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Australian art gallery in Queenscliff & online | Open 6 days 10am - 4(ish) closed Tue & btwn exhibitions | Inbox your email to get QG’s fortnightly Arty Goodness News | [email protected] |

08/10/2026

FINAL WEEKEND. Exhibition ends Oct 12, 2026

QG FOCUS Mary-Louise Edwards, Standing in the Smoky Haze

QG SALON of works by Louise Blyton, Kenny Brown, Andrew Gunnell, Melinda Harper, Conrad Kamilowra Tipungwuti, Pauletta Kerinaiua, Michael Leunig, Nicola Miller, Cat Poljski, Wayne Viney & John Waller

04/10/2026

A fab QG Mingle for QG’s Mary-Louise. Only a few works remain available.

JOIN Mary-Louise Edwards at QG on Sun from 2pm for a QG Mingle. Standing in the Smoky HazeEach work begins with an under...
03/10/2026

JOIN Mary-Louise Edwards at QG on Sun from 2pm for a QG Mingle.

Standing in the Smoky Haze
Each work begins with an underlying hand drawn framework of words associated with the description or experience of a natural environment — View, Dust, Echo, Rivers. The artist slowly overwrites individual letters, progressively obscuring their presence beneath layers of pigment and marks. Through this process, the drawing becomes a record of duration and reflection, registered through shifts in colour, texture and density.
I do not try to describe what I see. I work towards erasing whatever I start with, so each piece goes through a kind of filtering process towards the creation of a new material image.

03/10/2026

QG FOCUS: Mary-Louise Edwards
QG SALON: Louise Blyton, Kenny Brown, Andrew Gunnell, Melinda Harper, Conrad Kamilowra Tipungwuti, Pauletta Kerinaiua, Michael Leunig, Nicola Miller, Cat Poljski, Wayne Viney & John Waller.

02/10/2026

Hot in the press - Mary Elizabeth Moreen, Mary-Louise Edwards and (the late Michael Leunig.

Thank you Geelong Addy and Jen Cromarty

Congratulations to all the 2026 Geelong Gallery Contemporary Art Prize finalists including Katherine Hattam.Mark your di...
30/09/2026

Congratulations to all the 2026 Geelong Gallery Contemporary Art Prize finalists including Katherine Hattam.

Mark your diaries for the exhibition Nov 7 - Feb 28, 2027 and make some extra time to view more Hattam works at QG.

Image Katherine Hattam women’s consciousness man’s world 2026 oil, graphite and acrylic on linen

30/09/2026

Tuesdays are for visiting special exhibitions.
Margaret Preston retrospective at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.

Images & ref:
The mid-1920s marked the beginning of an extended period of printmaking that would come to define Margaret Preston’s oeuvre. These early prints combine Japanese ukiyo-e with designs appropriated from First Nations cultural material. They also mark Preston’s embrace of woodblock printing as the defining feature of Sydney modernism. Having studied the process overseas, Preston was considered a well-respected authority on the subject by Sydney’s artistic community. Artists such as Thea Proctor were introduced to the medium by Preston, who gave Proctor her first block to cut.

Margaret Preston aimed to create a singular style of Australian art. Yet by drawing on the continent’s unique flora and fauna while at the same time borrowing artistic principles from elsewhere, she produced the reverse: an art-historical narrative full of texture and contradiction. This paradox was most foregrounded in her work of the 1950s, when she began to depict Aboriginal figures directly, rather than simply First Nations cultural material.

The exhibition also includes 20 works by First Nations and contemporary artists who have responded to Preston’s oeuvre and contextualise her appropriation of Indigenous visual culture. These include world-premiere commissions by the late Bidjigal artist Marilyn Russell and Warumungu artist Jimmy Frank Jupurrurla; new acquisitions by senior Tiwi artists Raelene Kerinauia, Mary Elizabeth Moreen, and Kaye Brown; as well as work by Girramay, Yidinji and Kuku Yalanji artist Tony Albert, Wadawurrung artist Deanne Gilson, the late Ngarrindjeri artist Trevor Nickolls, and Gordon Bennett.

28/09/2026

QG FOCUS: Mary-Louise Edwards, Standing in the Smoky Haze
Exhibition dates: Sep 24 – Oct 12, 2026
Join ML in the gallery Oct 4 from 2pm

QG SALON of works by Louise Blyton, Kenny Brown, Andrew Gunnell, Melinda Harper, Conrad Kamilowra Tipungwuti, Pauletta Kerinaiua, Michael Leunig, Nicola Miller, Cat Poljski, Wayne Viney & John Waller.

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81 Hesse Street
Point Lonsdale, VIC
3225

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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