Australia’s largest public gallery outside a capital city, HOTA (Home Of The Arts) Gallery, has opened to the public.
It’s a $60.5 million gallery spanning six levels and including more than 2,000 square metres of exhibition space and even a dedicated Children’s Gallery.
HOTA Gallery will present world premiere international exhibitions, Australian exclusives and new commissions. It’s also the home to the $32 million City Collection, consisting of more than 4,400 artworks.
“We’re delighted to throw open the doors and welcome the Gold Coast to the new HOTA Gallery for the first time. The Gallery will challenge everything people thought they knew about arts and culture on the Gold Coast, it’s bold, unapologetic and completely unbound by tradition,” HOTA CEO Criena Gehrke says.
“HOTA Gallery represents everything we believe in at HOTA, from local artists front and centre in our first major exhibition, to hidden and unexpected stories in our collection galleries, exquisite Indigenous art and wonderful, immersive experiences for our youngest culture vultures in the Children’s Gallery, there is truly something for everyone.”
SOLID GOLD - Image © Paul Harris Photography
First up is SOLID GOLD: Artists From Paradise. Nineteen emerging and established Australian artists and collectives, each with their own personal connection to the Gold Coast, have created new works exploring the relationship between people and place, the human impact on the natural world, and the urban environment and landscape.
Artists include Hiromi Tango, Michael Candy, Abbey McCulloch, Samuel Leighton-Dore, Elliot Bastianon, CJ Anderson and Lisa Sorbie Martin.
HOTA Gallery will also present works from the $32 million City Collection. It includes one of the largest collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in regional Australia.
This features work by Ben Quilty, Tony Albert, Julie Rrap, Jenny Orchard, Nell, Tracey Moffatt, Gordon Bennett, Michael Zavros, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Linde Ivimey, the Huxleys, Scott Redford, John Gollings, Kenneth Macqueen, Vida Lahey, Charles Blackman, Fred Williams, William Robinson and Ethel Carrick Fox.
Check out information on the 2021 exhibition programme here.
HOTA Gallery (Gold Coast) is now open.
