Past Exhibitions

Eliza Allen, Portrait of Robert Towns,
c. 1870, pastel on paper, 72.5 x 59.5 cm,
Gift of Philip and Ross Higgins in
memory of their mother, Marjorie
Wentworth Higgins (nee Towns) 2005,
City of Townsville Art Collection.

Shayne Higson, I sing some little songs to keep my own talk, 1991, silver gelatin photograph on fibre base paper, 10.8 x 10.8 cm, Purchased 1994, City of Townsville Art Collection.

Twelve Degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in Queensland celebrates Queensland's public gallery collections in the State's 150th year. It is the first major exhibition of works curated solely from Queensland's regional and public gallery collections.

Queensland is home to a growing network of about 80 regional and public galleries. From the establishment of Queensland's first regional gallery in Toowoomba in 1938 through to present day, these institutions have and continue to make a vital contribution to our State's cultural landscape. Many have acquired collections of local, state and national significance.

Co-curated by Bettina MacAulay and Brett Adlington, Twelve Degrees of Latitude showcases more than 130 works drawn from twenty-seven of these Collecting public galleries. The exhibition explores, at a state level the cultural, social, geopolitical and other factors involved in the emergence and growth of Queensland's regional and public gallery collections.

The exhibition presents works grouped into five sub-themes: Pre-20th century art (Australian and international); Landscape and figures in landscape; other 20th century art (1900-1990); Indigenous art (Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander); and Art post-1990. The largest of these groups is the latter. Within this broad framework is a strong sense of Queensland's cultural identity and telling of Queensland stories. This includes early Queensland landscapes documenting our pioneering communities; works reflecting life in the tropics; the Gold Coast's beach culture; through to remarkable works about country by some of the State's leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

The exhibition title Twelve Degrees of Latitude is a geographical reference to the approximate distance in degrees of south latitude from the northernmost public gallery in Queensland to the southernmost.

The exhibition is supported by a substantial full-colour catalogue and an education kit for teachers and students. The exhibition, catalogue, education kit and associated public programs will showcase the depth, richness and diversity of the State's regional collections and the contribution they have made in shaping Queensland's artistic and cultural past, present and future.

To download the primary, secondary education kits, or teacher's resource kit, click the links below.

Twelve Degrees of Latitude Primary Education Kit (1,152 KB)
Twelve Degrees of Latitude Secondary Education Kit (1,124 KB)
Twelve Degrees of Latitude Teacher's Resource Kit (280 KB)
 

Section H winner - Kari Rae Ludvigsen
(Townsville Grammar), Aspire, 2009, watercolour pencils.

Townsville City Council's annual art competition, with eight categories to cater for artists from pre-school to 18 years of age. The awards provide an opportunity for budding young artists to display their talent.

Congratulations to this year's winners:

SECTION A Pre-School Drawing or Painting
First Prize
Ashlea Egan (Annandale Christian School)
A Puffin Bird
Chalk pastel

Highly Commended
Madeleine Lassig (Annandale Christian School)
A Surprise Party!
Black pen drawing and palette paints

SECTION B Grade 1 & 2 Drawing or Painting
First Prize
Lucy Moore (Cranbrook State School)
Crazy Crab
Collage

Highly Commended
Lucy Carter (Inages School of Fine Art)
Puppy Play
Crayon

SECTION C Grade 3 & 4 Drawing or Painting
First Prize
Hunter Campbell (Inages School of Fine Art)
The Reef
Crayon and Watercolour

Highly Commended
Bay Chadwick (Annandale Christian School)
The Forgotten World Strikes Back
Coloured Pencil and Black Texta

SECTION D Grade 5 & 6 Drawing or Painting
First Prize
Flyn Campbell (Holy Spirit School)
Gorl
Lead Pencil

Highly Commended
Diego Calderon (Inages School of Fine Art)
Parts
Coloured Pencil

Caitlin Murphy (St. Joseph's Mundingburra)
My Healthy Fruit Bowl
Oil Pastel

SECTION E Grade 7 & 8 Drawing or Painting
First Prize
Cassandra Weight (St. Margaret Mary's College)
Dazzled
Pencil

Highly Commended
Rebecca Evans (Annandale Christian School)
Bounce
Lino print

Sean Stringini (St. Joseph's Mundingburra)
Monet’s Garden
Oil pastel, card, charcoal

SECTION F Grade 9 & 10 Drawing or Painting
First Prize
Lauren Stringini (St. Margaret Mary's College)
Nature’s Touch
Pencil, Water Colour and Gel Pen

Highly Commended
Nicola Goodman (Pimlico State High School)
First Step
Paint

Josie Kearney (Ryan Catholic College)
Eyes dark beneath the Path
Charcoal

SECTION G Open (to 18 years inclusive) Drawing
First Prize
Johanna Beningfield (Pimlico State High School)
Cityscape
Oil pastel

Highly Commended
Elle Graham (Townsville Grammar)
In silence they wait
Lino print

SECTION H Open (to 18 years inclusive) Painting
First Prize
Kari Rae Ludrigsen (Townsville Grammar)
Aspire
Watercolour Pencils

Highly Commended
Lavinia Ketchell (St. Patrick's College, Townsville)
Life
Acrylic paint on paper

Kathleen Ketchell (St. Patrick's College, Townsville)
Calm
Acrylic paint on paper
 

Jordan Grant, Through the
Viewfinder (Digital on Print), 2009,
acrylic on paper, 120 x 150 cm.

"What is a page? If it's just text on one side of a surface, then doesn't a wall become a page? Are what we call pages just containers for memories, then if so, doesn't that make a photo a page?" states Aaron Ashley, Ignite Youth Exhibition curator and artist, on the show's central theme - 'what constitutes a page?'

But, he also ensures us, "to keep from being too much of a metaphysical jargon-fest (because exhibitions can often have way too much gibberish), there's plenty of good aesthetics and humour."

Rowley Drysdale, Sake Cellar, 2009, woodfired shino lustre, remnant kiln brick.

The 2009 Townsville Ceramic Awards showcases a diverse array of high standard entries from both emerging and well-known potters from around Australia. The Townsville City Council Acquisitive Award of $3000 ensures the continued growth of the ceramic collection at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, while the introduction of the Now Office Furniture Award for $1000 encourages the use of innovative technology.

Jim Robison (UK) has judged the exhibition. Robison is well known for his large scale ceramic installations which are influenced by history and the environment.

Congratulations to this year's winners:

Townsville City Council Award $3000
Open (Acquisitive)
Rowley Drysdale, Fused feldspar Trough (Cooroy Qld)

Scott Brickworks Award $1200
Open (Acquisitive)
Anita McIntyre, Limestone Plains Monaro Home Country Series (Fadden ACT)

Now Office Furniture Award $1000
For use of innovative technology (Acquisitive)
Mollie Bosworth, Nature Trail (Kuranda Qld)

Loloma Jewellers Award $750
Open (Acquisitive)
Anne Mossman, Biodiversity (Elanora Qld)

Rainford Award $500
Open
Shirley Battrick, Then and Now/Show Time (Mudgeeraba Qld)

Fourex Clothing Award $300
Open (Acquisitive)
Chris Guthleben, Seascape vase (Kangaroo Island SA)

Paluma Pottery Award $250
For functional work (Acquisitive)
Emily Hill, Ceremonial PNG 1 (Townsville Qld)

Clayworks Australia Award $150
(voucher)
Geoff Crispin, Platter (Grafton NSW)

North Regional Gas Award $100
Entry by member of N.Q.P.A. Inc
Fiona Banner, Mugshot (Townsville Qld)
 

Billy Missi,
Wapil Nathaik (roasting fish), 2007, hand coloured linocut.

The works featured in Urapun Kai Buai (one big kin) play a significant role in providing an insight into the Zenadh-Kes (Torres Strait) way of life through contemporary visual representations of traditional stories and culture.

Missi is rapidly gaining a reputation as an important guardian and ambassador of traditional Zenadh-Kes culture. His interest in art was initially stimulated when he viewed works by contemporary Torres Strait Islander artists in 1992. However, it was not until years later, with the support and encouragement from peer Dennis Nona, that he felt he could dedicate himself completely to his artistic pursuits.

The work focuses on everyday stories relating to kinship, the changing of the seasons, ceremony and day-to-day survival. They also deal with the importance of maintaining traditional cultural values, respecting traditional knowledge in the everyday, in the little stories of his culture – not just the big.

Missi speaks about his inspiration for the title piece: "Torres Strait Islanders are all related to each other; or so my grandparents, uncles and aunties told me when I was young. Growing up in the islands has made me see and realise that. The sharing of food and traditional visits and staying over, in the village or on neighbouring islands, called Garab Thiay, are important kinship events.

Wongai is a native fruit of our region and I use it as a metaphor for kinship. Therefore it is placed at the very centre of this piece. The wavy lines going outwards represent the movement of relatives to all four corners of the Straits. This happened mainly through intermarriage.

Today the increase in intermarriage has made it far more complicated for modern Torres Strait Islanders to understand their family relationships. The patterns on the far left and right represent the fact that it is very important to our current elders to pass on the knowledge of these movements of people; for our kinship knowledge to be available to the younger generations, so they can know and consider them."
 

Martin Kizur,
Purple Shadow, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 74 cm.

Martin Kizur's first floor exhibition Two Seasons is a vibrant take on life in the tropics. His passion and excitement for the north Queensland environment is evident in all of the acrylic paintings on show, particularly through the use of an unlimited palette of colours.

Kizur has responded to the sights, sounds and smells of Townsville, though remains committed to presenting these in a fresh manner. He takes this fresh approach as he believes the viewer should be allowed a more sustained interest in the painting, and remain interested in the work long after the initial viewing. He also believes that in achieving this the artist should never "put the last stroke".

Also evident is Kizur's knowledge of and passion for 20th century European art periods, which inform his compositional arrangements, and are celebrated in his brushstrokes.
 

Stephen Dupont, 1999, AWMPO4315.023

The exhibition Focus: photography & war 1945-2006, captures the horror and humanity of military and peacekeeping actions over a turbulent 60-year period, via the lenses of 15 official and freelance photographers.

Including the work of Tim Page, Stephen Dupont, David Dare Parker and George Gittoes, Focus features 80 diverse images including some taken after the atomic bomb was dropped above the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945, and in Korea, Vietnam, the Solomon Islands and East Timor.

Ian Hamilton,
Single Tower,
2005/08, wood, 125 x 105 x 70 cm.

OUT OF THE FOREST
IAN HAMILTON
13 February to 22 March 2009

In Out of the Forest viewers will find themselves taken on a journey through the field notes, to the drawings and sculptures (including Hamilton's own bowers, built stick by stick in what is a very lengthy process), to finally wonder at the complexity of the large prints that result.

This exhibition has been a long time coming for a man who found himself trapped in the forest that is arts administration for many years. And while many thought he would not make it back out, Hamilton is pragmatic about the time he spent away from his art, "I had a family to support!!! You can't live on the sort of art I make."

Hamilton is also down-to-earth enough to state, "I don't think the artist has any right to expect anything from viewers…," though it is fairly safe to assume most viewers will feel an appreciation that Hamilton has finally made it back out; back to his art, back to his bowers.

Out of the Forest is supplemented by a series of bird drawings, prints, paintings and ceramics from the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Collection. Artists include Tate Adams, Clifton Pugh, Jim Cox, James Meldrum, Robert Burton, Juli Haas, and Elizabeth Gould.
 

Claudine Marzik
Far North 41 (detail), acrylic on canvas,
120 x 136cm, 2008.

FAR NORTH
CLAUDINE MARZIK
12 December 2008 to 9 February 2009

Far North underlines Marzik's commitment to reflecting this unique region in her art practice. Developed over a long stretch of time, the show changes like the seasons, capturing the intense climatic changes that are experienced on a yearly basis in the Far North. The paintings also reflect the effects - minor and major - these changing weather patterns have on the diverse landscape.

Carole Howlett, Cockatoos, 2009, oil,
76 x 60.5cm.

The region’s most prestigious showcase for local, state and national artists, the 54th Townsville Art Awards provides an opportunity to exhibit a broad spectrum of art. It also aims to discover new talents and invigorate the market with contemporary and traditional artwork.

Marian Drew, Senior Lecturer at the Queensland College of Arts was invited to be the judge.

Congratulations to this year's winners:

SECTION 1: The 2009 Townsville Open Award
Townsville City Council and Xstrata Copper Acquisitive $5,000
Peter Lawson, Dry in the Bush

Highly Commended
Xstrata Copper $500 Cheque and Top Frames $100 voucher
Donna Beningfield, Atonement

SECTION 2: Landscape Award
Sun City Pools Acquisitive $1000
Eddie Omelaniuk, Top of the Range

Highly Commended
Atinee $200 Voucher
June Pola, The Lagoon II

SECTION 3: Watercolour/Waterbased Mediums Award
The Blue Art Shop Acquisitive $1000
Donna Maloney, Curtain of Mystery I

Highly Commended
Award Picture Framing $200 Voucher
Marie Warnecke, Nature’s Burnishing

SECTION 4: Oil Painting Award
Dynasty Restaurant Acquisitive $1000
Louise Vella-Cox, Chooks

Highly Commended
Townsville Art & Framing $200 Voucher
Rosemarie Garutti, Out West

SECTION 5: Contemporary/Abstract Award
Reana Developments Acquisitive $1000
Louise Vella-Cox, Rush Hour

Highly Commended
Townsville Art & Framing $200 Voucher
Martin Kizur, Abstract Composition with Palm Tree

SECTION 6: Pastel Award
Top Frames $1500
Tim Strickland, ‘Rainforest’ Mt Tamborine

Highly Commended
Townsville Art & Framing $200 Voucher
Anja Devereaux, Visionaries I

SECTION 7: Ink, Pencil, Charcoal Drawing Award
McDonald’s Family Restaurants $500
Laura Castell, Family Watch

Highly Commended
Top Frames $200 Voucher
Barbara Pierce, Sketchbook Four

SECTION 8: Miniature Award
Sun City Pools $500
Barbara Pierce, Interior 26

Highly Commended
Top Frames $200 Voucher
Neela Curran, Quiet Country Road (Series 1, No 5)

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
Xstrata Copper $500 selected by the viewing public was awarded to:
Jenny Finn for her oil painting Princess

Ron McBurnie, This was Whistler's
mother's cat's third attempt to jump
onto the table of the Margaret Olley painting, 1997, hard ground etching
and aquatint, 39 x 49 cm.

Metal as Anything showcases thirty years of the diverse and intricate etchings of Townsville artist Ron McBurnie. A place where misbehaving dogs, ducks in box kites, jumping cats and eccentric toad shooters meet to examine their place in the carnival of characters and landscapes that the artist has created.

McBurnie's etchings are inspired by whatever he is exposed to at the time, "If I am marvelling at an old print, then that inspires me. If I hear an idiotic story about a corrupt politician then that story will inspire me. If I am playing a piece of music that takes me to an extraordinary place, then that is my inspiration. To me, inspiration for my work comes from a variety of different sources. Sometimes ideas and inspiration come from the weirdest of sources."

The diversity of events, both large and small, that inspire McBurnie's artworks are telling of the artist's greatest strength - his ability to highlight the weird and wonderful events that occur in our ‘mundane' suburban environment. It is so easy for these fleeting, humorous moments to be lost, buried underneath the drudgery and commitments of our daily grind. McBurnie, unlike most, captures these moments in his own life and ensures they are not misplaced.

This was Whistler's mother's cat's third attempt to jump onto the table of the Margaret Olley painting captures one such moment. Certainly, to watch a cat jump into a painting would be cause for a chuckle, providing the viewer was not overly attached to the cat in question, or an over-zealous animal protection activist. To hear the story secondhand from a friend may provide a wry smirk, but is unlikely to distract one from their daily routine. For McBurnie though, it captures his overactive imagination, with the endless possibilities from this event taking precedence in his mind, and sparking him into action, "I was interested in his account of this incident because I hadn't realised that cats had the ability to see two-dimensional images in three dimensions – now I wonder why our pets don't watch more TV."

The exhibition is complemented by dedicated education resources. Teachers can download the Primary and Secondary Education Resource Kit by clicking the link below.

Metal as Anything Education Resource Kit (2,085 KB)

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
 

Anne Zahalka
Marriage of Convenience (Graham
Budgett and Jane Mulfinger/artists),
1987, from the series Resemblance, cibachrome photo, Courtesy the
artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney) and Arc One Gallery (Melbourne).

Curated by Karra Rees, Hall of Mirrors examines portraiture, representation and identity throughout Zahalka's celebrated career, which spans more than 20 years. Zahalka's portraits reveal more than just the individual - with an ironic and critical voice the images cleverly subvert stereotypes while capturing subcultures and a spirit of the times with acute observation.

Featuring over 70 works, Hall of Mirrors brings together Zahalka's renowned imagery, introduces previously unseen portraits from several series, and also showcases new works commissioned for this major touring exhibition. Visitors will be able to view images from such memorable series as Resemblance (1987) and Bondi: Playground of the Pacific (1989), as well as Open House (1995) and Welcome to Sydney (2002), which was commissioned by the Sydney Airport Authority. Newly commissioned portraits of artists will also be presented along with a selection of self-portraits from the artist's archive.

Portraiture for Zahalka has been a consistent, evolving and multi-layered practice. From the self-conscious stage-setting of her earlier works to the later images presented in a more documentary vein, the idea that appearances can be deceptive has been central to Zahalka's practice. Tampering with truth in representation, blurring the boundary between reality and fiction, Zahalka uses a variety of photomedia techniques. Incorporating photomontage, double exposure, darkroom trickery and digital manipulation, her practice has consistently enquired into the nature of image-making and its relationship to the world around us.
 

Ai Weiwei
Dropping a Han dynasty urn, 1995
Gelatin silver photograph on paper
A.P. (ed. of 3)
Three sheets: 192 x 180.8cm (each)
Three sheets: 180 x 169.5cm
(each comp.)
Purchased 2006. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

FRAME BY FRAME: ASIA PACIFIC ARTISTS ON TOUR
A QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY TRAVELLING EXHIBITION
20 February to 19 April 2009

Photography and moving image were integral to The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5), from Ai Wei Wei's iconoclastic Dropping a Han dynasty urn to Rashid Rana's dissection of the photographic image through the use of the pixel. Frame by Frame showcases a broad cross-section of photography and the moving image by artists from the contemporary Asian, Pacific and Australian collections. The exhibition includes many acquisitions from APT5.

Kevin Connor
Man sitting cross legged (detail),
Screenprint, 76 x 55.5 cm,
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Collection.

THE NUDE
WORKS FROM PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY COLLECTION AND PRIVATE LENDERS
19 December 2008 to 15 February 2009

The Nude is more than a description of nakedness; rather it is an artistic genre. Its name gives title to an exciting local exhibition based on a collection of prints, drawings, photographs, painting and sculptures compiled primarily from the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery collection, but also from private lenders.

The show is a celebration of the human form and the concept of the ideal which artists explore in all its beauty. It allows the public to appreciate the varied and innovative ways in which artists have portrayed the human figure using different techniques to capture The Nude.

Amongst those exhibited will be artists of national significance including John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Euan Macleod and Anneke Silver.

Tate Adams, Elegies catalogue
image, gouache on paper, 2009

"What more can we want than that? No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied". So reads the final line of Riders to the Sea, a play that inspired Tate Adams at the outset of his artistic career and that he has revisited in his 88th year, to produce Elegies. A series of powerful narrative images, Elegies is the work of a significant Australian artist. It marks a culmination for Adams as an artist and a synthesis of all of the elements of his life.

Revisiting Riders to the Sea, Adams has produced a series of gouaches of the final scene in the play. Maurya, who has lost five sons to the sea, now loses her last and youngest son, Bartley. The women hoist their red petticoats over their heads and, following Bartley's coffin, they begin to keen. Adams depicts these figures in black, the edges worked with a large brush achieving an effect of jagged lace. In these works Adams has captured a visual representation of the "caoine of the Aran Islands – the bitter, song-like lament of the women as they follow the coffin to its burial place. The forms are haunting and unsettling, the heartache and grief are palpable."

Frances Thomson, excerpt from Elegies catalogue.
 

Reggie Robertson, Lightning
Headband, synthetic polymer paint
on linen, 121 x 137 cm

MORNINGTON ISLAND PAINTINGS
21 August until 4 October 2009

An exhibition of paintings by a selection of Mornington Island artists from Mornington Island Art & Craft Centre, including Bernice Burke, Dorita Escott, Sally Gabori, Lance Govenor, Paula Paul, Reggie Robertson, Stephanie Toby, Megan Williams and Gordon Watt

Aaron Richardson
I'm Capitalism (detail),
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas,
100 x 69 cm.

DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND
AARON RICHARDSON
28 January to 15 February 2009

Mixed media works about social, religious and cultural issues in Western Society with a shockingly cynical twist.

Sylvia Hewitt,
His Way (detail),
Pastel,
101 x 136cm, 2008.

WHICH WAY
SYLVIA HEWITT
19 December 2008 to 25 January 2009

This exhibition is an expression of how Sylvia views and ponders life's decisions, choices and confrontations.

"When people see my work, I would like them to experience the visual effect of making a decision. To go towards the horizon; to walk in the dark; or to aim for the light. To feel the doubts, fears, anxieties, apprehensions, as well as the anticipation, optimism, and hope that is involved in making choices."

Marie Warnecke, Love those rocks
Arthur Bay, 2009, watercolour,
6 x 12 cm.

The spontaneity of Marie’s tiny watercolours capture the essence of the region, the ever widening circles radiating from her beloved Townsville area – outback, rainforest and islands. She has always been inspired by the world around her, and the creative process of art itself.

Ruth Heiner,
River Gum, 2009,
oil on canvas

BIG REGION, SMALL FOCUS
TOWNSVILLE ART SOCIETY ANNUAL MINIATURES EXHIBITION
19 May until 21 June 2009

Townsville Art Society present the Townsville region in miniature in their annual members miniature exhibition. The exhibition, now in its fourth incarnation, was first held in 2006 in response to a particularly good display of miniature artworks by Townsville artists at the 2005 Annual Art Society Awards.

This year's exhibition features 85 artworks by 23 different artists, and range in media from oil to watercolour, acrylic to pen, mixed media and lino print.

Deb Gillett,
Blithe Spirit (detail),
Limited Edition Bronze,
51 x 32 x 17 cm, 2003.

MOLTEN MOMENTUM
DEB GILLETT
20 January to 15 February 2009

Deb Gillett began sculpting in 1993 as part of her recovery from Chronic Fatigue syndrome, and pursued fulltime ceramic sculpture obsessively with 11 years of dragons and whimsy. Deb declared 2004 the end of that, and turned her attention to sculpting in bronze, using the lost wax process with the support of CWM Galleries, Sydney and Chalkos Fine Art Foundry, Brisbane. The limited edition bronzes in this exhibition are the result of that two year period sculpting exclusively in wax, and run the gamut between sensual mythological figures like Medusa, savage realism with Gundamen the Frilled Lizard, and expressions of movement in a static medium with Blithe Spirit.

Deb continues to be fascinated with sculpture and now pursues ceramic (paperclay) sculpture in the rare spare moments she can find between painting and teaching art to her adult students. The ceramic sculptures both whimsical and epic presented here express Deb's great love of Art Nouveau and the Baroque, and her immense admiration for the wonderfully sensuous works in many mediums by the late Australian artist Norman Lindsay.
 

Jewellery by local artist Sarah Funkhouser.

PRESENCE
16 December 2008 to 18 January 2009

Creative presents from our local artists: Katherine Cornwall, Katelyn Aslett, Geraldine Hermann, Anna Marija Milic, Cindy Parker, Elizabeth Tillack, Susan Sandeman, Bernadette Boscacci, and Sarah Funkhouser.

Artwork by Melissa Jane Towell
Belgian Gardens State School

The artworks have also been used to create a 2010 calendar, showing simple changes we can make to reduce pressure on sea turtles. Contact Sea Turtle Foundation for your copy: www.seaturtlefoundation.org

Sponsored by Townsville City Council and National Australia Bank.

Matt Clark,
Tempting Raven, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 cm.

A-LIST YOUTH
MATT CLARK
23 April to 3 May 2009
 

"My artworks are all about flair, decadence and the avant-garde, and explore the idea that each and every individual has an inner A-List Youth. This inner, self-confident A-Lister is willing to be who and whatever they want to be, whether you are a Model, Muso, an Artist, Goth or Gossip. A-List Youth showcases the different personalities and lifestyles of these individuals and groups, examining the inherent dramas, and the connections they make along the way.

Artist, Matt Clark

Simon Reid artwork, 2009

INNER MANIFESTATIONS
SIMON REID
26 March to 14 April 2009

Inner Manifestations explores Simon Reid's teenage years growing up in Townsville. Now in his early twenties Reid is currently undertaking study of the places he discovered during his journeys throughout Townsville.

Inner Manifestations focuses on the feelings of separation and loneliness experienced by young people when they finish school and try to find their way in the world, and in themselves.

"I have tried to capture in these works the emotions that a young person feels when growing up." Artist, Simon Reid.