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Getting Involved
Workshops
Guided Tours
Join a team of active volunteersor just be a ‘Friend’ and be informedabout upcoming Gallery events. The Friends of the Gympie Regional Gallery are an active support group who assist with many Gallery functions including opening nights and fund-raising events. If you would like to be included on our mailing list, or would just like further information about Gallery activities, programs, ‘Business Art Connections’ sponsorship/partnership opportunities or enquiries regarding the Friends of the Gympie Regional Gallery or being a volunteer at the Gallery, please contact us today.
We offer an exciting program of adult and childrens’ workshops; including FOGlets (junior FOG members) who meet the first Saturday of each month (excluding school holidays) from 10am - 12noon and enjoy participating in a variety of art & educational activities.Various adult groups meet on a weekly basis with a mixture of tutored and un-tutored classes. All workshops are held in the Workshop Space which is also available as a venue for hire.
School and community groups are encouraged to book free tours of this historic School of Arts building. Tours can include educational activities based on current exhibitions where applicable.
39 Nash StreetGympie QLD 4570
Fax 07 5483 [email protected]/gallery
Phone 5481 0733
Major Gallery Sponsor
Gympie TimesThe
Gallery Hours
Contact Details
Entry is free!
Tuesday to Saturday10am - 4pm
29 November - 31 December
Dealing with journeys of the imagination as well as the physicality of travel, Liz Powell’s exhibition examines how different peoples layer the landscape and interact with it, often dragging their cultural expectations with them. Recent works have focused on the varied navigational
and mapping vehicles employed by dissimilar groups and how these reflect cultural paradigms. Works range in scale from wall sized installations to palm sized, hand-bound books and 3D forms.
3 January - 25 February
3 - 28 January
Armchair Travel
Jeff Douwes’ First Retrospective
Hugo Du Rietz Gallery
Gallery Three
The Gympie Times Exhibition Space
Gallery Three
Art & Craft ExtravaganzaAnnual Friends of the Gallery Christmas exhibition of local products and beautiful
gifs to suit a variety of tastes and budgets.
A Gympie Regional Gallery and University of the Sunshine Coast collaboration that explores artist approaches in transforming materials into artworks.
Well known Gympie Times cartoonist, Jeff Douwes presents a retrospective of his work.
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15 June - 23 July
Sri-Lankan born Anushiya Sundaralingam explores her every day interaction with living, expressing the myriad of
emotions that we continually meet on our journey through life and the experiences that determine our attitude towards it. Currently living in Northern Ireland, Anushiyas’ work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions, internationally and throughout Ireland.
Four Gympie regional artists, Margaret McArdle, Kerrie Atkins, Violette Vegh-Jameson OAM and Cecile Steenbergen create a body of work with connections to ‘their place’.
15 June - 2 July
5 - 23 July
Local exhibition based on respect for everyone especially oneself.
Celebrating NAIDOC week 2011 theme of Change: the next step is ours.
Dresses
Virtues
The Gympie Times Exhibition Space
‘Remembrance 3’, Oil on canvas
Gallery Three
Hugo Du Rietz Gallery
Hugo Du Rietz Gallery
At My Place
Salt LakeA series of photographs taken during a retreat at Lake Lefroy, a dry salt pan in Western Australia. Pheobe McDonald explores the dramatic transformation of landscape by natural changes in light.
26 July - 3 September
See the world from a different perspective as cutting edge Australian and International artists present video work. Presented by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, PICA’s Screen Selection is a selection of three group
exhibitions of contemporary video including animation, digital art, multi media, graphic design and short film. Toured by Art on the Move.
Featuring works by the University of the Sunshine Coast's advanced design students who are completing study in Computer-Based Design. This innovative exhibition has educational relevance not only for university students but also for high school students
considering a career in design.
Gooch’s UtopiaThe Gympie Times Exhibition Space and Hugo Du Rietz Gallery
Gallery Three
Gallery Three
Collected indigenous paintings, batik, works on paper, sculpture and painted found objects from the Central Dessert. A collaborative exhibition between Flinders University Art Museum (Adelaide) and Riddoch Art
Gallery (Mt Gambier). The works date from the late 1980's until the early 1990’s collected by the late Rodney Gooch. Toured with support by Visions of Australia.
26 July - 13 August
16 August - 3 September
Billy Morton Petyarre Alyawarr c.1930-2007. ‘Untitled’ 1999, synthetic polymer paint on paper. Gift of Rodney Gooch, Flinders University Art Museum 3666 © Courtesy the artist.
PICA’s Screen Selection
Awake Me In Space
Ima e de ils (L t R): Margar t McA dle, ‘ ife’s like t at’, osies L h K rrie A kins ‘g ta o e r e t R ’Ch ir Fr m th To ’, E gtas c’.a ’, Ceci Steenberg n ‘ o e p V olette Vegh Jame on O M ‘le e i - s A g ti
6 - 29 September
Kym Barrett’s abstract and semi-abstract mixed media works loosely connect both outer landscape fragments and a personal inner landscape. They aim to suggest metaphors for the universal human adventure and the places we inhabit on the way.
5 - 15 October
Annual Competition presenting a variety of mediums and attracting artists Australia-wide held in conjunction with the Gympie Gold Rush Festival.
18 October - 5 November
The Paisley Shawl
Gold Rush Art Competition
The Gympie Times Exhibition Space
Hugo Du Rietz Gallery
Gallery Three
All Gallery Spaces
The Gympie Times Exhibition Space
From the personal collection of David Hill, a display of paisley shawls dating from 1810 to 1870 illustrating the derivation of the paisley motif and changes in design, fashion and weaving over this period.
Sue Lederhose brings together paintings from the last few years that represent her ‘yellow days'. Yellow is her happy colour. Her yellow days are the ones where she
gets to paint, the days when the ideas come to fruition. For her these days are exciting and uplifting, knowing that the days of failure and practice are worth it.
Showcases artwork by Grade 9 -12 students, selected by Gallery staff from all Gympie Region High Schools.
Traces of Place
Hi-Artworks
Yellow Days
2010 Winner, ‘Some Just Get Passed’ by Robert Robertson.
18 October - 5 November
Five Sunshine Coast artists; Jan Dunlop, Wendy McGrath, Elizabeth Poole, Richard Newport and Corrie Wright have been working together on environmental art projects & exhibitions since 2009. They are bound by this deep respect for the natural environment in making their art.
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Unique Expresssions
Gallery Three
The Gympie Times Exhibition Space
Hugo Du Rietz Gallery
Gallery Three
Contemporary and provocative photographs and video work by two up and coming young male Queensland artists, show the
subject succumbing willingly or unwillingly to the bounds of relationships, society, nature, culture or conditions. Curated and toured by Flying Arts.
8 November - 31 December
8 - 26 November
Jo Martin and Tom Lockie present an exhibition of painting, photography and sculpture inspired by vast
open grasslands, desert ochres,red ironstone rock and deep running freshwater by 12 artists from the Barcaldine, Aramac and Jericho region of central Western Queensland. Toured by Ontour onexhibition QLD Arts Council.
Friends of the Gympie Regional Gallery Thursday Morning Art Group present a variety of works with unique expressions.
Craig R Cole and Paul Mumme. Both
‘Lounge’, Paul Mumme, c-type print, 2007, edition of 10.
Catchment Collective
Artesian Country
Donnachie & Simionato, ‘Holes in between’ (2005).
‘Where seagulls play at Urangan’, Margee Pocknee
