The Gallery two major exhibition spaces - Banana Shed and Carriage Room - change every month. The Signal Room houses our Members exhibition and the 3D Artist of the month. 

This year is the Gallery's 25 Anniversary, so watch this space to see what events we are hosting this year.

Exhibitions

BANANA SHED

​Montana

JO ELLIS | 1 December – 28 January

Jo’s exhibition consists mainly of ink works, focusing on mountainous abstracted landscapes, from the familiar Mt Cooroora to further afield and imaged.

Montane (mountain) ecosystems exist as part of the beautiful Noosa Hinterland landscape.
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Jo’s exhibition is motivated by her belief that “the survival of the flora and fauna can be improved through the ways we interact with the mountains – ensuring we reduce the spread of weeds, gentle appreciation of the trails over and around the mountains, education regarding the importance of the habitat or just the opportunity for quiet reflection in the shadow of these outcrops."

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CARRIAGE ROOM

Landscapes of Memory

JASON WHITEMAN & TRISH MENZIES | 10 January – 4 February

Jason Whiteman and Trish Menzies share a love of landscape painting, largely inspired by their respective travel journeys over the years, in Australia and overseas. 
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Both originally from New Zealand (which inspires a lot of Trish’s work), both Trish and Jason strive to inspire in the viewer the same emotive experience a landscape or seascape brought to each of them at the particular locations.  Jason’s work is often inspired by a period living on the Mornington Peninsula (Vic).“Each painting becomes a record of that memory – not a photo realistic representation, but an impressionist essence of the emotional response that the sense of a place can bring,”  Trish says. Jason and Trish are both active members of the Tinbeerwah Art Group, and shared Jason’s studio in the 2025 Noosa Open Studios art trail.Landscapes of Memory is their first (shared) exhibition at Pomona Railway Station Gallery, and Trish’s second exhibition there following her successful Essences of Landscape exhibit.

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THE SIGNAL ROOM

3D Artist of the Month

TONI MARIE BIELBY | January

Toni Marie Bielby's specialty is making sculptures of people's precious pooches.
 
Over the past 35 years, she has beautifully captured other animals and birds as well.  However,  at 17 and while still at school she created a sculpture of her Dad's chihuahua (that had recently passed away) as his Christmas present.  Immortalising in clay people's departed or older dogs she says is quite an emotional journey, where she experiences a love/hate relationship with the clay to get the truest likeness in the sculpture.  
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Toni Marie has recently exhibited  at the Institute of Art, Brisbane, and in a bird exhibition at Logal Regional Art Gallery.

Workshops

Emerging Artists Workshop

In conjunction with our 25th Anniversary and Local Emerging Art Prize, we're hosting an Emerging Artist workshop with Amber Creswell Bell.

BOOK YOUR SEAT

This is a fabulous opportunity for emerging artists to gain insights about how the sometimes mysterious art world works. 
 
Amber Creswell Bell is recognised for championing and educating emerging and unrepresented artists.

With a passion for art,  she is an author of books on the arts, a lifestyle writer, a
public speaker, an artist mentor and an enthusiastic creative hustler. 

In 2021 Amber established the National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP) in collaboration with Michael Reid.  She has been curator of the NEAP since its inception.an art curator,
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She was the Director of Emerging Art for Michael Reid galleries, curating both the emerging art and ceramics programs from 2019-2025.

Workshop Details
Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time:  9.30am - 12.30pm
Venue:  Majestic Theatre, 3 Factory St, Pomona, QLD, 4568
​Cost:  $80

​The Agenda
Topics covered will include:
1. THE GALLERY ROUTE, 
2. THE NON-GALLERY ROUTE - WORKING INDEPENDENTLY
3. RED FLAGS TO KEEP AN EYE ON
4. WHAT IS “CLOUT” - AND HOW DO YOU GET IT?
5. SOCIAL MEDIA
6. ART PRIZES
7. ART FAIRS
8. GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT, covering  ARTIST STATEMENT, ARTIST BIOs, CVs and PORTFOLIOS
9. THE MYSTERIOUS SCIENCE OF SETTING YOUR PRICES

BOOK YOUR SEAT

25th Anniversary

Emerging
​Artists Prize

We are bursting with excitement about our planned Emerging Artist Prize as the cornerstone event of our 25th Anniversary Celebrations this year.  

Details about this exciting initiative will be updated in each monthly newsletter.  ​

The committee has now secured more than $4000 in cash and other prizes to offer to three awardees in the Prize - Overall Winner, Encouragement Award and People's Choice.  

We're fortunate that Michael Brennan, Noosa Regional Art Gallery Director, and Pam Miller, Local artist and educator, have agreed to judge the entries. 
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As a key purpose of the Pomona Gallery is to foster local, early and emerging artists through its membership and exhibition spaces, this art prize will continue to support the local art community.

​Key Dates
Entries open: 2 May 2026
Entries close: 27 June 2026
Finalists Exhibition opens: 29 August 2026
Official opening and prizes announced: 5 September 2026

Eligibility

• Artists must reside within a 50km radius of Pomona, Queensland. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists are strongly encouraged to apply. 
• If you are under 18 years old, please obtain permission from your parents/guardians.​

• Artists are not required to be current Gallery members to enter this prize, although it is appreciated.
• You are not a current serving Pomona Gallery Committee member.
• Emerging artists are those not represented by a major commercial gallery. Artists who have exhibited casually with smaller commercial galleries may still b eligible. If you have exhibited regularly with commercial galleries, please list them in your application.
• Final eligibility as an emerging artist is at the discretion of the selection panel.
• Entries are limited to 2-dimensional works only, with a maximum length of 80cm in any direction.(maximum of 2 pieces can be submitted).
• Artwork must have been created in the last 2 years.
• Entries are limited to 2, and each must be accompanied by high-quality photographs.
• All pieces must be available for sale (a Gallery Commission of 30% applies)
• Finalists will be selected for the prize exhibition, and the selection panel will choose the prize winners from the finalists.
• The finalists and prize winners will be notified by email.
• The entry fee is $25 per entry.