Cairns Pride Art Exhibition 2024 Cairns Pride Art Exhibition 2024 Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns 5 Oct—3 Nov
Kitchen Sink: TAFE Qld Diploma Graduates Of 2024 Kitchen Sink: TAFE Qld Diploma Graduates Of 2024 Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns 15 Nov—15 Dec
New Frequencies New Frequencies Yvonne Hering (Exhibition & Residency) Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns 20 Dec—19 Jan
Women Ink: A Celebration of Cairns’ Female Artists Women Ink: A Celebration of Cairns’ Female Artists By The Collective Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns 20 Dec—19 Jan
Nature’s Wonders: Cairns’ Flora and Fauna Nature’s Wonders: Cairns’ Flora and Fauna Ludwine Probst (Residency) Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns 1 Nov—19 Dec
Preview Present moments at the Gold Coast Triennial Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community. Sally Gearon
Feature Archie Moore’s family ties For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead. Maya Hodge
Preview Reviving the potter’s quarter In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece. Michelle Wang
Feature Rochelle Haley creates safe spaces through public art Rochelle Haley is responding to the need for safe spaces in a new public artwork at Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct, Lunar Sway, that blends light and colour to create a sense of calm. Briony Downes
Preview The immersive storytelling of Leah King-Smith rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation. Briony Downes
Feature Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When finally makes sense of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank. It is worth the plane flight. In The Rites of When, Angelica Mesiti considers the rituals that may mark the seasons in our burning planet. The Tank has been waiting for art like this. Joanna Mendelssohn