Cairns Art Gallery

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....