An Artist Fellowship from the RSL Club Cairns was awarded to Jason Wegger on the strength of his graphite drawing, Dementia Study #1 Mental Funeral 2021 presented in the Gallery’s FNQ Contemporaries 2022 exhibition. The Fellowship provided Jason with $7,500 to develop a new body of work for a solo exhibition at the Gallery. ...
As a painter and former art director for international film productions, Tim Ellis deploys the techniques, tools and mediums used for scenic art to make large paintings. In composing a work, his painter’s eye selects one fleeting moment to become a canvas. Ellis’ works are executed with bright, fluid brush-strokes, and with a cinematic...
This is an extraordinary exhibition of quilts made by military men from their army or naval uniforms. They were made by soldiers, sailors and regimental tailors using richly dyed, felted wools – the military fabrics of the past three-hundred years. They reveal service in the Prussian, Napoleonic, and Crimean wars, and in British India. But...
Dance masks and headdresses are unique in the each of the five island clusters of the Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula, with varied styles, materiality, complexity, purpose, and meaning. Performing with these objects and singing the songs that accompany them during dance is a way of honouring and embodying land, sea and sky....
