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Caloundra Regional Gallery

Locality: Caloundra, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5420 8299

Address: 22 Omrah Avenue 4551 Caloundra, QLD, Australia

Website: https://gallery.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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22.01.2022 IN 2016, THE HEADLINE WAS... A thought-provoking photograph that explores the sense of loss has won the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2016 when Sunshine Coast-based photographer Michael Cook (pictured with the work) was announced as the winner with his work ‘Mother Tennis’. The work is part of Cook’s series entitled Mother a journey through 13 images of a woman in a deserted Australian landscape. The mother is always alone, her baby absent, although evidence remains of the...re having been a child: the empty pram, the abandoned toys on the hopscotch court, the slackness of the skipping rope. These images possess an arrested stillness that implies a recently bereft status While these images speak directly and poetically to Australia’s Stolen Generation, they speak also to a universal experience of disconnection between mother and child. Judge Jane Deeth described Cook’s work as a beautifully realised work, adding The work invites us to examine every detail very closely, revealing layers of profound loss and longing that can be read in many ways from the most personal to the most political, and connecting to memories and histories that continue to haunt the present. Spend some time with this reflective work until 4 October. ‘Mother Tennis’ (2016), Michael Cook BIDJARA, Digital photograph inkjet on photo rag, 80 x 120cm. Winner, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2016, acquired through the support of Audi Centre Sunshine Coast. Sunshine Coast Art Collection. #alwayswasalwayswillbe #indigenousartist #contemporaryart #australianart #firstnations #sunshinecoastartprize #sunshinecoastartcollection #caloundraregionalgallery #scap2016

21.01.2022 FINAL WEEK OF EXHIBITION Our 20th anniversary exhibition winds up on Sunday. Grab the chance to spend some time with the gorgeous artworks, timeline, archival images, videos and (the crowd favourite) feedback wall. Hope to see you soon! Open Tues to Fri 10-4 // Sat to Sun 10-2 // FREE ENTRY... Exhibition ends 4 Oct See more

19.01.2022 LOVE YOU TO JOIN US ONLINE THIS MORNING For an inspiring discussion about the importance of galleries in communities - with Gallery Director, Jo Duke, and our esteemed panel: Amy Wockner, Hamish Sawyer, Simon Wright and Megan Williams. 28 Sep | 10.30-11.30 | Live on Facebook - see events

19.01.2022 2014 ART PRIZE WINNER "Visually compelling and evocative" was the judge’s summation of Matthew de Moiser’s ‘Servo (State 3)’ winner of the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2014. Pictured (in 2014) with Mayor Mark Jamieson, highly respected judge Chris Saines, Director of Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, continued It was the work which I kept coming back to; the work which excited my interest the most. I wanted to know more about it. I still do.... "A meticulously wrought assemblage with all the appearance of a dead pan painting, Servo (state 3) is a worthy winner. - ‘Servo (State 3)’ (2014), Laminex on board, 60 x 60cm. Winner, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2014, acquired through the support of Sunshine Coast Council. Sunshine Coast Art Collection #matthewdemoiser #contemporaryart #sunshinecoastartcollection #caloundraregionalgallery #visitcaloundra #visitsunshinecoast

18.01.2022 TWO CULTURES. TWO CONTINENTS. Oksana Waterfall’s deeply personal Sunshine Coast Art Prize finalist work ‘My mother speaks to me in a foreign language’ pays homage to her mother. One of the key themes in my art is that of people. I am forever a watcher. That is never been more so than watching, then documenting, my family. My mother was a displaced person after World War II. She and her family found their way across Europe and embarked for Australia in the first wave of pos...t war immigration. It is her experience bridging two cultures and two continents that greatly affects me. "This portrait of my mother as a child just about to leave for Australia incorporates elements of Ukrainian design, including a rose, common in Ukrainian iconography. ‘My mother speaks to me in a foreign language’ (2018), graphite, oil paint and thread on plywood, 60 x 60cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery, Gold Coast. Exhibited until 6 Dec. Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2020 is proudly sponsored and supported by Argon Law, De Deyne Family, Caloundra Chamber of Commerce, Coastline BMW, Montville Country Cabins and International Art Services. #scap2020 #sunshinecoastartprize #contemporaryart #visitcaloundra #postwarimmigration #ukranianiconography

18.01.2022 JOIN us ONLINE from 7pm tonight with Raquel Ormella in our 'From the Artist' livestream facebook series. Winner of the 2017 Sunshine Coast Art Prize with this striking piece, Ormella lives and works Sydney and Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Her practice encompasses material forms often associated with social and political activism, such as banners, flags, video, pamphlets and zines. She is interested in the collision of art and activism and the complex relationship b...etween humans and the natural environment. Join the conversation tonight with Collections Curator, Nina Shadforth. IMAGE: Courtesy ben vos productions

17.01.2022 ABOUT PERCEPTION Sunshine Coast Art Prize finalist Leigh Schoenheimer says her work ‘The Meaning of (Still) Life: The Wooden Pineapple’ is part of an ongoing body of work in which I investigate ideas about ‘perception’. The multi-paneled format which I typically use, always traces a shift from realism towards more conceptual approaches to image making. A literal depiction of a set of objects sits alongside and meshes with a conceptual response to the same subject matter, pre...sented here via a series of appropriated clip-art symbols. Through the use of repeated imagery and colour harmonies, connections arise between these two very different ways of establishing meaning. Aesthetics are the key to holding these complex works together, with colour and layout at the forefront of my mind, when building them. References are made to the imagery and styles of the many 20th century artists who re-wrote the rule-book on image making, thereby marking the shift in art historical terms from perceptual to conceptual approaches." We were so delighted that Leigh visited us at the gallery today, and graciously posed with her conceptual piece. ‘The Meaning of (Still) Life: The Wooden Pineapple’ (2019), oil on plywood, 61 x 61cm. On exhibition until 6 Dec. Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2020 is proudly sponsored and supported by Argon Law, De Deyne Family, Caloundra Chamber of Commerce, Coastline BMW, Montville Country Cabins and International Art Services. #scap2020 #sunshinecoastartprize #contemporaryart #visitcaloundra #aboutperception

17.01.2022 MAPDA AWARDS - Caloundra Regional Gallery is delighted to have been shortlisted for the Museums Australia Multimedia & Publication Design (MAPDA) awards - Invitation award category for our exhibition earlier this year: ‘Johanna DeMaine: the form : the function : the aesthetic’. Awards will be announced Wednesday night crossing fingers! Regardless of the outcome, we are thrilled to have been shortlisted. Good luck to all nominees. Image credit: ben vos productions. From pas...t exhibition 'Johanna DeMaine: the form : the function : the aesthetic’. #artawards #mapda #caloundraregionalgallery ben vos photographer + filmmaker MAPDA

14.01.2022 There’s something about Alec There is a heartfelt connectedness surrounding Christopher Inwood’s Sunshine Coast Art Prize work ‘Alec the King’. We thoroughly enjoyed a visit from Christopher and his partner Cate, who also happens to be Alec’s cousin. Some weeks ago, we also welcomed other members of Alec’s family, including his mum, dad and very proud grandma Mary. ... Spend some time enjoying the engaged and skilful detail of this crowd-favourite before the exhibition ends on 6 Dec you won’t regret it! FREE entry | Open this Sat + Sun 10-2 ‘Alec the King’ (2019), oil on board, pigment on wood, 130 x 81cm Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2020 is proudly sponsored and supported by Argon Law, De Deyne Family, Caloundra Chamber of Commerce, Coastline BMW, Montville Country Cabins and International Art Services. #scap2020 #sunshinecoastartprize #contemporaryart #visitcaloundra

14.01.2022 People’s Choice voting OPEN TODAY! We are so excited about our next exhibition our prestigious Sunshine Coast Art Prize (opening on 16 October) that we thought we’d give you a sneak preview! Our forty finalist artworks can be viewed on our website now, and our People’s Choice voting opens today. The winning artist of this category wins a $2,500 cash prize, generously sponsored by the CALOUNDRA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.... Voters also go into the draw to win a gift voucher from Caloundra Regional Gallery artisan store. We would love to know what you think! See website link in our about page. Image credit: Jandamarra Cadd | Cleverman | 2017 | oil on canvas | 120 x 120cm. Winner, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2019 People's Choice

14.01.2022 Join us at 10.30am Monday 28 September for our online panel discussion about the importance of galleries within communities.

12.01.2022 NEW IN - GALLERY STORE We're now stocking these irresistible glass earrings hand-made by our local artisan friends at ‘The Little Glass House’. Don’t they look lovely? (Of course, they’d look better on you!)... Open Tue to Fri 10-4 // Sat to Sun 10-2 #artisan #supportlocal #visitcaloundra

12.01.2022 HELLO, QLD SCHOOL HOLIDAYS! FREE kids activities served in-house or takeaway at Caloundra Regional Gallery. Explore the exhibition with our Kids Art Trail, or grab art-in-a-bag to take away. (Or do both.) Open Tue-Fri 10-4 + Sat-Sun 10-2 // Free entry... (and keeping our space safe with a COVID-safe plan) #schoolholidayfun #kidsactivities #sunshinecoastkids #kidsartactivity #creativekids #holidays #visitsunshinecoast #sunnycoast #downtowncaloundra #sunshinecoastmums #caloundra #visitcaloundra #beach #sunshinecoast #artinabag #kidscrafts Downtown Caloundra

10.01.2022 Caloundra Regional Gallery is fun for all ages. But don’t take our word for it. Our young visitors say: I love following the clues on the Art Trail it’s just super fun Emily (11) This art gallery is the best art gallery Alex (8) Art is cool - I get to paint - Jasmine (5)... _ Explore fifteen years of Sunshine Coast Art Prize winning artworks -on exhibition together for the first time. Until 4 October. #sunshinecoastartcollection #caloundraregionalgallery

10.01.2022 MASKS AS PERSONAL FIREWALLS Freya Jobbins’ Sunshine Coast Art Prize finalist artwork ‘Mask #1 Firewall Series’ is from a body of work called FIREWALL, completed during isolation. It continues my current practice which based on appropriation, re-assemblage and subversion of pre-existent objects, where I explore notions of identity, motifs and my own dissimulation. ... A facial mask is becoming an accepted accessory, the mask can now also be a statement of public fear, personal security, protection, a social firewall. Continuing on from my previous works where I address contemporary subjects like domestic violence and mental health issues, I am looking into how we used these masks now to further our ability to use them as our own personal firewalls in a very visceral way. Wearing headsets, sunglasses and the focused stare on our phones are social firewalls; they signal a lack of desire to communicate with those around you, masks now add to that firewall of protection. An act of ‘social distancing’ by choice. ‘Mask #1 Firewall Series’ (2020), pigment print on archival cotton rag, 75 x 105cm Exhibited until 6 Dec. Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2020 is proudly sponsored and supported by Argon Law, De Deyne Family, Caloundra Chamber of Commerce, Coastline BMW, Montville Country Cabins and International Art Services. #scap2020 #sunshinecoastartprize #contemporaryart #visitcaloundra #masksasfirewalls

10.01.2022 IMAGINING OUR CULTURAL SPACE In 2017, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) students designed architectural model propositions of a new art gallery and museum. The inspiring models are on display now until 4 October. JOIN A CONVERSATION regarding the importance of galleries in communities. Connect with us online next Monday for an energising discussion with a panel of industry professionals. Facilitated by Gallery Director, Jo Duke, the session will incorporate questions fr...om the online audience. We are delighted to be joined by: + AMY WOCKNER - Gallery Network Operations Leader, Moreton Bay Regional Council + HAMISH SAWYER Independent Curator and Writer (and former Director of Caloundra Regional Gallery) + SIMON WRIGHT - Assistant Director (Learning + Public Engagement) at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) + MEGAN WILLIAMS Manager, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) Art Gallery Mon 28 Sep | 10.30-11.30 | Live streamed on Facebook _ Image: Designs by USC students University Wai Him (Leo) Cheung, Tim Prefontaine, Jelena Marinkovic and Elizabeth Rix.

07.01.2022 NEED SOME SCHOOL HOLIDAY INSPIRATION? Free kids art trail at the gallery - open today 10-2. Not in Caloundra? Jump onto our website for some creative inspiration - https://bit.ly/2FQPvOJ

03.01.2022 IN 2013, WE GOT LOVESICK. Accomplished artist Celeste Chandler was named winner of the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2013 with her work ‘Lovesick #7’ by judge Peter McKay - Curator of Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Her soft yet exacting layered brushwork in Lovesick #7 creates a tonal interplay that excites the eye and creates an arresting complexity. This particular self-portrait explores a curious psychological state. ... The buttery disguise that obscures many of the artist’s features is ambiguous and allusive: it could be interpreted very literally and seen as a beauty mask, food or paint; or it could be a kind of imaginary substance that illustrates a sensation of separation or isolation, feeling that sharing our individual subjective experiences is an impossibility. View this striking work until 4 October. ‘Lovesick #7’ (2012), Celeste Chandler, Oil on linen on round stretcher, 70 x 70cm. Winner, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2013, acquired through the support of Sunshine Coast Council. Sunshine Coast Art Collection. #sunshinecoastartcollection #caloundraregionalgallery #visitcaloundra #visitsunshinecoast

03.01.2022 We love welcoming little people into the gallery. Today a lovely group from Smartland Boutique Early Learning Maroochydore came to visit. Group bookings are always welcome, please email your request to [email protected] Don't forget to bring your kids for a visit these school holidays and collect a FREE 'Art in a Bag' activity kit. These are available for collection during opening hours while stocks last.

03.01.2022 GLASSWARE Luke Pither’s Sunshine Coast Art Prize finalist work ‘Glassware’ was created as part of ‘Paintings for Marjory’, a 49-work painting installation exploring both anomaly and biography, held this year at Galerie Pompom in Sydney. Equally optic as subject in its inquiry the body of work is a pondering of forgotten processes, leftovers, nuances and visual hierarchies of order that contribute to our unique individual perspectives as we consider a life lived. As optical... histories overtake sensations of experiential understanding, categories of humility, humour, trauma and curiosity interplay equally across a playful visual homage. Glassware considers ornamental histories and changes in style and nuance throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries and acts as a portrait of a collector. ‘Glassware’ (2019) (detail), synthetic polymer and oil on canvas, 100 x 75cm. Image courtesy of the artist Exhibited until 6 Dec. Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2020 is proudly sponsored and supported by Argon Law, De Deyne Family, Caloundra Chamber of Commerce, Coastline BMW, Montville Country Cabins and International Art Services. #scap2020 #sunshinecoastartprize #contemporaryart #visitcaloundra

02.01.2022 VOLUNTEERS CHOICE - Margaret Loy Pula’s intricate artwork ‘Anmatyerre Anatye (Bush Potato)’ is the top choice of our dedicated volunteers Robyn and Keary (And with a combined 30 years of gallery volunteering under their belt, it’s fair to say they know a thing or two about visual art!) #love #volunteers In 2011, Pula became the first female to win the Sunshine Coast Art Prize. Her artwork is inspired by traditional Anmatyerre stories handed down by her father, particularly th...emes around the deeply spiritual ‘anatye’ (bush potato). Pula explains, "Growing up in the small outstations at Utopia, outside Alice Springs, I would watch the bush potato vines grow after the rains and the women who would then dig up the vines and cook them in the hot coals of a fire. This painting is about my culture, it is from my father’s country. That country is called Unjangola, it is north of Utopia, really desert country. Enjoy the detail of this striking work in the gallery until 4 October. ‘Anmatyerre Anatye (Bush Potato)’ (2010), Margaret Loy Pula, Acrylic on linen, 120 x 120cm. Winner, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2011, acquired through the support of Sunshine Coast Council. Sunshine Coast Art Collection. #alwayswasalwayswillbe #indigenousart #culture #indigenous #contemporaryart #australia #australianart #firstnations #indigenousartist #dotpainting #firstnationsart #dotart #australianartist #sunshinecoastartprize #sunshinecoastartcollection #caloundraregionalgallery #scap2011 #volunteering #community

01.01.2022 BEFORE SOCIAL DISTANCING WAS A THING, more than 200 people gathered for the official opening of the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2015. Robert Fenton’s ‘Item #1770, Florilegium’ was announced as the winner. Fenton describes the work as a record of the monumental botanical collections made by Sir Joseph Banks and his team of naturalists aboard James Cook's Endeavour, 1768-1771. In mid-1770 Sir Joseph Banks added to this collection with the flora, plants collected from the now name...d Sunshine Coast. Culture is moving fast and people seem to be disconnected from nature. By hanging the plants upside down and by placing the flora in plastic it is about seeing this flora as a new species as Banks would have done in 1770. It may be wrong and mixed up but it still has that bright and beautiful presence that discovery has. Judge Amanda Parer explained "I chose this...artwork because all the elements that have been placed by the artist give the piece strength and quality that allows the viewer's imagination to extend beyond what is there in the four edges of the frame. "This work achieves relevance on personal, public, contemporary and historical levels through its efficient professional execution. "This work can be worthy in any collection but I am particularly happy that it will be acquired into the Sunshine Coast Art Collection because of its direct relevance to the region." - Visit the gallery before 4 October to appreciate the exquisite detail of this work. Item #1770, Florilegium (2015) (detail), Robert Fenton, Oil on linen on board, 127 x 86cm. Winner, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2015, acquired through the support of Sunshine Coast Council. Sunshine Coast Art Collection. #robertfenton #scap2015 #sunshinecoastartprize # #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #australiancontemporaryart #sunshinecoastartprize #australianartist #sunshinecoastartcollection #caloundraregionalgallery #visitcaloundra #visitsunshinecoast