Exhibitions
First Draft
The artwork on display in First Draft represents the exciting and innovative practice of current new media artists in Australia. The exhibition includes video work by Angelica Mesiti, The line of lode and death of Charlie Day and Nicola Chatham, Bathroom series and photographs from Kate Bernauer's series, I'll be home in time for dinner. Each artist explores diverse concepts in their work - pushing the boundaries of contemporary art.
Nicola Chatham Close shave 2007 from 'Bathroom series'
Video still
Courtesy of the artist
New Acquisitions
The Ipswich Art Gallery's Collection forms an integral part of civic pride and identity, providing cultural and educational inspiration and enrichment. This exhibition comprises a selection of artworks recently purchased or donated to the Gallery. Important additions to the Collection include significant works by Indigenous Australian artist, Craig Koomeeta and contemporary artist, Michael Corridore.
Craig Koomeeta Min Kena (Freshwater crocodile) 2008
Ochres and acrylic on milkwood
Ipswich Art Gallery Collection, 2009
Construction Site
Design and build your dream cubby in this exciting interactive art activity for children and families. Create together using foam blocks and build a whole city! Dress up in construction worker safety clothes and drive the radio-controlled construction machinery. The fun continues with a range of fun activities throughout the holidays.
Proudly supported by Exhibition Sponsor Sekisui House & Mayor Paul Pisasale, City of Ipswich.
Construction Site brings holiday fun for kids
Seduction and Subversion: the art of James Guppy 1989-2009
Be seduced by this exciting survey of works by renowned Byron Bay painter James Guppy. This prolific artist investigates the domestic, love and power, the body and our physical identity, gender, sexuality and taboo - often with a surreal, humorous and absurdist twist.
A Tweed River Art Gallery Touring Exhibition.
James Guppy Dark Iris 2005
synthetic polymer paint on linen. Collection of Peter Wilson & James Emmett
Cheaper & Deeper: the photographs of Glenn Sloggett
There is a dark and off-colour humour at work in Glenn Sloggett's photographs of suburban Australia. Devoid of people, we read the signs and traces of suburban life in his images of dereliction, failed aspiration and abject domesticity. However, these are not pictures of disgust, but a sort of affection. He articulates that quintessential Australian trait, the ability to find the last glimmer of optimism in the midst of inevitable failure.
An Australian Centre for Photography touring exhibition.
Glenn Sloggett Cheaper and Deeper 1996
Courtesy Stills Gallery Sydney
A Camera on the Somme
The First World War was an industrial war of global proportions which looms large in the Australian psyche. It was into this world conflict that two young brothers from central Victoria, Jack and Bert Grinton, found themselves serving in the trenches of France and Belgium. 90 years later an extraordinary find came to light. Inside a biscuit tin stored for decades in a shed on the Grinton farm - and headed for the rubbish - was a large collection of negatives and photographs; images taken by Jack and Bert Grinton between 1916 and 1919 with the cameras they carried with them during the war.
Relaxing in hutments, France 1918-19
Such casual pictures of soldiers in their accommodation are rarely recorded through official war photography.
