Past Exhibitions


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.

 

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    Comprising more than 300 kilograms of white Lego blocks, Olafur Eliasson's cubic structural evolution project invites viewers to use the building blocks to create a cityscape.

    Designed for children but with appeal for all ages, the work becomes an ever-evolving metropolis limited only by the imagination of participants.

    A Queensland Art Gallery travelling exhibition.

    Image:
    Olafur

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    Ornamentomology showcases works by selected contemporary Queensland jewellers and metalsmiths responding to images of insects.

    Curated by Kirsten Fitzpatrick and Trevor Moore for the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Queensland, Ornamentomology includes superb works by both established and emerging jewellers alongside, and in the context of, a remarkable collection of images from the Queensland

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    Through her distinctive art, Brisbane-based artist Gail Cowley deals with the personal and social effects on people's lives from time spent in institutions such as orphanages, psychiatric facilities and prisons.

    Painted on old institutional enamelware cups, plates and bowls, her images are all portraits of people she has met during the course of her work.

    A Museum of Brisbane & Gladstone

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    Celebrating the Qld Cruising Yacht Club Brisbane to Gladstone 60th Anniversary Ocean Yacht Race.

    The first race in 1949 was held when Gladstone was rebuilding after being devastated by a cyclone less than a month earlier. The excitement of this event would have gone a long way in lifting local morale. The race proved a success with ?Hoana? being first across the line and ?Sea Prince? taking

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    300 artworks were received from over 250 local primary school aged children in the 2nd annual Celebrate Australia Primary School Art Competition.

    The colourful and imaginative paintings, drawings and collages are all on display at the Gallery/Museum. Prize winning entries were announced during the Gladstone City Council's Australia Day celebrations at the Gladstone Marina and featured on

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    In the Built Environment Project year 8 and 9 students at Gladstone State High School take on the challenge of creating their perfect house.

    With limited space and materials the students show creativity and initiative when reflecting on their built environment.

    Inset: Andrew Wootton: Untitled, 2007.

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    In this joint exhibition two well-established local indigenous artists explore their perceptions of life's journey.

    A collection of images portraying the idealisms and personal beliefs of these artists come together in individual and collaborative pieces.

    Allen Craigie's featured artworks were inspired in a pathway through grief after the deaths of three people close to him. Having lost these

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    This exhibition draws on the Queensland Art Gallery's collection of figurative bronze sculpture to explore the application of this enduring medium across a variety of subjects and themes.

    Myth, legend, portraiture and Modernism feature in a selection of works, dating from c.1700 to the emerging Modernism of August Rodin, and early twentieth-century works by Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore.

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    The wild beauty of Antarctica, and the extreme hardships endured by its early explorers are vividly depicted in this selection of photographs by two of the most noted Antarctic photographers, Frank Hurley and Herbert Ponting.

    The images, drawn from the Australian National Maritime Museum's collection, are of Shakleton's Endurance expedition 1914-1917 (Hurley) and Scott's Terra

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    Celebrating its 32nd year, the Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards are a major highlight on Central Queensland?s cultural calendar and a nationally recognised event giving local artists the opportunity to exhibit and view their work alongside that of others from across Australia.

    In 2006 entries were unique and innovative and ranged from traditional to contemporary. Artworks reflected

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