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.
Woven Forms is the first major survey of contemporary basket making across indigenous and non-indigenous Australia and showcases the extraordinary breadth of talent and diversity of forms produced by 58 contemporary artists whose primary work is basket making or the application of basket making techniques.
This exhibition provides the long overdue attention to the aesthetic and versatile
50 Years - Looking Forward, Looking Blak
Artworks contributed by local artists in celebration of the 50th anniversary of NAIDOC. The artworks are shown in conjunction with works from the Gallery/Museum's permanent collection.
A Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum exhibition presented in conjunction with the community.
Inset: James Hurley: Portrait of Nyulang Johnson, elder of Gooreng
A selection of works from the permanent collection highlighting the importance of water in our lives.
Predominantly the work of regional artists, these ceramics and paintings raise issues of enduring and universal significance.
Works by Rosemary Anderson and Jenny Whitehead, Geoffrey Head, Roslyn Head, Mary Lou Hogarth, David Rankin, Wendy Schoenfisch-Young, and Margaret Worthington.
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Sport and war have fired national passions and have helped shape the Australian identity for more than one hundred years.
This travelling exhibition from the Australian War Memorial combines two themes to highlight the long association between sport and war in our history and traces how our wartime experiences are reflected in modern sporting events.
Sport and War highlights the
Personal & national stories of Australia's struggle to manage water during the past 100 years.
Water, and the lack thereof, is the defining element of the Australian landscape. Its uses and abuses have had a crucial role in shaping Australian society. It's been pumped up from below the earth, held in dams, piped over the landscape and even dragged down from the clouds. In the process
People from all generations will be able to return to their childhood in this exhibition which explores the passage of time through family generations and the toys they played with.
Developed by the Queensland Museum, this fun and interactive exhibition gives children a better understanding of the toys, clothing and popular culture that existed throughout the ages with a focus on 1910, the
The city of Gladstone's little known past.
On January 25, 1847 the Lord Auckland floundered and passengers took refuge on Facing Island.
This exhibition explores this fateful journey and their failure to establish the Colony of North Australia.
A Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum exhibition.
Inset: Colonel Barney, 1792-1862
Pendragon Boot Company takes the humble shoe and transforms the mundane to exotic.
Pendragon offers regional audiences an exhibition of shoe art spanning work from the past 17 years. It explores themes as diverse as nature, absurdity and haute couture.
Jackie Orme Ward and Adrian Lockwood have 16 years of shoemaking experience, including made-to-measure, patternmaking and grading,
Australian artist printmakers celebrate the centenary of the Surf Life Savers Association 1907-2007.
A touring exhibition of 200 original works accompanied by a local history display of Surf Life Saving in the Port Curtis region.
Coordinated by Impress Printmakers Studio, Brisbane.
Inset: Gwenn Tasker: Ready and Waiting
In conjunction with Reel Heroes/Safe Beaches, the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum presents this local history exhibition exploring over 70 years of contribution by Surf Lifesavers in our region.
The display includes photos, newspapers, ties, t-shirts, uniforms, cufflinks, medals, pennants and trophies, including a silver tray presented to a member of Life Savers Ladies Auxiliary in