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.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST for the 2021 year have now closed. We'll be opening another round later in 2021 for 2022 calendar year. Thanks to all those artists and creatives who have submitted applications.
Johanna DeMaine is an internationally recogised ceramicist whose passion for clay started in Gladstone in 1971 with the guidance of Jenny Elliot and Marilyn Haertel. After traveling overseas with her husband Ted, they settled back in Calliope in 1975 and built a house and studio establishing DeMaine Pottery. In 1981, with the help of a Crafts Board grant the studio and gallery relocated to
Featuring a selection of treasured items from the Gallery & Museum’s Cultural Heritage collection. The display offers a snapshot of domestic life in times gone by from the Port Curtis region, and showcases how families lived in a post-war world before computer games, mobile telephones and indoor toilets!
6pm, Friday 14 December 2018
Light refreshments provided •
Presenting a series of artworks created by young children from Saiki City, Japan.
This annual exhibition is a Gladstone Saiki Sister cultural exchange program.
6pm, Friday 14 December 2018
Light refreshments provided • RSVP by 5pm, Wednesday 12 December 2018
‘Recovering The Past’ is a unique photographic exhibition of 25 thought provoking images by London artist Ian Alderman.
Produced over a six-year period on the former battlefield of Passchendaele, this unique Australian focused project sees men of the Australian Imperial Force montaged into the daily operations of DOVO-SEDEE.
‘Recovering The Past’ is not a project of war itself, but one which
THE EXHIBITION:
The 43rd Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards 2018, supported by local industry, business and the community. Visitors are encouraged to take part in this year's QAL People's Choice Awards* by voting at the kiosks available within the Gallery & Museum until 5pm, Friday 30 November 2018.
The Art Awards will be judged in the following 4 categories:
A joint display of Japanese and Australian photographs by Saiki City and Gladstone Region citizens. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Gladstone Saiki Sister City Advisory Committee and supported by the Gladstone Regional Council.
6pm, Friday 24 August 2018
Light refreshments provided • RSVP by 5pm, Wednesday 22 August 2018
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Featuring the stories of local Special Seniors, prepared and presented by students of Rosedale State School to celebrate Seniors Week in Queensland (18-26 August 2018).
Official opening and launch of the publication by Cr Chris Trevor, Deputy Mayor Gladstone Region, with guest speakers, 11am Thursday 23 August 2018. A light lunch will be served from 12pm.
Nominated Special Seniors are over 70
The Golding Showcase: Port Curtis Callide Valley Youth Art Exhibition is an annual display and an initiative of the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Society, supported by the late society patron, Mr Cyril Golding (1920 – 2012). This year marks 25 years of the Golding Showcase.
Australian of the Year 2018 is a travelling exhibition developed in partnership with the National Australia Day Council and presented by the National Museum of Australia. This exhibition pays tribute to the eight extraordinary Australians chosen as the 2018 state and territory Australian of the Year recipients. It features objects of deep personal significance that provide an insight into the
Local artist, Margaret Worthington, saw a TV documentary on puffins and decided she really needed to meet a puffin, inspiring her visit to Sumburgh Head, Shetland, Scotland.