This exhibition surveys the ceramic practices of thirty-two Indigenous artists and communities of the Central Desert region....
Clay on Country: Ceramics from the Central Desert
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William T Cooper: Botanical Art of the Tropical Rainforest
William T Cooper’s exquisite botanical paintings, dazzling in colour and intricate in detail, depict the beauty and wonder of the flora and fauna he encountered in the natural world across Australia, Asia and East Africa....
RITUAL: the past in the present
'RITUAL: the past in the present' explores the many complex narratives, histories, traditions, beliefs and issues which inform art produced by contemporary artists in the Asia Pacific region....
Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture: Late 19th Century to the Present
'Queen's Land Blak Portraiture: Late 19th Century to the Present' considers the social, political, economic and cultural conditions, past and present, concerning portraiture and Indigenous identity....
Queen’s Land: Blak Portraiture
‘Queen’s Land: Blak Portraiture’ is a new visual survey of Indigenous portraiture emerging from the state of Queensland over the past 150 years....
Linda Jackson: Tropical Design
Linda Jackson carries a deep connection to the environment and cultures of Australia’s tropical zones, the Pacific region and Eastern and Southern Africa....
Physical Video
'Physical Video' focuses on performance and theatricality in video art in Australia from the 1970s through to the present day....
Mollie Bosworth: The Nature of Blue
Working from her rainforest studio in Kuranda, artist Mollie Bosworth has created new wheel-thrown porcelain vessels and works on paper and silk, to consider the spectrum of the colour blue....
Continental Drift: Black/Blak Art from South Africa and north Australia
‘Continental Drift’ looks at race and representation within the context of global black art and culture by artists from north Australia and South Africa. ...
Danie Mellor: Proximity and Perception
‘Proximity and Perception’ features drawings and photographic works from the last decade of Danie Mellor’s output, alongside a major new work....
Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering
Located in Far North Queensland, the Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre represents artists from nine Traditional Owner groups – the Nywaigi, Gugu Badhun, Warrgamay, Warungnu, Bandjin, Girramay, Gulnay, Jirrbal and Djiru people. This exhibition brings together the work of 19 of these artists who transform traditional stories...
Vera Scarth-Johnson: Wild Flowers
‘Wild Flowers’ presents 50 works by Australian botanical illustrator Vera Scarth-Johnson (1912-1999); compositions of native flora from the Endeavour River (Waalumbaal Birri) in Far North Queensland....