis…
Clementine Belle McIntosh: What’s the Haps?
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Wreckers Artspace
The exhibition “What’s the Haps?” follows the happenings of artist Clementine Belle McIntosh’s hometown Gilgandra NSW – the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples. McIntosh investigates the ways in which her…
QCAD: Masters and Honours
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Queensland College of Art
We invite you to join us in celebrating the outstanding work of our Honours and Master’s graduates as they present their final projects. This is an opportunity to witness the future of contemporary art practices…
Dan Kyle: Aurora Meander
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
It is from my studio on Darug land, on the fringe of the Wollemi National Park that I can witness a landscape constantly in flux, studying the constant changes in light, temperature and atmosphere. From…
Juz Kitson: Shadows make the light shine brighter
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Jan Murphy Gallery
Juz Kitson lures her audience into an opulent garden and casts them out renewed: an encounter with her sublime installations provokes deeply affective responses, suggesting a form of contemporary shamanism at play within the gallery.…
Swapnil Nevgi: Untamed Elegance
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Land Street Gallery
Untamed Elegance by Swapnil Nevgi is a fantastical exploration of natures beauty in hyper-real detail. Swapnil Nevgi is a self-taught artist who found solace and inspiration in the whispers of nature. Born in the vibrant…
James Barth: The Clumped Spirit
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Institute of Modern Art
James Barth’s practice explores the themes of trans self-representation and embodiment. Trained as an oil painter, her work extends beyond the traditional through a layered creative process. Using 3D modelling software, Barth first creates stages,…
IAG 25 GALA
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The Ipswich Arts Foundation warmly invites you to celebrate 25 years of creativity, culture, and community at the Ipswich Art Gallery. The Ipswich Art Gallery’s 25th Birthday Gala promises an unforgettable night filled with art,…
Annique Goldenberg: Living Water
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Grey Street Gallery & White Box
This body of work is the culmination of Annique Goldenberg’s Doctor of Visual Art (Research) exploring the nature of our relationship with Living Water in a time of climate crisis. A deliberate and slow study…
Xmas Show 2024
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Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Celebrate the festive season with Xmas Show 2024, a vibrant exhibition featuring works by 27 talented artists. From painting and sculpture to prints and mixed media, this showcase offers something for every art lover. Artists:…
Asia Pacific Triennial: Opening Weekend
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Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art
Celebrate the opening weekend of ‘The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art with over 45 artists from across the Asia Pacific region featuring in events.…
VISITING
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Echo & Bounce
‘Visiting’ is a conceptual pop-up and exhibition that aims to highlight the fluidity of makers and designers moving between spaces, engaging with new environments, and building meaningful connections through fashion, art and culture – the…
Judith Sinnamon: TREESCAPES
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
My treescapes are a celebration of these magnificent living beings that we turn to for sustenance emotionally, physically and spiritually. These are Corymbia Tessaslaris’s, eucalypts of Gooreng Gooreng country, North of Bundaberg Qld that filled…
Bundit Puangthong: Deep Water Part 1
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
This collection of work centres around a powerful childhood memory. At around four years of age, I was playing on the balcony of a restaurant that my mum worked at. Playing happily, I suddenly slipped…
Seren Wagstaff & Joseph Botica: Lure
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Outer Space
Lure is the latest collaborative body of work by Seren Wagstaff and Joseph Botica. The exhibition speaks from shared experiences growing up in coastal towns in regional Queensland, with particular reference to memories surrounding fishing.…
Paradise Gloss - Next Edition
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Side Gallery
The annual Side Gallery end-of-year show is titled ‘Paradise Gloss — Next Edition’. The theme Paradise Gloss is the exhibition title that curator Laura Brinin has explored this year with a project for the Outdoor Gallery, presented…
Courtney Coombs: The only way out is through
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Carpark Gallery
The only way out is through presents a quiet interplay of material and processual explorations. The works explore moving through uncertainty, using form and texture to navigate a shifting landscape. Opening Event: Saturday 2 November, 4-6pm.…
Ryan Presley: Daydreamer
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Milani Gallery
Dr. Ryan Presley was born in 1987 in Alice Springs, and currently lives and works in Brisbane. His father’s family is Marri Ngarr and originate from the Moyle River region in the Northern Territory. His…
Naomi Hobson: Adolescent Wonderland
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Judith Wright Arts Centre
In this exhibition, Hobson invites audiences to step into a world of black JOY—a celebration of culture, resilience, and authenticity. Her photography captures everyday moments that resonate with pride and positivity. These pieces reflect the simple…
MONO 51: Amby Downs + Warren Burt
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Institute of Modern Art
MONO51 drifts into the surround terrain with spatial performances from two generations of Australia sound makers. Warren Burt, whilst born in the USA, is one of Australia’s unsung sonic heroes. Arriving here in 1975, he…
David Parker
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Brisbane Institute of Art
My current body of work blends digital art and large-scale paintings. The process of drawing on the computer informs my approach to painting on canvas. I find a sense of immediacy and connection in making…