MELT Portrait Prize

The annual MELT Portrait Prize returns, celebrating heroes in the LGBTIQ+ community, attracting exceptional artworks from across Australia. The annual Melt Portrait Prize gives visual artists the creative license to celebrate heroes in the LGBTIQ+ community; whether it be a local icon or an internationally acclaimed personality.  Having developed a reputation for attracting exceptional works of art from across Australia, […]

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Regenerate

For almost a century, the iconic Brisbane Powerhouse building has been a time capsule of Brisbane’s history. To celebrate 21 years as a ground-breaking cultural precinct, we are proud to unveil Regenerate – a free exhibition that documents the stories and secrets of the iconic building’s rich 95-year history. Spanning three ‘acts’, this special exhibition exposes the […]

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Deviations: Callum McGrath

Deviations is a collaborative video project dedicated to celebrating and highlighting the importance of queer space and time that sits outside the hegemonic structures governing daily life. The work has been specifically produced for installation in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane a site where queer spaces have been carved out for decades. From nightclubs, sex clubs, art […]

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Moths: Lesley Kendall

Normally a paper artist, Lesley Kendall felt compelled to use clay to express the significant beauty and transitory nature of living creatures for her exhibition Moths With meticulous attention to detail, Kendall has delicately hand-crafted over 300 life sized porcelain moths. Each of these tiny, white-winged insects is unique and extraordinary in its detail. The […]

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Botanica: Contemporary Art Outside

Discover a stunning open-air art exhibition in the heart of Brisbane City at Botanica- Contemporary Art Outside. As the sun sets over Brisbane’s iconic urban skyline, Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens come to life with large-scale projections, surprising installations and interactive artworks that will captivate children and adults alike. Featuring new artworks from some of Australia’s […]

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The Artist’s Garden: Bernard Ollis

In his typical whimsical style Bernard Ollis has produced artworks of lush, kaleidoscopic renditions of artists’ gardens and studios he has visited during his lifetime. Primarily a figurative artist Ollis’ interest lies with the human form; the everyday lives of people, what environment they create and inhabit, however in this exhibition it is nature that […]

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Hot’n’Heinous: Visaya Hoffie

Hot’n’Heinous can refer to many things, including the experience of the worst days of a typical Brisbane summer, and the characters create a portal into the imaginary world of the artist. With one-line grabs from clickbait advertising, sweetly sinister characters from bootleg cartoon imagery, and painterly passages of descriptive familiarity, Visaya’s imagery often seems like […]

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UpLate: On Earth

On Earth traces conceptions of landscape and the environment as it is expressed and represented through the poetic devices of art. The exhibition examines the ways landscape manifests through culture, or personhood, and attempts to bring the two together, rather than separating them. On Earth includes artworks from the QUT Art Collection alongside the work […]

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Radical Localism: artisan + Practice Studio + QUT Fashion

Radical Localism is an installation, community intervention and symposium that showcases Brisbane’s independent fashion community. Co-designed by artisan and Practice Studio, and in collaboration with QUT Fashion, Radical Localism will highlight Brisbane’s growing cohort of skilled makers and designers. Presented by artisan in association with Museum of Brisbane.BAD is an initiative of Museum of Brisbane […]

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Move Together: Kirralee Robinson

Clutching the southern corner of the CBD, Brisbane Quarter is set to become the home of three new kinetic sculptures courtesy of artist Kirralee Robinson. Building on Robinson’s 2020 work In Unison, Move Together stimulates a dynamic conversation about perspectives and relationships. Guaranteed to beguile audiences with its elegant and breathy minimalism, the three sculptures […]

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