CREATIVE CALM with MAGIC MAYHEM | Shirley Nicholson, Jeanette Blake
Soft vibes, wild energy, zero apologies. This is a joint exhibition between Shirl Nicholson and Jeanette Blake. Join us for the opening on Friday 12 December from 5 to 7 pm, with drinks and light refreshments served.
Artist(s):
Shirley Nicholson
Jeanette Blake
Opening event:
Friday 12th December, 5:00 — 7:00PM
SMALL WORKS | SPRING/SUMMER 2025
Small Works is back for our second 2025 curation, on view just before Christmas.
A curated mix of small, original works. From paintings and prints to ceramics, textiles, zines, wearables, and one-off artist-made objects.
All 30 x 30cm or under
Over 30 participating artists
Over 300 works to choose from
Small Works runs from December 18th — December 21st 2025
FIELD TRIP NIGHT MARKET | Terraces by Twilight
We’re taking part in Paddington’s Terraces by Twilight with a small outdoor market in the Field Trip courtyard. Expect a mix of new ceramic pieces made especially for the evening, along with a tight selection of stockroom artworks at easy gifting prices. Upstairs in the gallery, we’ll also have a full house exhibition for Jane du Rand and her students, so there’s plenty to see across both levels.
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻:
Friday 5 December, 4:00pm to 8:00pm
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
Field Trip Gallery (front courtyard)
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
Brisbane
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗼𝗻:
• Night market in the courtyard
• New ceramic work available only at this market
• Stockroom pieces priced for gifting
• Jane du Rand and student showcase upstairs
• Part of the wider Terraces by Twilight program
HOME | Jane Du Rand
Gallery 1: HOME | An exhibition of Jane Du Rand's past and present students
Gallery 2: HOME | Collaboration and work by Kalyanii Holden and Jane du Rand
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Field Trip Gallery
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: November 28th — December 10th, 2025
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: Saturday 29th November, 5PM — 7PM
𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday: 10am - 4pm
Monday: 10am - 4pm
Tuesday: 10am - 4pm
Wednesday: 10am - 4pm
Thursday: 10am - 6pm
Friday: 10am - 4pm
URBANITY | John Bell
Urbanity brings together a series of large-scale paintings capturing Brisbane in the 1980s, through its homes, streets, sunsets, and skyline. Through scenes of a city in flux, these works capture lived experience and reveal a place unmistakably Brisbane.
Artist(s):
John Bell
Opening event:
Friday 21st November, 6:00 — 9:00PM
FORAGED | Jane Henry, Sue Neale
FORAGED is a joint exhibition, bringing you artworks made from feathers, botanical fibres, and much, much more.
𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺:
Jane Henry
Sue Neale
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Field Trip Gallery
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: November 13th — November 18th, 2025
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: Thursday 13th November, 5:00 — 8:30 PM
Artist talk: Saturday 15th November, from 2:00 PM
𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Friday: 10am - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm
Monday: 10am - 5pm
Tuesday: 10am - 5pm
BOUND AND BECOMING | Group Exhibition
𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆
is a group exhibition reflecting on the labour of womanhood and the space between limitation and growth.
𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺:
Selene M Cochrane @heikehaus
Paola Milani @paola_milani_art
Danielle O'Brien @danielleobrienart
Jennifer Orland @jenniferorland
Liana Kabel @lianakabel
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Field Trip Gallery
Gallery 2 (Back room)
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: November 6th — November 12th, 2025
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: Friday 7th November, 5PM — 8PM
𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Thursday: 10am - 5pm
Friday: 10am - 8pm
Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm
Monday: 10am - 5pm
Tuesday: 10am - 5pm
Wednesday: 10am - 4pm
THE GLEAMING | David Usher
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚
is a new body of work by David Usher.
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Field Trip Gallery
Gallery 1 (front 2 rooms)
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: November 6th — November 12th, 2025
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: Friday 7th November, 5PM — 8PM
𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Thursday: 10am - 2pm
Friday: 10am - 8pm
Saturday: 10am - 4pm
Sunday: 10am - 2pm
Monday: CLOSED
Tuesday: CLOSED
Wednesday: 10am - 2pm
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
The Gleaming is a new body of work by David Usher. The title plays with the idea of ‘gleaning’ as a reference to extracting ‘something’ from essential materials, and to the idea of something that gleams in the light or metaphorically combines the act of ‘looking’ with the sensation of ‘seeing’.
Usher’s last series of ceramics and paintings have developed from his recent travels to Western Queensland, capturing fragments of memories and emotions embedded within family locations that hold and resonate with the emotion of a familiar landscape. The series of works in this show celebrate the late afternoon light by the river at Hillsborough, and the forgotten spaces in the corners of paddocks that remain unchanged and unaffected by the world.
One such place lies behind the old sheep yards and has been left largely untouched since 1951. The footprint of the yards and the sandalwood fences are still standing even though a number of floods have washed through the site. There are Carbine trees and Cyprus pines and Sandalwood in small groves that are scattered along the river here, each with their own atmosphere, light, and mood. As Usher identifies, ‘It’s 4pm in the afternoon as we move through the trees and the light ripples across the ground and other surfaces creating a dream-like reverie of landscape’.
DEATH MASK | 30 Artists
FIELD TRIP PRESENTS:
Exploring the symbolic and literal weight of the DEATH MASK
30 artists reimagine the traditional form. Transforming ceramic face casts, made by Clairy Laurence into reflections of identity, mortality, and transformation.
Artists:
Adele Bevaqua
Amy Hoppner
Anna Jourdant / DadaD1sco
Aurora Elwell
Billy Shannon
Bronwyn Thomson
Cheryl Dundas
Clairy Laurence
David Usher
Diamanda Laurence
Gemma Raponi
Georgia Breeden
Georgie Berkman
GOOD GOD
Kate Quinn
Larissa Miller
Libby Usher
Mieke Ochre
Mina Laurence
Monica Usher
Mouse
Nare Pestov
Olivia Dean-Jones
Ryan Preece
Selene Cochrane
Sona Babajanyan
Veronica Curties-Chen
Opening event:
Friday 24th October, 6:00 - 8:00PM
CATHARSIS VASES | Sarah Castle
CATHARSIS VASES brings together new ceramic works by Brisbane artist Sarah Castle. Shaped by instinct and emotion, Each piece carries a quiet sense of character. Dents and openings become expressions that shift between humour and unease.
Castle’s process is guided by feel rather than plan. She lets the clay move in its own way, shaping it until it feels complete. The muted palette keeps the work calm and stripped back, inviting small moments of surprise. These vases sit somewhere between object and companion. You’ll understand once you meet them.
Opening event: Friday 24th October, 6:00 - 8:00PM
Artists:
Sarah Castle
FLORALIA | Group Exhibition
Floralia is spring uncontained — a collision of colour, life, and renewal. It’s a celebration of flora and fauna at their most vibrant. Nature in full bloom, unapologetic and untamed.
Opening event: Friday 24th October, 5:00 - 8:00PM
Artists:
Joan Harris
Juni Margrie
Cilla Russell
Aylee Kim
Stuart White
Kelly Bonk
HOME / LAND | Alan Morrison
This series reflects my journey from Scotland to Australia, capturing the emotional resonance of two very different landscapes. Through shifting light, colour, and space, these paintings blend memory with experience—layering the misty hues of Scotland with Australia’s vibrant, open skies.
Each work is a personal entry, like a page from a diary, where past stories and new chapters coexist. Home/Land speaks to migration, identity, and the way we carry a sense of place within us—no matter where we are.
Artists:
Alan Morrison
Opening event:
Friday 17th October, 6:00 - 8:00PM
ABOVE & BELOW | Group Exhibition
Twelve artists. Two mediums. One shared horizon.
Join us for Above & Below: a celebration of ceramic and painted perspectives, converging at the edge of imagination.
Artists:
Bronwyn Thomson
Catherine Aboud
Deb Toohey
Glenys Throssell
Hannah Wilkins
Hazel McNamara
Larissa Miller
Mari McGuire
Michelle Ehmann
Natalie Bergin
Terri Balkin
Tina Wilkins
Opening event:
Friday 10th October, 6:00 - 8:00PM
ART IN 4 DIMENSIONS | Ally Petelski, Guinevere McBride, Linda Leftwich
Art in 4 Dimensions
Artists:
Ally Petelski
Guinevere McBride
Linda Leftwich
Opening event:
Saturday 4th October, 3PM — 6PM
NATURE AS A MIRROR | Ethan Lam, Leonie Lam
Nature as a mirror explores the duality between our connection to our surrounding and how this translates into our mind forming pathways that influence a deeper sense of reality through a personalised lens. The personal and historical connection to the Australian landscape informed by family history in the formation of generational identity and the manifestation of individual realities constructed from a person’s surroundings and everyday interactions are at the centre of this exhibition.
Artists:
Ethan Lam
Leonie Lam
Opening event:
Saturday 27th September, 6pm - 8pm
STILL WATER HEART AND THE DISTORTION OF ERI ERRINGO | Clay Smith
Clayton Smith presents two series exploring inner worlds and imagined ones.
Still Water Heart reflects on quiet connection to land and water through calm, meditative scenes.
The Distortion of Eri Erringo builds a fictional narrative drawing on Noh theatre, lowbrow art, and automatic writing.
HELLO, GOODBYE | Shaun Weston
Hello, Goodbye brings together painting and drawing-based works presented in pairs, exploring the interplay between comfort, vulnerability and transformation.
Using unique materials like chenille bedspreads, vintage wallpaper, upholstery fabrics and cardboard, Shaun Weston creates surfaces that invite close inspection. Through his familiar visual language of flowers, the body and domestic objects, he explores how personal histories are embedded in the materials of home.
Each duo sits in quiet dialogue, echoing the tension between softness and resistance. Shaped by a sensitivity to texture and memory, the exhibition holds space for the sensory traces of lived experience and the fragments we carry with us.
(t)here is still life | NATALIE ESLICK
(𝐭)𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 sees fine artist, Natalie Eslick, reimagine wildlife painting via the influence of Dutch Golden Age still life artworks, but sifted through a contemporary, conservation focused Australian lens.
Australian native fauna share space with ornate cultivated flowers, or are venerated in stand-alone portraits, painted with reverential realism and deep curiosity and reciprocity.
The collection embodies a striking juxtaposition that celebrates our extraordinary wildlife while quietly challenging what we choose to cherish in our homes and hearts.
HIGH + LOW // NOW + THEN | Ann McLean, Kim Senior
Join us as we celebrate over three decades of friendship, creative collaboration and artistic exploration in HIGH + LOW // NOW + THEN brought to you by Ann McLean & Kim Senior.
Expect vibrant abstracts from Ann and impulsive candid photos by Kim.
FERTILE TERRAINS | Diane Green, Leisa Turner, Pat Malt
FERTILE TERRAINS brings together Leisa Turner, Diane Green, and Pat Malt in a showcase of photography, ceramics, textiles, drawing and painting.
The exhibition invites reflection on the unseen labour of neurodivergent masking, the deification of acts of care, and subversive narratives around the reimagined female form.
Each practice offers intimate perspectives on contemporary female experience and celebrates the fecund spark that drives these artists to create.
NAT’S NOSTALGIC NACK | Natalie Maree Bonanno
Natalie Maree Bonanno is now an artist.
Starting her career in the fashion industry. Her art is abstract pop, using bright colours and a mixed medium. Having her own style, Natalie is influenced by people and places.
Her passion for the arts is embraced in her own interpretation of how she loves and sees the world.
She invites you to her exhibition Nat's Nostalgic Nack
SMALL WORKS | AUTUMN/WINTER 2025
Small Works is back for a mid-year jaunt at Field Trip Gallery!
A curated mix of small, original works. From paintings and prints to ceramics, textiles, zines, wearables, and one-off artist-made objects.
All 30 x 30cm or under
All under $500
Over 30 participating artists
Over 300 works to choose from
Small Works runs from 11th July - 30th July.
SELF, SURFACES & THE CITY | Chris Abrahams
Self, Surfaces, and the City is a body of work by Chris Abrahams that explores the body as self, and the layered visual and material surfaces of Brisbane.
Over the course of two years, Abrahams has worked across multiple mediums—including drawing (pencil, charcoal, pastel, and ink), painting (oil, acrylic, and mixed media), etching (drypoint, hard ground, and colour etching), and ceramics (white raku paper clay and sgraffito).
Through self-portraits, images of the city, and process-driven works, he investigates the act of revealing: scraping back surfaces of paint and pastel, skin and clay, to expose what lies beneath.
This approach echoes his interest in the body as both subject and surface, and in the city as a reflective site of personal and material identity.
Visual Journeys | Group Exhibition by For Artistry
Visual Journeys brings together the individual practices of Deborah, Sue and Doug—three artists who form the collective For Artistry—each exploring personal themes through painting and mixed media. From Deborah’s emotive return to painting after personal loss, to Sue’s travel-inspired works, and Doug’s vibrant shift from stage design to visual art, the exhibition traces unique creative paths. Also on show is work by Mandy D, whose interactive and inclusive practice invites viewers to experience art through sound, texture and movement.
Visual Journeys runs from June 13–24 at Field Trip Gallery, Paddington.
SPRINGBROOK AND BEYOND | John Bell
The glorious profusion of a tangled rainforest has been an obsession of John Bell’s for a number of years. The South East Queensland hinterland is home to some of the richest forests in Australia.
For this exhibition, Bell has centred his efforts on various vistas in the Springbrook mountain region, a place he has found personally rewarding. These works serve as an homage to a landscape that appears largely untouched by human interference—an environment he returns to again and again for inspiration and contemplation.
FLOURISH | Stephanie Morris
Flourish showcases a new series of layered works on paper by prolific Brisbane artist Stephanie Morris. Known for her exploration of texture and composition, Morris builds depth through intricate layering, creating dynamic and immersive surfaces. This collection reflects her evolving practice, balancing structure and spontaneity in a way that invites close contemplation.
Flourish runs from May 15–25 at Field Trip Gallery, Paddington.
WHEN IT’S MY TIME TO GO | GOOD GOD
‘When it’s my Time to Go’ is an exhibition that wrestles with the tension of searching for beauty under a blanket of grief. The works on wood explore the weight of memory, the permanence of impermanence, and the pain that never quite leaves, no matter how many times we cover it with another coat.
Each painting by Brisbane artist Good God is layered and reworked, built up and scraped back, holding within it every stroke that came before.
‘When it’s my Time to Go’ opens at Field Trip Gallery on Thursday 15th May and will go until Wednesday 28th May, with the launch event taking place on Friday 16th May.
NEIGHBOURS AT THE BOWLING ALLEY | Justine Wake, Caro Toledo
Neighbours at the bowling alley present:
Franklin Aaland, Kim Kofod, Adam Lester, Pedro Puente, Caro Toledo, Justine Wake and more
in a group exhibition curated by Caro Toledo & Justine Wake
BODY OF WORK: WOMAN
The Vision of "Body of Work: Woman” is to celebrate, acknowledge, and be inspired by the female experience and the female form. We encourage our artists to draw on femininity, feminism, and experiences of girlhood and womanhood (in all forms, both positive and negative) in their artworks. This exhibition falls on International Women's Day which means in that spirit, we will honour all women in their art.
ACIDIC VIDEO MOVIE CLUB | Fantastic Planet (1973)
Kicking off Field Trip’s Acidic Video Movie Club is a film as fitting of the Acidic name as any. To call René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973) a trip is to undersell a landmark achievement in adult oriented animation and a singular masterpiece of an era marked by dreams of life in distant galaxies, and the fight for social upheaval on Earth. Laloux and writer Roland Topor’s vision is stark, arresting and genuinely alien. It’s also a total trip.
2025 Exhibition | GRIM JORDAN
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Papua New Guinea's Independence, Jordan Morris AKA GRIM JORDAN is proud to present a grand two-week exhibition featuring the first 25 artworks completed in Brisbane. Come and immerse yourself in the rich stories and legends, and experience the creativity that brings to life the beauty and culture of Papua New Guinea.
This exhibition is not only a celebration of cultural heritage but also a community initiative. All artworks will be available for viewing and purchase, and 10% of the show's proceeds will be donated to selected charitable organisations making a positive impact in Papua New Guinea.
MY COLOURFUL LIFE | Robert Mandeville
Robert is a 38 year-old deaf man with a significant disability who is unable to talk or express himself in verbal or written language. However, over the past few years, he has found a method of self-expression through his art.
Robbie uses mixed media – a combination of drawing, collage and acrylics - to create vibrant interpretations of the things he loves such as motorbikes, calculators, Donkey Kong game, cups of tea, the beach etc. He would love to share his art with you!