Rocky Museum of Art: where are we up to one year in?

Time has lost all meaning in the Coronaverse - did you realise we’re a year into the construction for the new Rockhampton Museum of Art? And that $100K has been raised to commission a landmark artwork to be revealed at the opening?

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Rocky Gallery invests in new gear to preserve works on paper

Preparing and moving Rockhampton’s massive art collection is a lot more complicated than finding a mate with a ute and throwing everything in the back on a Saturday morning - so the gallery has taken delivery of Australian-made solander boxes to store about 330 works on paper safely.

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Rocky Art Gallery staff heading overseas for work placements (eventually)

We’re all itching for things to get back to whatever our post-rona normal is going to be, but nobody moreso than Rocky Art Gallery staff Natalie Parker and Madeline Brewer, who have both secured overseas work placements when the world opens up again.

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What's in our local council budgets for art and culture?

A new financial year means new budgets from our local councils. So once the big-ticket items like capital works, flood mitigation and cyclone recovery are taken care of, what’s in the kitty for arts and culture?

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