Join us for our first Portrait of an artist event for 2024, featuring internationally acclaimed contemporary artist D Harding in conversation with Cheryl Leavy. D Harding works in a wide variety of media to explore the visual and social languages of their communities as cultural continuum. A descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, they draw upon and maintain the spiritual and philosophical sensibilities of their cultural inheritance within the framework of contemporary art internationally. Often paying homage to or involving family members, Harding’s work seeks new forms for ..read more

“Nature.  Culture.  Natural culture, cultural nature.  An aging dialectic. A story in the round. The bare boughs of an ancient Linden tree wait, against the sky. Trees in forests will be cut.  The timber moved on. The City of Venice is held, supported, by poles, piles, that were once Alder trees.  Alnus glutinosa,  a short lived tree. Those under Venice, cut long ago, have been there for centuries. Curtains in the Palazzo Ducale do little but stop the sun from burning the symbolic interior. Beyond is Venice. Young people in a group learn a ..read more

Onespace invites you to the opening of mouth open, mouth closed, Stella Haycock’s first solo exhibition as an early career artist. Her conceptual installation will extend on her ideas surrounding abstraction and manipulation of alphabetic forms. Through printmaking, painting, and installation she questions the conventions of reading and writing and highlights the potential for depicting alphabetic letterforms as individual entities. Haycock seeks to create space for the viewer to engage with each form as an entity of movement, shape, gesture, and detail. The exhibition unfolds as a sensory exp ..read more

This May across Galleries 1, 2 and 3 we are presenting A Landscape is Something You Look Through, an exhibition that considers contemporary approaches to land, cultural practice and landscape in relation to the late works of Ian Burn. Artists include Robert Andrew, Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman, Ian Burn, Ruha Fifita, D Harding, Queenie McKenzie, Tom Nicholson, Jody Rallah, and Judy Watson. This exhibition is the second part of a series. Information on the first exhibition, A Landscape is Not Something You Look At, can be found here.     Image: Yuriyal Eric Bridgema ..read more

The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. The sitter must also have a connection with Brisbane. All entrants will be eligible for the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Award which is supported by Brisbane City Council. A further $40,000 of category prizes is also available.  The 2024 Prize consists of two key competitions: The Main Competition – Open to all entrants 18 and over The Next Gen Prize – Open to entrants 18 and under ..read more

Bronwyn has been painting and drawing, in one form or another, all her life. Her current works reflect her passion for capturing the light and are influenced by her depth of experience in illustrative techniques. Bronwyn enjoys the challenge of taking ordinary, everyday scenes and interpreting them in her own inimitable and widely recognised style. Working in oils on canvas, she loves to explore the technique of chiaroscuro. While continuing to explore the detail found in leaf litter and studio still life works, she is also drawn to the unique beauty found in ordinary settings. This direction ..read more

‘Fountain’ is a new series of works that further my exploration of colour and looping tubular forms across metal surfaces. These oscillating, orbiting trajectories have a relationship to the pathways of celestial bodies, tracing out gravitationally dictated pathways across the universe. The reduction of palette within individual works explores gentler and subtler shifts in light and hues. Through this palette stronger contrasts have been highlighted within the subtle margins of colour transitions. The show consists primarily of brushed aluminium panels. The introduction of golden anodized alum ..read more

An art exhibition by Ray Coffey. Reflecting on his childhood growing up in the UK, Ray Coffey examines the glorification and vilification of male aggression. Juxtaposing hooligans in the guise of hero’s and rejecting societal forms of acceptable violence ..read more

The Doyles is held annually in the historical village of Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The exhibition will run from the 27th June 2024 until 7th July 2024. Entries open 1 March and close 24 May 2024. The Doyles is a prestigious event on a nationally competitive art calendar. With a first prize of $20,000 cash to the winning landscape entry, the award attracts well over 600 entries from artists across Australia. Our entry categories are Landscape, Figurative, Still Life, Junior and All Ability. By exhibiting in excess of 300 finalist artworks we promote a large body of artists at va ..read more

Collaborative exhibitions featuring the works of six acclaimed artists will be shown in a two-part exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley and Fireworks Gallery in Bowen Hills. Curated by Nina Shadforth, Senior Curator Caloundra Regional Gallery, Land Holds Memory is a group exhibition of works that reflect on the experiences of walking, listening, and creating in the landscape. Previously shown at the Caloundra Regional Gallery, the exhibition showcases five artists, one researcher and one musician. Land Holds Memory is realised in the paintings, drawings, reco ..read more