Heather Wunjarra Koowootha “The Salty Sea Eggs” (detail) 2024 | Private Collection, Cairns
Our Story
The Double R Arts Foundation supports inspiration through art and celebrates aspirational outcomes and vision.
Segar Passi “Stima kor kor” 2012 | Cairns Art Gallery Collection. Purchased 2012
Our Partners
The Double R Arts Foundation supports Far North Queensland artists and their artistic explorations, excellence and diversity, showcased through public outcomes.
In the first instance, public exhibitions by artists supported by the Foundation have been presented at the Cairns Art Gallery, furthering its national reputation for presenting exhibitions that celebrate Far North Queensland art and artists and their place in the Asia Pacific region and the world’s tropic zone.
Opening event “Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein” exhibition, Cairns Art Gallery, 2023
Our Shared Vision
In 2023, the Cairns Art Gallery and the Double R Arts Foundation began a unique partnership based on shared visions and goals. These included a belief in the power and wonderment of art, and its ability to enrich peoples’ lives and lived experiences in Far North Queensland.
Heather Wunjarra Koowootha, “Traditional women’s building materials” (detail) 2015 | Commissioned Cairns Regional Gallery
Our Projects
2026|2027
In 2026|2027 the Double R Arts Foundation has financially supported Erica Muriata to undertake research of historical collections of cultural material of the Girramay people of Far North Queensland, resulting in an exhibition of new works in 2027. The Foundation is also financially supporting public programs and a publication to support an exhibition of collaborative works by three Cairns-based artists, Barbara Dover, Julie Poulsen and Jennifer Vlamadre, at the Cairns Art Gallery in late 2026.
2024|2025
In 2024|2025 the Double R Arts Foundation’s financial support enabled technical training for artist Maljah Cathy Snow to take images from her works on paper into repeat designs for digital printing on textiles, and travel for Christopher Bassi to undertake research in Cairns and the Torres Strait Islands for a new series of works for exhibition in 2025.
2023|2024
In 2023|2024 the Double R Arts Foundation financially supported two Far North Queensland Indigenous artists, Heather Koowootha and Jason Wegger, to secure studio spaces in which to create new works for exhibitions at the Cairns Art Gallery.
