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23/04/2014The PEOPLE’S Percival – seeking participation
Townsville, here’s your chance to be part of the People’s Percival. The City Council are having 60 banners made for Flinders St and they’re choosing your photos for them!
03/04/2014Trent Walter Workshop: The Unique Multiple Image
This workshop aims to explore a multifaceted approach to image making through monotype print processes. While each impression will be unique, multiple processes will be explored on the same sheet of paper to create a complex set of relations in the picture plane. Using both the litho and etching presses at Umbrella Studios, participants will engage with image transfer, rubbings, and monotypes from metal and plastic plates. The results will combine the painterly with the graphic in an exploration of the contemporary print. A note to participants: Please bring some source materials to the workshop. These could be examples of your own work, newspaper/magazine cuttings that take your interest, collage elements, drawings etc. Various coloured etching inks, watercolours and roller if you have them. Enclosed shoes must be worn at all times. Materials supplied: Paper, Copper, Plastic Etching Plates, Newsprint, A variety of coloured etching Inks Biography Trent Walter is…
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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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30/03/2014Company Conversations – Meet the Dramaturg
Dancenorth Artistic Director Raewyn Hill is currently developing a new work “the inside” to premiere in Townsville in 2015. Part of the creative team for this production is writer, director and dramaturg Duncan Sarkies. Join us as Raewyn and Duncan discuss the role of a dramaturg within the creation of a dance work and how they are working together. Company Conversations is an opportunity for you to meet those behind the company and gain an unique insight into the productions over the space of an hour. Composer Eden Mulholland will also perform live and Dancenorth dancers will give audiences a sneak preview of choreography from “the inside”. WHEN: Friday, April 11 at 6pm (bar opens at 5.30pm) WHERE: School of Arts Theatre, Corner Walker and Stanley Streets, CBD TICKETS: $20 TO BOOK: www.soatheatretownsville.com.au or phone 4772 2549
24/03/2014Artgaze Review: Variations in Blue
Artgaze has written a review about our current exhibition Dancers – Variations in Blue by Rainer Schluter. To read the review – head over to the Artgaze Magazine website
17/03/2014CALL FOR ARTISTS: Wanderlust
Click this link to Read the Conditions of Entry and Enter into the Exhibition
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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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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$80,000 Public Art Commission – Southern Gateway
Albury City Council have an exciting opportunity for artists/designers to create a significant gateway sculpture as part of our 2010-2020 Urban and Public Art Strategy. The location for the work is the East Street entrance into Albury from the Hume Freeway. The site has excellent exposure to the Melbourne-Sydney rail line, the Hume Freeway, and local traffic. Albury City envisage the work becoming a key beacon for the city and is the first of a series of gateway sculptures. Council is seeking interest from suitably qualified and experienced artist/designers with a proven record in undertaking large scale public art projects. Submissions close 1st April 2014 For a copy of the EoI visit: http://www.alburyicons.com/ and select “Public Art Commission – Southern Gateway” to download a copy. For more information please contact the Urban and Public Art Officer: Tom Arnold – Urban and Public Art Officer tarnold@alburycity.nsw.gov.au 02 60238737 / 0427 191…
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