2017 EXHIBITION PROGRAM PINNACLES GALLERY AND
PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY TOWNSVILLE
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Cnr. Flinders and Denham Streets Townsville QLD 4810 Mon - Fri: 10am - 5pm Sat - Sun: 10am - 2pm
(07) 4727 9011 ptrg@townsville.qld.gov.au www.townsville.qld.gov.au PercTuckerTCC
Pinnacles Gallery Riverway Arts Centre 20 Village Blvd Thuringowa Central QLD 4817 Closed Mondays Tues - Fri: 10am - 5pm Sat - Sun: 10am - 5pm
(07) 4773 8871 pinnacles@townsville.qld.gov.au www.townsville.qld.gov.au PinnaclesTCC
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
Image: Tony Albert Brothers (New York Dreaming) 2015 pigment inkjet print with hand embellishment National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 2016. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.
Screengrab6 Winner Visual Arts Exhibition over $5000 NQ Arts Awards 2015
2017 EXHIBITION PROGRAM PINNACLES GALLERY AND
PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY
Picturing Townsville 9 December 2016 - 22 January 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Drawing works from the incredible City of Townsville Art Collection, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery marks Townsville’s celebration of its 150th year with Picturing Townsville, an exhibition of hidden treasures created across those 150 years. Each work captures a moment in time and tells a story of the development of our city, and the issues and events that have shaped our community.
Image above: William Bustard
Image below: William Allom
Castle Hill, Townsville [detail] 1936
Townsville
Watercolour over pencil on paper 35.8 x 45.9 cm irregular Purchased 1995 City of Townsville Art Collection
Da Vinci Machines 13 November - 13 February 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
Image above: Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper (Cenacolo) 1495-1498 tempera on gesso, pitch, and mastic 460 cm Ă— 880 cm Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Image below: Bicycle (Large) Biciletta, Codex Atlantico, F.133v, 175 x 60 x 120 cm
This award-winning interactive exhibition invites everyone with curiosity to delve into the mind of artist, scientist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci and showcases many of his iconic inventions. On loan from the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy, the 60 interactive machines are created from original da Vinci drawings and highlights include the bicycle, the scuba suit, spring powered car, as well as flying machines.
presented by
official drive partner
proudly supported by
Free and Foreign Subjectivity Jordan Grant
16 December - 19 February 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Image above: Jordan Grant Image below: Jordan Grant Painting Photograph Of A Fiction [detail] 2016, for Cascade 2015, oil on linen, 147 x 127 oil and acrylic on canvas, 168 x 148 cm cm, private collection.
Free and Foreign Subjectivity is the debut major solo exhibition of Jordan Grant, and it is with great pleasure that Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is able to present this body of work to the Townsville community.
Indo Pop
Indonesian Art from APT7 3 February – 19 March 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Image above: SAPUTRO (aka Hahan), Uji Handoko Eko, Indonesia b.1983, The Journey 2011, Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Purchased 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA
Image below: SAPUTRO (aka Hahan), Uji Handoko Eko Indonesia b.1983, The New Prophet (from ‘Trinity’ series) 2011, Polyester resin and air brush, ed. ½. / Purchased 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA
Indo Pop: Indonesian Art from APT7 presents a group of artists who were a central feature of QAGoMA’s flagship 2012 exhibition, The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. These works join the state’s pioneering collection of contemporary Indonesian art, and builds on the strong relationship we maintain with one of our closest neighbours.
Awesome Achievers
Stories from Australians of the Year 24 February – 16 April 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Image left: Lorrie Graham Mandawuy Yunupingu 1991 (printed 2011) Gelatin silver photograph Sheet: 50.50 x 40.20 cm Image: 40.10 x 26.80 cm Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Purchased 2011.
Image above: Bill McAuley Cathy Freeman 1994 (printed 2010) Type C photograph Sheet: 35.50 x 49.10 cm Image: 27.50 x 41.00 cm Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Purchased 2010.
An inspiring array of talent, passion and achievement – with many examples of triumph over adversity – is celebrated in this exhibition. Awesome Achievers: Stories from Australians of the Year has been developed specifically as a National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition to regional Australia, with major portraits drawn from the NPG collection and supplemented with works from private and institutional sources.
National Collecting Institutions Touring & Outr each Program
Remember Me
The lost diggers of Vignacourt 24 February - 30 April 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
Image above: Louis Thuillier Two men of the 1st Australian Division, [detai] 1916. Courtesy Kerry Stokes Collection, the Louis and Antoinette Thuillier Collection AWM P10550.041
Image right: Louis Thuillier Band of the 2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion, November 1918. Courtesy Kerry Stokes Collection, the Louis and Antoinette Thuillier Collection AWM P10550.003
During the First World War, the small French town of Vignacourt was always behind the allied front lines. It was used as a staging point, casualty clearing station and recreation area for the troops moving to and from the battlefields on the Somme. For them, it became a home away from home. In February 2011, over 3,000 glass-plate photographic negatives were discovered in the attic of a farmhouse in Vignacourt. They are informal photographs, taken by French couple Louis and Antoinette Thuillier, of allied soldiers, many of them Australian, during their time in Vignacourt.
Resolution
New Indigenous photomedia 24 March - 28 May 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Image above: Danie Mellor Natura naturata (the twenty first century) 2015 C-print on metallic photographic paper 180.0 x 120.0 cm edition of 3
Image right: Ali Gumillya Baker Bound/Unbound Sovereign Acts II Simone Ulalka Tur 2015 pigment inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2016.
This exhibition brings together works from some of Australia’s leading and emerging Indigenous artists made over the last three years. Featuring still photographs made using modern and historical processes, video and multimedia installation, the exhibition provides an experience of contemporary photomedia and indigeneity that is physical, embodied and thought-provoking.
Visions of Australia
National Collecting Institutions Touring & Outr each Program
Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing From Book to Film
5 May – 2 July 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Image above: Still from The Lost Thing Image below: Shaun Tan (2010) © Passion Pictures. Directed by Feeding Time Shaun Tan. acrylic, oils, collage Illustration for the book The Lost Thing.
Based on the best-selling picture book, and Oscar®winning short film, this exhibition explores how Shaun Tan adapted his unique graphic storytelling style into an animated film. Following the book’s sequencing, the exhibition follows the story narrative through film clips, original artwork and objects, production images and interviews.
Strata: Faraway Nearby
Barbara Cheshire and Deborah Cavanagh 2 June – 9 July 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Image below left: Barbara Cheshire Beyond Division [detail] 2016 Artisan Oil on Canvas Size 153 cm x 101 cm
Image below right: Deborah Cavanagh flight [detail] 2016 Acrylic on Canvas Size 153 cm x 101 cm
The collaborative artworks are not simply an illustration of the experience of place. Rather, they are a layering of similar and diverse experiences from and of different places and spaces that bring varied parts of both Barbara and Deborah together to work in concert. Although the sense of a place can be unique, the conception behind each artwork was experienced as more than the sum of parts. Each painting has overarching characteristics from both macro and micro experiences that are identified and described as they understand they are their places and not separate from them.
Australian Exotica an MGA travelling exhibition 16 June – 16 July 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
Image above: Destiny DEACON Being there [detail] 1998 ink-jet print; 55.0 x 81.0 cm Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney)
Image below: Peter DOMBROVSKIS Lake Oberon, Western Arthur Range, south-west Tasmania [detail] 1988 Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the estate of Peter Dombrovskis
In this latest collection show from MGA, we showcase a range of photographic work that engages with the theme of exotic antipodes. For many contemporary artists, this European vision is something that needs to be subverted and critiqued. For others, the idea of living in an eccentric environment continues to inspire a distinctively Australian sense of place.
Teeming with Life
The Wongaloo Project. Pamela Griffith. 14 July – 20 August 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Townsville is blessed by beautiful wetlands. In 2014 artist Pamela Griffith visited Clevedon / Cromarty protected wetlands 30 km South of Townsville. Some of the most extensive water-bird habitat in Australia occurs between Giru and Cleveland Bay. This area, with Wongaloo Regional Park at the core is seen by many thousands of travellers passing along the Bruce Highway that runs beside the Mt Elliot range. This is the subject of Pamela Griffith’s exhibition.
Image above: Pamela Griffith, Feather Map for ANSTO
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home
Contemporary Art from Black Queensland 14 July – 27 August 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
QAGoMA’s largest exhibition of contemporary art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to date. The exhibition examines the strengths of the Gallery’s holdings and explores three central themes — presenting Indigenous views of history (My history), responding to contemporary politics and experiences (My life), and illustrating connections to place (My country).
Image left: Richard BELL Australia b.1953 I didn’t do it 2002 Gravel, glue and synthetic polymer paint on canvas Purchased 2002. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Image above: Christian THOMPSON Australia/United Kingdom b.1978 Black Gum 2 (from ‘Australian Graffiti’ series) 2008 Type C photograph on paper Purchased 2008. The Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Black Mist Burnt Country
22 July - 3 September 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
A national touring exhibition project, which commemorates the 60th anniversary of the British atomic test series at Maralinga. It revisits the events and its location through the artworks by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contemporary artists across the mediums of painting, print-making, sculpture, installation, photography and new media.
EDF Visions of Australia
Image: PAUL OGIER, One Tree [detail], carbon pigment on rag paper, 94 x 117 cm, 2010, copyright: the artist
Strand Ephemera 2017
The North’s Sculpture Festival | Proudly Supported by Glencore 28 July – 6 August 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
Image above: Alison McDonald Shimmer 2015 Winner Strand Ephemera 2015 Photograph: Andrew Rankin
Strand Ephemera is The North’s Sculpture Festival, and began in 2001, becoming a biennial event from that time. A much loved and anticipated festival, it has continued to grow over the years to its current standing as an outdoor sculpture exhibition of state and national significance.
Head in the Clouds Ben Trupperbäumer, June Tupicoff and Ron McBurnie 25 August – 15 October 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
The high altitude tropical cloud forests of the Atherton Tablelands are the focus of an exhibition of new works by Ben Trupperbäumer, Ron McBurnie and June Tupicoff. Each artist has created a body of work that is reflective of their different relationships to that unique landscape.
Image above: Ron McBurnie Breach 2016 ink and oil paint on board 70 x 50 cm
Head in the Clouds aptly highlights the friendship that exists between these three artists and their different approach to rainforest which is at the heart of the exhibition.
62nd Townsville Art Awards and Townsville Open Art Awards 2017 1 September – 24 September 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
The Townsville Art Society has held an annual or biannual Arts exhibition since its inception, and The Townsville Art Society’s Awards Exhibition is now a major exhibition in the cultural life of the City. Held in the City of Townsville’s Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, it provides an opportunity for North Queensland artists, who are affiliated with an Art Society, to display their work in a major gallery and also to compete for prizes.
Image above: Emily Hill A Tropical Collection [detail] 2016, Winner of the 2016 Townsville Open Art Award
Creative Generations Excellence Awards in Visual Arts 2017 9 September – 1 October 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art recognises and promotes excellence in senior visual art education throughout state and nonstate schools in Queensland.
Image above: Prudence Terry Year 11, St Patrick’s College Townsville Double Standard [detail] 2016 Acrylic paint
ARTNOW
9 September – 1 October 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
ArtNOW is an exhibition of works by senior students from the north Queensland region; delivered as part of Gallery services’ Creative Classrooms program.
Image above: Tiana DeZolt Year 12, Ayr State High School Child Soldiers Loss of Innocence [detail] 2016 Acrylic on recycled board panels
Townsville Young Artist Awards 2017
29 September – 22 October 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Townsville is home to a strong contingent of young and emerging artists, practicing in a variety of traditional and digital mediums. The annual exhibitions showcase works by a selection of these artists, with the 2017 Young Artist Awards offering prize categories for participants aged from pre-school- 18 years.
Image above: Installation photo of the Townsville Young Artist Awards 2016
Annual Youth and Emerging Artists Exhibition 2017 29 September – 22 October 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Each year, Gallery Services engages a leading Australian contemporary artist to undertake an intensive workshop for Townsville’s youth and emerging artists. The annual Youth and Emerging Artist Exhibition features the works produced by the participants at these workshops.
Image above: Mini Graff Roadhouse No.14 2011, Acrylic screenprint, 76 x 102 cm, 90gsm litho poster, © 2011 Mini Graff
JCU Graduate Exhibition 2017 Bachelor of New Media Arts, James Cook University 7 October - 19 October 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
James Cook University’s 2017 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 JCU Graduate Exhibition 2016
TAFE Emerging Artists Exhibition 2017 Pimlico Campus, TAFE Queensland North 27 October - 19 November 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery
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: Exhibition space of the TAFE Emerging Artists Exhibition 2016
Dread Sovereign Jonathan McBurnie
3 November 2016 – 28 January 2018 | Pinnacles Gallery Dread Sovereign demonstrates a reconfiguration of the act of drawing in response to digital technologies, culminating in what the artist terms ‘metadrawing.’ Within the exhibition, questions of genre, form and medium are abandoned for an interdisciplinary approach. The internet search engine is adopted into the artist’s toolbox, integrating the countless accessible and disposable images as raw matter for the artist to fossick and sift through. Specific images are selected by McBurnie and reconfigured through studio practice, creating a new imbrication of the raw image matter.
Image left: Jonathan McBurnie Moses I Ain’t (installation view III) [detail] 2014 1000 works on paper, ink, pencil, watercolour, correction fluid and synthetic polymer paint on paper.
Image below: Jonathan McBurnie Dusky Surrender 2015 ink, watercolour and synthetic polymer paint on paper
DRAWN
From the City of Townsville Art Collection 24 November - 21 January 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Image below: Douglas A Green Morotai, Dutch East Indies [detail] 1996, City of Townsville Art Collection