State Library of Queensland
TSA's own exhibition wall system: folding aluminium frames in three widths, levelled on adjustable feet and clad in finished, hook-on panels. First delivered for the Brisbane Portrait Prize 2026, on show 19 September to 8 November 2026. The system is available to other galleries and exhibitions.
State Library of Queensland
A portrait exhibition in a working public library needed freestanding walls that stand true under gallery lighting and come down again when the show closes.
TSA's modular gallery wall, designed in-house, built in our workshop and installed by our crews in the slq Gallery on Level 2 over 3 and 4 September 2026.
A true, level ground for every portrait in the Brisbane Portrait Prize 2026, on show 19 September to 8 November 2026.
We build the foundation so your artwork can shine.
An exhibition wall is the largest built object in the room, and its job is to give every portrait a clean, level ground. Raking gallery light finds a panel that sits proud or a joint line that wanders, right in the eyeline beside the work.
The Brisbane Portrait Prize 2026 hangs in the slq Gallery on Level 2 of the State Library of Queensland, a working public library. Walls for that room go in to an exhibition timetable and have to stand true on a floor that is never perfectly flat. At close they come down again, ready for the next show's layout.
The Brisbane Portrait Prize is the first exhibition built on TSA's modular wall. The system is TSA's own design, from our museum and gallery fit-out team.
The system was designed in-house by Tim Blaikie, Business Development - Public Spaces at TSA, and built in our workshop. TSA's crews installed it over 3 and 4 September 2026, a fortnight before the exhibition opened on 19 September.
Each install starts with set-out. TSA's crew marks the wall plan full size on the gallery floor, joint by joint, and finds the floor's high point before a single frame stands up.
The frames are folding aluminium, in three widths: 2.0, 1.5 and 0.6 m, each 1.5 m high and 0.6 m deep. TSA's crew levels every frame on its adjustable feet to the floor's high point and joins the run with connector plates into straight lengths, corners and returns.
Weight trays in the ground row take ballast to the engineer's recommendation, and the levels are checked again before anything goes on top. Where a wall needs height, further tiers stack on to 3.0 or 4.5 m.
Face panels arrive finished and hook on to the levelled frames row by row, end panels close the 0.6 m modules, and top caps finish each run. The joints fall on a 1.5 m grid and read as a hairline. The cladding only fits a level frame, so the wall is judged on whether that grid stays true under the lights.
From there the room belongs to the gallery. Its own specialist team handles and hangs the works.
The Brisbane Portrait Prize 2026, on show 19 September to 8 November 2026 in the slq Gallery, hung its finalists' portraits on TSA's modular wall.
For each new exhibition, the wall is set out to its own floor plan from the same three modules. TSA crews install and level it, and the operating and user manual supplied with the system covers later reconfiguration. When the show closes, the wall comes down to frames and panels, ready for the next layout.
Galleries, museums and touring exhibitions can set the wall out to their own floor plan. Talk to us before the plan is fixed and we'll lay the modules out to it. Straight answers, no hard sell.
