SPONSOR’S MESSAGE

It is with great pleasure that Glencore is once again partnering with Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and Townsville City Council to deliver the Glencore Percival Portrait Painting Prize – one of the nation’s leading portrait prizes, and an undoubted highlight in northern Australia’s arts and cultural calendar.

Our organisation has been the major sponsor of this biennial exhibition through the Glencore Community Program North Queensland since 2008. In that time the exhibition has gone from strength to strength, with the community embracing The Percivals as their own.

Through hard work and the enduring passion of the artists, the exhibition has grown from humble beginnings to become a revered competition offering a $40,000 acquisitive prize.

The positive impacts for our region engendered by the exhibition are many; positioning Townsville as a leading arts and cultural regional centre, raising the profile of our artists, attracting works by nationally and internationally regarded artists to our doorstep, generating cultural tourism, and of course helping to build the City of Townsville Art Collection through one significant acquisition.