As Clare Bell’s exhibition Beautiful, Ordinary Things closed, a new exhibition started in mid-January.
The King Island Gallery at Currie Harbour has a print series from the King Island Council collection on display by renowned two-time Glover-winning Australian printmaker Raymond Arnold.
The 2024 exhibition calendar may have some date shifts but mark your diary for the coming events.
Beginning tomorrow and runing until March 10, Culture on King is a curated audio-visual medley with a focus on people and their cultural pursuits.
Hear stories about life on King Island told through recordings, video, transcripts and supplemented with cultural artefacts including the King Island Museum’s King Island Quilt wall hanging.
Birds, Migratory, Endangered and Others will be on show from March 22 to May 5. The gallery’s focus through March and April is on birds, including a large-scale installation from Kate Gorringe Smith, BirdLife photographic award winners, a small local artists’ exhibition and an invitation to fill the gallery shop with bird-themed works.
The independent Moonbird Festival production, founded and directed by the Bowerbird Collective, returns from April 18-21, celebrating King Island. This event brings together some of Australia’s finest musicians for a series of spellbinding concerts with music, art, food and wine.
Dogs of King Island (DOKI), will run from June 1 to July 14, bringing an all-inclusive, fun community event and exhibition dedicated to the dogs of King Island.
This celebration of our furry friends is open to all ages and art forms, with prizes and activities. Artworks can include sculpture, stop motion, painting, drawing, printmaking, photographic, video, wearables, jewellery, knitting, embroidery, and textiles.
September welcomes Time Place Space (September 1 -30), a major exhibition showcasing a selection of artists’ work from around Australia, seeded over the past three years by the King Island Artist Residency Program.
Time Place Space will be a month-long exhibition and installation of contemporary painting, photography, video, mixed media, textile and prints alongside projection installations, performative work and poetry. Community events led by participating artists will include practical workshops, talks and popups.
Then in November we have Getting the Drift (Nov 1 to Dec 1), an exhibition of work by video artist Noelene Lucas, who was selected from the gallery’s 2024 Expressions of Interest callout.
This video installation incorporates ideas and images from Lucas’ 2023 artist residency, including multi-screen projection works incorporating photographs of birds by Lucas and local photographers.
An exhibition by a local artist, selected from the 2024 Expressions of Interest callout, will be shown from December 6 to January 31, 2025.