Caboolture will host a free winter arts program shaped around colour, photography, heritage and personal storytelling, with exhibitions and creative spaces running across The Hub Gallery and Caboolture Regional Art Gallery.
Caboolture Winter Program Brings Together Four Creative Experiences
Caboolture’s winter arts program will bring a series of free exhibitions and creative spaces to 4 Hasking Street, giving visitors a local cultural option built around contemporary art, photography, heritage and hands-on participation.
The Winter Highlights 2026 program includes Excess All Areas, The Shape of Feeling, House of Gold and two creative spaces developed by artist Yin Lu. Together, the program offers a mix of large-scale visual work, black-and-white photography, moving image, sound and participatory art-making.
All four offerings are free to attend and do not require bookings.
The program will be split between The Hub Gallery and Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, allowing visitors to move through different styles and themes within the same Caboolture arts precinct.
Excess All Areas Opens With Colour and Consumer Culture
Excess All Areas will run at The Hub Gallery from 27 June to 23 July 2026.
The exhibition explores consumer culture and throw-away habits through humour, colour and bold contemporary works. It is described as an experimental exhibition that moves beyond traditional boundaries, bringing together works that explore scale, material and intensity.
The exhibition invites audiences into an immersive and layered art experience, with works that are expressive in both form and subject. Its focus on excess and consumption gives the winter program a strong contemporary opening, using colour and visual impact to examine everyday habits around waste and material culture.
Photo Caption: New Quotidian Collective, Excess All Areas, 2025, digital collage printed on Pearl Rag
Black-and-white Photography Shapes A Local View
From 25 July to 20 August 2026, The Hub Gallery will host The Shape of Feeling, created by emerging local photographer Nicole Jones.
The exhibition explores the intricacies of black-and-white photography and considers how emotion can be expressed, interpreted and shared through visual form.
Jones’ imagery captures the landscape and people of the region, reflecting on what has been recorded and what has changed through history. The exhibition adds a quieter and more reflective layer to the winter program, using photography to consider feeling, place and memory without relying on colour.
Photo Caption: In the shade, 2025, by Nicole Jones
House of Gold Explores Heritage Through Image, Sound and Movement
At Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, House of Gold will run from 27 June to 12 September 2026.
The exhibition presents an immersive body of work by Dr Christian Thompson AO, spanning photography, moving image and sound. It explores the intersection of Thompson’s Chinese and First Nations Bidjara heritage, shaped by the Gold Rush migrations of the 1850s.
Through shared language, food and history, the exhibition examines influences that have contributed to Thompson’s sense of self. Its combination of personal heritage and broader historical movement gives the winter program a deeper cultural and reflective focus.
Photo Caption: Double Happiness, 2021, by Dr Christian Thompson
Yin Lu Creative Spaces Invite Personal Storytelling
Also running at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery from 27 June to 12 September 2026 are Golden Wishes and My Story Card, new creative spaces developed by artist Yin Lu.
The spaces invite visitors to reimagine their connections and personal stories through visual language. Golden Wishes encourages contributions to a growing installation of personal symbols and stories, while My Story Card gives participants a way to explore identity through art-making.
The creative spaces add a participatory element to the winter program, allowing visitors to move from viewing artworks to making their own visual responses.
Free Entry Keeps The Caboolture Program Accessible
The Caboolture Winter Highlights 2026 program gives visitors several ways to experience art during the cooler months, from the bold and colourful treatment of consumer culture in Excess All Areas to the reflective photography of The Shape of Feeling.
At Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, House of Gold and Yin Lu’s creative spaces extend the program into heritage, identity and personal storytelling.
With free entry and no bookings required, the winter program offers a straightforward cultural visit for Caboolture residents and visitors looking for art that is visual, reflective and interactive.
Published 2-June-2026
Photo Credit: Supplied
Picture: Yin Lu
Photo Caption: Artist Yin Lu and her Yinifity Poker Card series
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