Woolloongabba Art Gallery

I love chancing upon a small gallery as
they often offer unexpected and hidden art gems.
Woolloongabba art gallery is no exception to this rule,
located very handily on Stanley St this place is full of
some seriously cool wares.
Supporting both established and emerging artists,
you’ll be greeted with many diverse contemporary
and indigenous art works.
With most of them up for grabs as well,
these would make great gift ideas for loved ones.
(You’d have to love them a lot given the price of good art lately.)
Small but quaint,
This is well worth a pop-​in when in the Woolloongabba area.

The WAG as I like to call it. It’s new, only just opened in 2004 and I am truly a big fan.
The place sells and displays only quality contemporary art in 3 exhibition spaces so it’s surprisingly roomy in there, not what I expected at all. What I love about this place is that it has great exhibitions from photography, sculpture and installations even ceramics. Some of the artists I have never heard of before have a chance to display brilliant pieces of art and sell them to the public.
The two owners also offer art consulting services for the beginner collector to big wig serious ones… not sure how much but you can bet it won’t be that cheap. Some of their works have been bought and displayed in huge museums and bigger art galleries.
At the moment it’s featuring an exhibition called ‘Fossil Light’ by the artist Donal Fitzpatrick and you should definetely check it out, it’s amazing.

If anyone is stuck on a Christmas present idea and have a few hundred dollars spare, go directly to Woolloongabba art gallery and purchase one of the charming sculptural cockatoo or owl pieces by Thomas Munkanome. As words can’t possibly describe how charming these bark sculptures are, take a look at the online exhibition through this link
Usually, I hate artwork which rehashes Australian landscape — sculptures of goannas chiselled out of wood, pigs made of fused metal and beachscape paintings of Noosa and the Gold Coast. This is usually the stuff I find at tourist galleries. Unlike these tourist-​aimed enterprises, Woolloongabba Art Gallery is a contemporary, commercial gallery for both beginner and professional collectors. Their latest exhibition ‘Life, Spirit and Breath’ is a contemporary show featuring many artists who uses Tiwi designs in their works.
Munkanome’s bark sculptures are only a part of an excellent exhibition of Tiwi fabrics, sculptures and paintings.
Woolloongabba art gallery run different exhibitions throughout the year — mostly of contemporary Indigenous art though they do represent other styles as well. Check out their website for past and future exhibitions.