Exhibitions

Seven + Seven: Printmaking Across Unknown Terrain

Exhibition Dates: 12 July – 15 September 2024
Pinnacles Gallery

Seven + Seven: Printmaking Across Unknown Terrain explores visual dialogues and contemporary ideas among 14 artists from Canada and Australia. The resulting exhibition invites audiences to regard not only the vast distances across both these national geographical and psychological landscapes, but to also consider how relative perspectives in these two hemispheres examine similar themes of colonialism, extreme weather, consequences of the impact humans have on nature (and ourselves). Through hybrid applications of printmaking and the international diversity the exhibition explores, we might find two different cultures have more in common than we think.

Exhibition Launch

Friday 12 July 2024
6pm for 6:30pm speeches
Pinnacles Gallery
Free, no bookings required

Floor Talk

Saturday 13 July 2024
10:30am
Pinnacles Gallery
Bookings required

_{Image: Judy Watson, Experimental Beds 3 2012, 3-plate etching with chine collé, 81 x 67.3 cm framed
Photo: Carl Warner}

Young Indigenous Printmakers

Exhibition Dates: 20 September – 10 November 2024
Pinnacles Gallery

Young Indigenous Printmakers is a collaboration between Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts and Townsville City Galleries. The free education program gives First Nations senior students the opportunity to learn and experience lino carving, printing and editioning, and gain exhibition experience. The initiative seeks to engage, foster and promote artistic development. School groups participate in a two-day intensive workshop facilitated by a printmaking expert and a First Nations artist. Participants are introduced to printmaking techniques and assisted to explore their Indigenous Culture/s and identity. The first day of the program is held at the school and the second is spent in The Studio at Umbrella. The students' prints are exhibited in Umbrella's gallery or at Townsville City Galleries once a semester.

_{Image credit: Kesia Bob Young Indigenous Printmakers participant 2023, NRL Cowboys House. Hammerhead, 2023. Linocut print on paper, 15 x 30 cm. Photo: Amanda Galea.}

Recent Acquisitions: First Nations Artists in the City of Townsville Art Collection

Exhibition Dates: 20 September – 10 November 2024
Pinnacles Gallery

Townsville City Galleries is proud to present new works in the City of Townsville Art Collection by First Nations artists. These artworks have either been generously donated to the Collection or purchased. Visitors will have the opportunity to view paintings, sculptures, and installations that highlight the perspectives and experiences of First Nations people.

Featuring: Ada Bird Petyarre, Arone Meeks, Banduk Marika, Claude Pannka, David Jones, Ewald Namatjira, Gail Mabo, Gloria Petyarre, James Billy, Jimmy K. Thaiday, Kevin Namatjira, O'Chin, Oscar Namatjira, Sally Gabori, Steve Walbungara, Susan Peters Nampitjin, Tommy Pau, Tony Albert and Blak Douglas.

A Townsville City Galleries exhibition.

_{Image credit: Susan Peters Nampitjin, Spinifex grasses found along Canning Stock Route at Lake Stretch, 2021. Hessian, yellow ochre, black ochre dye, cotton string (pink, white), 32 x 78 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.}

Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection

Exhibition Dates: 6 December 2024 – 23 February 2025
Pinnacles Gallery

Showcasing six moving image artworks by Australian artists, this exhibition celebrates ACMI's vibrant collecting and commissioning program.

Working in video offers artists the opportunity to use editing as their primary technique; mixing and matching elements from other films or their own work to tell new stories. By remixing or rearranging footage they build different rhythms and moods, create hilarious juxtapositions or shed new light on cultural cliches and presumed histories. The works in this exhibition all demonstrate an irrepressible desire to bring deep themes to the surface with humour and an incredible attention to detail.

An ACMI touring exhibition.

_{Image credit: Kaylene Whiskey, Ngura Pukulpa – Happy Place, 2021. Courtesy Kaylene Whiskey and Iwantja Arts. Photo: Max Mackinnon.}