Tablelands Regional Council call out to young artists for the upcoming EMERGE Tablelands Youth Exhibition

The Atherton Tablelands is renowned for its uniquely beautiful natural location, environment and wildlife that has inspired our talented local artists over many years. It’s time to encourage and inspire our future young local artists to continue to share and represent our special region through art.

Tablelands Regional Council is encouraging young Tablelands’ artists aged between 15-25 living in the region to enter an artwork for the upcoming EMERGE Tablelands Youth Exhibition which opens in October. The program also offers free art workshops in August for our emerging generation of artists.

Aspiring young artists aged between 15 and 25 years old, living in the Tablelands region, are invited to enter an artwork for the EMERGE Tablelands Youth Exhibition that will be exhibited at the Old Post Office Gallery in Atherton from 7 October to 21 November 2026 with the exhibition opening event at 10.30am Saturday 17 October. Entries for the exhibition must be submitted by Wednesday 16 September 2026.

The theme for the EMERGE Tablelands Youth Exhibition 2026 is Between Worlds, inviting a diverse range of responses that could encompass cultural, environmental, social and fantastical experiences of being in-between worlds, and could even imagine what future worlds might be like. Learn more and submit an artwork at https://www.trc.qld.gov.au/emerge-youth-exhibition.

Council is also offering free studio workshops for aspiring artists aged between 15-25 to work on their artwork submissions. The free workshops will be guided by talented Tablelands’ artist Hanna Wood. Participants are encouraged to work on their exhibition submission whether it is an existing art piece, or something new — let your imagination run wild!

The workshops will take place between 10.00am and 2.00pm on 23 and 30 August at the Old Post Office Gallery Workshop Space in Atherton.
Limited art materials for the workshops, including canvases and art paper will be available on the day. Register for a workshop.

The free studio workshops are made possible by the Regional Arts Development Fund – a Queensland Government and Tablelands Regional Council partnership to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.