28/08/2014Under the Mango Tree exhibition
A Clothes-line Exhibition of unframed watercolour paintings by the Townsville Watercolour Group 10 am to 4pm Saturday 4and Sunday 5October, at M’osart Gallery, 14 Anderson Street Railway Estate With the Mango Winds comes that other Townsville institution, the Townsville Watercolour Group’s annual ‘Under the Mango Tree,’ This exhibition offers over 350 works by some of Townsville’s best known, award winning water-colourists. Exhibitors include Debbie Belcastro, Julie Boyd, Helen Caldwell, Val Claussen, Gai Copeman, Sally Grattidge, Jenny Hyatt, Annette Ireland, Kerry Kelly, Geoff Maidens, Pat Nelson, Marion O’shea and Jan Whebel. Come and enjoy this stunning open- air exhibition in the garden surrounds of M’osart Gallery. Chat and share a cup of tea with the artists. Select a painting and take it home. Works are unframed so you can frame them to suit your décor and style. Here is an opportunity to purchase unique Christmas gifts for friends and family, locally…
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21/08/2014Family Fun Day & Public Artwork Launch
Official unveiling of public artwork by Marion Gaemers at newly developed suburb “The Village” on Saturday 30 August 9.30am. All welcome.
06/05/2014Umbrella Touring Exhibition: Mabo Kara Art
The solo exhibition by Gail Mabo, Mabo Kara Art, in Torres Strait Island creole language means Mabo My Art, will open on 11, June 2014, at the Australian High Commission in Singapore. This is the first solo exhibition for a North Queensland Indigenous artist and Umbrella Member at the High Commission in Singapore. Gail Mabo has produced 29 stunning new works for the show including; linocut prints, monotype prints, screen prints and acrylic paintings on canvas. The exhibition came about last year when Umbrella Studio Director Vicki Salisbury, travelled to Singapore to install and open Compact Prints 2012 at the James Cook University campus in Singapore. Vicki recalls, “The Consul General kindly attended the opening of CP12 and we discussed the possibility of an exhibition of Indigenous artwork in the gallery at the High Commission to coincide with their NAIDOC celebrations. My team have been working in partnership with the…
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13/03/2014Art in the Garden exhibition
Art in the Garden, a framed exhibition watercolour paintings by the Townsville Water-colour Group and artists from Gallery 6 10am – 4pm Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 May 2014 14 Anderson Street, Railway Estate (Just follow the signs on Queens Road) Everyone knows of the Under the Mango Tree exhibition later in the year, but Townsville Watercolour Group and artists from Gallery 6 are holding their third framed exhibition on the first weekend of May in the gardens of Mo’sart Gallery at 14 Anderson Street Railway Estate. The works of 17 artists will be on display, including some of Townsville’s best known artists include Jim Arena, Julie Boyd, Helen Caldwell, Val Claussen, Gai Copeman, Marjory Cook, Debbie Delcastro, Sally Grattidge, Jenny Hyatt, Annette Ireland, Kerry Kelly, Richard Lane, Pat Lowth, Geoff Maidens Pat Nelson, Marion O’Shea, Jan Whebel, Come and enjoy this stunning open-air exhibition in the garden surrounds of Mos’art…
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17/02/2014Aber Update: Jill O’Sullivan
Can’t believe how fast time is going. I’m getting quite fit climbing up the hill to the studios each morning, some very steep rises and I’m convinced that Aberystwyth is made up of steep hills and hundreds of steps. (Actually this seems to apply to most of Wales from my experience). I am working across engraving to produce quite a number of prints (plus making drawings, paintings and collages as well). Has been great just working away on different mediums. Images are being developed from my travels and the regions around here. Most are precursors for larger works, i.e. lithos, etchings and relief, though engravings are going to play a more noticeable part of my future printmaking. I have caught up with the Paul Croft, the author of Plate Lithography and Stone Lithography and also Aberystwyth printmakers at last. They have a very small space, packed with a litho press,…
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02/12/2013November news from Aberystwyth
November, my last month here! As you know the Art Centre has a very impressive ceramic collection and frequently hosts or curates exhibitions from prominent U.K. ceramicists. For the last 6 or so weeks there has been an impressive exhibition featuring the works of Irish born Michael Flynn. One of the most prolific and well known figurative ceramicists of his generation Michael’s works are heavily influenced by his love of storytelling and folklore. I really enjoyed listening to his yarns and a week or so later, when on our scheduled trip to Cardiff (to see southern Wales) took the opportunity to visit him in his studio which was overflowing with 30 years of work. A treat to see. Our (resident artists) trip to Cardiff coincided with the first snow of the season with the falls becoming heavier and heavier as we drove over the mountain range. However, once over the range the weather…
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06/11/2013Gerald Soworka selected for artist residency at Aberystwyth in 2014
Congratulations to Umbrella Studio artist/member Gerald Soworka for being selected for the Artist Residency at Aberystwyth Art Centre during June, July, August 2014. We hear it was a very competitive round and difficult decision for the selection committee. Well done Gerald!
03/11/2013Flow: Sculpture by the Sea
In October artist/Member Jan Hynes, Christine Harding and I flew to Sydney to assist Alison McDonald with the install of FLOW in the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition. It took a crew of Alison, her husband, the three of us ladies, a fork lift and three additional helpers to move the 12 meter artwork in its assigned position. It was a blazing hot day and what a funny site we would have been, walking in single file while carrying the rolled up blanket of plastic caps along the Tamarama cliffs, then hoisting it and ourselves over fences. We had a crew on the top and at the bottom communicating about placement, measurement and then slowly rolling it into place carefully without dropping it into the ocean or on top of an unsuspecting jogger. FLOW put Townsville on the map, with only four Queenslanders out of 106 exhibiting artists from around…
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30/10/2013October news from Aberystwyth
Eight weeks into my residency, the time is flying and the weather is definitely changing with violent storms over the weekend a precursor to winter weather. The last few weeks have been busy with a trip to northern Wales to visit a new gallery space in Ruthin and then on to the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno. Both beautiful spaces with interesting exhibitions by U.K artists. On the way home we stopped briefly at a slate quarry and Edel (Irish installation artist) and I took photographs and grabbed a few samples. We had both been intrigued by the slate hills we walked over a few weeks earlier on the coastal track from Aberystwyth to Borth. The track was very narrow and in many places on the very edge of steep cliffs overhanging the sea. When we reached a small cove we could see that the cliffs were composed of nothing but…
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09/10/2013Umbrella Artist Alison McDonald selected for Sculpture by the Sea 2013
Umbrella member and artist, Alison McDonald was selected to exhibit in significant, international art event. I mention this on the blog because her artworks were born at Umbrella Studio and continue to evolve. Those of you fortunate to have seen Flow installed and hanging from the east side of the Umbrella building, witnessed a major undertaking by a tenuous and visionary artist. Flow is a site specific installation that had its first incarnation in 2011, created from over 20,000 plastic bottle caps cascading over the side of the Umbrella Studio Building. This massive artwork was reworked to be located floating in the iconic water fountain on the Strand, as part of the 2011 Strand Ephemera. Again in 2012 Flow was recontextualized for McDonald’s bold, solo exhibition; Urban Legacy at Pinnacles Regional Gallery. Flow will be reborn again in a dramatic setting with now 30,000 plastic lids. It is featuring in…
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