What to do and see in Brisbane, Queensland: The Best Art Galleries

Birrunga Gallery & Dining is an Indigenous art gallery, cafe, and bar which offers visitors multi-sensational experiences with authentic First Nations culture in the heart of Brisbane - through art, music, dance, artefacts, food, tours, & classes. Our original art is a curated and eclectic collection of various local and regional Indigenous practising artists who define their histories and stories through visual commentary. Original art, prints, textiles, and artisan hand-crafted weapons, didgeridoos, boomerangs, clapsticks, bull-roarers, baskets, and coolamons for sale. Or create your own in one of our guided traditional carving or weaving workshops. Appreciate the art through our series of gallery owner guided art tours, or learn a new appreciation through social sip and paint classes, or Aboriginal ancestry art classes. Lastly, if you're thirsty or hungry pause for a moment in our ambient in-house cafe, with a bush tucker/native ingredient menu - featuring kangaroo, emu, and croc.

Founded in 1896, State Library of Queensland is the leading reference and research library in Queensland. State Library is responsible for collecting and preserving a comprehensive collection of Queensland’s cultural and documentary heritage, providing free access to information for all Queenslanders and for the advancement of public libraries across the State. State Library plays a lead role in serving all Queenslanders, through state-wide library services and partnerships with more than 320 vibrant public libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Centres in Queensland.

FireWorks Gallery - known for exhibiting and promoting artworks by some of Australia’s best contemporary artists – is located in a renovated concrete warehouse, featuring an impressive double-storey void overlooking Breakfast Creek. Artworks are sourced from across Australia and showcased through exhibitions. Unique collections - private and corporate - are developed featuring established and emerging artists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. FireWorks emerged as a commercial gallery space in Brisbane in 1993, following the networks of Campfire Group consultancies and collaborative projects which began in 1987. The galleries original byline tag, Aboriginal Art & Other Burning Issues set the scene for contemporary art dialogue in Brisbane and beyond.

ArtWorld Studio Gallery is a space dedicated towards displaying, creating, and teaching all things art-related. Founded and owned by Curator Astrid La Fleur, the Studio Gallery aims to bring the joys of art to the Brisbane region. All are welcome to view our regular Gallery exhibitions during opening hours. We also run weekly workshops in painting, printmaking, life drawing and more.

Established in 2004, the Woolloongabba Art Gallery has quickly become one of Queensland's leading galleries, dedicated to the exhibition and sale of quality contemporary art. Representing a stylistically varied selection of local and Australasian art by established and emerging artists, Woolloongabba Art Gallery's regular exhibition program is complemented with substantial stockroom holdings of works by represented artists. With an ethos stepped in cultural appreciation, the gallery sources its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander exhibitions through 100% owned and operated art centres.

Mitchell Fine Art is a modern new gallery showcasing a selection of Contemporary and Aboriginal artists via an annual calendar of solo and group exhibitions. The gallery holds regular Exhibition Openings and free Artists Talks enabling art lovers the opportunity to engage with artists and learn about their artistic practices.

Since opening in 2008, Edwina Corlette has shown a commitment to the long-term promotion of a select group of contemporary artists from Australia and the Asia Pacific region, whose practices employ a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation and digital art. Located on Brunswick Street in Brisbane, the gallery offers a diverse, annual curatorial program of solo and group exhibitions, artist talks, collaborations and offsite projects including participation in art fairs, and is recognised as one of Brisbane’s leading contemporary art spaces showcasing emerging and mid-career artists. A testament to this is the gallery’s placement of its artists' work into important institutional collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Artbank, the University of Queensland Art Museum and the Parliament House Collection in Canberra.