freedom then freedom now
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
What's up sunshine?
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.
East Coast Encounter
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.
The glass houses
Bribie Island Seaside Museum, Moreton Bay Regional Council
03 March 2017 - 14 May 2017
In 2006, ten of the Glass House Mountains peaks were included in the National Heritage List.
For more than 40,000 years these mountains have never been far from the gaze of local people. From across the Pumicestone Passage on Bribie Island or the mainland of the Morton Bay region the mountains stand in jagged relief along the horizon, offering an ever changing panorama.
This exhibition commemorates the ten year anniversary of the heritage listing through historic and contemporary visual art, photographs, documents and oral histories.
Installation Image: The Glass Houses, Bribie Island Seaside Museum, photograph by John Waldron
far from this land
Landsborough Museum
2015 - 2016
Far From This Land is a research and exhibition project that commemorated the First World War experience for the Sunshine Coast.
With funding support from the Sunshine Coast Council and Queensland Anzac Centenary Program Landsborough Museum volunteers worked with BSV to research the museum’s First World War collection, connect and interview associated families, and design and build an exhibition that explores the region’s First World War history.
Using documents, photographs, artefacts and props the exhibition weaves together the stories of four service men and women using letters, documents, photographs, artefacts and family histories.
Harry Hapgood spent his time in the Middle East, arriving in Egypt in March 1917 / William Murphy who died on 29 July 1916 in France, at the beginning of the Battle of Poziers, the first major battle the 26th Battalion had fought on the Western Front. / Constance (Connie) Lindsay is believed to be one of ten staff nurses who enlisted for service from the Sunshine Coast, and / James Maddock died at the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station (Trois Arbes, near Bailleul, France).
Installation Image: Far From This Land, Landsborough Museum, photograph by John Waldron