Art

Brisbane Festival is returning in September 2025 with another epic lineup of art installations, theatre, live music and everything in between.

We've found a range of things to do around town while keeping your wallet in your pocket. 

The festival of art, light, music and cutting-edge technology, confidently returns in July for its fifth edition, promising more kaleidoscopic installations, late-night gigs set to trippy projections and a cracking new program of dining events. 

As part of their epic 2025 program, the GOMA team are turning the gallery into an enourmous indoor stream. 

Not only have we found plenty of awesome stores with shelves full of worthy gifts—they all offer delivery.

Prepare to see the Botanical Gardens like you’ve never seen them before, because global hit Lightscape is finally making its way to Brisbane

There’s nothing more satisfying than creating your very own stuff and with the world of pottery having a strong moment right now, no guesses as to where you should be flocking to for your homewares.

A magical exhibition has landed exclusively at GOMA.

The Enchanted Garden, presented by Royal Caribbean, returns this 23 November to transform Roma Street Parkland into a light-filled playground.

Besties, booze and brilliant art—paint and sip nights bring together all of our favourite things. 

Lumina has wowed audiences the world over, with jaw-dropping displays in Canada, Japan, Singapore and France—and now it’s heading for Brisbane. 

Just shy of a year ago, Melbourne's RISING took the city by a cross-cultural storm with around two weeks of electric events, gigs, performances and experiences, and the good news is that they're officially returning for 2023. Dates have been confirmed—for Wednesday 7 June through to Sunday 18 June—along with the first act. And it's set to be a showstopper. 

Dig out your swimmers and make tracks to Townsville, because an incredible new snorkel trail has just been anchored in the depths of the Great Barrier Reef.

The huge display of immersive art installations will light up the gardens in May.

Grande Experiences is giving Brisbane a major dose of Monet, along with a heap more of the world's most renowned artists of the Impressionist era.

Queens Plaza in the CBD is hosting The Art of Banksy: “Without Limits” exhibition featuring no less than 150 pieces from the world’s best graffiti artist. 

What do you do when it’s cold and rainy? What about when it’s hot and steamy? Go to an art gallery, of course. 

Neat freaks, look away now—we’ve found the messiest, craziest, paint-splattered activity in all of Brisbane, one which will let you have some fun and de-stress at the same time. Behold, the Splatter and Splash Room.  

Museum of the Moon is making that trip to space seem a lot closer than you would think...

We all know the best kind of art is the kind you can interact with, which is exactly what the epic art, science and technology festival taking over Brisbane in June and July is all about. 

Gearing up for another massive round of must-see art events and installations, the annual Brisbane Street Art Festival is returning to Brisbane for 2022.

Small, independent workshops have been popping up in every nook and shared space in Brisbane and we are living for the hot opportunity to upskill.

Chiharu Shiota’s epic exhibition ‘The Soul Trembles’ is heading straight for Brisbane for the first time.

Featuring three giant inflated bunnies illuminated by stark white light, Intrude is returning to Brisbane.

‘Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition’ is heading for Brisbane after touring the world over.

The super-hyped exhibition has been shown in 50 different cities around the world to some six million people and it's finally heading to Brisbane.

You'll know her as the artist who dipped Marty McFly’s sneakers in black paint, her interplanetary talent for photorealistic pencil drawings of ordinary items, and the fact that Jay-Z and Kanye West have her work in their private collections (true story). 

Surfers Paradise will be transformed into a circus-themed outdoor gallery of colour, movement, music and huge artworks this weekend for this year’s Beyond The Sand Art Festival and you won’t want to miss it.

If you’re looking for a new creative hub to discover the inner artistic genius you never knew you had, you’ll want to get yourself down to Dabbler—Brisbane’s first ceramic studio dedicated to handbuilding.

Sculpture By the River 2020 is here, and it’s taken over Northshore with a heap of incredible sculptures lining the River Walk.

It’s no secret that a lot of businesses in regional Australia have been doing it tough since the pandemic. And hopping in the car to hit up those cute hinterland shops isn’t always at the forefront of everyone’s mind.

Opening on Paddington’s Given Terrace, Brisbane's newest paint and sip studio Frida's is totally luxe.

Just when we thought QAGOMA couldn’t get any better, they've gone ahead and surprised us once more, announcing their plans to collaborate with the masterminds of the MET to bring the world class exhibit, ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’, straight to our backyard next year.

Brisbane Festival has found a way for us to enjoy the skies without fireworks, with the Sunsuper Night Sky set to light up the city skyline during September. 

You’ll be able to see a Lego version of City Hall from 17 July, when Museum of Brisbane is re-opening its doors to the public.

With the help of Moo+Twig, you can set about making a new DIY leather bow tie dog collar for your precious pooch.

In Yelarbon, a small town about three and a half hours west of Brisbane, the last dab of paint just went on to a massive mural covering an entire row of grain silos. 

For those missing the arts and culture scene, Brisbane's biggest and best cultural centres have announced their re-opening dates. 

We’ve teamed up with the minds behind Only T, who usually host BYO Tee Parties for screen printing and concrete pot making, to put together a home-delivered DIY pot making kit.

We’ve rounded up eight awesome locally made and delivered projects you can throw yourself into to send those iso blues out the door. Check out the list below, and prepare to get inspired. 

Dawdle’s mosaic terracotta pot craft boxes are filled with everything you need to decorate four mini terracotta pots with a colourful mosaic. 

Stave off boredom with an online pottery class from the team at Newstead’s Mas & Miek Ceramic House.

Fill your self-isolation weekends with virtual paint and sip classes, courtesy of Cork & Chroma. 

Crockd is all about getting out of your head and into your hands. It’s a DIY pottery kit that can be delivered right to your front door, so there’s no need to break quarantine to get your craft on. 

Whether you’re a fan of motorbikes or not, you’re going to want to hit the revved up new exhibition coming to QAGOMA in November 2020.

There’s no shortage of exhibitions and creative workshops happening around Melbourne. But this month, Can’t Do Tomorrow has really gathered them all under one roof. From street art to breathtaking installation to art chats and workshops, trust us when we say that Can’t Do Tomorrow is truly the only thing you’ll need to attend this month to get your fill on creative inspiration.

Can’t Do Tomorrow is making things easy for us this month when it comes to keeping you up to speed on what’s cool, new and trending. Why? Because the new underground festival has assembled everything that’s cool, new and trending under one roof this month.

You’ve probably already heard about Can’t Do Tomorrow, Melbourne’s new underground festival. And if you haven’t, here’s the quick lowdown: think 10 days packed with interactive installations, jaw-dropping street art, good vibes, hidden bars, live music, and the best part of it all: a chance to meet some of the peeps behind Urban List and mingle with other Urban Listers as well.

Melbourne’s most anticipated underground festival—Can't Do Tomorrow—is kicking off next week and you won’t want to miss it when it hits. With more than 100 artists showcasing exclusive works, secret bars, live acts that’ll get your blood pumping and interactive exhibitions that’ll blow your mind, you best believe this baby is almost sold out. So if you haven’t bought your ticket yet, we strongly suggest you do so ASAP. Use the promo code URBANCDT to get $10 off your ticket cost.

We're just days away from street art festival Can't Do Tomorrow kicking off at The Facility in Kensington. And with the array of amazing artists at the festival, you'd be mad not to take advantage of the bargain price of $25 to get in. 

In December we announced that a new street art festival would be hitting Melbourne in 2020, and now, just over a month later we’ve got our hands on the epic line-up that Can’t Do Tomorrow will be bringing to The Facility in Kensington.

Melbourne is home to some of the finest street art produced in Australia.

Brisbane is not short of free events that are sure to keep your social life AND your bank account happy.

You’ve no doubt already heard that a giant, boulder-filled riverbed is taking over GOMA this summer, but news has just dropped that the modern art gallery will also be hosting a real life snowman as a part of their ‘Water’ exhibition. 

The latest events pinging on the FOMO-meter are two immersive theatre installations called Séance and Flight so you should just resign yourself to the fact that you’ll never sleep again.

Not content with only lighting up our more-brown-than-blue river only one night of the year, Brisbane Festival is once again unleashing a spectacular light show on the banks of the city and South Bank, bringing back River of Light for its second year in a row.

Hidden treasures of the Sunshine Coast, often aren’t very hidden. But the hinterland gallery of world famous British pop artist, Peter Phillips is an exception. 

You open a door. There’s three doors ahead. Behind each of those doors is another door, which creeks open to reveal an abundance of doors. In your rational (slightly panicked) heart, you know that doors are a finite concept, that they can’t last forever. If only you could find the right one...

As if Brisbane wasn’t good-looking enough already, a bunch of talented street artists went and made it even prettier with their creative masterpieces. 

If you’ve always thought that the one thing the streets of Brisbane could really use a lot more of was the opportunity for group sing-a-longs, then you’re in luck with the arty exhibition hitting town this month. 

Even winter in the sub-tropics is a time of solitude and introspection, so it only makes sense that our culture scene hits the gas when the damp sets in. This July, Brisbane welcomes a whole slew of exhibitionist happenings guaranteed to lock us in a Cameron Frye-esque trance.

Picture yourself in the middle of a 100-square metre field of continuous rainfall, except whenever you move, the droplets avoid you like bullets in the Matrix—you’re fully immersed in the rain while simultaneously protected from it. Art group Random International’s monumental artwork, Rain Room, will make its Southern Hemisphere debut in Melbourne, having already captivated over half a million patrons worldwide. 

What ever happened to Magic Eye technology? We’ll tell you—it went high brow.