Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest

27/11/2025

As this year winds to a close and we consider plans for an exciting future event we wanted to share two great articles before and after the inaugural Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest.

First - thanks to Gladstone Today for this great overview of the event and interview with our curator Rebecca Cunningham

https://gladstonetoday.com.au/news/2025/08/14/exploring-change-through-art-science-and-imagination/

Secondly - thanks to CQUniversity Australia for partnering on this inaugural event and also sharing this great write up highlighting some of the experiences and activities we made happen!

https://www.cqu.edu.au/news/1238287/gladstone-festival-sparks-creativity-innovation-and-climate-action

Want to be further involved in future? Let us know!

Thank you to our volunteers, supporters, panelists, researchers, industry, artists and sponsors.

Hundreds of people turned out across Gladstone and Tannum Sands for the inaugural Art, Science & Innovation Festival (ASIF), a free two-day event that blended creativity, climate action and community.

21/09/2025

🎞️ Now that the footage and feedback about the amazing time we had at the inaugural Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest has come in, we are excited to share highlights and coverage of the two days! See the comments for more photos!

💡 Thank you so much to the amazing artists, innovators, researchers, industry and participants who made the two days inspiring, creative, playful and thought provoking.

🖤 💛 ❤️ To the First Nations Bailai, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng, Taribelang Bunda People Development Corporation Ltd thank you to each of the elders who welcomed us with music, language, ceremony and storytelling – setting the tone each day with intent and spirit.

📜 Gladstone Regional Youth Council you inspired us with your commitment to reach out to all the young people in the region as you asked and listened to their visions for the region at the end of the century!

🎨 Our artist commissions awardees Jen Hollstein Art & A Country Arts Practice Melissa Peacock, your participatory approach and artworks filled the spaces with joy!

💡To our Innovation Roundtable participants Sanath Alahakoon (CQUniversity), Kal Glanznig (RisingUp), Emma Smith (Queensland Conservation Council), Renee Mooney (ACCIONA Energía), Prof Vanessa Tomlinson (Griffith University) Rod Ainsworth (CQUniversity); your experience and insights on how to get big stuff done and innovation sing in our ears.

🚲To CQUniversity Australia Gladstone for hosting and sharing STEM and Hydrogen Central – the many and varied activities for the ‘fair’ allowed people of all ages to come in and play! And ‘Moving for the Planet’ saw more than 150 smoothies being made at Canoe Point on Day 2 – all powered by humans!

🖼️ Thank you to Margaret Worthington for the inclusion of your paintings and sculptures in the space as well as the watercolour birdlife workshop.

🦜To Birdlife Capricornia for the bird identification tours – the passion for nature from the Birdlife volunteers is an inspiration.

🥕 Steve Bell you created a degustation for the future – feeding crowds a sustainable feast at the Low Carbon Picnic. Thanks to you, the future tastes amazing!!!

📽️ 🎵 Film maker Kal Glanznig and sound artist Vanessa Tomlinson – our out of town talent and bookends to each day. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm, skill and energy demonstrated so palpably in your work.

💒 Thank you Councillor Simon McClintock and Councillor Leanne Patrick for attending and sharing your insights with attendees.

💚 We are so grateful for the support of our funders, National Science Week, and Inspiring Australia. Our supporters Calliope Rotary, CQUniversity Australia, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, BirdLife Capricornia, Bishopp, Gladstone News, Gladstone Ports Corporation Ltd and Rayment Excavations.

🏵️ As we look to the future we want to learn from this first experience as we plan on the next adventure ahead! Rebecca Cunningham , Heidi Edmonds and Linda Pfeiffer

17/08/2025

Thank you A Country Arts Practice for bringing your beautiful, engaging creations to the yesterday.

16/08/2025

Thank you Jen Hollstein Art for your exciting live painting created during Day 1 of the !

15/08/2025

Today's the day! Join us for Day 1 of the two day Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest

2 pm to 8:30 pm at CQUniversity Gladstone Marina campus

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12/08/2025

The inaugural Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest - Day 1 is just around the corner!

You can join the conversation through Innovation Round tables 💡
Day 1 - 15 August at CQUniversity Australia Leo Zussino building.
There are three curious sessions:
3:30 pm “Getting Big Things Done Well”
4:30 pm “Preciousness of Place” &
6:00 pm “Innovation Ideologies”

featuring: (Rising Up film)
Emma Smith (Queensland Conservation Council) and Sanath Alahakoon, CQUniversity Australiaiversity, Leader of the SMART Grid Research Group, Prof Vanessa Tomlinson (Artist), Renee Mooney ACCIONA Energía Hogaresa and Rod Ainsworth, CQUniversity Australianiversity , Associate Vice President, Gladstone and Wide Bay Campuses and more!

All free and part of National Science Week

09/08/2025

We are so excited to be screening by
Kal Glanznig Take 3

Every action, no matter how small, contributes to a larger movement. We can make a difference in our daily lives and ‘change their world to change the world’. Watch and be inspired by stories of action for a healthy planet!

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08/08/2025

Thanks Science in Public for including in your list of National Science Week food our futuristic Gladstone low carbon picnic with chef Steve Bell on Day 2 of the

https://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week/food-2025

Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest - Day 2 2025

08/08/2025

Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest Artist Commission A Country Arts Practice Melissa Peacock presents

"Connecting People & Place: Ecopsychology and Regional Community Arts"

Come and take part in her new work 🌳💡on Saturday16 August w2025 from 2pm to sunset at Canoe Point, Tannum Sands

National Science Week

About the Artist:
A Country Arts Practice
Melissa Peacock (she/her) is a multidisciplinary visual and community regional artist and emerging researcher based in Tannum Sands, in the Gladstone Region of Central Queensland. Her 30-year creative practice is deeply rooted in accessibility, community engagement, and a love of place, which has been a focus in her studies throughout a Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours (1994–1998) and a Master of Arts (2003) at the University of Ballarat. After a diverse career of more than two decades as an Arts Facilitator, Studio Coordinator, Artist in Residence, Community Arts Worker and Regional Arts Officer for CQ University’s Regional Arts Services Network, she is now pursuing a PhD through CQ University as a recipient of the BE Scholarship Melissa was awarded Highly Commended for her work in the currently touring Queensland Regional Art Awards, in the Environmental Art section. Melissa’s connection to the environment and community is central to this commission for the Art and Science Innovation Festival. Her work embraces multisensory, reflexive, and embodied ways of making meaning, reflecting her commitment to creating accessible, community-connected, and environmentally responsive art.

06/08/2025

Closing the inaugural Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest - Day 2 2025 is premiere
"Big Ears and the art of noticing - BEAN"
16 August 2025
Canoe Point, Tannum Sands ~4:30pm sunset

About the work:
BEAN is a sunset soundwalk. While it is true that our ears do not grow forever, Big Ears and the Art of Noticing opens a doorway to listening together in place as we feel our ears grow.
5 episodes, 5 stops
30 minutes
What do you hear?
What did you hear?
Moving beyond conventional approaches to a concert, BEAN sonically explores, amplifies, draws focus, and comments on the liminal space between Canoe Point park and the beach; between the bushland and the built environment; between then and now.

We walk, listen and notice the approaching sunset while our ears are secretly growing.
Big Ears and the Art of Noticing

"Vanessa has the technique, the sensitivity, the voice and the sense of dramatic timing that enable her to create... a distinctive and original art form". The Advertiser (Adelaide)

About the artist:
Vanessa Tomlinson works at the intersection of music interpretation, improvisation and composition seeking new artistic platforms to share ideas around listening, ecological change, place and curiosity. As a percussionist she has been touring the world for 35 years, premiering works, collaborating with musicians and working across artforms. As a composer she focuses on speculative text-based compositions, object-based re-purposing, and deep sonic gatherings that stimulate our imagination as we listen in a climate-transforming world. As a curator she makes events in improbable locations from rockfaces, to bushland, gathering people in place and activating audiences toward deep listening. Vanessa has won 7 Art Music Awards, 2 Green Room Awards, an Australian Council Project Fellowship, been artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute, received an Asialink residency, worked extensively in Sichuan province of China, released multiple albums, received a Doctorate from University of California, San Diego, and is currently Professor of Music at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University in Australia.

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05/08/2025

Friday 15th August CQUniversity Australiay part of National Science Weeknationalscienceweek why not try watercolours with acclaimed Margaret Worthington
In this workshop you will learn about the high intensity, bright colours created by the Impressionists and their use of complimentary colours. Perhaps create a dazzling, bright bird 🦜.
As we ask questions about the future of our region...
What will birds look like in a future world? Where will they
fit in the ecosystem?

FREE EVENT! Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest - Day 1
All high quality art materials supplied. Places are limited so please rsvp via email: [email protected]

About the artist
Margaret works as a designer/sculptor using a wide range of materials. Her latest
works feature large watercolours on paper detailing areas of central Queensland’s
coastline. She is interested in the area's plants, animals, and history. Her works are bright and vibrant with small details that the sensitive viewer will discover.

Gladstone Community and Events Board
Gladstone Regional Council

04/08/2025

Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest Artist Commission Jen Hollstein Art presents
"Artificial Intuition': An Interactive Exploration into Gladstone's Future by Humans in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence"

Come and take part in her new work on15 August 2025 from 2pm-7pm at CQUniversity Australia Leo Zussino building

National Science Week
Gladstone Community and Events Board
Gladstone Art Science Innovation Fest - Day 1

About the artist:
Jen Hollstein is an Expressive Artist known for her intuitive, multi-modal approach to creativity. She has a special interest in painting and mural work, blending symbolic imagery, rich community stories, and the magic of nature, inspired by several years of global experience as a professional diver, and an academic background in Cultural Anthropology. Originally from Scotland, Jen is now based in the Gladstone Region where she practices as a creative guide, holding space for community members to explore their own creative journey in embodied, self-expression. She has exhibited extensively across Queensland and shares her original artworks with an international audience.