Rachel O'Reilly: Northern Waters Northern Waters (2025) is a feature-length video installation exploring complex aftermaths of the 1967–75 Save the Reef campaign, which successfully protected the Great Barrier Reef from the global oil industry. At the time, Indigenous people in Queensland lived under apartheid conditions, and non-Indigenous artist/activists involved had no knowledge of the reef’s cultural heritage. Today, as Indigenous governance is increasingly recognised in World Heritage reef and rainforest regions, hyper-real images of bleached coral circulate globally as symbols of climate crisis, while biodiversity policies continue to fail many at-risk species.
When: Saturday 7 March, 12:30am - 2:10pm Price: FREE, all welcome
REGISTER Image: Gallery view, Rachel O'Rielly Northern Waters, 2025. As part of our opening weekend events, HBRG will also be hosting Floor Talks with HBRG's Director Sarah Thomson and the artists, along with a choral performance by Bayside Harmony choir. Please join us from 10am Saturday 7 March.
Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, 166 Old Maryborough Road, View Map
166 Old Maryborough Road ,
Free
Saturday 7 March, 12:30 -2:10pm
Hervey Bay Regional Gallery 166 Old Maryborough Road, Pialba
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