Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum (GRAGM) selects exhibition in several strategic ways that reflect community desires and tourism drivers, while maintaining our commitment to growing and developing regional creative talent. We also introduce our audiences to cultural content from other regional and national centres to continue to broaden their knowledge and experiences.
If you're interested in exhibiting at GRAGM, visit http://gragm.qld.gov.au/about/exhibiting-at-gragm and complete an application form. These are assessed by our curatorial team and selected based upon prescribed criteria.
This exhibition examines the often-forgotten stories of the Australian Peacekeepers, both past and present, with objects, images and memorabilia drawn from the Gallery & Museum’s historical collection as well as private loans from individuals in our community
Wetlanders is an exhibition of prints, artists’ books and drawings about the wetlands of Moreton Bay and the migratory shore birds that overwinter in the region every year.
Created by members of Migaloo Press Artist Collective, the exhibition examines the artists’ response to the importance of intertidal zones for these shorebirds’ diminishing feeding grounds.
The exhibition is inspired by the
Overwintering, is an artists’ book produced by Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne and Migaloo Press, Brisbane, which comprises thirty-two artist’s prints created in 2018. The organisers, Edith May, Jennifer Stuerzl and Sue Poggioli worked together to produce a book that features images of a wide range of migratory birds and the endangered habitats they need for their survival.
Overwintering is
This exhibition surrounds you with the sights and sounds of birdlife found on Bimblebox Nature Refuge in Queensland. This unique installation combines artists’ prints, poetry, prose and musical interpretations of birdcalls contributed by over 450 people worldwide.
Each bird species found on Bimblebox is lovingly described by a writer, an artist and a musician. Musician’s bird calls and recordings
Clay Stories is a significant survey exhibition of contemporary artworks in ceramics that have been created by both highly established and emerging Indigenous artists in remote parts of regional Australia.
The exhibition presents pieces that are both sculptural and vessel-based, with each body of work representative of the artists’ connection to Country and as a strong medium for story-telling.
Johanna DeMaine is an internationally recogised ceramicist whose passion for clay started in Gladstone in 1971 with the guidance of Jenny Elliot and Marilyn Haertel. After traveling overseas with her husband Ted, they settled back in Calliope in 1975 and built a house and studio establishing DeMaine Pottery. In 1981, with the help of a Crafts Board grant the studio and gallery relocated to
Featuring a selection of treasured items from the Gallery & Museum’s Cultural Heritage collection. The display offers a snapshot of domestic life in times gone by from the Port Curtis region, and showcases how families lived in a post-war world before computer games, mobile telephones and indoor toilets!
6pm, Friday 14 December 2018
Light refreshments provided •
Presenting a series of artworks created by young children from Saiki City, Japan.
This annual exhibition is a Gladstone Saiki Sister cultural exchange program.
6pm, Friday 14 December 2018
Light refreshments provided • RSVP by 5pm, Wednesday 12 December 2018
‘Recovering The Past’ is a unique photographic exhibition of 25 thought provoking images by London artist Ian Alderman.
Produced over a six-year period on the former battlefield of Passchendaele, this unique Australian focused project sees men of the Australian Imperial Force montaged into the daily operations of DOVO-SEDEE.
‘Recovering The Past’ is not a project of war itself, but one which
THE EXHIBITION:
The 43rd Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards 2018, supported by local industry, business and the community. Visitors are encouraged to take part in this year's QAL People's Choice Awards* by voting at the kiosks available within the Gallery & Museum until 5pm, Friday 30 November 2018.
The Art Awards will be judged in the following 4 categories: