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'Art Awards: Artist Talks' - Listen & Learn

'Art Awards: Artist Talks' - Listen & Learn

 

The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum is excited to offer a FREE public program to visitors of The 40th Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards & Exhibition 2015 on November 21 and 28. 

 

Over two consecutive Saturday's, eight local artists will present Art Awards: Artist Talks, speaking briefly about their artworks on display.  The works to be discussed by these talented

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You be the Judge - QAL People's Choice Awards voting available now! - 2015

You be the Judge - QAL People's Choice Awards voting available now! - 2015

Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum's annual Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards is now open, with locals invited to visit and cast their vote in the 2015 QAL People's Choice Awards.

 

Following the successful introduction of The QAL People's Choice Awards last year, Jacinta Williamson announced the opening of the public vote on opening night (Saturday, 17 October), and so far

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40,000 reasons to get your Art Awards submissions ready now!

40,000 reasons to get your Art Awards submissions ready now!

Queensland's much loved Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards, hosted by the Gladstone Regional Art Galley & Museum, will start calling for entries from 8 October 2015. 

 

Artists from around the nation have the opportunity to take home the coveted overall prize of $15,000 sponsored by Rio Tinto, in addition to a lucrative prize pool of $25,000, thanks to the generous support of local

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Calling All Art and Music Lovers!

Calling All Art and Music Lovers!

Next Thursday, September 10, workshop participants will gather at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum for a community composition workshop with APRA Award Winner and ARIA Award Nominee, Topology. In town along with The Kransky Sisters for the hilarious performance, Tunes from the Tube, (Gladstone Entertainment and Convention Centre) Topology will conduct the FREE Top Up workshop

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Saltwater Artists Connecting to Country

Saltwater Artists Connecting to Country

The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum is delighted to present Saltwater Country, a major touring exhibition of contemporary Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Showcasing more than 50 works by 16 of Queensland’s most acclaimed Indigenous artists, this multidisciplinary exhibition features evocative images of Queensland’s coast, sand and sea and examines its cultural

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Commbank brings the Australian Chamber Orchestra to Gladstone

Commbank brings the Australian Chamber Orchestra to Gladstone

CommBank is encouraging local Gladstone residents to experience what it would be like to play alongside the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), by bringing ACO’s Virtual Experience to Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum this month.


ACO Virtual will be touring art galleries and museums throughout regional Australia, offering music lovers a rare chance to get up close to one of the world’s

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Arts NAIDOC 2015 - Official Celebration 6pm, Monday 6 July

Arts NAIDOC 2015 - Official Celebration 6pm, Monday 6 July

NAIDOC Week (5 - 12 July 2015) celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  The acronym originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’.  In conjunction with the annual national event, the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum show Arts NAIDOC and this year is exhibiting a selection of vibrant paintings

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Bimblebox: art – science - nature.  Expressing the quintessential Australian landscape

Bimblebox: art – science - nature. Expressing the quintessential Australian landscape

Bimblebox: art – science - nature is an exhibition that showcases artists’ interpretations of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge which is currently under threat from coal mining. 

 

Inspired by the unique ark of life found at the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, a group of artists camped on the reserve documenting, drawing and recording in order to capture the environmental, social and scientific significance

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A Time To Reflect

A Time To Reflect

Join Cr Gail Sellers, Mayor of Gladstone Region, at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum from 6pm, Friday May 15, for the official launch of Reflections of Yesteryear, a fine art exhibition by Marie Green.

 
After a number of successful solo exhibitions, nationally and aboard, and several first prize winnings at prestigious art shows, the Agnes Water artist Marie Green, committed two

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The Beef Capital’s Multi-Million Dollar Art Collection Tours to the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum

The Beef Capital’s Multi-Million Dollar Art Collection Tours to the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum

Rockhampton is well-known for its beef and bulls but is not a place many would immediately associate with a nationally significant, multi-million dollar art collection. Thanks to an unlikely 1970s fundraising drive, led by a controversial Mayor (better known for being shot by his mistress,) today, the Rockhampton Art Gallery houses works by renowned Australian artists including Sidney Nolan,