Ipswich Community Gallery
An active arts space with a focus on connecting local emerging artists, arts professionals and arts groups.
Presenting a dynamic + curated program of exhibitions
The Ipswich Community Gallery is a welcoming space for diverse arts-based initiatives, supporting artists of all abilities.
The Gallery serves as a crucial stepping stone for emerging and early-career artists, offering an entry point into professional practice. Bookings are allocated annually through a competitive expression-of-interest process.
Exhibition applications for 2025
Now closed
The Ipswich Community Gallery 2025 exhibition applications for emerging and established visual artists and curators have now closed.
What's on
Elsie Salkeld, Fabricated Illusion (detail), 2024, copper and found objects, size variable.
Photography by Andrew Willis, courtesy of the Queensland College of Art and Design.
When We Grow Up
30 January — 9 February 2025
A group exhibition of local Ipswich artists who have been exploring notions of the human condition through the lens of childhood, growth and change.
Photography by Thomas Oliver www.thomasoliver.photo
Where is the Ipswich Community Gallery?
The Community Gallery is located in d’Arcy Doyle Place in a separate building to the Ipswich Art Gallery. The entrance to the Community Gallery building is on the corner of Limestone & Nicholas Streets (opposite the Ipswich Civic Centre).
Past Exhibitions and Events
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
