23/08/2013Compact Prints 2012 heads to South East Queensland
Compact Prints 2012 International Tour has finally returned from its journey overseas back to Australia. It is making a final visit to Ipswich Art Gallery from Saturday 24 August to Sunday 20 October. So for all our members based in South East Queensland near Ipswich, this is your chance to see the exhibition before it heads back to sunny Townsville. Visit the Ipswich Art Gallery website The exhibition has also recently been featured in the Queensland Times online. Click here to read the article
10/08/2013The Mangrove Project
On Saturday 24 August, the Barrier Reef Orchestra will be once again delighting audiences with their latest event CONTRASTS. As part of this evening they will be performing a 15 minute work titled, Mangroves by Australian Composer Peter Sculthorpe.This musical performance event will be enhanced by a digital projection, to be projected on a screen on stage, near the orchestra. The concept behind the visuals is to present the unique Mangroves landscape using visual projections to create a multisensory experience. The film captures various aspects, filmed at different times of the day and night of the flora and fauna and other “magical” elements of Mangrove locations around Townsville. The project was a partnership between the BRO, ABC Open and Umbrella Studio. The artistic director Michael Bromage from ABC Open, facilitated the project with 7 emerging Townsville filmmakers who appreciate the unique Mangroves environment. Watch the behind the scenes video
26/06/2013Vicki Salisbury nominated as a Culture Champion
Congratulations to Vicki Salisbury – Director Umbrella Studio, Gail Mabo – Artist and Jenny Lane -Townsville City Councillor Culture Champions is a Queensland Government initiative celebrating Queensland’s arts and culture champions in our communities: good people doing great work in the arts and cultural sector that can be an inspiration for others. On Thursday 27 June, three locals received acknowledgment as Cultural Champions from Ian Walker, Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts. Mr Walker explained that, “Arts Queensland wants to shine a light on these and other dynamic Queenslanders so they can be an inspiration to others. It’s about giving kudos to our leading and emerging talent, and to our arts sector’s passionate supporters. It’s also about unearthing people who do amazing work in their communities but get little recognition, and engaging in ideas and discussions that celebrate arts for all Queenslanders”.
25/06/2013Light on the Fringe Project Update
At the first Light on the Fringe workshop, we were shown examples of some great projection festivals all around the world – particularly VIVID SYDNEY. Robert Crispe introduced us to some software packages that can be used for interactive artwork and projection mapping. We were told how many projectors we would have to work with (from MAAP Media Bank), and got to check out the carpark and wall space for the projections. We decided to use three projectors for the wall, one projector to be used on something else using Mad Mapper, one projector for some kind of game, and one for an interactive work. At the second workshop we got to know participants a little better and showed each other our work. Robert then presented us with a tutorial in the AfterEffects software where we created video art using different filters and effects using our existing work or footage….
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17/06/2013Compact Prints arrives in Singapore
Compact Prints 2012 International Tour has continued to its next location, JCU Singapore. Vicki Salisbury, Director of Umbrella Studio traveled to help install and open the exhibition on Thursday 20 June. Click here to read Vicki Salisbury’s Blog
06/06/2013Arts Queensland are coming to Umbrella!
New Arts and Culture Investment Framework information sessions Arts Queensland will be holding information sessions on the new Arts and Culture Investment Framework. 10am – 11am Thursday 13 June 2013 at Umbrella Studio 482 Flinders Street Townsville As capacity is limited, RSVP is essential to linda.dreghorn@arts.qld.gov.au For the Townsville session, Linda Dreghorn, Grant Support Officer is also available to have one-on-one meetings following the information session. If you’d like to book a one-on-one session please contact Linda by email or on 3034 4077. More: http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/funding/acif/index.html
28/05/2013Townsville Artist selected for Telstra
Umbrella Member and Townsville based artist, Gail Mabo will exhibit her artwork for the first time in the prestigious 30th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. The exhibition is held annually in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin. The Award attracts a range of Indigenous artists from all parts of the country and about 100 works are selected each year from around 300 entries. Mabo’s monoprint titled, Before Time was created during a master class at Umbrella Studio, facilitated by Theo Tremblay for Murris in Ink Printmakers. Gail is a founding member of Murris in Ink, a collective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island artists who live and work in North Queensland. The group have been working with various printmaking techniques and learning from some of Australia’s greatest printmakers since 2008. The Award was established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art…
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26/05/2013Sea and Sky: our country and its creatures Monoprints by Murris in Ink Printmakers – a book published by Umbrella Studio
Part of the brief for the recently completed Townsville Hospital Commission was to compile information about the Murris in Ink printmakers and the artwork stories for the waiting room at the Townsville Hospital. With the help of an online book publishing company we created a professional, full colour book that will reside in the Imaging Waiting Room and be enjoyed by the hospital’s patients and their families. For those of you who don’t know about Blurb, it is an online publishing company. Blurb self-published books are bookstore-quality, printed on gorgeous paper and can be designed with either a hard or soft cover, we selected the hard cover for the Imaging waiting room. Our book titled, Sea and Sky, our country and it’s creatures provides details of the mono print process, and then introduces each of the Murris in Ink printmakers with detailed stories of each work installed in the Hospital….
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24/05/2013Free WiFi in the gallery!
Powered by 2Technical Thanks to the friendly folk at 2Technical, we now have free WiFi for guests in the gallery! This means you can enjoy your coffee at the mini café, and bring your smartphone, tablet or laptop to get access to the internet. Of course, your device will need to have WiFi built in. The network is password protected and encrypted, so your data is always safe. You can get the password from the café area. This is a perfect way to checkout extra exhibition content using QR codes in the gallery that link to the artist talk, or the massive QR gallery on the side of our building. A big thank you to our sponsoring partner 2Technical for providing this – Luke and James are a friendly team and can take care of many of your IT needs.
20/05/2013Update on Touring Exhibitions
Compact Prints 2012 International Tour has continues to its next location, Wharpuke Print Studio in Kerikeri, New Zealand. There will be a closing event 5pm Tuesday 28 May. Ngapa – Kai Kai by Murris in Ink started the year in Texas then to the RM Wiliam Centre in Eidsvold and is now heading to Longreach and then Ingham to Tyto Art Gallery. Land and Sea started the year at the Noosa Regional Art Gallery and continues on to the Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Gayndah and Mundubberra. We would like to thank Artslink, who continue to promote regional artists by managing the touring of Ngapa – Kai Kai and Land and Sea.
