GC Creative Events

25/08/2026

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24/08/2026

heymate are bringing Uplift Queensland to the Gold Coast on Wednesday 9 September .
A free Creative Wellbeing & AOD Literacy Workshop at Hand Bent Banana in Tallebudgera Valley from 9.30am–1pm. It’s designed specifically for artists and creative workers, with practical tools around wellbeing, alcohol and other drug literacy, reducing stigma, support pathways and creating safer, more connected creative communities.

It’s completely free to attend and morning tea is included.

Details + registrations:

https://events.humanitix.com/uplift-queensland-creative-wellbeing-and-aod-literacy-workshop-gold-coast

Uplift Queensland is funded by the Queensland Mental Health Commission and delivered by Hey Mate.

24/08/2026

EOI opening soon

03/08/2026

Get Your Creative Juices Flowing- join us on Monday, 10th August as we dive into Unleashed at HOTA, celebrating cutting-edge, emerging Queensland designers working across ceramics, textiles, furniture, and objects.

This is a hands-on creative session! We will be using the incredible, innovative works in the exhibition as our model for a gallery watercolour and drawing session. Our sketching focus will naturally lean into the striking structural linework, rich textures, and bold geometric forms on display.

After we’ve filled our pages, we’ll head off for a coffee chat and an inspiration catch-up to talk all things art and ideas.

Let us know you are coming -

Join Us for Our Next Members' Meet Up - Art Excursion One of the greatest benefits of being part of an art community is exploring exhibitions together.

22/07/2026

Get the Juices Flowing
Join Us for Our Next Members' Art Excursion!
We invite you to join us on Monday, 10th August as we dive into Unleashed at HOTA

We aren't just viewing the work, it’s a hands-on creative session! We will be using the incredible, innovative works in the exhibition as our model for a gallery watercolour and drawing session.

Find out more and register here - https://tinyurl.com/reimaginingunleashed

21/06/2026

Congratulations to our committee member Dr. Karen McPhail-Bell for being a finalist for the 2026 The Doyles Art Prize.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EZ4MSXaii/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Thank you so much Doyles Art Award for a fun awards night and outstanding show. So honoured to be a finalist.

And thank you to the collector who purchased my painting. Your support means more than you might know. I hope the work brings you joy, like it did for me creating it.

Big thanks to my beloved Mo too. 🌼

29/05/2026

Come join us for an evening of networking and connection with artists, creatives and creative workers.

Join us at Mo's Desert Clubhouse to connect with fellow artists, creatives, and industry professionals. This relaxed event is a chance to hear the latest updates from the Arts & Culture team and discover new opportunities brewing within our creative community.

Date: Wednesday 24 June, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: Mo's Desert Clubhouse, 6 Central Drive, Burleigh Heads

Attendance is free but registrations are essential - register now: https://bit.ly/4famOuh

Light refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

26/04/2026

On this weekend of remembrance, it feels fitting to pause and reflect on compassion.

Not only the compassion shown in moments of conflict and sacrifice, but the kind we are invited to practice every day — quietly, collectively, and with intention.

Lisa Behan's Confluence of Compassion participatory installation began with a simple question:
What would it mean to live in a world flooded with compassion?

At its core, compassion asks us to recognise our shared humanity. Carried through imagined currents, through rainfall and return — sky to earth and back again — compassion becomes something shared, something circulating beyond us.

As we remember this weekend, perhaps we can also ask:
How might we contribute to this confluence?
What might we release, and what might we carry forward?

Because like water, compassion sustains us.
And like water, it connects us all.

Explore more with Lisa @ https://tinyurl.com/2u53vdwj

26/04/2026

It was such a privilege to have Dr Nadeeka Rathnayake judge our inaugural Award for Aqua Limina: The Pulse of Water – Creek to Coast.

Her selection was guided by the curatorial framework, emphasising water as a dynamic, living system and encourages works that move beyond representation to actively engage with environmental processes, perception, and relational understanding.

In presenting the award Nadeeka spoke of the high level of artistic and conceptual strength across diverse approaches, including material-based practices, immersive digital environments, sound installations, and painting. It was no easy task to select one person.

Stay tuned into our socials as well share with you her reflections on each of the highly commended artists.

You can also get a copy of the Catalogue to read about the 27th Artists who created "edgy" and immersive work that challenges us to look closer at the world around us. https://www.gccreativeinc.org/aqua-limina-catalogue