Ray Crooke “Waterfall” (detail) 2002 | Private Collection, Cairns
Our Story
The Double R Arts Foundation supports creative excellence and innovative projects that celebrate and promote artistic excellence that benefit communities and artists of Far North Queensland.
Photo: Blueclick Photography
Our Partners
In the first instance the Double R Arts Foundation directs its support to the Cairns Art Gallery to expand its reach and grow its national reputation for innovative programs that celebrate Far North Queensland and its unique place in the Asia Pacific region and world’s tropic zone.
Opening event, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein at Cairns Art Gallery
Photo: Blueclick Photography
Our Shared Vision
The partnership between the Cairns Art Gallery and the Double R Arts Foundation that began in 2023 is unique. It is based on shared visions and goals and an enduring passion to enrich people’s lives through experiencing the power and wonderment of art.
Our Projects
2024|2025
In 2024|2025 the Double R Arts Foundation’s financial support enables 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.
