Arts Tarts & Friands (Get your ARTS into Gear) The famous Tuesday T’Arts will take up residence in a vacant shop space from June 18 to 24 in an art exhibition called Tarts & Friands. Glen Smith 11 Jun 2025
Arts Photography Club on display (Get your ARTS into Gear) The Ipswich Photographic Society has a new display of photography by their members at the Artsconnect Community Gallery in Booval Fair. Glen Smith 11 Jun 2025
Arts Final shoutout for Portrait Prize entries DRUMMERS, actors, partners, children, priests, socialites, neighbours, friends and even politicians. Rob Mellett 11 Jun 2025
Arts Get your ARTS into Gear - June 4th 2025 I always enjoy seeing Ipswich artists standing out and winning at art events and shows outside our city. Glen Smith 04 Jun 2025
Arts Elitism in the art world (Get your ARTS into Gear) EVER since the Ipswich Art Gallery has hung the artwork by American artist Mark Rothko, valued at $116,000,000 on display, I have been bombarded with people asking me why this piece of artwork holds so much value over other pieces of art. Glen Smith 28 May 2025
Arts Creatives at the starting gate – festival entries are open IT’S TIME for all the creatives to get painting, crafting, sculpting, rehearsing and writing as competition entries have opened for the 2025 Ritchies Boonah Arts Festival. Staff Writers 28 May 2025
Arts Arttime Colour Challenge Exhibition (Get your ARTS into Gear) The annual colour challenge art competition at Arttime Supplies in Brisbane Street is now open for viewing. Glen Smith 21 May 2025
Arts Ipswich Show awards night a huge success (Get your ARTS into Gear) Chief Stewards of the Fine Arts, Photography and Art and Bark, Glen Smith, Mel Sinclair and David Leisman have worked hard to make this year’s Ipswich Show a memorable, inclusive and enjoyable event. Glen Smith 21 May 2025
Arts The Air We Share - New Art Exhibition (Get your ARTS into Gear) A. Monica den Hertog is a visual artist based in Toowoomba, Queensland. Monica will be holding an exhibition at the Ipswich Community Gallery from May 17 to 24. Her exhibition will be showcasing 13 conceptual artworks that explore the theme of air toxicity. Glen Smith 14 May 2025
Arts Jennifer Kent looks at a new horizon (Get your ARTS into Gear) I always love it when artists use their talent and artwork to make people aware of environmental issues. Glen Smith 07 May 2025
Arts Flood Lines - an art exhibition (Get your ARTS into Gear) A new art exhibition at the Ipswich Art Gallery involved months of hard work, investigation, learning and research into the flood lines of Ipswich. Glen Smith 07 May 2025
Arts Marburg Show Fine Arts is getting bigger and better - Get your ARTS into Gear The country show season is about to start for 2025 with Marburg Show being the first for our local region. Glen Smith 23 Apr 2025
Arts A new community art gallery for Ipswich - Get your ARTS into Gear As a local artist and a leader in the Ipswich arts community, I realised that in the past years, opportunities for local community, not-for-profit groups and emerging artists have become fewer and more difficult to find suitable and affordable locations to display and exhibit artwork. Glen Smith 23 Apr 2025
Arts If She Spoke – Stories from Struggle to Strength (Get your ARTS into Gear) Local artist Rhiannon Hetherington has turned her own life struggles into something powerful in celebrating the strength and power that women face every day. Glen Smith 16 Apr 2025
Arts Triangle House bring you Butterfly House (Get your ARTS into Gear) Caragh Bradbery and Pauline Bradbery, co-founders of Triangle House, a creative activation and events business based in Ipswich, are bringing exciting experiences to local communities. Glen Smith 09 Apr 2025
Music Grant lifeline as thugs smash music bar windows THE State Government has presented Banshees Bar and Artspace with $24,464 to refurbish and rebrand their frontage, foyer, stage and dance floor. Rob Mellett 02 Apr 2025
Arts ‘A Sound Like Rain’ a new book by Don Hill Local artist Don Hill held his first solo exhibition in Brisbane in 2000 and has held more than 20 one man shows since that time. Glen Smith 02 Apr 2025
Arts ‘Murder Incorporated’ new play by Amanda Harrison Talented young actor Amanda Harrison has taken on a residency at the Fire Station 101 and Studio 181 as part of the Artist in Residence Program (AiR) run by the Ipswich Civic Centre. Glen Smith 02 Apr 2025
Arts Why wildlife art always has the WOW factor A LITTLE over 250 years ago, British botanist Joseph Banks asked the celebrated artist George Stubbs to paint a strange animal he’d collected on Lt James Cook’s 1768-1771 voyage of discovery in HMS Endeavour. Guest Writer 02 Apr 2025
