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Q Bank Gallery is an artists in residence space and gallery on the ground floor of an old bank building. And AirBnb rental property upstairs.

Q Bank Gallery is run by a group of friends who fell in love with Queenstown and its old bank building. Previously the building’s owner lived upstairs and the downstairs was rented as a gallery and artist residency (known as “the Bank Annex”) to LARQ. When we took over the building in 2015, LARQ had already moved out of the gallery, but we took up the baton to provide a space for artists-in-reside

nce in Queenstown. Virginia Woolf says that artists need a room of their own to create art. We’ve taken it one step further, providing a temporary “Gallery of One’s Own” for artists. Artists typically stay for a month and have a show of their work at the end of their residency. The goal of the gallery is to provide a friendly, respectful space where artists are able to enter into a two-way dialogue (consciously or unconsciously) with Queenstown’s community and environment. We hope that dialogue is beneficial to both artists and Queenstown. Artists can apply for a residency here: http://www.qbankgallery.com.au/artists-residency-application-form/

Upstairs is rented out on AirBnB, with its own separate entrance and stairs. But AirBnB guests are encouraged to visit the gallery to see the artists’ work.

07/06/2026

Introducing - our June artist in residence. Welcome Kurt to our amazing little town. …. Hi there, my name is Kurt Sorensen and I’m the current artist in residence a Q Bank. I’m based in Sydney but currently a PhD candidate at UTAS school of art. My research based practice examines how photography critically reckons with the persistence of colonial aesthetics in representations of the Australian landscape. Through storytelling, historical texts and photographic processes I explore how colonial narratives and images framed the landscape as antagonistic, malevolent, or psychologically destabilising. The work also reflects ethical implications of my position as a European‑descended photographer engaging with a landscape shaped by colonial violence, erasure, and layered with historical echoes.

Im only here for a short time this say but please come say hi if you are in town.

04/04/2026

Warm welcome to our April artist in residence,

Maria is an artist based in Melbourne, with Russian and New Zealand backgrounds.

Her drawing practice, which focuses on narrative portraiture, shares a close kinship with creative writing - both construct imagined and compelling characters that exist in fictional worlds. Each work suggests a wider narrative; but rather than laying out the story as a novel might, it leaves space for the viewer to experience it on an emotional level.

While in Q Bank, Maria is hoping to put a start to an existing idea she has for a new series, however also wanting to incorporate time to experiment with some drawing techniques and is open to going off-course completely.

03/04/2026

Some beautiful shots taken in Queenstown and around pics:

07/03/2026

Welcome to - our March 2026 artist in residency. Shannah Mitchell is an artist working out of Perth, Western Australia.
Her practise experiments with traditional painting techniques to explore contemporary subjects and settings, highlighting moments, interactions and beauty. Proposing that these techniques experiences constitute the essence of existence.
Using mostly oils on canvas, she attempts to depict outcomes of transient effects, such as light, atmosphere and time of day onto underlying structure and solid form. Rejoining the transient and permanent and seeking out the drama of this interaction. Reflecting an ongoing schism between romantic and classical tendencies in painting that have existed throughout the history or art.

01/02/2026

Welcoming our February artist in residence. Christopher Myles. Chris Henderson is an artist working in Melbourne/Naarm. His practice moves between drawing, painting, murals and kinetic sculpture, and is grounded in lived experience, storytelling and close attention to social and cultural environments.

Much of Henderson’s work begins with familiar, everyday symbols and uses them as entry points into more complex conversations about place, identity and social pressure. He is particularly interested in how stories are formed around young people, especially in regional contexts, and how those narratives are repeated, simplified or distorted over time.

His work is intuitive, materially driven and often process-led, allowing time, repetition and chance to play an active role in shaping meaning.

04/01/2026

Interacting our first artist of 2026. ——— Indy Heath is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist working across textiles, sculpture, biomaterials, and lighting. Their work explores the material life of textiles, both living and lived, through a heightened sensory experience. Heath’s approach to making is rooted in sensory engagement, creating works that invite touch, sight, smell, and sound as ways to connect. They work with natural pigments derived from rust and plant matter, biomaterials such as seaweed and bacterial leather, metal, found objects, and discarded textiles, interweaving these elements into sculptural pieces that question how future materials might coexist with those of the past. Blurring the line between organic and human-made, their work sits in the tension between what is grown and what is discarded.

While in residence at Q Bank in Queenstown, Lutruwita/Tasmania, Heath will explore the material possibilities of bull kelp sourced from the western coastline, alongside the natural pigments drawn from surrounding rocks and flora, and the heavy metal runoff of the old copper mine. They will create light and sound emitting objects that respond to their time in Queenstown which will be shown to the public in late January.

Heath respectfully acknowledges the Palawa people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which this residency takes place, and recognises the long standing cultural knowledge and use of bull kelp as a material by Palawa communities.

09/12/2025

recent work using collected crocoite fragments and the process of making paint!! And other adventures….

01/12/2025

Welcoming our December artist in residence - Max Mueller - Joining Aisha for the next few weeks.

Max Mueller is an emerging artist based in nipaluna/Hobart. Max uses gestural marks and intense colour to describe familiar landscapes. Dynamic compositions in thick oil paint traverse ideas of memory, place and belonging.

Max studied fine arts at the University of Tasmania briefly before commencing a carpentry apprenticeship in 2022. Painting in his spare time, he held a successful first solo exhibition at Handmark Gallery in 2025 and won Hangers Choice at the Henry Jones Art Prize in 2023,

17/11/2025

getting into some work in the first few weeks

01/07/2025

Please join us in welcoming to Queenstown this month.

Brigita Lastauskaite is a Lithuanian-born Australian artist, based in Melbourne since 1998. She completed a Master of Fine Art at the Vilnius Art Academy in Lithuania, she received a scholarship from the Salzburg International Summer Academy to study with French art duo Prof. Annie & Patrick Poirier. She is a finalist at the Hutchings, Fisher’s Ghost, Blacktown & Omnia Art Awards and received the Art Residencies in Finland and Lithuania.

Brigita has always been fascinated by the landscape, and organic forms and textures. Her paintings are not intended to replicate a scene, but rather evoke a feeling and a sense of place. Brigita’s paintings are visceral and relate to inward feeling rather than to intellect. Her painting process is spontaneous and raw, and her visual language features abstract textural shapes, rhythmical patterns, calligraphic marks, and unique colour combinations.

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37 Orr Street
Queenstown, TAS
7467

Website

https://qbankgallery.com.au/

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