Larry Lanley was an activist and Leader and a founding member, way back in 1973, of the Woomera Aborigine Company that, after various name changes, became Mirndiyan Gununa that includes MIART. Mr. Lanley said: “it is the way we think and feel about the land that makes us Aboriginal ……

Dusk of Nations features selected works by leading Australian-based artists drawn primarily from the UQ Collection. Spanning painting, photography, sculptural objects and moving image, artists explore ideas of national identity and nationhood, and how these concepts are defended and maintained, resisted and subverted. Critical hinges of ‘Australian’ national mythology, including the…

WHEN : 31st May – 14th June / Opening 7th June, 6:00 – 10:00pm WHERE : Bird Gallery and Studio 181 George St, Brisbane City (Alley Way) Bird presents an international French artist who evolved his artistry in Paris by artistic squat around artists like Sebran D’Argent, Cyprien Gaillard, C215,…

Charlotte Tegan is a PhD candidate and sessional academic at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane and is currently researching Ambivalent Entanglement and the effects of digital connection and isolation on creative capacity in contemporary photomedia practice. Often working with analogue photographic methods, film, plastic cameras and experimental processes, Tegan investigates…

Tyza Stewart will open her Metro Arts studio to the public for a short viewing of her current work on Saturday 26th November, between 3:30pm – 4:30pm. Metro Arts: 109 Edward St, Brisbane City. Tyza’s Studio: studio 3.7 Metro Arts, Level 3 Tyza Stewart experiments with perceptions of their gender identity through…

Shapeshifters brings together works by David Usher, Gary Abkin and Peter Berner, three mid-career Australian artists who share a fascination with the shifting nature of perception, memory, and landscape. Their intuitive approach to artmaking invites the viewer to rethink what constitutes ‘landscape’ and how we might understand our environment, our…

WHEN : Until 28th Oct WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art Showcasing the Gallery’s Collection and featuring a group of major new acquisitions, ‘Sculpture is Everything’ explores the extraordinarily diverse and surprising field of contemporary sculpture. Sculpture is everything — from found objects to kinetic structures, from monuments to installation…

UQ Architecture invites you to CROP’15 the end of year public exhibition showcasing the best work of our students from the Masters and Bachelors degrees. The opening night is a free, public event, please bring your family and friends. The exhibition installation is designed and built by UQ Architecture students…

This exhibition is an exchange exhibition of contemporary jewellery by students, staff and graduates from the Jewellery and Small Objects Department at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Australia and the Jewellery Department at Hong Kong Baptist University. The biennial exhibition is opening at QCA before touring to Hong Kong…

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 is known for panoramic layered city vistas and figurative groupings and has a long held…

WHEN : Until 17th March WHERE : Metro Arts, Level 2, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane Critical Boundary is an art laboratory, experimenting with manifestations of the fight or flight instinct. Across three weeks, Transparency Collective will create installations and performances examining the various ways that human beings collide, avoid, and…

The IMA Reading Group is a monthly assembly held in the Motto IMA bookstore designed to further activate local discussion surrounding contemporary art. The initiative is aimed at university students and recent graduates, and aims to provoke conversation in an open, participatory environment. Public Programs and Publications Officer, Tess Maunder,…

An exciting reimagining of the Australian collection opens this spring.  Our curators, along with Director Chris Saines, have taken this rare opportunity to re-present the Gallery’s Australian art holdings, collected for more than 120 years, in new and innovative ways. The reconfigured spaces capture major historical moments from first contact to…

Assembly Now is a newly commissioned participatory installation, set to inaugurate Metro Arts’ Main Gallery at West Village, and transform it into a light and sound reactive environment. Developed as a collaboration between Sally Golding and electronic musician and creative technologist Spatial, Assembly Now uses the interface of the mirror to…

WHEN : 9th Oct – 4th Nov WHERE : Brisbane Powerhouse A photography exhibition that transforms the landscapes and wildlife of the Galapagos Islands into a surreal representation of the world at large. Ecuadorian photographer Fernando Espinosa ventured into the Galapagos Islands over the course of two years to capture…

Kirra Jamison cultivates ideas. Initial kernels of intuition germinate into lines, forms and patterns that branch and weave and interlay the picture plane with snatches of narrative. Floating amongst the fragments of decorative motif and patterning, vignettes of everyday experience emerge and inveigle the viewer with abundant possibilities of meaning.…

Lethbridge Gallery’s annual summer group show brings all of the artists from the gallery together in a showcase of the exhibitions held throughout the year. Image: Eternal Flame by John Morris. Timber, paint, 14 x 13 x 43cm To view the exhibition artists click – HERE  

Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition First Impressions: The Valley of Skies,  a group exhibition of Brisbane based artist Keith Burt, Aaron Butt, Michelle Gilbert, Jane James, Dylan Jones, Kate McKay, Carl Warner, Lee Wilkes. The artists participating in ‘First Impressions: The Valley of Skies’ are united by exhibiting with Jan Manton Art Gallery.Through…

Join us to hear from internationally regarded researcher and Yidinji Elder, the Honorary Professor Henrietta Marrie AM, as she shares the story of Lani Mulgrave Blair (1883-1900). Lani’s story traverses major themes in our shared history: stolen children, frontier wars, colonial displacement, and assimilation policies. He exists beyond his moment…

The Space Between Us is a major mid-career survey of the past two decades of Lincoln Austin’s practice. Through artworks of varied scale, from delicate miniature assemblages to expansive installations, the artist’s work playfully captivates the viewer in an immersive experience of colour, design and whimsy. The exhibition draws together works…

For an artist black & white are colours, as far as I’m concerned; and come from the paint box in as many variations as skin colours on the human race – where the two words are used to socially classify with brutal, generalized simplicity. Ian Smith Catalogue essay extract Catalogue…

Explore a corner of inner-suburban Brisbane through the eyes of the quirky and playful Stephen Nothling. Nothling’s paintings invite you into his endearing neighbourhood in a series that documents Louisa Street where the artist has lived for 14 years. In The last street in Highgate Hill, Nothling imagines life behind…

Feeling overwhelmed by the existential challenge of climate change? GOMA Talks returns during ‘Water’, to examine the rise of eco-anxiety and how we can move beyond it with action. Hear from four Australian change makers, all aged under 25, as they discuss how we can shape a new generation of…

Richard Dunlop first began making large paintings colliding botanical illustration with still life and landscape conventions at a time when the status and the appeal of painting was waning. He described the taboo of mixing these previously distinct genres as irresistible. Today it seems that it is Dunlop’s paintings that…

Leigh Schoenheimer lives and works in Brisbane and is a former long-term art educator. Iterate I Elaborate completes a trifecta of exhibitions on her current theme of interrogating ‘representation’ – the two prior shows being held at the Redland Art Gallery and more recently the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery. These connected exhibitions…

It seems counter-intuitive to put together art – a form or medium dominated since Kant by questions of intentionality – and the object-oriented ontology arising out of the recent philosophical movement of Speculative Realism. However, undoubtedly one of the corollaries of Speculative Realism’s unchaining of ontology from ‘correlationism’ – the…

Borrowing from the aesthetics of Internet conspiracy theories, Memory Foam Never Forgets is an investigation into associative-thinking as a strategy for creating alternative stories about our reality. This collaborative exhibition by Charlie Donaldson and Spencer Harvie pulls together hundreds of disparate images sourced from the Internet into a cohesive installation…

QCA Thursdays are a series of QCA Galleries opening events that seek to broaden the art experience. QCA Thursdays are a space for the presentation and interpretation of contemporary visual arts and design practice, and a site for gathering, conversation and learning. Join us from 5.30pm on Thursday, 5th August…

Carol Jerrems’s gritty, poetic and elusive images show people trying to find a new way of life and action in the 1970s. Her images have come to define a decade in Australia’s history. In contrast to an earlier generation of internationally renowned magazine photojournalists such as David Moore, the new…

‘Four Performative acts of Photography’ is a group exhibition featuring new work by Alana Hampton, Mari Hirata, Mandana Mapar and Kathy Mackey. This exhibition explores the performative and experimental aspects of the artist’s individual and collaborative practices through video, installation and two dimensional works. Image: Mandana Mapar, Tehran: Narratives of Freedom (detail),…

“I really am turning into a moth. The light on my phone keeps me searching for truth in all the wrong places…” ~ Nick Drake Nick Drake considers the urban landscape of Brisbane — and the people who occupy it — with distrust and intrigue. Sourcing visual material for his…

Each task in Leena’s ‘Body Information Workshops’ originated through self exploration and private experimentation before Leena completed the task with other people. Leena’s works in ‘Making it easier’ consider the personal process she uses to develop the workshop tasks. ‘Body Information Workshops’, is an ongoing project where Leena hosts one-on-one…

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 attention to critical contemporary social issues, but it forces us to question how we bear…

Seven artists, working collaboratively, consider the materiality and nature of paint itself as they explore the concept of expanded painting in an open and interdisciplinary way. Expanded painting may or may not involve paint or the act of painting and is a broadening of the boundaries to include any work…

Punch the Clock brings together five Queensland artists in a provocative exhibition that highlights some gritty issues and a range of perspectives on our communal histories including racial stereo-typing and social divisions.  Ultimately it advocates the contemporary artist as a frontier fighter in the world of popular culture and considers…

WHEN : 5th April, 6:00pm WHERE : Witch Meat ARI 80 Hampstead Rd, West End Thomas Payne, A QUT undergrad/never-grad, who has been regarded amongst his peers as ‘cool’ and even in some cases “very cool”. Tom’s practice draws a heavy influence from online grunge or digital Avant-garde (tumblr). His…