Cairns QLD, Australia

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Margaret Olley – A Life in Art Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Margaret Olley: A Life in Art tells the story of Olley’s incredible life and enduring career through her greatest legacy – her art.   The exhibition includes artwork from as early as 1938, painted at just 15 years of age, through to 2011, the year of her death. Olley’s incredible career, enormous capacity for friendship...

Free
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Maria Fernanda Cardoso – Spiders of Paradise Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Exhibition developed and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.   Maria Fernanda Cardoso is internationally renowned for using unconventional and organic materials to consider nature and its links to culture and science. Working across sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance, her work examines the connections and tensions between society and the natural world....

Free
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Modernist Connections – Collection In Focus Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

The Australian tropics held a fascination for many of Australia’s modernist artists, including Brett Whitely, Ian Fairweather, Lawrence Daws, Ray Crooke, Tony Tuckson and Fred Williams.   From the 1950s to the 1980s these artists repeatedly visited the tropical islands, rainforests and beaches of Far North Queensland. Stories of how they connected with and were...

Free
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Alick Tipoti – Collection In Focus Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

In 2015 the Cairns Art Gallery mounted the first major survey exhibition of Torres Strait Islander artist, Alick Tipoti. Zugubal: Ancestor Spirits, was the first exhibition to consider how Zenadh Kes rock art inspires Tipoti’s arts practice and a generation of Torres Strait Islander artists.   Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 on Waiben (Thursday...

Free
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Margaret Olley – A Life in Art Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Margaret Olley: A Life in Art tells the story of Olley’s incredible life and enduring career through her greatest legacy – her art.   The exhibition includes artwork from as early as 1938, painted at just 15 years of age, through to 2011, the year of her death. Olley’s incredible career, enormous capacity for friendship...

Free
Recurring

Maria Fernanda Cardoso – Spiders of Paradise Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Exhibition developed and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.   Maria Fernanda Cardoso is internationally renowned for using unconventional and organic materials to consider nature and its links to culture and science. Working across sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance, her work examines the connections and tensions between society and the natural world....

Free
Recurring

Modernist Connections – Collection In Focus Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

The Australian tropics held a fascination for many of Australia’s modernist artists, including Brett Whitely, Ian Fairweather, Lawrence Daws, Ray Crooke, Tony Tuckson and Fred Williams.   From the 1950s to the 1980s these artists repeatedly visited the tropical islands, rainforests and beaches of Far North Queensland. Stories of how they connected with and were...

Free
Recurring

Alick Tipoti – Collection In Focus Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

In 2015 the Cairns Art Gallery mounted the first major survey exhibition of Torres Strait Islander artist, Alick Tipoti. Zugubal: Ancestor Spirits, was the first exhibition to consider how Zenadh Kes rock art inspires Tipoti’s arts practice and a generation of Torres Strait Islander artists.   Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 on Waiben (Thursday...

Free
Recurring

Margaret Olley – A Life in Art Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Margaret Olley: A Life in Art tells the story of Olley’s incredible life and enduring career through her greatest legacy – her art.   The exhibition includes artwork from as early as 1938, painted at just 15 years of age, through to 2011, the year of her death. Olley’s incredible career, enormous capacity for friendship...

Free
Recurring

Maria Fernanda Cardoso – Spiders of Paradise Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Exhibition developed and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.   Maria Fernanda Cardoso is internationally renowned for using unconventional and organic materials to consider nature and its links to culture and science. Working across sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance, her work examines the connections and tensions between society and the natural world....

Free
Recurring

Modernist Connections – Collection In Focus Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

The Australian tropics held a fascination for many of Australia’s modernist artists, including Brett Whitely, Ian Fairweather, Lawrence Daws, Ray Crooke, Tony Tuckson and Fred Williams.   From the 1950s to the 1980s these artists repeatedly visited the tropical islands, rainforests and beaches of Far North Queensland. Stories of how they connected with and were...

Free
Recurring

Alick Tipoti – Collection In Focus Exhibition

Cairns Art Gallery 40 Abbott St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

In 2015 the Cairns Art Gallery mounted the first major survey exhibition of Torres Strait Islander artist, Alick Tipoti. Zugubal: Ancestor Spirits, was the first exhibition to consider how Zenadh Kes rock art inspires Tipoti’s arts practice and a generation of Torres Strait Islander artists.   Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 on Waiben (Thursday...

Free