Hervey Bay Regional Gallery

Hervey Bay Regional Gallery (HBRG) is a destination gallery, featuring a curated programme hosting national touring exhibitions alongside our own internally curated shows, focusing on hyper-local themes with a universal meaning for contemporary audiences, local and visiting alike.

HBRG is a public gallery located on Butchalla Country in the heart of Hervey Bay’s civic precinct.

Fraser Coast Regional Council has an established art collection that focuses on contemporary Australian art including a rich representation from artists of the region.

Hervey Bay Regional Gallery

166 Old Maryborough Road Pialba QLD 4655

07 4197 4206

hbrg.ourfrasercoast.com.au

Tue to Fri 10am–4pm,
Sat to Sun 10am–2pm
Closed Mondays
See our website for latest information.

Exhibitions

Mia Boe: Guwinganj

30 Nov - 16 Feb

‘Burbs to the Bay

Phoebe Paradise

21 Sep - 17 Nov

Regional Spotlight

21 Sep - 17 Nov

Forest to Fibre

21 Sep - 17 Nov

Picturing the End

30 Nov - 16 Feb

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

Preview

Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana and inherited influence

In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

Ivan Cheng on innocence lost

Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.

Anador Walsh

Feature

Women love the art world, but does the art world love women?

Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?

Neha Kale

Preview

Ellen Dahl creates a dialogue between places

In her latest exhibition at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Ellen Dahl presents works from an ongoing photographic series that has captured many sites—from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to Tasmania—creating a dialogue between works that center place.

Hervey Bay Regional Gallery