Exhibitions
New Light Group Showcase
13th February - 3rd MarchLethbridge Gallery represented artists are invited to explore light in all its form- moments of clarity, renewed focus, or the vitality found in everyday scenes.
Traces of Home
6th - 24th MarchTraces of Home gathers five artists whose varied approaches to landscape evoke the places that shape us—whether remembered, observed or imagined. Together, their works trace the emotional and visual threads that tether us to home and place.
Featuring works by Joe Whyte, Lars Vester, Tim Grey, Sarah Waghorn and Karen Brock
Elsewhere
27th March - 21st April'Elsewhere' presents a conversation between three distinctive painters whose work navigates impressionist sensibilities and faux-naïve visual language. From the psychologically charged and immediate figuration of Peter Berner, to the intuitive, textured landscapes of Brisbane-born Todd Whisson, this exhibition celebrates diverse responses to observation and memory. Alongside them, Californian-born Gary Abkin brings a lively, narrative-driven approach to figuration and landscape that plays with form and sentiment in equal measure. Together, their works invite viewers to consider familiar scenes and figures elsewhere – reimagined through personal vision, expressive mark-making and a blend of directness and poetic ambiguity.
Dita Angeles
23rd April - 12th MayNew Zealand–born artist Dita Angeles is known for her meticulously rendered photorealist oil paintings that probe the construction of identity and social presence. Emerging from a strong foundation in portraiture, her practice has evolved into a conceptual examination of behaviour, ego and anonymity, often blurring the line between visibility and concealment. Drawing on two decades of professional practice and lived experience across the Asia Pacific region, Angeles’ work offers a psychologically charged and quietly unsettling reflection on how we perform and perceive the self. This exhibition marks her first solo presentation with the gallery.
Soft Hours
15th May - 6th JuneSoft Hours brings together a group of female artists whose practices centre on figurative, self-reflective approaches to making. Across painting and drawing, the exhibition explores moments of interiority—quiet gestures, private thoughts, and the subtle negotiations between self and world. Intimate in tone and attentive to emotional nuance, Soft Hours invites viewers into spaces of pause, vulnerability and contemplation, where the figure becomes a site for reflection rather than performance.
Featuring works by Elise Clements, Sarah Lubcke, Lori Pensini, Jennifer Allnutt and Summer Aldis.
Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize
1st - 23rd JuneThe Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize is one of Australia’s most respected awards for landscape art, established in 1990 and celebrated for its rich history of recognising excellence in interpretation of the land. Open nationally, the prize invites artists to explore traditional and expansive notions of landscape—from natural scenery to urbanscape and interior environments—with a generous major award and acquisitive legacy that has brought many significant works into the Tattersall’s collection.
Marisa Veerman
26 June - 14 July 2026An emerging force in the art world, Marisa has now established a unique space through the creation of mixed media photographic works that are embellished with fine embroidery and beading. Using carefully staged and costumed models, Veerman utilises light and long-exposure times to effect a melancholic and ethereal beauty, transcendent of time and place.
Jane Grealy
17 July - 4 August 2026Queensland-based artist Jane Grealy brings a distinctive architectural eye to contemporary drawing and watercolour. With a career spanning decades as an architectural illustrator, Grealy’s practice is grounded in precision, perspective and close observation, now redirected toward an evocative exploration of place and environment. Her work considers the tension between natural landscapes and the built world, reflecting on what is preserved, what is imagined, and what may be at risk. A recipient of major national awards, including the Dobell Drawing Prize, Grealy’s upcoming exhibition continues her thoughtful and technically accomplished engagement with space, environment and change.
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Lethbridge Small-Scale Art Award
8 - 25 AugustThe Small-Scale Art Award celebrates the art of compact creativity, inviting artists to submit works no larger than 61 cm in any direction across painting, drawing and three-dimensional media. Now in its 17th year, the award recognises innovation, technical skill and originality in small form, offering a significant cash prize and the opportunity for national and international exposure. Finalists’ works are exhibited together, highlighting the remarkable ambition and diversity that can be realised on an intimate scale.
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Alexandra Matthews
28 August - 22 SeptemberBrisbane-based artist Alexandra Matthews brings a deeply observant eye to the landscapes and urban vernacular that shape our sense of place. With a practice rooted in careful observation, light and architectural detail, Matthews revisits familiar scenes to reveal their poetry and resonance through time. Her richly layered paintings balance illustrative precision with a painterly sensitivity, reflecting both the intimacy of neighbourhood streets and broader moods of light and atmosphere. Across a distinguished career marked by prize success and solo exhibitions, Matthews continues to explore how place holds memory, meaning and quiet beauty.
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Scott Breton
25 September - 13 OctoberBrisbane-based figurative artist Scott Breton combines classical training with a uniquely contemporary vision to explore the living presence of figure, form and space in his work. With a practice informed by deep study of traditional drawing, painting and sculptural media, Breton’s compositions often convey a sense of aliveness and psychological depth, where gesture and structure meet imagination and atmosphere. A recipient of Australia’s prestigious A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship, his work bridges the enduring principles of representational art with fresh insights into the human experience. Breton’s upcoming exhibition offers a new chapter in his ongoing investigation of form, psyche and the poetic potential of the painted surface.
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Bronwyn Hill
16 October - 10 NovemberBronwyn Hill’s practice is rooted in a poetic interplay between portraiture, still life and quiet introspection. Known for her luminous, photoreal oil paintings, Hill explores moments of solitude, contemplation and inner life through subtle colour, refined surfaces and an attentive use of light and shadow. Her work often blurs the boundaries between figure and object, presenting isolated forms that invite reflection on presence, absence and the narratives we carry within us. With a substantial exhibition history and numerous awards and prizes to her name, Hill continues to extend the expressive possibilities of representational painting.
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Lisa Christensen
13 November - 15 DecemberLisa Christensen’s richly detailed still-life paintings spring from a deep fascination with colour, form and the poetic resonance of humble everyday objects. Rooted in a love for traditional still-life and informed by the evocative legacies of Dutch and Spanish 17th-century painting, her work often conjures something otherworldly from domestic subjects, suggesting themes of impermanence, presence and quiet contemplation. With a thoughtful approach to detail, Christensen continues to explore how simple forms carry rich emotional and visual depth.