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from Cove magazine
The new HOTA Gallery is set to change the face of the Gold Coast cultural scene.
DESIGNED BY AWARD-WINNING Melbournebased architects ARM, HOTA Gallery is the largest public gallery outside a capital city in Australia and will be the centrepiece of the country’s most dynamic new arts precinct, HOTA, Home of the Arts.
Spanning six levels, HOTA Gallery will present a fascinating program of world premiere international exhibitions, Australian exclusives and new commissions.
HOTA Gallery will launch with Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise (8 May - 20 June 2021) featuring major new commissions and art work by emerging and established Australian artists with a connection to the region, including Hiromi Tango, Michael Candy, Abbey McCulloch, Samuel Leighton-Dore and Libby Harward.
Presented across the Gallery and the HOTA parklands, the exhibition celebrates the diversity and richness of the Gold Coast and will feature sculpture, painting, video, photography and installations, both indoors and out.
Celebrating one of Australia’s foremost living artists and greatest landscape painters, the major exhibition Lyrical Landscapes: The Art of William Robinson (31 July - 3 October 2021) will see Robinson’s entire Creation Series, produced over 16 years, presented together for the first time.
Coinciding with his 85th year, the exhibition curated by Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO, will feature the award-winning artist’s monumental multi-panelled paintings alongside intimate studies and prints.
The inaugural exhibition in the new dedicated Children’s Gallery is World Upside Down (8 May – 10 October 2021).
Working with Queensland artists Lowana Skye-Davies and Alinta Krauth, the Children’s Gallery will be an immersive space filled with interactive art and hands-on making activities, inspired by the themes found in the first two major exhibitions, Solid Gold and Lyrical Landscapes.
Alongside the premiere exhibitions presented in the main space, HOTA Gallery will also display works from the $32 million City Collection.
Consisting of more than 4,400 artworks, the collection includes one the largest collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in regional Australia.
Presented across three galleries, HOTA Collects will draw more than 100 works from the City Collection to reflect key developments in Australian art over the past 50 years, spanning abstraction, feminist art, Indigenous art, ceramics and twenty-first-century photography.
The inaugural hang will include works 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.
Information on the 2021 exhibition program can be found on the HOTA website, with further details and programming to be announced. hota.com.au NEW HOTA GALLERY ROOFTOP BAR & RESTAURANT
THE NEW HOTA GALLERY will also host a vibrant new rooftop bar and dining venue with The Exhibitionist Bar and Palette restaurant set to open in May.
Located on level five across 233 sqm of impressive indoor and outdoor terrace spaces, The Exhibitionist Bar has breathtaking panoramic views overlooking the vibrant, colourful arts precinct.
The venue will offer guests a sophisticated tapas style bar menu with specialty cocktails, an extensive wine list, house made sodas and local craft beer, and will also be the place to go for those that need a morning caffeine fix.
On the ground floor, Palette restaurant will feature a modern Australian menu with a fully curated wine list, degustation menus inspired by the major exhibitions and a la carte with capacity for up to 120 people with indoor and veranda seating options available.
With a focus on fresh local ingredients and exceptional customer experience, the vision behind the vibrant menu is to create a curated dining experience that complements the gallery but is an exciting destination in its own right.
Influenced by William Robinson’s stunning painting, The Rainforest, which will be the first artwork from the City Collection to grace the walls of the new HOTA Gallery, both The Exhibitionist Bar and Palette will be tied into the design of the rest of the building.
