Publication Launch: Town Hall No. 3
There’s more going on in Queensland than you might think, but it can be hard to find without a map. Join us at the Institute of ModernArt for the launch of Town Hall No.3 and a panel discussion. Town Hall is a new free newspaper, published biannually by the Institute of Modern Art. It’s…
DEMO 1/4
DEMO 1/4—short for Demonstration—is the first in a series of after-hours art experiments at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, where Brisbane’s creative pulse beats a little louder after dark. The program unfolds into the night with performances, exhibitions, and activations that invite curiosity over formality. Think of it as art without…
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…
I, object
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Ipswich Art Gallery
Contemporary and historical works from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Indigenous Australian Art collection. I, object considers the many complex relationships Aboriginal Australian artists continue to have with objects – from…
In conversation: James Barth and Tim Riley Walsh
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Institute of Modern Art
James Barth discusses her show The Clumped Spirit with Tim Riley Walsh, Assistant Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Gadigal/Sydney, and member of the Kink collective. Tim Riley Walsh is Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia,…
Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2024
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Caloundra Regional Gallery
Open to Australian contemporary artists working in any 2D medium and in new media, the award offers a prize pool of more than $35,000. The forty artworks selected as finalists will be exhibited at the Caloundra…
Mirra Whale: Quiet and Still
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Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art Gallery presents Archibald Finalist Mirra Whale’s third solo exhibition ‘Quiet and Still’ from 3rd – 28th September, 2024.Mirra Whale is a Sydney based artist whose artworks explore the formal and conceptual limits…
Vera Möller
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Philip Bacon Galleries
Vera Möller (b.1955, Bremen, Germany) is a Melbourne based artist whose keen interest in the natural world, science, and art converges in the images and objects produced and examined within her art practice. Möller’s original…
Natalie Lavelle: Total Other
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Jan Manton Gallery
Total Other: Inspired by Eva Hesse In her latest series of purple paintings titled Total Other, Natalie Lavelle draws profound inspiration from Eva Hesse’s concept of a “total other” standpoint, forging a dialogue between abstraction…
Sophie La Maitre: Silent Reveries
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Aster + Asha Gallery (Online)
We are delighted to present a new solo exhibition by Sophie La Maitre. Inspired by the ever-changing skyscapes glimpsed in quiet moments, these new paintings radiate with myriad hues and shifting forms. The dusky purple…
The Dream Weaver: Guardians of Grace
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Brisbane Powerhouse
Grace Lillian Lee is a multicultural artist known for her contemporary interpretation of a traditional weaving practice and groundbreaking collaborations with Indigenous communities, creating a platform for cultural expression and celebration by way of fashion…
Riverine
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Onespace Gallery
The opening of riverine is a gallery-warming opportunity to celebrate Onespace’s beautiful new site at Kurilpa (the Turrbal word for the lands around South Brisbane meaning ‘the place of water rats’) and a chance for audiences to…
Blurring the Lines – Where Art Meets Design
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Impress Printmakers Studio & Gallery
An artist’s practice can take many shapes, and to keep it alive it is often the case that it merges into other disciplines and forms. This, far from being a diversion, provides depth, resources, and…
Constellate
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Land Street Gallery
Summa Shing is delighted to present “Constellate” an immersive exploration of interconnectedness through curated objects within the context of a gallery space. Over the past year, Shing has gathered together disparate and similar elements and…
Marcus Bell: Feet In The Sand
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Maud Street Gallery
Marcus Bell’s photographic exhibition “Feet in the Sand” first showcased at Leica Gallery Sydney, where it captivated audiences for three months. We are thrilled to bring this exhibition to Brisbane, and express our thanks for…
Hannah Hallam-Eames: Time Tunnels
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Outer Space
Time Tunnels is an immersive sculptural installation where volcanic mineral deposits, radiolarian fossils, dripping water, cast metal and carved stone become a sulfuric subterranean cave. This exhibition is the outcome of five years of remote…
Panel Discussion: How Do We Bear Witness?
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UQ Art Museum
As part of Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line, join us for a discussion on the politics of image-making. Hoda Afshar is an Iranian documentary photographer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work not only draws our…
William Yang's Closet: UQ in the 1960s
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UQ Art Museum
As part of Wear it Purple Day 2024, join us for a conversation with renowned queer artist William Yang as he discusses the journey through his ‘closet’ as a young adult in the 1960s at The University of…
Convict Tokens
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Redcliffe Museum
Convict Tokens: From the collection of the National Museum of Australia presents a selection of convict tokens from the National Museum’s collection. Convict tokens are a powerful link to Australia’s past. Engraved with personal details and rhymes…
Jane Guthleben: SEA FLOWER
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
For artist Jane Guthleben, the tradition of Still Life painting is as relevant today as it has been for centuries. The brevity of life symbolised by a bloom that will soon wilt and wither, decay…
Hamish Wilson: Biting My Tongue
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Open House
Hamish Wilson is a self-taught artist residing in Meanjin/Brisbane. His works are primarily figurative oil paintings, floral works or self-portraits that exude gestural brushstrokes and in some instances incorporate short, poignant phrases of text. The…
Brett Whiteley: Inside the Studio
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Logan Art Gallery
Brett Whiteley: Inside the Studio offers a rare and intimate insight into the ‘artist’s world’ through the art and life of one of the most admired and intensely creative figures of twentieth century Australia. Since 1995,…
Marisa Veerman: Way of Being
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Lethbridge Gallery
Marisa Veerman is a Brisbane based fine artist working in the areas of photography and textiles. Forging a career as a textile visual merchandiser in fabric boutiques across the state, Marisa was well known for…
Adam Pyett: New Paintings
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Jan Murphy Gallery
“For this exhibition I have continued to paint landscapes. Landscape painting seems to be best suited for me to be able to explore the main subject of my work which is the craft of painting.…
Susie Choi: Searching Chords
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Mitchell Fine Art
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,…
Symposium: Care, Who Cares?
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Queensland College of Art
Care is a murky notion. It is entangled with ugly feelings of obligation and burden, exhaustion and sacrifice. It is sometimes a mask for coercion and control. It is co-opted by commerce as a marketing…
ELEMENTAL
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Red Hill Gallery
ELEMENTAL brings together 5 artists who explore the four elements (earth, air, fire & water) through their creative practice and chosen mediums. Swimming in colour, exploring unusual formations, indulging the senses with vibrancy and pushing…
Joanne Braddy: A place I can be myself
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Side Gallery
Joanne Braddy is a mixed-media artist and disability advocate based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Her art practice delves into the exploration of self, primarily through painting, drawing, and ceramics to create emotive self-portraits. Stylistically, Joanne’s…
Fred Fowler: The Island
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Jan Murphy Gallery
Fred Fowler’s paintings build up a symbolic order through a type of painterly wordplay. His paintings find delight in disguise: doors, vessels, creatures, and nature recur throughout these works, evoking a sense of place, concealment,…
Jon Cattapan: The Gods, The Constraints
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Milani Gallery
Jon Cattapan is an extensively exhibited visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He first began exhibiting in 1979 and his works deal primarily with ways of representing urban topographies and narratives. He…
Imants Tillers: Trembling Earth
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Milani Gallery
Imants Tillers is an artist, writer and curator. He has exhibited extensively since the late 1960s and has represented Australia at significant international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1986), Documenta 7 (1982) and the…
Motoko Kikkawa: Drawing with Drone
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KEPK
Drawing with a Drone by Motoko Kikkawa showcases a unique combination of traditional drawing techniques and contemporary technology. Japanese artist based in Ōtepote Dunedin, NZ, Motoko Kikkawa drawing practice expands through diverse materials and approaches.…
Andrew Browne: The General Ruin
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Jan Manton Gallery
Andrew Browne is a Melbourne based Australian artist, born 1960. He works across painting, photography and graphic mediums including drawing, photogravure, intaglio and lithography. As well he has recently re-engaged with sculpture. Since the 1980’s…
A Process to Worship
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Wreckers Artspace
‘A Process to Worship’ is a collaborative exhibition by Rose Alexander and Vincent Smith. Using oxidation and light, the exhibition investigates the material qualities of metals and textiles, their tensions and interminglings. Through process-oriented art…
Small Works, Small Window
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Onespace Gallery
Onespace is delighted to invite you to Small Works, Small Window, a swift exhibition that showcases some of our finest small-scale works. It’s time for us to lighten the stockroom shelves, and as the calendar year…
Jorge Mariño Brito: This Intimate Life
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Grey Street Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design
This Intimate Life explores through Brito’s queer lens, the everyday relationships between men. Found vintage photographs and private moments are reimagined in a contemporary context using oil on canvas or pulped linen and cotton. The…
See Saw Collective: RE[collect]
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Project Gallery
‘The mark of time gives us pause and a moment to consider the road we’ve taken. We re[collect] as we reflect on the notes of our student art practice. We ruminate on the strivings and…
Sybil Curtis: Ephemeral
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Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Everything humans construct must pass. Some simply rust and disintegrate over years. Some are destroyed and quickly replaced. Others are only ever temporary. The subject matter of most of my paintings no longer exist, so…
Robert Mercer: Strange Fiction
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Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Robert Mercer was born in Northern Ireland and immigrated with his family to Melbourne, Australia. His art practice has centred on video, photo-media and installation, the position of contemporary art in post-modern societies, and the…