September - October
2 September – 3 October
The Idea of Wallum
Local artist Margaret Turner offers an intimate visual response to the idea of the Wallum land, working with and exploring its untold secrets. A visual exploration from the artist as a stranger, immigrant and inheritor of 'other ideas' and social structures.
2 September – 3 October
Throwing Shadows
Throwing Shadows is an exhibition of works by Brisbane based artists, photographer Vivienne Kelly and jeweller Madeleine Brown. Together their works draw on elements from early scientific illustration of microscopic marine forms and in particular those made by Biologist Ernst Haeckel.
2 September – 3 October
Time Travellers ll
An installation of light, music and sculpture by Terry Bouton. Machines dominate contemporary life, some are useful and others complicate our existence and fill us with dread.
October - November
7 October – 21 November
Sunshine Coast Art Collection
The first public display of visual art works held by the Sunshine Coast Council. The showcase exhibition includes gifts, acquisitions and bequests from leading local and national artists. Part of a multi-venue Sunshine Coast collections program, a collections trail will be open for guided viewing during October.
7 October – 21 November
Sound Mirrors
Leah Barclay's experimental installation Sound Mirrors was selected as one of four national projects for the Australia Council's HELM-Arts Award. HELM is an initiative of the Queensland Conservation Council. This exhibition will showcase the juxtaposed cultural content from a series of significant international rivers including the Han River in Seoul, South Korea, the Pamba River in the Backwaters of South India and the Noosa River in Queensland, Australia.
November - January
25 November – 23 January
Jeff Mincham
Jeff Mincham is one of Australia's most prominent and influential ceramic artists with a career spanning more than 30 years. With a reputation for monumental vessels, Mincham draws on his connection with and passion for the South Australian countryside where he lives and works.
His exceptional skills and extraordinary body of work are being honoured by Object Gallery through their Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series.
An Object Gallery touring exhibition.
25 November – 23 January
TAFE Sunshine Coast's 'Most Promising Artist Award' Recipient
Tanya Van Ierssel's exhibition 'The Heart of the Matter' presents Tanya's extended exploration of anything heart related or associated with life. Her work seeks to articulate the experiences of life and the impermanence and fragility of our human existence.