WHEN : Friday, October 21st · 6:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : Roma Street Transit Centre baggage lockers For the next in Annie St Offsite’s Baggage locker series of exhibitions we are pleased to present ‘You bring light’ in a new installation by Jake Sun. Please join us for opening drinks…

This exhibition is a display of works by a network of artists and artworkers both working and practising in the Moreton Bay region and greater Brisbane area. Artists were invited to ‘Come as you are’, no theme, no particular concept, just an exploration of their own unique contemporary practice. There…

WHEN : 14th June, 8:00-9:50pm WHERE : Judith Wright Centre COST : Presale: $15 / Door Sale: $18 Over the past couple of years he has emerged for the DIY underground via an esoteric collection of cassette and LP editions, each of which offers a profound and personal sonic world:…

Moreton to the Mill is a celebration of place from the marine sanctuaries and vibrant shores of Moreton Bay to the Piano Mill and its surrounding nature reserve in Northern New South Wales’ Granite Belt. Buziak and Wolfe explore these treasured spaces in a new collection of cyanotypes, biochromes, and…

WHEN : 27th Nov · 5:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Tribal Theatre Bomb Shelter, 346 George Street, Brisbane COST : Free PERFORMING 6majik9, Gir!s Gir!s Gir!s, Tony Irving / Yusuke Akai, Ben Kolaitis, Holly Wheeler, Company Fuck, Meat Thump SOUND ARTWORKS Shooga, Henry Mills, Andrew Mclellan, Leena Riethmuller, Kate Thomas,…

Pablo Picasso’s ‘Vollard Suite’ is a set of 100 etchings, engravings and aquatints created by the artist in the 1930s and named after Ambroise Vollard, his sometime art dealer and publisher. It contains several themes that were close to Picasso’s heart – principally the classically derived subjects of the Minotaur…

James Barth’s self-portraits use avatars as a means to explore their transgendered identity and representation. Through painting and 3d modelling, Barth’s works combines photography, painting, science fiction, cinematic language, and poetic gestures. Barth’s recent solo and dual exhibitions include:The Placeholder Milani Gallery (2021), ZONWEE: the last known recording of a daydream in collaboration…

Franz Ehmann is an internationally recognised artist, working with installation, performance and video for over 20 years. Prepared food and its waste have dominated the theatrical language of Ehmann’s practice, giving rise to their symbolic and metaphorical significance. Previously beeswax, honey, milk and eggshells have been employed to construct allegories…

Scott Breton’s new series of paintings range from simple plein air watercolours and compositional sketches to larger canvases and panels. “Technically, I have been experimenting with varying paint application to a larger degree than previously, using a variety of tools and techniques in an attempt to amplify the feeling of…

Technology is increasingly penetrating all aspects of our environment, and the rapid uptake of devices that live near, on or in our bodies is facilitating radical new ways of working, relating and socialising. Such technology, with its capacity to generate previously unimaginable levels of data, offers the potential to provide…

First in line for a series of events for the New Primitive Festival Curated by SPEC. Performance and Installation Henry Mills (Bris) Alrey Batol (Bris) Ben Kolaitis (Melb) Wukir Suryadi & Rully Shabar (Indo) XinO (Katie Martain) (Bris) Program is supported by MAAP & Next Wave Festival

Conceptually driven, A Series of Predicted Events and Peculiar Statements (2017), draws inspiration from cassette and digital recordings of psychic readings held between 1993 and 2013. The works in this series offer allegorical interpretations of accurate predictions that came to fruition and statements that resonated with me. Highlighted predictions mark significant turning…

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 her creative expertise in sculpting theatrical pieces on mannequins using pins and fabric alone. An…

‘Here, night’ is a one night only solo exhibition of new work by Kinly Grey. Through site-specific installation, instructional, performative, and video works, Kinly Grey explores experiences of ineffable feeling. ‘Here, night’ is an exhibition of new work that experiments with material, scale, and visual poetics as propositional gestures towards…

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…

“My paintings are the result of travel within Australia and New Zealand, I aim to make paintings that combine something of the texture and energy of the place with a sense of its broader geology and geography.” “I’m not trying to make paintings that solve world problems or hold out…

Robert (Tommy) Pau was born in Townsville in 1967 and has cultural connections to Australian Aboriginal people, the Eastern Torres Strait islands, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islands and Asia. From a young age Tommy was taught to understand and respect the need for keeping culture strong through traditional cultural practices.…

“Strange New Ways” invites exploration into the unexpected and uncharted territories of contemporary art, where the familiar is transformed into something strange and profound. Featuring a dynamic array of voices, this exhibition showcases the work of Andrew Arnaoutopoulos, Cheolyu Kim, Daryl Hewson, David Paulson, Dean Rusling, the Laurie Nilsen Estate,…

Mother is a journey through thirteen images of a woman in a deserted Australian landscape. The ‘mother’ is always alone, her baby absent, although evidence of a child remains in the empty pram, abandoned toys on the hopscotch court, the slackness of the skipping rope. These images possess an arrested…

Assuming a Surface expands upon James Barth’s and Tyza Stewart’s existing painting and image making practices. Both artists produce ongoing series of self portraits that critique constructions of (trans)gender narratives, visibility and image production. Their joint exhibition arose from a desire to consider more abstract and non-figurative aspects of their…

Gimme Shelter is a group exhibition featuring artworks related to architecture. The show isn’t so much about architects painting flowers or artists painting buildings, it’s about artists responding to the relationship between art and architecture. Featuring: Ali Bezer David Nixon Domenica Hoare Frankie Quinn Ian Howard Ian Smith Jack Rodgers James…

Áine O’Dwyer makes multi-layered works that celebrate chance choreographies, acoustic phenomena, acts of listening and the search for alternative scorings through instruments, drawings, space, time, memory and the body. In recent years she has developed a unique specialisation for improvisation with pipe organs, culminating in the albums ‘Locusts’ and ‘Gegenschein’…

As part of UQ Art Museum’s multi-year research and programming arc Blue Assembly, please join us for the final in person session of The Word for World is Ocean reading circle led by Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris. The final in-person gathering will launch Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris’s new book The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water (Routledge, 2024) which challenges conventional notions…

WHEN: 23rd May, 8:00am – 10:00pm WHERE : Brisbane CBD CLOSING EVENT: 25th May 5:00pm WHERE : Parer Place, Creative Industries Precinct,Kelvin Grove, QUT In 2011 and 2012 inbetweenspaces met with over 20 people from disaster-affected communities in Queensland and Victoria to discuss, collaboratively arrange and photograph their belongings. During…

An artist, a baker, an architect, choreographer, dinner host, scientist, designer, child playing with their food – these are all descriptions that seem applicable to Elizabeth Willing in her on-going examination of gastronomy, the rituals of consumption and the aesthetic qualities of food. At once methodical and whimsical in her…

WHEN : 3rd – 13th July / Closing Event 12th July, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End Please join The Hold Artspace for the closing of Bête Noire, an exhibition of current work by Zoe Porter as part of a doctoral research project.…

Local Solutions to General Anxieties is an exhibition concerned with the value of art as determined by a specific social function. The work is influenced by the advanced state of contemporary institutional critique, focused on challenging or revealing the social and cultural conventions of institutions and the subject. Text interview…

Twin Palms is a culmination of William Mackinnon’s experiences over the past year. Currently based in Australia and Spain, Mackinnon and his partner undertook architectural pilgrimages to the USA, including Fallingwater (a Frank Lloyd Wright designed residence) and Palm Springs. These encounters were followed by intense studio time in regional…

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Saffron Newey’s latest exhibition Lost Pastoral showing from 7 October – 1 November, 2020. We welcome you to visit the gallery space from Wednesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm and 11-4pm Sunday. Lost Pastoral features reminiscences of Romantic landscape paintings, hazy and soft focused, devoid of definition and divorced…

It is with great excitement that we announce the opening of our first solo exhibition with Riley Beaumont – ‘If I Were A Racehorse They’d Have Shot Me By Now’ on Friday August 28th. Given the current requirements of social distancing, we will be conducting private tours with Riley rather than…

Photographer Richard Avedon once proclaimed his faith in the power of surfaces, noting that “a good one is full of clues”. Surface connects the explorations of six photo media artists drawing on themes such as disconnection, identity and aspiration, and looks at how subjective meaning is formed from something that is…

WHEN : 4th Aug, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Love Love Studios DEVOUT: best wishes, explores the repetitive use of prescribed slang and esoteric symbols between friends and loved ones. The use of cryptic discourse and iconography manifests itself into a language system only understood by the selected few. This…

Join us at the IMA after sundown Tuesday 24 October for Naomi Blacklock’s first Brisbane performance of Parallel Presence (2016). Grounded in the history of the witch archetype, Blacklock developed this performance in order to explore the agency of the female scream. Blacklock’s work examines mythologies raising harmful histories of…

A celebration of fascinating and rarely seen independent filmmaking from the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Continuing the Australian Cinémathèque’s ongoing exploration of regional filmmaking communities – as seen in programs such as ‘APT9 Cinema: Microwave Films of the Marshall Islands’ and ‘APT10 Cinema: Under the Radar’ – these…

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…

WHEN : 10th – 16th September / Opening 13th September, 5:00pm WHERE : Bleeding Heart Gallery Hearts of Gold is a series of art shows curated by Bleeding Heart that showcase local emerging artists as well as donating all opening night bar takings to a great local cause. As with…