Four exhibitions highlighting the depth and cultural significance of artworks held in Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery’s three permanent collections are open for viewing.

The Gallery is home to the nationally significant Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection, the Fred and Lucy Gould Art Collection and the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery – Toowoomba City Collection.

One of two exhibitions on the Gallery’s ground floor, Moment in Time: Still Lifes from the Collections, presents still lifes in various mediums that are drawn from all three of the Gallery’s permanent collections.

This exhibition features works from artists including, Janet Deboos, Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott, Marian Hosking, Elfrun Lach, Lionel Lindsay, Rosemary Madigan, Margaret Olley, Lloyd Rees, Ellis Rowan and Normana Wight.

This display runs until July 9, 2023.

The other ground floor exhibition, These Fragments, features collages and other works that collect and figure fragments.

The works are simultaneously a self-contained whole and a fragment of a something greater.

The exhibition runs until August 13, 2023.

New upstairs Gallery exhibitions include Guns, Spears & Spectres and The Heartbeats of a Shell Necklace: First Nations Adornment.

Guns, Spears & Spectres highlights unsettling aspects of Queensland’s colonial history.

It presents works by First Nations artists and colonialist images of dispossession from the Gallery’s collections.

Featured artists include Tony Albert, Gordon Bennett, Meg Hansen, Livingston Hopkins, Norman Lindsay, Frank Mahony, Vincent Serico and Judy Watson.

The Heartbeats of a Shell Necklace: First Nations Adornment is a celebration of First Nations’ adornment and wearable art, where cultural expression from time immemorial meets and merges with present practice.

Contemporary Indigenous artworks from the Toowoomba City Collection are displayed with colonialist images of ancestral body designs and ornaments from the Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection.

Guns, Spears & Spectres and The Heartbeats of a Shell Necklace: First Nations Adornment both run until August 20, 2023.

A Twilight Tour will be held for The Heartbeats of a Shell Necklace: First Nations Adornment from 5.30pm on Thursday, July 20, 2023.

RSVP to reserve a booking by Tuesday, July 18, 2023 by calling 131 872 or emailing info@tr.qld.gov.au

This article appeared in On Our Selection News, 6 July 2023.