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.
Often fondly referred to as "The heart of Gladstone", Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in August 2017. Going strong since 1967, QAL has worked in partnership with the community since the beginning of construction until today to assist in the growth and development of the Gladstone Region.
Grounded, a commission by Glasgow Life for Festival 2014, XX Commonwealth Games, is the seventh exhibition in Judith Parrott’s Place Matters series. Grounded presents the outcome of two residencies; one in the Gaelic speaking Outer Hebrides of Scotland and the other with the Australian Aboriginal nations of the Central Australian desert and the plains of Western Queensland.
Award-winning artist, Beryl Wood, combines her love of art and fashion to present nineteen wearable-art garments.
Wearable Art: Another corner of my mind is a touring exhibition from the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum. It has been selected as one of the profile exhibitions at the Queensland Winter Craft Festival on show at the Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery during July 2017.
In preparation for NAIDOC Week 2017, local Indigenous musicians collaborated with local photographer, William Debois. During the Autumn months, William was able to capture how music had the unique ability of harmoniously bringing family and friends together.
Familiar faces of both past and present Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Elders and their families are currently on display. The exhibition showcases a section of Gooreng Gooreng, Byellee and Toolooa family photographs from the Gallery & Museum's historical archives.
Led by local artist, Katrina Elliott and facilitator, Melena McKeown, Four Yarns is a follow-on from The Link Project that began in 2009 as collaboration between older and younger generations of local Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island people. Four Yarns furthers its mission to instil the importance of sharing culture through oral history recordings.
An innovative exchange of contemporary prints created for the 2012 and 2016 Pacific Perimeter Print Exchanges. Both print series’ have been shown internationally, showcasing a variety of printmaking techniques including traditional, digital and variable edition monoprints, on A4 size archival paper. The series features artists from USA, Japan, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Australia.
A selection of works drawn from the 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) held at Brisbane’s Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). APT7 featured the Triennial’s largest representation to date of artists from Indonesia.
Indo Pop showcases a diverse group of works in a variety of styles and media.
Harbour Views takes a closer look at Gladstone harbour and waterfront area, through examining works from the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum heritage collection. The exhibition features maps, photographs, prints and navigational objects which document various views of Gladstone's coastline and harbour.
With clothes being printed from desktop computers and organs being manufactured in labs, 3D printing continues to revolutionise design as we know it. Shapeshifters centres on these new methods of making by drawing on the high-tech and rapidly evolving industry of 3D printing and fluid extrusion methodology.