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2 DEC – 28 JAN 2012
Colliding Islands
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Colliding Islands explores the idea of contemporary landscapes through the work of selected Australian and international practitioners working in a range of artforms.
The exhibition features works on paper, film and installation work by artists Jillian Conrad (US), Olivier Dollinger (FRN), David Hamill (US), Archie Moore (AUS) and Heeseop Yoon (KOR/US). Except for Archie Moore, the artists are exhibiting in Australia for the first time.
A travelling exhibition curated by Louise Rollman and toured by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland. This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Camino: Recent Works By Kim Demuth
Artspace Mackay Foyer
After completing an Australia Council Barcelona Studio Residency in 2005, Kim Demuth was inspired to return in 2008, this time on foot to embark upon a 900km pilgrimage across the Northern regions of Spain (‘El Camino de Santiago’).
After completing the walk, he spent the following year constructing sculptural photographs that celebrate particular times and places from the experiences and discoveries that the journey had provided.
29 JUL – 28 OCT
Happily ever after: Alternative destinies in contemporary feminine narrative
Cox Rayner Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Happily Ever After was conceived as an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, writers and craftspeople invited to work together to create handmade books which explore female narratives within the fairytale genre.
While the classic fairytale ending ‘happily ever after’ envisages a single, finite destiny, the contemporary feminine experience encompasses a multiplicity of roles, expectations, endings, beginnings and relationships. Thus the exhibition theme is probably best conceptualised as a celebration of diversity within destiny, with the fairytale genre used as the narrative vehicle to explore this idea.
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
On the 2nd October, 2009 UNESCO recognised Javanese batik as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. To celebrate this, Caloundra Regional Gallery brings together two batik collections: one of batiks from the North Coast of Java and the other now held as memory and represented in the recent paintings by contemporary Indonesian artist Dadang Christanto (now resident in Brisbane). An element of these paintings depicts as fragments of memory and loss, batiks from the collection of his mother’s shop. The selection of batiks from the Sunshine Coast collection of Greg Roberts and Ian Reed includes exquisite examples of North Coast Javanese textiles. Batik of Java is a Caloundra Regional Gallery touring exhibition.
Creative Generation
Artspace Mackay Foyer
An initiative of the Department of Education and Training, this exhibition highlights a range of outstanding work by visual art and design students from secondary schools throughout the Mackay region. Selected finalists from the region go on to compete in the statewide Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design.
1 JUL – 13 AUG 2011
Contemporary Miniatures
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A collection-based exhibition drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery’s holdings of miniature paintings from South Asia, Contemporary Miniatures explores the dynamic visual language of miniature painting and its continued significance in contemporary art practice. A significant thread in the exhibition is the citing of imagery, texts and events from the past to contextualise and comment on contemporary issues. This is a Queensland Art Gallery travelling exhibition, supported by the Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments, administered by Arts Queensland.
Bonney Bombach - Memento Mori: Tree of Life
Artspace Mackay Foyer
In an deeply poignant year for the artist, Bombach salvages memories from her family home. Honouring her late centenarian parents, refugees from 1938 Vienna, the photographs, letters and pieces she recovered not only translate as a remarkably personal genealogy, but act also as a symbol of permanence and transition. From the Latin phrase meaning a reminder of mortality, Momento Mori embodies a rich generational and spiritual connection.
29 OCT 2010 - 23 JUL 2011
c/o Poste Restant: Artists Books from the Mackay Regional Council Collection
Cox Rayner Gallery, Artspace Mackay
C/O Poste Restante highlights a selection of works from the Mackay Regional Council’s permanent collection of artists books. Our increased use of electronic technology combined with the environmental need to work towards a paper free society, continuously threatens the book's role as humankind's primary communication tool. The work in this exhibition explores and examines the preciousness and sentimentality of letters, diaries, journals, scribbled notes, travel tickets and indeed the art of handwriting itself.
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6 MAY - 26 JUN 2011
Ranamok Glass Prize 2011McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Now in its sixteenth year, Ranamok aims to encourage creativity, skill and innovation in contemporary glass from Australia and New Zealand and has become a pivotal event in the Australian visual arts and craft calendar.
Attracting over 100 entries throughout Australia and New Zealand in 2010, this exhibition displays stunning contemporary glasswork from the award’s finalists and includes the winner of the valuable annual prize.
Clem Forbes: Recent Additions to the Mackay Regional Council Collection
Artspace Mackay Foyer
11 MAR - 01 MAY 2011
MAYS: The May Lane street art project
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A partnership project between Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and the May Lane Association Inc, MAY'S is the first comprehensive exhibition of street art to tour nationally.
The May Lane project began in Sydney in 2005 when Tugi Balog turned the walls of his business into an outdoor gallery space for street artists. The May’s collection now consists of over 100 panels by celebrated Australian & international street artists who have worked in May Lane. MAY’S: The May Lane Street Art Project features a selection of 25 works from this collection and explores the history and evolution of the Australian street art movement with particular reference to the May Lane project.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose: Recent works by Corey De Muth
Artspace Mackay Foyer
Through text and watercolour portraits, Corey De Muth's series is a close observation of yound men who belong to a generation that is at the fragile endpoint of the decline of western civilisation. While they may be at different places, they share a common link; the awareness of a generation -a society- doomed.
14 JAN - 6 MAR 2011
STUDIO: Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
The extensive photographic and journalistic work carried out by National Geographic photographer R. Ian Lloyd and acclaimed art critic and writer John McDonald culminated in the exhibition STUDIO: Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd. Their aim was to capture a broad cross-section of artists from all over Australia, including traditional Aboriginal painters, working in a variety of styles. The photographic studies reveal each artist, in fascinating detail, in their working environment. STUDIO provides insights into the complex blend of motivation and inspiration that sustains these 61 individual artists, revealing the way their studio space affects and stimulates their creativity.
The Artist's Studio: Ron McBurnie Prints
Artspace Mackay Foyer
This series of etchings by Townsville printmaker Ron McBurnie explores that intimate space and personal environment of the artist at work. This collaboration with well known Australian artists involved McBurnie working directly onto the etching plate, in situ, and inviting each collaborating artist to contribute to each print by etching their own work directly into McBurnie's composition.
16 - 22 FEB 2011
Great Walks: Art & Environment
Sarina Art Gallery, Field of Dreams Parkland, Sarina
This exhibition features a selection of works created in the Mackay and Whitsundays as part of a 2005 public art initiative celebrating the development of six walking tracks by the Environmental Protection Agency in Queensland.
These works by local artists including Glen Skien, Ruth Parry, Holly Grech and Shane Fitzgerald belong to the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service Public Art Collection.
05 NOV 2010 – 09 JAN 2011
Due to the Queensland Floods, this exhibition was extended until 16 JAN 2011.
Simryn Gill: Gathering
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
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.
Gill’s practice considers how we might experience place and the intersection of personal and collective histories and geographies. For her work May 2006 the artist took more than 800 photographs over a month of walks around her neighbourhood, using a film stock that had recently been discontinued and was nearing its expiry date. The work records the passing of this material as well as Gill’s deepening connection to her locality.
05 NOV 2010 – 09 JAN 2011
The Printbank Award 2010
Artspace Mackay Foyer
In 2009, Printbank Mackay launched the Print Awards. Unique to this region, and open to printmakers across the Mackay, Whitsunday and Isaac council areas, the Print Awards are an important avenue for local, regional and urban printmakers to express themselves and to receive feedback on their work.
The resulting exhibition showcases a wide variety of traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques.
The 2010 Printbank Awards are judged by Basil Hall, one of Australia’s leading printmakers. The next Printbank Awards will be in 2012.
Namatjira to Now
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
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.
Opening celebration: 6pm Friday 14 September 2010
Meet the collection: 10:30am Saturday 18 September 2010
Floor talk: 11:00am Saturday 18 September 2010
DOWNLOAD THE MP3 RECORDED FLOOR TALK
This Floor Talk delivered by Bruce Mclean, Associate Curator in Indigenous Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery, was recorded on 18 September 2010 at Artspace Mackay for the exhibition Namatjira to Now.
Maelstrom: Recent works by Kelvyn Cunnington
Artspace Mackay Foyer
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.
16 JUL – 12 SEP 2010
Paolozzi + Kitaj: British Pop Prints from the Art Gallery of NSW Collection
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
This exhibition features two major British print portfolios from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Eduardo Paolozzi’s 'Bunk' 1972 is a collection of 45 screenprints derived from collage scrapbooks made by the artist in the 1950s. The source material came from American magazines given to the him by US soldiers on leave in Paris in the late 1940s. The works highlight the rampant consumerism of American society in stark contrast to the post-war austerity of England still subjected to rationing and the effects of a slow economic recovery. The second portfolio 'In our time: Covers for a small library after the life for the most part' 1969 by R.B.Kitaj is a collection of 50 screenprints of second-hand book covers. Published with deliberate lack of explanation as to the choice of books, the accumulative effect of ‘the library’ is both a time-capsule and an intriguing insight into the mind of the artist.
Working Through/Turning Pages: the artists books of Robert Jacks
Artspace Mackay Foyer
Robert Jacks has been making artists books as a key element of his practice since the mid-1960s. these books range from one-off works to multiples and editions using a variety of printing techniques from hand stamping and etching to collage, photography and other media.
8 MAY – 11 JUL 2010
Twelve Degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in Queensland
McAleese Gallery & Artspace Mackay Foyer
Twelve Degrees of Latitude is the first major exhibition of works curated solely from the collections of twenty-seven of Queensland’s regional gallery and university collections. The exhibition focuses on why and how Queensland’s regional collections began, their historical roles within their communities, the role of patronage and donor support in their growth and development, and the strength of the state-wide regional gallery culture.
The exhibition illustrates the diversity, as well as significant linkages, of regional collections through themes or groupings such as pre-20th century art; landscape and figures in landscape; other 20th century art (1900-1990); indigenous art; and art post 1990.
9 APR – 23 JUL 2010
2010 Libris Awards: Australian Artists' Book Prize Exhibition
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
The Libris Awards are Australia's premier national artists' book prize. An initiative of the Mackay Regional Council through Artspace Mackay, these biennial awards seek to develop the collection further through the acquisition of new works by leading Australian artists working in this field. This exhibition of selected finalists' works forms part of the overall Artspace Mackay program Focus On Artists’ Books V.
Assimilated Rhythm No. 4 Bint Trembuckey: Recent works by Deanna Hitti
Artspace Mackay Foyer
Deanna Hitti was the recipient of Artspace Mackay's Libris Awards National Artists' Book Award in 2008. Assimilated Rhythm No.4 Bint Trembuckey combines collographs and watercolour to create a large music score - a rhythmic palimpsest of Arabic and Western words generating a lyrical flow of pattern and thought.
5 FEB – 4 APR 2010
Habitus-Habitat
McAleese Gallery
Featuring a selection of works created during artist residencies throughout Queensland in 2005 and 2006, Habitus-Habitat showcases some of the finest contemporary art practice currently taking place in Queensland.
Who minds the shells: Lesley Kane
Artspace Mackay Foyer
Lesley Kane’s fascination for sea shells extends to prehistoric times. Is enough care taken of fossil shell deposits from the inland sea during the relentless search and mining of coal?
Free exhibition floor talks from 11am, Saturday 6 February
Fiona MacDonald: Local studies
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
From the early 1990s to today, Fiona MacDonald's major creative focus has been the archives from her hometown of Rockhampton.
Download the Artspace Mackay Floor Talk mp3 file: Floor talk by Fiona MacDonald and curator, Jo Holder.
Expressions of self: An Artspace Mackay Volunteers' Exhibition
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
An exhibition of recent works by Artspace Mackay Volunteers.
30 OCT – 13 DEC 2009
Waters' edge: Creating environments
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
An environmental art project conceived and facilitated by Cairns-based artist Jill Chism, Waters' edge: Creating environments draws attention to the water as a vital substance for life. The exhibition features photographs of environmental artworks created by nine Queensland artists, at specific sites throughout Queensland, during residencies in 2008. Installations by three Mackay artists involved in the project - Tracey Heathwood, Ashley Holmes and Ngaio Lenz, will also feature in this exhibition.
Trace: Recent works by Glen Skien
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Trace explores the potential of object, image and surface to retain a sense of the extended flow of experience and gestures of memory and to carry traces of what lies elsewhere.
4 SEP – 25 OCT 2009
Recycled library: Altered books
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Recycled library is an exhibition of works by Australian artists that incorporate existing/found books as a major conceptual and creative element. The exhibition investigates the symbolism of 'the book' in an era in which the printed page is in danger of being superseded by digital technology. Many of the artists in this exhibition have used second-hand books as a way of questioning the authority of the printed text, particularly as historical records of fact.
Mangrove: Recent works by Irene Coburn
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
In this exhibition of prints, created from drawings and photographs, Irene Coburn investigates the strength and power of nature and what happens when nature takes back what we have taken from it. Global warming and the rising sea levels place many coastal communities at risk. What will happen to existing buildings when they are eventually reclaimed by the sea?
10 JUL – 30 AUG 2009
Hands on: Rick Wood - A commitment to clay
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A retrospective exhibition curated by Artspace Mackay, Hands on celebrates the life and achievements of Rick Wood, a revered local potter. The exhibition features many examples of Rick's early works, which demonstrate his interest in salt-glaze firing following his training with Arthur and Carol Rosser.
Over the years, Wood's work evolved and was inspired by bushwalking, windsurfing and scuba diving and also incorporated the forms of seed pods, bark patterns and island profiles. His later work exploits glazing techniques from ancient China. Rick's work has been included in several significant group exhibitions such as The Queensland Gift 1988, for the Queensland Potters Association and Decorated clay at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1991.
Listen to the ink: A Printbank Mackay exhibition
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
An exhibition of linocuts, collographs and etchings by local printmaking group Printbank Mackay.
15 MAY – 28 JUN 2009
On the edge: Visions of a tropical coastline
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
An intimate connection to the lush and culturally diverse coastal edge of far North Queensland inspired twelve established artists to produce an exhibition exploring their commonality. On the edge features artists who live along the coast, from Cairns to the Torres Strait Islands, and explores their shared affinity for this unique tropical region.
Fire glyphs and spirits: G.W. Bot
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
Much admired Australian artist, G.W. Bot has described her latest body of work as a "dialogue between silences and spaces and the landscape of glyphs". Like a sequence of visual poems, the series of work maps a spiritual terrain as much as a physical landscape. Gestural marks and rhythmic notations are threaded sparsely through the prints, reminiscent of ancient pictographs or hieroglyphics, and describe a winding trail from the known landscape toward a psychological hinterland that lies somewhere between the sensorial and the visual, the abstract and the real.
27 MAR – 10 MAY 2009
Talking Tapa: Pacifika Bark Cloth in Queensland
A national touring exhibition showcasing the diversity of Islander cultural practices through tapa bark cloths. Tapa is synonymous with the Pacific Islands. It is made from the inner bark or bast of, most commonly, the paper mulberry tree. Its physical qualities and uses vary throughout the Pacific. Tapa designs include clan patterning, plant, bird, animal and fish motifs, geometric and personal designs, and contemporary and historical events.
Donna Marcus: Colour Studies
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
Donna Marcus is a Queensland-based artist who is best known for her use of everyday domestic objects, particularly aluminium kitchen-ware that she incorporates into her sculptural work. This exhibition coincides with the launch of the sculpture by Donna Marcus commissioned for the new Lanai Luxury Apartments in Mackay, who are sponsoring the exhibition.
7 FEB – 22 MAR 2009
Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits
1987 – 2007
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A NETS Victoria Touring Exhibition developed by the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Hall of Mirrors explores the thread of portraiture through the prolific career of one of Australia’s pre-eminent photomedia artists. Featuring many iconic images, this major survey exhibition will also introduce audiences to previously unseen portraits.
In Her Shoes: 6 Women Artists
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
In an exhibition curated by Wanda Bennett, six artists from varying backgrounds and environments will explore a turning point, important moment or experience in their lives that is not represented or celebrated in a traditional ritual or ceremony. Through diverse media (film, textiles, assemblage, installation and works on paper), the artists’ stories are told via a connection with shoes. Artists include: M.J. Ryan Bennett, Townsville; Tracey Heathwood, Mackay; Jo Hodges, Moniave, UK; Dominie Hooper, Collinsville; Rosemary Payne, Mackay; and Freya Zinovieff, Cambridge, UK.
Myth to Modern: Bronzes from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
This exhibition draws on the Queensland Art Gallery's collection of figurative bronze sculptures to explore the application of this enduring medium across a variety of subjects and themes. Myth, legend, portraiture and modernism feature in a selection of works, dating from c. 1700 to the emerging modernism of Auguste Rodin, and early twentieth-century works by Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore.
This intimate focus exhibition, comprising 14 works by predominantly European artists, also includes works by Australian sculptors Daphne Mayo, Bertram Mackennal and Harold Parker, who were directly influenced by the rich tradition of Western myth and history.
Making it Modern: The watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A Queensland Art Gallery Travelling Exhibition of Kenneth Macqueen's (1897 - 1960) watercolours, 'Making it Modern' highlights his importance as a key Australian modernist and reveals him as a complex and highly individual artist.
Correspondence: Ngaio Lenz
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
24 OCT - 30 NOV 2008
Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
An exciting new Travelling Exhibition from the Queensland Art Gallery. Photography and the moving image were integral to The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5), from Ai Weiwei'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 Asian, Pacific and Australian collections. The exhibition includes many acquisitions from APT5.
Ti Parks: Artists' Books
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
13 SEP - 19 OCT 2008
Cuisine and Country: A gastronomic adventure in Australian art
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
An Orange Regional Gallery Travelling Exhibition, Cuisine and Country is a visually stunning exploration of food as subject matter. Ranging from a sumptuous and festive still life table setting by Margaret Olley, to eel traps expertly woven by Indigenous artists, the exhibition features works by Australia's most noted artists.
Travailogue 15: Stephen Eastaugh
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
4 JUL - 7 SEP 2008
Painting in a Library: Patrick Pound
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Painting in a Library surveys the role of the book in Pound's art over two decades. From paintings to collages and photographs, Pound's work looks as if it were made by someone who, on trying to explain the world and having failed, has been reduced to collecting it. This exhibition unpacks the notion of the library and the artwork as a copy of the world.
Crossing the Threshold: Ann Williams-Fitzgerald
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
16 MAY - 29 JUN 2008
Brushmen of the Bush
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A Broken Hill Regional Gallery Travelling Exhibition celebrating the artistic achievements of five outback artists who have made a valuable contribution to Australian art - Pro Hart, Jack Absalom, Eric Minchin, Hugh Schulz and Mackay resident John Pickup.
Six Decades Exposed: Photographs by John Pickup
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
28 MAR - 11 MAY 2008
Cage of Ghosts: Jon Rhodes
A National Library of Australia Travelling Exhibition featuring the photographs of Jon Rhodes. Cage of Ghosts represents the search for physical reminders of Aboriginal occupation is south-eastern Australia, where the impact of European settlement has been the longest and most intense.
The Archie Comic Book Series: Paintings by Archie Moore
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
8 FEB - 23 MAR 2008
2008 Libris Awards: Australian Artists' Book Prize Exhibition
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
The Libris Awards are Australia's premier national artists' book prize. An initiative of the Mackay Regional Council through Artspace Mackay, these biennial awards seek to develop the collection further through the acquisition of new works by leading Australian artists working in this field.
The foreigner in ourselves: Recent works by Clyde McGill
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
Winner of the 2006 Libris Awards Clyde McGill presents an exhibition of recent works in the foyer of Artspace Mackay. McGill's work looks at the edges, portals, the porous lines and the suffusion that occurs between the inside and the outside.
Coal Face: Looking at life in our mining communities
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Renowned Townsville-based artist Anneke Silver presents a series of large-scale drawings inspired by the harsh, industrial landscape of the mines surrounding Mackay. Local photographer Dean Whitling will exhibit commissioned, large-format portrait's of miners and landscape photographs. Former Dysart resident Pam Bartley shares her drawings of the mining experience from a woman's perspective.
Collage: An Artspace Mackay Volunteers' Exhibition
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
Artspace Mackay Volunteers present an exhibition of their work in a variety of media in the foyer.
26 OCT - 2 DEC 2007
2007 Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Art – Mackay Region
The Education Minister's Awards for Excellence in Art (EMAEA) aims to promote and recognise excellence in senior visual arts education throughout Queensland state and non-state schools. In this exhibition, selected students from throughout the Mackay region will be displaying their artworks as part of the 2007 Ministers Awards for Excellence in Art.The Education Minister's Awards for Excellence in Art (EMAEA) aims to promote and recognise excellence in senior visual arts education throughout Queensland state and non-state schools. In this exhibition, selected students from throughout the Mackay region will be displaying their artworks as part of the 2007 Ministers Awards for Excellence in Art.
Reel Heroes: Safe Beaches
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
A touring exhibition and project developed by Impress Printmakers and Surf Life Saving Australia in recognition/celebration of 2007 Year of the Surf Life Saver.
31 AUG - 21 OCT 2007
Marks and Motifs: Prints from the PCA Collection
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A QUT Art Museum Travelling Exhibition celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Print Council of Australia (PCA), Marks and Motifs consists of 45 works commissioned by the PCA since the 1960s. The exhibition gives an insight into the historical development of printmaking in Australia, particularly with the recent emergence of new print technologies, (including photo-mechanical and digital processes) and the effects this has had on more traditional methods such as linocut and woodcut.
MySpace: Recent works by Leo Scott
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
Local artist Leo Scott presents a selection of recent work, which draws upon personal experiences and observations of everyday living in regional Queensland.
13 JUL - 26 AUG 2007
Imagining Papua New Guinea: Prints from the national collection
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A National Gallery of Australian Travelling Exhibition. Proudly supported by Australian Air Express. Celebrating the rich history of printmaking in Papua New Guinea since Independence - from the '60s, '70s and '80s. Featuring works by iconic artists Mathias Kauage, Martin Morubuna, David Lasisi, John Man and Timothy Akis. With international reputations, these artists are highly regarded for the vibrancy, imagination and strength of their work and the way they respond to their contemporary world. Curated by Roger Butler
Margaret Burgess: Memories from a crowded house
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
Growing up in Mackay as one of eleven children in a three bedroom house during the turbulent '60s and '70s, provided the inspiration for this exhibition. Margaret shares, on canvas, memories of everyday aspects of life in an unstable but exciting era.
4 MAY – 8 JUL 2007
Queensland Live: Contemporary art on tour exhibition
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
Queensland Live is a travelling exhibition of work by eleven major Queensland contemporary artists drawn from the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery. The exhibition, curated by Julie Ewington, includes works in a wide variety of media from oil paintings by Anne Wallace to ceramics by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, film work by Tracy Moffatt and Judith Wright as well as an installation by Luke Roberts. Five of these leading Australian artists are Indigenous, working outside the traditional forms of indigenous art, tackling the social and political issues of Aboriginality within a wider Australian culture.
23 MAR – 29 APR 2007
In the World: head, hand, heart - 17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial 2006
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
In the World: head, hand, heart – 17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial 2006 curated by Adelaide based curator, Vivonne Thwaites, is the latest Fibre Textile Biennial from Tamworth Regional Gallery. The curator has selected 28 artists from all over Australia who use fibre / textiles to engage with contemporary concerns: “ The works address themes as diverse as individuality and identity politics, belonging and our place in the world, gender and sexuality, the environment and the increasing insularity and disconnectedness of much contemporary life.”
Adriaan Vanderlugt: Nature transmogrified. Wildlife in my life
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
With finely crafted works in wood and stone, Proserpine artist Adriaan Vanderlugt pays homage to the wonders of the natural environment.
2 FEB - 7 MAR 2007
Judith Wright: Breath and other considerations
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
A survey of large scale works on paper as well as artist’s books and video work.
Eugene Carchesio: ascending descending
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
A wall installation created specifically for Artspace Mackay and a display of a series of artist’s books recently acquired by Mackay Regional Council.
A rare chance to see work by these two important artists from Brisbane. Both have exhibited widely and their works are represented in the National Gallery of Australia and many State gallery collections. While each is known for their unique vision, both share a passion for unframed paper and both grapple with subjects that are as
essential & diaphanous as the medium of the artworks. In two very different exhibitions they both touch lightly on heavy issues: living, breathing, being, dying.
Recent Acquisitions: Mackay City Council Collection 2004-2006
McAleese Gallery, Artspace Mackay
New works from Mackay Regional Council's art collection including artists' books, prints, drawings, paintings and pottery. The Mackay Regional Council Collection belongs to the people of Mackay and includes significant donations and gifts from artists, benefactors and collectors who have supported the development of the arts in our region. Showcasing a number of new acquisitions including works by the Lockhart River Art Gang, drawings by Clem Forbes, prints by Robert Moore, Arthur Boyd and Dianne Fogwell as well as selections from special collections such as the Pioneer Potters Collection and the Pat Corrigan Gift.
Empathy: Works by Raye Williams
Mackay Mazda Foyer, Artspace Mackay
An exhibition of recent works by Mackay artist Raye Williams which explores the role of animal carers within the local community, giving an insight into their work, commitment and how they relate to animals. Animal carers protect wildlife or ill-treated domestic animals, and have a special love of animals that will be reflected in paintings and prints by the artist.