Arts Ipswich Art Awards 2025 (Get your ARTS into Gear) The Ipswich Art Awards is the biggest and most regarded art awards in the Ipswich Region. Glen Smith 22 hours ago
Arts Bremer River Catchment Art competition (Get your ARTS into Gear) I always love it when art is used as a tool to educate and make the community aware of social and environmental issues. Glen Smith 22 hours ago
Arts Wearable Art (Get your ARTS into Gear) With the Boonah Arts Festival quickly approaching I have been busily working on my wearable art piece for the fashion competition. Glen Smith 23 Jul 2025
Arts ‘Second Chance’ a new art exhibition (Get your ARTS into Gear) Now at the Ipswich Community Gallery there is a new art exhibition entitled, ‘Second Chance’. This exhibition showcases a journey through life, culture and mental health issues for First Nation men. Glen Smith 09 Jul 2025
City Life Cultural festival returns for fifth year SPARK Ipswich returns for its fifth year next month, with an arts and culture program featuring more than 50 events across 10 days. Rob Mellett 02 Jul 2025
Arts Beyond the Ring – fight against bullying (Get your ARTS into Gear) Ipswich artist Benitta Harding has captured Jeff Horn’s fight against bullying. Glen Smith 02 Jul 2025
Arts ‘Growing Together’ an exhibition by Jacob Sarra (Get your ARTS into Gear) Local artist Jacob Sarra will be holding a solo art exhibition at the newly created art space at the Yamanto Shopping Centre. This will be the first major event to be showcased in the space. Glen Smith 25 Jun 2025
Arts Art to Save Mel and Leuca (Get your ARTS into Gear) LAST weekend, we saw artists and environmental groups join in D’Arcy Doyle Place to collaborate an action to save the melaleuca trees that have stood for over 50 years in the square. Glen Smith 25 Jun 2025
Arts Tiny Art (Get your ARTS into Gear) Ipswich is home to a rich and diverse home-schooling community, connecting through multiple online groups and social activities. Key aspects of home-schooling are creativity, self-expression and free thinking. Glen Smith 18 Jun 2025
Arts Jugan: A Sense of Place (Get your ARTS into Gear) Opening soon at the Ipswich Art Gallery local mother and daughter artists Charmaine Davis and Chenaya Bancroft-Davies are holding an exhibition entitled ‘Jugun: A Sense of Place’. Glen Smith 18 Jun 2025
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
