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Forever Now | Collection Essays

Foreword

Written by Dr Leonie Gray
Chair, Rockhampton Museum of Art Philanthropy

Tropical Minotaurs: The Animal in the Central Queensland Imaginary

Written by Fernando do Campo

Diverting Course

(or, What Art Can Tell Us About How the Water Now Flows through Central Queensland)
Written by Madeleine King

Changing Faces: A Short History of Portraiture in the Rockhampton Muse

Written by Trudie Leigo

Of and On Darumbal Country:

Reimagining Representation in the Collection
Written by Dr Melinda Mann

Julie Fragar and Antonio de Fraga:

Fable, Folklore and the Fragar Family Tree
Written by Dr Jonathan McBurnie

Collective Collecting: By, With and For the People of Rockhampton

Written by Shanna Muston
Exhibition & Production Team Leader, Rockhampton Museum of Art

Three Paintings: Works by Tony Albert, Julie Fragar and Richard Lewer

Written by Hamish Sawyer

The Landscape Within: The Remote Landscape in Australian Painting

Written by Karen Stephens

Cultural Sisterhood and Soft Power: The Japanese Collection at the Roc

Emily Wakeling
Curator, Rockhampton Museum of Art

A Celebration of Female Voices:

Representations of the Female Voice in the Rockhampton Museum of Art
Kellie Williams

Forever Now

Dr Jonathan McBurnie
Director, Rockhampton Museum of Art

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