A drawing by celebrated Central Queensland visual artist Peter Indans has made its way back home from the UK to become part of Rockhampton Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Life Drawing (1980) has been donated by a close friend of … Continued
CQUniversity Visual Arts teacher and ArtsCQ management committee member Patrick Connor has won the 2021 CQU Creates Art Award with a thought-provoking digital portrait. Patrick says his artwork The Ambassador and Friends looks back on where he came from and … Continued
A collective of Central Queensland artists are the first on show at Yeppoon’s newly opened Fig Tree Galleries. The lush new space replaces the former Mill Gallery in Normanby Street near the town hall, and Latitude 23 are taking over … Continued
The newly constructed Emu Park Community Arts Centre looks amazing, and now the most important work of all is underway: the artists are moving in! The Centre replaces former Emu Park Art Gallery, which closed in September 2019. The group … Continued
Rockhampton-based ArtsCQ member Elena Churilova is having a fantastic 2021, with an exhibition in Gladstone, adding some new awards to her collection, and leading workshops. Elena’s solo exhibition Mirages and Illusions http://gragm.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/mirages-and-illusions is on show at the Gladstone Regional Art … Continued
One of our major projects for 2019 was the Living History Project. Three years in the making, it brought together local playwrights and performers to create a series of five short plays performed on site at the Rockhampton Heritage Village in June and September.
Rockpocalypse – an explosive piece of original theatre from Capricorn Coast playwright Jessica Lamb – will take to the stage in November 2019 with funding support from the Palaszczuk Government’s Queensland Arts Showcase Program.
On Sunday June 2 our latest child, The Living History Project, stepped confidently into the world at the Rockhampton Heritage Festival, and we couldn’t be more proud.
The team behind our Living History Project is hard at work rehearsing for the first performance on site at the Rockhampton Heritage Village on June 2.
Arts Central Queensland is pleased to announce the four actors bringing the Rockhampton Heritage Village to life through a series of plays performed among the historic exhibits.
An essay by Lorna McDonald, written in late 2016 I have loved the shape of Australia since my first geography lesson in a one-teacher school on the Lower Glenelg River in south western Victoria in the 1920s. With its … Continued
Imagine picnicking on an open highway, bellowing in a library or watching reruns of your favourite sitcom in a fifty-seat cinema. All of this is possible in the world of Rockpocalypse. But with such freedom comes extreme isolation. For the … Continued