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

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

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

The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Society Golding Bursary has been established with the generous support of late Society patron, Mr Cyril Golding (1920-2012), to assist students from the Gladstone, Port Curtis and Callide Valley region of Central Queensland in pursuing tertiary studies in all aspects of Visual Arts. The bursary will be carried on now by his widow, Shirley Golding

Gladstone Regional Council's annual youth holiday program SUNfest, is working towards another exciting festival for January 2016 and the organising committee is calling for Expressions of Interest from qualified instructors to present activities during this high profile event.

Expressions of Interest can be submitted until 4pm Tuesday, 1 September 2015 and are available from the

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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

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

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

The Gladstone Region Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) is seeking nominations from interested community members during their 2015 Annual General Meeting (AGM), to be held at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, 5.30pm Wednesday 15 July 2015.

The RADF is a program developed by Arts Queensland and administered by Gladstone Regional Council, providing funding for development of arts