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 Locked Up and Laughing, Judith creates fantasies that come from within herself, constructed to tell a story of surviving pandemic lockdown on a Scottish island. Using photographic post-processing techniques, the images become an alternate reality, a temporary escape from the real world, where a focus on the natural environment counteracts a reality that has dismantled around us. Judith aims to
Over the Fence is a series of snap shots celebrating the beauty and wonder that exists in the natural environment viewed from the artist’s back fence. The images explore the seasonal changes and diversity in this borrowed landscape.
These works which are drawn from the nature reserve, depict areas of tall grasses, trees and foliage showing the range of species and the way they grow and coexist
Local artist Leanne Cole exhibits a study of the local beach and seas through lino print. The ever-changing moods of the sea from dawn to dusk, fine days to storms.
"I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied”
from Sea Fever by John Masefield
Open Roads, Closed Borders, is an exhibition that rejoices in travelling our country's roads, exploring its vastness and diversity, while in a time of lockdowns and restrictions.
Looking out the window on an ever-changing landscape is one of the pleasures of the road trip and this series of work celebrates the freedom of the open road and the enjoyment found being emotionally and physically
The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum’s 2021 NAIDOC Exhibition profiles art of First Nations Peoples, heritage works, as well as local voices, memories, images and cultural connections from the Gallery & Museum collection.
On 28 May 1956, the Gladstone Musical Society Inc. held their first meeting in the city's Town Hall.
This year, the group celebrated 65 years by hosting an Extraordinary Meeting in the Museum Room, reading the minutes of their first meeting and sharing song with the community.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/GladstoneRegionalArtGalleryandMuseum/videos/526856428339837 for a short film of the
Saiki Children's Day at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum offers local children a glimpse into the lives of their peers in Japan through a variety of hands-on craft activities at this FREE annual event. A Gladstone Saiki Sister City Advisory Committee initiative modelled on Japan's centuries old annual Children's Day.
Major School's Event:
Major Event cancelled 2021 due to COVID-19
The annual ANZAC DAY Lest We Forget exhibition is this year a tribute to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel who defend our nation and who help our communities during times of crisis.
Photographs and memorabilia from local families together with those from the Gladstone RSL and Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum collections will also be on display.
LOVE BiTES: Domestic & Family Violence Prevention is an exhibition of artworks created in the LOVE BiTES Program since May 2020. The LOVE BiTES Program consists of interactive workshops on domestic and family violence awareness and sexual assault awareness. The LOVE BiTES Program aims to break down inter-generational cycles of domestic and family violence and stop the increasing rates of
Photographers of the Gladstone Region are invited to capture the spirit of Central Queensland's lifestyle, people and environment for this annual photographic exchange between residents living in the Gladstone Region and Saiki City, Japan. All Gladstone Region entries are displayed. Thirty selected entries are sent for display in Japan.
Congratulations to the ‘Intercity Images Gladstone Saiki