Arts Radar: Autumn 2026
BENDIGO COMMUNITY BANK MARCOOLA
UNTIL 17 APRIL
COOLUM ART COLLECTIVE
Featuring a diverse range of styles, mediums, and subjects.
17 APRIL – 26 MAY
KAREN GEMMING
Enchanting dreamscapes using atmospheric watercolours.
26 MAY – 2 JULY
HEIDI O’BRIEN
Inspired by the shifting light, ocean tides, and the vibrant landscapes of coastal Queensland.
1/930 David Low Way, Marcoola | 5448 8582
THE GALLERY PEREGIAN BEACH
UNTIL 26 APRIL
GAIL AFFLECK, SALLY BARLING & KATIE RYAN: COLLECTIVE VISIONS
An imaginative, evocative and original art on show from local artists.
12 Grebe Street, Peregian Beach |Â www.thegalleryperegianbeach.com
COOLUM ART COLLECTIVE
UNTIL 30 APRIL
BARBARA BROWN
Works inspired by a love of the beach and the outdoors, using delicate pastels and vibrant abstracts rich in texture and colour.
1-30 MAY
MAUREEN BAINBRIDGE
Award-winning depictions of light, nature, and large-scale botanical studies using detailed pastels, oils, and acrylics.
Coolum Civic Centre | 2-4 Park Street, Coolum Beach |Â www.coolumart.com.au
UNISC ART GALLERY
2 MAY – 18 JULY
NATALYA HUGHES: THE INTERIOR
Audiences are invited into an exaggerated consultation room, playfully furnished for psychoanalysis. A part-professional, part-domestic setting that plays with gendered power dynamics between public and private space.
AMANDA BENNETTS: FRAGMENTED, DIVIDED – YET WHOLE
Works that use time as material and metric for understanding the body. Exploring that time is not linear but lived. It is stretched, slowed, ruptured, and suspended by the realities of living in a body in flux that refuses normative rhythms and constantly requires new forms of understanding.
90 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs | 5459 4645 | www.usc.edu.au/art-gallery
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR
7-10 MAY
BRISBANE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR
For lovers of landscapes, sculpture or abstracts, find something to suit your taste, space and spend. Keep an eye out for the bevvy of Sunshine Coast artists on show alongside national treasures! See over to WIN a VIP Double Pass!
MAROOCHY LIBRARY ARTSPACE
UNTIL 16 MAY
CECILE BELL: GLIMPSE
A celebration of familiar beach and bushland landscapes.
44 Sixth Avenue, Maroochydore | www.gallery-sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
CALOUNDRA REGIONAL GALLERY
UNTIL 17 MAY
LOCAL CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE
Cast your vote for your favourite local artist in the People’s Choice Award and go into the running to win a $50 gallery store voucher. See previous page.
22 MAY – 28 JUNE
BRUCE REYNOLDS: HOW SOON IS NOW?
Exquisite cast relief works and two-dimensional collaged linoleum works that celebrate a physicality that is frequently overlooked.
Omrah Avenue, Caloundra | 5420 8299Â | www.gallery.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
BUDERIM CRAFT COTTAGE
30 MAY – 7 JUNE, 9AM – 3PM
MIXED MEDIA GROUP: OUR AMAZING PLANET
Two-and-three-dimensional artworks.
12 – 14 JUNE, 10AM – 2PM
GREG WUTH: COMMERATIVE EXHIBITION
Calligraphy and mixed media works by the late artist.
5 Main Street, Buderim | 5450 1714 | www.buderimcraftcottage.com.au
