For three decades, the Logan Art Gallery has showcased the city’s most talented creative minds.
And this month is no different, with a “night-time lighting spectacular” launching Friday 18 July to celebrate the gallery’s 30 birthday.
The Logan Central gallery opened in 1995 as a community-based initiative to provide a dedicated space to showcase local artistic talent.
The building had previously been home to the local library, but ever since has shared the works of local visual artists, craft workers and designers.
Thirty years later, the gallery has won several awards, hosted exhibitions featuring the works of internationally-acclaimed artists, and showcased Logan’s vibrant diversity.
Mayor Jon Raven said Logan Art Gallery had cemented itself as a hub of creativity.
“Our gallery has exciting art on display, showcasing the best of local and touring artists,” Cr Raven said
“We’ve also built up an amazing permanent collection that reflects the diversity of Logan.
“Last year we hosted a major exhibition from the Art Gallery of New South Wales focused on one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, Brett Whiteley.
“We were the only Queensland gallery – and one of only four in Australia – to host this exhibition.”
The gallery will celebrate its birthday with a 30th Anniversary Spectacular, which will include two days of activities and fun for locals of all ages.
It will be held from 5-8pm on Friday 18 July and between 10am-8pm on Saturday 19 July.
Five new exhibitions and a “spectacular” outdoor projection will open on the Friday, which will also host a courtyard light installation with lantern and bead making workshops available for children.
The next day’s program will offer hands-on opportunities for locals, including workshops in lantern making, tote bag printing, ‘Love Logan’ canvas painting, snow globes and kaleidoscopes.
The outdoor projection will include the works of local artists Jessica Skeen-McKinnon (Muralappi), Jun Chen and Richard Blundell.
Ms Skeen-McKinnon is a Greenbank-based First Nations artist who comes from a highly artistic First Nations family. She designed the artworks featured at Logan Gardens water play area.
Mr Chen is from Woodridge, and is one of the few Queensland artists whose work has been accepted into the prestigious annual Archibald Prize Exhibition, where he placed second.
In China, where he was born, Mr Chen was a brush and ink painter but in Australia has reinvented himself as an oil painter.
Mr Blundell is a painter, graphic designer and printmaker who lives in Daisy Hill. His works, which explore modern life and the natural world, have been displayed at Logan Art Gallery on a number of occasions.
Across the two days of anniversary celebrations, an entertainment program will also run with performances by musicians, DJs and experimental sound artists including the local musical duo Edgy and Hedgy.
