Strand Ephemera 2017

THE NORTH’S SCULPTURE FESTIVAL 2017

PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY GLENCORE

THE NORTH’S SCULPTURE FESTIVAL 2017

PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY GLENCORE 28 July - 6 August 2017

Publisher

Gallery Services

Gallery Services, Townsville City Council

PO Box 1268

Townsville Queensland, 4810 Australia

ptrg@townsville.qld.gov.au

©Gallery Services, Townsville City Council and the authors 2017

ISBN: 978-0-949461-23-0

Organised by Gallery Services

Judith Jensen Acting Team Manager Galleries and Libraries

Erwin Cruz Exhibitions and Collection Coordinator

Louise Cummins Education and Programs Coordinator

Rob Donaldson Digital Media and Exhibition Design Coordinator

Carly Sheil Digital Media and Exhibition Design Officer

Samuel Smith Digital Media and Exhibition Design Fellow

Sarah Monts Public Art Officer

Leonardo Valero Exhibitions Officer

Jacquelina Jakovljevic Exhibitions Officer

Sarah Reddington Education and Programs Officer

Nicole Richardson Education and Programs Assistant

Wendy Bainbridge Administration Officer

Danielle Berry Arts Officer

Jo Lankester Gallery Assistant

Madisyn Zabel Gallery Assistant

Chloe Lindo Gallery Assistant

Jake Pullyn Gallery Assistant

Contact

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

THE NORTH’S SCULPTURE FESTIVAL 2017

(07) 4727 9011

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www.strandephemera.com.au

CONTENTS

Introduction

Message from the Minister

Message from the Mayor

Foreword

Artworks

Artwork Overview

Artwork Reference Map

Artists and Artwork Information Programs

Education and Schools Overview

Photographic Competition

People's Choice Award Programs Overview Programs Timetable

Fringe Events

Fringe Events Overview

Fringe Event information

Sponsors

Thank you to our Sponsors

MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER THE HON KATE JONES MP

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Strand Ephemera 2017, The North’s Sculpture Festival, one of Queensland’s many great event experiences here in Townsville.

Events like Strand Ephemera 2017, The North’s Sculpture Festival are vital to Queensland’s tourism prosperity, engaging visitors with the locals and the community, and creating memorable experiences.

The Palaszczuk Government is proud to support this event through Tourism and Events Queensland’s Destination Events Program, which helps drive visitors to the destination, increase expenditure, support jobs and foster community pride.

There is a story to tell in every Queensland event and I hope these stories help inspire you to experience more of what this great State has to offer.

Congratulations to the event organisers and all those involved in delivering Strand Ephemera 2017, The North’s Sculpture Festival and I encourage you to take some time to explore the diverse visitor experiences in Townsville.

The Hon Kate Jones MP Minister for Tourism and Major Events

MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR

Townsville City Council is delighted to present Strand Ephemera 2017, the North’s Sculpture Festival by the Sea.

Strand Ephemera is the highlight of the region’s arts calendar and showcases Townsville when the climate and environs are magnificent. The festival is presented biennially and has been enjoyed by thousands of local, national and international visitors since 2001.

Strand Ephemera features our idyllic Strand foreshore as an outdoor gallery of captivating artworks that encourage us to engage with them. This year, Strand Ephemera will be presented from 28 July to 6 August. The exhibition features 31 artworks by local, national and international artists across a range of mediums including hard and soft sculpture, performance and installation works supported by a comprehensive public program of workshops. The artworks explore diverse concepts and invite reflection, enjoyment and sometimes interaction.

Winter is festival time in Townsville with Strand Ephemera coinciding with the internationally renowned Australian Festival of Chamber Music and for the first time, Pop Up North Queensland, a pop-up festival of the arts featuring exhibitions, workshops and performances that will activate empty spaces in the CBD.

Strand Ephemera could not be delivered without the hard work and support of a large number of people. The artists have dedicated their time to create amazing works of art while Townsville City Council’s gallery team and volunteers have worked determinedly to continue the success of the north’s sculptural festival. My sincere thanks to all of the artists, staff and volunteers involved.

I also thank our sponsors, in particular our Major Sponsor Glencore for again supporting this event. These financial and in-kind contributions have enabled Strand Ephemera to grow into a comprehensive festival offering something that will appeal to each of us.

I encourage you to come to Strand Ephemera, interact with the work of these talented artists, performers and musicians and celebrate our exciting cultural life.

Cr Jenny Hill Mayor of Townsville

FOREWORD

As a resident of Townsville, it is exciting for me to see how Strand Ephemera has developed to become celebrated as the North’s Sculpture Festival. This biennial festival on the Strand is delivered in our “winter” - a wonderful time of the year in Townsville. Under clear, brilliant blue skies, with vistas from the Strand across sparkling water to commanding Magnetic Island, Strand Ephemera complements its setting with art alfresco to nourish our cultural being.

Strand Ephemera 2017 hosts the talents of local, national and international artists and performers. This year we have 25 competitive entries vying for the major $10,000 Award for Artistic Excellence while 6 artworks have been invited as non-competitive entries for your enjoyment.

One of these is CLOUD by Canadian artists, Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett. CLOUD is an interactive sculpture that uses social interplay to animate 6000 incandescent light bulbs creating a superb night time art experience.

Scott Wade from the United States, provides us with Dirty Car Art on the foreshore transforming unsightly car wrecks into things of beauty and changing our perception of the ordinary. In addition to the international artists present, we have included three works by nationally recognised artists, Robbie Rowlands, Dancenorth and Daniel Wallwork, as well as The Strand Ephemera Schools Project by local school students.

Along with Strand Ephemera you might like to visit Townsville’s first Pop Up North Queensland festival in the CBD which activates vacant spaces through visual art, performance and workshops. You are also invited to participate in a Public Art Symposium on 31 July at Dancenorth School of Arts Building on the corner of Walker and Stanley Streets in the city. This is a free event covering topics of public art, urbanisation and education by experts and professional artists. Don’t forget Fringe Ephemera at the Village on 30 July, showcasing sculptures by national and local artists in an exciting residential setting. I encourage you to attend and enjoy these events. I thank the organisations involved for their enthusiasm in contributing to the cultural life of Townsville.

Finally I would like to thank all of our sponsors, particularly our Major Sponsor Glencore, for thier generous support and to our volunteers and the artists who have participated in Strand Ephemera since its beginning, thank you for your creativity and commitment to developing the festival into what it is today. I would like to acknowledge other sections of council for their assistance in making Strand Ephemera 2017 successful. The gallery team deserves special recognition for a job well done, you have achieved an amazing exhibition and are to be commended.

Strand Ephemera 2017 is both thought provoking as well as stunning. Enjoy!

Dr Judith Jensen Acting Team Manager Galleries and Libraries

image: The public enjoying the popular Artist's Tour of Strand Ephemera, 2015

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Photograph: Andrew Rankin Entry in the Strand Ephemera 2015 Photographic Competition, depicting Alison McDonald’s Shimmer, winner of the Award for Artistic Excellence

STRAND EPHEMERA 2015 WINNER

The judge for Strand Ephemera 2015, John Walsh, Gallery Manager at the Gold Coast City Gallery, was hard-pressed to choose only one winner for the major $10,000 Award for Artistic Excellence out of the 28 amazing artworks vying for the prize. The award went to local Townsville artist Alison McDonald's sparkling site-specific work, displayed on the main beach.

Walsh, complimented the quality of works on display, saying “the consistent quality of works in Strand Ephemera made the judging process a challenging but very rewarding experience. I was delighted to encounter such a diverse range of approaches to sculpture from fun frivolous forms to serious political statements – all equally engaging.”

McDonald's shimmering, tinkling work, entitled Shimmer, captured the spirit of the lifesavers, and the beautiful light quality upon the waters of Cleveland Bay. The kinetic work is made from thousands of silver disks, which gently move in the breeze. The underside reflects the colours of the lifesavers, an organisation underpinning the safety of Australian beaches.

Providing some insight into his selection, Walsh said, “Alison McDonald’s work Shimmer is a simple concept that is realised with poetic elegance. It is an intervention on the site that adds a level of engagement and interaction that is constantly changing according to its surroundings. Wind, light and the colours of the landscape all play a part to produce a sculpture that resonates. Its subtle song is one that suits its ultimate beauty.”

The wilson/ryan/grose Lawyers People's Choice Award proved very popular, with the winner a fantastic school's program facilitated by artist Ben Trupperbäumer, and including students from St Anthony's Catholic College, Northern Beaches State High School, and St Patrick's College. The artwork, entitled Grand Annual Winter Tour to Anywhere, showcased an eclectic collection of colourful caravans. It celebrated the colour, form and colloborative process for sculptural projects, and tours of the imagination.

Image: Ben Trupperbäumer with students from St Anthony's Catholic College, Northern Beaches State High School, and St Patrick's College. Grand Annual Winter Tour to Anywhere 2015

STRAND EPHEMERA 2017 OVERVIEW

2017 marks the ninth instalment of Strand Ephemera, the North’s Sculpture Festival which is again supported by Glencore.

Staged over 10 amazing days and nights from Friday 28 July to Sunday 6 August 2017 this action-packed festival transforms Townsville’s iconic Strand into a 2.2km exhibition space featuring artworks, events, workshops and performances.

This year 31 artworks will be on display with 25 competitive and 6 commissioned artworks making up the exhibition. The commissioned artworks are an exciting addition to this year’s festival and are marked on the map in pink. Our 25 competitive artworks are marked on the map in black and will be vying for the $10,000 Award for Artistic Excellence. The competing artists are a mix of international, national and local artists presenting unique works which are sure to excite and delight.

Strand Ephemera 2017 sees artists use a wide variety of materials and techniques to explore different topics including technology, community, identity, the environment and the future. These works are sure to elicit a range of responses by visitors from celebration to reflection.

Thanks to wilson/ryan/grose Lawyers every visitor to Strand Ephemera has the opportunity to have their say on a favourite artwork. Visitors can vote on their favourite competitive artwork and the winning artist will receive a $2,000 prize. Viewers are also welcome to enter the Photographic Competition by capturing their favourite Strand Ephemera moment or artwork. Check out page 58 in the catalogue for further details.

Make sure you join in the fun on social media and tag your Strand Ephemera pictures with the hashtag #StrandEphemera #TownsvilleShines #ThisisQueensland

There is plenty to get involved in down on The Strand day or night with twilight tours, artistrun workshops and amazing performances from Dancenorth. There is a comprehensive guide to these programs within this catalogue so make sure you have a close read as these opportunities are not to be missed.

There is so much to see and do in Townsville over this period so make sure that you check out the Fringe Events in the back of this catalogue. You could find yourself at a wonderful Australian Festival of Chamber Music concert or checking out the artists of PUNQ’s inaugural festival of events in the city.

Image Right: Katri PEKRI & Alide ZVOROVSKI AUDITORIUM

6.5 x 300 x 300 cm Porcelain

ARTWORKS OVERVIEW

1 Major Award for Artistic Excellence

31 Artworks

25 Competitive Entries

6 Feature Artworks

3 States

3 Countries

2.2 km of Artistic Escape

ARTWORKS REFERENCE MAP

Refer to fold out map at the front of this catalogue for artwork locations.

Each artwork in this catalogue is marked with its corresponding number on the artworks reference map.

Copies of this map can also be found at the Information Desks along The Strand during Strand Ephemera or in the Townsville Bulletin on Friday the 28th of July.

GARTH JANKOVIC with ANNANDALE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE & WILLIAM ROSS STATE HIGH SCHOOL

Strand Ephemera Schools Project

195 x 1780 cm

Acrylic paint, aerosols

About the Work

Students and teachers from Annandale Christian College and William Ross State High School worked with artist and facilitator Garth Jankovic to produce this work. The students developed imagery to compliment the theme of The Strand. Jankovic introduced students to techniques with acrylics and aerosols to create an artwork almost 18 metres in length.

About the Artists

Secondary students from Annandale Christian College and William Ross State High School worked in collaboration and under the guidance of Garth Jankovic. Jankovic is a local street artist with a background in education. Many of Jankovic’s works are featured in Townsville.

Erica GRAY

Visceral Bodies

45 x 180 x 180 cm

PVC, synthetic material, solar powered LEDs

About the Work

An interpretation of beauty, colour and bio-luminescence that comes from the deep, one that most will never chance to see. This work teases the viewer into a world that is life e.quatic.

About the Artist

Gray's e.quatic series of work is informed by the natural aquatic environment, and the creatures within. She utilises traditional sewing techniques, lighting and other incorporated technologies. The work displays a virtual luminescence, much as the human race embraces technology to enhance man-made accessories and immediate environmental experiences. This meshing is a process and aesthetic that Gray endeavours to mimic within a lot of her works.

Marion GAEMERS & Lynnette GRIFFITHS

Ancyent Marinere …. are those her sails?

450 x 550 x 10 cm

Ghost net, rope, beach rubbish, bamboo

About the Work

As idle as a painted ship. Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water everywhere …

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1834)

Themes in this poem by Coleridge (life, death, nature, seas) are reflected in the ghost net sails.

About the Artists

Marion Gaemers & Lynnette Griffiths work collaboratively using marine debris and nets, creating largescale installations. They exhibited together at the Sydney Biennale and Sculpture by the Sea in 2016, and Ghost Nets of the Ocean, Singapore 2017

Robert CRISPE

Lantis

60 x 450 x 400 cm

Mirrored safety glass, treated pine, projection

About the Work

Lantis came from the artist's imagining of the mythical city of Atlantis. As a narrative, this structure is a ruin from Atlantis washed up on our shore. Reflection can be something dreamy, philosophical and in a positive sense, critical. Atlantis is a utopia; a beautiful city reflecting dreams, hate and criticism onto its citizens to educate its citizens. This reminds the viewer of our digital age, but we are more dystopic than utopic...

About the Artist

Robert Crispe is an Australian filmmaker and photographer with an interest in experimental storytelling. He studied New Media Art at James Cook University, Townsville, and was awarded an ArtStart Grant from the Australian Arts Council. This lead to a brief career as a commercial content director at a London advertising agency, adam&eveDDB, before relocating to DDB Sydney. Now based in Townsville, Crispe is developing a number of projects for filmic and photographic purposes. A recent animation of Crispe’s was exhibited in Cannes Animation Day, Supertoon Festival, and NYC Indie.

Tanya COVENTRY with Bowen State High School

This Heart Within Me Burns

500 x 500 x 400 cm

Driftwood, sea plastic, wire

About the Work

Currently 85 species of pacific seabirds are endangered by plastic digestion. As more and more plastic fills their crops, never to be broken down, they slowly starve.

About the Artists

Tanya Coventry and students from Bowen State High School who are passionate about the environment have created this artwork to raise awareness.

Image: Dancenorth

Tectonic Photography: Amber Haines

DANCENORTH Tectonic 6.

Dancenorth joins forces with the Urab Dancers from Poruma Island for the creation of this bold new collaboration uniting sculpture, movement and sound in a dazzling site-specific performance.

Tectonic is a collective journey, a shared responsibility, toward creating a sustainable future. Together we unravel the oftenimperceptible shifts that surround us day-byday, drawing attention to the accumulative effect of these changes and their potential to disrupt a viable future.

Elemental forces, once predictably linear, are becoming increasingly erratic and volatile... Tectonic resides within these changes.

How do we realign ourselves with the balance of nature in order to leave the earth in a better place than when we found it?

How do we define the framework from which we curate our expectations of the world - and the world’s increasingly urgent expectations of us?

With the Coral Sea and Magnetic Island as the backdrop, and featuring 180 fit balls buried in the sand; Tectonic is unlike any performance you have seen before. Micro-trampolines ignite the performance and the dancers as they run, bounce, flip, soar and ricochet across the stage. The fit balls remain buried for the duration of the festival, providing a large-scale interactive installation for the public. Performances will be held each evening throughout Strand Ephemera, on the sand next to the Strand Rock Pool.

Workshops will also be held during the day within the Tectonic performance space, offering the community opportunities to engage with the artwork.

A further salient feature of Tectonic is our desire to contribute to the preservation of Porumalgal (Poruma Islander) culture, history and heritage. Measuring 1.4km long and 400m wide, Poruma Island is home to 180 residents and is about as close to paradise as you can get. As global sea levels begin to rise, Poruma Island is slowly sinking. The Poruma community has nurtured a deep connection with their natural environment for generations, choosing to live in concert with the world around them. In this time of ever increasing environmental flux, this uniquely synergistic relationship is beginning to come under question.

Underpinning the choreography of this work is an exchange of 360 letters between Poruma Island and Townsville residents, encouraging cultural exchange and the sharing of personal stories about the weather, climate change, and community members’ hopes and dreams. Each participant will receive and write a letter, and copies of these letters will be presented at Strand Ephemera as part of a large sitespecific installation. There is a palpable desire for communities in the Torres Strait to share their story with the mainland, and indeed the world. Tectonic provides a fertile platform for the sharing of culture, custom and tradition through story, song and dance.

All performances and workshops will occur on or near the beach next to the Rock Pool on the Strand.

ROBBIE ROWLANDS

Light falls 7.

450 x 1300 x 300 cm

Repurposed light pole

About the Artwork

The Strand Ephemera commission Light falls features a 20 m stadium light pole sculpturally reformed to fall gracefully across the walkway. Rowlands' precision cuts fragment the pole, disrupting its structural integrity, allowing him to challenge and redefine its form. In a landscape that has experienced the force of nature wreak havoc on the strongest of structures, the outcome here - with its gentle curves - attempts to find a balance revealing an underlying stability. The stadium lights, faintly lit, bring a sense of life to the pole and an optimism, as if it is in a state of rest before it rises to stand above us and continue to light our way.

About the Artist

Robbie Rowlands is a Melbourne based artist whose work explores notions of stability and vulnerability through the manipulation of objects and environments. His repetitious and precise cuts and the resulting distortions reflect the inescapable passing of time that affects everything around us. Through his site-specific arts practice he has explored many diverse buildings and environments such as a retired bus depot, a 1900’s church through to abandoned houses in the suburbs of Detroit, USA.

Katri PEKRI & Alide ZVOROVSKI

AUDITORIUM

6.5 x 300 x 300 cm

Porcelain

About the Work

“

From my village I see as much in the universe as you can see from the earth… So my village is as big as any other land. Because I’m the size of what I see, not the size of my height…"

(VII by Fernando Pessoa’s heteronym Alberto Caeiro)

About the Artists

Emotional Landscapes is an environmental art collaboration between Estonian fine art artist Alide Zvorovski and puppet theatre artist Katri Pekri, who are engaged with environmental art projects within a desire to formulate the correlation between nature and a contemporary way of thinking.

Tom EMMETT

Strangers in the Wind

280 x 240 x 240 cm

Surfboard foam, fibreglass

About the Work

Strangers In The Wind is a work of the ocean tide; constantly flowing, shifting, rising and falling. Often a hidden part of our beach experience, the figures reveal and highlight the beauty of this natural phenomenon.

About the Artist

Tom Emmett is an artist based between Brisbane and Sydney. His work draws on notions of the landscape as a living entity and the Anthropocene.

Carla GOTTGENS Portal

240 x 240 x 40 cm

Foam core acrylic, laminated adhesive vinyl, steel rods

About the Work

You are sitting on a beach, you close your eyes. When you re-open them you are 100 years into the future. What do you see? Portal presents six different views of our world 100 years from now. Each view was created from a survey response and the reactions and thoughts from people all over the globe. Portal is a game designed for visitors to interact with and to move the cubes to make a picture. The portal allows the chosen view to blend into the surrounding landscape. What will we see in 100 years? Roll the dice and play the game to see.

About the Artist

Carla Gottgens is a multi-disciplinary artist working across photography/sculpture/installation and murals. Her work has been commissioned by councils across Australia and she has won awards for her sculptural installations and photography. Gottgens is based in Melbourne.

FIND FRANKLIN!

Have you found Franklin yet?

He is in 10 different locations along The Strand

CAITLIND r.c. BROWN & WAYNE GARRETT CLOUD 11.

500 x 230 x 400 cm

6,000 light bulbs, pull chain switches, electronics, hand bent steel, LED light bulbs

About the Work

CLOUD is an interactive sculpture created from 6,000 incandescent light bulbs. The piece uses pull chain switches and everyday domestic globes, re-imagining their potential to create a collaborative, experiential environment. Viewers can work as a collective to animate “lightning” on the surface of the sculpture. Simple, bright, and playful, CLOUD is a barometer of social interaction, chaos, collaboration, and collective action. On a symbolic level; CLOUD relies on the universal language of environmental imagery – despite cultural differences, rain clouds are understood by people all around the world.

This edition of CLOUD was commissioned by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

About the Artists

Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett are Canadian artists working with artificial light, experimental spaces, and architectural debris. Their public artworks invite participants to share in strange moments, one step beyond everyday experience. Using mass-produced objects to reference cities as an immeasurable quantity of materials and situations, their work provokes a critical shift in perspective. Beautiful, subversive, playful, and radically inclusive, their practice emphasizes transformation above all else.

Brown & Garrett’s work has appeared internationally, most notably at Japan Alps Festival (Japan), Weisman Art Museum (USA), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), Pera Museum (Turkey), and art festivals throughout Europe.

Image:

Caitlind r.c. BROWN & Wayne GARRETT

CLOUD 2013

This edition of CLOUD was commissioned by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art for Art Experiment 2013 (Moscow)

Vanessa STANLEY Your Altered Gaze Returned

280 x 280 x 40 cm

Mirrored acrylic, stainless steel

About the Work

An observatory of multiple convex and concave mirrors collects and manipulates the reactions of people and nature using light, space and time. Play emanates as the returned gaze is altered.

About the Artist

An interdisciplinary visual artist, Stanley aims to reinterpret the hidden, intangible spaces of the environment and scientific research to intrigue and affect viewer's perception through interaction.

Alison McDONALD Making Waves

200 x 1000 x 50 cm

SIM cards, cable ties, steel cables

About the Work

Making Waves utilises thousands of discarded SIM cards joined together to form hexagonal cell-like grids, which then form two elongated waves, (transmit and receive). At night under flash there is an unexpected discovery revealed.

About the Artist

Alison McDonald is a Townsville-based artist who creates artworks that explore and inspire social change by combining her passions of recycling and the environment. She completed a Masters of Art in Public Space at RMIT University in 2011 and holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) from JCU.

Fiona QUIN

Story Chairs… Story Chairs… What Do You Hear?

An Artwork in Four Locations

Various

Mixed Media

About the Work Story Chairs... Story Chairs... What Do You Hear? is an interactive installation artwork that fuses sculpture, visual art, storytelling, and technology. This artwork is a set of four Story Chairs in four separate locations on The Strand. Each Story Chair will share with you a fascinating and interesting story. Come and enjoy looking at, sitting on, listening to, and interacting with the Story Chairs.

About the Artist

Fiona Quin is a local artist, storyteller, teacher, and computer scientist. She enjoys bringing stories to life through mixing art and technology.

MJ RYAN BENNETT Ebb and Flow

Part 1: 85 x 170 x 170 cm

Part 2: 170 x 170 x 170 cm

Steel, stainless steel, fibreglass, cable, plastic, wood

About the Work

Ebb and Flow; a recurrent pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth. This composition looks at the recurring pattern formed when a singular entity joins on mass, just like the waves that are surging into the shore and receding back to the sea. This idea is recreated in the form of a suspended sphere and half-sphere. The half-sphere sits on the grass whilst suspended above is the sphere. The two forms work in unison as one piece; as if the half-sphere once complete would join the other in a continuous cycle.

About the Artist

Born Sydney 1970, MJ studied Applied Art majoring in Gold and Silver Smithing at Monash University, Melbourne. She continued her studies as a design associate within the metal studio at the JamFactory, Adelaide. She has since diversified and gone into public art and participated in five Strand Ephemera exhibitions.

Joy HEYLEN The Crab

168 x 428 x 320 cm

Corten steel, black steel

About the Work

The inspiration for this sculpture was a play on scale - creating a GIANT crab. Utilising Corten as the base orange material with a blend of black steel, which will age and colour naturally in the marine environment. The framework for the crab is built with a skeleton of black steel and skinned in a Corten metal layer of 56 meters and weighing in at 256 kgs for the skin alone, finished in a steampunk look. There is a play on hard metal with a blend of lace metal (laser-cut organic shapes) with hardedge geometric industrial design which creates a feminine and masculine intrigue.

About the Artist

Joy Heylen (born in South Africa) studied Fine Arts and 3D Objects in New Zealand from where she and her family emigrated to Australia. Heylen and her husband Patrick, create works that are a blend of engineered art and have exhibited internationally. They have a workshop in Toowoomba and a studio in Brisbane from where they create works for commercial and architectural companies.

John NESIRKY

Look Again

250 x 280 x 200 cm

Marine plywood, brass and gunmetal fastenings, copper, embossing leather, antique keyholes

About the Work

The twelve sides represent the division of time. The keyholes allow viewing of the internal screen which gives a reverse upended image of where the sculpture is pointed. The connecting disk prevents direct comparison from the keyhole to the forward view. We must step round to Look Again at what is there, hopefully with fresh eyes as we often take for granted our immediate and unique surroundings.

About the Artist

John Nesirky is a Townsville-based boatbuilder and sculptor. Nesirky's sculptures are a result of a lifelong curiosity of form and function; the skeleton of a bird, the strakes of a traditional timber boat, the beautiful fragility disguising a violin's strength and acoustic intensity. Nesirky was born in London and raised in Oxfordshire, where he studied art and started working with wood. His work reflects his training in boatbuilding and musical instrument construction, and he has been working as a shipwright in Townsville for the last 22 years.

DANIEL WALLWORK Earth Fish 18.

230 x 340 x 50 cm

Epoxy-urethane paint, steel, marine ply, plastic car bumpers

About the Work

For centuries man has observed, borrowed and mimicked the intricate yet beautiful forms and designs found in the natural environment. Now it’s nature's turn, borrowing back from industrial design and the urban environment to evolve and develop industrial, mechanised traits and appearances, allowing these new hybrid creatures the ability to blend into, survive and flourish in man-made landscapes and concrete jungles.

Earth Fish, the auto-organic leviathan, has recently emerged from the darkest depths of the Great Barrier Reef. Evolving the ability to ‘swim’ and hunt beyond the sea and up through the rich coastal foreshores of far north Queensland, laying in wait looking for unsuspecting 4-cylinder prey.

About the Artist

Born and raised in Cairns, Daniel Wallwork is a multi-faceted contemporary arts practitioner. With a background in the automotive spraying trade, Wallwork is an artist whose practice is strongly influenced by contemporary car culture and street or graffiti art. Having trained in both fine arts and the automotive industry, he began his career as a practicing artist in 2000 and has exhibited extensively since with his work included in both solo and group exhibitions all over Australia.

Wallwork is one of Cairns most progressive visual artists whose practice is recognisable through the use of high quality automotive paints and materials creating slick, finished works that utilise light and shadow to create tactile forms. His works often playfully explore and celebrate Australia’s iconic automotive culture, its suburban roots and various sub-cultures. More recently, Wallwork has included natural forms found in his tropical suburban environment, including the dynamic insects and birds of far north Queensland.

Daniel Wallwork has been a finalist in a number of art prizes and his work can be found in both public and private collections in Australia. He was a finalist and exhibitor in the 2010, Sculpture by the Sea international public sculpture event at Bondi Beach, Sydney. He has also recently completed a commissioned public artwork project for the Cairns Regional Airport.

SCOTT WADE Dirty Car Art

About the artwork

When does an unsightly dirty car become a thing of beauty? With Dirty Car Art, Wade seeks to transform not only the physical thing, but also the perception of the viewer. The artist wants to take the ordinary, the distasteful, and show its potential to delight. A mobile canvas, a temporary creation in the earth from which our forms spring and to which they return, helps him to understand he’s just passing through this reality, and to enjoy its moments of beauty along the way.

About the Artist

Born in 1959, the son of a U.S. Air Force officer and housewife, Scott Wade spent most of his childhood at the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, CO., where his father taught history and later became the faculty executive. His great childhood included lessons in art, piano and drums, and he played drums in band starting in 5th grade. His father was an amateur cartoonist and would make colouring books for the neighbourhood kids at Christmas-time.

Music and art always held great interest and Wade continued to draw, paint, and play in the band when he moved to Texas in 1973. In high school, Wade won several honours for his drumming, and was awarded the John Philip Sousa Band Award. He was also active in Boy Scouts, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout, and joined his first rock band during his senior year.

Wade attended Texas State University on a partial music scholarship, and then after a year decided he didn’t want to be a band director and transferred majors to explore his other big passion, art. He graduated with a BFA in Commercial Art and spent the next decade playing in various local bands, working parttime jobs, illustrating and designing for various clients, composing and performing music in the university theatre department, and generally exploring his creativity. Today, in addition to Dirty Car Art, Scott holds a full-time position as a Senior GUI Designer for Airstrip, in San Antonio, and still manages to play a few music gigs each month.

Image: Scott Wade

Recreating Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earing

Jan HYNES

Fenced

180 x 300 x 180 cm

Fence palings, timber supports, metal fastenings, found birdcage, feathers, felt

About the Work

Fences can protect what is inside from outside dangers, or they can confine and control what is within.

About the Artist

Townsville's Jan Hynes is better known for painting but enjoys making 3D artwork and has participated in Strand Ephemera since its inception in 2001.

BANANA SPLITS

Yellow Peril - the shape of things to come

100 x 700 x 400 cm

Plastic coated aluminium tubing, plastic coated copper wire, recycled plastic cable casings, fixings

About the Work

An artifact of Queensland culture, Yellow Peril takes the big banana and skins it. Made from recycled cabling of the past, transformed into the public art of today.

About the Artist

Bernadette Boscacci and Sharon Kitching (aka Banana Splits) are interdisciplinary artists (a pair of local banana-benders) with an interest in personal and cultural narratives that reflect their shared history in Townsville and Sydney. Bernadette works across mediums on multiple collaborative and solo projects. Sharon Kitching is a Sydney-based painter whose work is largely figurative. Both like to make work that’s edgy and thought-provoking. In 2017 they are collaborating on works for Strand Ephemera and Bread and Circuses (an exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney in August).

Waterproof closed cell foam, exterior solar powered lights

About the Work

This work encourages us to look at urban sprawl and the direct impact it has on our environment. Weeds are the second biggest threat to our natural environment after land clearing. Although they are attractive, bright and colourful, and larger than life, Urban Blooms represents a thriving non-endemic species which can potentially cause damage to our delicate ecosystem. The work is intended to evoke questions such as; how quickly can they grow? Will they take over our shorelines and prevent native species from taking hold? Will they poison our soils?

About the Artist

India Collins is a contemporary artist and designer, based in far north Queensland. Born in Canada, Collins studied Fine Arts and Art History in Montreal, Quebec. Her work is heavily informed by a strong design aesthetic, creating immersive environments and new spatial platforms. Collins' foray into textiles, painting and design sees a strong interchange between colour, texture and playful narratives.

Cameron RUSHTON

Giant Pacific Octopus

145 x 120 x 120 cm Steel

About the Work

The artwork is a tiny example of the North Pacific Giant Octopus. One of the most intelligent animals in the ocean. Which grow up to 20 feet (6 meters) in their five year lifespan.

About the Artist

Cameron Rushton is a Townsville-based steel artist that specialises in realistic animals.

Pamela Lee BRENNER & Johannes MULJANA

Re-evolution

240 x 400 x 200 cm

Recycled and reclaimed materials: bicycle wheels, rope, PET bottles, PVC pipes, corflute, wood

About the Work

This work has been created to discuss contemporary environmental and energy generation issues. It is a play on the word revolution, suggesting revolving parts, social movement for change.

About the Artists

For over 10 years, Pamela Lee Brenner and Johannes Muljana have worked to design and build installations and experimental artworks combining recycled materials and technology.

John HEARD

They

are Biting Well on Money Today

150 x 150 x 300 cm

Stainless steel

About the Work

This work is nature getting back at humanity exploiting our greed to benefit the angler fish.

About the Artist

John Heard is an artist based in Mt Fox, west of Ingham on 400 acres. Born in Nowra NSW he moved to northern NSW at the age of 17. He has been a resident in the Hinchinbrook district for 23 years and although interested in and experimenting with artworks for a long time, has only recently started to exhibit some of his work. He gathers ideas and look at things, and then comes up with his own spin on the piece he is creating. When he becomes involved with a piece it "tells me what it needs and usually that works ok". His artwork is not intended to be a replica of an actual creature or thing but rather an interpretation of all the elements of those sort of creatures or things, whether real or imagined.

Pimlico State High School

Legacy of Lanterns

180 x 300 x 300 cm

Glazed ceramics, discarded plastic, found objects

About the Work

Legacy of Lanterns is a collaborative sculpture that expresses the fragility of coastal environments, through the use of discarded materials and by making a coastal crustacean the focal point. The oversized soldier crab made of collected plastic and beach findings is surrounded by spheres; mimicking the sand spheres left by burrowing soldier crabs. Each sphere is carved and pierced to emit light as a series of beach lanterns. The lanterns are made by the senior students of Pimlico State High School. Incidentally, the Pimlico School community has collected and saved over 6kgs of plastic from landfill or waterways. Students, like soldier crabs, have worked together to make a difference.

About the Artist

Senior creative art students of Pimlico State High School draw on their combined artistic experience, along with the knowledge and guidance of experienced art teachers.

Sue TILLEY

The Gatherings

Various

Polypropylene packing tape

About the Work

Like animals, humans are drawn to others of their kind, for protection, for comfort, to socialise, and to share. This instinct is the root of 'community', and essential for well-being. Being social animals, we enjoy our public spaces, alongside others, together yet apart. The pleasure found in a shared smile, a nod hello or simply co-existing is immeasurable. These figures are casts of real Townsville people, enjoying our Strand and our glorious weather.

About the Artist

With a passion for travel, culture, community and the environment, Sue Tilley's art generally focuses on these themes. She works in a diverse range of techniques and media including welded steel, assemblage of recycled and natural materials, kiln formed glass and ceramics. The materials in each work relates to the concept of the piece. Tilley's work happily resides in collections in Scotland, Wales, USA and Australia. A milestone is a piece being installed at the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame in June 2012, one of 13 public artworks across Queensland.

Lance SEADON

Billy Carts "Cruzin' The Strand"

60 x 100 x 240 cm each

Steel (new and old), bronze, brass, copper, hardwood, rope

About the Work

Growing up in the 50's - no computers! Billy Carts ruled; cobbled together from whatever could be found. Building these 55 years later is just as exciting as it was then. This is a whimsical look at the Billy Cart era of the artist's childhood, assembled from a shed full of "junk" and other interesting bits! These six unique Billy Carts were inspired by "Mad Max", "Steampunk" and a touch of "Hot Rod" too.

About the Artist

Lance Seadon has exhibited in Strand Ephemera, Swell, Brunswick Nature Sculpture Walk and 2 Bamboo Society of Australia sculpture contests. He received 2 first prizes and 1 People's Choice.

Jane HAWKINS with Rhonda PAYNE & Sally MUNNS

Sand Ephemera

10 x 805 x 690 cm

Polystyrene balls, glue, river sand, steel wire, cable ties, shadecloth, tin

About the Work

A small patch of Sand Ephemera seen at low tide is evidence of a tiny crab's daily ritual. Here, re-invented larger than life and out of context, it is transformed.

About the Artists

Jane Hawkins, Rhonda Payne and Sally Munns each have approximately 25 years' experience teaching visual arts in the secondary and tertiary education sectors. This is the trio's first collaborative installation.

Christopher TROTTER Sonic Bay Beacon

110 x 110 x 150 cm

Recycled objects

About the Work

This floating beacon was once used as a listening device for the detection of underwater marine sounds created by sea life such as dugong and dolphins. It was also quite well documented that these beacons could pick up distant calls of the humpback whales during their migration through the Coral Sea. Sonic beacons were part of a healthy waterways management program used along our coastline up until the late 1960’s.

About the Artist

Since 1990, Christopher Trotter has worked with discarded objects to produce innovative and engaging artworks. His pieces can be both high impact and delicately engaging.

Harriet GEATER-JOHNSON Transient Cabinet

150 x 150 x 60 cm

Slip cast and hand built ceramics, copper, acrylic, wood

About the Work

Hundreds of animals in Australia are at risk of extinction due to loss of habitat, introduced species and environmental change. In this piece flora and fauna, which are both vulnerable and critically endangered, have their last forray. The museum cabinet will serve to show future generations animals which are no longer in existence.

About the Artist

Harriet Geater-Johnson is an art teacher from London, UK, who has been in Australia for 10 years. She is now working as an art teacher in Townsville. Originally she completed a degree in printmaking, but now prefers to work with sculptural forms.

LAWYERS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD

Love Strand Ephemera?

Want to make sure your favourite artwork is recognised?

Make sure you collect a voting slip for this year's wilson/ryan/grose Lawyers People's Choice Award from any of the three Information Desks located on The Strand.

The most popular artwork, as judged by Strand Ephemera visitors, will receive the People’s Choice Award of $2,000, proudly sponsored by wilson/ryan/grose Lawyers.

One lucky voter will win a 12 month membership to Gallery Services, Townsville, effective from January 2018.

Entries should be lodged at the central Strand Ephemera Information Desk (near the Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club) or Perc Tucker Regional Gallery by:

5pm Sunday 6 August, 2017.

Image right:

Winner of the wilson/ryan/grose lawyers

People's Choice Award

Ben Trupperbäumer with students from St Anthony's Catholic College, Northern Beaches State High School, and St Patrick's College.

Grand Annual Winter Tour to Anywhere 2015

Photography by Kobie Johnson

EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS OVERVIEW

Townsville City Council is once again proud to offer all schools in the region the chance to be involved with Strand Ephemera programs. In 2017 more than 2,000 local primary and secondary students will visit the festival and participate in tours, art workshops and artist talks.

There are a wealth of activities for all festival visitors to enjoy from artist-run workshops and tours, to the Public Art Symposium.

Educational resources have also been developed for teachers or parents to conduct self-guided learning adventures of the exhibition. Please feel free to collect one from our friendly staff and volunteers at the Strand Ephemera Information Desks.

Image: Workshop attendance at Strand Ephemera 2015

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

We are calling for visitors to Strand Ephemera 2017 to capture their favourite moments for a chance to win some great prizes.

Categories

• 18 years and older $500

• Under 18 years $250

To enter simply download or submit an entry form from the Strand Ephemera website www.strandephemera.com.au or collect an entry form from one of the Information Desks located on The Strand.

Either submit via the online form, or once you have completed the entry form, send it in with your photographs (a maximum of 5) to ptrg@townsville.qld.gov.au by 5pm Monday 7 August.

ABOUT THE JUDGE: IAN HITCHCOCK

Ian Hitchcock moved to Townsville in 2001 and completed his Bachelor of Photography at Townsville's James Cook University in 2003.

After completing his degree in 2003, Hitchcock was offered a job with Getty Images (the worlds largest photographic agency) in the North Queensland area. During the 13 years Hitchcock has worked as a photographer for Getty Images he has had the honour of covering a range of major sporting competitions such as the NRL and Rugby League World Cup, NBL, Davis Cup Tennis, Super Rugby, AFL, V8 Supercars and numerous international and national cricket matches.

Over the years, media demand for his images has involved subjects ranging from a Guns ‘n Roses concert through to the impact of several tropical cyclones; from Prime Ministers' visits to a tour by Prince William; from the Hughenden Camel Race to major military exercises in North Queensland.

Image opposite:

2015 Strand Ephemera photographic competition entrant, Diane Leakey, showcasing artwork Tree of Light by Andrew Rankin

THE PINK PIANO

It's back again!

Originally included in Strand Ephemera 2009 as an artwork by Jan Hynes, the Pink Piano will be at Strand Ephemera from Friday 28 July until Sunday 6 August for public use.

Members of the public are welcome to use the Pink Piano and fill the air with sweet (or jangly!) music.

As this is an instrument exposed to the elements, the piano is in 'honky-tonk' mode - it’s fun and it’s also the meeting point for individual players or ensembles of other instruments; string, wind or brass can meet at the Pink Piano to play for the public.

With Strand Ephemera again coinciding with the Australian Festival of Chamber Music , also be sure to keep your eyes and ears peeled as you may just be treated to some surprise public performances by one of the world's best musicians (using one of the world's humblest instruments).

To reserve your place in the program or if you require further information, please contact Bronia at bronia99@hotmail.com

When: Friday 28 July - Sunday 6 August, 2017

Where: Pathway between the Pier and Strand ParkThe Strand (look for on-site signage)

Image: Perfomers enjoying the Pink Piano at Strand Ephemera 2015

My Rasa Rekha

About the Artwork:

Piyali Ghosh’s artistic practice is an ongoing investigation of Eastern philosophies, applied through performative aspects of the drawing discipline. Using the repetitive, meditative qualities of markmaking, Ghosh forms gestural layers, in this work representing Rasa Rekha, the physical embodiment of the artist. Each stroke is a marker of time, and the passing of mortal life, the drawing itself the remainder of such performances. Originally performed in the Arabian Sea, Ghosh is recreating My Rasa Rekha for Strand Ephemera, responding to the geography unique to the area.

About the Artist:

With her extensive performance and drawing practice, Piyali Ghosh has exhibited widely in her homeland of India, as well as internationally, notably at Drawing International Brisbane 2015, at Griffith University, and as part of the Cultural Olympiad project, sponsored by the London Arts Council. Most recently, Ghosh was featured in the Kochi Muziris Biennale in Cochin, Kerala, India. Ghosh is also the international artist in residence for Pop Up North Queensland, through Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.

When: Thursday 3 August & Saturday 5 August, 6.30 - 7.30am

Where: The beach between Landsborough Street and Strand Pier

PUBLIC PROGRAMS OVERVIEW

Strand Ephemera 2017 is set to be one of the most exciting and action-packed events in Townsville.

The program features a range of experiences with artist-run workshops, performances and an exciting array of fringe events that are sure to engage and delight festivalgoers young and old.

Workshops – Workshops are programmed every day of the festival at various locations along The Strand. Please refer to the Program Guide on the following pages for times, locations and further information regarding the activities on offer. While all workshops are suitable for both adults and children, all children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian throughout the workshops. The workshops on offer are diverse with Dirty Car Art, clay modeling and watercolour just some of the options.

Guided Tours – Guided tours through the artworks along The Strand are available in the afternoons or evenings. Scheduled times for tours are available on page 70. The highlight tour will be the Artist Tour which will begin at the Rock Pool at 9am on Saturday 29 July and feature talks from many participating artists. Please bring sensible footwear, sun protection and water as the tour will walk the length of The Strand.

Performances and Events – Performances and Events will occur regularly throughout Strand Ephemera. Dancenorth will be performing the wonderful Tectonic showcasing a collaboration between Townsville and Poruma Island dancers and Pop Up North Queensland will be presenting the enthralling performance artwork of Indian artist Piyali Ghosh. These performances along with the Public Art Symposium and the Artist Market are sure to create an action-packed festival.

Fringe Events – Townsville truly comes alive during the festival so take the opportunity to immerse yourself in everything the region has to offer. Please refer to the program guide for dayto-day listings to plan your visit, and read the expanded information about some of these great opportunities in the Fringe Events section at the back of this publication.

Image: Rudy Kistler leads primary school students in a special Strand Ephemera workshop, 2015.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PUBLIC ART SYMPOSIUM

A free event covering topics of public art, urbanization, development opportunities, and education from experienced experts, academics and artists. Speakers include international artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett, academic Dr Cameron McAuliffe and industry professionals Owen Craven and Carolyn Karnovsky from Urban Art Projects. The Public Art Symposium will be followed by a light lunch. Bookings essential, please RSVP to ptrg@townsville.qld.gov.au or (07) 4727 9011

DATE: Monday 31 July

TIME: 9am - 12pm

PLACE: Dancenorth School of Arts Building, Cnr Stanley & Walker St, Townsville.

PECHAKUCHA

Come and be inspired by artists and industry professionals associated with The North’s Sculpture Festival! We have ten amazing presenters sharing their ideas and passions about Strand Ephemera 2017.

DATE: Friday 4 August

TIME: 6.30pm - 9.30pm

PLACE: Dancenorth School of Arts Building, Cnr Stanley & Walker St, Townsville.

COST: $5 entry

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

STRAND EPHEMERA ARTIST MARKET PRESENTED BY RENEGADE MARKETS

Especially for Strand Ephemera 2017, visit this special edition of the well-loved community artisan market. A range of stalls from Townsville’s contemporary creative practitioners will be on display.

DATE: Sunday 30 July

TIME: 8am - 3pm

PLACE: The Pier Headland, near Strand Park, The Strand.

YOUNG CLASSICAL BUSKERS

Strand Ephemera is hosting the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM)’s Young Classical Buskers! See these talented musicians in action at the Gregory Street Amphitheatre.

DATE: Friday 4 August

TIME: from 3.30pm

PLACE: Gregory Street Amphitheatre

MY RASA REKHA

This performance piece by Piyali Ghosh uses the repetitive, meditative qualities of markmaking to represent Rasa Rekha, the physical embodiment of the artist.

DATE: Thursday 3 August & Saturday 5 August

TIME: 6.30am - 7.30am

DANCE

TECTONIC

Dancenorth joins forces with the Urab Dancers from Poruma Island for the creation of this bold new collaboration uniting sculpture, movement and sound in a dazzling sitespecific performance.

DATES: Daily from Saturday 29 July through Friday 4 August

TIME: 6.30pm & 7.30pm each night (plus an additional 4pm performance on Sunday 30 July)

PLAY SESSIONS

Join Dancenorth on the set of their performance work Tectonic for a chance to play and dance on the set.

DATES: Saturday 29 July, Sunday 30 July & Saturday 5 August

TIME: 11.30am - 3pm

TECTONIC SCHOOLS WORKSHOP (PRIMARY SCHOOL)

Primary school students join Dancenorth for a Tectonic-themed dance workshop.

DATE: Monday 31 July

TIME: 11.30am - 12.30pm

TECTONIC SCHOOLS WORKSHOP (SECONDARY SCHOOL)

Secondary school students join Dancenorth for a Tectonic-themed dance workshop.

DATES: Wednesday 2 August & Friday 4 August

TIME: 11.30am - 12.30pm

All performances and workshops will occur on or near the beach next to the Rock Pool on the Strand.

DANCE

PORUMA ISLAND WORKSHOPS

Join the Urab dancers from Poruma Island for a traditional dance workshop.

DATES: Tuesday 1 August & Thursday 3

August

TIME: 11.30am - 12pm

SUNRISE LYCRA LIFESTYLE

Get moving, old school aerobics-style, with Dancenorth. All are welcome and 80’s active wear is encouraged!

DATES: Monday 31 July & Wednesday 2

August

TIME: 6.30am - 8am

All performances and workshops will occur on or near the beach next to the Rock Pool on the Strand.

TOURS

ARTIST TOUR

The artist tour starts at the Rock Pool and includes brief talks at each work along The Strand. Take the full tour or join us along the way.

DATE: Saturday 29 July

TIME: 9am - 12pm

PLACE: Starting at the Rock Pool

TWILIGHT TOUR

Enjoy an informed and interactive guided tour of some of the works presented in Strand Ephemera 2017. Starting centrally, then moving towards The Rockpool.

DATES: Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 July, Friday 4 & Saturday 5 August

TIME: from 6pm

PLACE: Departs Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club toward The Rockpool

GUIDED TOUR (TOWARDS OXLEY ST)

Enjoy an informed and interactive guided tour of some of the works presented in Strand Ephemera 2017. Starting centrally, then moving towards Oxley Street.

DATES: Wednesday 2 & Thursday 3 August

TIME: 4pm

PLACE: Departs Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club toward Oxley Street

GUIDED TOUR (TOWARDS THE ROCKPOOL)

Enjoy an informed and interactive guided tour of some of the works presented in Strand Ephemera 2017. Starting centrally, then moving towards The Rockpool.

DATES: Monday 31 July & Tuesday 1 August

TIME: 4pm

PLACE: Departs Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club toward The Rockpool

WORKSHOPS

DIRTY CAR ART

Create your own ephemeral dirty car artwork in the junkyard with artist Scott Wade.

DATES: Saturday 29 July, Sunday 30 July, Saturday 5 August & Sunday 6 August

TIME: 9am - 3pm

PLACE: The main beach near Strand Park

MJ RYAN BENNETT

Use a variety of mixed media to create a textural art panel to hang up at home.

DATES: Sunday 30 July 11am-1pm, Monday 31

July 3pm-5pm, Tuesday 1 August 3pm-5pm, Friday 4 August 3pm-5pm

PLACE: At her artwork (#15), Strand Pier

CARLA GOTTGENS

Bring your digital camera from home and learn some photography tips and tricks.

DATE: Sunday 30 July

TIME: 11am-1pm

PLACE: At her artwork (#10), near Landsborough St

BANANA SPLITS (BERNADETTE BOSCACCI)

Contribute to a community artwork installation piece.

DATES: Monday 31 July, Wednesday 2 August

TIME: 3pm-5pm

PLACE: Near their artwork (#21), Behind the Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club

WORKSHOPS

FIONA QUIN

Create a triangular piece of weaving that uses natural materials to convey a story.

DATES: Tuesday 1 August 3pm-5pm, Saturday 5 August 11am-1pm, Sunday 6 August 11am-1pm

PLACE: Near her artwork (#14.1), near Strand Park

INDIA COLLINS

Hula Hoop Weaving Workshop.

DATES: Friday 4 August 3-5pm, Sunday 6 August 11am-1pm

PLACE: At her artwork (#22), between Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club & Kennedy St

ERICA GRAY

Create your own sea creatures utilising colourful and felt fabrics.

DATES: Wednesday 2 August, Thursday 3 August

TIME: 3pm-5pm

PLACE: At her artwork (#1), The Rockpool

PAMELA & JOHANNES

Make wind flowers in the form of a pinwheel to take home.

DATES Friday 4 August 3pm-5pm, Sunday 6 August 11am-1pm

PLACE: At their artwork (#24), near Kennedy St

HARRIET GEATER-JOHNSON

Work with clay and learn building techniques to make animal forms.

DATE: Saturday 5 August

TIME: 11am - 1pm

PLACE: At her artwork (#31), near Oxley St

JAN HYNES (CHILDREN)

Use mixed media to fashion a fantasy fence to keep out monsters or protect treasures.

DATE: Thursday 3 August

TIME: 3pm-5pm

PLACE: At her artwork (#20), near Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club

WORKSHOPS

JAN HYNES (ADULT)

Express what “fences” mean to you through prose, poetry, collage, paint and modelling clay.

DATE: Saturday 5 August

TIME: 11am-1pm

PLACE: At her artwork (#20), near Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club

WATERCOLOUR POSTCARDS

Join local artists to paint your own postcard from Strand Ephemera 2017.

DATES: Every day Monday 31 July through Sunday 6 August

TIME: 2pm-3pm each day

PLACE: Various, look for us between Landsborough and Kennedy Streets or ask at one of our Information Desks.

PUBLIC ART SYMPOSIUM

Strand Ephemera delves deeper into the possibilities, benefits, triumphs and challenges of public art through the Public Art Symposium.

Presented in the main theatre of the heritage-listed Dancenorth School of Arts Building, the Public Art Symposium has become a staple for visitors to Strand Ephemera seeking a deeper understanding of the underpinning values of the festival.

The event features leading minds in public art with backgrounds in public art curation and project management, creating interactive artworks for the public realm, and the interplay between street art and creative cities.

Speakers of this quality and level of experience present a unique opportunity for local artists, planners and arts enthusiasts to tap into their wealth of knowledge in the field of public art and urban design.

Please continue reading for more about this year's Public Art Symposium speakers.

When: Monday 31 July, 9am-12pm

Where: Dancenorth School of Arts Building, Corner of Stanley and Walker St, Townsville City

URBAN ART PROJECTS

OWEN CRAVEN ASSOCIATE | UAP STUDIO CURATOR

Craven has worked in the visual arts industry for more than a decade, developing a mixture of curatorial and artist project management experience. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Art History and Theory) from the University of Sydney.

Image above:

Ned Kahn

Turbulent Line 2012

Brisbane Domestic Airport Carpark

Brisbane, Australia

Originally from Sydney and now Melbourne-based, Craven has led the vision and implementation of several strategy projects in NSW, Victoria and the ACT.

Immediately prior to joining UAP, Craven was the Editor of Artist Profile and Art Almanac magazines. In these roles, Craven led numerous initiatives for both emerging and established artists to create and present their work.

Craven has curated several significant group exhibitions that have toured both nationally and internationally and most recently, has curated Antipodean Inquiry (2016), an exhibition of leading Australian and New Zealand artists at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore.

Having worked closely with artists as they create work in response to specific projects and places, Craven understands working through the creative process collaboratively and how to help artists realise their creative vision.

CAROLYN KARNOVSKY ASSOCIATE | STUDIO

Karnovsky joined the UAP team in 2016, bringing 8 years of art consultancy experience from her time at not-for-profit cultural organisation FORM, based in Western Australia.

Karnovsky led the development of FORM’s Art Consultancy division, specialising in the brokering and management of creative strategy and public art projects.

Karnovsky’s particular skills are in client visioning, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, creative facilitation, mentoring and community engagement.

Karnovsky has collaborated with major developers, a range of government agencies, leading architecture firms and a host of creative talent from Australia and overseas.

During her time at FORM Karnovsky led the development and delivery of Land.Mark.Art; a public art professional development model aimed at diversifying skills and income streams for Aboriginal artists.

Karnovsky holds a Bachelor of Art in Product Design from Curtin University of Technology, Perth.

CLOUD

CAITLIND r.c BROWN & WAYNE GARRETT

Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett are Canadian artists working with artificial light, experimental spaces, and architectural debris. Their public artworks invite participants to share in strange moments, one step beyond everyday experience. Using massproduced objects to reference cities as an immeasurable quantity of materials and situations, their work provokes a critical shift in perspective. Beautiful, subversive, playful, and radically inclusive, their practice emphasizes transformation above all else.

Brown & Garrett’s work has appeared internationally, most notably at Japan Alps Festival (Japan), Weisman Art Museum (USA), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), Pera Museum (Turkey), and art festivals throughout Europe.

Image above:

Caitlind r.c. BROWN & Wayne GARRETT

CLOUD 2013

(CLOUD at the Lights in Jerusalem Festival, Israel)

This edition of CLOUD was commissioned by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art for Art Experiment 2013 (Moscow)

CAMERON McAULIFFE

Cameron McAuliffe is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology and part of the Geography and Urban Studies academic group. Prior to this position, Cameron was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Cultural Research (2007-2010).

McAuliffe is an urban, social and cultural geography specialist and a member of the Urban Research Program, where his research engages with the regulation of difference and the way cities govern ‘marginal’ bodies. His research includes projects on the negotiation of national and religious identities among Iranian migrant communities; policy research on graffiti management; and, the geographies of kerbside waste.

Image:

Leans

Mother Earth 2017

Ogden Street

McAuliffe’s specific interests include: transnationalism and diaspora studies; multiculturalism and the politics of difference; legal graffiti and street art; urban creative economies and the creative city; representation and visual methodologies; public space and disorder; subcultural studies; more-than-human geographies; geographies of religion; and, moral geographies.

McAuliffe’s published research includes articles in the journals Urban Studies, Global Networks and Journal of Urban Affairs, along with local government reports that have informed policy development. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Arts (Human Geography) and Engineering (Chemical) as well as a PhD in Human Geography, all from the University of Sydney.

FRINGE EVENTS

In 2017, Strand Ephemera will again promote a series of Fringe Events that coincide with the festival.

These events, organised and delivered by hardworking and talented Townsville artists and arts organisations, are supported through inclusion in Strand Ephemera publications and crosspromotion throughout the festival.

These events complement Strand Ephemera’s program, build on public engagement and further develop mutually-supportive arts relationships within the Townsville region. Most significantly, they paint a true picture of the vibrant arts and creative community of Townsville and the host of possibilities for locals and visitors alike.

A special edition of Townsville's PechaKucha event will focus on artists and industry professionals associated with Strand Ephemera, and is sure to give an interesting insight into the festival for visitors.

Strand Ephemera is proud to again support Fringe Ephemera at The Village which will offer five more amazing artworks to admire during Strand Ephemera, as well as a host of programs to complement the exhibition.

Once more coinciding with the North's Sculpture Festival, is the nationally recognised Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM), offering visitors a range of musical events throughout the city during the festival period.

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts will also present Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ) showcasing the talents of local Townsville artists and offering visitors a range of activities and exhibitions.

Landmark exhibitions are also on show in Townsville's regional gallery venues, with Pinnacles Gallery displaying Black Mist Burnt Country; and Perc Tucker Regional Gallery showing Teeming with Life: the Wongaloo Project and My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Queensland.

While in Townsville for Strand Ephemera, be sure to check out all the region has to offer.

Just the place to experience Australia’s best live events

What is it that makes Queensland’s calendar of fabulous festivals so unbeatable?

McDonald’s Townsville Running Festival

6 Aug

Rugby League World Cup - Pool Matches

28 Oct & 5 Nov SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week

31 Aug – 6 Sep

Perhaps it’s the balmy, year round warm weather. It could be the world-class entertainment precincts, performance lawns and state-of-the-art venues. Maybe it’s the eclectic mix of local and international acts who flock to perform here. From food to flowers, ballet to blues, Queensland’s festival scene has all your favourites covered. queensland.com/events

Iron Cowboy

Ephemera

Fringe Ephemera at The Village

Fringe Ephemera

Masterplan

Sunday 30th July

Sunday 30th July From 1pm

To further celebrate Strand Ephemera, The Village is once again proud to be showcasing the work of nationally acclaimed artists at Fringe Ephemera at The Village. The exhibition will be on display from Friday 28 JulySunday 6 August 2017 with various workshops during the exhibition.

To further celebrate Strand Ephemera, The Village is once again proud to be showcasing the work of nationally acclaimed artists at Fringe Ephemera at The Village.

To further celebrate Strand Ephemera, The Village is once again proud to be showcasing the work of nationally acclaimed artists at Fringe Ephemera at The Village.

To further celebrate Strand Ephemera, The Village is once again proud to be showcasing the work of nationally acclaimed artists at Fringe Ephemera at The Village.

The exhibition will be on display from Friday 28 JulySunday 6 August 2017 with various workshops during the exhibition.

The exhibition will be on display from Friday 28 JulySunday 6 August 2017 with various workshops during the exhibition.

The exhibition will be on display from Friday 28 JulySunday 6 August 2017 with various workshops during the exhibition.

Everyone is invited to join The Village and the participating artists at a special launch event. Activities at the event include workshops, live music, food, drinks and your opportunity to vote for the Peoples Choice Award!

Everyone is invited to join The Village and the participating artists at a special launch event. Activities at the event include workshops, live music, food, drinks and your opportunity to vote for the Peoples Choice Award!

Everyone is invited to join The Village and the participating artists at a special launch event. Activities at the event include workshops, live music, food, drinks and your opportunity to vote for the Peoples Choice Award!

When - 1pm Sunday 30 July

When - 1pm Sunday 30 July

When - 1pm Sunday 30 July

Where - Wes Barratt Memorial Park The Village, Oonoonba

Where - Wes Barratt Memorial Park The Village, Oonoonba

Where - Wes Barratt Memorial Park The Village, Oonoonba

Everyone is invited to join The Village and the participating artists at a special launch event. Activities at the event include workshops, live music, food, drinks and your opportunity to vote for the Fringe Ephemera Favourite Award!

Special participation by Railway Estate State School guided by Virgina Hurst and Oonoonba State School guided by Fiona Banner.

Special participation by Railway Estate State School guided by Virgina Hurst and Oonoonba State School guided by Fiona Banner.

When - 1pm Sunday 30 July

Where - Wes Barrett Memorial Park

Special participation by Railway Estate State School guided by Virgina Hurst and Oonoonba State School guided by Fiona Banner.

The Village, Oonoonba

Artist’s - Mimi Dunnett, Marcia Bird, Sylvia Ditchburn, Toni Rogers and Adriaan Vanderlugt

Artist’s - Mimi Dunnett, Marcia Bird, Sylvia Ditchburn, Toni Rogers and Adriaan Vanderlugt

Artist’s - Mimi Dunnett, Marcia Bird, Sylvia Ditchburn, Toni Rogers and Adriaan Vanderlugt

Special participation by Railway Estate State School guided by Virginia Hurst and Oonoonba State School guided by Fiona Banner.

Artists - Marcia Bird, Mimi Dennett, Sylvia Ditchburn, Toni Rogers and Adriaan Vanderlugt

Image Marcia BIRD Ant-icipation

THE VILLAGE

It’s easy to feel right at home in a beautiful community like The Village. No wonder those who have already settled there would overwhelmingly recommend the move. Along the meandering Ross River, surrounded by nature, parks and greenery, it’s a lifestyle second to none.

Located just 3.5km from the CBD, being so close to work, schools and the centre of town makes life a breeze and gives you so much more time to enjoy everything The Village has to offer…like the 1.6km of riverfront pathways and the one-hectare park equipped with BBQ, picnic shelters and play equipment.

The Village is proud to offer a wide range of home designs and land only options that cater to your individual and family needs. Working with a variety of leading Townsville builders, The Village is focused on delivering modern, sophisticated homes that suit all lifestyles.

This masterfully designed estate will deliver an ecologically sustainable residential community that incorporates established trees, embraces the river and includes a network of open parks that will link the existing river front access from Fairfield Waters to the Abbott Street pedestrian cycle bridge.

On completion, The Village will deliver over 1,000 homes and feature a mixed-use precinct that will facilitate a combination of retail and community space.

To find out more about how you can live riverside, cityside at The Village, visit us at Riveredge Boulevard, Oonoonba or call 1300 650 689.

Visit

The Farm Revisited

Adriaan VANDERLUGT

Three Pelicans Fishing

Toni ROGERS

They came in tall ships from other lands

Mimi DENNETT

Measuring the Sky

Images clockwise from top left Sylvia DITCHBURN

PUNQ

Pop-Up North Queensland is an exciting new festival, taking place throughout various locations in the Townsville CBD. Designed to occupy empty spaces and breathe new life in the city with creative activity, PUNQ is proud to present forty pop-ups over ten days with exhibitions, apparel, music, workshops, performance, puppetry, pottery and heaps more! Spread across locations on Flinders Street, Stokes Street, Denham Street and Flinders Lane, PUNQ offers something for everyone.

PUNQ is proudly presented by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts and has been made possible with funds from a Catalyst Grant, provided by the Ministry for the Arts, administered by the Australia Council for the Arts.

Go to https://www.umbrella.org.au/punq/ for dates, times, profiles and more details!

When: Friday 28 July - Sunday 6 August

Where: Various Locations in the Townsville CBD Townsville City.

Extraordinary Sounds Forecast

As the world’s best perform in Townsville

The internationally acclaimed Australian Festival of Chamber Music presents a world class program of concerts, conversations and masterclasses to be performed by the world’s best chamber musicians from July 28 to August 5.

With over 30 concerts and special events to choose from, including morning Concert Conversations, late afternoon and evening concerts, a beach concert on Orpheus Island and a free concert in Queens Gardens, the Festival delivers something for everyone, from beginners to chamber music devotees.

Chamber Music Australian Festival of

A line-up of 42 musicians will perform at the event, including 13 from overseas and four making their Australian debut. It is the way the musicians combine to create world exclusive performances that makes AFCM so special on a world scale.

Ticket prices from $25 - $89

Visit afcm.com.au or call TicketShop on 4727 9797

Australia Festival of Chamber Music

Festival Highlights

James Cook University Opening Night ConcertBeginnings, Friday 28 July, 7.30pm, Townsville Civic Theatre – features international artist debuts and world premiere pieces. Not to be missed!

Currajong House Garden Party, Saturday 29 July, 2.30pm, Townsville Heritage Centre – a delightful outdoor event of traditional afternoon tea, lawn games and music.

Queens Gardens FREE Concert, Sunday 30 July, 3.00pm – bring your picnic and the family for a fun afternoon of music in the park, incudes local groups 1RAR Band and Barrier Reef Orchestra.

TOWNSVILLE

28/07 — 05/08/2

Bach by Candlelight 1 & 2, Wednesday 2 August, 5pm & 7.30pm, Townsville Civic Theatre – world renowned artists, beautiful music and atmosphere combine to make these two concerts hugely popular.

Don’t miss your chance to see the world’s finest chamber musicians perform in Townsville. Enjoy world premieres and exclusive performances in 30 concerts over 9 days. There’s something for everyone including one hour sunset concerts, evening concerts, a Families’ concert and a free concert in Queens Gardens.

AFCM Families’ Concert - Brundibar, Saturday 5 August, 1.00pm, Townsville Civic Theatre – an entertaining Children’s Opera about hope and justice.

Townsville, North Queensland

Friday 28 July to Saturday 5 August

Image opposite:

Photographer: Andrew Rankin

BOOK NOW. TICKETS $25 — $89

Festival Farewell Concert - Final Jamboree, Saturday 5 August, 7.30pm, Townsville Civic Theatre – a celebration for all the artists that performed over the 9 days, plus a special send-off for outgoing Artistic Director Piers Lane.

VISIT AFCM.COM.AU OR CALL 4727 9797

ARTIST MARKET

Renegade market presents the Strand Ephemera Artist Market. You will find an assortment of arts, crafts and the very best of local creative talent, both emerging and established. Meet the artists as you wander through the market stalls and find a piece of Townsville talent.

When: Sunday 30 July 8am - 3pm

Where: The Pier Headland, near Strand Park, The Strand.

PECHAKUCHA

PechaKucha is a simple presentaion format where presenters show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically to which the speakers refer during their presentations.

This year, PechaKucha will feature a special edition for Strand Ephemera, with local artists and creative industry professionals including a selection of artists exhibiting in Strand Ephemera 2017.

When: August 04, 2017 6:30pm - 9:30pm $5 Entry

Where: Dancenorth School of Arts Building, Corner of Stanley and Walker St, Townsville City

Visitors checking out the unique handmade crafts available at Renegade Markets

image:

Teeming with Life The Wongaloo Project

Pamela Griffith

14 July - 20 August

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

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. Wide expanses of shallow sedge swamps lie sheltered from Bowling Green Bay to the North East by heavily vegetated beach ridges. Salt pans fringed with mangroves and marine plains covered with salt-tolerant herbs and grasses separate the sedge swamps from the tidal influence of coastal streams to the north and south. Fresh water areas on the northern and western portions of the swamp are covered almost entirely by dense bright green stands of bulkuru sedge.

These merge into tall coarse dark beds of club rushes that dominate the brackish water areas on the seaward side and fringe a long serpentine channel that follows the steep slopes of Mount Elliot. 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.

Spotted Bower Bird [detail] 2015

Pamela Griffith

Oil on canvas

91.5 x 75.5 cm

Blah Blah Blah and Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

invite you to:

Black Mist Burnt Country Testing the Bomb, Maralinga and Australian Art

Pinnacles Gallery | 22 July - 3 September 2017

Exhibition Launch

6.30pm Friday 22 July 2017

to be officially opened by Blah Blah Blah

Floor Talk

10.30am Saturday 23 July 2017

Black Mist Burnt Country is 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.

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College of Blah, Blah and Blah Blah Blah University

Image: Paul OGIER, One Tree [detail] 2010, carbon pigment on rag paper 94 x 117 cm

Copyright: the artist

MARCH 2016

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The works in the exhibition collectively span a period of seven decades, from the first atomic test in Hiroshima and the post-WW II era, through the times of anti-nuclear protest in the 1980s to the present day. The exhibitioncommenced in September 2016 and is touring nationally to public galleries and museums across five states in 2017 and 2018.

15 July- 27 August 2017 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

'My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Queensland' examines strengths within the Queensland Art Gallery Collection and recognises three main areas as central themes: presenting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander versions of history, responding to contemporary politics and experiences, and illustrating connections to place. In the exhibition these themes are expressed as the visual chapters 'My History', 'My Life' and 'My Country'.

From paintings and sculptures about ancestral epicentres, to photographs and videos that interrogate and challenge the established history of Australia, to artworks responding to political and social situations that affect all Australians today, the thread that binds the disparate artists in the exhibition together is their collective desire to share experiences and tell stories that inform their contemporary identities.

Image:

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

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

Strand Ephemera is organised and funded by Gallery Services, Townsville City Council, with the generous support of numerous sponsors, supporters and partners who enable the delivery of specific prizes and components of the exhibition.

This additional support enables Gallery Services to go beyond its base level and provide an exhibition that delights the general public and attracts visitors to the region.

Gallery Services and Townsville City Council wish to thank all of the Strand Ephemera sponsors, supporters and partners for their invaluable contributions.

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SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

Gallery Services, Townsville City Council develops and delivers a dynamic program of exhibitions, programs, events, and educational activities across its two regional gallery spaces, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and Pinnacles Gallery, as well as in the public realm. Such projects in recent times include Country & Western, a touring show which was enjoyed by over 85,000 visitors in 8 venues across Australia; extensive public art and street art commissions; and the Creative Classrooms program that has engaged thousands of primary and secondary schools in the Townsville region in the past 12 months.

During Strand Ephemera, Gallery Services' tireless team of volunteers will not only be providing helpful information about the festival, but also seeking your feedback about our work in the community.

As we continue to seek to improve our service to the people of Townsville, and to innovate in our program delivery, your thoughts are invaluable in shaping our future planning.

To capture your thoughts, surveys will be available from all three Information Desks along The Strand.

Please help us to continue to deliver for Townsvilletell us what you think.

GALLERY SERVICES

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is located in one of Townsville’s finest heritage buildings, on the corner of Denham and Flinders Streets, in the city centre. The Gallery has a ground floor and first floor level with seven exhibition spaces.

On display are works by north Queensland artists as well as national and international touring exhibitions.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Cnr. Flinders and Denham Streets

Townsville QLD 4810

Mon - Fri: 10am - 5pm

Sat - Sun: 10am - 2pm

(07) 4727 9011

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Pinnacles Gallery opened in March 1996 as part of the Thuringowa Library and Council complex. The Gallery provided a space for the display of a diversity of art, social history and educational exhibitions to serve the needs of Thuringowa’s residents and visitors at the time. Pinnacles Gallery moved in 2006 to a purpose-built gallery within the Riverway Arts Centre – the only purpose-built gallery in Townsville.

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

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