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COUNTRY, FOR NATION

Pinnacles Gallery

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a long standing tradition of fighting for Country, and continue to serve with honour among our military forces. They have also worked in ancillary, industry, and other homefront activities and their communities have been thrust into the front line of theatres of war. The touring exhibition For Country, For Nation highlights these stories and explores themes of remembrance and tradition through family histories, objects, art, and photographs from across Australia, drawing inspiration from cultural traditions and symbols of warrior’s discipline, knowledge, leadership, and skill.

An Australian War Memorial touring exhibition.

15 FEB - 7 APR 2019

Express Yourself

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Express Yourself is drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s Contemporary Collection and highlights portraits of Australians whose unique life experiences symbolise social and cultural themes. The portraits attest to the facility of photographic portraiture to convey compelling psychological depth. The exhibition will premiere a newly commissioned portrait of Rosie Batty by photographer Nikki Toole. Recognised as a spokesperson for combatting domestic violence, Rosie Batty was awarded Australian of the Year in 2015. Short interviews with sitters and artists complement the portraits displayed.

15 MAR - 28 APR 2019

5 APR - 26 MAY 2019

DONNA BENINGFIELD: MIGRATING SOULS

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Donna Beningfield’s Migrating Souls comprises of over fifty works on slate tiles and canvas, depicting local personalities and one of their many past lives. These past lives include a 500,000 year old hunter-gatherer, a falconer, a fisherman, a knight from the Middle Ages, as well as a range of contemporary personalities.

Pinnacles Gallery

Curated by George Main, Haunting explores the dramatic agricultural history of southern Australia, gently traversing often emotional terrain that’s created at the intersection of technology, history, objects, and place. This exhibition presents a fascinating body of work by Vic McEwan, encompassing photography, video, and text, demonstrating how objects and people can be brought to life, allowing various interpretations of the past, and its ever unfolding consequences on our contemporary world.

A travelling exhibition from the National Museum of Australia and CAD Factory, with support from a Create NSW Regional Fellowship.

contributing directly to the exhibition, a chance to learn from and collaborate with one of Australia’s

CONNIE HOEDT: MICROCOSM TO DELFT BLUE

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Connie Hoedt is one of North Queensland’s most significant and influential potters, specialising in non-functional sculptural fantasy pieces influenced by her Dutch heritage as well as her environment in Far North Queensland. This long over-due retrospective exhibition solidifies her important place in the history and development of Australian ceramics.

Graphic Tendencies

Pinnacles Gallery

Townsville has long been a melting pot of graphic practices, encouraged for many years by artists who were at ease in a variety of media, bringing their unique vision with them. Curated by Jonathan McBurnie, himself an artist fascinated with the visual lexicon of drawing, Graphic Tendencies draws works from the City of Townsville Art Collection. These works all grow from a graphic process, the artists extending the drawing discipline into painting, print, collage and other media.

Many of these works have not been shown in decades, and will be viewed with fresh eyes in this post-digital world where the graphic has become an everyday language.

CHRISTIAN FLYNN: UNFAMILAR THEATRE/UNKNOWN STAGE

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

The landscapes of Unfamiliar Theatre / Unknown Stage are the landscapes of not knowing. They are conversations between opposing painterly forces and capture an engagement with a subject whose form is determined in part by the consciousness by which it is observed. However, this subject looks back and is sensitive to the observer’s preconceptions and it has sway over how it is seen. These paintings are full of contradictions, nonsense, and misinterpretation, and most importantly, play. They are concrete, yet the things they attempt to stand in for are fleeting and ethereal. Unfamiliar Theatre/Unknown Stage is a tangible expression but there is no essence here.