Receive & Response 2025 - Artists

Venue: Tanks Arts Centre

Thu 29 May 2025 - Thu 26 Jun 2025
Launch: 6pm, Friday 30 May – all welcome.

The Receive>Respond arts challenge and culminating exhibition provide an opportunity for artists aged 15 to 25 in the Cairns region to share their passion for art and collaboration.

The challenge is simple. Artists create an artwork and then are paired Secret Santa style with another artist. Each artist responds to their received artwork with a new artwork and voila, Receive>Respond.

The resulting exhibition places the paired works together and gives the artists the chance to meet each other and discuss their responses.

The challenge highlights the talent and diversity of creative expression here in our own backyard.

Special thanks to Project Coordinator, Jane Younghusband, Youth Curator, Bianca Sordelli and Guest Selection Panellist, Cairns Art Gallery Curator, Ingrid Hoffmann.

Launch: 6pm, Friday 30 May – all welcome.

Young artists wishing to enter Receive>Respond can do so here: submission form

Price: Free
Venue Opens: Mon-Fri 9.00am - 4.30pm, Sat-Sun 10.00am - 2.00pm

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