06/05/2014Faces of Townsville: Locals feature in outdoor exhibition
Twenty Townsville locals are about to receive star billing in the Faces of Townsville outdoor exhibition launching on May 9. Umbrella Member, Margot Douglas is featured on the outside of the Umbrella building. The exhibition is a partnership between ABC Open and the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and coincides with The Percivals, a city-wide festival celebrating portraiture. Running until July 13 Faces of Townsville gives locals the opportunity to be a part of the festivities. The local portraits for the exhibition were created as a part of ABC Open’s Snapped project. Each month Snapped creates a challenge to help amateur photographers to learn new techniques. Snapped recently asked photographers to take portraits that captured the many faces of Australia. More than 1000 portraits were submitted, including many from North Queensland. Faces of Townsville can be seen in nine locations in the CBD (including Umbrella Studio), Flinders Square, Castle Hill, The…
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Umbrella 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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01/04/2014CALL FOR ARTISTS: COMPACT PRINT 2014
Registrations Open Now! Our most famed, biennial exhibition: Compact Prints, is now in motion for 2014. Compact Prints is an international print exchange and exhibition of 12x12cm prints, designed to fit inside a regular CD case. You’ll send three prints from the same edition, and in return, you’ll receive a print from another entrant, who could be from anywhere in the world! One print will be exchanged with a participating artist and a second will be displayed in a CD jewel case as a part of the exhibition. The third print will be auctioned at a Fundraiser to assist with the event and the development and on-going maintenance of the newly launched Compact Prints website. The new website dedicated to Compact Prints is designed to showcase the history of the exhibition, where each exhibition has toured and provide a platform for artists to be more connected with each other. Registrations…
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17/03/2014CALL FOR ARTISTS: Wanderlust
Click this link to Read the Conditions of Entry and Enter into the Exhibition
19/02/2014SYNTHESIS opening night video
http://youtu.be/aAWYOLWQu6w Check out this fantastic video of the SYNTHESIS opening night! Thanks to Ryan Lower – La Luna Youth Arts who filmed and edited it. Feel inspired to get creative? Take part in the part two of the workshop series: 10am – 1pm Sunday 23 February 2014 $15 each Raul Posse – Creative Photography and innovations in presenting images Ally Lankester – Action research and art exhibitions. Ideas and Strategies You can register online here or call our office 4772 7109
Film Fundraiser: The Monuments Men
Wednesday 19 March 2014 Arrive at 6:30pm for 6:45pm – 7:15pm start Warrina Cineplex, 164 Dalrymple Rd, Currajong Help Umbrella Studio continue to provide great visual art programs in Townsville. Funds will support the delivery of our core program of workshops, residencies, events, exhibitions and projects that connect with artists, students, young people and community groups, building on our work over the past 28 years. The Monuments Men – An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. starring Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman and Cate Blanchett. Based on the non-fiction book by Robert M. Edsel, the film follows an allied group, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, tasked with finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before their destruction by Hitler during World War II. Buy your tickets online now!…
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12/02/2014Notice of 2013 AGM
Umbrella Studio Association Inc. NOTICE OF MEETING Umbrella Studio Association Incorporated is a not-for-profit contemporary arts organisation, which began as a space for emerging Townsville artists, and whilst retaining this, has evolved to become an important centre for contemporary art in North Queensland. Umbrella Studio recognises the need to build on its past achievements, and to continue to provide support for contemporary artists through its annual program of exhibitions and associated activities. 2014 Board Member Nomination Statements 2013 Annual General Meeting Tuesday 18 March 2014 6:00pm Umbrella Studio, 482 Flinders Street, Townsville Election of 2014 Management Committee All members are invited to attend the meeting and participate in the election of the 2014 Management Committee. A list of nominees and their statements are now available above and available from Umbrella Studio office from Tuesday 4th March 2014. If you are unable to attend the Annual General Meeting, you can…
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21/01/2014Opening Speech: SYNTHESIS by Robin Rodd
SYNTHESIS I’m neither a scientist nor an artist, but an anthropologist caught between science and art. So, by way of introduction to this exhibit, I want to touch on a couple of ideas about the relationship between art and science, what synthesis in this context might mean, and why this order of synthesis matters. Synthesis involves transformation of disparate elements into a new whole. This exhibit has united scientists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and artists working in a variety of modes to develop projects that present ‘scientific ideas’ through ‘artistic processes’. Each of these collaborations has taken on its own life as the contributors have worked out ways, over the last year, of thinking about, transforming and presenting ideas in novel ways. Here, the dialogue between different worlds, languages and backgrounds is a fertile ground for creative endeavor. Science, as a practice of seeking and legitimizing knowledge, and…
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20/01/2014SYNTHESIS on the WIN Regional News
Check out this great news report about the groundbreaking exhibition, SYNTHESIS, that opened on Friday night. You can come see the exhibition in the flesh at Umbrella Studio on until Sunday 23 February 2014.
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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