"The Burnie Regional Art Gallery, opened in 1978, features a small but strong holding of drawings, prints, photos, watercolors and gouache paintings by such leading Australian names as Bea Maddock, Sidney Nolan and Brett Whiteley. Nodding to the local timber and pulp industries, the emphasis is clearly on works on paper; the gallery founded the Burnie Print Prize to support Tasmanian talent and the art of printmaking, and it hosts an annual wearable-paper competition."