Exhibitions
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery has two floors which contain two main exhibition spaces. On display are works by North Queensland artists, national touring exhibitions and international touring exhibitions.
The Gallery is open to the public without needing a booking.
Current Exhibitions
69th Townsville Art Society Art Awards
2024 Winners
- Ruth Heiner, A Track Winding Back
Section 1 – Works on Canvas Highly Commended ($500 sponsored by Townsville Art Society) - Steve Crowe, Impending Storm over Orpheus Island
Section 1 – Works on Canvas Award Winner ($1000 sponsored by Explore Property) - Bruce Parry, Fish Drying – Vietnam
Section 2 – Works on Paper Highly Commended ($500 sponsored by Townsville Art Society) - Marionne Van Katwijk, Let the Rivers Run
Section 2 – Works on Paper Award Winner ($1000 sponsored by Top Frames) - Ros Jones, It Takes a Village
Section 3 – 3D Highly Commended ($500 sponsored by Liberte’ Hair) - Liberte’ Hair– Natalie Ward, Forest
Section 3 – 3D Award Winner ($1000 sponsored by Liberte’ Hair) - Michelle Weaver, Grandma’s Place
Section 4 – Miniatures Highly Commended ($250 sponsored by Design Works Apparel) - Ros Jones, The Art Critics
Section 4 – Miniatures Award Winner ($500 sponsored by McDonald Leong Lawyers) - Rosemarie Garutti, Monet’s Garden
Sponsors Choice Award – Acquisitive for Sections 1-4 ($2,000 sponsored by Classic Painting Qld) - Carole Howlett, Street Smart
Open Award – Sections 1-3 ($5,000 sponsored by Townsville City Council)
Exhibition Dates: 14 September – 6 October 2024
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Launch
Saturday 14 September
6pm for 6:30pm speeches
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Judge's Talk
With Tricia Reust
Sunday 15 September
10:30am
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Free, no bookings required
The Townsville Art Society Inc. proudly presents the 69th Townsville Art Society Art Awards.
The Townsville Art Society has held an annual or biennial art exhibition since its inception, and the Townsville Art Society Art Awards exhibition is now a major exhibition in the cultural life of the city.
Held in Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, it provides an opportunity for North Queensland artists, who are affiliated with an Art Society, to display their work in a major gallery and to compete for prizes.
Image credit: Carole Howlett, Curtain closed [detail], 2023. Oil on canvas, 64 x 78 cm. Townsville City Council Open Award Winner 68th Townsville Art Society Art Awards, 2023.
Transitions
Exhibition Dates: 14 September – 13 October 2024
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Launch
Saturday 14 September
6pm for 6:30pm speeches
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Panel Discussion
Saturday 21 September
10:30am
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Transitions is a partnership between Townsville City Galleries and Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, that combines mentorship, critiques and development for emerging visual artist mentees. Now in its fourth iteration, mentees have worked one-on-one with established North Queensland artists to develop their arts practices, gain valuable insights into working professionally and to begin to forge a career in the arts. Mentees self-define their goals and receive support and feedback from their mentors, gallery professionals, guest mentors and their program peers.
To celebrate Transitions and its outcomes, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is pleased to present an end of program exhibition displaying artworks created by the mentees.
The exhibiting artists are Hannah Aiello, Sabrina Toby, Vicki Katthagen, Sarah Treadwell and Lisa Gianni. The work they have developed spans portraiture, breastplates, photography and sculpture.
Image credit: Transitions mentees presenting and discussing their works-in-progress at the group critique session at Umbrella, amidst artwork by Odessa Mahony-de Vries. Photo: Rikaela Rusch.
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists
Exhibition Dates: 14 September – 17 November 2024
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Launch
Friday 27 September
6pm for 6:30pm speeches
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Curator's Floor Talk
Saturday 28 September
10:30am
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists tells a new story of Australian art. Looking at moments in which women created new forms of art and cultural commentary, it highlights creative and intellectual relationships between artists across time.
The Know My Name touring exhibition follows the National Gallery's major two-part exhibition of Australian women artists. It is part of a series of ongoing gender equity initiatives by the Gallery to increase the representation of all women in its artistic program.
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by the Australian Government through Visions of Australia.
Image credit: Ponch Hawkes, Mrs Mimi Torsh and her daughter Dany [detail], 1976. Gelatin silver photograph, 25.4 x 20.2 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant 1982.
Upcoming Exhibitions
North Queensland Ceramic Awards
Exhibition Dates: 18 October – 16 February 2024
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
The biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards has long aimed to increase public exposure to a high standard of ceramic artwork from around the nation. A showcase for both well-known and emerging artists, this competition displays the diversity of ceramics currently being produced in Australia.
The City of Townsville Art Collection Award of $10,000 continues to provide the opportunity for artists to become a part of one of the nation's most significant ceramic collections, as well as ensuring the continued growth of this important subsection of the City of Townsville Art Collection.
A Townsville City Galleries exhibition.
Image credit: Sally Walk, A Little Off Centre, 2022. Midfire clay with black slip and clear glaze, 65 x 23 x 30 cm. Major acquisitive prize winner, 2022 North Queensland Ceramic Awards. City of Townsville Art Collection. Image courtesy of the artist.
Yucky Yum Yum
Exhibition Dates: 29 November 2024 – 9 March 2025
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Do you find joy eating food in fake rainbow colours, even though it might be bad for you? Do you like watching videos of objects being squished, or even people popping pimples?
Even if you answered "no" to all the above, you would know that some things can be both delicious and disgusting at the same time. Or they can be funny and sad. Sometimes we actually desire things because they are scary or dangerous.
The artists in this exhibition have made works that you might find both yucky and yum. Hopefully, the art sparks your senses. It may ignite your emotions and memories too.
Many of the works in this exhibition are connected by themes around food, nature and the "unnatural", disgust and taboo. These themes have complex and challenging histories, presents and futures. The artists don't shy away from tough subjects, but their works are also filled with fun and irreverence. Yucky Yum Yum will be packed with new, artist-designed activities to keep you entertained and engaged over the long summer months. Just don't eat ice-cream off the pavement.
Featuring: Ebony Russell, Elizabeth Willing, Hotham Street Ladies, Jan Hynes, Kenny Pittock, Lisa Ashcroft, Smac McCreanor and more.
A Townsville City Galleries exhibition.
Image credit: Smac McCreanor, Hydraulic Press Girl series, 2022. Video. Image courtesy the artist
Past Exhibitions
View our Past Exhibitions page.
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