Petrie Terrace Gallery is closed today for ANZAC Day - Saturday, 25th of April. The gallery will reopen again tomorrow on Sunday, 26th of April at 10am.⁠
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If you need to contact us during the closure period, please email gallery@rqas.com.au and we will respond as soon as possible.⁠ ...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RQAS Queensland Figurative! Pictured here is winner of the Fellows Recognition Award, Arna Baartz, In Her Studio by Monica Batiste.⁠
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This artwork was judged by Dr Kay Kane FRQAS and below are her comments on the piece:⁠ ⁠A striking work. Strong composition. The eye is subtly led from the figure to the environment via tone shape and colour. The figure itself is skillfully drawn, and the overall economy of means encourages one to spend much more than a cursory minute in front of this painting. ⁠
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The exhibition will be on show until Sunday, 10th of May at Petrie Terrace Gallery. Make sure to come into the gallery to see all of the finalists, and place your vote for the People`s Choice Award!⁠
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Artwork credit: Arna Baartz, In Her Studio by Monica Batiste, Oil on Linen, $4400 @monicabatiste_artist⁠
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For our next `ART TALKS` event, the Royal Queensland Art Society Brisbane Branch invites its members and the art loving community to: "Daphne Mayo: Artist, National, Queensland Icon and Influencer", presented by Richard Blundell FRQAS.⁠
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The May ART TALKS discussion seeks to explore the relevance of Daphne Mayo`s life to our life and creative choices today by asking, what can be learned if we reflect on Daphne Mayo in the following roles: Royal Queensland Art Society Vice-President (1927-30); Life-member of Royal Queensland Art Society; Foundation Member of the Australian Academy of Art (a Federal Government supported anti-modernist organisation); co-establisher of the Art Reference Library at The University of Queensland; fund raiser and trustee for the Queensland Art Gallery; and recipient of an MBE (1959). Then, of course, there is the long list of Mayo`s sculptural works across Australia!⁠
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This talk will be held at Petrie Terrace Gallery on Sunday, 24th May from 2pm to 4pm. Afternoon tea is included in the ticket price.⁠
Ticket Prices:⁠
- $5 for RQAS Brisbane Members⁠
- $15 for the Public⁠
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Don`t miss your chance to attend this month`s art talks event and enjoy the fellowship of other like-minded artists - book your tickets now!⁠
https://events.humanitix.com/art-talks-may2026 ...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RQAS Queensland Figurative! Pictured here is one of the winners of the Highly Commended prize, Where`s the Promite? by Julie Purcell.⁠
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This artwork was judged by Julie Fragar and below are her comments on the piece:⁠ ⁠Where is the Promite? by Julie Purcell displays a highly dextrous and inventive use of watercolour, a medium that seems at odds with the subject-matter. That tension is just one of the many reasons the work is so compelling.⁠
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The exhibition will be on show until Sunday, 10th of May at Petrie Terrace Gallery. Make sure to come into the gallery to see all of the finalists, and place your vote for the People`s Choice Award!⁠
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Artwork credit: Where`s the Promite? by Julie Purcell, Watercolour and Gouache on Paper Sealed with Cold Wax, $1600 @modconned⁠
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** There is only ONE WEEK left to enter! **⁠
Entries close soon for the 136th RQAS Brisbane Branch Members Annual exhibition. For this exhibition RQAS Brisbane Members are invited to submit works in their own unique style and media. For section 6, members are invited to enter their 2D Artworks in any other media that is not included in the other sections. This INCLUDES printmaking, collage, encaustic, resin and other media, and EXCLUDES artworks where the majority of the work is completed as a painting in oils, acrylics, pastel or watercolour.⁠
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We also have 6 other sections members can enter including oil and acrylic painting, watercolour, sculpture and 3D, drawing, and pastel.⁠
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📅 Completed entry forms and entry fees are due to the gallery by 3:30pm on Wednesday, 29th of April⁠
For more information and to enter, visit rqas.com.au⁠
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This exhibition is for RQAS Brisbane Branch Members only. If you would like to become a member to enter, please visit our website. The exhibition will be on show from Thursday, 28th of May to Sunday, 5th of July.⁠
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Artwork credit: Riomaggiore, A Patchwork of Colour, Cinque Terre, Italy by Mrs. Jan Hutchison, Textiles, ...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RQAS Queensland Figurative! Pictured here is one of the winners of the Highly Commended prize, Grand-mère à la Fenêtre by Clara Philippe.⁠
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This artwork was judged by Julie Fragar and below are her comments on the piece:⁠ ⁠This artist has managed a difficult, interesting tension between interior and exterior space that makes the life situation of the subject palpable.⁠
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The exhibition will be on show until Sunday, 10th of May at Petrie Terrace Gallery. Make sure to come into the gallery to see all of the finalists, and place your vote for the People`s Choice Award!⁠
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Artwork credit: Grand-mère à la Fenêtre by Clara Philippe, Oil, $3200.⁠
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RQAS Queensland Figurative! Pictured here is one of the winners of the Highly Commended prize, Mother and Child by Hyelan Kim.⁠
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This artwork was judged by Julie Fragar and below are her comments on the piece:⁠ ⁠This painting is incredibly intimate. The relationship between mother and child is replicated in the careful and gentle surface of the painting. This one really has to be seen in person.⁠
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The exhibition will be on show until Sunday, 10th of May at Petrie Terrace Gallery. Make sure to come into the gallery to see all of the finalists, and place your vote for the People`s Choice Award!⁠
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Artwork credit: Mother and Child by Hyelan Kim, Watercolour, $700.⁠
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RQAS Queensland Figurative! Pictured here is one of the winners of the Highly Commended prize, Stradbroke Island "Tony" by Lien Jansen.⁠
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This artwork was judged by Julie Fragar and below are her comments on the piece:⁠ ⁠Stradbroke Island “Tony” by Lien Jansen is another small and quiet painting in the show that I couldn’t stop looking at. The figure is painted in such a soft and simple way but is surrounded by a rough coastal atmosphere we can really feel closing in around him. I think it’s a deeply psychological little painting with an obvious reference to Caspar David Freidrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818), but with a local interpretation that feels completely fresh and sincere. ⁠
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The exhibition will be on show until Sunday, 10th of May at Petrie Terrace Gallery. Make sure to come into the gallery to see all of the finalists, and place your vote for the People`s Choice Award!⁠
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Artwork credit: Stradbroke Island "Tony" by Lien Jansen, Oil, $800.⁠
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