Echoes - Toni Bren-Clarke
Echoes is a series of oil paintings by Toni Bren-Clarke. Drawing inspiration from childhood memories of in-between moments with her grandparents, Toni’s artworks speak to a nostalgic relationship with objects and spaces.
Image: Toni BREN-CLARKE / Washing 2025 / oil on board / 61 x 61cm / © Toni Bren-Clarke
Exhibition | Pigeon Teeth | Aaron Hine
Pigeon Teeth is an imaginative ink and acrylic exhibition by local artist Aaron Hine, presenting each work as a single frame in a larger unfolding tale.
Image: Aaron HINE / Parasite 2025 / acrylic on timber / 60 x 90cm / © Aaron Hine
Motamo - Making books, together, across the sky!
Celebrate our ongoing contribution to this international spectacular. Toowoomba has been representing Australia in the last three Biennales of Children's Books, images, words, books, and bibliophilia inspiring a new batch of drawings for Jardin in 2027
The Mistletoe Waltz
This exhibition explores how environmental art practices can unearth and archive positive symbiotic stories. The artist’s sister’s property has experienced increased birdlife since becoming regenerative. Habitat loss is the key threat to the painted honey eater, traditionally farmers have shunned mistletoe, considering it a weed.
Colour Pop
Colour Pop draws together the work of twenty-one contemporary Australian artists who have a connection with Toowoomba and the University of Southern Queensland. Working with colour as their primary inspiration, these artists explore the boundaries of materiality, experience and perception.
The White Rabbit: A Journey into the Unknown
Darling Downs Textile Art Group presents The White Rabbit: A Journey into the Unknown, an exhibition of white textiles where artists explore subjects of adventure, growth and curiosity through their own narratives.
Image: Jo EAGLE / Embarking from the core 2026 (detail) / mixed media textile / 30 x 30 x 30cm / © Jo Eagle
Ode to Tidal Whispers - Sarah Hotchin
Local artist Sarah Hotchin unveils her first solo exhibition Ode to Tidal Whispers. This installation of hand-built ceramics and original illustrations offers an intimate glimpse into a world shaped by daily journaling.
Image: Sarah HOTCHIN / 3 fringe haircuts, a post it note & a shadow looming 2026 / white mid fire clay & black underglaze / 25.0 x 25.0 x 2.5cm / © Sarah Hotchin
Secrets: Objects of Intrigue
Secrets are at the heart of what it means to be human. What we reveal, and conceal, from others shapes our identity.
This intriguing Queensland Museum exhibition presents the deeply individual and universally human phenomenon of secrets.
Secrets: Objects of Intrigue explores secrets through the variety lenses of daily home life, from behind bars in popular culture and throughout military and political history.
Exhibition | 'Missing Title'
Missing Title is a visual discussion between local artists, Angela Mottram and Natasha Wills, exploring the current LANDscape of things in general through this mixed media exhibition.
Although stylistically different, the ideas of belonging or not belonging, and personal relationships to location run though both bodies of work.
Exhibition | Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai
FREE ADMISSION | GALLERY OPEN: Wednesday to Sunday 10.30am – 3.30pm | Closed Monday, Tuesday & Public Holidays
Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai brings together over fifty of the artist’s most significant and iconic prints, including rare and never-before-exhibited monoprints, etchings, and linoprints from Djumbunji Fine Art Press and private collections. Curated by Dr Russell Milledge, this retrospective was developed in close consultation with the Billy Missi Estate, family members and friends, highlighting Missi’s critical role in the emergence of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait) printmaking as a contemporary art form.
The Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai exhibition honours Missi’s artistic legacy and his dedication to maintaining the language and culture of his people. The bilingual exhibition features diverse forms of printmaking and a film, presenting an immersive experience into contemporary Torres Strait Islander culture and customs. Audiences will gain a deep appreciation for Missi’s work, reflecting his way of life, traditions, and enduring legacy.
Exhibition I Alchemy: Works by Sir Lionel Lindsay
Australian artist Sir Lionel Lindsay once invoked "the strange alchemy of Fate.' Alchemy means, among other things, transforming base elements into gold.
For one reviewer, 'Lindsay, by an alchemy of his own, plucks light from the air and plants it on paper.' After his death in 1961, Lindsay's brother Daryl wrote, 'His studio was like a 16th century Alchemist's den.'
Exhibition I Autumn: Views of the Season
Ablaze with colour, cool in melancholy or ripe for serene reflection, the autumn of life is the summit of maturity and a stage of decline and fall. This exhibition conveys some of the tones, moods and emotions associated with autumn.
Exhibition I Contemplations of Reproduction
Drawing on themes of materiality; process, repetition, biology and personal narratives, artists Vivien Bedwell, Renee Kire, Clare Poppi, Hannaneh Qiumarsi, Katie Stormonth and Rebekah Walkarden explore differing perspectives of 'reproduction' through a variety of mediums from contemporary wearable pieces to small sculptural objects in their exhibition Contemplations of Reproduction.
Ellis Rowan: Colonialism and Nature Painting
Step into the captivating world of Ellis Rowan, a trailblazing 19th-century Australian botanical artist whose breathtaking watercolours and solo expeditions pushed the boundaries of art and exploration.
This exhibition highlights Rowan's remarkable travels from 1880 to 1910, taking you on a journey from Rockhampton to the Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea, through extraordinary paintings, sketches, diary entries, and photographs.
Experience the beauty and detail of Rowan’s work through 28 original watercolour paintings depicting plants and flowers, paired with objects from the Queensland Museum Collection that explore how First Nations peoples used these plants in everyday life.

