Gold Coast
Underground Festival returns June 2024
The Underground Festival hosted by HOTA returns to the Gold Coast in early June.
Aesthetics, happiness and social cohesion: celebrating art’s most important values
Everybody NOW!’s 2023 production ‘Roller Coaster’ had measurable benefits in terms of social wellbeing, empowerment and connection, a new report…
Exhibition review: Donna Marcus, Radiate, HOTA
An exhibition that reflects the integral role women have played in feeding the growth of Australia as a nation since…
Sneaker boom: from grassroots to billion-dollar industry
HOTA’s latest international exhibition ‘Sneakers Unboxed’ details the influential people and iconic kicks behind the sneaker boom.
Q&A: Susi Muddiman on her move from Tweed to HOTA
After 16 years at the helm of Tweed Regional Gallery, the gallery director heads to the glitz of the Gold…
Theatre show tackles the tricky subject of consent education
The award-winning Aotearoa New Zealand production YES YES YES is undertaking an Australian tour as consent education is mandated in…
Twenty-year strong sculpture festival builds connections for intergenerational audiences
Co-Founder and Artistic Director Natasha Edwards shares insights from seeing SWELL Sculpture Festival grow and evolve over the last two…
How to stage a festival in a city with no CBD
The Gold Coast is a city with no identifiable CBD, so how does its unique geography impact the annual BLEACH*…
A spectacle of immersive and experimental ideas, in HOTA's intimate spaces
HOTA’s Underground 2023 festival will entertain and tantalise, with narratives daring and subversive.
When is a traumatised community ready for art?
Creative recovery is not only about art-making in disaster-impacted communities, but also the duty of care towards artists in this…