Making Place
A New Reality for the Art Experience
Visitors and locals are invited to step inside the worlds of five Chinchilla artists. Bring art to life as you explore Chinchilla Cultural Precinct and its surrounding landscapes.
Making Place Chinchilla is an interactive and sonic Augmented Reality experience that showcases curated works by five local artists. More than an immersive simulation, each artist offers a unique perspective on what it means to make a life and make art in their making place - Chinchilla!

Download the free Making Place app to experience art beyond gallery walls. Share with friends and family anywhere from Chinchilla to Nannup, straight from your pocket!
Western Downs Regional Council is delighted to have collaborated with Catalyst VR and artists Helen Dennis, Regina Hyland, Kristen Flynn, Dion Cross and Seth Gerke. Following the success of the10 Artists project (2020, 2022 and 2023), this project showcases further works from these artists.
Helen Dennis
Through her art Dennis seeks to narrate the story of rural Australia in a contemporary context. Regional Australian colours are featured in compositions created from multidimensional images and perspectives, integrating to create her unique perspective of the country. A strong signature of her work is a minute attention to detail.
Regina Hyland
Hyland is an Australian artist living and working on the Western Downs, Queensland. Painting dominates her arts practice; her work imbued with themes exploring flora and fauna iconic to the place she calls home.
Kristen Flynn
Flynn’s practice is rooted in self-discovery through the layering and intertwining of images. Flynn wants her work to stimulate thoughts and feelings of transcendence - a moving between worlds, whilst taunting the boundaries of beauty and ugliness, life and death, growth and decay, and future and memory.
Dion Cross
Cross is a steel sculptor based in Chinchilla. He draws inspiration from rural Australian landscapes and old things. His sculptures showcase discarded items with new meaning and character, preserving and building upon the stories they hold.
Seth Gerke
Gerke documents and exploits evolving natural landscapes through time-lapse photography, videography, orchestral compositions and meticulously captured still images. His relentless passion to present evolving turbulent structures, fuels Gerke’s respect for the domination of uncontrollable meteorological conditions and his almighty God.
The program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
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