The board of directors and CEO have appointed FNQ Accounting as the new chartered accountants for Lockhart River Arts Indigenous Corporation effective Tuesday 5 March 2024. The previous bookkeeper from April 2023 to March 2024 Julianne of First Class Accounts Port Douglas will finish off on 31 March 2024 as she closes her bookkeeping business to take on new challenge. The Corporation also engaged Retinue Accounting between December 2023 to March 2024 to assist First Class Bookkeeping with Corporation's financials.
Welcome
Lockhart River Arts Indigenous Corporation receives current funding from the Australian Government through the Department of Communications and the Arts under the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support (IVAIS) program.
The Corporation also receives current funding from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland's Backing Indigenous Arts initiative (BIA) program and the Regional Arts Development Fund (IRADF).
Business Hours: March 2024 to December 2024: Monday - Thursday 9am to 5pm, Friday 9am-3pm, Saturday 9am-12pm, Sunday by appointment.
Latest News
Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia launched its online exhibition ttiled "Founding Members Exhibition - Lockhart River Art Gang" on 8 March 2024. The Aboriginal community of Lockhart River is located on the east coast of Cape York, Far North Queensland. It is 850 KM North of Cairns.
Representative Galleries & Permanent Collection
Representative Galleries & Permanent Collection
Approved list of representative galleries both within Australia and Internationally that deal directly with Lockhart River Arts Centre.
Please click on the website of each represebtative gallery listed below to take you straight to their online shop.
In Australia:
- Art Mob Gallery, Hobart Tasmania, Australia
Gallery Director: Euan Hills
Email: euan@artmob.com.au
Phone: +61 3 6236 9200 Fax: +61 3 6236 9300 Mobile: 0419393122
Address: 29 Hunter Street, Hobart, Tasmania 7000 Australia
- Kate Owen Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney New South Wales, Australia
Director: Geoff Henderson
Email: geoff@kateowengallery.com
Phone: +61 2 9555 5283
Address: 680 Darling St, Rozelle NSW 2039, Australia
http://www.kateowengallery.com/
- Aboriginal Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta Victoria, Australia - 4 Art Trail Gallery sites
1. De Bortoli Rutherglen Estate - Rutherglen, Cellar Door, 13-35 Drummond Street, Rutherglen, Victoria 3685 Australia
2. Quest Albury Townsend, 450 Townsend St, Albury NSW 2640, Australia
3. Club Savoy, 252-254 Myrtle St, Myrtleford Victoria 3737, Australia
4. The Plough Inn Tarrawingee, 2322 Wangaratta Beechworth Road, Tarrawingee, Victoria 3687 Australia
Gallery Co-owner and director: Hans Sip, Email Hans at hsip3bg@gmail.com
Mobile: 0414909505, www.aboriginalexhibitions.com.au
- Samurai Gallery Australia - New gallery representative commenced 19 February 2021
Gallery owner: John Grasso, Aboriginal art from Lockhart River and quality antique Japanese swords & fittings specialist
Museum Art Gallery and Sales, Level 1, 20-22 Shields Street, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Next to Woolshed
Mobile: 0417 642 921, Email: info@samuraigalleryaustralia.com
www.samuraigalleryaustralia.com
- Suzanne O'Connell Gallery Brisbane, Queensland Australia
Gallery Director: Suzanne O'Connell
Email: suzanne@suzanneoconnell.com
Address: 93 James Street, New Farm, QLD 4005
Gallery Opening Times: Wedesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm
Phone: +61 7 3358 5811 Mobile: +61 0400 920 022 Fax: +61 7 3358 5813
NorthSite Contemporary Arts ( formerly KickArts Contemporary Arts), Cairns Australia
Director: Ashleigh Campbell
Email: director@kickarts.org.au
96 Abbott Street, Cairns City, QLD
kickarts.org.au (website still under KickArts but brings you straight to NorthSite Contemporary Art)
Mount Sheridan Australia Post Retail Outlet, Mt Sheridan Cairns Queensland
Shop 2/106 Barnard Drive, Mount Sheridan Shopping Plaza, Mount Sheridan, QLD 4868
Phone: 131318
The Picture Framer Cairns
Contact: Mark and Nicole (Owners)
294 Severin Street, Parramatta Park, Queensland 4870
Phone: 07 40412590 Email: info@air2art.com.au
Sandra Bardas Art Gallery Victoria, Australia
Gallery Director: Aunty Lois Peeler AM, Victorian Senior Australian of the Year 2017
Gallery Coordinator: Lisa Hodgson
Address: 60 Barak Lane, Healesville Victoria 3777, Australia
Phone: +61 0359 624 344
Mobile: 0498 967 292 (or 0498 WORAWA)
Email: artgallery@worawa.vic.edu.au
- Iron Range Cabins Accomodation Front Office, Lockhart River, Queensland (Temporarily unavailable due to repair works at the Cabbins)
1 Airport Road, Lockhart River, QLD 4871, email: ircabins@lhrac.com.au
Phone: 07 4060 7147, wwwlhrac.com.au
In United States of America:
Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston Texas, USA
Director: Nana Booker
Email: nana@bookerlowegallery.com
Address: 4623 Feagan Street, Houston, Texas 77007 USA
Phone: 713.880.1541
www.bookerlowegallery.com
In Paris, France
Arts d’Australie – Stéphane Jacob (Paris).
179 Boulevard Pereire, 75017, Paris France
Ph: +33 146 22 23 20, email: sj@artsdaustralie.com, https://www.aboriginalartdirectory.com
Museuem Collection in Switzerland:
Theresa Burkhardt-Felder - Conservatrice
Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture
Musée de l'art aborigène australien "La grange"
Musée de l'automobile "Le manège"
Château d'Ivernois
Grande Rue 7
CH-2112 Môtiers NE
Val-de-Travers
Suisse
Tél (0041) 032 861 2001 (direct)
Email: theresa.burkhardt@bluewin.ch
Cultural Retention
Cultural Retention
Community Development & Cultural Retention
Lockhart River Arts Centre has a cultural retention and community development program strategy that engages community members to participate in locally driven arts projects. The program components are subjective to funding and includes the corporation’s counter funding contributions.
Watch this space for upcoming news and developments.
Contemporary Dance Development
The Lockhart River Arts Centre has a firm and positive background in supporting the Kawadjii-Wimpa dance group through contemporary dance and collaborative programs with external stakeholders. In 2017, we have identified new program opportunities to develop our engagement in this critical community link activity.
Watch this space for upcoming news and developments.
Community Public Art Project
Lockhart River Arts Centre has successfully implemented key community based art projects in the last 5 years. Through Arts Queensland’s IRADF Funding program, The Art Centre has successfully undertaken the Electric Power Pole Art Project, Community Mural Projects and Secondary Student art class programs.
Watch this space for upcoming news and developments.
Contact - May 2024
Contact - May 2024
Our Details
CEO: Enoch Perazim, Arts Culture Operations Manager: Silas Hobson
Address: 1 Piiramo Street, Lockhart River Queensland 4892, Australia
Mobile Contact only: +61475069733, Australian Business Number (ABN): 53 479 232 837
Email: CEOPerazim@lockhartriverart.com.au
Finance: FNQ Accounting, Tax Accountant | Registered IFA, 51 Butler Street, Tully Q 4854, Email: michelle@fnqaccounting.com.au
Our current elected directors as at Annual General Meeting (AGM) election on 17 March 2022
Board Chairman Silas Hobson, Deputy Board Chair Dorothy Hobson, Irene Namok. Ceased directors: Danielle Hudson and Terry B.Platt
Opening times March 2024 to December 2024
Monday to Thursday: 9am to 5pm, Friday: 9am to 3pm, Saturday 9am to 1pm, Sunday - by prior appointment only.
For Access to Arts Centre at 1 Piiramo Road: Text to mobile your full name, where you visiting from, date and time of planned visit to Silas Hobson on +61475069733 or to Dorothy Hobson on +61438106160.
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