Travelling exhibitions
Find out when one of State Library’s exhibitions is coming to a location near you.
Transforming Tindale
Unheard stories are given a voice in this powerful exhibition of scientific photographs and contemporary artworks, exploring the legacy of Norman Tindale's 1938 anthropological expedition to Aboriginal communities. Artist Vernon Ah Kee has drawn inspiration from photographs of his family in the Tindale Genealogical Collection to produce poignant works capturing the personalities behind the scientific images. Tindale’s photographs are presented in two beautifully bound books alongside digitised images of Vernon Ah Kee’s artworks that are woven within the digital stories as part of the travelling exhibition.
Transforming Tindale is a thought-provoking journey into the Tindale collection, what it means to Aboriginal people and its place in Queensland's history.
View the virtual exhibition.
Tour dates
2013Cairns City Library 5 – 28 July
Smithfield Library 31 July – 13 August
Mossman Library 16 – 30 August
Gordonvale Library 4 – 18 September
Clermont Library 30 November – 13 December
2014 dates to be advised
Floodlines: a living memory
Floodlines: a living memory celebrates the resilience of communities, responding to the significant events of the summer of 2010-11.
Queenslanders – through film, sound, ideas and photos in the Flood and Cyclone Mosaic of community-contributed photos – help tell the rich and complex story of a summer we will never forget.
Using augmented reality technology, the Floodlines app allows you to simulate the devastation to areas around Queensland that were affected by the significant weather events of the summer of 2010-2011.
Please note
Some visitors may find content in this exhibition distressing. We have worked with Department of Health and Department of Communities for advice and to provide support material for this exhibition.
Tour dates
2013
Middlemount Library 25 January – 7 February
Dysart Library 12 – 22 February
CityLibraries Aitkenvale 9 – 19 March
Hinchinbrook Shire Library, Ingham – 28 March – 10 April
Cardwell Library 19 – 27 April
Dorothy Jones Library Tully 1 – 13 May
Atherton Library 24 May – 5 June
Mareeba Library 11 – 20 June
Kuranda Library 25 June – 7 July
Malanda Library 16 – 25 July
Ravenshoe Library 31 July – 11 August
Herberton Library 13 - 22 August
Chillagoe Library 27 -28 August
Dimbulah Library 29 - 30 August
Croydon Library 20 September – 2 October
Normanton Library 18 – 29 October
Karumba Library 2 – 12 November
2014 dates to be advised
Image: Never in our Lifetime, Lockyer Valley, 27 Jan 2011, Loren Jarvis. From Flood and Cyclone Mosaic
Laura: Festival in focus
Laura: festival in focus is a travelling exhibition of photographs from Cape York’s Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival from the State Library of Queensland’s collection.
In 30 years, this biennial event of song, dance, ceremony and performance has become on Australia’s largest gatherings of Indigenous people.
These stunning images by Sarah Scragg, 2009, and Ron Gale, 1985, provide a rich insight - reflecting on the diversity of Indigenous groups, the strength of culture and the emotion of this significant gathering.
Tour dates
2013
Mackay City Library 7 Jan - 1 Feb
Logan Central Library 1 – 31 July
From Ship to Shore: excerpts from shipboard diaries 1863 – 1947
It is possible to hear the authors’ individual voices through the diaries selected for this exhibition – among the most intriguing in the State Library’s collection. Four of the diaries describe 19th Century immigration, another was written in the 1890s on board a South Sea Islander labour recruitment ship for Queensland’s sugar industry, and one is from a post-World War II immigration voyage. Through the pages of these notebooks and journals, we are able to follow the lives and activities of men and women of different backgrounds, occupations and classes. We can take a glimpse of life above and below deck from the beginning of the Age of Sail to the influx of post-World War II migrants into Australia.
Tour dates
2013
Mackay City Library 3 Sep–4 Oct
2014
Citylibraries Townsville – 1 Feb – 30 April
