Cairns, QLD · Winter
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Four to five days in mid-July
The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair is Australia's premier marketplace for Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, held over four to five days each July. Around 40,000 people attend the exhibitions, art market, fashion performances and talks across the Cairns Convention Centre and city precincts.
CIAF's founding purpose is ethical trade: art is bought directly from artists and community-owned art centres, with the money returning to the communities that made it. The Torres Strait's printmakers and the Cape's weavers and painters give the fair a character found nowhere else in the country. July is Cairns's dry-season best.
- Indigenous Culture
- Arts & Literature
- When
- Four to five days in mid-July
- How often
- Every year
- Venue
- Cairns Convention Centre and precincts
- Crowd
- Approx. 40,000
- Entry
- Free + ticketed
- Setting
- Mixed
Dates shown follow the event's typical pattern; exact dates change each year, so confirm on the official site before booking travel.
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