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MAR - MAY ‘16
CAIRNS REGIONAL GALLERY
DIRECTOR’S
FOREWORD
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IMAGE
Greg Semu
Auto portrait with 12 Disciples 2010
PNT870
Digital C-Type print
Edition of 10
100 x 286 cm
© The Artist & Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
In 2016 we look forward to presenting a
diverse program that extends critical thought
in relation to art from our region and our
place within Oceania and the world’s tropic
zone.
The Gallery’s ambitious programs have
recently been recognised with major grants
from both the Australia Council and Arts
Queensland for the development of nationally
significant exhibitions.
To further strengthen our commitment to
presenting the most recent developments in
contemporary art practice, the new Visiting
Artists Program will enable our audiences to
meet with leading contemporary artists such
as Patricia Piccinini, Greg Semu and James
Morrison to discuss their most recent work.
We are thrilled to be the first institution in
Australia to be selected to exhibit works from
the National Gallery of Australia’s permanent
collection as part of their Outreach
Program. The first of these is a fascinating
installation by Bill Viola who is an acclaimed
international video artist.
This year we will continue to present
exhibitions by leading modernist artists who
produced works in relation to the region.
Over the next three months we are pleased
to present exhibitions by two nationally
recognised artists, Douglas Annand and
William Dobell.
We hope you will enjoy our year ahead and
thank you for sharing our passion for art.
Andrea Churcher
Director
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VALE
RAY CROOKE
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge
the recent passing of one of Far North
Queensland’s most inspiring and respected
artists, Ray Crooke. The following is an
extract of the eulogy by Philip Bacon who
was both a friend and agent of the artist for
over 40 years:
“It is hard to imagine how we could look
at the landscape and the people of North
Queensland and the Pacific except through
the eyes of Ray Crooke, surely one of the
most renowned, and loved artists of his
generation.
Ray’s early years in Melbourne, working
in an advertising agency, studying art at
Swinburne Technical College, and then
undertaking a correspondence course in art
with the East Sydney Technical College while
in the army, gave him his first introduction
to the world of art and artists, and it was
his world from that time on. He was one of
those fortunate people who knew early in life
what their ambitions were, and who singlemindedly pursued those aims and ambitions
thereafter.
After he and June married and returned
to Cairns in 1951… exhibition followed
exhibition, with sell out shows down through
the years [and] in 1969 he won Australia’s
artistic Academy Award, the Archibald Prize,
with a portrait of his friend the writer, George
Johnston.
Over fifty works by various artists have been
gifted to the Cairns Regional Gallery [by Ray
Crooke], but what he has mostly given is
the example of a life lived honestly, totally
committed to his art, and his family.”
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IMAGE
Charles Page
Portrait of Ray Crooke 2001
gelatin silver photograph
34.4 x 51.2cm
Cairns Regional Gallery Collection
Commissioned with funds from the Centenary of Federation Arts Project,
Queensland Grant, 2001
© Charles Page
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FINAL DAYS
UNTIL 13 MAR ‘16
CREAM
FOUR DECADES OF AUSTRALIAN ART
Don’t miss the final days of Cream: Four
Decades of Australian Art which provides
Cairns audiences with a rare opportunity to
experience some of the finest works by our
nation’s most respected and acclaimed 20th
century artists.
The exhibition is drawn from the Collection
of the Rockhampton Regional Gallery and
includes works by Arthur Boyd, Sidney
Nolan, Fred Williams, Russell Drysdale,
Charles Blackman, Fred Williams, Brett
Whiteley, Margaret Olley and Lloyd Rees.
The Rockhampton Collection is valued at
over $14 million, with most works purchased
during the 1970s. At that time, works were
purchased for a fraction of their present day
value and with matched funding through the
Australian Contemporary Art Acquisition
Program run by the Visual Arts Board of the
Australia Council. The Rockhampton Mayor
of the day, Rex Pilbeam led the fundraising
campaign that inspired regional businesses
and local residents to donate money towards
the Gallery’s acquisition fund.
Today, the Collection, that is showcased
through the national touring exhibition,
Cream, highlights not only the development
of modernism in Australia between 19401980, but is an inspiration to all public
galleries about the value of collecting works
of art as an enduring legacy for future
generations and audiences.
IMAGE
Sidney Nolan (1917–1992)
Burke in central Australia 1964
oil on composition board
122.2 x 122.2cm
Rockhampton Art Gallery collection, Art Acquisition Fund, purchased with the
assistance of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council 1976
© The Artist’s Estate. All rights reserved 2013/Bridgeman Art Library
Visions of Australia
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through
the Ministry for the Arts’ Visions of Australia program. Funding for
insurance has been provided through the Queensland Government
Exhibition Indemnification Scheme, administered by Arts Queensland.
Project support has come from the Regional Arts Development Fund, a
Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Rockhampton
Regional Council partnership to support local arts and culture.
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Rockhampton Art Gallery is owned and operated by Rockhampton
Regional Council.
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UNTIL
10 APR ‘16
LIGHT
MOVES
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN VIDEO ART
Light Moves: Contemporary Australian Video
Art is a travelling exhibition of new media
works from the permanent collection of
the National Galleryof Australia, Canberra.
The exhibition brings together some of
Australia’s leading video artists, each
represented by a major work that explores
the possibilities of the body in video form.
Artists represented in the exhibition
include Daniel Crooks, Hayden Fowler,
Shaun Gladwell, Gabriella and Silvana
Mangano, David Rosetzky, Julie Rrap and
Christian Thompson. Each of these artists
has developed an international profile and
together their works provide a concise and
highly accessible survey of contemporary
video practice in Australia.
The exhibition is visually engaging as well as
being contemplative. Light Moves includes
projected and screen-based works that
explore the movement of the human body in
a range of real and imagined spaces.
IMAGE
Christian Thompson
Heat (detail) 2010
three channel digital video, sound, duration 5 minutes 52 seconds
collection of the National Gallery of Australia
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UNTIL
10 APR ‘16
BILL
VIOLA
PASSAGE INTO NIGHT
We are thrilled to have been selected by
the National Gallery of Australia to be the
first venue to participate in their Outreach
Program, which will enable our Gallery to
present major international works to our
audiences over the next six months.
The first work that we have selected is a
video installation by Bill Viola, an American
video and sound artist. Viola is a leading
contemporary artist whose work has been
extensively exhibited and collected around
the world.
Passage into Night depicts a portrait of a
female who appears in the harsh light and
heat of the midday sun. The figure begins as
an apparition within a mirage, a tiny form in
the barren landscape. The viewer is gradually
drawn into the scene until they too feel
subsumed by the mystery figure and taken
into another worldliness.
For over forty years, Viola’s practice has
continuously transformed audiences’
understanding of video as an art form,
expanding its technological scope and
historical relevance. Viola draws from a
range of influences, including Eastern and
Western art and the spiritual traditions of
Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism and Christian
mysticism, to express fundamental truths
underpinning human existence.
IMAGE
Bill VIOLA
United States of America born 1951
Passage into Night 2005
colour video, 50 minutes silent, ed.1/7
Gift of Annabel and Rupert Myer AM in honour of the staff of the National
Gallery of Australia 2011 donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural
Gifts Program.
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18 MAR 8 MAY ‘16
ADOUGLAS
CREATIVE
SPIRIT
ANNAND WATERCOLOURS
Douglas Annand (1903-1976) was one of a
group of exceptionally talented artists who
were active in Sydney during the post war
period, at the time when modern Australian
painting began to flourish.
Annand was born in Toowoomba and is
recognised primarily for his graphic designs
and large public commissions. This exhibition
highlights a little known aspect of his practice,
his skill as a painter of highly original
watercolours.
In the early 1940s Annand was stationed in
North Queensland for two years, and this
time had a dramatic effect on his artistic
development. He drew and painted continually
throughout this period and later held a solo
exhibition at the David Jones Gallery in Sydney
in 1944, and the Canberra Hotel, Brisbane
in 1945. Works from these exhibitions were
quickly acquired by the Queensland Art
Gallery, and National Gallery of Victoria.
Annand’s watercolour style is characterised by
simple wash notations with subtle line work,
and a remarkable purity and delicacy. He had
a natural curiosity and eye for detail and his
works from North Queensland are regarded as
the finest of his oeuvre.
A Creative Spirit demonstrates Annand’s
versatility as a watercolourist and
draughtsman and highlights the most creative
period of the artist’s career.
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EXHIBITION
CURATOR TALK
WITH CURATOR. ROSS SEARLE
WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH
5.30PM
RSVP 4046 4800
IMAGE
Douglas Annand
Thursday Island pub 1943
watercolour over pencil on wove paper mounted on cardboard
27.4 x 37.3cm
Purchased 1944
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
© Estate of Douglas Annand
Touring to Cairns Regional Art Gallery and Tweed River Art Gallery in
2016, A Creative Spirit – Douglas Annand Watercolours is curated by Ross
Searle and toured by the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. The project has
been assisted by the Toowoomba Regional Council. Toowoomba Regional
Art Gallery acknowledges the generous support of the Gordon Darling
Foundation.
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15 APR 19 JUN ‘16
JAMES
MORRISON
RE-IMAGINING PAPUA NEW GUINEA
ARTIST
FLOOR TALK
WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL
5.30PM
RSVP 4046 4800
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IMAGE
James Morrison
Torres Strait (detail) 2014
oil on canvas
155 x 155cm
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
This is the first exhibition to bring together
a collection of the artist’s imaginary
landscapes relating to Far North Queensland
and Papua New Guinea.
In writing about the exhibition Julia Powles
has described his paintings and drawings
as showing us “the world constructed as
a sequence of impossible histories, one in
which fragmentary moments from time
coincide in fictionalised landscapes, the like
of which can only exist in art.
For Morrison history occurs as a series
of overlapping events and time is nonlinear. The assemblage of reference
materials collected through Morrison’s
own idiosyncratic interests allows for the
convergence of different pasts and even
possible futures in a single landscape.
The various geographic locations in
which Morrison spent his childhood and
adolescence, especially the Sepik River
region of Papua New Guinea are an enduring
location for Morrison, who often uses
these sites as the ‘stage’ or setting for his
narratives. In such locations we can find
figures, significant to Morrison, such as the
authors Patrick White and Ray Bradbury and
the historical figure Bundaree, famous as the
‘first Australian’ an Aboriginal of the Broken
Bay clan in NSW who accompanied Matthew
Flinders on an early circumnavigation
of Australia. Such figures in Morrison’s
work are present as a respectful personal
‘homage’, and as ciphers for decoding a
range of possible narrative interpretations”.
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GREG
SEMU
TWELVE
Greg Semu has a 20-year career that
includes numerous international residencies
and exhibitions. Born in 1971 in New
Zealand, Semu now lives and works in
Sydney and has recently returned from a
residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien
studio in Berlin. His work will be the subject
of a major exhibition at the National Gallery
of Victoria later this year.
Twelve brings together recent works by
Semu that have been acclaimed for their
excellent production values, dramatic
lighting and elaborate costuming and
settings. Together they challenge commonly
held beliefs and historical ‘truths’ in order
to raise questions of what is fact and what is
fiction.
Semu uses photography and film to create
contemporary images that are informed
by historical facts and moments in time.
Based on iconic artworks, such as Leonardo
da Vinci’s The Last Supper (c1495), and
Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa
(1819), the artist meticulously re-enacts and
re-creates the images, in order to provide
alternative readings of historical episodes
that aim to explore and question issues of
cultural displacement and the impact of
colonialism on Pacific cultures.
Semu’s work is represented in major
national and international collections,
including Musée du Quai Branly, Paris;
the National Gallery of Australia; and the
National Gallery of Victoria.
ARTIST
TALK
THURSDAY 14 APRIL
5.30PM
RSVP 4046 4800
IMAGE
Greg Semu
Battle of the Noble Savage 6
(detail) 2007 Pigment print on Fine Art paper, ed.10
103 x 104cm framed
© Musée Quai Branly & Greg Semu
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13 MAY 26 JUN ‘16
PAINTER
IN PARADISE
WILLIAM DOBELL IN NEW GUINEA
William Dobell (1899-1970) is regarded as
one of Australia’s most famous 20th century
portrait painters and is remembered for his
highly controversial Archibald Prize portrait
of Joshua Smith in 1943.
In 1949, shortly after winning the Archibald
Prize for a second time, this time with a
portrait of artist Margaret Olley, Dobell
accepted an invitation to inspect an
experimental sheep station in the highlands
of New Guinea. It was the first time that
Dobell had ever flown in an aeroplane
and the landscape and the people he
encountered in New Guinea captivated
him. For three months he drew and painted
watercolours of the landscape, village life
and the highlanders themselves, adorned
with magnificent bird of paradise plumes,
intricately constructed jewellery and
elaborately painted faces and bodies.
In 1950 Dobell returned to New Guinea
taking not only his sketchbooks but also a
camera to record daily life in Mount Hagen
and Nondugi, as well as rare early images
of the Upper Sepik region. These photos and
sketches were to form the subject matter for
many paintings he produced in the following
two decades.
Painter in Paradise is a fascinating exhibition
initiated by the S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
and curated by Natalie Wilson, Curator of
Australian & Pacific Art at the Art Gallery of
New South Wales. The exhibition comprises
over 100 drawings, paintings, watercolours
and photographs, from public and private
collections, as well as New Guinean works
and artefacts that directly relate to images in
the artist’s works.
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EXHIBITION
CURATOR TALK
WITH NATALIE WILSON, ASSISTANT CURATOR OF AUSTRALIAN ART,
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
THURSDAY 12 MAY
5.30PM
RSVP 4046 4800
IMAGE
William DOBELL
Mathias 1953
oil on hardboard
collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Purchased 1976
An exhibition organised by S.H. Ervin Gallery
Curated by Natalie Wilson
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the
Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The exhibition is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation & the Sir
William Dobell Art Foundation
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UNTIL
10 APR ‘16
YEAR
OF THE MONKEY
HAYLEY GILLESPIE AND YIXUAN RUAN
Year of the Monkey is a collaborative
exhibition by two Cairns based artists,
Hayley Gillespie and Yixuan Ruan and is an
imaginative journey of discovery about the
stories behind the Chinese Zodiac signs and
calendar.
2016 is the Year of the Monkey and
this exhibition looks at each of the
Chinese Zodiac Signs and explores their
characteristics and what they mean to
Chinese culture.
Hayley Gillespie’s works depict the 12
animals in the traditional Chinese Zodiac
whilst Yixuan Ruan has substituted the
traditional animals with Australian native
animals that have similar attributes and
qualities.
Year of the Monkey encourages visitors of all
ages to learn more about Chinese language
and culture. It is an interactive installation
resembling a fantasy living environment,
complete with a kitchen, traditional Chinese
fireplace, cleaning and cooking implements,
and children’s dress-up clothes.
IMAGE
Yixuan Ruan
Tree Kangaroo (Australian rainforest animal which
corresponds to the Chinese Zodiac Monkey) 2015
Chinese ink on paper
50 X 35cm
image courtesy and © the artist
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COLLECTION
RECENT
AQUISITIONS
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IMAGE
Shirley Macnamara
Memoir #2 2015
spinifex, emu feathers, wire, kangaroo bone, wax thread,
ochre and fixative
125 x 47 x 7cm
Cairns Regional Gallery Collection
photo: Michael Marzik
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ARTNOW
FNQ
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
In 2015, the Gallery’s new biennial exhibition,
ARTNOW FNQ brought together recent works
by almost thirty of the region’s finest and
most exciting contemporary artists.
The Gallery is thrilled to announce that it
has purchased works by five of the artists
represented in the exhibition:
Paul Bong
Toby Cedar
Shirley Macnamara
Claudia Moodoonuthi
Francesca Rosa
Shirley Macnamara’s large woven sculpture
is inspired by her beloved bush country in far
west Queensland.
Macnamara uses spinifex grass, intricately
woven and incorporated into her works
because of her love for the country, the
climate, earth and life, past and present.
For Macnamara, Spinifex grass, which
was traditionally used for humpies and
windbreaks, as well as medicine and binding
wax, signifies the resilience of her people.
Memoirs #2 specifically honours the
memory of mothers and grandmothers of
unacknowledged Indigenous soldiers who
died for their country.
Macnamara is represented in major galleries
and collections around Australia and
the Gallery is delighted to have acquired
a significant work by the artist for its
Permanent Collection.
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The three etchings by Paul Bong that have
been acquired by the Gallery reference
artefacts of the Yidinyi-Gamoi Bunabinda
people who lived in a vast region south of
Cairns, prior to colonisation. Many of the
Yidinyi artefacts are now in museums, whilst
others continue to be handed down from one
generation to the next.
Bong’s work is very spiritual and
incorporates traditional Yidinyi designs with
modern techniques. The works acquired by
the Gallery are silent testimonials to a oncestrong culture that was severely disrupted by
colonisation.
IMAGE
Paul BONG
Eels and Ladders - Game Board Diplomacy 2015
hand-tinted, shaped colour etchings from zinc printed on Arches Velin Cuve
edition no.1/30
80 x 60cm
Cairns Regional Gallery Collection
photo: Michael Marzik
PATRICIA PICCININI
Patricia Piccinini is internationally
recognised as one of Australia’s leading
contemporary artists. In this illustrated talk
the artist will discuss her practice over the
past 30 years.
Since the 1990s Piccinini has been creating
tender, grotesque and beautiful artworks,
using various mediums including sculpture,
installation and photography. There is a
profound pathos and tenderness in her
work, as her hybrid creatures push our
understanding of the human condition and
the natural order of things.
GREG SEMU
Greg Semu will give an informative talk about
the various historical narratives and iconic
paintings that have inspired his art.
JAMES MORRISON
James Morrison will talk about his
current exhibition and the role of memory,
imagination and fantasy in his landscape
paintings.
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WEDNESAY
16 MARCH
5.30PM
RSVP 4046 4800
IMAGE
Patricia Piccinini
The Long Awaited 2008
silicone, fibreglass, human hair, plywood, leather, clothing
152 x 80 x 92cm high
Photographer: Graham Baring
Courtesy of The Artist,Tolarno and Roslyn Oxley9 Galleries
THURSDAY
14 APRIL
5.30PM
RSVP 4046 4800
WEDNESDAY
20 APRIL
5.30PM
RSVP 4046 4800
CREATIVE
LEARNING
EASTER SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: 4046 4800
MIXED MEDIA COMPOSITIONS WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST
Ages 3 – 6 years (with an accompanying adult)
Tuesday 29 March, 10.00 - 11.00am
Cost $12 ($15 non-members)
OR
Ages 7 – 14 years
Tuesday 29 March, 1.00 - 3.00pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
Explore painting, drawing and collage to create exciting
mixed media compositions inspired by Douglas Annand
watercolours.
INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING WITH THEO TREMBLAY, MASTER PRINTMAKER
Ages 6 - 10 years
Wednesday 30 March, 10.00am - 12.00pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
OR
Ages 11 - 16 years
Wednesday 30 March, 1.00 - 3.00pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
Learn to create and produce intaglio prints from shaped
aluminium plates.
ILLUSTRATED TROPICAL FLOWERS WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST
Ages 5 – 10 years
Thursday 31 March, 10.00 - 11.30am
Cost $13 ($16 non-members)
Draw flowers from our region using traditional Chinese
watercolour and ink techniques.
ILLUSTRATED TROPICAL ANIMALS WITH YIXUAN RUAN, ARTIST
Ages 11 - 15 years
Thursday 31 March, 1.00 - 3.00pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
Learn how to draw animals from our region using
traditional Chinese watercolour and ink techniques.
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DECORATIVE NOODLE BOX WITH HAYLEY GILLESPIE, ARTIST
Ages 3 - 6 years (with an accompanying adult)
Friday 1 April 10.00 - 11.00am
Cost $12 ($15 non-members)
Design and decorate a fun noodle box and fill it with
your own paper fortune cookies with messages to
share.
OR
Ages 7 - 14 years
Friday 1 April, 1.00 - 3.00pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
Design and decorate a noodle box and fill it with handcrafted felt fortune cookies with personal messages.
RECYCLED WOODEN BIRD ASSEMBLAGE WITH KYLIE BURKE, ARTIST
Ages 3 - 6 years (with an accompanying adult)
Monday 4 April, 10.00 - 11.00am
Cost $12 ($15 non-members)
Create a unique wooden bird using timber offcuts and
collected bits and pieces.
OR
Ages 7 - 14 years
Monday 4 April, 1.00 - 3.00pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
Create a quirky free-standing wooden bird sculpture
using timber offcuts and collected bits and pieces.
Simple construction techniques will be used.
2-DAY STORYBOARD PEBBLE MOSAIC PROJECT WITH DOM JOHNS
Ages 8 – 16 years
Tuesday 5 April, 10.00am - 12.30pm
Continuing
Wednesday 6 April, 10.00am - 12.30pm
Cost $32 ($36 non-members)
In this two-part workshop students will explore colour,
shape, composition and learn mosaic techniques.
Day 1 Learn simple creative techniques to begin to
design and create a wall plaque using coloured pebbles.
Day 2 Projects are continued and finalised in this
workshop so that they are ready to take home and hang.
CONCERTINA ARTIST BOOK WITH BRONTE NAYLOR, ARTIST
Ages 8 – 16 years
Tuesday 5 April, 1.30 - 3.30pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
OR
Ages 8 – 16 years
Wednesday 6 April, 1.30 - 3.30pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
This workshop investigates different ways pattern
and mixed media techniques can be used to create
drawings. Figurative and abstract forms will be
incorporated in each handmade artist’s book.
CLAY BIRD WALL HANGING WITH FELICITY BURY, ARTIST
Ages 2 - 6 years (with an accompanying adult)
Thursday 7 April, 10.00 - 11.00am
Cost $12 ($15 non-members)
Bird shapes cut from slab rolled air clay can be
stamped, embossed and decorated.
OR
Ages 7 - 12 years
Thursday 7 April, 1.00 - 3.00pm
Cost $16 ($19 non-members)
Create quirky bird pots working with air clay using coil
and pinch pot techniques.
TEXTILE DESIGN AND SCREENPRINTING WITH CAROLINE MUDGE, ARTIST
Ages 4 - 7 years (with an accompanying adult)
Friday 8 April, 10.00am - 12.00pm
Cost $18 ($20 non-members)
Create a simple pattern to print on a tea-towel using
screenprinting and stencil techniques.
OR
Ages 8 - 14 years
Friday 8 April, 1.00 - 3.00pm
Cost $18 ($20 non-members)
Develop your own repeat pattern design to print on a
tea-towel using screenprinting and stencil techniques.
ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS AND YOUNG
CREATIVES (16+)
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: 4046 4800
PIPSQUEAKS WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST
Ages 5 - 7 years with parent/carer optional
Tuesdays, 3.45 - 4.45pm
26 April, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 May
Cost $60 ($70 non-members)
This program is designed to teach children basic art
skills based on the exhibitions on display.
KIDS FINE ART CLASS WITH ADRIENNE SHAW, ARTIST
AT KEWARRA BEACH COMMUNITY HALL
Ages 6 - 12 years
Thursdays, 3.30 - 5.00pm
28 April, 5, 12, 19, 26 May, 2 June
Cost $100 ($110 non-members)
Introduction to Art and Design. In this term, the
children will be introduced to the principles and
elements of design whilst creating an artwork for their
chosen theme. Students will explore how artists have
used text, colour and imagery within their artwork to
convey a particular message to their audiences.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH JULIE POULSEN, ARTIST
Artist Workshop (3 hours)
Saturday 12 March 1.00 - 4.30pm (30 min break)
Ages 16 - adult
Cost $38 ($42 non-members)
Specialist workshop focussed on developing drawing
skills for painting with Julie Poulsen, recent Sydney
Contemporary Art Fair exhibitor and Paddington Art
Prize Finalist (2013) who will share insights into her
practice and demonstrates practical mixed media
drawing skills.
Suitable for art students and adults with limited
painting and drawing experience.
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GALLERY
FOUNDATION
On behalf of the Board of the Foundation I
am delighted to welcome our new Foundation
Development Manager, Jennifer Thompson.
Jennifer joins the Foundation at a very exciting
time when the Gallery is laying down the
groundwork for an ambitious program of
exhibitions and collection development.
Jennifer brings a wealth of experience and
knowledge of Cairns to the position. Over the
coming months, Jennifer looks forward to
meeting existing and prospective members of
the Foundation, and working closely with Gallery
staff to deliver programs and activities that will
further strengthen the Gallery’s position as one
of Australia’s leading regional galleries.
The first Foundation event for the year was the
highly successful opening of the Practitioners
at Play exhibition. This photographic exhibition
by Joseph Jacobs and Danielle Hodgens
provides a witty glimpse into the lives of many
of Cairns legal fraternity when they are not in
their gowns, wigs and cloaks. Long standing
Foundation Member and patron of the arts, The
Honourable Justice Stanley Jones AO QC joined
The Honourable Justice Henry at the official
exhibition launch that brought together over 150
Foundation Members and guests.
We are delighted that The Wine Tradition was
able to support this event and continues to be
an important Foundation and Gallery sponsor.
We look forward to showcasing their wonderful
range of wines over the coming year.
For more information about the Foundation and
the calendar of events planned for 2016 please
contact Jennifer Thompson on
[email protected] or 0427 320379
Roy Payne
Foundation Chair
FRIENDS OF THE
GALLERY
Friends of the Gallery receive special benefits
and discounts throughout the year. In February
we were thrilled to be able to offer our members
an Australian National Gallery run workshop
for children aged 6-10 years, as part of the
Light Moves: Contemporary Australian Video
Art exhibition. The free workshop enabled 10
children to learn about storyboarding and film
techniques, before actually making their very
own Ipad movie.
The Annual General Meeting of the Friends will
be held at the Gallery, at 6pm on Wednesday 30
March, 2016.
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Each year, a President, Vice President, Secretary
and Treasurer are elected to sit on the Friends
Committee. Nominations for these important
positions on the Committee are now open. If you
or someone you know would like to stand for
any of these positions please contact the retiring
President, Hayley Gillespie on
[email protected] for more details.
IMAGE
Practitioners at Play opening event
image courtesy Romy Photography
DIARY DATES
MARCH
- MAY ‘16
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
2
Gallery Closed
Public holiday
7
Free Entry Saturday
10.00am - 5.00pm
8
Final Day
Douglas Annand Watercolours
5
Free Entry Saturday
10.00am - 5.00pm
1-8
School Holiday Workshops
APT8 KIDS ON TOUR
10.00am - 1.00pm
Free kids activities from
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
2
Free Entry Saturday
10.00am - 5.00pm
10
Final Day
Light Moves
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Adult Art Workshop
1.00 - 4.30pm
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Final Day
Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art
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Artist Talk
5.30pm
Greg Semu
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Artist Talk
5.30pm
Patricia Picinnini
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Artist Talk
5.30pm
James Morrison
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Gallery Closed
Public Holiday
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Exhibition Opening
5.30pm
Douglas Annand Watercolours
25-26 Gallery Closed
Public Holiday
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Gallery Closed
Public Holiday
29-31 School Holiday Workshops
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Hiromi Tango at the exhibition opening Art Magic: The Climbing Tree
Lion dancers at the opening of Year of the Monkey
The Honourable Justice Stanley Jones AO QC speaks at Practitioners at
Play
At the opening of exhibition Year of the Monkey
At the opening of exhibition Practitioners at Play
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IMAGE COVER
James Morrison
Marion Inlet 2013
oil on canvas
91.5 x 91.5 cm
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
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James Morrison
Torres Strait 2014
oil on canvas
155 x 155cm
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
GALLERY SPONSORS
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Christian Thompson
Heat 2010
three channel digital video, sound, duration 5
minutes 52 seconds
collection of the National Gallery of Australia
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Greg Semu
Battle of the Noble Savage 6
2007 Pigment print on Fine Art paper, ed.10
103 x 104cm framed
© Musée Quai Branly & Greg Semu
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