Naomi McKenzie | Elements of Surprise

Keira Percy, Pink Lemonade, 2026. Digital Drawing. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Oliver Strauss, Untitled #2, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 91cm x 122cm, image by Jonathan Suarez.

Kathryn Neilsen, Fleshy Fragment 1, 2026. Digital Photographic print, 600 x 900, image courtesy of the artist. 

Andrea Fisher, Carpet Snake Dreaming (with a fish hook), 2024. Acrylic on Canvas. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Alan Tulloch, Haunt (Still from Historic Available Video), 2016. Coal Powder, Dry Media Print Performance, Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Kanako Enokida, Laurent Milton and Rosemary Tamas-Cao, Pulping Sheathes (detail), 2026. Image Courtesy of the artist.

Neil Moorhead, Vestige, 2025. 12' x 16'. Silver Gelatin Photograph. Courtesy of the Artist.

Naomi McKenzie, A Riparian Portrait (detail), 2025. Watergrams & Twine, 89 x 51 x 2. Image courtesy of the artist.

Dianne Carter, Poinciana Summer, 2025. Acrylic on Canvas. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Charlie Donaldson, Joh's Vortex, 2025. Archival print, 59cm x 42cm.

Fay Sorensen, Spoon in the Sink, 2025. Digital Photograph. Courtesy of the Artist. 

Jacob Lee Adlington, Unknown Frequency, 2025. Long exposure photography, sound, water & light. Image: Courtesy of the artist.

Renee Kire and Sunday Jemmott, PLAY:GROUND, 2025, installation detail. Image Courtesy of the artist.

Joanna Faber, Tidal Calligraphy - Seaweed Set (detail), 2025. Handmade bleached banana fibre paper, digitally printed seaweed images. Three handscrolls, various sizes. Image courtesy of the artist.

Artists hands and materials. 2025. Photograph. Image: Courtesy of the artists Ailsa Walsh and Krystal Hurst.

Sloane Stallan, Ugarapul Creation Story, 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 90 x 125 cm. and Rhan Hooper, Coolamon and Hunting Boomerang, 2025. Mulga hardwood. Image by Louis Lim.

Sharon McKenzie, Exquisite Corpse, 2025. Black pen on Paper. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Monica den Hertog, Matter, 2023. photograph and tracing paper. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Jessica Carmody, water behind words behind walls (detail), 2025, photopolymer photogravure print, 13.5cm x 20cm. Image: Courtesy of the artist. 

Emma Jeffery, My first makeup. 2025, oil paints on canvas, 20cm x 20cm. Image courtesy of artist.

Mark George, Green glass bowl in the Chapel, 2023, photography, 30cm x 40cm. Photography by Penny George, 2023.

Elsie Salkeld, Fabricated Illusion (detail), 2024, copper and found objects, size variable.

Photography by Andrew Willis, courtesy of the Queensland College of Art and Design.

Andrea Baumert Howard and Donalee Moriarty, Collaboration (detail), 2024, paper and clay, 50cm x 50cm, Image courtesy of the artists.

Suezan Cunningham, Dandelion Patch (detail), 2024, acrylic, 40cm x 50cm, Image courtesy of the artist.

Rachel North, The Kiss, 2024, stoneware and glaze with lustre, 25cm x 27cm x 17cm, Image courtesy of the artist.

Wayne McDonnell, Fireworks under the Lunar Eclipse (detail), 2024, photograph, 61cm x 43cm, Image courtesy of the artist.

Cynthia Copley, Coomba Falls II (detail), 2024, oil, 90cm x 120cm, Image courtesy of the artist. 

Brick [2009.041], Bundanba Brick & Tile Co. (1886-1897) Ipswich Art Gallery Collection. Gift of a private donor through the Ipswich Art Gallery Foundation, 2009

David Pearce, The Inventor (detail), 2023, Images courtesy of the artist.

Connecting to Country, photograph Sarima Chong 2022

Countermeasures, 2024, silicone, pins, wool, pigment, variable dimensions.
Image courtesy of the artists.

Alex Beitz, The Eyes of a Man, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 455mm x 355mm, Image: Courtesy of the artist.

Christopher Bentley, Television Portrait , 2024, Mixed Digital, 350 mm x 350 mm, Image courtesy of the artist.

Lillian Whitaker, Ritual Collaboration, 2022, Natural beeswax, hexagonal plywood plinths, 1050 x 350 x 350 mm, Image courtesy of the artist.

Jason Castro
Aunty Antionette House 2023 | Photograph, 42 cm x 60 cm.
Image courtesy of the artist.

Reg P Smith
No. 10 2023 | Oil paint with iridescent pigment powder, 105 cm x 105 cm x 5.5 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Doug Spowart
Greg Versace 1993 | Silver gelatin photograph, 30.3cm x 30.3cm
Ipswich Art Gallery Collection, 1993

Photograph of videographer Kate Ellovee and Russell Clifford with the prize surfboard.
Photo by Thomas Oliver www.thomasoliver.photo

Photo credit: Craig Myers

Bobbi Lockyer
For Our Elders 2023. The 2023 National NAIDOC Week Poster incorporating the Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag (licensed by the Torres Strait Island Council).

Emily McGuire