Program In Focus

Guest Lecture Series

The Guest Lecture Series builds on Gallery Services exhibition program at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and Pinnacles Gallery by taking highprofile, visiting artists into secondary schools in the Townsville Region.

Visiting artists present a guest lecture to senior school students to enhance their knowledge of the Visual Arts and introduce the students to possible career pathways in the arts. During 2013/2014 Gallery Services delivered 14 Guest Lectures to approximately 500 students within the Townsville Region. The students were given an insight into the variations of Visual Art practices and genres, from installation and performance art to the art of games.

The Guest Lecture Series provides inspiration for students to pursue avenues in their own art, especially in their senior years that go beyond the learnings of the classroom into the real ‘artistic’ world, and unique access to some of Australia’s most recognised and celebrated artists - right there in their own classroom.

The following artists have delivered artist talks at Townsville high schools during the 2013/14 financial year as part of the Guest Lecture Series program:

+ Erica Gray – Strand Ephemera 2013

+ Gabi Sturman - Strand Ephemera 2013

+ Bonny Bombach – The Personal and Political: Selected Works 1990-2012

+ Mandy Martin – 58th Townsville Arts Awards and the 2013 Townsville Open Art Awards

+ Chris Bennie – Sense of Place

+ Anna Zammit, Institute of Modern Art – Sense of Place and Greatest Hits Volume 3

+ Dr Laurens Tan – Arena: a Post Boom Beijing

+ JCU Students – Verge

+ Dadang Christanto - Survivor

+ Jo Lankaster and Michelle Hall - Glide

+ Isabel and Alfredo Aquillizan – In-Habit: Project Another Country

Participating Schools

+ Calvary Christian College

+ Kirwan State High School

+ Northern Beaches State High School

+ Pimlico State High School

+ Ryan Catholic College

+ St Anthony’s Catholic College

+ St Margaret Mary’s College

+ St Patrick’s College

+ Thuringowa State High School

+ Townsville Grammar School

+ Townsville State High School

+ William Ross State High School

Schools yet to participate

+ Annandale Christian College

+ Heatley Secondary College

+ Ignatius Park College

+ Shalom Christian College

+ The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James