Experience life through the eyes of artists. Enjoy the scenery, squeeze modeling clay, hear the birds, taste wine, throw some paint, smell the clean air, stroke the neck of a horse, view award-winning artworks, feel the calm after yoga, ponder the masters of creativity, sleep in a luxurious mountain getaway. The choices are brilliant! An […]
Neighbourhood Coffee Roasters is part of the maker precinct of Albion Fine Trades and Pedder Street and have previously hosted a BAD forum exploring the revitalisation of industrial spaces and as gallery space for emerging artists. Five years after moving to their current residence they have grown into a community hub for coffee and design […]
View new paintings and drawings in the art studio of Cecilia Hine-Bouwman, including paintings in oils, pencil and ink drawings and a collection of sketch books inspired by the studio surrounds. Works in folios will also be available for viewing as well as some pieces of wearable art from previous exhibitions. In the garden sculptural […]
Echo & Bounce is a record store, cafe and community space in a near-century old building, south of the river in ‘Woolloongabba’ (a Turrbal word that means ‘whirling waters’). Our Open House events are a chance to invite along and platform a broad range of creative people with unique connections to this place, to share […]
Globally, substantial amounts of land are dedicated to car parks – in Meanjin [Brisbane], there are 25,633 parking spaces in the CBD alone. FORMS OF ASSEMBLY is a public art intervention and workshop activation that critically re-imagines car park spaces as a resource for community connection and collaboration. Situated in Jacob Lane, this project reexamines […]
‘Departure’ is a project focused on collecting and sharing stories from a diverse range of migrant community members with the aim that their stories will contribute to larger conversations around immigration and race in Australia. ‘Departure’ is the extension of a collaborative work that artists Christine Ko and Louis Lim created in 2022. That work […]
Welcome to the Revival Art & Design Gallery’s collaborative mural experience! What better way to commemorate our appreciation for the art-loving Brisbane community, than to tattoo them on the gallery’s metaphorical arm 😀 The amazing Llewellyn Skye will be creating a design for an enormous 4 x 4m mural, in her signature energetic abstract floral […]
With Megan’s beautiful face, I wanted us to all feel unafraid to break out of our prey-like bunny fears and splash the town with our stories, our culture, our expression, our opinions, our passions and our voices. I took an old Chinese saying that my mum said to me ‘Colour will Change on the Dragon’ […]
West End and South Brisbane take centre stage for the BAD Walking Tours on the Southside. Taking in the sights of Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art’s many studios and exhibitions, as well as TAFE Queensland’s graduate exhibition and open day, State Library of Queensland’s exhibitions, Fish Lane, West Village and Metro Arts and some […]
With events spanning from Newstead to Northgate, the Northside has served up a smorgasbord of activities to engage and activate your senses. The BAD guided walking tour will focus on Newstead and Albion, starting the adventure at Gasworks Plaza and dropping in on the many open studios and artist spaces this precinct supports. If you […]
