UnitePlayPerform: Build and Destroy 'Hyper Temples' is described by Offerings (the artist, Melissa Gilbert) as a 'living, breathing series of tactile object-works that will morph shape and move' to unexpected locations throughout RMOA during the exhibition period.
Luke Roberts: Beyond the Great Divide Born in Alpha, Central Queensland, artist Luke Roberts has been at the fore of performance, photography, painting and installation for over five decades.
Wendy Sharpe: I Am All Those Who Are No More The Gold Award 2022 winner Wendy Sharpe returns to Rockhampton in July 2024 for a very special artwork. As winner of the Archibald Prize and Sulman Prize, Sharpe is one of Australia’s most awarded painters.
The Gold Award 2024 Rockhampton Museum of Art is proud to present this acquisitive painting prize again in 2024. This invitational award showcases the finest in contemporary Australian painting practice, with the most outstanding work to be acquired into Rockhampton Museum of Art’s nationally significant collection.
Stephen Bird: Industrial Sabotage Stephen Bird is a UK-born painter and ceramicist whose artworks take aim at the class divide of British pottery. While the world-famous ceramics factories of England (think Royal Doulton, Spoke & Wedgewood) are synonymous with fine collectibles, Bird looks to the pre-Industrial Revolution records of workers creating one-off pieces of experimentation and self-expression at the end of their workday.
Collection Focus: Capricornia Printmakers Over one inspiring year, local artist collective Capricornia Printmakers embarked on a transformative journey of selecting and responding to artworks from the Rockhampton Museum of Art Collection including works by Eduardo Paolozzi, Max Lovell, Peter Blake, and Lesbia Thorpe.