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Vincent Serico, ‘The Road the Cherbourg’ (detail), 2009. Folio print reproduction, archival inks on 300gsm Hahnemuehle rag paper, 62 x 87 x 3.5 cm. City of Ipswich Collection, Ipswich Art Gallery. Photo: Mick Richards, courtesy of FireWorks Gallery.

Past exhibitions

Learn more about M&G QLD’s touring exhibitions that have travelled across Queensland and Australia since 2013.

Previously touring

Reasonable & Necessary

Artel, the creative studio of CPL – Choice, Passion, Life, located in Redcliffe, south-east Queensland, provides the necessary tools, space and instruction to supports its Artists to creatively express themselves as a dynamic artistic movement.

long water: fibre stories

long water: fibre stories illuminates spiritual, ancestral, and physical connections to water through fibre practices.

Artistic Endeavour

Artistic Endeavour marks the 250th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour‘s voyage along the east coast of Australia. Scientists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, together with illustrator Sydney Parkinson, gathered and recorded many “… curious plants [they] met with on shore”.

Legacy: Reflections on Mabo

Legacy: Reflections on Mabo celebrates the man behind the game-changing Native Title Act, Eddie Koiki Mabo.

Safe Space

Safe Space brings together three-dimensional art works by twelve contemporary Australian artists that explore psychological aspects of physical space.

USE

A jewellery and metalsmiths exhibition focused on the concept of tools and processes.

Dissonant Rhythms

Ross Manning is a Brisbane-based artist who has been creating immersive light and sound works for nearly a decade.

Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering

Featuring contemporary artworks by 19 artists from the Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre and selected cultural objects from the South Australian Museum.

Some people are stories

Vincent Serico’s art aims to acknowledge Aboriginal existence in a way that gives comfort, while recognising past pain, sorrow, longing and loss, and leaving a trace of them in the hearts of others.

YOU ARE HERE 2

This exhibition of artist Susan Lincoln shares the lived experience of the bonds of motherhood and family.

Animal FanFair: Humans – Animals – Environment

This exhibition draws attention to humankind’s changing relationships with animals which are complex and often contradictory.

Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Tattersall’s Club, a selection of winning entries from its Landscape Art Prize toured regional Queensland.

Wanton, Wild & Unimagined

Wanton, Wild & Unimagined is a playful exhibition of sculptured recycled plastics that stirs the imagination and evokes environmental reflection.

Material Matters

Material Matters is the culmination of Artist Kay S Lawrence’s PhD research into the use of ‘women’s work’ and digital technologies to address global ecological and social issues.

Bimblebox: art – science – nature

A multi art form exhibition focused on the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, its environmental, social and scientific significance and artists’ creative responses to this unique and threatened quintessential Australian landscape.

In Depth

A touring exhibition of sculptural glass vessels by artist Jo Bone.

Offshoots: A Florilegium from the Cairns Botanic Gardens

A selection of botanical illustrations by Julie McEnerny with a special focus on plants of ecological or cultural significance.

Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art

This exhibition chronicles the development of modernism in Australia from 1940 to 1980.

Saltwater Country

Saltwater Country showcases works by 16 of Queensland’s acclaimed Indigenous artists, utilising their strong cultural connections to their saltwater country.

Transplantation: A Sense of Place and Culture

This exhibition of contemporary narrative jewellery explores the sense of place and cultural identity through the theme of Transplantation.

Portraits of a Tea Cosy

This exhibition uses the tea cosy as a catalyst for dialogue on the joy of owning something handmade and family traditions.

MYTHO-POETIC: Print and Assemblage Works by Glen Skien

Glen Skien interrogates the human condition with 35 artist books, assemblages, collages and installations that bring to life social histories and vexing questions of Australian identity, place and myth.