Past Events › Exhibitions
Events List Navigation
Wanton, Wild & Unimagined @ Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Wanton, Wild & Unimagined is a playful exhibition of sculptured recycled plastics that stirs the imagination and evokes environmental reflection by Alison McDonald. This is a travelling exhibition organised by Umbrella Studio contemporary arts, toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program; and supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments.
Find out more »Of structure and freedom
An exhibition by Christian Flynn and Arryn Snowball. Between structure and disorder there is life, ordered and unpredictable. The state of the universe shifts from one form to another in a perpetual dissolution and coalescence of new structures. Opening Launch: 6pm Friday 6 October 2017 Click here to view the Exhibition Invite Click here to read the Guestbook
Find out more »Young Indigenous Printmakers
Linocut prints created by local high school students from Shalom Christian College during skills development workshops in the studio downstairs at Umbrella. A collaborative outreach project with Gallery Services Townsville. Opening Launch: 6pm Friday 6 October 2017
Find out more »Shower Scenes
Glen O’Malley’s Shower Scenes brings together multiple strands of Queensland’s most idiosyncratic photographer’s practice. References to cinema, Japanese pop and a playful eroticism converge in frozen moments, crystallised on metallic photo plates. Opening Launch: 6pm Friday 6 October 2017 Click here to view the Exhibition Invite Click here to read the Guestbook
Find out more »Ad Wer: Story of the Stars from Eastern Torres Strait @ Childers Art Space
Ad Wer: Story of the Stars from Eastern Torres Strait is a body of linocut print artworks by Tommy Pau based on the constellations and the science of astronomy used by eastern Torres Strait Islanders. This exhibition is touring Queensland during 2017 and 2018.
Find out more »Drive: Umbrella Annual Members’ Exhibition & Art Prize 2017
The final exhibition of each year is for our Members to participate and display their work. This year’s theme, ‘Drive’ asks members to be inspired by concepts of movement, direction, focus, determination, travel, instinct and any other interpretations of the word “drive”. Opening Launch: 6pm Friday 17 November 2017 Click here to view the Exhibition Invite Click here to read the Guestbook
Find out more »Matt Clark Travelling Scholarship Secondary School Portrait Prize
The Matt Clark Travelling Scholarship Secondary School Portrait Prize is a competition open to all Townsville-based secondary school students in any year level. Entrants may submit work in any two-dimensional medium. The only artistic criterion is that the work must be a portrait. For full conditions or to enter your work, click here. Finalists and Prize Money Works by the selected finalists chosen from the submitted images, will be featured in a display at Umbrella Studio contemporary arts from 17…
Find out more »Child’s play
Laura McMahon, also known as Brain Foetus, is a Fremantle native now living and working in Hobart, Tasmania. Her work calls upon a host of recurring characters to reside in a continuous narrative of increasingly colourful and elaborate dreamscapes. These works represent making sense of feelings and searching for a sense of belonging within the artist - a reunion with the inner child. Exhibition Opening 6pm Friday 19 January 2018 Click here to view the Exhibition Invite Click here to…
Find out more »Route A6
Vince Bray’s work is an ongoing study of the landscape from Townsville to Mount Isa. Coming to art during a bout of malaria, Bray’s childhood of wandering hills, creeks and rock holes has grown into a deep examination of the dry tropics through painting and printmaking. Exhibition Opening 6pm Friday 19 January 2018 Click here to view the Exhibition Invite Click here to read the Guestbook
Find out more »Unutterable
Unutterable: too great or awful to describe. A collection of artworks by Rob Donaldson we don’t want to believe or refuse to acknowledge.
Find out more »
