Exhibitions

So Baroque! By Llewellyn Skye

1 - 19 March 2024

Llewellyn Skye is a dynamic, passionate and soulful visual artist that draws inspiration from nature, in particular florals. Skye seeks to explore the paradox of strength in fragility along with her own very personal experiences of love, loss and grief.

Fenton & Fenton Rising Talent 2021 winner, ALA Abstract Artist 2021 winner, BLA 2018 winner, highly commended in the John Olsen drawing prize, a painting residency in Italy and various notable private and public commissions. With a strong background in drawing, showing in over 60 exhibitions and 14 solo shows, Skye is predominately an oil painter working from still life floral set ups in her studio.


Echoes of Resilience by Todd Whisson

22 March - 16 April

In my exploration of landscapes and seascapes, I forge a profound connection with nature's dynamic forces, exploring the interplay between the external world and my inner landscape. Standing before rugged rocks and timeless headlands, I sense echoes of my inner strength amidst life's currents. Yet, alongside this stability, a dynamic energy pulses—a longing to embrace life's rhythms.

In my paintings, I capture the tension between these forces, weaving stillness and motion into a symphony of light and colour. Within 'Echoes of Resilience: Exploring the Interplay of Land and Sea,' solidity converges with fluidity, and permanence intertwines with impermanence. The enduring nature of the land undergoes perpetual transformation, echoing the ever-evolving journey of the human spirit. These artworks serve as windows into the depths of the human experience, guiding towards profound insights and a deeper appreciation for my interconnectedness of all things.


Golden Light by Kathy Ellem

22 March - 16 April 2024

Kathy Ellem is a realist painter, known for depictions of Australian rural life and is well-regarded as an equestrian artist, with a passion for painting draught horses.
Based in North East Victoria in the Greta Valley, Ellem works from her studio in her farm's original tobacco kiln.
Ellem began painting and sculpting full-time in 2009, and is the recipient of a number of Australian and international awards for her work. Her artistic philosophy states that her "creative intent remains simple. The world we live in today is full of fear and anger. Rather than add to it, I want to create works which balance that out. I want people to look at my paintings and feel up-lifted; to feel a sense of joy."


Jane Grealy

19th April - 7th May


Lethbridge Landscape Prize

11 - 28 May 2024

The award invites all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape, from conventional to the unusual, and from monumental to intricate. The definition of ‘landscape’ has been extended to include urbanscapes and interiors.


Alexandra Matthews

1 - 18 June 2024


Bronwyn Searle

1 - 18 June 2024

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.


Scott McDougall

21 June - 9 July 2024

Scott McDougall’s career spans an impressive four decades. Since beginning his artist’s practice in Queensland, Scott has travelled extensively, capturing intimately observed moments across the globe. Employing highly refined painting techniques Scott’s paintings poetically describe places and people using beautifully controlled colour harmonies, carefully modulated tones and an exacting attention to detail.


Matt James

21 June - 9 July 2024

Brisbane artist Matt James’ art practice is focussed upon landscape painting and drawing. Having grown up in rural West Wales, Matt’s love of the outdoors is the key driver of his dynamic works.

Based on pencil and oil sketches created in situ, from photographs, and from his recollection of locations, Matt’s dynamic representations of place arise from a synthesis of memory and sense impressions. Considered observation of the shape of the landscape, the movement of clouds, the perception of distance and the shifting of light inform Matt’s thickly textured approach, allowing him to move between representational and abstract responses to places.


Lethbridge 20000

13 - 30 July 2024

With a first prize of $20 000, the Lethbridge Art Award is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit a 2D or 3D artwork up to 61cm (24 inches) in height, width, or depth. Judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality, and skill.


Joe Whyte

2 -20 August 2024

Joe Whyte is a Melbourne-based Visual Artist and Illustrator. After graduating from Monash University with a degree in Visual Communication, he spent time developing his craft, studying classical drawing, and painting in Argenton-Chateau, France. Working in various drawing mediums and oil paints, his intricate works draw inspiration from the people, places and character of Melbourne's inner-north.

Joe has exhibited widely and has been shortlisted for numerous awards both nationally and internationally. He was the winner of the 2020 A.M.E Bale Drawing Prize.


Warren Crossett

2 - 20 August 2024

Warren Crossett is an artist based in Melbourne whose work is often an ode to the past, with elements of the old masters and surrealism mixed together, often employing symbols and metaphors. When depicting general subjects the philosophy of beauty in simple things is displayed as well as commitment to working from life.

His subject matter ranges from portraiture, landscapes, still life and conceptual themes with incorporated symbology.


Marisa Veerman

23 August - 17 September 2024

Marisa Veerman is a Brisbane based fine artist working in the areas of photography and textiles. Forging a career as a textile visual merchandiser in fabric boutiques across the state, Marisa was well known for her creative expertise in sculpting theatrical pieces on mannequins using pins and fabric alone.

An emerging force in the art world, Marisa has now established a unique space through the creation of mixed media photographic works that are embellished with fine embroidery and beading. Using carefully staged and costumed models, Veerman utilises light and long-exposure times to effect a melancholic and ethereal beauty, transcendent of time and place.


Scott Breton

20 September - 15 October 2024

Using a range of traditional drawing, painting and sculpting media as well as exploring digital counterparts to these, Scott sees plastic composition rather than any particular media as the core of the classical ethos. He is interested in how this sense of plasticity can be utilised by the contemporary artist. This endeavour seems to closely mirror a more general exploration of how the specifics of the contemporary human experience relate to and can be informed by insights about the human condition that have emerged across all of human history.


Bronwyn Hill

18 October - 5 November 2024

Bronwyn Hill (b.1989) is a Brisbane based painter. Predominantly focusing on portrait and figurative work, Hill is recognized by her photo-real oil paintings that follow a narrative, exploring self-analysis and introspection that are often inspired by moments in solitude. Hill's use of light and shadow is a recurring feature to her work along with the contrast of high detail and soft layering techniques.


Lisa Christensen

8 - 26 November 2024

Redcliffe-based artist Lisa Christensen graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), majoring in painting. Lisa has exhibited in Brisbane and the South-East Corner, and her work has been selected for various prizes including the Thiess Art Prize, Gadens Top Ten, Clayton Utz Art Award and the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize.

Lisa’s paintings have evolved out of a “love for detail, colour and form, and the desire to convey something otherworldly with humble everyday objects”.

Extending on the rich history of still-life painting, Lisa is influenced by the Dutch and Spanish still-life paintings of the 17th century, that focused on themes of mortality through the depiction of flowers, fruits and other domestic objects that stand as reminders of impermanence in this life.


Jodie Wells

29th November - 21st December 2024

Jodie Wells has exhibited extensively around Australia since 2007. In that time, she has held a number of solo exhibitions and her work has been selected as a finalist in many of Australia’s top art prizes, including the Duke Prize in 2011. Jodie’s paintings are held in the Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery collection, as well as in private collections around Australia and England.
Jodie manages to capture her images in what is perceived to be minimal broad strokes of paint, spread with a palette knife. Her richly textured style combined with a dramatic colour palette creates vivid interpretations of nature


Curator's Pick - Under $5,000


Nature's Canvas - A selection of landscapes


The Figure


Little Works