Art Gallery

Upcoming exhibitions

“The Truck Show: An Alternate Landscape”

Helena Jackson Lloyd

7-27th May, 2019

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CURRENTLY HANGING

Welcome to Cool Art Picture Framing Gallery. Our modern, purpose-built, gallery space opened in December 2017. We regularly exhibit works by Pam Walpole, Des Rolph, Helena Jackson Lloyd, Blair McNamara, Rosie Lloyd Giblett, Kym Barrett, Amy Clarke and Jan Williamson.

The gallery is open to the public Monday – Saturday during business hours.

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Please come and visit us to browse the gallery. We provide a remarkable, modern space for artists to display their works for public viewing.

Gallery submissions

Cool Art is now accepting submissions from professional artists for our Autumn/Winter 2019 exhibition calendar. The gallery space is selectively available for short-term exhibitions. We can assist with organising framing, shipping, and exhibition space setup. Please contact us direct regarding artist submissions and gallery availability.

Corporate/Business Art 

For businesses wanting to exhibit art, we can liaise with our artists and discuss individual needs and contracts.

Commissions

We can also discuss any commissions such as portraits, landscapes, contemporary works and or other exclusive pieces.

 

Featured artists

For the inspiration of the works by our previous featured artists and exhibitions, please visit our Artists page, or browse through the selection below.

Desley Rolph

Helena Jackson Lloyd

 

Jan Williamson

Pam Walpole

Blair McNamara

 

Past Exhibitions

TWELVE  |  A showcase of contemporary women artists from the Sunshine Coast November 24 – December 22, 2018

We are delighted to share our most recent, and largest group exhibition to date, featuring 12 local, women contemporary artists. Each artist brings a unique perspective to abstractions of local and regional landscapes, and detailed figurative works. The show has been displayed to encourage engagement with each of the artists works, and to balance the spectrum of individual palettes, mediums, and subjects.

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“Parallel Lines”- November 3-21, 2018

From 3-22 November 2018, we had the great pleasure of exhibiting a retrospective survey of one of our most beloved local artists and dear friend, Blair McNamara. This exhibition showcased works selected from archived studio folios, spanning the past forty years of his professional career.

Blair first met Joe of Cool Art over 20 years ago, when the business first opened on Beach Road, Coolum in 1998. They have exhibited together over the years- you can read more about their first meeting here.  It has been some time since Blair has exhibited locally, and we were elated to be able to share his retrospective exhibition. Please contact the gallery for the availability of works from this exhibition. A full list of displayed works is available for viewing on an online catalogue here. Please contact the gallery for the availability of art works.

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unFramed 2018- August, 2018

In August we had the pleasure of hosting unFramed project 2018. This collective of 22 local/region-based emerging and established artists delivered an exciting and diverse exhibition of visual, new media, and sculptural works. For more information regarding this exhibition, have a look at our recent post with words from the artistic director, or the unFramed project facebook page.

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New Beginnings – December, 2017

An inaugural exhibition at the new gallery space at 43 Access Crescent was held during December 2017, titled “New Beginnings.” This exhibition featured friends of the gallery and regular exhibitors, Pam Walpole, Des Rolph, Helena Jackson Lloyd, and Jan Williamson. 

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A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION | 15 YEARS | 15 ARTISTS | 15 DAYS

In May 2013 CoolArt celebrated 15 years of dedication and collaborations with a Retrospective exhibition with 15 artists from past and present.
Some of the unique creations are still displayed in the the CoolArt Gallery and are for sale.