REDLAND Art Gallery will showcase the talents of Aboriginal artists in an exhibition later this year, thanks to funding from the state government’s Queensland Arts Showcase Program.
The gallery will get $24,460 through the $350,000 program which is funding 10 arts and cultural experience across the state.
Arts Minister Leeanne Enoch said the program would showcase talented artists, writers and performers, and provide quality experiences for audiences here and across the globe.
Minister Enoch said visual arts projects included Seeing Country, the Redland Art Gallery exhibition that would highlight contemporary Indigenous artistic practices and the annual Brisbane Street Art Festival.
“The Queensland government’s QASP investment now totals over $10 million for 303 projects since it was established in September 2015,” Ms Enoch said.
Mayor Karen Williams said the funding would help create opportunities for people to discover Quandamooka culture.
“The Seeing Country exhibition project will be an extraordinary collaboration of Aboriginal artists, including established names and emerging new talents,” Cr Williams said.
“We hope the community will enjoy this showcase extraordinary creative talent and learn more of the cultural practices of the First Peoples of Australia.”
Curated by Quandamooka woman and Redland City Council curatorial officer Freja Carmichael Seeing Country will include works from the RAG collection and loaned works.
The initiative will celebrate intrinsic relationships to the land and waters through contemporary Aboriginal artistic practices, conversations and workshops.
Seeing Country will be displayed at Redland Art Gallery from June 30 until September 1 as part of NAIDOC Week celebrations and in conjunction with the Quandamooka Festival.
