Exhibitions
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2023/24 Exhibitions Calendar
Current Exhibitions
good grief, danish quapoor
Exhibition Dates: 8 March - 28 April 2024
Pinnacles Gallery
Danish Quapoor is known for his distinctive flat-colour compositions and playful narratives. The artist's largest body of work to date features his trademark illustrative paintings, wall drawings and ceramics alongside blown glass, textile forms and stop-motion animation. Quapoor reconciles these ostensibly disparate elements of his practice with a cohesive colour palette and a consistent use of repetitive, time-consuming processes.
Conceptually, good grief is an interrogation of personal identity and familial relationships. The artist reflects on his father's unexpected death in the 2020 peak of COVID-19, and the exasperation of experiences and memories in the wake of that loss. Collectively, the works illuminate and subvert concepts of grief, sexuality, and gender roles within heteronormative regional contexts. These concepts are tempered by layers of humour, wordplay, misdirection and a life-affirming levity in aesthetic and approach.
Image: Danish Quapoor, stubborn forces, 2022. Baling twine on porcelain paperclay with clear gloss glaze, 24.5 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm.
Photograph: Daniel Qualischefski.
Exhibition Launch
Friday 8 March
6pm for 6:30pm speeches
Pinnacles Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Artist Talk
Saturday 9 March
10:30am
Pinnacles Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Image: Townsville City Galleries.
Photograph: Andrew Rankin.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Tate Adams: In Black & White
Exhibition Dates: 4 May - 7 July 2024
Pinnacles Gallery
Tate Adams’ (1922–2018) artistic career began and ended as a painter. Only a few of his early paintings survive. Connemara Girl was the only painting he kept. The work is typical of the small-scale figurative paintings he produced in Ireland before immigrating to Australia, and speaks of his reverence for Ireland. Adams would live into his nineties, a life of continuous artistic exploration. Largely thought of as a printmaker, Adams taught the first diploma of printmaking in Australia at RMIT. His colleagues and students number among the well-known in Australian art.
Adjusting to the onset of macular degeneration in the latter half of his life, and when living almost reclusively in Townsville, Adams synthesised his artistic knowledge to create large-scale gouaches. In Black & White is a celebration of these large-scale black gouache paintings and the prints that derived from them. Produced towards the end of his life, they express Adams’ delight in exploring his Irish and broader artistic heritage and incorporating his Australian environment.
Exhibition Launch & Floor Talk
Saturday 4 May 2024
11am – 1pm
Pinnacles Gallery
Free, no bookings required
Image: Tate Adams, Maura 2010, etching, gouache resist sugarlift and aquatint, 70 x 48 cm (sheet), Edition 6/50. Gift of the artist, 2010. City of Townsville Art Collection. Accession number: 2010.87
Past Exhibitions
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