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Ipswich Art Gallery is closed from 1pm on 24 December 2024 to 1 January 2025. We reopen 2 January 2025, at 10:00am. Wishing you all a safe and joyful holiday season!

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Holiday Opening Hours

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Arriving Slowly

An exciting opportunity to experience a unique dialogue between Australian and international abstract art.

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Sharing the National Collection

Join us at Ipswich Art Gallery this summer for the hands-on, immersive exhibition where everyone is encouraged to take part!

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IAG Kids x Slow Art Collective

Join the Ipswich Art Gallery Visitor Services team for a unique guided tour of Arriving Slowly.

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Slow Looking Tours: Arriving Slowly

Join us at Ipswich Art Gallery for play-based explorations of our current exhibition, Make It Slow - designed especially for our youngest artists!

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Toddler Time: Make It slow

Get ready to slay back-to-school style with our epic pop-up open studio! 

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Pop-up workshops

At the heart of Arriving Slowly: Exploring the Abstract is a desire to enable audiences to connect slowly and deeply with works of abstraction. Viewers are invited to take their time, immersing themselves in the works to uncover the diverse meanings that unfold through slow, deliberate looking.



This exhibition aims to create a dialogue between 20 contemporary Australian artists working across the expanded definition of abstraction, with artists working across mediums and modes of display. Included in this exhibition are works from our collection, local artists and contemporary artists from across the country.



The works hail from diverse artistic lineages, but through exploration of gesture, line, shape, and colour, they create an environment for audiences to make space for their own interpretation and experience. Meaning is not didactic, singular, or prescriptive and therefore Arriving Slowly gently opens the conversation about the democratisation of experience and viewing.



Arriving Slowly was curated in response to works by Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and Agnes Martin (1912-2004 )that Ipswich Art Gallery has on loan from the National Gallery of Australia as part of its <a href="https://nga.gov.au/art-across-australia/sharing-the-national-collection/" target="_blank">Sharing the National Collection / Art Across Australia program.</a>



Both Rothko and Martin were prolific communicators of their creative intentions, and their musings are immediately transferable to works in the exhibition. Rothko had a profound desire to express and evoke emotion through his painting, creating a state of intimacy and searching for 'pockets of silence' where we, the audience, can grow. Similarly, Martin said the response she hoped to draw from people with her art was pure abandon, as if leaving themselves behind.



We hope to have created a quiet dialogue between contemporary Australian artists and two of last century’s significant figures.

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From November 2024, Ipswich Art Gallery will host four significant works from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection. The Sharing the National Collection initiative, funded under Australia’s National Cultural Policy Revive,&nbsp;enables major works of art to be exhibited outside the nation’s capital. 





Ipswich Art Gallery will feature powerhouse American artists Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and Agnes Martin (1912-2004), both exponents of international abstraction. &nbsp;Works by renowned former Ipswich ceramicist, Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott (1935-2013) will also complement those held in the Ipswich Art Gallery collection.





Agnes Martin is known for her minimalist and serene abstract paintings characterised by grids, lines, and subtle colour variations. Her work often evokes a sense of tranquillity and introspection. Mark Rothko is renowned for his large-scale colour field paintings that explore the emotional and spiritual aspects of colour through expansive, immersive canvases. Both Martin and Rothko created work that asks us to spend time contemplating their subtle form and colour. Australian artist Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott is regarded as one of the world’s greatest contemporary potters. Deeply influenced by the quiet still-life paintings of Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), Hanssen-Pigott leaves behind a body of exquisite still-life assemblages of refined, spare vessels in subtle colours and shapes.





These important works promise to captivate and delight with their profound beauty and sensitivity.

Take everyday repurposed materials and be transported into somewhere new. It’s not about what you make – it’s about slowing down and focussing on the act of making. 

This interactive installation encourages audiences to engage with themes of creativity, environmental sustainability, DIY culture and collaboration across all ages. 

 

‘Slow art’ is about slow exchanges of value rather than the fast, monetary exchange of value. It is about the slow absorption of culture through community links by creating something together and blurring the boundary between the artists and viewers. It is a sustainable art practice, an alternative to deal with real problems in contemporary art practice.

 

This exhibition proudly presented with Slow Art Collective’s interdisciplinary artists Chaco Kato and Dylan Martorell.

Slow Looking is a technique for thoughtfully and intentionally engaging with artworks. Move beyond first impressions and take the time to deeply observe and connect with selected works in this Slow Looking Tour.

Explore key artworks through guided prompts, exploring the pursuit of the sublime in Abstraction. No experience or art knowledge is necessary, simply come along and enjoy. <ul><li>45 min tours are run on Sunday mornings, 10.30am - 11:15am.</li><li>Sunday 1 December 2024 – Sunday 16 February 2025 (no tour on Sunday 28 December 2024).</li></ul>





No bookings required, recommended for ages 12 and up. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.

 

















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Toddler Time includes hands-on activities, song and sensory play designed to engage and nurture artistic expression and build connection.





















1 hr session from 10:00am – 11:00am on&nbsp;these dates:&nbsp;



































<ul><li>Friday 29 November</li><li>Friday 6 December 2024 </li><li>Friday 13 December 2024</li><li>(No sessions during School Holidays)</li><li>Friday 31 January</li></ul>









Bookings are not required for families and individuals, just drop in!

 







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Design your own wearable art, from maximum vibe&nbsp;charm jewellery to badges that are fire.







<ul><li>When: Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 + Monday 20 to Friday 24 January 2025</li></ul>

<ul><li>Time: 10am - 2pm</li></ul>

<ul><li>Where: Ipswich Art Workshop (based in d’Arcy Doyle Place. Next door to the Ipswich Community Gallery)</li></ul>



<ul><li>Cost: FREE! Drop in</li></ul>

The Ipswich Art Gallery is located in d’Arcy Doyle Place, a pedestrian mall section of Nicholas Street between Brisbane and Limestone Streets in the Ipswich CBD.

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Ipswich Art Gallery takes play seriously. Our goal is to create
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The Ipswich Art Gallery and Ipswich City Council respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners as custodians of the land and waters we share.  We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, as the keepers of the traditions, customs, cultures and stories of proud peoples.

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Find the Ipswich Art Gallery in d’Arcy Doyle Place in the Ipswich CBD adjacent to the Nicholas St precinct.
The Ipswich Art Gallery is a visual arts and social history museum presenting a dynamic program of exhibitions, heritage displays and an extensive program for children and families.