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.
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.
An exhibition of works created in the LOVE BiTES Program since May 2016 to now.
Artworks by local high school students, shown on paper, canvas and via digital displays.
The 2017 Paint the Port art competition is part of the Gladstone Ports Corporation's Arts in the Park event, held during this year’s Gladstone Harbour Festival.
The 2017 winners will be shown in the Foyer of the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum.
The book launch of War Memorials of the Gladstone Region will be presented in conjunction with this year's ANZAC Day: Lest We Forget exhibition. Both honour those who have served Australia in conflicts and wars.