Bribie Island Seaside Museum

Ngā Pakiwaitara O Matariki

Experience the rising of the Matariki star cluster, signifying the Māori New Year in Te Ao Māori. Immerse yourself in the heart of Matariki – remembering those lost to us over the past year, celebrating the present, giving thanks, and reaching out to the promise of the future.

Explore each of the nine stars and their pakiwaitara/stories through the sharing of cultural knowledge and kupu tuku iho/histories, waiata/song, mahi toi/visual arts, and kapa haka/dance. Embrace the past present and future of Matariki in Moreton Bay. Kua haehae ngā hihi o Matariki. The rays of Matariki are glistening.

10 May—3 August

Bribie Island Seaside Museum

Bribie Island Seaside Museum, 1 South Esplanade, Bongaree QLD 4507, Australia

moretonbay.qld.gov.au/seaside-museum

News

Singing Spears Home

Mungari, a landmark exhibition at Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, marks the return of the Gweagal spears to their ancestral country while speaking to the constellation of relationships that knit together people, objects and place.

Tyson Frigo

Feature

Coming into view

Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists is an annual celebratory exhibition of Aboriginal artists from across Western Australia. Now showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the event has a community spirit and passion that grows each year.

Gok-Lim Finch

Interview

Julie Fragar on “painting in the first person”

With a current survey exhibition at Rockhampton Museum of Art chronicling 23 years of painting and photography, Julie Fragar talks about creative influences and what it’s like to observe a Supreme Court murder trial.

Briony Downes

Book Reviews

Proof-sheet of an era: examining the golden age of documentary photography

Examining the documentary photography of the 1950s to 1980s might seem like an exercise in looking back, but as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, Imagining a Real Australia calls loudly to the present. It’s full of arresting works on subjects that still speak to us today, from land rights to war and feminism.

Jane O'Sullivan

News

The 2025 Archibald Prize finalists have been announced

The finalist portraits in the biggest Australian art award of the year have been announced, alongside the winner of The Packing Room Prize: Abdul Abdullah for his portrait of fellow artist Jason Phu.

Art Guide Australia

In Pictures

In bloom: the art of floral abundance

A lavish exhibition adorning Bunjil Place Gallery, in a major partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, presents over 150 historical and contemporary works—spanning painting, fashion, installation, and so much more—that explore a long history of flowers in art.

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Bribie Island Seaside Museum

Ngā Pakiwaitara O Matariki

10 May—3 August

Bribie Island Seaside Museum

Suggested Reading

Singing Spears Home

Tyson Frigo

Coming into view

Gok-Lim Finch

Julie Fragar on “painting in the first person”

Briony Downes

Proof-sheet of an era: examining the golden age of documentary photography

Jane O'Sullivan

The 2025 Archibald Prize finalists have been announced

Art Guide Australia

In bloom: the art of floral abundance

Art Guide Australia

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