How Soon is Now?

How Soon Is Now? brings together a selection of Bruce Reynolds’ exquisite cast relief works with two-dimensional collaged linoleum works, to celebrate a physicality that is frequently overlooked in today’s growing digital environment. 

Lost in Palm Springs

Curated by Dr Greer Honeywill, Lost in Palm Springs is a multidisciplinary exhibition bringing together fourteen creative minds—artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia—who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of the desert city of Palm Springs, California.

Three Echoes – Western Desert Art

Three Echoes – Western Desert Art showcases Australian Aboriginal art spanning the first 30 years of the Western Desert art movement, with works from 57 artists, curated by Djon Mundine OAM FAHA.

ZOONOSES

Through drawing and lithography, Dr Nicola Hooper uses fairy-tale iconology and rhymes to explore concepts surrounding zoonoses (animal diseases that can infect humans). The exhibition ZOONOSES explores how we perceive certain animals in the context of fear and disease. 

The Interior

Natalya Hughes’s The Interior is an immersive installation combining sculptural seating, richly patterned soft furnishings, and uncanny object d’art, nestled around a hand painted mural to generate a stimulating space to unpack our collective and unconscious biases.

POSTWORLD

Co-curated by Kate O’Hara and Daniel Qualischefski, POSTWORLD features Australian artists who create parallel universes. Audiences are invited into the playful, sublime, poetic and cautionary in this exhibition. Drawing on the detritus of human experience, these worlds have their own internal languages existing in alternate time and space.

The Brothers Gruchy

The Brothers Gruchy is an engaging new media exhibition that features 10 key artworks from Tim and Mic Gruchy’s practice that focus on recurring themes of human perception, artificial intelligence, synaesthesia, memory and cultural identity. Nature and our human impact is a strong thread of this exhibition.

Paint the Town

An initiative of Flying Arts Alliance, Paint the Town was the touring exhibition of 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards that showcased the works of 28 talented emerging and established artists from across regional Queensland.

Pattern and Print: Easton Pearson Archive

Pattern and Print: Easton Pearson Archive was a celebration of the internationally acclaimed fashion house Easton Pearson.

Reasonable & Necessary: prints and artist books by Artel Artists

Artel, the creative studio of CPL – Choice, Passion, Life, located in Redcliffe, south-east Queensland, provides the necessary tools, space and instruction to support its artists to creatively express themselves as a dynamic artistic movement. Reasonable & Necessary was the first ever touring exhibition of works by artists from Artel studio.

Artistic Endeavour: Contemporary
botanical artists’ response to the legacy of Banks, Solander and Parkinson

Showcasing the work of members of the Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland, Artistic Endeavour marked 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

Curated by Dr Jonathan McBurnie, Kellie Williams and Gail Mabo, Legacy: Reflections on Mabo celebrates the man behind the game-changing Native Title Act, Eddie Koiki Mabo. 

Safe Space contemporary sculpture

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

USE

USE featured works by seventeen artists from the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Queensland, who were invited to respond to a thematic premise focused on tools and processes. 

Manggan: gather, gathers, gathering

Manggan: gather, gathers, gathering featured contemporary artworks by 19 artists from the Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre, together with selected cultural objects drawn from the South Australian Museum collection gathered from the Girringun region.

Some people are stories

In 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.

Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Tattersall’s Club, the committee made available a selection of winning entries from its Landscape Art Prize to tour to regional Queensland centres.

Wanton, Wild & Unimagined

Wanton, Wild & Unimagined by Alison McDonald was a playful exhibition of sculptures made from recycled plastics that stirred the imagination and evoked 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

Bimblebox: art – science – nature was 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.

Please note: the websites and app associated with this exhibition are no longer active.

In Depth

In Depth was a touring exhibition of sculptural glass vessels by Jo Bone.

Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art

Drawn from Rockhampton Art Gallery’s collection, Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art chronicled the development of modernism in Australia from 1940 to 1980. 

Saltwater Country

Showcasing the talents of contemporary Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, the works in Saltwater Country featured stories of historical, environmental and personal concerns, utilising these artists’ strong cultural connections to their saltwater country – Queensland’s coastline, sea and waterways.

MYTHO-POETIC: Print and Assemblage Works by Glen Skien

MYTHO-POETIC: Print and Assemblage Works by Glen Skien was a touring exhibition that interrogated the human condition. With 35 artist books, assemblages, collages and installations, the exhibition brought to life social histories and vexing questions of Australian identity, place and myth.