On Now
30 OCTOBER - 17 JANUARY | THE GROVE GALLERY
pARTicipate Miniatures
Local Artist Exhibition and Competition
pARTicipate began as a biennial event in 2011 with the goal to offer local artists the opportunity to exhibit and receive recognition for their work alongside their Southern Downs peers. It provides local artists with a platform to exhibit in a professional gallery setting and acknowledges and awards excellence and contemporary regional stories.
We received 120 entries from artists across the Southern Downs Region for this year’s exhibition!!! It will be an unenviable task for our judges, Suzanne McMaster and Jayde Clacy, to select the winners. Their choices will be announced at the OPENING EVENT on Friday 14 November commencing at 6.00pm.
Thank you to these local sponsors for supporting this exhibition:
Hear4Good Warwick (First Prize Sponsor)
Hede Byrne and Hall Lawyers (Second Prize Sponsor)
Assumption College (Third Prize Sponsor)
Condamine Sports Club (People’s Choice Vote Award Sponsor)
Darling Downs Bank (Encouragement Award Sponsor)
Saturn Electrical (Encouragement Award Sponsor)
Vote for your favourite artwork to win our People's Choice Award
15 JANUARY TO 21 FEBRUARY 2026 | MAIN GALLERY
MESTIZA/MESTIZO MARK KLEINE
Mark Kleine (he/she/they) celebrates the multifaceted nature of identity. Their practice speaks to lived experiences as a mestizo – a person of ‘mixed’ Filipino descent. This is expressed in performance, photography, and video narratives that depict Kleine in a variety of guises.
Kleine’s identity as a mestizo drives their interest in contexts that are liminal, fluid, or ‘in-between’. The stories that Kleine tells express fluidity – characters respond to contexts that can question our static perceptions of them. This involves work that speaks to Kleine’s ‘mixed’ heritage, LGBTQ+ themes, and other experiences that encourage new stories while enriching traditional narratives. Kleine appreciates the importance of evolving perspectives about who we are and our capacity to break away from limiting frameworks.
Mark Kleine was born in Sunnybank, Queensland in 1992. Kleine's mother is an Ilocana from Mindanao in the Philippines while his father is from Leipzig in Germany. In 2013, Kleine graduated with a degree in Fine Arts at the Queensland University of Technology and has since shown in exhibitions locally and overseas. This has included the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea, Performance Space in Sydney, and Shiro Oni Studio in Japan. In 2022, Kleine received a grant from Queensland’s Regional Arts Development Fund to develop their solo exhibition Domina (2022). Kleine lives in Logan City, Queensland and works as a lawyer in Magandjin (Brisbane).
