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.
Featuring the stories of local Special Seniors, prepared and presented by selected Year 8 and Year 9 students of Gladstone State High School, to celebrate Seniors Week in Queensland (17-25 August 2019).
Official opening and launch of the publication by Cr Matt Burnett, Mayor Gladstone Region and guest speakers, 1pm Thursday 22 August 2019. A light lunch will be served from 12pm.
Nominated Special
An exhibition of new works, as well as a selection of lino prints and paintings by Jarrod Beezley (Kabi/Bundjalang). Artworks accompanied by their stories, and in recognition of the importance of language with First Nation Communities, will be shown in both the artist’s language and English.
6pm, Monday, 8 July 2019
Light refreshments provided, all welcome
RSVP by 5pm, Wednesday,
This exhibition includes detailed copies of Admiralty maps and drawings depicting the coast line of the East Coast of Australia and Port Curtis (Gladstone) from 1799. Also on display are surveyors’ street and locality maps of the Gladstone Regional Council area from 1853.
In collaboration with this exhibition an exciting public program has been organised: Maps & Music. Camerata -
An eclectic assortment of memorabilia from the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum archives, featuring objects that have adorned the walls of homes and businesses in the Gladstone Region.
The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum NAIDOC 2019 exhibition profiles art from First Nations Peoples, heritage works from the Gallery & Museum collection, as well as voices, memories, images and cultural connections.
Tony Albert’s 2006 photographic series 50perCENT, on loan from the Sunshine Coast Art Collection, managed by Caloundra Regional Gallery, forms part of the exhibition.
An exhibition of works created in the LOVE BiTES Program since May 2018 to now. Artworks by local high school students, shown on paper, canvas and via digital displays. The interactive program is a Respectful Relationships Education Program for young people aged 15-17 years. It consists of two interactive workshops: one on Relationship Violence, and one on Sex and Relationships, followed by
An exhibition of items from the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum heritage collection. Featuring hand and commercially-made sleepwear, undergarments, clothing and adornments, from the early 1900's to the 1970's.
A display of all Gladstone Region entries exhibited in the annual photographic exchange between Sister Cities, Gladstone Region and Saiki City, Japan. Thirty selected entries will be enlarged and sent for display in Saiki City.
Submitting photographers must please return all four pages of the entry form. Printed forms are also available at the Gallery & Museum.
For further information, please
An exhibition of paintings, film footage and sculptural installation examining migration by artist Deb Mostert. Imagery drawn from her family’s migration in the 1950s is overlaid with the migration stories of our shorebirds. This exhibition is supported with funding by Arts Queensland - Queensland Arts Showcase Program.
6pm, Friday 12 April 2019
Light refreshments
Submerged is presented by the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Australian Maritime Museum’s Council membership and is the result of a national project with workshops held across the country to develop the exhibition and to source shipwreck stories. Sixty-eight shipwreck stories were nominated by 46 maritime museums and heritage institutions from around Australia with 14 of the most