What's on
Installation view, Don't get too comfortable, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2025. Photography, Katie Bennett.
Exhibitions

Matthew Cheyne + Caroline Cheyne
Tending a small fire, 2025 (detail). Image courtesy of the artist and Mitchell Fine Art, Brisbane. Photography by Caroline Cheyne.
Don’t get too comfortable
01 Mar 2025 — 01 Jun 2025
Don’t Get Too Comfortable presents works by Matthew Cheyne and Caroline Cheyne, inviting the viewer to escape into a realm of imagination.

Sharing the National Collection
17 Nov 2024 — 10 Nov 2026
Ipswich Art Gallery currently host major works from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection.

Installation view, Flood Lines 2025, Ipswich Art Gallery. Paintings by Kylie Stevens. Photography, Claudia Baxter
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

Tape Painting with YEAHYEAHCLOE. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
IAG Masterclass: Tape Painting with YEAHYEAHCHLOE
24 May 2025 — 24 May 2025
Step into the vibrant world of YEAHYEAHCHLOE in this hands-on painting workshop!

Silk and Squeeg Screen-printing Workshop. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
IAG Masterclass: Screen Printing with Silk + Squeeg
28 Jun 2025 — 28 Jun 2025
Explore the magic of Screen Printing with Silk + Squeeg!

Stephen Benwell, Red, Stocking and Dancer 2022, earthenware with porcelain slip, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and LON Gallery. Photo: Tim Gresham.
Fantastic Forms: Curator Talk with Sophie O'Brien
14 Jun 2025 — 14 Jun 2025
Join Sophie O'Brien, co-curator and Bundanon’s Head of Curatorial and Learning, for an afternoon talk exploring the exhibition Fantastic Forms.

National Gallery of Australia | Teacher Professional Development
27 Jun 2025 — 27 Jun 2025
BOOK NOW - Ipswich Art Gallery invites teachers to a one day workshop delivered by National Gallery artist educators!

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.

CLAY: for educators
02 Jun 2025 — 29 Aug 2025
CLAY is a program that transforms our entire Children’s Gallery space into a ceramic atelier.
Coming soon

Nabilah Nordin | Pavilion, 2023
Timber, white rags, beeswax, pigment, acrylic paint, spray paint, mouldable plastic, epoxy modelling compound, cotton rope & ecrylimer. MIIA Foundation Collection. Photo: Simon Strong.
Fantastic Forms
14 Jun 2025 — 07 Sep 2025
Coming soon - A Bundanon touring exhibition

IAG Kids: CLAY Creature Feature
31 May 2025 — 31 Aug 2025
Coming soon: Knead it, roll it, shape it, name it! Get hands-on and bring your very own Clay Creature to life.

Chenaya Bancroft-Davies, Urarrar (Bremer River) 2025, synthetic polymer paint canvas, courtesy of the artist.
Jugun — Sense of Place
14 Jun 2025 — 21 Sep 2025
Coming soon - An exhibition by Charmaine Davis and Chenaya Bancroft-Davies

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.
Second Chance: Boorrumpah Goupong Aboriginal Corporation
28 Jun 2025 — 27 Jul 2025
Coming soon - Second Chance showcases a journey through life, culture and mental health education.
Ipswich Community Gallery

Monica den Hertog, Matter, 2023. photograph and tracing paper. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
Monica den Hertog: The Air We Share
14 May 2025 — 25 May 2025
This exhibition explores the visible and invisible nature of air.

Sharon McKenzie, Exquisite Corpse, 2025. Black pen on Paper. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
Sharon McKenzie: Exquisite Corpse
04 Jun 2025 — 15 Jun 2025
Exquisite Corpse displays drawings from the Queensland Museum Collection of native vulnerable, endangered and extinct birds.
Ipswich Art Workshop

Rebekah Walkarden, Artist in Residence, Ipswich Art Workshop, 2025. Photography by Louis Lim.
Community Workshops + Meet-ups + Artist Residencies
See what's coming up
An accessible and welcoming multi-use, hands-on workspace, open to supporting a variety of local arts-based initiatives.
Looking for past exhibitions, events and programs?

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

The Buhrich House II by architect Hugh Buhrich.
Photo © Michael Wee.
Iconic Australian Houses: An exhibition by Karen McCartney
01 Sep 2018 — 18 Nov 2018

Andrea Baumert Howard
Courtesy of the artist.
Echoes: Repeating Patterns by Andrea Baumert Howard
12 Oct 2016 — 06 Nov 2016

Behind the Lines: the year’s best political cartoons 2015
23 Jan 2016 — 06 Mar 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