Quest Business Achievers Award - Finalists!

The SWICH Contemporary Art Space is a Finalist in the Quest Business Achievers Award for New Business of the Year! A huge thank you to everyone who voted for us as well as the artists , local businesses and all our photographic services clients who have supported us throughout our first year.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES IN NEW GALLERY SPACE

The SWICH Contemporary Art Space is opening a new permanent gallery space in the Top of Town Precinct at Ipswich dedicated to offering opportunities to emerging and established local, national and international artists.

We are seeking exciting and innovative contemporary artists working in all mediums. In particular, ceramic artists, painters, art photographers, jewellery artists and sculptors working with various materials - found objects, stone, clay, wire etc for our new art gallery opening in Ipswich.

Please send us an email to theswich.info@bigpond.com asap if you are interested in exhibiting works in our space or you know of an artist who might be interested.

NEW ART GALLERY OPENING SOON - TOP OF TOWN, IPSWICH

The SWICH Contemporary Art Space will be opening a new, permanent gallery space in the Top of Town, Ipswich.

We will be offering opportunities to exhibit art works for emerging and established contemporary artists working in all mediums including: paint, photography, sculpture, installation, video, digital, mixed media.

Stay tuned for further updates over the next couple of weeks.

Cheers
LeAnne

Changing Perceptions - Ipswich News Article

Thanks Ipswich News for printing this article on our exhibition, Changing Perceptions, at the Ipswich Community Gallery. Open daily 10am - 4pm until 18 April.

Changing Perceptions Event Schedule

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Changing Perceptions - Art Exhibition 3 April to 18 April 2010

3 April to 18 April 2010
Ipswich Community Gallery,
d’Arcy Doyle Place, Ipswich
10am – 4pm
FREE ENTRY

New works by four artists from the Ipswich Contemporary Arts Network:

LeAnne Vincent
Lyne Marshall
Donna Davis
Andrew Spark

Using paint, photography and mixed media installation these artists take the viewer on a conceptual journey exploring diverse perspectives of Ipswich.

Drawing upon the natural, urbanised, and domestic environments the works invite new ways of seeing Ipswich, and pose the question: ‘Can changing our perceptions of where we live lead to a new awareness or collective change in how we see ourselves and how we are viewed as a community?’

During this two week exhibition we will be hosting a variety of events and activities, including: artist talks and workshops, book launches, and Philosophy ‘n’ Art Cafés within the venue and at surrounding cafés and restaurants. Further details will be available soon.

Transforming Spaces Gallery Closing on Sunday 28 February

We will be open for the last day on Sunday 28 February, 2010 from 9am.

While you're in town for the Markets in the Mall, take a stroll to the Top of Town and check out our gallery and all great cafes and boutiques.

We have Ipswich Art Cards (greeting style cards featuring artworks by LeAnne Vincent), children's books with stories set in Ipswich by Toni Risson, lampwork glass bead jewellery and giftware by Tania Murphy (original designs), art books on the creative process by Lyne Marshall including her new book Invisible Realities: Finding the hidden dimensions in art, framed photographic art by Donna Davis and LeAnne Vincent, paintings by Eva Fritz, Maxene Bennetts, Melanie Slootjes and Alan Saunderson.

Last days of Transforming Spaces Gallery Project No.1

Hi Everyone

Our Transforming Spaces Gallery Project No.1 at 175 Brisbane Street, Ipswich will be closing next Friday 26 February. Thanks to Jim McKee at the Cactus Espresso Bar we have enjoyed 3 months of promoting and selling the artwork of local Ipswich contemporary artists.

This has been the first step in creating a community of collaborative artists in Ipswich where artists can connect with each other and the wider community. We have been approached by numerous artists in the Ipswich region during our time at this space who wish to be involved in our future projects and we have received many positive responses from the general public.

If anyone would like to be involved in our upcoming projects please email us at theswich.info@bigpond.com

Thank you again to all the artists who have been involved in this project and everyone who has supported us.

Cheers
LeAnne Vincent & Gilbert Burgh

Artworks picture - Lampwork glass bead artist Tania Murphy and Art Photographer Donna Davis.

New Artworks at Transforming Spaces Gallery

This week we welcome three new local artists to the gallery. Indigenous artist, Maxene Bennetts, landscape painter, Melanie Slootjes and vibrant oil painter, Eva Fritz.

The Transforming Spaces Project No. 1 will be ending on 26 February, 2010 at 175 Brisbane Street, Ipswich so drop in during our last couple of weeks and pick up some fantastic local artworks.

Transforming Spaces Gallery Update

Hi Everyone

Happy New Year. I hope you all had a wonderful break over the Xmas period.

Our Transforming Spaces Gallery Project No.1 at 173 Brisbane Street, Ipswich has kindly been extended to the end of February. Over the next week we will be hanging some new works by other Ipswich artists and we invite you all to drop in during our last month in this fantastic space.

Also, we'd like to thank the Ipswich Art Gallery for their donation of 4 unused plinths that we have now used to transform the space again. We were able to create a window display and a small reception style area where we now have lots of brochures of art events and happenings around Ipswich and Brisbane.