Disruption is defined as “a break of interruption in the normal course or continuation of an activity or process.” There is no doubt that 2020 has been a year filled with a record amount of uncertainty, challenge and interruption. Published through the Queensland College of Art’s Blur – QCA Photography…

QCA Interior Design students address spatial concerns for an imagined future. Set in 2050, this exhibition presents 4 small-scale architectural models of the interior of a 4-story unit. Each unit is designed to meet the needs of an imaginary character, set in the future. More Information

WHEN : 31st October, 6:00pm WHERE : The Hold Artpsace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane Presented in conjunction with our current exhibition ‘For want of a better word.’ The Hold Artspace warmly invites you to join us for a debate on the topic: Photography is easy. Speaking for the…

Transboundaries features a number of QUT-trained artists whose practices cross over many disciplines. This triennial exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of interactions between the social and political, ecological, and psychological. It encompasses the larger vistas of economics, science and nature as well as contemporary subjectivity and language. ARTISTS Keith Armstrong Kim…

Dobell was one of 27 guests flown by Hallstrom from Australia to Port Moresby and on to the central highlands of New Guinea. For the following three months he drew and painted watercolours of the landscape, village life and the highlanders themselves, adorned with magnificent bird of paradise plumes, intricately…

The Weight of Light is a new large-scale light installation by Meagan Streader. Descend into the Spring Hill Reservoir into an immersive spatial experience, as one of Brisbane’s most important historical sites is reimagined through the power of light. The Spring Hill Reservoir, formerly a source of water for the…

Labirinto, is an exhibition by Brazilian artist and academic Christus Nóbrega, and refers to a technique of lace-making traditionally practiced by the women of Paraíba. The exhibition reflects Nóbrega’s heritage and the enduring role of cotton in an economy with roots in the 16th century. It is an exhibition that…

An organic materialisation, with its genesis in human and more-than-human collectivism. In an uncanny partnership suspended by the voices of many, fungi and humans will share in the procreation of a new symbiotic body. Tender beginnings will eternally link these intimate organisms to the human sphere of Outer Space. Intimate…

‘Participation’ presents two diverse approaches to understanding presence in daily familiarities. Whilst Kristian Fracchia works within external paradigms of social representation and identity construction to reassess bodily experience, Fred Gooch uses his body as a filter to internally abstract and re-express everyday experiences of ‘being’ through the drawn line. In…

The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony is the National Gallery’s flagship exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Ceremony remains central to the creative practice of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. From the intimate and personal to the collective and collaborative, ceremonies manifest through visual…

Decadence may invite notions of luxury and self-indulgence. It may evoke ideas of wanton excess or wastefulness, perhaps with a casual or deliberate disregard of consequence. Dependent on circumstance, personal definitions of decadence can shift quite suddenly. In 2020, artists were encouraged to explore the complex notion of decadence within…

WHEN : 14th May, 6:00-7:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse, QUT, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane Join Debra Porch and three of her past students, Caitlin Franzmann, Kat Danger-Sawyer, and Chantal Fraser as they discuss the relevance of ‘histories’ to the future of women in the arts. The conversation reflects the importance of…

BrisAsia Symposium 2019 – Belonging, is an intimate and thought-provoking day designed to inspire and connect individuals passionate about the drive for cultural change. The Symposium includes a range of interactive panel discussions and artistic performances. Topics of discussion include intercultural arts practice, cultural heritage and diplomacy, philosophy, creativity and…

Internationally-renowned Australian artist Amanda Parer brings us Fantastic Planet – giant inflatable luminous white ‘humanoids’ who land at different sites across the globe. We are thrilled to announce one such humanoid has chosen Portside Wharf as its new home from 31 August to 26 September! The five-metre-tall figure titled ‘What’s…

The Boy Diver draws on a euphoric and emotional moment from the artist’s childhood to represent moments of self-determination, hope and futurity, awakening queer potentialities and energies that seem unclear in the present in order to revisualise the future. OPENING / 6pm, 26th June 2019 METRO ARTS GALLERY 2, level…

Lawrence Daws’ career spans more than six decades. His works are held across national and international collections, both public and private. There are some works however that Daws has retained – those that he has chosen to hold closer. Daws was born in 1927, grew up on the Fleurieu Peninsula…

Paint it Red Music are proud to present the 12th event of their concert series, ‘Motion’, on Saturday the 19th of September at Jugglers Art Space from 6.30pm. The evening will present some of Brisbane’s finest chamber musicians and visual artists, as well as the launch of something exciting for…

WHEN : 19th November – 14th December WHERE : Jan Murphy Gallery Ben Quilty’s painting is not polite. Smeared, smudged, caked and slapped onto the picture plane with bold virtuosity, his rich impasto works challenge assumptions. Using bold and unsettling subjects, Quilty explores the problematic relationship between the personal and…

Shown across three galleries at the IMA, Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition of conceptual sculpture and film binds together three projects that mark the first five years of the artist’s work. The exhibition as a whole is conceived as a time lapse rather than a retrospective, as all the works simultaneously…

Please join us for the launch of un Magazine issue 16.1, edited by D Harding and Hilary Thurlow. D and Hilary will introduce the volume and the methodologies explored around the format of annotations. Hilary states, “We initially conceived this issue with a static notion of what an annotated bibliography…

REDSEA Gallery is proud to present an exclusive Exhibition of Artworks by renowned Australian Fashion Illustrator, Kerrie Hess. Exuding style and sophistication, Hess’s artistic career has continued to blossom following her sell-out exhibition at REDSEA Gallery in 2013 and her first International Exhibition at the famed Le Maurice Hotel in…

Please join us at MAAP SPACE for the opening event of Tayeoon Kim’s first Australian solo exhibition. Taeyoon Kim takes the material of digital media from our everyday lives and transforms this data into hypnotic video loops. Taeyoon uses both complicated algorithms and captured footage to create playful yet meditative…

A SWEEP: Old & New Works is a diverse group exhibition featuring indigenous, non-indigenous, male and female artists from the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. The show includes new works, as well as secondary market works alongside gems from the stockroom. With almost 30 pieces including paintings, works…

Get creative by spending Sunday at GOMA, exploring the ‘Margaret Olley. A Generous Life’ and Ben Quilty exhibitions through pop-up performances, hands-on workshops, curator tour, talks and more. Everything is free! WORKSHOP: DRAW ALONG WITH ME! 12.30–1.15pm | GOMA Audiences of all ages will discover tips and tricks for approaching…

An group exhibition featuring some of Brisbane’s leading underground artists and their exploration of the theme “Bodies”. ‘In creation the body is a tool to express the mind; and according to Aristotle, the hand is the “tool of tools”. Our hands have the power to excite and to prohibit, to…

Intimate knowledge of colour frames the foundation for Carla Hananiah’s balancing act between nature and artifice. Her paintings depict vast stretches of New Zealand and Australian mountain and sky most often at the “magic hour” – at dawn or dusk when unreal and powerful, dramatic slanting sunlight moves fleetingly across…

Join artist Vernon Ah Kee in conversation with producer and director of photography, Griffith Film School’s Faramarz K-Rahber, to discuss the conceptualisation and making of Ah Kee’s new video work The Island 2018. Prison islands: Vernon Ah Kee and Faramarz K-Rahber in conversation Date: Tuesday 19 February 2019 Time: 6pm…

The IMA is pleased to present an in conversation with leading contemporary Chinese artist Xiao Lu, on the occasion of her first retrospective, ‘Impossible Dialogue’, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Xiao Lu will be dialogue with exhibition curators Claire Roberts and Xu Hong to view and discuss…

Ningura Napurrula Gibson was born 1938 in the remote desert of Western Australia. As a yougn women she helped her husband artist Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi in infilling the backgrounds of his canvases. She did not begin painting in her own right until the mid 1990’s and had her first…

Spear is the accomplished debut film from Bangarra Dance Theatre Company’s celebrated choreographer Stephen Page. A breathtaking blend of dance and cinema, the film explores the trials faced by young Indigenous men today, and highlights the importance of place to one’s sense of self. 1.15pm Sat 25 Feb (1hr 24mins) GOMA…

As a special feature of the GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival, join comedian Tim Ross and artist Sam Cranstoun for the most ridiculous art class of all time. Why should the kids get to have all the fun with egg cartons and pipe cleaners? Who hasn’t been jealous when their…

WHEN : 12th July, 6:00pm WHERE : IMA Live criticism Curator Kyla McFarlane (Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne) and video-performance artist Justene Williams dissect our Queensland new-artist show, Fresh Cut 2012. Hear what they have to say about the works of Sean Barrett, Antoinette J. Citizen, Yavuz Erkan, and David…

In 1841 the Old Windmill on Spring Hill was the site of the first public execution in the colony of Queensland: the hanging of two Aboriginal men. Their public hanging was strategic, designed to be a brutal warning from colonial forces to Indigenous people of the area. In the underground…

WHEN : 15th – 31st Aug WHERE : Metro Arts Jan Manton Art and Metro Arts are proud to announce Platform 2013, featuring Brisbane-based artists Judith Wright, Carl Warner, Shayle Flesser, Indonesian artist Jumaadi and Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun. Highlights of the exhibition include Restart and Disillusion, video works by…

Integrating geometric line and light, W-inter presents an interplay between light, geometric line and architecture in an immersive, futuristic form of cyberspace. Featuring a field of illuminated linear structures, this large-scale light installation will respond to the gallery site and extend the architecture of the space through line. The work…

Blue hour is the moment of twilight when the sun is below the horizon, the remnants of its indirect light blanketing the landscape in a diffused shade of blue. For me this is when the earth appears at its most ethereal and calm, as it feels as if you could…