DEMO 4/4 marks the final instalment of DEMO, an after-hours program transforming the Judith Wright Arts Centre with performances, exhibitions and workshops. Presented by the Institute of Modern Art and Outer Space, the evening brings together artists and musicians for a night of experimental performance, sound and moving image. The…

Proposition is a group exhibition at Milani Gallery centred on the Hermannsburg landscape tradition and the writing of Ian Burn and Ann Stephen on Albert Namatjira. Bringing together paintings, drawings, sculpture and text, the exhibition explores historical and contemporary perspectives connected to the influential Central Australian painting movement and its…

Join curator Nina Stromqvist in conversation with multidisciplinary artist Karlina Mitchell as they reflect on the evolution of Mitchell’s expansive practice and explore the ideas shaping her exhibition Homeplace. Mitchell works across photography and installation to investigate how diasporic communities express both personal and collective identity. Her practice considers the…

The Institute of Modern Art launches its new Essay Club series with a discussion led by Madeline Brewer exploring ideas around collaboration, participation and community in contemporary art practice. Blending a reading group, salon and informal networking event, Essay Club invites artists, students, arts workers and anyone interested in critical…

The State Library of Queensland will present a new exhibition exploring one of life’s most universal yet often taboo subjects — death. Dearly Departed: death in life examines how Queenslanders talk about and experience death across both public and private realms, asking the central question: what is a good death?…

Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins presents Warrajamba, an immersive Artist in Residence project that transforms Museum of Brisbane’s Creative Space into an environment shaped by story, material and connection to Country. The project explores the ancestral story of Warrajamba, the mermaid — a significant narrative passed down through generations of the…

Painting the Celestial is the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of Ipswich-based painter Leonard Brown, tracing more than five decades of practice. Widely regarded for his sublime minimal abstract canvases, Brown’s works are held in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria,…

Counter Gaze is a curated exhibition by Sha Sarwari featuring works by Afghan-Australian artists Tamana Alizada, Razia Ghazal and Alia Qasimzada. Presented in response to Andrew Quilty’s Afghanistan photography exhibition, Counter Gaze offers a personal and reflective counter-narrative shaped by lived experience, memory and cultural resilience. Through painting, installation and…

New School of the Living and the Dead is an exhibition of new works by Brisbane-based artist Bill Platz. The exhibition draws on the discovery of the famous Riace Warriors — Classical Greek bronze sculptures found on the Mediterranean seabed in 1972. While two of these sculptures are now celebrated…

AMPLIFY at Side Gallery presents the original artworks featured in AMPLIFY ME!, Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery exhibition celebrating local artists with lived experience of disability. This exhibition offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the detail, materiality and creative processes behind the large-scale public artworks currently installed throughout Brisbane’s…

Homeplace is an immersive installation by multidisciplinary artist Karlina Mitchell that explores ideas of home, rising tides, and memories embedded within landscapes. The exhibition reflects on cultural practices and histories that have been disrupted or lost due to ecological disasters across the Pacific. Through photography and installation, Mitchell examines how…

Ngurra Nyujunggamu (When the World Was Soft) presents a new body of work by Yinjidbarndi artist Wendy Hubert at Milani Gallery. The exhibition features five paintings that were recently presented at the Aichi Triennale. Hubert is an Elder of the Yinjidbarndi people and is widely respected as a teacher, linguist…

‘The painter is a medium who doesn’t realise what he is doing.No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy’ said Marcel Duchamp¹. Jazz pianists, writers of fiction, photographers, printmakers, ceramicists — and…

In Dissembling Assembly, Chris Hagen reflects on how we come to understand the world — and how knowledge is shaped as much by lived experience as by information. The works occupy the space between knowing and not knowing, where meaning forms gradually, layered over time and never entirely fixed. Raised…

Momentum to Moments: In Pursuit of Mastery presents the work of London-born Australian artist Rich Allen, who works under the name RWAllenArtworks. A graduate of the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London, majoring in drawing and painting, Allen returned to his fine art practice in 2008 following a…

Mono 59 presents a live performance by Tujiko Noriko alongside Brisbane-based artist Joseph Burgess (Unregistered Master Builder) at the Institute of Modern Art. Since the early 2000s, Tujiko Noriko has redefined the possibilities of avant-pop. Her albums Girl City and Make Me Hard, released through Mego, transformed song structures through…

The QRAA Emerging Artist Exhibition presents a selection of 20 works drawn from the 2025 entries in the Emerging Artist category of the Queensland Regional Art Awards. Hosted at Flying Arts Alliance in Fortitude Valley, the exhibition showcases emerging artistic talent and highlights a diverse range of contemporary practices from…

TALL GRASS is a curated group exhibition presented by Field Trip Gallery featuring artists Gemma Raponi, Danielle O’Brien and Cheryl Dundas. The exhibition explores parallels between the artists’ practices, examining how dreams and subconscious imagery inform creative processes. Through analogous works, the exhibition brings together distinct yet connected approaches to…

The Wider Earth by Dead Puppet Society, written by David Morton, is a theatrical reimagining of Charles Darwin’s research as he embarks on the voyage that reshaped scientific understanding of the natural world. Presented at The Condensery, this exhibition displays puppets from the internationally acclaimed stage production for the first…

Afghanistan is a powerful photographic exhibition by award-winning photojournalist and author Andrew Quilty, presenting images captured during his time living and working in Kabul between 2013 and 2022. Curated by Ellie Waterhouse, the exhibition offers an intimate and reflective portrait of Afghanistan during a period of profound political and social…

Sonja Carmichael presents Giibum, Gulayi Murmurings – Story Bags, an exhibition grounded in deep connection to Quandamooka Country. The exhibition features Carmichael’s exquisite installation Wunjayi Wagariinyai Quandamooka Jagun – Yarabin Ragi, comprising 237 handwoven copper wire birrepi bunbi (little dillybags). Each bag contains elements gathered from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island),…

When Dilly Bags Catch the Light is an inspiring installation by Delvene Cockatoo-Collins exploring matrilineal storytelling and cultural knowledge through contemporary installation. Presented at Brisbane Quarter, the work reflects the artist’s time spent with her mother and the influence of her great-great-grandmother’s dilly bags. The installation honours her maternal lineage…

Lewis Miller (b. 1959, Melbourne) is a celebrated figurative and still life painter. Painting from life; the close observation of Miller’s subjects is revealed through bold linework, vivid colour and expressive brushstrokes. Miller trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he also completed his post graduate studies. One…

Kalaya Tjina Tjuta – Emu Tracks presents new paintings by acclaimed senior Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara artist Betty Muffler. Betty Muffler is a respected Ngangkari (traditional healer) whose paintings reflect her deep spiritual and cultural connection to Country. Born near Watarru on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, her work is shaped…

How Soon Is Now? brings together a selection of Bruce Reynolds’ cast relief works alongside painterly collaged linoleum pieces that explore the physical qualities of materials and making. The exhibition highlights a strong sense of materiality and craftsmanship, celebrating the tactile presence of artworks in contrast to today’s increasingly digital…

Shields: Design and Functionality explores the history, artistry and cultural significance of traditional Aboriginal shields through a major exhibition at The University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum. The exhibition presents more than 130 shields dating from the early 1900s, highlighting the regional diversity of shield design across Australia. Traditionally used for…

Electric Windows presents recent works by Australian artist Belem Lett, whose practice explores perception, light and the visual language of abstraction. Lett graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Sydney with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours Class 1) in 2008 and a Master of Fine Art in 2012. In…

The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) presents an Artist Talk with Australian performance artist Stelarc in collaboration with World Science Festival Brisbane 2026. For over fifty years, Stelarc has tested the limits of the human body, positioning art at the intersection of science, technology and performance. His pioneering practice incorporates…

Hollywoodridge is Jake Moss’ debut solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, presented as a film production timeline spanning painting, sculpture, installation, video and sound. The exhibition unfolds as an autobiographical narrative shaped by Moss’ childhood experience of scarcity, homelessness and fracture while growing up in public housing in Woodridge,…

Onespace presents The Grass Tides, a solo exhibition by Paula Savage in the Main Gallery. Featuring woven works and works on paper, this exhibition marks Savage’s second presentation with the gallery and highlights her development as a senior artist at Moa Arts. Growing up on Moa Island working lugger boats…

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro are a collaborative artist duo known for their sculptural and installation artworks that combine humour with art historical references. We hunt mammoth presents a large-scale sculpture of a dismantled Honda car. A total of 121 individual parts are wrapped in jute rope and bamboo using…

Deep Surface is the first career survey of Los Angeles–based Australian artist and Palawa woman Jemima Wyman. Spanning three decades of practice from the mid-1990s to the 2020s, the exhibition brings together collage, textiles, installation, video, performance, and painting. Drawing from the QUT Art Collection alongside significant private and public…

The Brothers Gruchy presents nine key artworks by acclaimed digital artists Tim and Mic Gruchy, exploring intersections between technological innovation and biological forms, human perception, artificial intelligence, and synaesthesia. Raised in Bundaberg, brothers Tim and Mic Gruchy have worked both individually and collaboratively since the mid-1980s. This exhibition brings together…

Emerging in the 1960s, the collectives Archigram and Superstudio responded to the pop-art, space-age zeitgeist with speculative visions for architecture defined by high-tech megastructures. Disseminated through proposals, exhibitions, publications, and films, their ideas challenged how cities—and life within them—might be imagined. Founded in 1961 in London, Archigram embraced media culture,…

The early decades of the twentieth century marked an extraordinary period in German art, as artists responded to a rapidly changing modern world shaped by social, political and cultural upheaval. Towards a Collapsing World explores this moment of intense cultural flourishing through a focused survey of works on paper by…

Hot Source presents a speculative relationship between Outer Space and the sun, imagined as a flirtatious, reciprocal, and ongoing (if seasonal) crush. Through installation and text, Kirralee Robinson responds to the gallery’s materiality and architecture, proposing how this relationship might feel, unfold, and linger. Robinson’s sculptural practice engages light, optics,…