2026 exhibitions
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
Post Truth | Darren Blackman
Darren Blackman is a proud Gureng Gureng / Gangalu man from Queensland's central coast, with South Sea Islander heritage from Vanuatu.
Post Truth speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government's Close the Gap campaign, that set intent to achieve health, education and employment equality by 2030 and reduce the seventeen year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples.
Touching on oral history from his Elders and reworking those messages, Darren channels personal observations and his lived experience, to witness a wide range of Aboriginal perspectives and mainstream political and media inference.
Darren Blackman is represented by Onespace.
Image: Darren Blackman, Make Austraya Great Again, 2025, led-neon light with clear acrylic back board. Image Credit: Michael Marzik. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.
Shifting Perspectives: The Self Reconciliation Project | Avi Amesbury
Through ceramics and storytelling, Shifting Perspectives: The Self Reconciliation Project uses the narrative of a settler descendent (the artist) to see and understand the injustices of settler history in Australia.
The exhibition is not the telling of an Aboriginal story, but a re-examination of the artist's family history. As one of the first settler families to arrive in Western Australia's wheat belt, Avi's family were given free land while the First Nations people of the area were being driven out.
It is about the notion of 'self-reconciliation' to stop, to turn, and to seek truth. 'To listen, to hear, to feel and to understand.'
The exhibition presents work inspired by research residencies at the Fremantle Arts Centre (2022) and Central Craft (2023) and the collaboration with composer and sound artist MJ from Those Who Ride With Giants.
Image: Avi Amesbury, Taken, 2025, porcelain, found clay, white glaze. Image Credit: Visall Photography.
Lost in Palm Springs | A Touring initiative by HOTA, in partnership with Museums and Galleries Queensland
Lost in Palm Springs is a national touring exhibition that brings together the creative minds of 14 internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia.
Curated by award-winning Australian writer and conceptual artist, Dr Greer Honeywill, Lost in Palm Springs is a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture found in the desert city of Palm Springs, California.
The exhibition features artworks that respond to, capture, or reimagine the unique characteristics of the city, its surroundings and its Bauhaus sensibilities. Lost in Palm Springs is a must-see exhibition for anyone interested in mid-century modern architecture and its influence on contemporary culture.
ARTISTS
Kate Ballis (AUS) | Tom Blachford (AUS) | Darren Bradley (USA) | Anna Carey (AUS) | Sam Cranstoun (AUS) | Paul Davies (AUS) | Rosi Griffin (AUS) | Jim Isermann (USA) | Troy Kudlac (USA) | Lance O’Donnell (USA) | Kim Stringfellow (USA) | Vicki Stravrou (AUS) |Robyn Sweaney (AUS) |Gosia Wlodarczak (AUS)
Image: Kate Ballis, 2350, 2017, archival pigment ink on cotton rag, 103 x 153 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Curated by Dr Greer Honeywill, Lost in Palm Springs is a touring initiative developed by HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast in partnership with Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through its Visions of Australia program and through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and proudly sponsored by IAS Fine Art Logistics and o2 Architecture.
Museums & Galleries Queensland is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funds from Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.
Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait | QAGOMA
Contemporary society has become increasingly attuned to the self-image through social media’s 'selfie' culture and reality TV, providing a fascinating backdrop in which to examine the self-portrait today.
Looking Out, Looking In explores the genre of the self-portrait, a distinct form of portraiture in which subject and artist are one.
The exhibition examines the human tendency to envisage oneself. While some of the artists look inwards and reflect on themselves in self-effacing ways, or may just be intrigued by their own image, others seek to project an image or identity in more flamboyant displays.
Image: James Gleeson, Australia, 1915–2008, Structural emblems of a friend (self portrait) 1941, Oil on canvas board, 46 x 35.6cm. Purchased 1984 with the assistance of the John Darnell Bequest. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. © QAGOMA
Biomorphism | Penny Bennett
Biomorphism builds on Penny Bennett’s ongoing exploration of the connections between art, biology and the environment.
Using stitched, recycled paper animated with subtle electronic movement, Bennett creates delicate, living-like forms that invite viewers to look closer at the unseen beauty of nature.
Inspired by scientific illustrators such as Ernst Haeckel, her work merges traditional craft with contemporary technology to explore sustainability, curiosity and care for the natural world.
Reflecting the biodiversity of the Bundaberg Region, Biomorphism encourages audiences to slow down, engage thoughtfully and rediscover the wonder in organic forms and everyday materials.
Image: Penny Bennett, The Theory of Purposelessness
Home Bodies | Ana Daniels
Home Bodies is a sculptural exhibition that interrogates the politics and tensions of the domestic sphere, particularly as they relate to queer experience. Familiar comforts - pillows, blankets, bedding - are transformed into uncanny textile sculptures fused with industrial materials, acting as proxy bodies under strain.
The exhibition explores how queer bodies navigate the home, a space often marked by both rejection and self-determination. It asks: how can softness persist in the face of rigidity, and what joy exists in the gaps between social structures?
Ana Daniels is a Bundaberg-born artist and current Master of Philosophy candidate at QUT, who first exhibited in the student exhibition 'Emerge' at Bundaberg Regional Galleries nearly a decade ago.
Image: Ana Daniels, Home Bodies, installation view, 2026
Childers Arts Space
Telling Stories | Nita Rosher
Telling Stories is a celebration of family and community life by Queensland based artist and educator, Nita Rosher.
Nita creates artworks from observations of daily life in the Childers region that she calls home and this exhibition pays homage to the hardworking people, local agriculture and vibrant landscape that surrounds her.
Skillfully employing drawing, painting and printmaking techniques, Nita's practice spans decades.
This exhibition is a showcase of her creative journey, encompassing both retrospective and new artworks that speak to the richness and value of living in regional Queensland.
Image: Nita Rosher, Time to Harvest, 2026, Collograph.
Metal in Motion | Kevin Dekker
Metal in Motion is a collection that challenges the cold hardness we often associate with steel. Having been forged, cut and carefully shaped, these metal works explore movement — fluid milk frozen mid-pour, flames rising and twisting, ripples in a metallic pond.
Using reclaimed and recycled materials such as Corten steel, stainless steel and reinforcing bar, The Metalist transforms strength into softness and weight into flow. Each sculpture captures a fleeting moment, solidifying energy, tension and motion into enduring form.
This collection invites viewers to reconsider metal — not as static or cold, but as expressive, dynamic and alive. The artist also offers the same experience with wood, stone and ceramics to display his diversity.
Image: Kevin Dekker, A Splash of Coffee, 2024, Corten Steel, ceramic and glass on blue gum base
The Unrequited Dream | Hannah Stanton, Kaz Stanton and Jacob Bunt
The Unrequited Dream is an exhibition exploring suburban life in Queensland. Three artists connected through familial ties create work that reflects their experiences of Australia through printmaking, photography and sculpture.
The exhibition unpacks nostalgia for a suburban past that is both cherished and critically questioned. It acknowledges the complex, often bittersweet memories of growing up in Australia while confronting the changing realities of cost of living, environmental damage and identity.
The Unrequited Dream stands as a love letter to the suburban experience and to the natural landscapes lost or tamed in the name of comfort and domesticity.
Image: Kaz Stanton, Domestic Wilderness, 2025, reduction oil print on paper, 75 x 75 cm.