From the Director

Last week of Local Contemporary Art Prize 2024; if you haven’t seen the exhibition – where have you been? Wander down before 2pm on Sunday 5 and see some of the best art on the Sunshine Coast.

But before we close this exhibition, we have the highly anticipated Kids Art Attack scheduled for Saturday 4 May – come and see the show and kids can create a lovely work to give to mum or grandma on Mother's Day.

We will then be closed to demount LCAP and install our next exhibition, about-place / about-face. The launch is Friday 10 May, so secure your ticket for a truly fabulous night of art, chat, drinks, food and music!

People's Choice Award winners' announcement, Local Contemporary Art Prize 2024

As we move away from the days of summer, we bring the outdoors indoors with about-place / about-face, a collection of artistic responses to ideas of nature and place. Starting out as a research project examining perspectives about ‘natural place’, 16 artists explore this concept through painting, photography, digital animation, video, sculpture, moving image and installation. Collaborative films will also be shown, following the artists as they walk the landscape at Kin Kin. With exhibition curator, Kevin Wilson, they share thoughts on nature and their place within it. Come and immerse yourselves in a landscape exhibition with a difference.

There are wonderful opportunities to hear from Kevin Wilson and the artists, with a calendar of walk and talks in the gallery. For children, there is the Kids Art Trail, Forest Creatures workshop and hands-on 'cloak the children in nature' activities in the Artroom, created by Simone Eisler and Kevin Wilson.

Artist talk with Jasmine Veronique, Local Contemporary Art Prize 2024

The upcoming Artisan Pop-Up exhibit, Rugged Terrain, features a collection of works from five female Sunshine Coast-based artists. Working in ceramics, textiles, found object and fibre art, their creative practices engage deeply with the elements. The group, Fiona Cuthbert O’Meara, Cholena Hughes, Tess Miller, Tracey Richards and Melissa Stannard meet monthly to create, collaborate and lift each other up.

If you are down at Maroochydore, drop into the library to see Art Snack. Featuring work by seven local artists, the exhibition continues until 25 May. This collaboration with Open Studios provides a morsel of what’s on view during the upcoming Sunshine Coast Open Studios.

Artists still have some time enter the Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024, which is open until Sunday 19 May. Don’t leave it till the last minute!

Adult programs

Kids programs

Look forward to seeing you in the Gallery…

Jo Duke
Director