Art in Libraries - Legends of Caboolture: Scratching the surface

Next date: Thursday, 26 March 2026 | 08:00 AM to Tuesday, 31 March 2026 | 06:00 PM

Albany Creek Library displays artworks by Tracey Lockly in the exhibition Legends of Caboolture: Scratching the surface.

Tracey lives and practices in Caboolture, recording the lives and presences of its people through acts of listening, care, and solidarity.

Her practice centres marginalised voices, valuing everyday labour, intimacy, and survival as sites of knowledge. Working against histories of silence and exclusion, she creates records that resist dispossession and forgetting.

As gentrification reshapes the suburb, she said her work becomes an act of witnessing—holding space for stories, bodies, and relationships at risk of erasure, and insisting that local lives matter, persist, and deserve to be seen on their own terms.

"I love working in graphite," Tracey said. "For most of us, our first act of recording was with a pencil in hand. Not everyone has painted in oils, but everyone has held a pencil.

"It’s a humble yet powerful thing: A piece of nature, forged into an instrument that can express every thought, dream, or desire we have."

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Albany Creek Library, 16 Ferguson Street, Albany Creek, 4035, View map