Youth is like diamonds
Main Space
A personal and meaningful journey in the life of the artist. Melissa Elliot creates an emotional landscape exploring the process of trauma. A prolific display of paintings, sketches, print and mixed media of remembrance, memorial, self-exploration & identity through depression, loss, and change. The exhibition highlights the positive influences of creativity in self-awareness and the reparation of emotion.
Mapping your Place
Access Space
Gabriel Smith explores the idea of mapping our experience of a place using a variety of mixed media techniques to create multi panelled panoramas giving a more contemporary feel to the landscape genre.
Steel and Stone, Creatures of Myth and Magic
Main Space
Father and son sculptors Robert & Rurik Henry present their interpretations of creatures and events from myth and legend which still have relevance today. “We hope that by working the materials to the best of our ability we have created sculptures with enough impact to catch the viewer’s attention and carry that interest on to further contemplation.”
Audio Technica Young Artist Prize
Access & Vault Space
Young artists residing in North Queensland between the ages of 15 and 25 were invited to submit work in the Audio-Technica Young Artist Prize. The prize promotes excellence, experimentation and innovation and aims to encourage young and emerging artists. The unified theme Messages was interpreted by 40 artist in many media - including painting, sculpture, installation, print, film and mixed media.
Hanging in the Wind
Main Space
Scott Radford-Chisholm, chief photographer for the Townsville Bulletin curates an exhibition of photographs from 26+ photo journalists coinciding with the QLD festival of Photography. The photos will be printed onto long strips of newspaper with sprocket-holes to mimic film hanging in a darkroom. The exhibition celebrates the last 40 years of highs and lows in our great city.
- View Guestbook Pages
- View Townsville Bulletin News Video
- View Catalogue
- View Coffee Conversation panel discussion: Photography, Meaning & Media
Soaring Spirits
Access Space
Faye Withers presents an exhibition of clay sculptures and mixed media emulating ancient clay figurines of matriachal goddess cultures, symbols, ritual masks, and bird goddess avatars.
It’s a big little world
Vault Space
A photographic exhibition of the minute by Patrick Smallhorn.
Through my eyes only
Stairwell Space
A Photographic exhibition of the world through captured moments of emotion by Ashley C Smith
In the open air - En plein air
Main Space
This exhibition by Ron McBurnie focuses on dual impressions of two very different landscape topographies, France and Australia, linked by a single vision.
Opened by Anneke Silver on Friday 25 May at 7pm.
Artist Talk held on Sunday 27 May at 11am.
Passing Through, Lasting Impressions
Access Space
Atherton Tablelands artist Ben Trupperbaumer creates an installation made with found wood fence posts in collaboration with Sydney based painter, Ewen McLeod.
Opened by Anneke Silver on Friday 25 May at 7pm.
Artist Talk held on Friday 25 May at 6pm.
Fascinator
Vault Space
Indigenous artist Shirley Macnamara fabricates designer accessories from ephemeral materials collected during the 2011 cattle muster on her Mt Isa property.
Opened on Friday 25 May at 7pm.
Compact Prints 2012
Main Space
International print exhibition & exchange of 12x12cm works on paper.
Opening Friday 13 July at 6pm.
Fundraising Auction Friday 13 July at 7pm
With thanks to the E R Hayles Charitable Trust, managed by Perpetual
- View the invite
- Watch Floor Talk with Dr Anne Lord
- Read Review in IMPRINT Magazine by Bernadette Ashley
Touring Internationally
We need your help to tour Compact Prints 2012 overseas. Because of the ease of install and size, this touring exhibition is ideal for presentation in both large gallery settings and non-traditional exhibition spaces, such as libraries, civic and cultural centres and museums, tailored for audiences of all ages and interests. Umbrella Studio staff is happy to collaborate on value-adding exhibition product in any way we can. Umbrella Studio Director Vicki Salisbury says, “We are very proud of the quality, diversity and unique presentation of Compact Prints and my hope is that in 2012 we can expand our reach beyond Australia and send it to the countries of some of our international printmakers”. Contact us for more information.
Disclaimer
Umbrella Studio Association Incorporated will handle all works with care. However, no responsibility will be taken for works damaged or lost in transit.
Students in Case
Access Space
Regional schools submit students work in CD cases.
Opening Sunday 15 July at 11am.
Beanies
Vault Space
A collection of beanies from the famous Alice Springs Beanie Festival’s finest works. Beanies produced by the Indigenous women of central Australia and international artists.
Opening Sunday 15 July at 11am.
The Expanded Field of Printmaking
Main Space
Michelle Hall, Jo Lankester, Margot Laver, Alison McDonald, Jenny Mulcahy, Hannah Murray, Rhonda Stevens & Alan Valentine work collaboratively across multi disciplines to create an exhibition highlighting the sculptural aspect of print, resulting in an installation of experimental printmaking.
Opening Friday 17 August at 7pm.
Fragments
Access Space
Ngaio Lenz presents an exhibition of framed collage works and de-collage works on board, celebrating an aesthetic of imperfection.
Opening Friday 17 August at 7pm.
Triffids
Vault Space
Enter a garden of killer plants created by Alison McDonald using up-cycled plastics.
Opening Friday 17 August at 7pm.
Essential Women
Main Space
Donna Benningfield’s exhibition features an interconnection of the properties of essential oils with the beauty of the female form.
Imagining and Imaging
Access Space
An Access Space exhibition by Laurel McKenzie. Images of women from the distant and recent past pay tribute to the projects of second wave feminist artists.
Lamps
Vault Space
A Vault Space exhibition of catching emotion through colour... light and texture
reflected ...a felt installation byinternational fashion designer Katelyn Aslett.
Black & White
Umbrella Members’ Show 2012
Main & Access Space
This year’s theme for our members’ show limits the palette to Black and White, challenging our member base to be creative using only these colours. The gallery will travel back to a time where photography, film, TV and computing was only available in black and white, but still illustrate beauty and creativity.
Here's an interview with our curator for the show Alan Junior, plus we hear from Robert Henry about his sculpture, and Marion Gaemers.
Celebrating 2012: Townsville Bulletin
Vault Space
An exhibition of works in the vault space celebrating 2012 - not just the news, but the people who break it too.
Umbrella Studio acknowledges the financial support of: The Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.