What's on
Charmaine Davis, Jugun — Sense of Place, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2025. Photography, Louis Lim
Installation in progress
Children's Gallery is open!
Exhibition Gallery reopening 4 October 2025 with Residue + Response and Sharing the National Collection.
Exhibitions

IAG Kids: imagine…
13 Sep 2025 — 23 Nov 2025
It’s time to reimagine, remake, reinterpret! 'imagine...' is a fresh, hands-on program that invites visitors of all ages to slow down, look closely, and view the gallery’s collection in a whole new way, by making it your own.

Chenaya Bancroft-Davies, Urarrar (Bremer River) 2025, synthetic polymer paint canvas. Photography, Louis Lim
Jugun — Sense of Place
14 Jun 2025 — 21 Sep 2025
An exhibition by Charmaine Davis and Chenaya Bancroft-Davies
Matchstick and cedar farmyard picture. Melbourne origin. 40.5 x 40.5cm (framed). Purchased Chapel Street Bazaar, Prahran.
Glenn R Cooke: Matchstick Craft
02 Aug 2025 — 03 Oct 2025
Glenn R. Cooke (1946–2025) was more than a curator and art historian—he was a cultural cartographer, mapping the spirit of Queensland through the objects others overlooked.
Coming soon

Sophie Honess, Rest (detail), 2023, made with vintage pre-owned materials, wool, latch hook mat.
Residue + Response: Tamworth Textile Triennial
04 Oct 2025 — 30 Nov 2025
Residue + Response: Tamworth Textile Triennial builds on the tradition of the Tamworth Fibre Textile collection which first began in 1973, showcasing 50 years of contemporary textile artists.

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

IAG Kids: Dinosaur Hunt
22 Sep 2025 — 06 Oct 2025
You don’t need to 'imagine' there are dinosaurs in the Art Gallery - they're here, just waiting to be found!

Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar / Malaysia b.1980 / Monster of Wants (installation view, GOMA) 2024 / Paper, crayons, vinyl, MDF, paint / A collaboration between Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / Commissioned for Asia Pacific Triennial Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation / © Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar / Photograph by J Ruckli © QAGOMA
Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour
29 Sep 2025 — 03 Oct 2025
This School holidays, families and children in Ipswich can experience free hands-on art-making activities developed by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern (QAGOMA) Children’s Art Centre!

Kyra Mancktelow , Tamworth Textile Triennial: Residue + Response (installation view) Tamworth Regional Gallery, 2023. Photography, Steve Gonsalves.
IN CONVERSATION: Dr Carol McGregor and Kyra Mancktelow
11 Oct 2025 — 11 Oct 2025
Residue + Response curator Dr Carol McGregor and artist Kyra Mancktelow in conversation.

Conversation Piece Craft Circle
Join our Craft Circle for Residue + Response: Tamworth Textile Triennial!

The Big Draw Festival 2025
22 Nov 2025 — 22 Nov 2025
Join us for The Big Draw and be part of the world’s biggest celebration of drawing!

Image Courtesy of the Artist.
IAG Masterclass: Wool Felting with Norton Fredericks
25 Oct 2025 — 25 Oct 2025
Create your own wearable art piece with Norton Fredericks!

Image Courtesy of the Artist.
IAG Masterclass: Self-Portraiture Painting with Dylan Jones
27 Sep 2025 — 27 Sep 2025
Delve into the expressive potential of gouache painting with Dylan Jones!
Ipswich Community Gallery

Renee Kire and Sunday Jemmott, PLAY:GROUND, 2025, installation detail. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Undone ARI: Play:Ground
17 Sep 2025 — 28 Sep 2025
Play:Ground presents a conceptual playground where abstraction, feminism, and joy collide through form, colour, and collaboration.

Jacob Lee Adlington, Unknown Frequency, 2025. Long exposure photography, sound, water & light. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
Jacob Lee Adlington | Resonance: Visible Sound and the Primordial Mythos
10 Oct 2025 — 19 Oct 2025
This exhibition explores where sound becomes geometry, and vibration reveals its hidden, sacred form.

Fay Sorensen, Spoon in the Sink, 2025. Digital Photograph. Courtesy of the Artist.
U3A Exhibition 2025
30 Oct 2025 — 09 Nov 2025
An inspiring U3A showcase of photography, writing, painting and drawing.

Charlie Donaldson, Joh's Vortex, 2025. Archival print, 59cm x 42cm.
Moonlight States
21 Nov 2025 — 29 Nov 2025
Four artists respond to footage from the Bjelke-Petersen era, exploring their cultural inheritance as creative Queenslanders.
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?

Ipswich Art Gallery Brisbane Street Façade. Image by Louis Lim.
Heritage Architecture Tour with Mark Tendys, City Architect
14 Sep 2025 — 14 Sep 2025

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.
Papermakers and Artists Queensland | On a Roll: Contemporary Interpretations of the Paper Scroll
29 Aug 2025 — 07 Sep 2025

Artists hands and materials. 2025. Photograph. Image: Courtesy of the artists Ailsa Walsh and Krystal Hurst.
Ailsa Walsh and Krystal Hurst: Entwined Sisters
07 Aug 2025 — 17 Aug 2025
Phoebe Paradise, A Moment, 2024. Digital Illustration. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
Digital Drawing with Phoebe Paradise | QATA Teacher Workshop
09 Aug 2025 — 09 Aug 2025

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

Sloane Stallan, Doonan Carvings, 2025. Carved Emu (Doonan) Eggs. Image by Jim Filmer.
Second Chance: Artist Talk with Sloane Stallan and Uncle Patrick Scribner
05 Jul 2025 — 05 Jul 2025

National Gallery of Australia | Teacher Professional Development
27 Jun 2025 — 27 Jun 2025

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