What's on
Installation view, Don't get too comfortable, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2025. Photography, Katie Bennett.
Exhibitions
Don’t get too comfortable
1 March — 1 June 2025
Artworks by Matthew Cheyne + Caroline Cheyne. This exhibition speaks to experiences we all face in our lives and relationships.
Anthology of memory
22 February — 13 April 2025
Artworks by Rachel North. This exhibition consists of work that communicates the lived experience of a child within a landscape marred by trauma.
IAG Kids: Dazzle and Create
15 February — 18 May 2025
Step into a vibrant art studio, with hands-on maker stations. Build your own razzle-dazzle cubbyhouse, experiment with materials, and create your masterpiece.
Sharing the National Collection
November 2024 — November 2026
Ipswich Art Gallery currently hosts four significant works from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection.
Coming soon
Kylie Stevens, Revealing the Floodplain in 1974, 2011 and 2022, 2025. Bremer River flood water, ochre, limestone, charcoal, copper leaf and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Flood Lines
19 Apr 2025 — 08 Jun 2025
Flood Lines is a collaborative project and exhibition by artist Kylie Stevens and historian Margaret Cook.
Gallery Programs
IN CONVERSATION: Matthew Cheyne + Caroline Cheyne
22 Mar 2025 — 22 Mar 2025
Join the artists as they speak about how they worked together to realise this exhibition.
Slow Drawing Tour with Sienna van Rossum
05 Apr 2025 — 05 Apr 2025
Explore Ipswich Art Gallery’s latest exhibitions in a Slow Drawing Tour to celebrate Slow Art Day.
BUNKTOPIA: A Bunk Puppets Show
07 Apr 2025 — 17 Apr 2025
Award-winning Bunk Puppets returns to Ipswich these Easter school holidays with a new live shadow puppet performance, BUNKTOPIA.
Walking with Water Tour
03 May 2025 — 03 May 2025
Join Artist Kylie Stevens and Historian Margaret Cook on a guided tour of Ipswich's flood history.
Slow Art Tour, Installation view, Arriving Slowly: Exploring the Abstract, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2024. Photography, Yugong Shao.
Slow Looking Tours
Join the Ipswich Art Gallery Visitor Services team for a unique guided tour of our current exhibitions.
Toddler Time: Dazzle and Create
Join us at Ipswich Art Gallery for play-based explorations of our current exhibition, Dazzle and Create.
Ipswich Community Gallery
Emma Jeffery, My first makeup. 2025, oil paints on canvas, 20cm x 20cm. Image courtesy of artist.
Emma Jeffery: Growing pains
02 Apr 2025 — 06 Apr 2025
Growing Pains takes you on a journey of rediscovering your spark and reconnecting with your inner child.
Jessica Carmody, water behind words behind walls (detail), 2025, photopolymer photogravure print, 13.5cm x 20cm. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
Jessica Carmody: a threshold, haunting
25 Apr 2025 — 04 May 2025
This exhibition brings together a series of works that consider domestic memory; corporeal and incorporeal traces; and the ways contemporary art can articulate complex feelings of ‘hauntedness’.
Looking for past exhibitions or events?
Reading is Magic: Story Arts Festival Ipswich
04 Aug 2024 — 17 Aug 2024
David Pearce, The Inventor (detail), 2023, Images courtesy of the artist.
Blak & Abstract - 21st Century Indigenous Explorer
20 Jul 2024 — 28 Jul 2024
Countermeasures, 2024, silicone, pins, wool, pigment, variable dimensions.
Image courtesy of the artists.
Countermeasures: Ellie Coleman & Linda Clark
30 May 2024 — 09 Jun 2024
Alex Beitz, The Eyes of a Man, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 455mm x 355mm, Image: Courtesy of the artist.
Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School: Visual Art Showcase
10 May 2024 — 19 May 2024
Connections: The Marburg and District Art Society
18 Apr 2024 — 28 Apr 2024
Photograph of videographer Kate Ellovee and Russell Clifford with the prize surfboard.
Photo by Thomas Oliver www.thomasoliver.photo
Ippy Drops In…and Rips: Surfboard Art Design Competition
02 Dec 2023 — 22 Dec 2023
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).
For Our Elders: Poster Exhibition + Workshops
03 Jul 2023 — 17 Jul 2023
Sally Harrison
Courtesy of the artist.
Spirit of Place – here, there and everywhere: New Work by Sally Harrison
25 Jun 2022 — 21 Aug 2022
Jodi Bowen
Courtesy of the artist.
Living Vicariously Through Others: New Work by Jodi Bowen
14 Aug 2021 — 24 Oct 2021
Merton Chambers
Courtesy of the artist.
Almost the Last Supper: New Work by Merton Chambers
12 Jun 2020 — 30 Aug 2020
Vivienne Goodman
Courtesy of Arthur Frame AM.
Cover Story: Queensland Arts Council Cover Art and Poster Collection
14 Sep 2019 — 03 Nov 2019
Madeleine Kelly
Courtesy of the artist.
What the Centre Cannot Hold: New Work by Madeleine Kelly
13 Jul 2019 — 07 Oct 2019
Andrea Baumert Howard
Courtesy of the artist.
Echoes: Repeating Patterns by Andrea Baumert Howard
12 Oct 2016 — 06 Nov 2016
Sally Harrison
City of Ipswich Collection, 2012.
This Land Our Land: The Artwork of Sally Harrison, Dale Weston & Annie Clarke
12 Jun 2012 — 02 Sep 2012
