SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Anticipation Project, Brunswick Street Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Adventure Play Ground, Newstead Studios, Brisbane
2014 The Endless Sea, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2011 The Blue Cabin, Maunsell-Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2011 Are we still crossing over?, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2010 Stingray Sculptures & other studio works, 11 Stratton Street, Newstead
2009 The Bay of Men, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Sleeping Arrangements, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2005 The Secret Chord, Despard Gallery, Hobart
At the end of the day, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Michael Eather: New Sculpture, Maunsell-Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2003 Black and White, ARTstation Kollmitzberg, Austria
2002 The White Desert II, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2001 The White Desert I, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Recent Dilemmas, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 The Earth and the Worm, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Skin and Division, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
1995 Travels-in-Gratitude (The Gravel Attitude), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Back to the World, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1992 Converting Distance to Actual Size, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Post-Envy, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1990 I Remember…I Forget, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1989 Relief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Industrial Barks, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987 Backlog: Season of Doubt, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1986 An Exhibition of Recent, Campfires Studio exhibition, MacTaggarts Woolsheds, Brisbane
An Exhibition of Recent Campfires, 210 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (between) Heaven and Earth, Redbase Contemporary Art Space, Sydney
2023 Yellow Meadow, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
The Local Museum of Brisbane
Latest & Greatest II, Caloundra Regional Gallery
The Dingo Project, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
2022 The Dingo Project (The Adventures of X and Ray with Lin Onus), Ngununggula Retford Park, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
2021-22 Lin Onus; The Land Within, Shepparton Art Museum (Flotilla with Lin Onus, Tiriki Onus and friends)
2021-22 Despard Gallery 35th Annual Summer Show, Hobart
2021 Sunshine Coast (invitation) Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
Shorelines -Lockhart River Collaborations, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
Evidence of Scale, FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2020 Twelve Ways, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
Figuratively Speaking FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2019 Sculptors Exposed, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
2018 Boundless Volumes, Parliament House, Canberra
2017 Group Show, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
2017 Less Than: Art and reductionism, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2016 Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
Black, White & Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery
Ephemeral Traces – Brisbane’s artist-run scene in the 1980s, University of Qld Art Museum
2015 Gold Coast Invitation Art Prize, Gold Coast
2007-15 Tattersalls Club Landscape Invitation Art Prize, Brisbane
2010 The Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 Gold Coast Invitation Art Prize, Gold Coast
Blue: a group exhibition, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2007 The Wynne Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Warwick Art Prize, Queensland
2006 Doubletake, Museum of Brisbane/Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
The Wynne Prize, AGNSW, Sydney
The Artist the Community and the Land, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
The Gold Coast Invitation Art Prize, Gold Coast
2005 Sculpture Exhibition, Maunsell-Wickes Gallery, Sydney
Sculpture 2005, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
SOFA Chicago, represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart
2004 Sculpture, Despard Gallery, Hobart
Melbourne Art Fair, (FireWorks Gallery), Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Predominantly White…by Predominantly Black Artists Crossing the Line: Brisbane to Belgrade, Ethnographic Museum of Belgrade, Serbia
NEWflames, touring show throughout Queensland Regional Galleries
2003 A few good men, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Fire-Works gallery celebrating ten years in 2003, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane 2002 Paddy Carrol Tribute Exhibition (with Campfire group), Touring Regional Galleries, Australia
2002-2005 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Melbourne
2000 Flotilla, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
Flotilla, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Melbourne
The Art of Place (with Campfire group), Australian Heritage Commission, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1999 Connecting Worlds, Homebush Novotel Hotel
1998 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Melbourne
1997 Wild Kingdom, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Interference (with Campfire group), Fotofeis, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995 Pathways (Changes + Exchanges), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Chameleon: A Decade, Long Gallery Hobart
1993 Political, Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Stories from the Inner Circle (with Campfire group), Beurs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Political Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane (with Campfire Group)
1992 The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, AGNSW (with Campfire Group) Unfamiliar Territory, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide Transgenerations, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The Sex Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Do Something with a Blundstone, Chameleon Galleries, Tasmania
Gold Coast City Invitation Art Prize, Centre Gallery, Gold Coast
1991 From the Landscape: A Review of the Influence of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1990 Balance of Trade Figures, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Only Life, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1989 Suncorp Prize Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Group Show, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987 Art of the Last Twenty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
See 3D, That Space, Brisbane
1984 The Tower Show, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1983 Avago-in-Hobart in conjunction with Anzart Raw State, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
The Festival Show: Nine Tasmanian Artists, Long Gallery, Hobart
PERFORMANCE / POETRY
1997 Tales of Skin and Division, 52-page poetry text
1987 Backlog (Season of Doubt), Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
1983 Dear Log (Just in the Nick of Time), Long Gallery, Hobart
How to Crumb a Log, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart
The Saw and the Candle, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1981 Concrete Pillow Talk, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2004 Smoke (with Joanne Currie), Cooloola Sunshine Institute of TAFE, Noosa 2002 Secret Country (Michael Eather & Friends), Borders Bookstore, Brisbane
2000 Flotilla, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Flotilla, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
Journey Tracks: 4x4 More Motorama, Moorooka, Brisbane
1999 Connecting Worlds, Novotel/Ibis Hotel Foyers, Homebush Bay, Sydney
PRIVATE SCULPTURE COMMISSIONS
2024 Big Diagonal, Private Residence, Brisbane
2023 Island Life, Juhasz Residence, Stradbroke Island
2021 Blue Family Cluster, Buckley Residence, Brisbane
2017 Lambourgini Ray, Brisbane Private Hospital
2016 And so on…and so forth, Private Residence, Brisbane
2015 Little Mysteries, Health Place, Fortitude Valley
2014 Messengers, White Residence, Brisbane
2011 Parable, Kuchell Residence, Brisbane
2007 Pearl Girls, Campbell Residence, Brisbane
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Bundaberg Regional Gallery
Brisbane City Gallery
Commonwealth Courts, Brisbane
Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Brisbane
Lowensteins Arts, Melbourne
Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art (M.O.C.A), Brisbane
Melbourne Museum
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
QAGOMA
Queensland Museum
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Suncorp Collection
Transfield, NSW
UQ Art Museum, Brisbane