2017 Exhibition Calendar Jan-Dec

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Cnr. Flinders and Denham Streets

Townsville QLD 4810

Mon - Fri: 10am - 5pm

Sat - Sun: 10am - 2pm

Pinnacles Gallery

Riverway Arts Centre 20 Village Blvd

Thuringowa Central QLD 4817

Closed Mondays

Tues - Fri: 10am - 5pm Sat - Sun: 10am - 5pm

(07) 4727 9011

ptrg@townsville.qld.gov.au

www.townsville.qld.gov.au

PercTuckerTCC

Strand Ephemera 2011

Winner

Festivals and Events Award

Townsville Airport

North Queensland Tourism Awards 2012

Strand Ephemera 2013 Winner

Best Tourism and Events

Communication Award

Government Communications Australia Awards for Excellence 2014

Brick by Brick

Highly Commended Temporary or Travelling Exhibition

Level 2 Award

Museum and Galleries National Awards 2014

(07) 4773 8871

pinnacles@townsville.qld.gov.au

www.townsville.qld.gov.au

PinnaclesTCC

Brick by Brick Winner

Major Festivals and Events Awards

Townsville Airport North Queensland Tourism Awards 2014

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery / Pinnacles Gallery Winner

Outstanding Contribution by a Volunteer or Volunteer Group

Townsville Airport North Queensland Tourism Awards 2014

Screengrab6 Winner Visual Arts Exhibition over $5000 NQ Arts Awards 2015

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.

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.

Castle Hill, Townsville [detail] 1936

Watercolour over pencil on paper

35.8 x 45.9 cm irregular

Purchased 1995

City of Townsville Art Collection

Image above: William Bustard

Image below: William Allom Townsville

Da Vinci Machines

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.

Image above: Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper (Cenacolo) 1495-1498 tempera on gesso, pitch, and mastic 460 cm × 880 cm Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Image below: Bicycle (Large) Biciletta, Codex Atlantico, F.133v, 175 x 60 x 120 cm

proudly supported by official drive partner

presented by

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.

Image above: Jordan Grant

Photograph Of A Fiction [detail] 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas, 168 x 148 cm

Image below: Jordan Grant Painting for Cascade 2015, oil on linen, 147 x 127 cm, private collection.

3 February – 19 March 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

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.

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

Awesome Achievers

Stories from Australians of the Year

24 February – 16 April 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Yunupingu 1991 (printed 2011)

Gelatin

Sheet: 50.50 x 40.20 cm

Image: 40.10 x 26.80 cm

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Purchased 2011.

Cathy

Type C photograph

Sheet: 35.50 x 49.10 cm

Image: 27.50 x 41.00 cm

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Purchased 2010.

Image left: Lorrie Graham Mandawuy

silver photograph

Image above: Bill McAuley

Freeman 1994 (printed 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.

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

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

Ali Gumillya Baker Bound/Unbound Sovereign Acts II Simone Ulalka Tur 2015 pigment inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2016.

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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.

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.

Image above: Still from The Lost Thing (2010) © Passion Pictures. Directed by Shaun Tan.

Image below: Shaun Tan Feeding Time acrylic, oils, collage Illustration for the book The Lost Thing.

Strata: Faraway Nearby

2 June – 9 July 2017 | Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Barbara Cheshire and Deborah Cavanagh

Beyond Division [detail] 2016

Artisan Oil on Canvas

Size 153 cm x 101 cm

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.

Image below left: Barbara Cheshire

Image below right: Deborah Cavanagh flight [detail] 2016

16 June – 16 July 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery

[detail] 1998

1988

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.

Image above: Destiny DEACON Being there

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]

Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the estate of Peter Dombrovskis

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.

Image: PAUL OGIER, One Tree [detail], carbon pigment on rag paper, 94 x 117 cm, 2010, copyright: the artist

Visions of Australia

Strand Ephemera 2017

The North’s Sculpture Festival | Proudly Supported by Glencore 28 July – 6 August 2017 | Pinnacles Gallery

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.

Image above: Alison McDonald

Shimmer 2015

Winner Strand Ephemera 2015

Photograph: Andrew Rankin

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.

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.

Image above: Ron McBurnie Breach 2016 ink and oil paint on board 70 x 50 cm

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

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.

ArtNOW is an exhibition of works by senior students from the north Queensland region; delivered as part of Gallery services’ Creative Classrooms program.

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Image above: Tiana

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.

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.

(installation view III) [detail] 2014

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paper, ink,

Image left: Jonathan McBurnie Moses I Ain’t

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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

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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