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PINNACLES GALLERY Pinnacles Gallery
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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Strand Ephemera 2011 Winner Festivals and Events Award Townsville Airport North Queensland Tourism Awards 2012
Brick by Brick Winner Major Festivals and Events Awards Townsville Airport North Queensland Tourism Awards 2014
Strand Ephemera 2013 Winner Best Tourism and Events Communication Award Government Communications Australia Awards for Excellence 2014
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery / Pinnacles Gallery Winner Outstanding Contribution by a Volunteer or Volunteer Group Townsville Airport North Queensland Tourism Awards 2014
Brick by Brick Highly Commended Temporary or Travelling Exhibition Level 2 Award Museum and Galleries National Awards 2014
Screengrab6 Winner Visual Arts Exhibition over $5000 NQ Arts Awards 2015
Cover image: Janne Kearney Fight or Flight [detail]
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Entrant in Percival Portrait Painting Prize 2016
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Seppo Hautaniemi
27 January – 4 March 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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From under the rock This exhibition is from a period of about ten years, encapsulating three series of works. The first series of about eight paintings is themed around the metamorphosis of Castle Hill to a phallic symbol. The second series is a study of colour and shapes to a unknown situation or place. The third and final series is installations of women’s struggle and position in modern society where electronics have given her greater freedom than ever.
Seppo Hautaniemi New Life 2016 Oil on canvas 155 x 145 cm
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Seppo Hautaniemi Long Dry 2016 Oil on canvas 336 x 170 cm, triptych
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Approaching the Master’s Compendium from the perspective of Contemporary Comics 13 February – 11 March 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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Manga Hokusai Manga
By introducing some of the similarities and differences between modern Japanese manga, which now enjoy worldwide popularity, and Hokusai Manga, a collection of sketches by the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), this exhibition sets out to introduce the charms of this unique field of Japanese culture. Focusing on pictorial storytelling and participatory culture of “manga” from different periods, the exhibits include panels, books, videos, and a group of new works by contemporary manga artists. An internationally touring exhibition presented by The Japan Foundation.
Image above: © Shiriagari Kotobuki 2015 © Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints
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Image left: Kazuo Kamimura Kyōjin Kankei/Furious Love, 1973[-74] [detail] © KAZUO KAMIMURA
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Kim Demuth & Henri van Noordenburg 9 February – 18 March 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery
We are continuously reminded by the potential end of humanity (not necessarily the world) as we know it, through various historical events, via the analytical explorations of the environmental sciences and alike. Steven Hawkins has recently adopted “the end is nigh!” placard as now one of his own prophetic views of where we may be heading - “we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity. We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.” Dystopia is a theme particularly popular in contemporary TV series, film and literature. Most voices in 2017 convey that the world feels particularly hostile and ominous at present; the future is potentially grim. In terms of Henri van Noordenburg and Kim Demuth’s former practices to date, they felt it a fitting time to finally fulfil a much anticipated collaboration, that contemplates upon where we and our world may be heading. Social and mainstream media from Queensland illustrated the fear and destruction that Cyclone Debbie recently delivered, reminding us once again of the potential fury nature can unleash upon us. Climate change denial is of little debate these days. However, we are also our own demons in many other ways, responsible for much of our individual demise, with greed, war and destruction never absent from any civilisation throughout history. Demuth and van Noordenburg are immigrants from Europe, a place like many others that holds this history to bare. Both their practices are involved with the notion of memory, its fading presence and the impression it inevitably leaves upon the synapses. Their own ancestors left impressions within van Noordenburg and Demuth’s minds by the tales told from a time gone. These ancestors lived through the worst of history, such as World War 2 and the Iron Curtain, but also the fruitful periods being that of relevant peace and prosperity.
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We build images in our minds mainly from our collective history and of personal times past. We attempt to make some kind of sense of the world by examining it and predicting a way forward with relative harmony, but destiny is repeated in the past as it is in the future. Consider Shakespeare’s final verse of Macbeth’s polemic soliloquy “life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Is it but a succinct, profound comment on the cyclical nature of life, begging the question: when our world has grown so large, and we are so volatile, as is nature, will we survive ourselves? Van Noordenburg and Demuth have attempted to imagine a world without ‘sound and fury’, a silent world held still within the relics of a past gone. But these works linger somewhere in the future, impressions from a time gone not here or now but from somewhere ahead of us. They are both warnings but also celebrations of a quiet calm presence this world has yet to receive, and the savagery it deserves to be cured of. These works are contemplations on a future, absent of ‘us’, one we have faded away from, only leaving archaeological remnants, and impressions of what we once were.
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Nocturnes 41 [detail] 2017
Lageweg 39 [detail] 2014
Sculptural photography
Hand carved ink on Hahnemulhe
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A QAGOMA touring exhibition
9 March – 15 April 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift is the story of a deep commitment to contemporary art and to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Since 2002, Tim Fairfax AC has supported the acquisition of some of the most remarkable works to have entered the Collection. Reflecting this generosity, this touring exhibition presents works by both renowned and emerging artists, from large-scale artworks to intimate photographic works. The donor’s willingness to venture into new collection-building territory, particularly with acquisitions from Africa, South America and the Pacific, is also apparent in the great diversity of works on display. Art helps us to channel, refract, activate and recalibrate our understanding of the familiar, to see the world anew. The human body and human experience of the world is at the centre of all of these works. Together, they allow us to develop a richer perspective on our place in the world, and to participate more fully in the process of shaping what it might become. These artworks invite a multi-layered perspective of the world, asking us to empathise with others. We are invited to move with a ballet of traditional hand gestures in Siva in Motion by Shigeyuki Kihara, and be mesmerised by Robin Rhode’s animation Promenade. Is Michael Parekowhai’s shiny, larger-than-life security guard Kapa Haka (Whero) an imposing or playful figure to be feared or revered? A World View is a fitting tribute to Tim Fairfax AC, whose extraordinary commitment has helped to bring works by leading international artists into our state Collection for Queenslanders to enjoy now, and into the future. Image far left: MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI Ngati Whakarongo New Zealand b. 1968 Kapa Haka (Whero) 2003 Medium Automotive paint on fibreglass Purchased 2009 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery.
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Image immediate left: YVONNE TODD (DESIGNER) New Zealand b.1973 Victorian Tapestry Workshop Australia est.1976 SUE BATTEN (WEAVER) Australia b.1958 AMY CORNALL (WEAVER) Australia b.1982 Alice Bayke 2008 Cotton warp with wool and cotton weft Commissioned 2006 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, and Gina Fairfax through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery.
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A CrossArt Project touring exhibition 16 March - 22 April 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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Bร B-BARRA: Women Printing Culture Bรกbbarra Designs, a contemporary art textile centre in the community of Maningrida, is Aboriginal owned and governed, run by women for women. It is one of a small group of Indigenous textile-producing art centres in Australia that design, print and sew product onsite, in community. Each silk-screened length of fabric is a bold and elegant story/text that tells ancestral stories and of the lives of the Bรกbbarra women: referencing the life of the land and its foods and plants, bush crafts, as well as ancestral stories, or djang / wangarr.
Image immediate left: Left from top down: Deborah Wurrkidj Fish Saratoga Raylene Bonson Pandanus Mats Raylene Bonson Fish Trap Lucy Yarawanga Bawรกliba Image far left: Helen Lanyinwanga My Country (green/pink) [detail] 2 metre silkscreen on linen
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Right from top down: Janet Marawarr Gecko Jennifer Wurrkidj Billabong Weeds Belinda Kernan Bush Flower Janet Marawarr Freshwater Ants
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Glimpses of a Seabird Flying Blind Sculptural art by Hilary Talbot 23 March – 29 April 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery
On an imagined shoreline we see disruptions in the natural world. In the shallows are the ghosts of former shells, fragile and colonized or fossilized by synthetic substances. The Piano Creatures, evolved from the driftwood mechanisms of discarded instruments, pick their way across the sands carrying the promise of music and hope. In the deepest ocean a sightless blob fish sucks for sustenance and in the skies the hollow-boned birds continue their daily feat of survival in newly changing times. The patterns of disruption follow the age-old evolutionary law: diversify, select, adapt. The process is dynamic, relentless, wonderful and dispassionate; and acutely responsive to the footprint of humanity. Using her experience in making puppets and sculptural forms, and interests in new materials and technologies, Hilary Talbot has created some of the inhabitants of this imagined future as a meditation on the tensions and challenges faced by society now. Image left: Hilary Talbot Piano Creature No.6 2010 Piano mechanisms, buckram, paper, cardboard 50 x 50 x 47 cm Image right: Hilary Talbot Turtle Shell Shield (False Promises) [detail] PLA plastic filament, wish stones
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The biennial Percival Portrait Painting Prize is North Queensland’s own portrait competition.
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Percival Portrait Painting Prize 2018 27 April – 15 July 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Having begun in 2007, The Percivals is an open competition for artists. While showcasing the outstanding and innovative work currently being produced by Australian artists, the competition has also given many emerging artists an opportunity to engage with portraiture and share their expressions of themselves and those close to them.
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Lisa Adams
We are the Land [detail] 2015
Revelation 2015
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Winner of Percival Portrait Painting Prize 2016
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Percival Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 4 May – 15 July 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery
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In 2018 the Percival Photographic Portrait Prize returns for the third time since its inaugural display in 2014. This prize was started to coincide with the Percival Portrait Painting Prize and ensure a city-wide celebration of portraiture. The exhibition offers a major $10,000 acquisitive prize.
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Senora Habana Vieja: Portrait of an Old Woman [detail] 2015
Anonymous Couple, Chu Da Vietnam 2016
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Entrant in DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize 2016
Entrant in DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize 2016
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Richard20Dunlop: A Northern Survey July – 9 September 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Brisbane-born Richard Dunlop’s much admired poetic interpretations of the landscape as a living, ever-changing force are exhibited together for the first time in A Northern Survey at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. Themes of psychological shifts associated with seasonal and climatic change are evident in ambitiously-scaled paintings addressing aspects of life relevant to the North - the fecund vegetation, the remnants of iron ore mining, the theatre of a shark catch, depictions of elaborately entangled rainforests in heightened colour, and evidence of tiny rural communities flying over Papua New Guinea. Underscoring each of the works is the artist’s hybridisation of conventional genres, and his abiding interest in the ways in which botanical illustration and science of the nineteenth century has shaped our current views about the exploitation and preservation of our natural resources. Special features of the exhibition include new works - the artist’s first interpretations of the Great Barrier Reef and local rainforests, along with a 3-D animation especially designed for young children. Professor Bernard Smith wrote in 1988 of Dunlop’s work: Dunlop’s work has no real parallel among that of his contemporaries, dealing as it appears to do with the stubbornly unfashionable subject of natural beauty converging subtly with environmental and broader moral concerns. I think his work will survive beyond the current fixation with narcissistic identity politics where some artists opportunistically see a parade coming down the street and jump out in front. If anyone needed reminding of my favourite Yeats quote, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty - it is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know’ .
Richard Dunlop The Cure 2008 Mixed media on cotton rag 200 x 100 cm framed Image right: Richard Dunlop Iron Ore 2 2008
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2018 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards 27 July – 16 September 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery
The Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards has long aimed to increase public exposure to a high standard of pottery from around the nation. A showcase for both well-known and emerging artists, this competition displays the diversity of ceramic art currently being produced in Australia.
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The City of Townsville Art Collection Award of $10,000 continues to provide both opportunity for artists to become a part of one of the nation’s most significant ceramic collections, as well as ensuring the continued growth of this important subsection of the City of Townsville Art Collection.
Image above: Installation shot from the 2016 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards Image right: Jeff Mincham Bush Ballard (Forces of Nature Series) 2015 80.4 x 40 x 24 cm Major Acquisitive Winner of 2016 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards City of Townsville Art Collection
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1 September – 23 September 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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2018 Townsville Young Artist Awards
Townsville is home to a strong contingent of young and emerging artists, practicing in a variety of traditional and digital mediums. These annual exhibitions showcase works by a selection of these artists, with the 2018 Townsville Young Artist Awards offering prize categories for participants aged from pre-school to 18 years.
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Images: Installation photographs of the 2017 Townsville Young Artist Awards
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28 September - 21 October 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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63rd Townsville Art Awards and Townsville Open Art Award 2018
The Townsville Art Society has held an annual or biannual Arts exhibition since the society’s inception, and The Townsville Art Awards is now a major exhibition in the cultural life of the city. Held in Townsville’s Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, this exhibition provides an opportunity for North Queensland artists, who are affiliated with an art society, to display their work in a major gallery and compete for prizes.
Image above: Seppo Hautaniemi Walk on Strand 2017 Highly Comended of the 2017 Townsville Open Art Award
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Image left: Anne Foskett Portrait of a Local Man [detail] 2017 Winner of the 2017 Townsville Open Art Award
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Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art 2018
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29 September – 28 October 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery
29 September – 28 October 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art recognises and promotes excellence in senior visual art education throughout state and non-state schools in Queensland.
ArtNOW is an exhibition of works by senior students from the north Queensland region; delivered as part of Galleries’ Creative Classrooms program.
Image above: Alison Cowan Year 12, Pimlico State High School Lost in Transit 2017 Mixed media installation Winner of the Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Arts 2017 Excellence Award
Image right: Anneka Bullen Year 12, St Margaret Mary’s College Who Am I [detail] 2017 Acrylic on canvas Winner of the ArtNOW 2017 Excellence Award
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Pimlico Campus, TAFE Queensland North
26 October - 18 November 2018 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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TAFE Emerging Artists Exhibition 2018
The annual exhibition by Visual Arts students of TAFE Queensland North’s Townsville Campus showcases the talent of the individual artists emerging from the school, and includes traditional 2D art forms, 3D design, sculpture and new media art such as video and animation.
Image above: Niel Binnie Study for Ogden Street No 2 2017 Oil on paper 15 x 30 cm
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Image left: Exhibition space of the TAFE Emerging Artists Exhibition 2016
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2018 JCU Graduate Exhibition Bachelor of New Media Arts, James Cook University 3 November - 25 November 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery
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2018 James Cook University Graduate Exhibition is an opportunity to showcase the talents of Townsville’s emerging artists as they transition from student artists to professional artists.
Image above: Exhibition space of the 2015 JCU Graduate Exhibition Image right: Exhibition space of the 2016 JCU Graduate Exhibition
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Alison McDonald
16 November 2018 – 20 January 2019 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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Immersed
During this current drought and change in climate, I have been forced to examine my daily water use in every minute aspect; instigating this response with the exhibition Immersed. Immersed will take the viewers through my journey, reflecting our fundamental and essential daily need for water in various forms. It will encompass situations of life living in the dry tropics and will link drought, cooking, gardens, plastic in waterways, a Chinese residency, headaches, a movie and other daily interactions, which we can often take for granted. To express this journey, I will employ unexpected historical and contemporary water containers such as reused; copper hot water services, cooking implements, an artist book and single-use plastics. Each item will be imbued with intricate water patterns using light as a metaphor for water, another necessity that seeps into our everyday life.
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Alison McDonald
Pour [detail] 2017
Beach Shimmer [detail] 2017
Upcycled plastic bottles
Upcycled plastic lids
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An Orange Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition 23 November 2018 – 20 January 2019 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
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CHROMA the Jim Cobb gift
In keeping with his wish that the public should have access to high quality original artworks, renowned paint maker Jim Cobb donated 35 remarkable paintings and two sculptures to Orange Regional Gallery in February 2013. Known as the Chroma Collection – this exhibition includes works by some of Australia’s most celebrated modern and contemporary artists. An Orange Regional Gallery touring exhibition. With support from The Gordon Darling Foundation.
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Elisabeth Cummings
Jim Cobb at factory [detail] 1998
After the wet, Elcho Island 2004
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Ross Manning: Dissonant Rhythms A touring exhibition from the Institute of Modern Art 1 December 2018 – 27 January 2019 | Pinnacles Gallery
Dissonant Rhythms is Brisbane-based artist and musician Ross Manning’s first-ever survey exhibition. Best known for his use of everyday materials, Manning’s exhibition features sculptures that repurpose ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead projectors. Propelled by electricity and their own kinetic forces, Manning’s work engulfs the entirety of the spaces they exist in, capturing viewers in mesmerising experiences with light and sound. Working across experimental music and immersive installations, Manning’s sonic and luminous works have put him at the forefront of national and international art. The national tour of Dissonant Rhythms was organised by Institute of Modern Art (IMA), toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. A travelling exhibition organised by Institute of Modern Art (IMA), toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Federal, State, and Territory Governments. The IMA is a member of Contemporary Art Organisations Australia (CAOA). Ross Manning is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Image left: Ross Manning Endless Sheet 2011 Overhead projectors, car window electric motor, brown paper, and timber. Installation view, Dissonant Rhythms, Institute of Modern Art, 2017. Photography: Louis Lim. Image right: Ross Manning
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Bricks and Blocks 2016 LCD TV, video camera, fluorescent lights, and mirror. Installation view, Dissonant Rhythms, Institute of Modern Art, 2017. Photography: Carl Warner.
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