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.
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:
A joint display of Japanese and Australian photographs by Saiki City and Gladstone Region citizens. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Gladstone Saiki Sister City Advisory Committee and supported by the Gladstone Regional Council.
6pm, Friday 24 August 2018
Light refreshments provided • RSVP by 5pm, Wednesday 22 August 2018
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Featuring the stories of local Special Seniors, prepared and presented by students of Rosedale State School to celebrate Seniors Week in Queensland (18-26 August 2018).
Official opening and launch of the publication by Cr Chris Trevor, Deputy Mayor Gladstone Region, with guest speakers, 11am Thursday 23 August 2018. A light lunch will be served from 12pm.
Nominated Special Seniors are over 70
The Golding Showcase: Port Curtis Callide Valley Youth Art Exhibition is an annual display and an initiative of the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Society, supported by the late society patron, Mr Cyril Golding (1920 – 2012). This year marks 25 years of the Golding Showcase.
Australian of the Year 2018 is a travelling exhibition developed in partnership with the National Australia Day Council and presented by the National Museum of Australia. This exhibition pays tribute to the eight extraordinary Australians chosen as the 2018 state and territory Australian of the Year recipients. It features objects of deep personal significance that provide an insight into the
Local artist, Margaret Worthington, saw a TV documentary on puffins and decided she really needed to meet a puffin, inspiring her visit to Sumburgh Head, Shetland, Scotland.
Portrait photographs of Boyne Smelters Ltd. staff were taken in the workplace as a way of celebrating the efforts of employees. The outcome, published in 2016, was a photobook, Proud Working Men and Women of Boyne Smelters.
NAIDOC 2018: Art and Heritage from our Collection features the works from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists held in the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum collection. Works and stories we hold in trust.. Local artists featured include: Jarrod Beezley (Kabi Kabi), Patricia Coleman (Bailai (Byellee), Allen Craigie (Wangkamanal Kaantju), James Hurley (Gooreng Gooreng), Ron
An exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculptures that document a new art movement emerging from the Western Desert community of Warakurna. The works are the creative vision of a group of artists including Eunice Yunurupa Porter, Judith Yinyika Chambers, Jean Inyalanka Burke and Ken Shepherd.
Tommy Pau's exhibition of linocuts investigates the stories, iconography and methodology of traditional navigation by the stars of Torres Strait Islands.
This exhibition has been supported by the Queensland Government, the Australian Government Visual Arts and Craft Strategy and is being toured by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.