Strand Ephemera 2007

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery organises Strand Ephemera with the necessary and generous support of the following partners and sponsors. Grateful thanks to:

Principal Partners

Event Partners

Exhibition Supporters

Strand Ephemera is initiated and co-ordinated by Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, owned and operated by Townsville City Council.

Major Sponsors

Media Sponsors

Townsville’s reputation as a vibrant cultural city is based on an impressive array of facilities, events and festivals that we host, and the support and participation of both residents and visitors to our city.

Strand Ephemera, first held in 2001 and then every 2 years since, brings national and international visual arts to the city again this year. Celebrating visual arts and our enviable outdoor lifestyle, over 40 artworks will be positioned along The Strand from 7 - 16 September.

Over the years the event has become a popular festival offering 10 days of innovative art, performances, workshops, lectures and tours.

Organised by Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Strand Ephemera 2007 is supported by the Australia Council, Arts Queensland, local businesses

Strand Ephemera 2007 takes place from 7 - 16 September and is the fourth in Perc Tucker Regional Gallery’s series of biennial outdoor sculpture events.

Beginning in 2001, Strand Ephemera takes contemporary art to the people by placing the artworks along the two kilometre recreational parkway. The numbers of artists participating has increased each year, and in 2007, 49 artists from across Australia and overseas will be involved.

Australia Council funding for the first time will allow for the inclusion of five selected national artists whose work will be sited in shipping container mini-galleries in an Invited Artist Project.

To broaden the exhibition and incorporate diverse elements, the Gallery will also partner:

• Xstrata to present an education program focussed on school children

• Extensions Dance Company to perform during exhibition

• James Cook University to deliver the Public Art Forum

• Wilson Ryan and Grose to present guided tours

• Arts Queensland to support local Queensland artists

Townsville City Council is proud to present Strand Ephemera 2007, enriching your life in our city. Mooney

A major exhibition/event such as this requires the resources of the entire Gallery and a host of partners and sponsors. Thanks to all our sponsors listed on the sponsor honour list. Thanks in particular to Amber Church, the co-ordinator of Strand Ephemera, all Gallery team members and volunteers. Dr Stephen Naylor assisted the event by participating on the selection panel and jointly co-ordinating the forum.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is owned and managed by Townsville City Council, and was supported in this event by sections of Council, including Park Services, Strand Office and Risk Management. Finally, thanks to the artists, without whom there would simply be no event.

Frances Thomson DIRECTOR | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Susan Peters Nampitjin

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Fish Traps

Wood Variable

NFS

This artwork was inspired from stories passed down from my aunty about collecting bush foods and fishing at Lake Gregory in the Tanami Desert. Knowledge of traditional lifestyles of the Walmajarri people led me to create these decorative fish traps.

Vic McEwan

SYDNEY NSW

Hydro-phone

Telephone & water

45 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm

Sometimes, at home, I hide from the phone for days on end.

Sometimes I don’t.

Hydro-phone is a site specific installation which harnesses the power of communication in a completely unexpected way, allowing the viewer to experience their environment from a fresh perspective.

Jan Hynes

TOWNSVILLE QLD

A Room with Four Views

Pine, metal, paint

240 cm x 240 cm x 240 cm

$1 000

A Room with Four Views questions the current practice of building architecturally bland residential ‘boxes’ along Australia’s beautiful coastline. The structure’s colour and dimensions also make reference to the “white cube” discourse in art galleries.

Thierry Auriac BRISBANE QLD

XXXXL

Wood, canvas, corflute, nuts & bolts

165 cm x 140 cm x 120 cm

POA

This artwork addresses the problem of obesity within Australian society. Whatever the reasons, it is not a pretty sight. It is a shame and an irony for a nation so focussed on sport, body image and physical fitness.

BRISBANE QLD

I’m a Widow by Choice

Powder coated steel, barb wire

410 cm x 160 cm x 50 cm

$4 500

This artwork highlights women’s issues. It’s about women having more of a say in decisions affecting them. For example abortion: how would a man know what it’s really like for a woman to abort? That’s women’s business not decisions to be made by men on moral grounds.

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Picnic on the Strand with Lamingtons

Foam blocks, carpet, paint

122 cm x 122 cm x 122 cm

122 cm x 122 cm x 60 cm

POA

This work was inspired by the image of people picnicking and having fun along the Strand in front of the QCWA Holiday Units. An Australian icon and QCWA favourite, lamingtons acquired their name when first served to Lord Lamington, the Governor Queensland.

TOWNSVILLE QLD

The Outrigger Crew

Welded steel

Approx. 180 cm (high) each

$500 each

Outrigger canoeing has become an integral part of the life along the Strand. The Outrigger Crew asks the questions: At what point does a group of individuals become a coherent team? What is lost or gained in this process?

& Sharon Crowe & Anna Mango

TOWNSVILLE QLD Drifter

Driftwood, steel, wire

400 cm x 100 cm x 60 cm

$2 400

Drifter is a whimsical and ironic reference to the exploding population of crocodiles in North Queensland. Drifter indicates the materials of construction, a lifestyle, and the propensity of the crocodile to appear to float and drift like a log of wood.

Sylvia Ditchburn

Graeme Buckley

Steven

Laurie Nilsen

DUBBO NSW

Trusting

Plaster, paint

170 cm x 100 cm

$210

When I was a little girl my mother taught me to float. I can still feel the fear and excitement, and the relief as the dread of drowning gave way to the pleasure of weightlessness.

CAIRNS QLD

Breathe, Spirare

Plastic flotsam & jetsam, salt

120 cm x 240 cm

NFS

Breathe, Spirare explores the earth’s ability to breathe beneath the increasing pile of ‘things’ disposed of in the world. This work also reflects upon the impact materialism has on the self: where the desire for objects has replaced natural experience and personal reflection.

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Stranded Postcards

Iron, steel, wood

150 cm x 90 cm x 190 cm

$800

The Strand is Townsville’s premier attraction and is enjoyed immensely by both locals and visitors. To capture the relaxed feeling of visiting the Strand, Stranded Postcards attempts to ‘freeze frame’ memories from this iconic Townsville location.

JAPAN

The Site of Wishes

Timber, fabrics, thread, paper & metal 250 cm x 500 cm x 800 cm

NFS

This installation will become The Site of Wishes as the people engage and write their wishes and dreams on the pieces of fabric which will blow in the sea breeze. As the wind direction changes so will the direction the wishes are sent.

Isabella Shatte

Jill Chism

Takamiyoshi Fujii

Penelope Volkofsky

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Just a Drop in the ocean

PET bottles, cable ties, sand

180 cm x 150 cm x 150 cm

$1 000

No man can afford to regard his own environmental carelessness and waste as insignificant. When combined, our apathy creates ripples whose effects are far - reaching now and into the future.

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Come and See

Compressed cardboard, paint, gauze, wire

170 cm x 170 cm x 3.5 cm

$100

Come and See invites the viewer to witness the beauty of creation with new eyes and to embrace the world in a gesture of peace and reconciliation. The San Damiano cross references the history and spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi.

Bits

Driftwood, paint, glue, cloth

60 cm x 50 cm x 50 cm

NFS

Bits float on the oceans then wash up on beaches creating ephemeral sculptural structures. These change daily with the elements and our interaction with the environment.

COCONUT GROVE NT

Wreath or Reef

Found & recycled paper, plastic flowers, mixed media

Variable

$700 each

Wreath or Reef endeavours to conceptually unite the coral reef systems of north Queensland and the funeral wreaths of Bali. Both items have a fragility which hinges on environmental conditions. These wreaths remind us of what should not be lost.

Judith Floyd

Janelle Edwards BERRY NSW

Sarah Pirrie

Alison McDonald

Dyasley Tuck

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Bruce Anderson

QUEENBEYAN NSW

Journey

Split bamboo, steel 7000 cm (long)

$4 700

The boat has long been a metaphor for transition from an earthly to a heavenly state. The boat was the vehicle by which, upon death, one was able undertake the final journey to a place the living could not experience.

Human Nature

Sand, rocks, bamboo 1400 cm x 1300 cm x 300 cm

NFS This labyrinth has been created to draw attention to the effect that humans are having on the world and to encourage participants to ponder their world. People need to maintain a critical awareness of their environment by recognising information gained through all senses.

Nameer Davis BRISBANE QLD

Soundstripe

Rolled & folded steel, stainless steel twine, paint 240 cm x 60 cm x 70 cm

$5 750

I want the work to create an aural landscape which resonates the specific environment in which the sculpture is located. The local wind patterns are made audible in the workings of the sculpture; a sound machine translating weather into soundwaves

Madeleine Challender

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Scattering Possibilities

Perspex, resin

Variable

$200 each

Scattering Possibilities is an installation inspired by the process of coral spawning and coral larvae dispersing with the ocean’s movement. The changing natural light creates interplay of art and nature, reinforcing the sense of randomness in the natural world.

Mountford BRISBANE QLD

Nimbus

Styrofoam, paper straws

105 cm (diameter)

$7 000

I am fascinated by the intricate detail and tactile surface patterns found in organic forms. Inspired by wasp nests and coral, I use various textures to recreate the patterns of growth found in nature. Meaning an illuminated halo, Nimbus integrates the organic with the geometric.

Wendy Robertson FREEMANTLE WA

Floral

Sea sponges, wood, fishing line & mesh

100 cmx 60 cm x 50 cm

$1500

I have used sea sponges because they are brittle and fragile when dry, yet robust and almost impenetrable when saturated: they mimic the complexity of the natural world. The chair is a symbol of contemplation and reflection.

Richard Goodwin

S YDNEY NSW

CONTAINERHIZOME

Invited Artists

The dissolution of architecture via transformania.

Casselle

Invited Artists Invited Artists

The Peculiar Resonance of Memories

Pre-loved suitcases, material, objects, canvas, sound, light

The Peculiar Resonance of Memories juxtaposes the suitcase with the traditional icons of the museum to create a work about memory’s provenance and circumstance.

The suitcase evokes associations of travel, displacement, emigration, exile and transience yet, at the same time reminds us of belonging and stability. The idiosyncratic collections of material indicate a relationship between the way organisms organise themselves and the way the brain is able to collect, store and process memories.

The Peculiar Resonance of Memories dramatises the way memory functions through association, leaps, or dislocations and how the most profound of these occurrences can give new insight into our relationship with the world.

Blue Gold

Major investors in water stocks (commonly called Blue Gold by traders) profit from a global water market currently valued at $460 billion dollars. The limited supply of fresh water has made it one of the most valuable commodities in the world today, more valuable than oil.

This work recognizes the rapid shift in the status of water as a scarce resource and a global commodity, raising issues of access to and equitable distribution of this essential resource.

Bonemap: Russell Milledge & Rebecca Youdell

MAREEBA QLD

Craig Walsh

BRISBANE QLD

Invited Artists

Gross Domestic Product

I am interested in the journeys of everyday objects, their dispersal and replication across the imaginary domains of industry, commerce and waste. The domestic utensils that crowd both our kitchens and our recycling bins share with modern shipping containers their compression of utility, ubiquity, standardization and supersession. Together they bear witness to both a history of modernity’s grand dreams and our ancient anxieties about the future.

Richard Gillespie

TOWNSVILLE QLD

This land is your land, this land is my land PVC pipe 3000 cm x 3000 cm

$1 000

I recognise my needs when it comes to art. I require perceptual pleasure and sensuous enjoyment. Humour is good too. I like visual harmony, grace and balance. There are no secrets. you need only know what your eyes, and perhaps the titles, tell you.

MJ Ryan Bennett

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Million Dollar View

Plywood, frame moulding, pine, mild steel plate

Variable $2 340

Million Dollar View is an interactive installation for viewing and capturing the view. Stop for a moment and look through the frame. With each moment that passes the frames capture another view, similar to the one before but always slightly different.

M ELBOURNE VIC

Chanchal Sue Foxen

FERN TREE TAS

Migrant Skins

Eucalyptus bark - Tasmanian Blue Gumeucalyptus regnans, Kelp - macrocystis prifera, Willow - salix alba.

210 cm x 50 cm circumference

$1 500

My work is about connections and journeys, both physical and metaphorical, a bridging between two worlds. This work represents a reconciliation of the landscape that I carry within me and the landscape with which I am surrounded.

Wish Tree

Cloth, Sea Almond Tree Variable

NFS

Wish Tree connects to the magic of nature through simple processes and everyday materials. The act of making this piece, is an act of honouring this magic.

Philippa Herr & Glen Shields

CALCIUM QLD

Tree of Lost Soles

Washing machine tubs, wire, thongs, LED lights, paint

200 cm

$300 for the pair

A lone thong washes up on the beach, but where is its mate? It is a lost sole. People may feel like this at times, washed up and friendless on a foreign shore. yet, somewhere close your soulmate waits to be found.

Marion Gaemers

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Dressing Up for Dinner

Plant material, beach flotsam, beads, seeds, shells, paper, string and wire

Variable

$90 each

This group of palm trees on the Strand look as if they are waiting outside the C bar ready to go to dinner. I made necklaces for these palms from materials I collected from the beach, so they are dressed for dinner.

Janet Gallagher

AYR QLD

Crazy Geckos

Stainless steel, ceramics, glass, china

50 cm x 30 cm

$400 each

Love them, love them not. They are everywhere. The Crazy Geckos are fun outdoor sculptures with a quirky NQ look.

Lord TOWNSVILLE QLD

Ice and Tides Ice

50 cm x 50 cm x 140 cm

NFS

Daily ice sculptures are about the ephemeral nature of our times. They include a praying kangaroo, a Buddha and an ice basket. Intended to address issues of environment and spirituality, the melting ice will be recorded as the sculptures disappear.

Manta Ray Steel

160 cm x 380 cm x 400 cm

$6 600

I hope that people may receive something special from my work, and for that I give. After all art is to enjoy.

Adriaan Vanderlugt PROSERPINE QLD

Fish Scales

Alloy, stainless steel wire, wooden strikers

260 cm x 220 cm x 20 cm

$12 000

Fish Scales is a large scale sculpture that plays at the levels of visual, physical and creative interaction in Art. The artwork reaches its highest potential only when you play music on the scales.

Claudia Williams

Amanda Feher KAIRI QLD

Anne

TOWNSVILLE QLD

A Way to Go

Bamboo, plywood

3500 cm x 100 cm

$600

A Way to Go signpost indicates some, and salutes all, of our Pacific neighbours, many of whom are now losing their legendary seafaring heritage and even their homelands in this era of air travel and rising seas.

Distances supplied by Adella EdwardsCartographic Centre, School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University.

TOWNSVILLE QLD

See Floor

Digital print on aluminium & timber

300 cm x 120 cm x 19 cm

POA

‘Twenty pieces held by the sandpuzzle platform floor corridorpieces of stories east and west waves and sea rise and tilt’

LAUNCESTON TAS

In Water Series - Floating Flowers

Cane, silk, lights, inner tube, corflute

120 cm diameter x 90 cm high

NFS

By means of microscopic observation and macroscopic projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Fibres & Fabrics

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Empty Nest Syndrome

Textiles

Variable

From $50

Our work is meant to convey a celebration of the spare time women have once their children (fledglings) have flown from the nest. Each nest reflects the Fibres and Fabrics members’ time to engage in their own creative pursuits.

Barbara Pierce

Kerry Stelling

Jo Anglesey

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Shell Shadow

Steel, concrete, ceramic, paint

200 cm x 250 cm x 150 cm

$2 100

Shell shadow is a tribute to sea-life and its importance in our environmental sustainability. This sculpture was inspired by walking along the Strand and other Townsville beaches and observing wonderful patterns, life forms and colours of the ocean.

Robert Everingham BRISBANE QLD

Organic Column 1, Organic Column 2

Forged Steel

60 cm x 60 cm x 210 cm

$6 800 per item

The Organic Columns 1 and 2 represent the continuous and intertwined natural forms seen in nature.

TOOGOOLAWAH QLD White Drawings

Copper tube, galvanised mesh, copper wire and spray enamel

115 cm x 700 cm x 40 cm

$5500

Using copper pipe I have made single line ‘drawings’ of five boat shapes, which have then been painted all white. I see them as being like memories that shift and change depending upon how we focus on them.

Maree Edmiston Prior T IN

QLD

Waves

Townsville Beach Sand

500 cm x 400 cm x 15 cm

Waves was developed from the imprints of global brand name shoes in the sand, representing the ecological footprint. Waves shows the dynamics between water and land; the natural patterns of their interaction, a timely reminder of the temporary nature of our coastline.

Elizabeth Poole

Farvardin Daliri

Alison Macdiarmid

TOWNSVILLE QLD

An Inconvenient Truth…

it’s a bit late now Johnny Bamboo, mixed media Variable

POA

The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable, global warming is having an unprecedented effect on our planet. Sea levels could rise by more than six metres as the shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica melts. Each of these poles measures over six metres and that’s alot of water!

Kalven Lloyd-Smith

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Stations of the Spike

Timber, plaster, wire

100 cm x 100 cm x 90 cm

$470 each

Stations of the Spike is a representation of the importance of Queensland Rail and the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to North Queensland. The development throughout the region has helped to bind communities together.

Gabrielle Hegyes

SODWALLS NSW

Sand Circles

Mild steel, fabric, inks, herbs, spices, sand Variable

$1 500 each

We all came to this continent from different cultural backgrounds bringing with us our beliefs, traditions and customs - the things that makes us who we are. The work aims to accentuate our similarities and celebrate our diversity. The installation is re-created everyday with new patterns and colours.

TOWNSVILLE QLD

Prayers for the Sea Shore

Stencil prints on recycled textiles

500 A4 flags

This series of workshops will facilitate a place where members of the Townsville community can engage in art and take a moment outside of their urban lifestyles to appreciate the amazing natural beauty we are surrounded by.

Michelle Hall

Graeme Buckley Outrigger Crew (maquette)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to all the artists involved in Strand Ephemera 2007 and to the enthusiastic volunteers who assisted with all aspects of the exhibition and public program. Within Council, special thanks to Debbie Jimmieson and all at the Strand Office, Ken Armitage and all at Parks, and Troy Greenwood.

Anderson, Bruce

Anglessey, Jo

Auriac, Thierry

Buckley, Graeme

Challender, Madeleine

Chism, Jill

Crowe, Sharon

Crowe, Steve

Daliri, Farvardin

Davis, Nameer

Ditchburn, Sylvia

Edmiston Prior, Maree

Edwards, Janelle

Everingham, Robert

Hegyes, Gabriella

Herr, Philippa

Hynes, Jan

Lloyd-Smith, Kalven

Lord, Anne

Macdiarmid, Alison

Mango, Anna

Marcus, Donna

McDonald, Alison

McEwan, Vic

Milledge, Russell

Mountford, Casselle

Nilsen, Laurie

Peters Nampitjin, Susan

Pierce, Barbara

Pirrie, Sarah

Poole, Elizabeth

Robertson, Wendy

Ryan Bennett, MJ

Shatte, Isabella

Shields, Glen

Stelling, Kerry

Sue Foxen, Chanchal

Frances Thomson

Amber Church

Marg Naylor

Jo Lankester

Jo Terry

Clinton Searston

Renee Joyce

Simone Lee Long

Amy Logovik

Wendy Bainbridge

Kath Cornwall

Mary Gallagher

Fabrics & Fibres

Feher, Amanda

Floyd, Judith

Fox, Chris

Fujii, Takamiyoshi

Gaemers, Marion

Gallagher, Janet

Gillespie, Richard

Goodwin, Richard

Hall, Michelle

Tuck, Dyasley

Vanderlugt, Adriaan

Volkofsky, Penelope

Walsh, Craig

Williams, Claudia

youdell, Rebecca