Tom Moore: Natural Oddity Tom Moore is a glass artist who creates characters that blur the boundaries between life-forms.
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...
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.
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,...
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.
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...
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.
Jemima Wyman: Crisis Patterns Jemima Wyman is a Palawa artist who was born in Sydney and grew up in the Isaac and Mackay regions.
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.
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.
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.
Stephen Homewood: Turbulence Mackay artist Stephen Homewood works in an experimental gestural style, creating artwork that draws upon the subconscious fascinations of his mind.
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.
Time Of Our Lives How do we mark time and special occasions?; and how do the seasons and nature help determine this?
In Bloom In Bloom showcases twenty years of growth of Artspace Mackay, focusing on Australian visual culture via botanical imagery.
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.
Davida Allen: Colourful Expressions Davida Allen’s colourful, expressionist paintings have documented her everyday experiences, for over 40 years.
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...
Focus On The Collection: Great Australian Hoist Great Australian Hoist considers the way contemporary artists engage with the myth of Australiana.
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).
Tales of the Lyre Bird 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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.