Flying Arts Event Calendar: Exhibitions

Get ready to Paint the Town, Lockyer Valley! View the artworks of award-winning artists from across Queensland in the exhibition outcome of the 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards from March 1 to May 11, 2024.

Opening hours: Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm. Saturday-Sunday: 9am-4pm

About the exhibition

Evoking the spirit of celebration, of all things jubilant, artists were invited to respond to the question –how do you celebrate? The result is a uniquely Queensland hyper-local response to the public, or sometimes intimately personal, ways and reasons we choose to celebrate.

The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to provide a platform for further professional development. Paint the Town is the exhibition outcome of the 2021 QRAA.

The 2021 QRAA coincides with Flying Arts’ 50th year anniversary, half a century of connecting artists, educators and communities. Learn more.

Image: Exhibition view of Paint the Town displayed at Cairns Courthouse Art Gallery in 2021. Featuring Libby Derham, Celebrating the Colours of Coolum (2021) Watercolour on paint chips. Winner The Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award, 2021. Photographed by The Social Impact.

Perspective is the touring exhibition of Flying Arts Alliance’s signature art prize, the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA).

Opening hours: 10am-4pm Tuesday-Saturday

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In 2023, the QRAA invited artists to enter work which considers the concept of ‘Perspective’ in its many facets, viewpoints, and nuances. The theme plays on a term known in the visual arts and relevant to our modern society.

Perspective features the winners’, highly commended and finalists’ works, selected by judges Jonathan McBurnie and Fiona Foley. The exhibition is comprised of 36 works, featuring a diverse range of mediums selected across nine award categories, showcasing the immense talent that exists throughout regional Queensland.

Accompanying Perspective is the Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Exhibition. The exhibition is comprised of a selection landscape artwork in any medium, in homage to Mervyn’s penchant for ‘en plein air’ landscape painting.

Image: Lincoln Austin, i saw myself, in you, wondering, how did i get here, 2023. synthetic polymer paint on aluminium composite board.

Opening Hours: 10am-4pm Tuesday-Saturday

Flying Art Alliance’s founder, Mervyn Moriarty OAM, was a legendary figure in the arts. He was an extraordinary art teacher and artist with a passion to bring the arts to the rural, regional and remote places. He learnt to fly to be able to achieve this passion.

Honouring Mervyn Moriarty’s legacy, Flying Arts offers the The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award as a category of the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA). The prize awards a landscape artwork in any medium, in homage to Mervyn’s penchant for ‘en plein air’ landscape painting.

Over 50 years on, thanks to the strong state-wide networks that Merv created, Flying Arts continues to provide transformative art experiences. The organisation has evolved from its early days, however the vision of Merv has remained steadfast.

Court House Gallery showcases vibrant and dynamic program of shared arts experiences, including visual and performing arts in a variety of innovative spaces in the refurbished, historic Court House building from 21 March – 27 April.

The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award is proudly sponsored by Mitchell Fine Art, Watco East West, Chroma Australia, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Flying Arts Alliance and a donor.

Image: Naomi Hobson, Red Kangaroo and Little River Rock Cod, 2023. Ceramic installation.
Image Credit: National Portrait Gallery Canberra.

Explore Regional Queensland’s best emerging artists at Consolidated Properties Group.

Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition contains beautiful works from artists living in Regional Queensland. From the Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Ipswich, the Gold Coast, Hervey Bay and more, these artworks represent the emerging talent present across the state.

Thanks to our award partner, Consolidated Properties Group, a selection of works from the 2023 QRAA Emerging Artist Award category will be exhibited from the 26th of March, 2024 to the 25th of March 2025 in the Consolidated Properties Group Brisbane offices.

The Emerging Artist Award is proudly sponsored by Consolidated Properties Group, FireWorks Gallery and OneSpace.

Image: Julie Little, In Focus – The Sky’s the Limit, 2023. (detail). Oil on Canvas.

Get ready to Paint the Town, Lockyer Valley! View the artworks of award-winning artists from across Queensland in the exhibition outcome of the 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards from March 1 to May 11, 2024.

Opening hours: Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm. Saturday-Sunday: 9am-4pm

About the exhibition

Evoking the spirit of celebration, of all things jubilant, artists were invited to respond to the question –how do you celebrate? The result is a uniquely Queensland hyper-local response to the public, or sometimes intimately personal, ways and reasons we choose to celebrate.

The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to provide a platform for further professional development. Paint the Town is the exhibition outcome of the 2021 QRAA.

The 2021 QRAA coincides with Flying Arts’ 50th year anniversary, half a century of connecting artists, educators and communities. Learn more.

Image: Exhibition view of Paint the Town displayed at Cairns Courthouse Art Gallery in 2021. Featuring Libby Derham, Celebrating the Colours of Coolum (2021) Watercolour on paint chips. Winner The Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award, 2021. Photographed by The Social Impact.

Explore Regional Queensland’s best emerging artists at Consolidated Properties Group.

Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition contains beautiful works from artists living in Regional Queensland. From the Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Ipswich, the Gold Coast, Hervey Bay and more, these artworks represent the emerging talent present across the state.

Thanks to our award partner, Consolidated Properties Group, a selection of works from the 2023 QRAA Emerging Artist Award category will be exhibited from the 26th of March, 2024 to the 25th of March 2025 in the Consolidated Properties Group Brisbane offices.

The Emerging Artist Award is proudly sponsored by Consolidated Properties Group, FireWorks Gallery and OneSpace.

Image: Julie Little, In Focus – The Sky’s the Limit, 2023. (detail). Oil on Canvas.

Explore ‘Art For Life Award’ Winner Lincoln Austin’s solo exhibition at the Judith Wright Arts Centre from the 13th-27th of May 2024.

Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm

ABOUT LINCON’S PRACTICE

Modular forms, tessellating patterns, interlocking structures … Lincoln Austin’s artworks reveal systems of making and codes of construction. Artworks are open invitations to experience relational sensorial fields of abstract colour and form and perceptively co-construct them – playfully following the logic of design, meeting material limits, and imagining infinite recurrent possibilities. From intricate miniature assemblages to expansive installations to integrated architectural expressions, Austin’s works play across scales and materials, energising space, light, and time.

In a creative contract with the viewer, Austin offers building blocks for perceptual experience, providing a common platform to meet, share and exchange, as well as allowing for myriad points of departure, where we can feel individual difference and singular perspective. There is a lot of joy and sensorial pleasure in these skillfully crafted immersive and speculative architectures.

Artworks escape their own frames while working to frame, contain and then release the viewing experience. Performance and poetry are intrinsic dimensions at play. In this immediacy, the works can softly connect to inner emotional states, enfolding the viewer, echoing the structural complexities of our own making, growing, adapting and senescing throughout our lives’ journeys. Experiences of struggle and resolution, vulnerability and strength, openness and protection, become apparent. Though working within a systemic logic and a disciplined truth to material, Austin’s works release rather than define the possibilities of form, expressing an intense optimism.

Based in south-east Queensland, Lincoln Austin has exhibited nationally and internationally, receiving numerous grants and prizes, and participating in forums, workshops, residencies, artist talks, cultural exchanges, university teaching, and mentorships. In 2021, a 20-year survey exhibition, Lincoln Austin: The Space Between Us, was curated for Ipswich Art Gallery by Samantha Littley, Curator, Australian Art, QAGOMA. Austin has produced 18 large-scale public projects and has been awarded two prizes for Art and Architecture by the Australian Institute of Architects. Austin’s works are held in many public and private collections, including Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.

Artist biography written by Beth Jackson (2022).

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Song by Pet Shop Boys

Ask me why,

I say it’s most unusual

How can I even try to explain

Why today I feel like dancing

Singing like lovers sing

When I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing?

I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing

Ask me when, (ta ra ra ra)

I say it started when I met you (ta ra ra ra ra ra)

And ever since then I knew that the past couldn’t last

For right now, I think I’m running

A race that I know I’m gonna win

And I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing

I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing

If people say I’m crazy, I tell ’em that it’s true

Let them watch with amazement

Say it won’t last beyond breakfast

It’s a phase he’s going through

Denigrate or speculate on what I’m going through

Because it isn’t the sort of thing I would normally do

Ask me what, (ta ra ra ra)

I say I think it’s good for you (ta ra ra ra ra)

Believe it or not, I know where it’s all leading to

I feel like taking all my clothes off

Dancing to the right of Spring

And I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing

I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing

I wouldn’t normally do this kind of –

This kind of thing

Source: LyricFind.

Songwriters: Christopher Lowe / Neil Tennant

Image: Lincoln Austin. Don’t get carried away with yourself. 2020. Nylon fabric, carbon fibre, brass, 300 x 300 x 300 cm.

Explore Regional Queensland’s best emerging artists at Consolidated Properties Group.

Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition contains beautiful works from artists living in Regional Queensland. From the Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Ipswich, the Gold Coast, Hervey Bay and more, these artworks represent the emerging talent present across the state.

Thanks to our award partner, Consolidated Properties Group, a selection of works from the 2023 QRAA Emerging Artist Award category will be exhibited from the 26th of March, 2024 to the 25th of March 2025 in the Consolidated Properties Group Brisbane offices.

The Emerging Artist Award is proudly sponsored by Consolidated Properties Group, FireWorks Gallery and OneSpace.

Image: Julie Little, In Focus – The Sky’s the Limit, 2023. (detail). Oil on Canvas.

Explore Regional Queensland’s best emerging artists at Consolidated Properties Group.

Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition contains beautiful works from artists living in Regional Queensland. From the Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Ipswich, the Gold Coast, Hervey Bay and more, these artworks represent the emerging talent present across the state.

Thanks to our award partner, Consolidated Properties Group, a selection of works from the 2023 QRAA Emerging Artist Award category will be exhibited from the 26th of March, 2024 to the 25th of March 2025 in the Consolidated Properties Group Brisbane offices.

The Emerging Artist Award is proudly sponsored by Consolidated Properties Group, FireWorks Gallery and OneSpace.

Image: Julie Little, In Focus – The Sky’s the Limit, 2023. (detail). Oil on Canvas.

Explore Regional Queensland’s best emerging artists at Consolidated Properties Group.

Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition contains beautiful works from artists living in Regional Queensland. From the Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Ipswich, the Gold Coast, Hervey Bay and more, these artworks represent the emerging talent present across the state.

Thanks to our award partner, Consolidated Properties Group, a selection of works from the 2023 QRAA Emerging Artist Award category will be exhibited from the 26th of March, 2024 to the 25th of March 2025 in the Consolidated Properties Group Brisbane offices.

The Emerging Artist Award is proudly sponsored by Consolidated Properties Group, FireWorks Gallery and OneSpace.

Image: Julie Little, In Focus – The Sky’s the Limit, 2023. (detail). Oil on Canvas.