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Group Exhibition – Mudpickers
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. Mudpickers features artists Suzannah Babicci, Lauren Jaye Carter, Jane Hawkins, Hannah Murray, Rhonda Payne and Bronwyn Smith. The exhibition collectively maps the artists’ experiences with place and an investigation of memory and history. The works reflect a shared interest in trawling across the mudflats of Townsville to find hidden treasures in the layers, colours, textures…
Find out more »Sue O’Malley – DEEP / VAPOUR
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. Two new moving image works by Sue O'Malley. In Vapour, real worlds dissolve into artificial worlds, as a ghost drifts into the night. In Deep, the future of the world is at sea. It shifts. It distorts. Nothing stays still. Nothing keeps its original form. It is a time to reflect, to look beneath the surface.…
Find out more »Shirley Dawson – The Long Walk
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. The works in this exhibition tell stories of surviving in the desert, gathering food and passing down Indigenous women’s knowledge across generations. The artist Shirley Dawson is from the Eastern Aranda people of the Harts Ranges area, Northern Territory. She has been making art and exhibiting since the 1980s, and is now based in Mt…
Find out more »Lynn Scott-Cumming – Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. This latest body of work by Lynn Scott-Cumming is comprised of unique-state prints and written texts. Employing colour, abstract shapes and symbols, the artist explores the mystery, divinity and allure of the moon. Lynn Scott-Cumming is is a Townsville-based artist and printmaker. She holds a Master of Creative Arts (Painting and Writing) from James Cook University (JCU) and a Bachelor…
Find out more »Genine Larin – Empathic Gestures
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. This exhibition draws on Genine Larin's artistic practice of editing video footage of herself swimming. The works reflect on Australia's engagement with swimming (as a form of our national identity), on the notions of private and shared experiences, and on the freedom that swimming enables. Image: Genine Larin, Emphatic Gestures (dark swimming) film still, HD Video…
Find out more »Martina Ah Sam – KWATYE
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. This exhibition presents new paintings by artist Martina Ah Sam. The artist is from Eastern Arrente and Kalkadoon Country but is now based in Townsville. The exhibition title 'Kwatye' (pronounced 'quarchar') refers to water in the artist's Arrunta language. Martina Ah Sam is a First Nations artist now based in Townsville. Born in 1982, her father is…
Find out more »Ann Bartholomeusz – Shift
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. This exhibition presents the results of the artist's three-month residency in the Makerspace, presented in partnership with PressNorth Printmakers. Image: Ann Bartholomeusz, Sugar Shaker, digital print, 21 x 29cm. Also on display during this exhibition period 16 April - 23 May 2021: Lynn Scott-Cumming– Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence | Genine Larin - Empathic Gestures | Martina Ah Sam – KWATYE
Find out more »Donna Beningfield – A Question of Counterpoint
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. Local artist Donna Beningfield pushes her exploration into portraiture by working with her sitters to develop emotional responses to their past and present lives. Beningfield transposes the marks of the sitters onto canvas, layered with her own process of mark making. Exhibitions Launch 6pm Friday 28 May 2021. The exhibition will be officially opened by…
Find out more »Group Exhibition – Young Indigenous Printmakers (YIPs)
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. Linocut prints created by local high school students during skills development workshops with established artists at their schools & in the Umbrella Makerspace. This collaborative outreach project is a partnership with Townsville City Council Galleries. Image: Deva Zaro, Sunset, 2020. Linocut print, 15 x 30cm; from 2020 YIPs program with Kirwan State High School. Exhibitions Launch 6pm…
Find out more »Rosemary O’Hearn – A History of Mine: Our Ancestors
Visitors must comply with Umbrella's COVID-19 Safety Plan and directives | Gallery open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm | Sat-Sun 9am-1pm | Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks. Follow our social media for updates. Rosemary O'Hearn's exhibition depicts the vast isolation and harsh conditions of outback Australia. The works include those created on location while field-working, and those made in the artist's studio. As such, the mediums are varied - from calico and handmade paper to soil and photographs. Image: Rosie O'Hearn, A history of mine (detail), 2020, Silk,…
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