Artspace Mackay

Artspace Mackay is a regional art gallery operated by Mackay Regional Council which provides the community and its visitors with access to a wide range of cultural services including an ever-changing program of international standard touring and curated exhibitions of visual arts and social history; access to the Mackay Regional Council collection of artists’ books and prints through the Tate Adams Reading Room, with presentations, displays and exhibitions; public and educational programs including art classes, workshops, masterclasses, lectures, seminars, performances, presentations, guided tours and events; a multi-purpose functions venue for meetings, seminars, functions and events.

Artspace Mackay

Civic Precinct, Gordon Street Mackay QLD 4740

07 4961 9722

artspacemackay.com.au

The art gallery will be closed for renovations with public programs ongoing in various locations throughout the region. Visit our website to locate ongoing public programs and events, search the art collection, take virtual tours of past exhibitions and more.

Artspace Mackay

Exhibitions

Mandy Quadrio: Croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years

Mandy Quadrio: Croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years

18 Oct - 15 Dec

Jemima Wyman: Crisis Patterns

Jemima Wyman: Crisis Patterns

18 Oct - 15 Dec

Kate Harding: Bidjara

Kate Harding: Bidjara

11 Oct - 15 Dec

The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.

Michael Sun

Scaling new heights

A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.

Michelle Wang

Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When finally makes sense of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank. It is worth the plane flight.

In The Rites of When, Angelica Mesiti considers the rituals that may mark the seasons in our burning planet. The Tank has been waiting for art like this.

Joanna Mendelssohn

The space between real and unreal

Now showing at RMIT Gallery, This Hideous Replica is a holistic experimental art undertaking, co-curated by Sean Dockray and Joel Stern, which encompasses an exhibition, performance programs, publishing and much else.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

The immersive storytelling of Leah King-Smith

rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.

Briony Downes