Noosa Regional Gallery, situated on the scenic Noosa River just minutes from the resort town of Noosa in Queensland, Australia, is the venue for an annual exhibition of the Book Arts since 1996. Founded in 1981, the Regional Gallery has continued to promote regional art, but has also played a crucial role in negotiating exhibitions of work by national and international artists.On September 9, 2005, the gallery was transformed! Hundreds of white gloves – like intertwined hands – sat in a basket awaiting visitors for the opening of the Ninth Exhibition – Noosa Book.05 -works of imagination. With a theme of ‘Text as Image as Text’, the exhibition contained 173 entries. Noosa Regional Gallery offers no overall prize so the work is not juried, however, acceptance to this annual exhibition is by preselection only. There were over 200 submissions by 130 artists from as far as Italy, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK and the USA. The exhibition was part of a month of programmes which included family