What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

  • Melody Popple: Balun Gawarima – River Story

    Lone Goat Gallery 28 Lawson Street, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia

    Balun Gawarima – River Story is a new exhibition by Indigenous artist Melody Popple, developed through her PhD project Moving Through Waters. Grounded in the waterways of Bundjalung Jagun, the exhibition explores the cultural, emotional, and ecological significance of water through bush dyeing, natural pigments, and visual story-mapping. Created in collaboration with Country, the works use native flora, found materials, and water gathered from local river systems to produce richly [...]

  • Petite Miniature Textiles 2026

    Wangaratta Art Gallery 56 Ovens St, Wangaratta, VIC, Australia

    One of Wangaratta Art Gallery’s most popular exhibitions, Petite Miniature Textiles showcases innovative textile practice from across Australia, in small scale. The biennial exhibition brings together a diversity of artists and approaches which extend textile practice and inquiry.

  • Kirtika Kain: Pitch

    Murray Art Museum Albury 546 Dean St, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Kirtika Kain has an ongoing interest in anti-caste movements and the experience of caste in the diaspora, explored through material and studio processes. In her works, gold, bitumen, and turmeric combine to create intricate and luminous surfaces that highlight the aesthetic and affective qualities of her chosen materials. The tar used in each of these works carries a material history of extraction, labour and transformation, as well as [...]

  • Dr Christian Thompson AO: House of Gold

    Caboolture Regional Art Gallery 4 Hasking Street, Caboolture, QLD, Australia

    House of Gold presents an immersive body of work by Dr Christian Thompson AO, spanning photography, moving image and sound. The exhibition explores the intersection between Thompson’s Chinese and First Nations Bidjara heritage, shaped by the Gold Rush migrations of the 1850s. Visitors are invited to experience moments of shared language, food and history, revealing the influences that have shaped Thompson’s sense of self. House of Gold offers fantastical [...]

  • 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Exhibition

    Gatakers Art Space 311 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

    Hervey Bay Art Society, AKA Gallery 5, proudly presents the 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Competition. Yes, this exciting competition is now 42 years young - believe it or not! In 2026 the works will hang at Gattakers Art Space, 311 Kent Street, Maryborough between the 25th July and 3rd September. We celebrate our collection of local and state-wide art with an award ceremony between 12 noon [...]

    Free
  • 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Exhibition

    42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Exhibition
    Gatakers Art Space 311 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

    Hervey Bay Art Society, AKA Gallery 5, proudly presents the 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Competition. Yes, this exciting competition is now 42 years young - believe it or not! In 2026 the works will hang at Gattakers Art Space, 311 Kent Street, Maryborough between the 25th July and 3rd September. We celebrate our collection of local and state-wide art with an award ceremony between 12 noon [...]

    Free
  • Opening Reception: Different Midnights by Mark Niehus

    West End Art Space 112 Adderley Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Different Midnights is a collection of paintings, moving image and free verse that explore the various ways individuals experience solitude. By bringing these different stories together we are reminded of our commonalities and the value of being alone, provoking us to question how do we experience solitude. It’s 12am and each art work frames a life, sharing only the digestion of a day spent in the same [...]

    Free
  • Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Visit Toowoomba artists and creatives in their home studios every year during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. Open every Saturday and Sunday in September PLUS two mid-week Wednesdays, this is your chance to get inside the working studios of local artists to discover where they practice, what they create and who they are. Plan your visit for 2026 - we'd love to meet you then!

    Free
  • Coal Loader Artisan Market

    Coal Loader Artisan Market
    The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability 2 Balls Head Drive, Waverton, NSW, Australia

    Meet the makers at one of Sydney's best artisans markets Browse and buy hand-made art, ceramics, jewellery, fashion and hidden treasures from independent local creatives all in the harbourside setting of the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in Waverton. Enjoy a relaxed, family-friendly day out, meet the makers and discover thoughtful, beautifully crafted pieces you won’t find anywhere else.

    Free
  • Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Visit Toowoomba artists and creatives in their home studios every year during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. Open every Saturday and Sunday in September PLUS two mid-week Wednesdays, this is your chance to get inside the working studios of local artists to discover where they practice, what they create and who they are. Plan your visit for 2026 - we'd love to meet you then!

    Free
  • ‘Alter’ – Solo exhibition by Lisa Ray

    Artspace, Jan Manton Gallery 54 Vernon Terrac, Teneriffe, QLD, Australia

    Alter is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based photographer Lisa Ray, presented at Jan Manton Gallery, Artspace Teneriffe, opening 9 September. Working across flowers, portraiture and elemental forms, Ray explores moments suspended between dissolution and emergence. Light resembles fire, water becomes atmosphere, and organic forms drift between the familiar and the imagined. Rather than documenting nature, the works draw upon it as a language through which transformation, surrender [...]

  • Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Visit Toowoomba artists and creatives in their home studios every year during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. Open every Saturday and Sunday in September PLUS two mid-week Wednesdays, this is your chance to get inside the working studios of local artists to discover where they practice, what they create and who they are. Plan your visit for 2026 - we'd love to meet you then!

    Free
  • Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

    Visit Toowoomba artists and creatives in their home studios every year during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. Open every Saturday and Sunday in September PLUS two mid-week Wednesdays, this is your chance to get inside the working studios of local artists to discover where they practice, what they create and who they are. Plan your visit for 2026 - we'd love to meet you then!

    Free