Contemporary Art

The University of Southern Queensland Art Collection includes nearly 500 works of contemporary Australian Art. They are distributed in buildings throughout the campus. Works from the collection are shown in the University's gallery once a year.500 items of contemporary Australian art. The aim in developing the Collection is to provide a permanent collection of high quality works of visual art which will contribute to the educational enterprise of the University and to the cultural experiences of its members and those of the wider community. Exhibitions of works acquired will be mounted...
The Gallery hosts an exhibition program of over twenty exhibitions per year, which may be touring exhibitions or are locally curated. The Gallery also hosts an annual exhibition of works from the University's art collection, which normally is distributed in buildings throughout the campus.500+
Set in 63 hectares of natural bushland, the Bribie Islands Community Arts Centre has a collection of permanent artwork. It also has changing exhibitions of contemporary painting and craft work.Studies from both Dale Marsh Bribie island Murals, Aboriginal and local artefacts, gifted works from past members. Mathew Flinders Bicentenary Memorabilia.
The collection was established in 1945. It comprises almost 1400 works, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts and works on paper. The collecting focus centres primarily on contemporary Australian visual art and craft. Collection strengths include contemporary prints post - 1960 and ceramics post - 1970; contemporary Queensland art; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Small thematic exhibitions drawn from the Collection are held regularly on campus. Large scale touring exhibitions are organised for showing at metropolitan and regional venues. 'Selected Australian...
Housed in a new purpose-built facility, the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery houses three historical collections and a collection of contemporary Australian works from the 1900s. The historical collections comprise Australian art from 1860-1900s. Australian rare books, maps, documents and manuscripts from the 1600s; and European and Asian decorative arts, furniture, paintings etc from the 1600s. The Gallery also features temporary exhibitions and monthly displays by local artists.Approximately 2,900 items
Cairns Regional Gallery is Far North Queensland’s only visual art museum and in 2005 it celebrates it’s 10th Birthday: a decade of documenting and presenting history, heritage and contemporary culture of this vast and distinctive region of Australia and the world through the visual arts, craft and design.

Housed in a refurbished heritage building in central Cairns, the Gallery incorporates four individual exhibition spaces inside the building, showcasing an average of 30 exhibitions per year, and featuring the work of national and international artists, with a strong focus on local and...
Contemporary Australian paintings, prints, drawings, mixed media, ceramics and sculpture, including works by William Robinson, Mandy Martin, Tom Risley, Joe Furlonger. Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works. Gold Coast Historical Collection. Evandale Sculpture Walk.Approximately 1,300 works of art
The Queensland Art Gallery offers a collection of exciting art and special exhibitions from local Queensland artists to international blockbusters. Located on the Brisbane River and a short walk from the city centre, the Gallery has a permanent collection of nearly 10,000 art works. Featuring soaring sky-lit ceilings and a magnificent waterfall, the Gallery is the perfect place to let your imagination run wild. Strengths include; Australian Contemporary Art/ late twentieth century Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art/ fifteenth century European art/ twelfth century Asian art/ late...
The Gallery is situated in the town's CBD. It is easily accessed and because of the closely situated University and the connecting Library, the Gallery has a wide range of viewers from the community. Quality touring exhibitions and a balance of contemporary and traditional work by Wide Bay and Queensland artists, constitute the Gallery's Exhibition Program.
Gallery Hinchinbrook was opened in June 1999 by the Hinchinbrook Shire Council and is housed in the TAFE-Library complex also opened in 1999. It is therefore a very modern and highly secure exhibition room boasting specifications of international standard. The Gallery is owned by the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE and is leased and administered by the council in conjunction with the Friends of Gallery Hinchinbrook Association Inc, a voluntary association. In keeping with the Gallery objectives, local artists and curators are encouraged to utilise the exhibition space and every effort is made...
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is a dynamic visual arts centre with a significant collection of north Queensland art. Housed in one of Townsville's finest heritage buildings, the gallery has an exciting and diverse program of local, national and international exhibitions with a special focus on exhibitions featuring north Queensland artists. Five exhibition display areas, including two main floor spaces, enables the gallery to have a varied exhibition program that changes regularly throughout the year. Floor talks, lectures, education programs and performances of music, theatre and dance...
The Institute of Modern Art is a Contemporary Art Space located in the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. Our program features temporary exhibitions that change approximately every six weeks, in four galleries and a screening room. We also present lectures and artist talks, publish artist monographs, history and theory texts, and host artists in residence.Temporary exhibitions only - no collection
Global Arts Link (GAL) is Ipswich's dynamic, world-class art gallery and social history museum in the city's beautifully restored, heritage listed old town hall. GAL presents a range of visual arts exhibitions with entertaining and educational interpretation. Explore Ipswich's history in the Time Machine, world-class art in the CS Energy Gallery. Entertain the kids the in the Energex Children's Gallery - Lottie's Place, meet our Indigenous inhabitants in Making Tracks or just chill out in the Seven News Global Lounge. GAL offers something for yound and old, for the art enthusiast to the...
Caloundra Regional Art Gallery is a 'Category A' non-collecting gallery, curating and hiring exhibitions of national and international calibre. The Gallery's motto is 'Excellence, Education and Equity'.
Pinnacles Gallery offers an exciting and diverse public program with a strong community focus. Visual Arts, craft, social history and educational exhibitions - both local and touring - are presented on a regular basis, together with workshops, artists' talks, performances and other activities.Pinnacles Gallery has a small collection of works focussing on people, places and perceptions of Thuringowa. The collection is predominately contemporary visual art and is comprised of paintings, prints and works on paper.
QCA Gallery tours and generates significant exhibitions that reflect contemporary interests held by students, staff and researchers and builds around such projects an array of public events that facilitate wider discussion, critical insight and professional development opportunities.
The University of South Australia Art Museum is one of a national group of university museums and galleries. The Art Museum presents original exhibitions of mostly contemporary art, craft and design, including architecture, as well as presenting touring exhibitions and conducting acquisition, publication and forum programs. The Museum works to enrich the University's educational contribution to its own student and academic communities and to strengthen the University's community role in fostering the arts.The University of South Australia Art Collection is is developed and managed through the...

This public gallery has a temporary exhibition program which changes monthly. Publishes Broadsheet, a contemporary visual art and culture quarterly magazine.

The Hahndorf Academy houses both a German migration museum and an art gallery. The gallery content os wholly South Australian with frequent exhibitions. The academy also has artist's studios with painters, jeweller, leadlight, paper and leather crafts people.The museum contains descriptions and artefacts from the migration of the first Germans in South Australia in 1839. Shipping logs, musical instruments, school items, farming equipment, dresses etc. Also a collection of orginal charcoal drawings from the fammous artist, Sir Hans Heysen, who lived in Hahndorf.
The home was built for William Moyle, a Cornwall engineer who operated the adjacent cordial factory and public baths. It is made of local stone with ironwork and illustrates turn of the century well-to-do living. The house is heritage listed and displays a wide range of collections, including period costumes, stained glass, furniture, household appliances, and a doll display. A brochure is available which provides fuller details.Thousands of artefacts including 1,000 pair of salt and pepper shakers, 2,500 dolls, 600 teddy bears

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