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Closing Weekend Programs
Celebrating the final day of Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms and Marian Tubbs: we need privacy guys here too.
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Myall Creek and beyond
A significant exhibition exploring the history and site of the 1838 Myall Creek Massacre through the work of some of Australia’s leading indigenous artists.
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Special Event: Myall Creek and beyond
An afternoon of discussion unpacking the exhibition Myall Creek and beyond.
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Country In Mind
This exhibition explores the continuum among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who make work about Country.
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Curator Tour: Country In Mind
Join Christopher Bassi, artist and curator of Country In Mind for a guided tour of the exhibition.
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Talking Country in Mind
A discussion unpacking what Country means to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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The Reading Group: The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Reading Group provides a platform for critical thinking and discussion around the ideas presented in our exhibitions.
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Sites of Connection
This exhibition illuminates the work of artists at the intersection of creative practice and environmental research.
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Reading Between the Lines
An exhibition uncovering the hidden stories of the Butchulla people, the Traditional Custodians of K’gari (Fraser Island).
floor talk
Reading Between the Lines: Walk + Talk
A Walk + Talk through Reading Between the Lines.
seminars
FIELD TRIP
Field Trip is an international research symposium investigating creative practice at the intersection of art, science, technology and the environment.
seminars
Author Event: Mirandi Riwoe
Join award winning author Mirandi Riwoe as she delivers the ASAL Patrons Lecture followed by a brief Q and A session.
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Michael Cook: Undiscovered
This exhibition is the first career survey of Australian artist, Michael Cook.
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Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms
This exhibition presents the work of contemporary Australian artists who utilise craft-based materialities with a political intent.
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Marian Tubbs: we need privacy guys here too
Marian Tubbs works with poor and found materials to question ideas of value and raise economic, social and ecological issues.
workshops
Hiromi Tango: Amygdala—Healing Garden
Bringing together ideas of focusing on nature to help restore a state of calm and health.
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Come Close
A group exhibition of the work of Leonard Brown, Christian Flynn, Ian Friend, Gordon Shepherdson, Amber Wallis and Judith Wright.
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Book Launch: The next big thing!
Dr Marcus Bussey launches of his second book of poetry.
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Women's Work from the Collection
This exhibition celebrates artwork by Australian women artists held in the USC Art Collection.
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River's Edge: Kim Guthrie
An exhibition of photographs of Johns Landing Camping Ground in Noosa by Sunshine Coast based artist, Kim Guthrie.
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Experimenta Make Sense
An exhibition that expresses the disconcerting and delightful world of the digital age.
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Drawing on complexity (Experimenta series)
An experiment that combines collaborative, expanded drawing with an exploration of complex adaptive systems.
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In my shoes: Intimacy
A 360-degree virtual reality experience that explores the power of human connection.
2018
- Tracey Moffatt, works from the MAMA Collection
- Tracey Moffatt from the MAMA Collection
- The Strip Show
- Lullabies for Zander: Muses Trio
- Books as Art: Journals as Art
- Opening The Strip Show
- Books as Art: Black Out Poetry
- The Landscape. Abstracted.
- Creative Journaling
- Present-ing Fierce
- The Lady and the Unicorn: Arthur Boyd and Peter Porter
- Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
- The Landscape. Abstracted. Discussion.
- Deeper Conversations: The Field
- Blood Below the Skin
- Creative Generation
- Ross Watkins in conversation with Melanie Myers
- Second Hand Opera: Tatyana, the dance of
- Dark Rituals, Magical Relics
- Dark Rituals Magical Relics Artist Talks
- Häxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages)
- Sunshine Coast Open House: USC Art Gallery
- Exhibition X: The future begins now
- Deeper Conversations: Ritual in modern life
- Holiday Closure
2017
- Seer and Seen: Alex Ashton
- East Coast Encounter
- Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award 2016
- How the Light Gets in: Contemporary Photographic Practice
- From the Mountains to the Sea: Sunshine Coast Stories
- Creative Generation
- Future Tense: Two Decades of Gifts to the Collection
- Paradigm: The Shape of Things to Come
- Beach to Birrabeen
2016
- Kinship: Jandamarra Cadd
- Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism
- Regional Marks: Celebrating 50 Years of Print
- David Green: Collecting Tomorrow's Dreams
- Creative Generation
- USC Unpacked 20/20
- 2016 USC Design Student Folio Exhibition
- Letaba Elephant Hall Design
2015
- Telling Stories: The Illustrated Book
- The Drift of Impure Thoughts: Kym Tabulo
- Tubes: The Possibility to Meet the Unknown by Wilson Aguiar
- Responsible Much? An Issue is Not an Issue Until it is Your Issue
- Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award 2014
- Gubbi Gubbi Gun'doo Yang'ga'man
- AWIS Artis Blong Vanuatu
- Creative Generation
- Tess Edwards: Metaphysical Fishing
- Judith Rosenberg: The Magi and Other Works
- SPECIAL EVENT Preview the Sunshine Coast Art Prize: New Media Finalists
- 2015 USC Design Student Folio Exhibition
- Random Transitions: fibre.rust.skin
2014
- Chroma 256: International Colour Project
- 2013 Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Awards
- The John Mainwaring Collection
- Fibro Coast
- Creative Generation
- Grainy Songs: Biomorphic Furniture and Votive Works by Ross Annels
- 2014 USC Design Student Portfolio Exhibition
- Intersection Interaction
2013
- Paul Thomas: Images of Vietnam
- Posters from Missouri
- Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award 2012
- True Stories from the Studio
- Mid-Year Design Student Exhibition
- Engage Research Lab: People and Technologies to Change the World
- iNASA: David Howard (The Adventures of Two Little Astronauts)
- Creative Generation
- Creative Power: The Art of George Baldessin
- Raymond Coffey: Homeless Series
- USC Design Student Folio Exhibition
- Margaret Ellen Turner: Space Invaders
- Raw Line: Caloundra Drawing Collective
2012
- Berbagi
- Chris Pantano: 25 years of glass making
- Through the Looking Glass: A Mother's Journey to Understand the Inner World of her Autistic Son
- STUDIO: Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd
- Collective Perspectives: Mid-Year Design Student Exhibition
- Stefan Dunlop: Ten Years
- Creative Generation
- Past and Present, Women in Eons of Time: Kicki Hankell
- Light and Soul: Dr Park Nam Hee
- Design Student Folio Exhibition
- Rex Backhaus Smith: Painting Life