Exhibitions

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery has two floors which contain two main exhibition spaces and five Community Access Spaces. On display are works by North Queensland artists, national touring exhibitions and international touring exhibitions.

  • Perc Tucker is open to the public without needing a booking.
  • A maximum of 150 people will be allowed inside the Gallery.

Current Exhibitions

ASIA Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT

Tomoko Kashiki Japan b.1982 / I am a rock [detail] 2012

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Exhibition Dates: 4 November 2023 – 21 January 2024

Asia Pacific Contemporary celebrates The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, recently in its tenth iteration. Featuring works that have appeared in the Triennial since its debut in the 1990s, and across media from painting and sculpture to video, performance and works on paper, Asia Pacific Contemporary showcases art from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Vanuatu and Vietnam. As these varied and compelling artworks demonstrate, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art continues to be a pre-eminent platform for the art of Asia, Australia and the Pacific, surveying a vast and dynamic region through series of exhibitions, forums and cultural exchanges. The diverse works in Asia Pacific Contemporary reflect the triennial embrace of contemporary art in all its forms, ranging from the ceremonial to the conceptual, and from the deeply personal to the resolutely social.

Image: Tomoko Kashiki Japan b.1982 / I am a rock [detail] 2012 / Synthetic polymer paint, masking tape on linen on plywood 162 x 227.5cm / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2013 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation QAGOMA – Tomoko Kashiki.

Launch

6:45pm for 7pm speeches
Friday 3 November 2023

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Free, no bookings required.

There will be an evening of launches in Townsville City on Friday 3 November 2023.

Start your evening at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts from 6pm for 6:15pm speeches, then head down to Perc Tucker Regional Gallery for more exhibitions from 6:45pm for 7pm speeches.

Umbrella will be launching Asia Pacific Video, and A Sense of Place by Ann Vardanega. Perc Tucker Regional Gallery will be presenting the launch of Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT.

Floor Talk

With Simon Wright, QAGOMA’s Assistant Director, Learning and Public Engagement.

Saturday 4 November 2023
10:30am

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Free, no bookings required.

There are a range of Floor Talks coming up at both Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts and at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery on Saturday 4 November.

Begin your day at Umbrella Studios at 9:30am for a floor talk with Dr Ann Vardanega who will be discussing her exhibition A Sense of Place, followed by a talk at approximately 10am with Simon Wright, QAGOMA’s Assistant Director, Learning and Public Engagement, who will be sharing insights into Asia Pacific Video. Then join us at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery from 11am and hear insights from Simon Wright into Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT.

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Soundtracks

Brian Pool, Talkin ’bout a revolution, Linocut, 38 x 28 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Exhibition Dates: 13 October – 3 December 2023

Soundtracks is an exhibition in which a group of printmakers explore the relationship between verbal and nonverbal imagery in “albums”, personal narratives resonant in their chosen playlists.

Printmaking is an important element in the personal practice of each of the artists in this exhibition. Each has employed printmaking media and techniques including stencils, etchings, linocuts and risographs in combination with other media and art forms.

Nonverbal memory is what makes it possible to retain and remember content without words and has the ability to code, store, and recover information about faces, shapes, images, songs, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings. Sound, particularly in music, is heavily involved in associative memory of events or experiences of our past.

Hearing a few notes of a song or feeling an emotion one associates with a song may trigger involuntary memory of an experience.

Using a smart phone to scan the QR codes, viewers may extend their experience of the exhibits by listening to the linked tracks.

Image: Brian Pool, Talkin ’bout a revolution, Linocut, 38 x 28 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Launch

To be officially launched by Mayor Jenny Hill.

Friday 13 October 2023
6pm for 6:30pm speeches

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Artist Talk

Saturday 14 October 2023
10:30am

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Join the artist of Soundtracks as the give an insight into their artwork.

Free, no bookings required.

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