COMING SOON
John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery
SOFT PRESSING
SIMON DEGROOT
Simon Degroot is Creative Director of QCAD LiveArt and Lecturer in Visual Art, he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around Australia. Soft Pressing is an exhibition which investigates and encourages an interaction with surfaces that make up our everyday environments. Paintings are developed from the imprinted surfaces of buildings or other textured structures in the built environment as an active way to promote agency and empower individual connection in contemporary environments. These works consider how, together, we can transform places through collective touch and reflexive mark making.
EXHIBITION OPENING
Friday 6 December 2024, 6.30pm
EXHIBITION DATES
7 December 2024 – 1 February 2025
To register please call 07 4628 5330 or email
Image: Simon Degroot | Soft Pressing Right Here 2024 | Oil on linen | 1680mm x 1220mm
ON THE CURVED WALL
FIVE TO EIGHTY-FIVE
EMILY MACKLIN VONHOFF
Five to Eighty-Five is a collection of pencil drawn portraits, created by local artist Emily Macklin Vonhoff. These works explore the faces within multiple generations of her and her partner‘s family, from the youngest face of five years old to the eldest of eighty-five years old. This intimate glance into her family showcases her value for people and relationships. Through drawing Emily aims to capture an individual’s personality as well as a ‘moment in time’. For Emily this creates a special keepsake or depicts a memory to share with family and friends.
EXHIBITION OPENING
Friday 6 December 2024, 6.30pm
EXHIBITION DATES
7 December 2024 – 1 February 2025
To register please call 07 4628 5330 or email
Image: Emily Macklin Vonhoff | The Girls 2024 | Pencil on paper | 297mm x 420mm
John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery
skeletons
JUDY WATSON
This exhibition opens the closet doors to Australia’s skeletons. An invitation to explore an alternative national narrative. Discovering buried evidence within the state’s archives, bringing light to undisclosed happenings, validating the mistruth of terra nullius, subsequent colonial conflicts, and the continuation of Aboriginal resistance.
Judy Watson’s video works are presented alongside her raw, unframed and unstretched textile works that directly reference research from the archives. Artworks are an exploration of controverted histories that provide moments of recognition for First Nation peoples, acknowledging their hardship, resilience, spirit and continued sovereignty.
skeletons is curated by Amanda Hayman of Blaklash, supported by Milani Gallery, and commissioned by Queensland State Archives.
Content warning
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are advised that some of the events or people present in the works may be from their community and ancestors. Content will contain names, images or recordings of people that have since passed. While engaging with this content you will hear or see violent or racist content. Some content contains terms and attitudes reflective of the period in which the event occurred and may be considered inappropriate today.
EXHIBITION OPENING
Friday 7 February 2025, 6.30pm
EXHIBITION DATES
8 February 2025 – 29 March 2025
To register please call 07 4628 5330 or email
Image: Judy Watson | bones (detail), 2021. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
ON THE CURVED WALL
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: A CADILLA CONNECTION
CINDY AND BAILEY GRIMES
Mother and daughter artists, Cindy and Bailey Grimes share an address and so much more. Together they work, plan, bicker, cry, laugh, gossip, empathise, play, exercise, paint and create.
Cindy has been an artist in the Western Downs for over thirty years and has been developing her distinctive style. Bailey has recently joined the local art group and is learning various painting techniques quickly and developing her creative passions. They share a fascination with their backyard, their cattle property and home, ‘Cadilla’, at Hannaford. The stories they are interested in revolve around their observations and perspectives which have a similar starting point, but they are distinct in their expression of life and art. This exhibition explores the themes of living and working in the Western Downs, through the shared narrative of the mother daughter bond.
EXHIBITION OPENING
Friday 7 February 2025, 6.30pm
EXHIBITION DATES
8 February 2025 – 29 March 2025
To register please call 07 4628 5330 or email
Image: Cindy Grimes | BFFs 2024 | Acrylic on canvas | 410mm x 510mm
