SARAH HICKEY – INTERIOR JUNGLES Sarah Hickey’s new collection speak of dualities and shadow selves, of dark and light, instinct and culturally imposed restraint; the wild and the tamed. “The constant unveiling and reforming of identities is a significant focus of my practice. These female forms, replicas of the living,…

Philipp Gehmacher is a choreographer, dancer and visual artist whose works on gesture, space and touch have featured in numerous festivals and venues around the world. He has collaborated regularly across art forms, most importantly with the choreographer Meg Stuart. Since 2008, Gehmacher has been developing the lecture performance series…

  In ām / ammā / mā maram artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson researches her matrilineal heritage, making visible the histories of indentured Indian women that remain marginal or erased in colonial archives. A first-generation Australian and descendant of labourers sent from the port of Madras (now Chennai), India, to work on sugar…

Daniel Templeman ‘Back and Forth’ + Edward Niznik ‘South’. Exhibition continues until 28 May 2011, Thursday to Saturday 11-3pm or by appointment

CoUNTess has been presenting data on gender representation in the Australian contemporary visual arts sector since 2008, and has become a valuable online resource that provides statistics and data analysis. To launch their fundraising campaign, CoUNTess has been touring to create a national conversation on gender bias and inclusivity in…

Voicing Concerns is a photographic exhibition from 16th July to 14th August addressing some of the current state of affairs of our planet earth. The exhibition includes works from Renata Buziak, Sarah Oxenham, Leanne Sauer and Sarah Welch who are Brisbane based photographers who in one way or another are…

Evidence of Scale II features over 70 works from FireWorks stable artists Alick Sweet, David Paulson, Pat Hoffie, Phil Gordon and Rod Moss. The gallery also introduces new artists to the gallery Piyali Ghosh and Stephen Hart; as well as two bronze sculptures by Joe Furlonger whose exhibition (in partnership…

WHEN : 1st June – 7th October WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’ is the Gallery’s largest exhibition of contemporary art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to date. The exhibition examines the strengths of the Gallery’s…

WHEN : 10th Sep – 5th October WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Hovering somewhere between abstraction and landscape, Marina Strocchi’s paintings are rich evocations of her experiences of living in the Central Australian desert. Melbourne- born Strocchi has lived in Central Australia for the past 20 years, working for a…

WHEN : 28th November – 7th February / Opening 28th Nov, 5:30 – 8:30pm WHERE : Griffith University Art Gallery, 226 Grey St, South Bank The annual curated showcase of Queensland College of Art graduate artists, including The Survey Co. Art Prize winners. GAS features Fine Art (Jewellery and Small…

We are faced with interconnected disruptive events driven by rapid changes in the environment, industry, technology and migration. Emerging is a perspective where the future is no longer something we shape through positive insights or choices, but rather something we confine to narrow perspectives or threats.  However, we have an…

Continuum is an exhibition of works from graduating Queensland College of Art South Bank Honours students. Many of the works exhibited will be kick-starting emerging artists on their way to professional careers in the many diverse and exciting artforms mastered during their time at QCA. QCA South Bank campus 226…

A group exhibition including artists: ALEXANDER BEECH ALAN IBELL EMILY IMESON BRONTE LEIGHTON-DORE SASSY PARK NELL PEARSON THEA ANAMARA PERKINS JULIA SIRIANNI MYLES YOUNG VIEW EXHIBITION CATALOGUE   Image: MYLES YOUNG, Beach Therapy 2020

WHEN : 8th June, 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Inhouse ARI 12 Lechmere Street, New Farm, Brisbane Exhibition by Pirrin Francis, ‘Nightfall Recollections’. Written critique by Andi Halfpapp, ‘Our memories are not Our Own’ One night only event Proudly Supported by Maap, Brisbane City Council and Queensland Government Creative Sparks…

Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition by Michael Doolan.  Using a combination ceramics, aluminium, fibreglass and high gloss automative paint Doolan creates sculptures relating to childhood memories from his mother’s ornament cabinet. Doolan states, “The works in Stories with Endings Changed embody the unsettling sensations that I unexpectedly experience when…

Odd Bedfellows brings together the work of six remarkable Queensland artists held in the QUT Art Collection, with works spanning over five decades, a time when Brisbane was transitioning from that place ‘out woop woop’ to the cosmopolitan city that it is today. While the artist’s practices are visually disparate, they…

In conjunction with ‘Jeff Gibson: Countertypes’ we’ve put together a fantastic series of free events with local Brisbane artists and creatives. Join us each Saturday in August for some in depth discussions and refreshments from our partners Lock, Stock & Barrel and Newstead Brewery! What are the current trends in…

“Nature.  Culture.  Natural culture, cultural nature.  An aging dialectic. A story in the round. The bare boughs of an ancient Linden tree wait, against the sky. Trees in forests will be cut.  The timber moved on. The City of Venice is held, supported, by poles, piles, that were once Alder trees.  Alnus glutinosa,  a short…

WHEN : 23rd November – 14th December / Opening 23rd Nov, 5:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : Spiro Grace Art Rooms SGAR is celebrating the successes of their artists over the past year, and will presenting their final exhibition of 2013, Collectibles III. The exhibition will feature small works by a…

In 1769, Lieut. James Cook sailed to Tahiti to record the Transit of Venus, an astronomical phenomenon that would help to determine longitude. The second part of his mission, partly funded by Botanist Joseph Banks, would also send them to Terra Australis Incognita, the Great Southern Land, which under the…

WHEN : 26th March – 28th April WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse The Brisbane Powerhouse and Heather Faulkner present the exhibition: A Matter of Time. A documentary project that crosses the boundaries of time, politics and prejudice to tell the stories of eight Queensland lesbians. A Matter of Time investigates the…

Kenji Uranishi is a Japanese-born, Australian-based artist whose work draws upon the longstanding traditions of ceramics in Japanese art and culture. Kenji studied at the Nara College of Fine Arts and upon graduation, worked mostly with stoneware clay, exhibiting throughout Japan—from small gallery spaces to large municipal museums. Since moving…

Water Stories, an international exhibition of images from 31-year-old intertnational photographic artist Mustafah Abdulaziz is coming to Brisbane. Water Stories has toured through Stockholm, London, Hong Kong, New York and Vancouver – it’s just been in Sydney and the next stop is South Bank. Mustafah was working for the Wall Street Journal as a photographer…

“Float” presents the work of 14 Queensland College of Art students at a projection event at the Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Platform on the 14th of October, 6 – 8pm. This one-night show is a response to an art and sound infield course on Stradbroke Island, where students from the College…

Carolyn Craig’s work reflects her research within the coded construction of subjectivity and relates this to ideas of the performance of self and the sustenance of gendered typologies. These investigations focus on inscriptive performance as an active form of power and social control. Craig deconstructs particular gestural actions which she has…

Optimistically Omnivorous is a small yet potent survey exhibition of photographic artists who were either born in or later moved to, and are influenced by or critical of, the locale of Queensland. This exhibition is part of Onespace Gallery’s ongoing commitment to the photographic community of Queensland. It seeks to present new work…

Vulnerable Bodies considers the multi-faceted experience of human migration. Some people migrate due to necessity while others move by choice in pursuit of a better life. The works in this exhibition reflect the artist’s personal experience as a South African immigrant living in Australia. The act of processing migration can…

Simon Degroot uses painting as a way to interrogate pre-existing images. Calling upon a background in commercial printing processes, he utilises strategies of disassembly and reassembly, abstraction and fragmentation in the creation of new works. Degroot explores two-dimensional representations of space, particularly a communicative and operational space found in flat…

WHEN : 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : POP Gallery Diagram, Wandering Room, J&SO Art Collective, Danger Daze and Vegas Spray have teamed together to present the Christmas Collectives Art party. For any further information please contact :- DIAGRAM – hello@wearediagram.com WANDERING ROOM – wanderingroom@y7.com JSO ART COLLECTIVE – r.f.wearables@gmail.com DANGER…

How would it feel to hold a crashing wave; walk across scorched earth; or illuminate the abyss? Come help Mark du Potiers haunt Wreckers with his new interactive installation. Atonement is a wave of Chinese lanterns disguised as dunce caps – a cascade of strange glowing bells falling from the…

Join Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh at GOMA in conversation with Russell Storer, Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, QAGOMA. Hsieh is in Australia for One Year Performance 1980 – 1981’ (Time Clock Piece) currently on display at Carriageworks, Sydney and will discuss this and other projects in this special event.…

When I left art college, I remember feeling a bit disillusioned with what modern art had become. I just wanted to paint. With Edward Hopper as an influence, I decided to just drive down the street and find some interesting everyday things to paint. – Robert Brownhall, 2010 Robert Brownhall…

WHEN : 16th November, 10:00am WHERE : Caboolture Regional Art Gallery Caboolture Regional Art Gallery presents an artist talk with Miles Hall and Arryn Snowball. Please join them for a discussion on their respective art practices and their involvement in current exhibition: The Art of Sound.

WHEN : 20th December – 2nd January WHERE : The Loading Dock, 2 Edmonstone Street, West End Memory is a complex network within the human subject. The works of four local artists in SPACE–NON–SPACE present the fluidity and complexity of memory while maintaining the possibility to be read differently in…

GOMA Talks returns during ‘Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles’, to examine the powerful role arts and culture plays in our wellbeing. From a never-ending global pandemic, to natural disasters and war, have these ‘unprecedented times’ left you feeling flat? In a world where nothing seems certain, art continues to provide…

Immerse yourself in light and sound – an evening of new chamber music by Ben Heim + Connor D’Netto. Instrumental, vocal and electronic forces combine to create a new concert experience – intimate yet expansive – enveloping and captivating. Free. All welcome. Bookings essential as numbers are limited. RSVP by…