[1] Located on the corner of Flinders and Denham streets, the Gallery has a collection of over 2,000 artworks and hosts touring national and international exhibits.

Included in regular activities are art classes, exhibition tours, artists' talks, lectures, workshops, and performances.

The Gallery also collects art made elsewhere which is seen as being relevant to ideas of cultural construction, spatial history and the identification of place.

Each Ephemera so far has been an exhibition of between twenty and thirty-four artworks, being displayed for ten to twelve days each odd year.

[7] Yotz Watergrill and Bar Art Prize of $2,000 was awarded to Gavin Ryan for his 'Behold the Lyin' fish'.

Inspired by Manet's oil canvas painting 'Le déjeuner sur l'herbe', a new event called 'Picnic on the Grass' encouraged visitors to "bring their picnic lunch and rug" to Burke Street headland for live performances and music.

Visitors could vote for their favourite artwork to win the 'Walter's IGA People's Choice Award', and enter their own photos of their works into the Strand Ephemera Photographic Competition.

[11] Strand Ephemera VI in 2011 opened on Friday 2 September with an event attended by over 200 people; there were thirty-six works and 70,000 visitors to the eleven-day exhibition.

[5] Live components included the 'Strand aLive' performance, daily Zen raking at Helena Rador-Gibson's Zen Ephemera,[12] and scheduled performances by 'The Lettuce Dance Band' and 'The Pink Ladies' on Jan Hynes' Strand Ephemera V artwork Pink Piano.

That same year, visitors were encouraged to take photos of the artwork in Strand Ephemera VI and enter them into the Wilson/Ryan/Grose Lawyers Photographic Competition.

On top the usual Council responsibilities of roads, drains, sewerage and water-reticulation his administration's achievements included; second stage of the Ross River Dam, the design and construction of the Townsville Civic Theatre, the development of Flinders Mall and the planning for the gallery which was to become commonly known as 'Perc Tucker' to future generations of Townsvillians.