Exhibitions & Art Fairs.
From the Fred Genis Collection: Marks of a Master
Drawing from the archive of the Genis Family, this exhibition pays tribute to the late Fred Genis (1934–2022), a master lithographer whose technical brilliance and collaborative spirit left an indelible mark on Australian contemporary art.
Featuring the work of Allen Gamble, Charles Blackman, Colin Lanceley, Frank Hodgekinson, Fred Genis, Guan Wei, John Coburn, John Firth-Smith, John Olsen, Judy Cassab, Judy Watson, LIoyd Rees, Patsy Payne, Robert Jacks, Tim Storrier, William Robinson and Phillip Wolfhagen.
Today, works printed by Fred Genis are held in major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate Modern (London), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), among many others.
Join us to celebrate this exhibition on Saturday June 28
3pm - 5pm | RSVP Here
Sydney Contemporary 2025
Sydney Contemporary is Australasia’s premier art fair – the largest and most diverse gathering of leading contemporary art galleries from Australia, New Zealand, Asia and around the world.
Staged at Carriageworks, Australia’s largest multi-arts centre, the Fair welcomes over 95 emerging and established galleries, showcasing the work of over 500 artists presenting the best in contemporary and modern art.
Aotearoa Art Fair
PARKER Contemporary’s presentation at Aotearoa Art Fair 2025 introduces New Zealand collectors and curators to the compelling narratives and critical perspectives emerging from Australia’s vibrant print culture.
Presenting the work of Carolyn Craig, Clinton Barker, Chris Hagen, Matthew Hurdle, Claudia Husband, Pat Hoffie, Tim Mosely, Michael Phillips and Ross Woodrow. The gallery showcases artists who push the boundaries of papermaking, intaglio, relief, lithography, and silk-screening—engaging with these mediums for their critical conceptual concerns.
Alethea Richter: Pulse Systems
In response to our post-digital world, Alethea Richter’s Pulse Systems extends her engagement with digital fluidity and fixed structures through screenprinting. By translating digital marks alongside hand-generated marks, Richter explores the ephemeral qualities of screens—fluctuating luminosity, transient colours, and movement to create a dynamic works of expansion and contraction, that resists static interpretation.
Exhibition Opening
Saturday April 12
3pm to 5PM | RSVP Here
Enduring Proof: 30 Years of Contemporary Printmaking in Focus
Printmaking is often thought of as a process of multiplication, yet within each edition lies something singular—a mark of artistic exploration, a moment of innovation, a lasting impression. Enduring Proof brings together a selection of prints created over the past 30 years, revisiting the ways artists have engaged with the medium as a space for experimentation, refinement, and risk-taking.
Drawn from the QCA folio box archive held by the printmaking studio at the Queensland College of Art and Design, this collection highlights a diverse range of contemporary artists who have worked in print in Brisbane at pivotal moments in their careers—some at the very beginning, others in established phases of their practice. Many of these artists have since become highly regarded figures in contemporary art, making these prints more than just artefacts of the past; they are testaments to artistic evolution, to ideas that took shape through ink and pressure, and to the enduring relevance of print as a contemporary art form.
Exhibition Opening
Saturday March 29
3pm - 5pm | RSVP
View Exhibition Catalogue Here
This exhibition is supported and sponsored by 2024 Turnbull Fellow,
Emily Parker of PARKER Contemporary and courtesy of Cobalt Editions.
Consider supporting the future of The Turnbull Award in recognising exemplary print practice at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University.
Enrolling at QCA in 2001, aged 35 Iain Turnbull graduated with 1st class honours in 2005 in printmaking. Sadly in late 2006 he was diagnosed with cancer, which lead to his premature death in 2009z this award was established to celebrate the transformative nature of Iain Trumbull’s experience in the QCAD print studio and support the continuing legacy of teaching through material practices and printmaking at QCAD.
Ross Woodrow: Order from Ruins
Featuring classical fragments of columns and capitals pulled from large copper-plate etchings, Woodrow references the agency and impact of these long-established and architectural orders not to advocate for a return to rules or codes, but to their scale, coloration, and muscular surface as a material metaphor and comparison to the human body. These columns and capitals, with their intricate, fluid and evolving character, manifest a millennia-old impulse to shape stone, marble, and now etched copper, into an anthropomorphic microcosmos, transcending any logical rules or ways of thinking. Experience this compelling dialogue between architecture and the human body up close, and discover how Woodrow’s practice invites you to rethink the boundaries of material, form, and meaning.
Exhibition Opening RSVP
Saturday February 15
3pm - 5pm