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2026

Marty Strecker: Hair Today

Marty Strecker is a local photographer specialising in legacy portrait photography.

Mackay Laneway Project, 2nd Lane, Mackay 4740

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Liam Folie: Regulation of Form

Regulation of Form is an imaginative exploration of raw resilience and utilitarian design.

Foodspace Mackay, Civic Precinct, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Judy Watson: skeletons

This exhibition opens the closet doors to Australia’s skeletons and explores an alternative national narrative.

Artspace Mackay, Civic Precinct, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Joshua Searle: Poco a poco, se va lejos (Little by little, you go far)

Joshua Searle is an Australian-Colombian artist whose practice explores memory, inheritance, and the reclamation of cultural histories.

Artspace Mackay, Civic Precinct, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Matters of Time: Contemporary Metal Practices

Matters of Time brings together Australian artists and designers who explore the evolving role of metal in contemporary practice and its relationship with time.

Artspace Mackay, Civic Precinct, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Tom Moore: Natural Oddity

Tom Moore is a glass artist who creates characters that blur the boundaries between life-forms.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Printbank Mackay: Coastal Imprints

Coastal Imprints by local printmaking group Printbank Mackay honours two decades of innovation, creative exploration and collaboration in Mackay’s art community.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Colleen Heathwood James: Habitat

Habitat speaks of the artist’s deep connection to the natural environments of Eungella and the Pioneer Valley, her concerns about climate change, and her belief in the importance of protecting...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2025

Venita Mooney: Family Archives

An initiative of Artspace Mackay, Blueprint is an opportunity for young and emerging artists to showcase their talent in digital art.

Foodspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Venita Mooney: Return to Country

An initiative of Artspace Mackay, Blueprint 2 nd Lane is a place for young and emerging artists to showcase their visual art talent.

the external wall in 2nd Lane, Mackay City Heart, 2nd Lane, Mackay 4740

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Karike Ashworth: The Wall | Home

Following her two-week residency at Artspace Mackay in February, Brisbane-based artist Karike Ashworth returns to Artspace to present Home , an exhibition co-curated with Artspace that explores...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Maximum Madness: Art inspired by Mad Max

George Miller’s genre-defining Mad Max film series has grown from a tense, low budget Ozsploitation cult hit into a sprawling post apocalypse action opera, redefining science fiction along the way.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Alun Rhys Jones: The Wall | Rainbow Sport

The Wall is an artist-in-residence exhibition program offering artists the opportunity to create a site-specific artwork directly onto the gallery’s foyer wall.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Natalya Hughes: The Interior

Interested in the role of women and their historical absence from positions of power, the part-professional, part-domestic setting conjured by 'The Interior' plays with gendered power dynamics...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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I, Object

Drawing from the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, I, Object features contemporary painting, sculpture, and installation by leading Queensland artists including...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Danish Quapoor: The Wall | departed

The Wall is an artist-in-residence exhibition program offering artists the opportunity to create a site-specific artwork directly onto the gallery’s foyer wall.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus on the Collection – Anneke Silver: Iconic Moments

Iconic Moments is a series of paintings by prominent Queensland artist Anneke Silver acquired into the Mackay Regional Council Art Collection in 2022.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus on the Collection: Ripples Through Time

Ripples Through Time explores the relationship between water and time, and the importance of water in creating connections in our communities, cultures, journeys, landscapes, plants and animals...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Thea Anamara Perkins: Dualities

Thea Anamara Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist whose practice incorporates portraiture and landscape to question representations of First Nations peoples and Country.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Neil Binnie: Architectonics and Observations

Architectonics and Observations is an exhibition by Townsville-based artist, Neil Binnie, consisting of a new series of collages, small-scale painting and drawings by the artist based on his time...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Libris Awards 2025: The Australian Artists Book Prize

Returning after a three-year hiatus, Artspace Mackay’s Libris Awards once again brings together works by leading and emerging artist book makers from across Australia.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Leonie Wood: aMuse

In her first solo exhibition in Mackay – aMuse – local artist Leonie Wood presents a new series of ceramics and works on paper inspired by her long-time fascination with Asian art.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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En Plein Air

En Plein Air traces the ‘artistic pilgrimages’ of an ever-evolving group of contemporary Australian and New Zealand painters – currently consisting of Tim Allen, Rhett Brewer, Julia Griffin King,...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jemima Wyman: Forewarnings 1–3...

Artspace Mackay presented Palawa artist Jemima Wyman’s major solo exhibition ‘Crisis Patterns’ – a selection of works from 2016-present that trace her ongoing documentation of the symbols and...

Dudley Denny City Library, 134 Victoria Street, Mackay 4740

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2024

proppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIR

Established in 2003, proppaNOW is one of Australia’s leading cultural collectives, exploring the politics of Aboriginal art and culture, and provoking, subverting, and re-thinking what it means to...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Lisa Ashcroft: The Wall — Scientific Reef Repeat

The Wall is an artist-in-residence exhibition program offering artists the opportunity to create a site-specific work directly onto the gallery’s 17 metre foyer wall.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Dias Prabu: Relentlines — Through the Window of the Past

Dias Prabu is an artist, painter, muralist, and creator of batik tulis (hand-drawn batik) living and working in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Mandy Quadrio: Croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years

Mandy Quadrio is a Trawlwoolway and Laremairremener woman, who was born in Melbourne and is now Brisbane-based.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Kate Harding: Bidjara

Kate Harding is a Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal woman with connection to Kooramindanjie (the Carnarvon Ranges) who lives and works in the Mackay region.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jemima Wyman: Crisis Patterns

Jemima Wyman is a Palawa artist who was born in Sydney and grew up in the Isaac and Mackay regions.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2023

Zanny Begg | These Stories Will Be Different

'These Stories Will be Different' brings together three of NSW-based artist Zanny Begg's most significant video installations that explore contested histories, including 'The City of Ladies' (with...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus on the Collection: Formed

Visual responses to colour theory, shape and space link work from the Mackay Regional Art Collection in Formed.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Niloufar Lovegrove: Too Little, Too Much

Niloufar Lovegrove’s practice is heavily influenced by motifs from her Persian upbringing.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT

Presented by Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT profiles key moments from the gallery’s flagship exhibition series looking to...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Kara Day: Ladylike

Mackay raised artist Kara Day interrogates feminine stereotypes in her first major body of work to be presented in the Artspace Mackay Foundation Gallery.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Stephen Homewood: Turbulence

Mackay artist Stephen Homewood works in an experimental gestural style, creating artwork that draws upon the subconscious fascinations of his mind.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Dylan Mooney: The Wall

Dylan Mooney will return to Artspace Mackay for its’ twentieth birthday celebrations to create his second site-specific mural on the gallery’s seventeen metre foyer wall.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Time Of Our Lives

How do we mark time and special occasions?; and how do the seasons and nature help determine this?

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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In Bloom

In Bloom showcases twenty years of growth of Artspace Mackay, focusing on Australian visual culture via botanical imagery.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Davida Allen: Colourful Expressions

Davida Allen’s colourful, expressionist paintings have documented her everyday experiences, for over 40 years.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Glen Skien: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Whilst living in Mackay in the mid-2000s, print and artist book maker Glen Skien became interested in the Australian play ‘Summer of the Seventeenth Doll’ which debuted for the first time in...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus On The Collection: Great Australian Hoist

Great Australian Hoist considers the way contemporary artists engage with the myth of Australiana.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Ryan Vella: Underground Spandex

Local illustrator Ryan Vella has been creating graphic style illustrations for over two decades, reaching national recognition in 2004 when he illustrated John Birmingham’s ‘He Died with a Felafel...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Deanna Hitti: M Is For Madraseh (School)

Lebanese-Australian artist book and print maker Deanna Hitti explores identity and visual misrepresentation themes in M is for Madraseh (School).

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Fire And Ash: Woodfire Pottery of Arthur and Carol Rosser

For over forty years Arthur and Carol Rosser created work from their secluded rainforest pottery in the Mackay hinterland, near the township of Eungella, Queensland.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2022

The Wall: D Harding

D Harding is a descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal communities of Central Queensland.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Figuratively Speaking

Figuratively Speaking draws from the Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, exploring representations of human experience through figurative work.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Veronika Zeil: Echo Forest—the Eloquence of Trees

Photography, sound, drawing and installation form Echo Forest—The Eloquence of Trees by central Queensland artist Veronika Zeil.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Material Sound

Material Sound brings together engaging work by six art practitioners and collaborative groups, each creating an experience of sound within installations constructed from everyday materials.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Shelley Engwirda: We Rise

Mackay artist Shelley Engwirda examines the success and failures of the Women’s Movement in We Rise .

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Natalie Hartog-Gautier: Looking for Paradise

Nathalie Hartog-Gautier is a French-born artist based in coastal New South Wales.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Tamika Grant-Iramu: The Wall

Brisbane artist Tamika Grant-Iramu is an emerging printmaker whose artworks connect to her Papua New Guinean, European and Torres Strait Islander heritage.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Barbara Hanrahan: Focus on the Collection

Barbara Hanrahan (1939-1991) was a prolific artist and writer who lived and worked between Australia and the United Kingdom.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop

Using light, shadow and scale, the work of influential Australian-Chinese artist Lindy Lee will mesmerise you.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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The Art of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Creator of feminine and enchanting fairy-tale illustrations, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960) was one of Australia’s most celebrated women artists of the early twentieth century.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jonathan McBurnie: Birdland

North Queensland artist Jonathan McBurnie draws upon the aesthetics of professional wrestling, a performative genre he describes as a fascinating paradox: “on one level it’s a fiction with planned...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jenna Lee: Cont.ained

Jenna Lee is an artist of Indigenous (Larrakia, Wardaman, and Karrajarri), Asian (Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino) and Anglo-Australian ancestry who manipulates paper to explore her many...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Across more than two decades from 1977 the Lyre Bird Press produced over 50 artists’ books ranging from livre d’artiste luxury publications to experimental book forms, involving creators of all kinds.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Dylan Mooney: Boundless

Yuwi, Torres Strait Islander and Australian South Sea Islander artist Dylan Mooney explores intersections between identity and ancestry in Boundless, a combination of graphic illustration and...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2022 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists' Book Prize

Artspace Mackay’s biennial event, the Libris Awards, brings together works by leading and emerging artist book makers from across Australia.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jasmine Togo-Brisby: Hom Swit Hom

Contemporary Australian South Sea Islander artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby examines Australia’s dark history of plantation colonisation through a range of techniques, from photography and filmmaking to...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2021

VOID

Bringing together rich and diverse artworks from many of this country’s most exciting Indigenous artists, Void articulates the unknown as space, time and landscape.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Leigh SCHOENHEIMER: Iterate | Elaborate

Brisbane-based Leigh Schoenheimer is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist who, through the genre of still-life painting, poses questions about what it is to “make pictures.” Her sculptural...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Donna Maree ROBINSON & David PYKE: Continuum

Donna Maree Robinson is an internationally exhibited, Mackay-based artist creating site-specific digital media.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Tension(s) 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial

Held every three years, the Tamworth Textile Triennial showcases the best of textile art from across the country.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Systematic

Systematic is a blend of playful, vibrant and kinetic works that invite viewers to reflect on their own relationship to contemporary systems; the interdependency between the part and the whole;...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jabu Birriny [Land + Sea]

Jabu (land) Birriny (sea) celebrates the unique environment of Yarrabah and its ongoing importance to culture and people.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Tracey Robb: The Lichen Garden

Using custom tools and jigs, Mackay-based artist Tracey Robb’s crochet practice centres on the fauna and flora of tropical Queensland.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Rosella Namok & Fiona Omeenyo: Sandbeach People

Rosella Namok and Fiona Omeenyo are leading figures in Cape York Peninsula’s Lockhart River, site of one of Queensland’s most important contemporary art movements.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus on the Collection: Collaged

The early twentieth century saw the artform of collage gain momentum as artists incorporated paper, material and found ephemera in distinct new visual imagery.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Tony Druery: Horizons

Tony Druery (1964 - 2016) was an artist and educator in the Mackay community, creating images that spoke to his love of the water, the Australian outback and scenes closer to home.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Dylan Mooney: The Wall — Goolmary

The Wall is an artist-in-residence exhibition program offering Australian artists the opportunity to create a site-specific artwork directly onto the gallery’s foyer wall.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Lyn Laver-Ahmat: Light on Landscape

Mackay artist and art educator Lyn Laver-Ahmat has established her practice over decades, responding to emotional connections to nature and place.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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A Changing Ecology

Drawing from historical and contemporary works held in the Mackay Regional Council Art Collection and Mackay Libraries’ Heritage Collection, A Changing Ecology explores representations of Mackay...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Ron MCBURNIE: In Search of Arcadia

Ron McBurnie is a leading Townsville-based artist and educator, drawing inspiration from early traditions of British and European printmaking and painting.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2020

Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection On Tour

Patricia Piccinini invites audiences to think about their place in a world where advances in biotechnology and digital technologies blur the lines between human, nature and the artificial world.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus on the collection: Michael Cook

Australia observes 250 years since the first arrival of James Cook on the eastern coast of Australia.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jamfactory Icon Catherine Truman: No surface holds

Catherine Truman is one of South Australia’s most renowned artists and jewellers who works with a variety of diverse materials to create captivating and one-of-a-kind pieces.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Elysha Rei: The CQUniversity Wall

Presented this year in partnership with CQUniversity, The Wall is an artist-in-residence exhibition program offering Australian artists an opportunity to create a site-specific artwork directly...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Art of Collection

looks to the way an art collection can reflect the deeply personal interests, experiences and passions of the individual that drives it.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Disquiet: Ecological Anxieties and Transformations

Cairns-based artists Barbara Dover and Robyn Glade-Wright’s touring exhibition examines the anxieties surrounding human generated pressures on the marine environment.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Australian South Sea Islanders: A Missing Chapter from History

The Mackay Region has one of the highest per capita populations of Australian South Sea Islanders – descendants of people who were brought to Australia as indentured labourers between 1863 and 1904.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Michelle Vine: Contested Biography

Michelle Vine is a Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2020 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists' Book Prize

Since opening its doors in 2003, the gallery has been dedicated in its exploration and support of the artists’ book medium.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2019

Losing Home, Finding Home: Mika Nakamura-Mather

As a Japanese national living and working in Australia, Mika Nakamura-Mather’s work explores the concepts of home and belonging that lie at the heart of understanding our identity.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Sacred Ink: Connecting to culture

Sacred Ink: Connecting to culture is an Artspace Mackay photographic exhibition delivered in partnership with the Mackay and District Australian South Sea Islander Association (MADASSIA), which...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Reasonable & Necessary: Prints and artist's books by Artel Artists

This inspiring touring exhibition showcases the work of 33 Artel Artists, some of whom possess complex and profound disabilities.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Kit Webster: Phaseshift

Drawing upon ideas of perception and consciousness, the kinetic work Phaseshift explores the parallels between environments, both digital and physical.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Some people are stories: Vincent Serico

Vincent Serico’s remarkable life journey through regional, remote and rural Queensland is captured in Some people are stories, the first major touring exhibition of Vincent Serico’s work since his...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Take Root (Colony): Project Another Country

Collaboration and collection, community and family, relocation and temporary homes, memory and identity are all concepts explored through the work of husband and wife team, Alfredo and Isabel...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus on the Collection: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

Hanssen Pigott created a new language for ceramics through her famous still-life groupings.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Robert Macpherson: Boss Drovers

This is a QAGOMA touring installation of 200 drawings made by Robert MacPherson over two decades in the guise of his alter ego, Robert Pene, a Year 4 student at St Joseph’s Convent in Nambour,...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Buff Diss: The Wall

An Artspace Mackay initiative, The Wall is an Artist in Residence exhibition program that offers Australian artists an opportunity to create an artwork directly onto the wall within the gallery.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Obsessed: Compelled to make

This Australian Design Centre touring exhibition explores the preoccupations that drive the creative process, moving beyond the finished work, to tell the hidden stories of making, uncovering the...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Foundations in Drawing

The Mackay region has many strong, creative women who have helped shape the vibrant and diverse artistic presence that thrives today.

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Violent Salt

Violent Salt brings together contemporary artists from across Australia representing diverse cultural heritage.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2018

Focus on the Collection: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison

The focus for this exhibition of works drawn from the Mackay Regional Council collection are Melbourne artists Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison who have been making artists’ books collaboratively...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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The Wall: David Ray

An Artspace Mackay initiative, The Wall is an Artist in Residence exhibition program that offers Australian artists an opportunity to create an artwork directly onto the wall within the gallery.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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JamFactory Icon Gerry Wedd: Kitschen Man

Gerry Wedd enjoys a national reputation in Australia for his hand-built blue and white ceramics that brim with a dry wit oscillating from the humorous to darkly disturbing.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Ray White Mackay City: ARTICULATE Postcard Exhibition & Competition

The Articulate: Postcard Exhibition & Competition is a fundraising initiative of Artspace Mackay Foundation.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Clara Adolphs: Familiar Distance

Sydney born figurative painter Clara Adolphs spent time in the region in 2017, participating in Artspace Mackay’s vibrant new Artist in Residence Program.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Goggomobil D'Art

The Goggomobil D'art Project is a collaborative contemporary art project initiated by classic car collector Jeff Brown that saw a 1960s Australian made and designed Goggomobil Dart - considered an...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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The Wall: Luke Mallie

An Artspace Mackay initiative, The Wall is an Artist in Residence exhibition program that offers Australian artists an opportunity to create an artwork directly onto the wall within the gallery.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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John Honeywill: Hold this closely

Queensland painter John Honeywill masterfully transforms still life arrangements into alluring visual conversations.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Primavera at 25: MCA Collection

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) celebrates twenty-five years of Primavera – the annual exhibition dedicated to showcasing the work of young Australian artists.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2018 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists' Book Prize

Artspace Mackay's nationally recognised competition brings to our region artists' book entries by Australian artists competing in four sections.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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On Yer Bike

We wash them, we polish them.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Sugar vs the Reef? Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams

Between 2014 and 2019, artists Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein have been working alongside sugarcane farmers in the Mackay region on a project called Sugar vs The Reef?

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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2017

The Wall: Samuel Tupou

Cairns based artist, Samuel Tupou is the first artist to create a work on The Wall as part of the Artspace AIR Program.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Focus on the Collection: Davida Allen

In 2016 award winning artist Davida Allen donated three paintings to the Mackay Regional Council Art Collection.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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A Milliner’s Tale: Brenda Lui

In this latest collection of works, Mackay milliner Brenda Lui presents her interpretation of millinery trends past, present and future.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Emerging Designer: Bethany Cordwell

Winner of the 2017 Artspace Mackay Foundation ‘Hands On’ Bursary, Bethany Cordwell is a rising talent in the field of fashion design, currently studying at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Humanics: Shane Gibbs

Humanics presents a collection of hairpieces that reflect Shane Gibbs’ desire to blur the boundary between traditional hairdressing and art.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Coming into Fashion: A century of photography at Condé Nast

Coming into Fashion is an international exhibition of fashion photography selected from the Condé Nast archives of New York, Paris and Milan.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Jud Wimhurst: Protection

As a firm believer in DIY, research and experimentation is an important part of Wimhurst’s practice and if that means sourcing a completely new material and exploring its capabilities or mastering...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Peter Lyssiotis: Where are the originals? Once were photographs...

Where are the Originals?

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Deborah Kelly: No human being is illegal (in all our glory)

Originally created for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) this exhibition comprises 20 life-sized photographic portraits realised through ongoing discussion, exchange and art making between the...

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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ASSI150

2017 is a significant year that marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of South Sea Islanders to Mackay.

Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay 4740

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Punuku Tjukurpa

Artback NT, in association with Maruku Arts, presents Punuku Tjukurpa, the first touring exhibition of artworks from the Maruku Arts archive based at Mutitjulu, near Uluru in the Northern Territory.

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Liminal Spaces: Escaping the frame

A new media installation by local artist Glenda Hobdell presents alternate views that are informed by the experience of two caves – one in Hungary, the other in Australia.

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Man Cheung: Botanical Cosmos - Mackay

Produced through the Artspace Artists in Residence Program and in collaboration with Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens, Botanical Cosmos presents a stunning selection of plants found in the Mackay...

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Great Barrier Reef: Anthropocene Project

Emma Lindsay is a Brisbane based visual artist whose practice explores critical contemporary issues regarding globally endangered species and their habitats.

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William T. Cooper: Brought to Life

Legendary wildlife filmmaker Sir David Attenborough viewed William T Cooper as ‘‘Australia’s greatest living scientific painter of birds,’’ adding, ‘‘he is possibly the best in the world.’’ Cooper...

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2016

Focus on the Collection: Karla Dickens

Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens creates work from an intensely personal place and it’s this authenticity that powers each and every work.

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2015

2014

Printbank Award

features selected works from local printmaking group, Printbank Mackay’s 5th annual printmaking award.

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Danie Mellor: Exotic lies sacred ties

This major survey will focus on the past decade of the artist’s practice.

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Offshoots: A florilegium from the Cairns Botanic Gardens

The making of the Offshoots collection is a story of the partnership between the artist, Julie McErnerny, Tanks Arts Centre and Cairns Botanic Gardens.

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Ever Present: Photographs from the Collection 1850-1975

Images from photography’s early years have a peculiar temporality.

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A.C.O. Virtual: Play with the band

In 2012 members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) were captured on film using state of the art 3D & audio technology.

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Donna Maree Robinson: Far Away Here

Far Away Here was inspired by a residency at Nes Listamidstod Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland during the winter of 2013.

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Ngaio Lenz: Silhouettes after chemo

Silhouettes after chemo is an exhibition of self-portraits on canvas and a large installation of 365 small found, made and kept things.

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Made in China, Australia

This touring exhibition questions how the work of Chinese Australian artists is affected by the particular Chinese Australian heritage and experiences they have had.

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The Three Os: Orban, Olsen & Ogburn

This touring exhibition explores the legacy of Desiderius Orban and that of two of his students, John Ogburn and John Olsen.

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Roy Huff: Old dog, new tricks

Local artist Roy Huff didn’t begin painting until he was in his 60s.

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Masters of the medium

Pioneer Potters was formed in Mackay in 1975 by a small group of potters who aimed to meet and improve the standard of pottery in Mackay.

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Mirror Mirror: Recent works by May Mosshammer

A traditional folk ballad interweaves this exhibition of recent works by emerging local artist, May Mosshammer.

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Creative Power: The art of George Baldessin

Despite a tragically short life, George Baldessin made a significant impact on printmaking and sculpture in Australia in the 1960s and 70s.

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Traverse: Recent works by Melinda Schawel

by Melbourne artist Melinda Schawel, features her latest works on paper and board.

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Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 Years of JamFactory

In 2013 JamFactory celebrated 40 years of nurturing and promoting contemporary craft and design in Australia.

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Selfhood: Deborah Williams

Deborah Williams is a keen observer of dogs.

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Mytho-Poetic: Print & assemblage works by Glen Skien

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

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2013

Ah Xian: Metaphysica

Ah Xian is one of the most interesting artists to emerge from post-cultural revolution China.

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Blakely Lloyd: Never Again

In 1994 Angela Blakely and David Lloyd were commissioned by the History section of the Australian Army to accompany the first rotation of troops to Rwanda and (photo) document Australia’s...

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Lloyd Rees: Life and light

Brisbane-born painter and draftsman Lloyd Rees (1895 – 1988) is one of Australia’s most recognised and awarded landscape artists.

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10:100,000 Mapping the Island

Visual artists, poets, chefs, wine makers, dancers and musicians, each received a section of a topographical map of Tasmania.

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Insight: Hermannsburg Potters Collection of the Moreton Bay Regional Council

celebrates the diversity of art practice taking place in contemporary Indigenous communities.

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South of no North: Laurence Aberhart, William Eggleston & Noel Mckenna

View the everyday world differently through the paintings, ceramics, videos and photographs of three visual artists whose works are connected by an interest in the commonplace, a regional sense of...

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The Wandering: Moving images from the MCA Collection

has been designed to introduce audiences to a selection of works by some of Australia’s most significant artists working in the video medium.

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The book as site: Reading resonance

Marian Macken was the recipient of Artspace Mackay’s Libris Award in 2010.

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Body on the line & Mana Pasifika

Two exhibitions curated by Leo Tanoi from Sydney’s Casula Powerhouse, Body on the line is a portrait exhibition by international photographer Greg Semu featuring some of Rugby League’s current and...

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Siamani Samoa Selu La’au (German Samoa Hair Combs)

Michel Tuffery is a New Zealand based artist of Samoan, Rarotongan and Tahitian heritage.

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Lorna Fencer Napurrurla: Yulyurlu

A stunning retrospective of the high profile senior Warlpiri artist Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla (c1924-2006).

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Still life: Joachim Froese photographs 1999 - 2008

Over the last ten years Froese’s work has concentrated on photographic still life and often explores personal family history.

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2013 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists Book Prize

The Libris Awards are Australia’s premier national artists book prize.

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Two islands, one home: A story of belonging

Two islands, one home is an exhibition of locally-owned artefacts, which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the arrival of South Sea Islanders in Queensland.

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2012

Ron McBurnie: Metal as anything

Metal as Anything is a survey exhibition that showcases thirty years of the diverse and intricate etchings of Townsville artist Ron McBurnie.

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The Printbank award 2012

features selected works from local printmaking group, Printbank Mackay’s 3rd annual printmaking award.

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Jenny Sages: Paths to portraiture

This travelling exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery explores the process of portrait making through large-scale portraits, abstract landscapes, preparatory and finished drawings,...

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Shaun Gladwell: Afghanistan

Shaun Gladwell is an internationally acclaimed video artist who represented Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

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Fiona Foley: Flotsam and jetsam

is a series of recent works on paper by Indigenous Australian artist Fiona Foley.

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Ted Barraclough: A rare bird

Ted Barraclough is an emerging artist in his 70s working in Queensland who grew up in the bush with an affinity for local birdlife.

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The Denman/Fordyce collection: A recent donation to Mackay Regional Council Libraries Heritage Collection

A generous donation of photographs, diaries, letters, objects and ephemera, the Denman/Fordyce collection is a unique family collection that documents pioneering days and offers insight into the...

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History lost: The damming of the Connors River

To commemorate the history of Collaroy, a property two hours south of Mackay which is being resumed to make way for a large dam, a group of local artists worked in a variety of mediums to...

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Karl Langer Drawings: Mackay’s future plan

Karl Langer was commissioned (by the Mackay City Council) to review the 1934 Mackay City Planning Scheme in late 1948.

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In Bed by Ron Mueck

Australian-born, London-based sculptor Ron Mueck creates figures in both emotional and physical states of exposure, suspended in self-consciousness, introspection or deep contemplation.

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Martin Smith: A perfect price for Donny

Artist photographer Martin Smith creates collages telling stories of lived experiences and family histories.

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Perspectives: Jon Cattapan and Ex De Medici

Perspectives presents the unique insights of two contemporary artists commissioned by the Australian War Memorial to respond to the subject of peacekeeping.

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Veils of illusion: In search of self

An investigation into the fragility of the human spirit, Veils of illusion is an exhibition of recent works by Janine Whitling.

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Looking forward, looking back: 150 years of Mackay

As part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of Captain John Mackay's camp at Greenmount, Artspace Mackay pays tribute to the region's past and present with a unique...

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2011

Colliding Islands

Colliding Islands explores the idea of contemporary landscapes through the work of selected Australian and international practitioners working in a range of artforms.

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Camino: Recent works by Kim Demuth

After completing an Australia Council Barcelona Studio Residency in 2005, Kim Demuth was inspired to return in 2008, this time on foot to embark upon a 900km pilgrimage across the Northern regions...

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Subject Matters: Postcard Exhibition

This exciting event combines a competition, exhibition & art sale to raise funds for Artspace Mackay Foundation to invest back into arts in the Mackay region.

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Alison Lester’s Kids Antarctic Project

In 2005, Alison Lester travelled to the Antarctic as an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow.

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Who Am I? Self portraits by students of the Mackay Region

Throughout history, artists have used the self-portrait as a means of exploring not just their appearance, but often how they feel, what interests them, and other things that make them who they are.

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Batik of Java: Poetics and politics

On the 2nd October, 2009 UNESCO recognised Javanese batik as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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Creative Generation

An initiative of the Department of Education and Training, this exhibition highlights a range of outstanding work by visual art and design students from secondary schools throughout the Mackay region.

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Happily Ever After: Alternative Destinies in contemporary feminine narrative

Happily Ever After was conceived as an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, writers and craftspeople invited to work together to create handmade books which explore female narratives...

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The Lyre Bird Sings

showcases a stunning array of artists books and livres d’artistes produced by Townsville’s Lyre Bird Press during the 1990s and early 2000s, held in the Mackay Regional Council Collection.

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Contemporary Miniatures

A collection-based exhibition drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery’s holdings of miniature paintings from South Asia, Contemporary Miniatures explores the dynamic visual language of miniature...

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Bonney Bombach Memento Mori: Tree of life

In an deeply poignant year for the artist, Bombach salvages memories from her family home.

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2010 Ranamok Glass Prize

Now in its sixteenth year, the Ranamok Glass Prize aims to encourage creativity, skill and innovation in contemporary glass from Australia and New Zealand and has become a pivotal event in the...

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Clem Forbes: Recent additions to the Mackay Regional Council Collection

Renowned local artist, Clem Forbes was a major driving force behind the visual arts in Mackay.

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May’s: The May Lane Street Art Project

The May Lane project began in Sydney in 2005 when Tugi Balog turned the walls of his business into an outdoor gallery space for street artists.

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Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose: Recent works by Corey De Muth

Using text and watercolour portraits, Corey De Muth’s series is a close observation of young men who belong to a generation that is at the fragile endpoint of the decline of western civilisation.

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C/O Poste Restante: Mackay Regional Council Artists Book Collection

Curated by renowned local artist, Wanda Bennett, C/O Poste Restante highlights a selection of works from the Mackay Regional Council’s permanent collection of artists books.

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Studio: Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd

The extensive photographic and journalistic work carried out by National Geographic photographer R.

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The Artist’s Studio: Ron McBurnie Prints

This series of etchings by Townsville printmaker Ron McBurnie explores that intimate space and personal environment of the artist at work.

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2010

Paolozzi + Kitaj: British Pop Prints from the Art Gallery of NSW Collection

features two major British print portfolios from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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Working through/Turning pages: The artists’ books of Robert Jacks

An exhibition of Robert Jacks artists’ books ranging from one-off works to multiples and editions using a variety of printing techniques from hand stamping and etching to collage, photography and...

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The A - Z of artists books

By using the alphabet to showcase a selection of artists books from the Mackay Regional Council Collection, Artspace Mackay have created an informative and entertaining exhibition.

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Namatjira to now

The great Albert Namatjira’s adoption of the European medium of watercolour for his landscape paintings remains an inspiration to contemporary artists from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) and surrounding...

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Maelstrom: Recent works by Kelvyn Cunnington

Drawings, collage & assemblage drawn from the artist’s inner vault.

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Simryn Gill: Gathering

This solo exhibition presents the work of leading Sydney-based Malaysian artist, Simryn Gill.

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The Printbank Award 2010

features selected works from local printmaking group, Printbank Mackay’s 2nd annual printmaking award.

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2026

Marty Strecker: Hair Today

Liam Folie: Regulation of Form

Judy Watson: skeletons

Joshua Searle: Poco a poco, se va lejos (Little by little, you go far)

Matters of Time: Contemporary Metal Practices

Tom Moore: Natural Oddity

Printbank Mackay: Coastal Imprints

Colleen Heathwood James: Habitat

2025

Venita Mooney: Family Archives

Venita Mooney: Return to Country

Karike Ashworth: The Wall | Home

Maximum Madness: Art inspired by Mad Max

Alun Rhys Jones: The Wall | Rainbow Sport

Natalya Hughes: The Interior

I, Object

Danish Quapoor: The Wall | departed

Focus on the Collection – Anneke Silver: Iconic Moments

Focus on the Collection: Ripples Through Time

Thea Anamara Perkins: Dualities

Neil Binnie: Architectonics and Observations

Libris Awards 2025: The Australian Artists Book Prize

Leonie Wood: aMuse

En Plein Air

Jemima Wyman: Forewarnings 1–3...

2024

proppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIR

Lisa Ashcroft: The Wall — Scientific Reef Repeat

Dias Prabu: Relentlines — Through the Window of the Past

Mandy Quadrio: Croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years

Kate Harding: Bidjara

Jemima Wyman: Crisis Patterns

2023

Zanny Begg | These Stories Will Be Different

Focus on the Collection: Formed

Niloufar Lovegrove: Too Little, Too Much

Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT

Kara Day: Ladylike

Stephen Homewood: Turbulence

Dylan Mooney: The Wall

Time Of Our Lives

In Bloom

Davida Allen: Colourful Expressions

Glen Skien: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Focus On The Collection: Great Australian Hoist

Ryan Vella: Underground Spandex

Deanna Hitti: M Is For Madraseh (School)

Fire And Ash: Woodfire Pottery of Arthur and Carol Rosser

2022

The Wall: D Harding

Figuratively Speaking

Veronika Zeil: Echo Forest—the Eloquence of Trees

Material Sound

Shelley Engwirda: We Rise

Natalie Hartog-Gautier: Looking for Paradise

Tamika Grant-Iramu: The Wall

Barbara Hanrahan: Focus on the Collection

Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop

The Art of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Jonathan McBurnie: Birdland

Jenna Lee: Cont.ained

Tales of the Lyre Bird

Dylan Mooney: Boundless

2022 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists' Book Prize

Jasmine Togo-Brisby: Hom Swit Hom

2021

VOID

Leigh SCHOENHEIMER: Iterate | Elaborate

Donna Maree ROBINSON & David PYKE: Continuum

Tension(s) 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial

Systematic

Jabu Birriny [Land + Sea]

Tracey Robb: The Lichen Garden

Rosella Namok & Fiona Omeenyo: Sandbeach People