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Roaming Among the Flowers by Jodie Wells

29th November - 21st December 2024

Inspired by the beauty of Brisbane’s gardens and parks, this series brings together the plants, birds, and of course, dogs that make these spaces so lively.
Using a restrained colour palette, I explore the relationship between nature and its animal inhabitants within a suburban landscape.

Christmas Exhibition

9 November - 14 December

Lethbridge Gallery is honoured to partner with Riparian Plaza to bring you a special Christmas Exhibition during the holiday season.

We are thrilled to include artworks by established contemporary artists from Brisbane and beyond in this collection.

Artists to Watch

7 - 25 February 2025

Artists to Watch introduces four exciting new talents to our gallery. Showcasing landscapes, still lifes, and figurative works, these artists bring distinctive voices and remarkable potential, offering fresh perspectives across diverse styles.

Featuring: Nick Offer, Sachi Oizumi, Natasha Ruschka and Andrew Bennett.

Fresh Perspectives

7 - 25 February 2025

The collection celebrates fresh beginnings with 1-2 new works from every gallery artist. This vibrant collection rings in the new year with diverse perspectives and a shared vision for the future.

Blue Skies

28 February - 18 March 2025

Blue Skies features new collections by Stephen Inglis, Gary Abkin, and Isabelle Devos, offering a playful, dynamic, and at times contemplative exploration of landscape. Each artist shares a deep connection to their local surroundings: Inglis draws inspiration from the coastal and rural towns framing the outskirts of Queensland, while Devos captures the vast, rolling expanse of the open countryside. Abkin presents the sunburnt, flat expanses of central Australia. Despite their diverse locations, all are united by the shared expanse of sky, creating a collective celebration of nature’s beauty and our place in it.

Featuring: Stephen Inglis, Gary Abkin & Isabelle Devos

Yianni Maggacis

21 March - 8 April

Yianni Maggacis creates a visual conflict between the familiar and the strange through his representation of the strangely familiar liminal space- that which we know and are comfortable with and that which is foreign and unfamiliar. This conflict causes the work to take on new contours, allowing the viewer to actively participate in a construction of a new personalised meaning. Ultimately, a work can only be interpreted, never understood, allowing only for what one might consider a poetic grasp of a work rather than an analytical reading.

Floral Narratives

11 April - 3 May 2025

This group exhibition brings together gallery artists to explore the timeless theme of flowers. Through diverse styles and mediums, each artwork celebrates nature’s beauty, symbolism, and the fleeting essence of life.

Lethbridge Landscape Prize

10 - 27 May 2025

The prize invites all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape, from the traditional to the unusual, from the monumental to the intricate.

To celebrate its 5th year, we're increasing the prize to $30,000 in 2025!

Summer Aldis

30 May - 24 June 2025

Summer Aldis is a multi-award winning, early-career Australian artist. After various attempts at university, ranging across science, business, art, and primary education- she finally decided to defer her studies in 2021 to give her lifelong passion for art a chance as a career path. In June of 2021, she won the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, effectively affirming her professional pivot towards the fine arts. Self-taught, she focuses on portrait and figurative work captured with graphite to explore themes of human connection and mental health.'

In 2023, Summer held her first solo show at Lethbridge Gallery, and later won the biennial $35,000 Naked & Nude Art Prize. Hers was the first drawing to win the award in its 34 years.

Jennifer Allnutt

30 May - 24 June 2025

Jennifer constructs images which straddle the line between realism and illusionism. In her surrealistic portraits she explores the uncanny, the unconscious mind, transformation and identity. Her works often grapple to find a way to visually express feelings and desires that we repress. Finding inspiration in dreams, mythology, personal experiences and conversations; Jennifer creates portraits that operate as carriers for her musings. There is unquestionably a drive in her work to tell a story or weave an ambiguous narrative. This is found by the subtle hints in symbolic objects, clothing, facial expressions or even a small gesture. She uses juxtaposition to consider divisions between the mind/body, man/nature and reality/representation.

Alexandra Matthews

27 June - 15 July 2025

Alexandra’s paintings juxtapose urban landscape within boundaries both limited and expanded by light. Each work is its own entity but comprise multiple constituent compositions with light, natural and artificial, the defining and amalgamating theme.

Fragmented and shaped by electricity, incongruously, nightfall can expose things lost or rendered inconspicuous in daylight. Glowing windows, streetlights and the neon aura of the CBD push back the dark and add their magic, revealing things uniquely and distinctively.

Zac Moynihan

17 July - 5 August 2025

Zac Moynihan is an oil painter hiding away in the Northwest mountains of Brisbane. Taking inspiration from nature and the old styles of the Dutch and Hudson River Schools, the paintings look to capture not just the landscape but the full emotional and visual experience provided by the world around us. With a strong love for the sublime beauty presented by the landscape, his paintings present the viewer with a full emotional experience that not only instils a visual, but spiritual connection to the landscape.

Bronwyn Searle

18 July - 5 August 2025

Bronwyn has been painting and drawing, in one form or another, all her life.

Her current works reflect her passion for capturing the light and are influenced by her depth of experience in illustrative techniques. Bronwyn enjoys the challenge of taking ordinary, everyday scenes and interpreting them in her own inimitable and widely recognised style. Working in oils on canvas, she loves to explore the technique of chiaroscuro.

While continuing to explore the detail found in leaf litter and studio still life works, she is also drawn to the unique beauty found in ordinary settings. This direction suits her technique and eye for detail.

Lethbridge Small-Scale Art Award 2025

30 August - 13 September 2025

With a first prize of $20 000, the Lethbridge Art Award is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit a 2D or 3D artwork up to 61cm (24 inches) in height, width, or depth. Judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality, and skill.

Moments - Still Life

19 September - 7 October 2025

A group exhibition celebrating the still life genre. Each artist approaches the genre with their own unique style, through varying concepts and interpretations. Some celebrate worldly goods and pleasures, while others explore the shortness and fragility of life.

Matt James

17 October - 4 November 2025

Brisbane artist Matt James’ art practice is focussed upon landscape painting and drawing. Having grown up in rural West Wales, Matt’s love of the outdoors is the key driver of his dynamic works.

Based on pencil and oil sketches created in situ, from photographs, and from his recollection of locations, Matt’s dynamic representations of place arise from a synthesis of memory and sense impressions. Considered observation of the shape of the landscape, the movement of clouds, the perception of distance and the shifting of light inform Matt’s thickly textured approach, allowing him to move between representational and abstract responses to places.

Lisa Christensen

7 - 25 November 2025

Redcliffe-based artist Lisa Christensen graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), majoring in painting. Lisa has exhibited in Brisbane and the South-East Corner, and her work has been selected for various prizes including the Thiess Art Prize, Gadens Top Ten, Clayton Utz Art Award and the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize.

Lisa’s paintings have evolved out of a “love for detail, colour and form, and the desire to convey something otherworldly with humble everyday objects”.

Extending on the rich history of still-life painting, Lisa is influenced by the Dutch and Spanish still-life paintings of the 17th century, that focused on themes of mortality through the depiction of flowers, fruits and other domestic objects that stand as reminders of impermanence in this life.