From drinking, smoking and gambling to voting, marrying and travelling — and everything in between — what are the freedoms that Queenslanders take for granted?

Freedom Then, Freedom Now is an intriguing journey into our recent past exploring the freedoms enjoyed and restricted in Queensland and examines what happens when collective good intersects with individual rights. Freedoms often depend on age, racial or religious background, gender, income and where you live. Freedoms change over time and with public opinion.

This exhibition draws on the extensive collections of SLQ to reminisce, reflect on and explore freedoms lost and won in Queensland.

Installation Images: Freedom Then Freedom Now, photographs by Josef Ruckli for State Library Queensland

GC2018 Legacy Exhibition

Gold Coast Sports & Leisure Centre: 24 November 2021 -

The Gold Coast City Council commissioned Blue Sky View to design and develop an exhibition to showcase the impact and legacy of the Games. Featuring images, films and objects from the City collection as well as from Commonwealth Games Australia and other public and private collections.

The exhibition is on permeant display, dispersed along the ‘Street’ level of the Gold Coast Sports & Leisure Centre, Carrara. The design accommodates the often high pedestrian traffic and the ability to withstand the impact of a stray basketball!

Council Project Manager: Bryant Rollins; Exhibition Design: BSV, John Waldron; Timber Cabinet Fabrication: Ross Annels; Graphic Design: Nina Hansen; Printer: Sun Print; Installation Team: BSV - John Waldron, Susana Waldron, Ross Annels, Jim Martin.

Co-Curators: John Waldron & Dr Lisa Chandler

National tour: May 2014 - June 2017

East Coast Encounter includes the work of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and writers to re-envisage the encounter by James Cook and his crew with Aboriginal people in 1770. Cook’s 1770 voyage has become central to narratives of Australian history and precipitated European colonisation of the country. Consequently there are aspects of this seminal journey that continue to resonate powerfully today. Instead of conveying a literal history or a primarily Eurocentric world view, East Coast Encounter imaginatively presents this shared story from diverse perspectives. It also brings historical events into the present by incorporating contributors’ reflections on their relevance today. By enabling this significant encounter to be expressed in multiple ways and from varied points of view, East Coast Encounter seeks to promote cultural dialogue and reconciliatory understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Noosa Regional Gallery: 15 June - 23 July 2017

What’s up Sunshine? is a pictorial portrait of Noosa and the region over the last 50 years. Presenting over 400 photographs and memorabilia the exhibition reveals the many stories of the people and events that have shaped the culture and character of the region.

The exhibition features photographs and video from by leading local and Queensland artists including Glen O’Malley, Mal Sutherland, Judy Barrass, Emma Freeman, Brian Rogers, Bianca Beetson, James Muller, Larisa Salton, Lin Martin, Raoul Slater, Blair McNamara and Andy Staley.
It also features many images from the Picture Noosa collection by press photographers Bill Griffiths and Ian Murray.