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.
Journey back 160 years to 1863, the year Gladstone was proclaimed a Municipality.
Items from our permanent collection tell the story of this historic period for the Gladstone Region.
Visit our first Social History exhibition of 2023 and learn about “the city that waited”.
Through drawing and lithography, Dr Nicola Hooper uses fairy-tale iconology and rhymes to explore concepts surrounding zoonoses (animal diseases that can infect humans).
The exhibition ZOONOSES explores how we perceive certain animals in the context of fear and disease.
6pm, Friday, 4 November 2022
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10.15am, Saturday, 5 November 2022
An exhibition of entries created by established, emerging and amateur artists Australia wide.
The Art Awards are one of Queensland’s most prestigious regional art events and is eagerly anticipated each year.
Judge’s Floor Talk - 10.30am, Saturday 22 October 2022
Judge's Illustrated Lecture – 1pm, Saturday 22 October 2022
Official Opening and Awards Presentation - 6.30pm,
Immerse yourself in the stories and beloved memorabilia of seven local Special Seniors.
Nominated Special Seniors are over 70 years of age and have lived in the area for over 30 years.
Selected students from Rosedale State School interviewed the Seniors and prepared their stories to celebrate Seniors Month in Queensland.
Cultural Sensitivity Warning
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
An annual display and an initiative of the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum Society, supported by the late society patron, Mr Cyril Golding (1920–2012).
The exhibition offers young artists aged 15-18 years the unique opportunity to display their artwork in a professional gallery space. Visitors are invited to vote for their favourite artwork and the selected work is featured on
A joint display of Japanese and Australian photographs by Saiki City and Gladstone Region residents, celebrating the unique lifestyle, people, and environment of the two Sister Cities. Images were selected as part of the Intercity Images Annual Photographic Exchange competition.
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Gladstone Saiki Sister City Advisory Committee and supported by
An exhibition in celebration of the 100 Year Anniversary of the Larcom Lodge No. 293 (Mount Larcom).
Immerse yourself in a re-creation of the Lodge interior, with objects donated by the Lodge to the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Collection.
6pm, Friday, 19 August
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Sacrifice brings together portrait photography and oral histories into a body of work that highlights contemporary social issues through personal and often powerful stories, that brings about universal notions of generosity, hardship, community, commitment, and privilege and inequality.
Collected in various regional and metropolitan locations since January 2021, these portraits and stories are
Hybrid Greening is a collaborative new work by two contemporary artists creating an immersive experience where traditional art form meets science and technology. Veronika Zeil and Nanette Balchin will present mosaic and textile installations, together with immersion into a familiar local ecosystem and abstract soundbites, offering possibilities to transform yourself through AR technology.
Journey back in time to when cameras and photographic development techniques were very different.
This exhibition features a snap shot of camera equipment and images from the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Social History Collection.
6pm, Friday, 10 June
RSVP by 4.30pm, Tuesday, 7 June
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