In 2024, the MAYO Arts Festival will bring our community together for a one-day only multi-arts celebration that will showcase Brisbane artists, artisans and student exhibitions and performances in art, dance, drama and music.

The festival is named in honour of St Margaret’s Old Girl Daphne Mayo MBE (1908), who was a leading Australian female artist most prominently known for the sculptured tympanum above the entrance to Brisbane City Hall. Daphne carved the path for today’s St Margaret’s students’ education and learning of the three-dimensional artform and celebrating three-dimensional art is what sets the MAYO Arts Festival apart.

The one-day festival will be bigger and better with more rides, activities, food trucks and bars as well as artisan market stalls selling a diverse selection of ceramics, jewellery, homewares and textiles, while our music, dance and drama students will perform on stage. We will also exhibit more student artwork than ever before, celebrating the creative expression of our students involved in the art program.

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We are thrilled to announce that one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists Lindy Lee AO will be in attendance at the Mayo Arts Festival this year.

With a practice spanning over four decades, Lindy Lee has a well-established reputation in Australia, and widespread international recognition, exhibiting in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore. Her significant public works include Secret World of a Starlight Ember at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Life of Stars at the Art Gallery of South Australia; The Garden of Cloud and Stone in Sydney's Chinatown; Life of Stars: Tenderness of Rain, at the Zheng Zhou Cultural Centre, China; and she has significant projects currently under development throughout Australia and Asia, most notably 'Ouroboros' for the National Gallery of Australia's 40th anniversary.

We invite you to join us for a very special event with Lindy and arts writer and curator Alison Kubler. ‘In conversation with Lindy Lee’ will take place during the Mayo Arts Festival on Saturday 27 July, between 12pm and 12:45pm.

Tickets are extremely limited and on sale now - $30 students/$40 adults. Purchase your tickets here