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Leagues Competition

To celebrate our current exhibition at Pinnacles Gallery, Leagues, Townsville City Galleries is excited to give away some tickets to the upcoming Cowboys games!

To enter, all you need to do is visit Pinnacles Gallery and leave your feedback about Leagues by scanning the QR Code at the reception desk.

Up for grabs:

1x NQ Cowboys V Newcastle Knights Family Pass Ticket. Enter before Thursday 14 August 2025 for your chance to win!
1x NQ Cowboys V Brisbane Broncos Family Pass Ticket. Enter before Wednesday 27 August 2025 for your chance to win!

View the Terms and Conditions (PDF, 109.4 KB).

Please note:

Pinnacles is open to the public without needing a booking.
A maximum of 90 people are allowed inside the Gallery.

Exhibitions Calendar

Leagues

Exhibition dates: 5 July to 19 October 2025

Samuel Leighton-Dore, Cowboys Crowd, 2024. Image courtesy the artist. — **Image credit:** Samuel Leighton-Dore, *Cowboys Crowd*, 2024. Image courtesy the artist.

Curated by Bradley Vincent.

Rugby League is arguably Australia’s national game. It’s certainly Queensland’s game of choice. And for Townsville and the surrounding regions, it is a part of weekly life. From junior clubs and local community teams through to the spectacle of the mighty North Queensland Cowboys, the game, with its working-class roots and broad reach, is much more than just a sport to its many followers.

Leagues will celebrate the modern game and its place in our lives. This brand-new exhibition brings together some of the country’s leading contemporary artists who have created artworks that capture the power and the passion, the glory and the grunt, of rugby league and reflect on the many ways that the game shapes our communities.

Bold, brash and colourful, this Townsville exclusive exhibition will feature newly commissioned artworks immortalising local Cowboys heroes, alongside works that reflect the reach of the game across the country and beyond. A must see for any league fan and for lovers of contemporary art alike, Leagues features artworks from Billy Bain, Yuriyal Bridgeman, Weaver Hawkins, Samuel Hodge, Samuel Leighton-Dore, Kate Mitchell, Jason Phu and design duo Romance Was Born (Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales).

Launch and Floor Talk

Join us at Pinnacles Gallery for the launch of Leagues, beginning with a floor talk featuring Curator Bradley Vincent and exhibiting artists Billy Bain and Samuel Leighton-Dore.

Friday 4 July 2025
Floor Talk: 6 – 6:45pm
Launch: Official speeches at 7pm

Free event.

Upcoming Exhibitions

The Children’s Sensorium

Exhibition dates: 8 November 2025 to 8 March 2025

Hiromi Tango, Hiromi Hotel INHABITANT, 2022. — **Image:** Hiromi Tango, *Hiromi Hotel INHABITANT*, 2022. Archives of Feeling, 2022, RMIT Design Hub Gallery. Image courtesy of the artists and their representatives. Photo by Tobias Titz.

The Children’s Sensorium, curated by Grace McQuilten with artistic direction from N'arwee't Carolyn Briggs, is an interactive exhibition featuring light, colour, touch, sound, smell and taste to activate children’s curiosity, connect them to local Country, and introduce strategies and techniques that support emotional resilience and wellbeing.

The exhibition is designed for children aged 4 to 11 and their parents and carers. It includes sense-based installations to create an environment that is fun and engaging. It includes a variety of materials for play and is a space that children can spend time to explore their senses, feelings, thoughts, worries and hopes.

Past Exhibitions

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