QCAD Galleries, Griffith University

QCAD Galleries, Griffith University QCAD Galleries, Queensland College of Art & Design Griffith University offer five exhibition spaces open to the public. Free Entry.

CRICOS: 00233E; TEQSA: PRV12076 This is the official page for Griffith University's QCA Galleries. QCA Galleries offers four exhibition spaces open to the public:

> The Webb Gallery – Ground Floor, Webb Centre QCA, 226 Grey Street, South Bank
> The Project Gallery – Ground Floor, Webb Centre QCA, 226 Grey Street, South Bank
> The White Box Gallery Gold Coast – Ground Floor G14 (Visual A

rts Building), Parklands Drive Gold Coast
> POP Gallery – 27 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba

Please check the galleries events page for current events and their opening hours. Opening Hours may vary with each exhibition. Established in 1881, the Queensland College of Art (QCA) is one of Australia's longest-running art and design colleges. It offers the widest range of visual art programs in Australia, and includes the Griffith Film School. Over the years we have brought together some of the finest practitioners and academics in the areas of visual arts, design, Indigenous art and the moving image, and produced some of Australia's leading visual artists and designers who have helped to shape the art and design culture of Queensland and Australia. Community Guidelines:

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IT’S PRIDE TIME! 🌈 ✨ Our Q***r Here exhibition is open and we’re going out with a bang! 🎊💥Get dressed up and make sure t...
04/09/2026

IT’S PRIDE TIME! 🌈 ✨ Our Q***r Here exhibition is open and we’re going out with a bang! 🎊💥Get dressed up and make sure to come to the forecourt from 5pm on 10th September! ✨

At 5pm there will be drag bingo with Abril Latrene 💙 Abril LaTrene 💙 and the opening of our new and current exhibitions at QCAD Galleries. Presented across the Grey Street Gallery and Webb Gallery are the 2026 Q***r Here Finalists. In Project Gallery we have Jemma Denigan’s ‘Recalibrate.’ Jemma Denigan

Q***r Here’s ‘Best in Show’ will also be announced on the evening by our judge Troy-Anthony Baylis Troy-Anthony Baylis 🎤 followed by music from DJ Jonny Sounds!🎶DJ Hire Gold Coast Brisbane Sunshine Coast Byron Bay

A huge thank you to the Griffith SRC and Brisbane Pride Brisbane Pride for their support of this event- it’s not possible without you! This event is open and free to everyone. For everyone’s safety and well-being, we’ll be limiting complimentary alcoholic beverages to three per person.



If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Q***r Here 2026 is opening tomorrow across Grey Street and Webb Galleries with twenty-two artists in our annual exhibiti...
02/09/2026

Q***r Here 2026 is opening tomorrow across Grey Street and Webb Galleries with twenty-two artists in our annual exhibition with Brisbane Pride.

This year’s judge is Troy-Anthony Baylis, whose practice has worked at the intersection of q***rness and Aboriginality for more than three decades. His work saw a considerable resurgence after being included in The National 2019: New Australian Art at Carriageworks, and he became the inaugural recipient of The Guildhouse Fellowship. Institutional solo exhibitions include Nomenclatures (Art Gallery of South Australia, 2020–21) and I Wanna Be Adorned (QUT Art Museum, 2023). He is currently the feature artist of the 2026 South Australian Living Artists Festival, with ‘Pile-up’ showing at Adelaide Central Gallery, and is the subject of the monograph ‘Let It Bleed’ (Wakefield Press), which traverses his output from his early years in Meanjin/Brisbane onward.

Join us for the prize celebration event on 10th September, 5–8 pm. More details to come! ✨

Exhibition dates: 3-12 September | Grey Street + Webb Galleries

Troy-Anthony Baylis

Brisbane Pride

ON VIEW AT WEBB GALLERYSOFT RESISTANCE: Hannaneh Qiumarsi‘Soft Resistance’ inhabits the space between tenderness and res...
19/08/2026

ON VIEW AT WEBB GALLERY

SOFT RESISTANCE: Hannaneh Qiumarsi

‘Soft Resistance’ inhabits the space between tenderness and restraint. Soft, unfamiliar forms inhabit the gallery, hovering between the bodily and the otherworldly. Drawn from bodily textures, underwater creatures and unruly forms in nature, they exist without needing to behave, conform or explain themselves. Through sculpture and sound, the exhibition imagines softness not as fragility, but as a quiet way of resisting, adapting and taking up space.

This is an interactive exhibition. You’re invited to play, touch and move through the works. Please be mindful of your surroundings and don’t put weight on the suspended works.

Exhibition dates: Now till 29th August 2026
Celebration event: Thursday 20th August 2026
Opening hours: 10 - 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday

ON VIEW AT GREY STREET GALLERYROCKET SCIENCE: Michael BrennanROCKET SCIENCE brings together a collection of recent paint...
18/08/2026

ON VIEW AT GREY STREET GALLERY

ROCKET SCIENCE: Michael Brennan

ROCKET SCIENCE brings together a collection of recent paintings by Michael Brennan. Centred on one of his most ambitious works to date – a ten-panel composition stretching almost six-meters wide – the show foregrounds the troubling juxtaposition of ambitions and priorities in time where individuals with unprecedented wealth pursue interplanetary colonisation as opposed to directing resources towards the problems we face on our own planet.

Michael Brennan

Exhibition Dates: Now till 29th August 2026
Celebration Event: 20th August 2026

Rachel McLatchey’s exhibition ‘The Accessory, The Other’ will be open for viewing this QCAD Thursday 20th August at 5-7p...
18/08/2026

Rachel McLatchey’s exhibition ‘The Accessory, The Other’ will be open for viewing this QCAD Thursday 20th August at 5-7pm! You’ll find this body of work at the Preview, located on level 6 in S02 Webb Centre.

‘The Accessory, The Other’ is a series of three oil paintings that explore a connection between architectural ornamentation and the historical treatment of women as accessories. As Western Modernism emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ornamentation was increasingly dismissed as unnecessary, privileging function over decoration. This concept has been paralleled with the historical marginalising of women as an accessory, possessing mere aesthetic value and reproductive capabilities. Each painting is constructed from appropriated ornamental imagery, engaging with central core imagery to embody and reclaim that which has been dismissed as redundant and nugatory. The Accessory, The Other identifies and critiques a cultural feminising of visual imagery, specifically within architecture, and the subconscious conflating of femininity and aesthetics.

rachel

The Preview is an exhibition space for current QCAD students to explore, test and exhibit new works.

QCAD Thursday is on this week - and there are so many talented artists to see! 🤩 Come and be inspired by our current exh...
17/08/2026

QCAD Thursday is on this week - and there are so many talented artists to see! 🤩 Come and be inspired by our current exhibiting artists engaging across painting, sculptural installation, printmaking and textiles. We so look forward to seeing everyone there! 🥂🍾✨

When: Thursday, 20 August, 5 - 7 pm
Where: 226 Grey St, Southbank.

ROCKET SCIENCE: Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan

MATIÈRE: Anna Krispel, Catherine Henley, Chloe Forbes, Claudia Mazzotta & Jeanette Stok.

Curated by Bree Di Mattina.


Chloe Forbes
Catherine Henley
Anna Krispel
Claudia Mazzotta
Jeanette Stok

SOFT RESISTANCE: Hannaneh Qiumarsi

Hana[حَنـ‌ـا]]

RESELECTION SERIES: Ana Manzur-Allan

Ana Manzur - Allan

We are so excited to announce the artists for this year’s ‘Q***r Here’ exhibition! ✨Q***r Here 2026 is an annual exhibit...
14/08/2026

We are so excited to announce the artists for this year’s ‘Q***r Here’ exhibition! ✨

Q***r Here 2026 is an annual exhibition that celebrates the stories, visions and talents of q***r creatives. In partnership with Brisbane Pride, this finalist exhibition brings together over twenty q***r artists from Brisbane/Meanjin who engage across mediums of photography, painting, drawing, digital media and installation.

The works are variously self-reflective, tender and humorous, engaging with warm and sometimes painful memories, desires and intimate relationships. These contemplations extend into an intersectional consideration of the ways race, ethnicity and class shape q***r experiences. Some works also directly engage with political resistance and resilience, highlighting the continuing adversities experienced in the artists’ own lives and within the broader q***r community.

All are invited to join our celebration event on Thursday 10th September 5-7 pm. Here the ‘Best in Show” $500 prize will be announced, generously sponsored by Brisbane Pride.

Please give a warm congratulations our finalists! 👏

ON VIEW AT PROJECT GALLERYMATIÈRE: Anna Krispel, Catherine Henley, Chloe Forbes, Claudia Mazzotta & Jeanette Stok. Curat...
12/08/2026

ON VIEW AT PROJECT GALLERY

MATIÈRE: Anna Krispel, Catherine Henley, Chloe Forbes, Claudia Mazzotta & Jeanette Stok.

Curated by Bree Di Mattina.

MATIÈRE
Anna Krispel, Catherine Henley, Chloe Forbes, Claudia Mazzotta & Jeanette Stok.

Curated by Bree Di Mattina.

MATIÈRE is an exploration of textiles as methodology, not simply material. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering work of Anni Albers, MATIÈRE foregrounds haptic skills, using familiar materials in unfamiliar ways. Beginning with textiles and associated concepts and skills, each artist creates works which extend the traditional possibilities of their chosen materials and forms.




Chloe Forbes
Catherine Henley
Anna Krispel
Claudia Mazzotta
Jeanette Stok

Exhibition dates: 11 August - 22 August 2026
Celebration event: 20 August 5-7pm
Location: Project Gallery, 226 Grey St, Brisbane City (Southbank) campus, Brisbane.

ON VIEW AT GREY STREET GALLERYSENSATIONAL NONSENSE: Eliza Bertwistle ‘Sensational Nonsense’ delves into the sensory-emot...
05/08/2026

ON VIEW AT GREY STREET GALLERY

SENSATIONAL NONSENSE: Eliza Bertwistle

‘Sensational Nonsense’ delves into the sensory-emotional impacts of decoration to playfully critique gendered hierarchies of aesthetic taste. Throughout this body of work, Bertwistle explores euphoric memories triggered from sensory experiences with visually indulgent objects.

Eliza Bertwistle

Exhibition dates: Now till 15 August 2026
Celebration event: 6th August 2026
Location: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey St, Southbank.

It’s nearly that time of the week! QCAD Thursdays is back tomorrow. ✨ Check out this incredible line up of artists! Ther...
05/08/2026

It’s nearly that time of the week! QCAD Thursdays is back tomorrow. ✨ Check out this incredible line up of artists! There is so much to see across our gallery spaces and we look forward to celebrating with you all. See you there at 5pm, August 6th.

SENSATIONAL NONSENSE: Eliza Bertwistle

Eliza Bertwistle

THE OTHER WORLD: Laura Pittam, Sophie Clews and Ziggy Crook

Laura sophie clews ziggy

SEARCHING FOR SIBYL: Emma Gardner

Emma Gardner

NEON POP: Allison Polson

Allison Polson

📍 Where: QCAD, Brisbane City campus, 226 Grey St Southbank

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South Brisbane, QLD
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