The Emerald Art Gallery has been bringing arts to the Emerald community for nearly two decades. The gallery provides a high-profile exhibition space located in the Central Highlands Regional Council corporate office building at 65 Egerton Street in Emerald. The exhibition space is large and bright with impressive hanging space and high ceilings.
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Opening hours
Monday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Tuesday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Wednesday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Thursday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Friday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED
Join us in celebrating Ros’ artistic career with her retrospective exhibition” Explorations of Creation” at the Emerald Art Gallery to kick off our first exhibition of 2024. Explorations of Creation comments on Ros’ distinguished career as a painter living in the Central Highlands. Her expression often depicts her love of nature, while intersecting with a surreal quality that captivates the viewer.
Roslyn (Cassidy) Burns, (born 25 March 1953) is best known for her intricate, brightly coloured paintings of Australian flora, fauna and landscape.
Drawing from a love of surrealism and contemporary art, her work brings the inner beauty of the subject alive and her unique use of colour allows the subject to own the canvas.
Using various mediums including oil, acrylic, pen and ink, watercolour and pastel, Ros redefines pre-conceived ideas of the Australian bushland, wildlife and people, making her work popular both in Australia and the UK.
Ros grew up on a property (now the Tarong Power station) near Nanango in southeast Queensland. Leaving high school to study nursing at St Vincent’s hospital in Toowoomba and later working at the Royal Women’s in Sydney she continued throughout her career to develop her distinctive talent.
After marrying, Ros spent three years in New Zealand and returned to Australia, eventually moving to Emerald, Central Queensland to raise her family of five daughters and one son. Starting art classes for both children and adults, Ros continues to share her knowledge and love of art with the community.
Ros has studied graphic design and fine arts by correspondence and honed her skills at the renowned Julian Ashton School in Sydney. Her studio is on the southern side of her old Queenslander where she spends most of her day painting.
Exhibition will be on display from 5 February – 15 March 2024.
Shelley Engwirda is a local Mackay artist whose multidisciplinary practice responds to history and social justice themes. In We Rise Engwirda combines textile and glass to interrogate the success and failures of the women’s movement from the 1970s-present.
Engwirda started making quilts in the 1970s and has a long-held affiliation with textiles. She began working in glass and is known locally for her colourful glass compositions. In We Rise, Engwirda unifies these two sides of her artistic practice, intentionally deconstructing historical associations that place textiles (particularly quilting) in a passive, feminine craft realm.
Largescale patchwork quilts such as Outsider and Private Crime Scenes are the artist’s homage to feminist icons Judy Chicago and Simone de Beauvoir. A second work titled Private Crime Scenes rendered in glass adds to this conversation; the glass tiles inspired by traditional patchwork patterns reference the Pattern and Decoration art movement of the 70s which saw artists advocating to elevate the value associated with decorative arts. In Man hunters and Home breakers Engwirda reconfigures a patchwork quilt she made in the 1970s, representing her own feminist journey and future hope for her granddaughter.
Each work in this exhibition acts as provocation, as Engwirda applies a feminist lens to art and history, asking viewers to reconsider the way female artists, and more generally women, have been historically (dis)regarded.
Join us for the opening night Friday 22 March 2024 at 6.00pm. All are welcome to this free event
Exhibition will be on display from 25 March – 3 May 2024.
Gallery opening hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm
The Central Highlands Regional Council Annual Art Awards – Emerald, is the gallery’s premier art event. It attracts local and national artists and is held in August each year as part of council’s Arts around August program.
Established and emerging artists of all ages can submit entries in up to seven categories. From easel, paper-based and three-dimensional works to photography and digital art, each category comes with a $750 prize for first and $250 prize for second place.
For information on exhibiting with the Emerald Art Gallery contact us on 1300 242 686 or email chgalleries@chrc.qld.gov.au
The Emerald Art Gallery has been bringing arts to the Emerald community for nearly two decades. The gallery provides a high-profile exhibition space located in the Central Highlands Regional Council corporate office building at 65 Egerton Street in Emerald. The exhibition space is large and bright with impressive hanging space and high ceilings.
Features
Opening hours
Monday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Tuesday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Wednesday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Thursday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Friday: 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED
Join us in celebrating Ros’ artistic career with her retrospective exhibition” Explorations of Creation” at the Emerald Art Gallery to kick off our first exhibition of 2024. Explorations of Creation comments on Ros’ distinguished career as a painter living in the Central Highlands. Her expression often depicts her love of nature, while intersecting with a surreal quality that captivates the viewer.
Roslyn (Cassidy) Burns, (born 25 March 1953) is best known for her intricate, brightly coloured paintings of Australian flora, fauna and landscape.
Drawing from a love of surrealism and contemporary art, her work brings the inner beauty of the subject alive and her unique use of colour allows the subject to own the canvas.
Using various mediums including oil, acrylic, pen and ink, watercolour and pastel, Ros redefines pre-conceived ideas of the Australian bushland, wildlife and people, making her work popular both in Australia and the UK.
Ros grew up on a property (now the Tarong Power station) near Nanango in southeast Queensland. Leaving high school to study nursing at St Vincent’s hospital in Toowoomba and later working at the Royal Women’s in Sydney she continued throughout her career to develop her distinctive talent.
After marrying, Ros spent three years in New Zealand and returned to Australia, eventually moving to Emerald, Central Queensland to raise her family of five daughters and one son. Starting art classes for both children and adults, Ros continues to share her knowledge and love of art with the community.
Ros has studied graphic design and fine arts by correspondence and honed her skills at the renowned Julian Ashton School in Sydney. Her studio is on the southern side of her old Queenslander where she spends most of her day painting.
Exhibition will be on display from 5 February – 15 March 2024.
Shelley Engwirda is a local Mackay artist whose multidisciplinary practice responds to history and social justice themes. In We Rise Engwirda combines textile and glass to interrogate the success and failures of the women’s movement from the 1970s-present.
Engwirda started making quilts in the 1970s and has a long-held affiliation with textiles. She began working in glass and is known locally for her colourful glass compositions. In We Rise, Engwirda unifies these two sides of her artistic practice, intentionally deconstructing historical associations that place textiles (particularly quilting) in a passive, feminine craft realm.
Largescale patchwork quilts such as Outsider and Private Crime Scenes are the artist’s homage to feminist icons Judy Chicago and Simone de Beauvoir. A second work titled Private Crime Scenes rendered in glass adds to this conversation; the glass tiles inspired by traditional patchwork patterns reference the Pattern and Decoration art movement of the 70s which saw artists advocating to elevate the value associated with decorative arts. In Man hunters and Home breakers Engwirda reconfigures a patchwork quilt she made in the 1970s, representing her own feminist journey and future hope for her granddaughter.
Each work in this exhibition acts as provocation, as Engwirda applies a feminist lens to art and history, asking viewers to reconsider the way female artists, and more generally women, have been historically (dis)regarded.
Join us for the opening night Friday 22 March 2024 at 6.00pm. All are welcome to this free event
Exhibition will be on display from 25 March – 3 May 2024.
Gallery opening hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm
The Central Highlands Regional Council Annual Art Awards – Emerald, is the gallery’s premier art event. It attracts local and national artists and is held in August each year as part of council’s Arts around August program.
Established and emerging artists of all ages can submit entries in up to seven categories. From easel, paper-based and three-dimensional works to photography and digital art, each category comes with a $750 prize for first and $250 prize for second place.
For information on exhibiting with the Emerald Art Gallery contact us on 1300 242 686 or email chgalleries@chrc.qld.gov.au
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