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Main Gallery
Grove Gallery
4 June - 11 July 2026
The Creeks Running Clear, 2024, Rosie Lloyd Giblet, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 150 x 120cm
The Mistletoe Waltz
Rosie Lloyd Giblett
This exhibition explores how environmental art practices can unearth and archive positive symbiotic stories. The artist’s sister’s property has experienced increased birdlife since becoming regenerative. Habitat loss is the key threat to the painted honey eater, traditionally farmers have shunned mistletoe, considering it parasitic.
This multidisciplinary environmental art exhibition includes field work on Bigambul country near Goondiwindi, as well ascreative experiments of drawing, painting and assemblage construction were completed in Lloyd-Giblett’s home studio on the Sunshine Coast.
4 June - 11 July 2026
Children's Hospital Foundation image 2025
Drawn Together: Portraits of Queensland Homes
Community Art Project
Drawn Together – Help Make Hospital Feel More Like Home is a celebration of the places that matter most to us: our homes. More than four walls, home represents safety, love, comfort and belonging. Through this exhibition, the Warwick and Darling Downs community is invited to share what home means to them - creating a collective portrait of Queensland homes and communities. These artworks become a powerful metaphor for the work of Children’s Hospital Foundation: surrounding children with care, colour and joy, even when illness means they can’t be at home.
Models of Queensland Homes
Shane Donnelly
Shane Donnelly has been handcrafting scale models of buildings and structures, for as long as he can remember from using cardboard and match sticks as a child to working with the specialised modelmaking materials of today. Shane uses the old school model, making techniques he has refined over his modelmaking career both professionally and as a hobbyist. He uses a very basic set of hand tools, preferring to stay away from the modern 3D printing and laser cutting technology, as he feels it doesn't get to express his creativity an eye for detail that way.
Shane works out of a spare room in his home in Stanthorpe in Southern Queensland. His modelmaking journey has developed into a passion for history as he handcrafts the houses people built, grew up in and lived in during their lives.
COMING
MAIN GALLERY
16 July - 29 August 2026
Even the Boats have Eyes in Greece, Sue Dennis
Out of my Suitcase: travel memories translated into cloth
Sue Dennis
How can an artist distil travel experiences and capture a sense of place in cloth?
This exhibition Out of my Suitcase is the result of 50 years of wanderings and experiences in far flung places. Beginning in the Australian outback Sue Dennis was catapulted into remote, off the beaten track adventures with her geologist husband Bob.
MAIN GALLERY
3 September - 10 October
Installation 2025 Peter Osborn
While We Came and Went
Peter Osborn
This exhibition will look at the relationships that form when, through artistic expression, the current age of mankind is compared to the immense age of of our natural world. Our planet home Earth has witnessed many ages of evolution that have led to the recent and current age of the Anthropocene.
While we exist for a relatively short period, consumed in our daily challenges, the earth continues to bare witness to the constantly changing world. By placing our existence in the broader context of Earth's life, our perception of who we are and what responsibilities we have to future generations grows and asks us to consider the way we live during our time on earth.
MAIN GALLERY
15 October - 21 November 2026
GROVE GALLERY
16 July - 22 July 2026
The Red Dress being embroidered onto by refugee women from Ukraine at Traces of Sisterhood exhibition, Galeria Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland 2022 photo Kirstie Macleod
The Red Dress
Kirstie Macleod
A remarkable global artwork, The Red Dress, will make its Australian debut in 2026 - and will be on display at Warwick Art Gallery for one week only during Jumpers and Jazz in July (16–22 July).
Created by British artist Kirstie Macleod, The Red Dress is a 14-year collaborative embroidery project connecting 380 contributors from 51 countries. Recognised in the 2026 edition of Guinness World Records as the largest collaborative embroidery project in the world, the garment brings together stories of identity, resilience and belonging through stitch.
Handcrafted from 87 panels of silk, the work features embroidery by women and communities across the globe - including refugees, rural artisans, and Australian stitching groups. Notably, 22 women from Brisbane’s All Threads community contributed to one panel and will see the completed dress in person for the very first time when it arrives in Queensland.
The project is also celebrated for its ethical approach, ensuring all commissioned embroiderers were paid for their work, supporting dignity and economic participation in the textile arts.
GROVE GALLERY
16 July - 22 August 2026
Side Table, Graeme Smith 2025
Against the Grain
Graeme Smith
This exhibition celebrates the work of Graeme Smith, a retired boatbuilder based in Warwick, whose 51-year career working with timber has evolved into the creation of refined cabinetry and fine contemporary furniture.
Grounded in a deep understanding of material and form, Smith designs and handcrafts each piece with precision and care. His practice reflects a lifetime of technical skill balanced by an intuitive response to timber’s natural character. Often sourcing exotic timbers for their distinctive grain and unusual colours, he allows the inherent beauty of the material to guide the outcome.
The works presented here reveal a quiet dialogue between craftsmanship and design — objects that are both functional and sculptural, honouring tradition while embracing contemporary aesthetics.
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pARTicipate 2026
Local Artist Exhibition and Awards
pARTicipate began as a biennial event in 2011 with the goal to offer local artists the opportunity to exhibit and receive recognition for their work alongside their Southern Downs peers. Fifteen years on, it provides local artists with a platform to exhibit in a professional gallery setting and acknowledges and awards excellence and contemporary regional stories. The exhibition is now annual alternating between the Main and Grove Gallery's. In 2026, it is the Main Gallery's turn.
Artists who live on the Southern Downs or within 75km of the Warwick CBD are invited to enter. One work per artist representing one of the following SEVEN media categories will be accepted for display:
DRAWING | CERAMICS | MIXED MEDIA | PAINTING PRINTMAKING | SCULPTURE | TEXTILES
Entry Information will be released on 14 August 2026
