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Bowen murals
Several walls and buildings around the centre of Bowen are decorated with terrific murals, depicting the town's history. Painted by Queensland artists, there are currently 24 mural sites, most within the block made by Gregory, Powell, Herbert and George Sts.
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Split Rock (Guguylangi) Galleries
The Split Rock (Guguylangi) Galleries contain the best surviving examples of Quinkan rock painting, one of the most distinctive styles of Aboriginal art. The paintings date back approximately 14,000 years, but no-one has been able to fully interpret them as the tribe who painted them were all massacred or killed by disease during the 1873 gold rush. Pay in the honesty box; no photography is allowed.
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Umbrella Studio
Umbrella Studio has a dynamic calendar of shows that aim to make contemporary visual art accessible and engaging. Drop in to the studio, which also runs industry seminars, guest lectures and performance art with a range of practitioners; past participants include Tracey Moffat and Mike Parr.
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Kyneton Fine China & Wattle Ceramics
Kyneton Fine China & Wattle Ceramics has a studio gallery where you can see artists at work or buy fine bone-china figurines and flowers.
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Stationmasters' Gallery
Stationmasters' Gallery hosts changing exhibitions.
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Julalikari Arts Centre
The artwork at Nyinkka Nyunyu - a gallery and museum in Tennant Creek - comes from the Julalikari Arts Centre, or 'Pink Palace' - a women's arts centre where the ladies come to produce their inimitable work; visitors are welcome.
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Nyinkka Nyunyu
The contemporary focus of the exhibitions in the Nyinkka Nyunyu gallery and museum make this one of the best cultural centres in the Centre. Excellent dioramas, prints and paintings produced by local artists show Aboriginal culture as a living culture, rather than a static one that stopped evolving after the boomerang. Dioramas depict the night patrol bus or the experience of working on local mines.
There are other displays of contemporary art and old artefacts - some recently returned by state museums. The attached shop stocks highly prized paintings, plus postcards and more.
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Red Sand
The highway continues through Ti Tree, where you'll find the Red Sand art gallery and café. The work comes mainly from Utopia, a community northeast of Alice Springs set up on traditional land reclaimed in 1977 from the former Utopia station. The community has nurtured some fine indigenous artists, particularly female painters.
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Katherine Art Gallery
Has internet access.
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Nimbin Artists Gallery
There are even more artists than pot dealers and you can find their work on display here.
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Linden Art Centre & Gallery
The Linden Art Centre & Gallery has contemporary art and a sculpture garden for children.
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Muse Gallery of Milawa
At the back of the Milawa Cheese Company is the Muse Gallery of Milawa , displaying paintings, ceramics and jewellery.
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Our Land Gallery
This Gallery has a great range of ochre paintings from the Kimberley as well as didgeridoos and acrylics from the Territory.
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Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
The Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, opposite the Pioneer Settlement Museum, concentrates on the works of contemporary artists.
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Back O' Bourke Outback Living
Back O' Bourke Outback Living is a gem for local art and crafts and historical displays. There's a Crossley engine out the back, next to the wharf.
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Über Gallery
This commercial contemporary gallery exhibits work in a variety of mediums. A cerebral pit stop on the hedonist’s highway that is Fitzroy St.
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Lady Franklin Gallery
The Lady Franklin Gallery, in a colonnaded 1842 sandstone building called Ancanthe (Greek for 'Vale of Flowers'), displays works by Tasmanian artists.
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Ocean Art Gallery
Leading local artists exhibit and sell their works at the artists co-op, Ocean Art Gallery , in an old railway cottage behind the station.
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Murray River Gallery
Murray River Gallery, an Aboriginal fine-art gallery, helps you read the message in each piece (art was used for story-telling in the past).
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Goldfields Arts Centre
Hosts interesting exhibitions by local, state and national artists.
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Horsham Art Gallery
The Horsham Art Gallery houses an impressive collection of works by significant Australian artists, as well as changing contemporary exhibitions.
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Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
This is one of Melbourne’s most exciting galleries. Sixteen studios promote emerging contemporary artists and the temporary exhibitions regularly provoke critical debate.
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Lismore Regional Art Gallery
The diminutive Lismore Regional Art Gallery has just enough space for two visiting exhibitions, but the curators do it justice by showing excellent works.
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Carnegie Gallery
The city-council-run Carnegie Gallery exhibits mainly contemporary Tasmanian art, craft, design and photography. It is located upstairs from the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
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Vancouver Arts Centre
The Vancouver Arts Centre, in an 1887 building formerly used as a hospital, is the centre of the area's arts community. It has regular touring exhibitions and cultural events.
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