Initially, Waterbeds and Burial Grounds was intended as a response to the plight of the refugee and as a performative testament to those who have lost their lives at sea (waterbeds) and those who have made it to distant shores or across borders only to be detained and left in…

  “Home Grown is the title of my latest bunch of paintings. All painted in the past year, mostly in Spring. It’s all about my garden around my home. A big garden with neat bits and out of control bits. Then up the hill is 10 acres of bush that…

The rationale driving the work in this exhibition is a consideration of the effects of human-induced global warming on the environment. Both artists approach their investigations through an interest in the nature of the ‘material’ and through conceptual processes that explore ways in which to visually respond to the subject…

Exquisite and quietly disturbing ceramic sculptures. WEBSITE

Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery turns into a <play/ground> with its latest must-see exhibition launching today. Eleven Brisbane-connected artists are showcasing 37 breathtaking artworks in light boxes, banners, vitrines, and evening projections across iconic CBD locations, such as Howard Smith Wharves, Ann St and Fish Lane, to name a few.…

” The austerity and boldness of this subject matter is balanced by a delicate depth and finish- enhanced, seemingly, with the very fragrance of the Australian landscape. I am concerned with the colour, structure and movement of grass, and the relationship between areas of where grass has once been and…

Riding along the undercurrents of Turner Prizes and Archibalds, #PRIZENOPRIZE is an exhibition that champions and democratises art across all media and levels. Think of it as a soft power alternative to the head-churning, nail-biting process that comes with applying for art awards – or being shortlisted for the coveted…

Virtually everything, The Museum of You. Roma St. Transit Centre baggage lockers, Friday 19th August 6 – 9pm

For the ninth year, Lethbridge Gallery has supported artists and held the Award offering $10 000 prize money to the winner. The exhibition will showcase a variety of artworks all measuring less than 60cm in diameter, by emerging and mid-career Australian artists and are priced to be very affordable to…

WHEN : 1st – 29th Sep WHERE : Fireworks Gallery After graduating from a Masters of Art at Monash University, Rod moved to Alice Springs. His drawings and paintings are full of arresting imagery that offers viewers a closer look into Aboriginal daily life in the desert. Often perplexing but…

The annual ‘Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art’ showcases the outstanding achievements of senior visual art students from schools throughout Queensland. The exhibition includes works that hold a quintessential Queensland flavour, whilst exploring cultures and identities from around the world. The artworks invite conversations, stir feelings, and embody ideas not…

The analogue film photography in Superimposition – taken by artist and curator Charlotte Tegan – fosters in the viewer a sense of familiarity and comfort, using identifiable locations, everyday scenarios and almost playful compositions. In this way, Tegan’s photography takes on a role not dissimilar to personal ‘happy snaps’ photography.…

Ngurra Nganampa “Community” featuring Papunya Tjupi. Established in 2004, the Woolloongabba Art Gallery has quickly become one of Queensland’s leading galleries, dedicated to the exhibition and sale of quality contemporary art. Representing a stylistically varied selection of local and Australasian art by established and emerging artists, Woolloongabba Art Gallery’s regular…

The PolArt2018 BRISBANE VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION OPENING celebrates another sumptuous gathering of artistic endeavour by a broad collection of talented artists of Polish extraction from across Australia. Please join the PolArt 2018 Brisbane Organising Committee, the Patron of this PolArt Festival – His Excellency Mr Michal Kolodziejski – Polish Ambassador…

In his fifth solo exhibition at Logan Art Gallery, Daisy Hill artist Richard Blundell has created a new series of paintings celebrating 50 years of living in Logan. More Info Image: Richard Blundell Door 3: Procession of the autopoietic dawn-state through the PureLand@DaisyHill (2003-2019), 2020 (detail), tempera, acrylic, imitation gold foil, graphite, matte varnish on door.

Pecha Kucha Brisbane is an event where any designer, artist, architect, interactive media or alike, are given the soapbox to present their designs, thoughts and ideas. Format: 20 slides, 20 seconds each, 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame. Presentations are short, concise, interesting; a platform to inspire and a chance…

Take, Replace, Cover presents landscape-based works that explore the imbuement of affect, warmth and connectedness in both physical and digital transitory spaces.  The exhibition essay by Emmalyn Hawthorn can be found here. ​

Various Objects pulls together three loose strands of the artist’s studio practice, the first of which being figurative paintings made in response to a research trip and residency undertaken by Butt in Amsterdam in January 2019. Additionally, the exhibition also presents works made immediately prior to this trip, as well as…

Jan Manton Art is pleased to announce upcoming exhibition New Work by Sunshine Coast artist Joseph Daws.  Daws continues his use of muted platte and abstraction of the landscape in this new series of works. Joseph Daws’s painting practice operates between landscape and abstract painting.  It acts as an arena for the artist to…

Ross Manning creates kinetic sculptures made from everyday unpretentious materials such as domestic fans, fluorescent lights, household twine and electronics. Revealing both the construction and materials in his installations, Manning playfully dissects overlooked technologies to produce hypnotic exchanges between light, sound and movement. Opening event: Saturday 24 March, 11am-1pm IMAGE: Ross…

Join Louise Martin-Chew and Matthew Wengert, the joint 2019 John Oxley Library Fellows as they share their research and developments from their project, Designs – Details – Devils: a visual history of the Queensland’s Government Printing Office which defined, published, and recorded the development of Queensland between 1860s-2010s. The Queensland…

Join the forth iteration of the IMA Reading Group on Saturday, 29 August, at 3pm. The reading group is a monthly assembly 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 desires to provoke…

Lust for Life proudly presents the 4th annual VIVA LA FEMME Exhibition. This annual exhibition featuring selected female artists, showcases personal views, attitudes, opinions, aspects and much more encompassed by the word WOMAN. With an exciting mix of mediums and media, this years exhibition has attracted an unprecedented number of…

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…

WHEN : 4th August WHERE : Lethbridge Gallery Linda Zucco’s first collection at Lethbridge Gallery will open on Saturday 4 August 2012. Linda has a sharp and modern style with fresh compositions that produce modern paintings that pack a punch.

Queensland College of Art presents the 2018 Honours Graduate Exhibition. Be inspired by the work of our 2018 graduating honours students from CAIA, Fine Art, Design, and Photography. Many of the works exhibited will be available for sale, kick-starting emerging artists on their way to professional careers in the diverse…

WHEN : 12th June – 7th July WHERE : Phillip Bacon Galleries “each layer’s a memory patterned thick with the textures of life it may be still but its view is fluid with living…” Robert Kennedy extract from “Two Parts of Life” in 2006 exhibition catalogue Text – Phillip Bacon…

In Marcus Boelen’s second solo show with the gallery, the artist will present seven new paintings made with his signature energy and ‘savage’ gusto. While the paintings draw compositional inspiration from the landscape, Marcus works to deconstruct the reference by rotating the canvases and coating the surfaces in a gritty,…

Set Present is an exhibition of new works by Nicholas Tossmann. Tossmann’s work utilises text in the forms of installation, sculpture, performance and video and is often made site specifically, considering spaces and architecture to imagine how viewers could physically engage and relate to intangible ideas. Tossmann uses text for its ability…

A celebration of contemporary ceramics and their imaginative makers. From ancient vessels to figurines revealing the daily lives of people from antiquity, ceramics have been integral to cultures worldwide for millennia. Ceramics have stored our most precious resources, have been vehicles for knowledge and traditions, and passed between generations as…

Adrienne Gaha’s mirage-like dreamscapes are an emotional and intuitive response to the world, constrained by her formal understanding of painting, surface, and form. Working with glazes, she layers and rubs colours into each other in a process of putting on and wiping off, letting the drips of paint and turpentine…

WHEN : 25th May, 6:00pm WHERE : The Box 29 Vulture St. West End The monthly celebration of the arts community & fundraiser for The Box artspace. Art: Romii Fulton-Smith, Erin Groennenboom, Kinly Grey, Lucy Forsberg Live Music: MKO, Dog Faced Killaz, Ashley Farlow, Moza.

New Zealand based artist, Peter Madden’s sculptural installations begin life as flat imagery, which he carefully refashions into spiralling three-dimensional objects.Gleaning images from books, magazines and encyclopaedias – National Geographic magazines are a favourite – Madden slices out the illustrations, then reassembles them in fantastical constructions.The denuded books are kept…

Please join the opening of All that Glitters, an exhibition featuring the latest body of photographic work by Colombian artist Juan Leyva. Born in Bogota, Colombia in 1984 Juan Leyva’s latest series of photographs are an elegant minimalist statement about capitalism and the currency of fast food in Latin America. Leyva…

Flatform is part of a continuing inquiry into concepts that explore surface relationships where visual perception prompts a tangible awareness of painting’s objecthood in relation to our own body and the natural world. These works retain a connection to the ‘thereness’ and ‘thingness’ of a painting, instead of contemplating it…

Public lecture and discussion with the curator of ‘We who love’ Professor Chris McAuliffe and Dr Nancy Underhill.  Moderated by UQ’s Dr Amelia Barikin. Followed by the openings of: ‘We who love: The Nolan slates’ and ‘Barjai and Miya Studio’ To be opened by: Dr Emily Bitto. UQ alumnus and author of…