Future exhibitions

Namatjira to now

McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
17 September – 31 October 2010

The great Albert Namatjira’s adoption of the European medium of watercolour for his landscape paintings remains an inspiration to contemporary artists from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) and surrounding regions of Central Australia. Since the 1930s, artists there have been producing vibrant and highly regarded art that has made their country celebrated throughout Australia. This exhibition will highlight work by Indigenous Australian artists from the Hermannsburg School and will include watercolours (from the original and subsequent generations), ceramics and acrylic paintings on canvas.
10.30am Saturday 18 September: Meet the collection
11am Saturday 18 September: Floor talk

Maelstrom: Recent works by Kelvyn Cunnington

Artspace Mackay Foyer
17  September – 31 October 2010

Maelstrom surges forth like a turbulent, anxious and unsettling river of imagery. A grinding whorl, a droning dirge, flooded with symbolism, works that are not easily defined. Resonant and deeply psychological, these images seek out and demand an emotional response. Drawings, collage, assemblage…drawn from the artist’s inner vault, his creations oscillate between the genuinely disturbing and quiet prayerful contemplation - Maelstrom is a contradiction.

Simryn Gill: Gathering

McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
5 November 2010 – 9 January 2011

This solo exhibition presents the work of leading Sydney-based Malaysian artist, Simryn Gill. It reveals the artist’s pursuit of meaning through materials, forms and ways of working and is focused around new works from the past five years including photography, objects, collections, books and text pieces.

10:30am Saturday 6 November: Meet the collection
11am Saturday 6 November: Floor talk

The Printbank Award 2010

Artspace Mackay Foyer
5 November 2010 – 9 January 2011

An exhibition of selected entries for Printbank Mackay's second annual printmaking award. The 2010 Printbank Award is the only one of it's kind in the region, and open to printmakers Queensland wide. The exhibition will showcase a variety of traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques.