Artspace Mackay

07/06/2023

Our artists' Book of the Month for May was 'Shark-net seahorses of Balmoral, a harbour memoir' by Peter Kingston and Robert Adamson. Our Artspace Volunteer Irene Williams loved reading the poems aloud, click the video to hear her reciting Adamson's poem 'River Caves' while viewing Kingston's beautiful lino cut - one of many illustrations that form this colourful artists' book housed in the Mackay Regional Council Art Collection.

Image: Peter KINGSTON (artist) Robert ADAMSON (poet) Shark-net seahorses of Balmoral, a harbour memoir (detail) 2012, linocut with Sakura oil based inks on Japanese Iwaki Mulberry paper, with digital print on paper, edition O/Z, 36.2 x 36.2 x 2.3 cm. Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased 2013.

05/06/2023

Here are a few pictures from Friday's PUBLIC ART WALK.

It was gorgeous weather to stroll around the city and appreciate our fabulous public art collection as well as some colourful new additions!

If you enjoyed the walk join us on 7 JULY for a NEW route taking in some different pieces in the collection.

Photos: courtesy of Jess Laslett and Anna Khaler. Canefire NICHE ART 2015, Yarnbombing an Artist in the City initiative by Artist Connect Inc 2023, 5th Lane murals by various artists including the new Arcadia mural by Muddy Grimes.

Book your FREE place on the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/651286695037

04/06/2023

We wish to advise that Artspace Mackay is closed today - Sunday 4 June - due to unscheduled maintenance.

We apologise for any inconvenience. We will re-open Tuesday 6 June at 10am.

03/06/2023

Went for a stroll in the city centre and met this colourful character reclining on Brian Robinson's 'Deco Bloom!'

Amazing work and everyone else who was involved in this gorgeous yarning project!

02/06/2023

NATIONAL RECONCILITATION WEEK | Proud Yuwi, South Sea Islander and Torres Strait Islander artist Dylan Mooney embodies this years’ National Reconciliation Week message to ‘Be a Voice for Generations’ with his new mural ‘Oceans are rising so must we’. Mooney was supported by local artist and Torres Strait Islander man Barry Maitie to realise this site-specific artwork at Artspace Mackay. This is Mooney’s second mural for ‘The Wall’ program and is an extension of his recent advocacy work for climate action with the Torres Strait 8 and their ‘Our Islands Our Home’ campaign.

Dylan MOONEY, ‘Oceans are rising so must we’ 2023, acrylic paint. Foyer Gallery, Artspace Mackay. Photo: Jim Cullen Photographer.

30/05/2023

Soooo much happening as part of this week's City Heart Fridays event, including our free Public Art Walk from 4:30pm. Check it out 👇

CITY HEART❤️FRIDAY 2nd June

🥁6.00pm - 7.30pm Pelican Zen Pop Up Community Drum Circle - drop by and join in the rhythm in Fifth Lane. All welcome 😀

🪡 Check out the yarnbombing on Cane Fire - turning concrete into crotchet presented by Artists Connect Inc

👉 Spot the 7 yarnbombed mannequins displayed in City Heart businesses.

🎨5.30pm - 7.30pm Crossroad Arts Inc Opening Night HeART(beats)- Acess Love Local DJ, nibbles & drinks. No bookings required

🥩 5.00pm Outdoor Cooking Workshop - Porters Mitre 10 Mackay
Prizes to be won. Click here for info and to register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/outdoor-cooking-workshop-tickets-633705479147?

🍷 BYO wine and grab a platter The Deli Nook

🚶‍♀️ 4.30pm - 5.30pm Free City Art Tour https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-art-walk-tickets-633103839627?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse

🏫 6pm - 7.30pm Mackay Art Deco Walking Tour Register here https://www.mackayartdeco.org/walking-tours/

🎨🍷 5.30pm - 7.00pm Bottletops & Brushes After Work Quicke
https://bottletopsandbrushes.com/product/after-work-quickie/



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26/05/2023

How fantastic to see our wonderful former Public Programs Assistant Logan Bobongie running 2 great tours at QAGOMA for National Reconciliation Week! If you're visiting Brisbane, make sure you register to go along!

23/05/2023

❤️CITY HEART FRIDAYS❤️ is nearly upon again and that means another excuse to stroll around the city centre looking at fabulous PUBLIC ART! 🖌

Join us on a PUBLIC ART WALK on Friday 2nd June, for an hour-long meander around the city streets.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/633103839627

Photo by Jamie Wilcox, taken in 5th Lane, Mackay CBD.

21/05/2023

It's almost BMA Kidspace Time! Bring your creative toddlers to Artspace Mackay THIS, Tuesday, May 23, for our FREE Art & Craft program designed especially for under 5's!!!

First Art session: 10 - 11:30am
Music Concert: 11:30am - 12:15pm
Second Art session: 12:15 - 2pm

Proudly presented by BHP Mitsubishi Alliance, BMA Kidspace, our ever-popular toddlers’ program, gives children under five a chance to explore and have fun with art in a climate of co-operative learning. The program includes two free artist-run sessions and free live musical entertainment for kids. Bring your toddlers along for a fun day of art-making, singing and dancing, drop-in anytime from 10am to 2pm and stay as long as you’d like.

20/05/2023

Who is CalMa Art
An Italian-born dreamer, now living in Mackay, who conjures up fanciful characters and surreal surroundings and brings them to life in a vibrancy of colour.

Come down to Foodspace Mackay and to the Jubilee Community Centre and check out his exhibitions. With prints, sketches and digital art, there is something for everyone!

Photos: Jim Cullen

19/05/2023

Have an inspiring start to your weekend by joining us for our TWO free Saturday morning Public Programs! 'Book of the Month' at 10am, followed by a 10.30am 'Curators Talk' discussing our latest exhibition Fire and Ash: Woodfire Pottery of Arthur and Carol Rosser

BOOK OF THE MONTH: An informal opportunity for you to get up close to view of 'The sharknet seahorses of Balmoral' by Peter Kingston and Robert Adamson.
10am Saturday 20 May, Foyer Gallery Artspace Mackay
Book your free tickets at 👉https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/622202132327

CURATORS TALK: Artspace Mackay Curator Lauren Turton will discuss Fire and Ash: Woodfire Pottery of Arthur and Carol Rosser with three special guests—artists and long time friends of the Rossers, Anneke Silver and Len Cook, and Arthur and Carol’s daughter Zoe Judge.
10:30pm Saturday 20 May, Main Gallery Artspace Mackay
Book your free tickets at 👉 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/622148913147

**This talk will be Auslan interpreted & amplified for patrons with hearing difficulties.

IMAGE 1: Peter KINGSTON (artist) Robert ADAMSON (poet) Shark-net seahorses of Balmoral, a harbour memoir 2012, linocut with Sakura oil based inks on Japanese Iwaki Mulberry paper, with digital print on paper, edition O/Z, 36.2 x 36.2 x 2.3 cm. Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased 2013. Photo: Jim Cullen
Photographer.

IMAGE 2: Carol ROSSER Teapot 2014, wheel-thrown, natural ash, wood fired in Anagama kiln, cane handle. 20 x 17 x 13 cm. Collection of Carol Rosser. Photo: Jim Cullen Photographer.

18/05/2023

Are you having a laugh? 😜🤣Artspace volunteers up for some fun during our National Volunteer Week excursion to the Sarina Sugar Shed .

17/05/2023

Looking for a relaxing and inspiring way to end the week? Come along to Artspace this Friday 19 May, 1pm - 2.30pm and join in our monthly 'Conversation with Art' program.
Held on the 3rd Friday of each month, Conversations with Art is a free and enjoyable discussion led by Artspace staff as we look at works on show and images from gallery and museum collections.

Whether you’re an artist, an art and language lover, beginner, or expert, we’d love you to join us. It’s an inclusive, thought provoking and satisfying way to spend an afternoon!
Book now for free! 👉
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/504224427837

2023 Dates: 19 May, 16 Jun, 21 Jul, 18 Aug, Sep 15, 20 Oct, 17 Nov, 15 Dec
Phone: 49619722 | Email: [email protected]

17/05/2023

Our Term 2 Kids Art Club students and tutor Rosemary Payne have been having a great time responding to our recent exhibition Davida Allen - Colourful Expressions. Check out their wonderful Artworks! We can't wait to see how they respond to our new suite of exhibitions!

Bookings for Kids Art Club Term 3 are NOW OPEN, for more information, dates and bookings visit 👇
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/636940846217

17/05/2023

Artspace volunteers' excursion to the was informative & fun - especially the tastings!

17/05/2023

Rock Paper Scissors Art & Design Market wants you to "show us your wares!"
Calling Artisan Stall holders and Food Vendors, there are still a few days to submit your application by May 21.

It only takes a few minutes to apply:
https://www.artspacemackay.com.au/whats_on/rock_paper_scissors_art_and_design_market/artisan_market_food_vendor_site

16/05/2023

Artspace volunteers were presented with a badge in recognition of service to Artspace by Chair of the Visual Arts Advisory Committe Councillor Pauline Townsend. A special mention & thanks to four volunteers Ruth, Linda, Bern & Leonie for 15-20 years of volunteering with us.

16/05/2023

Applications for the springtime Rock Paper Scissor Art and Design Markets have been extended until May 28...that's NEXT Friday! Makers and Food Vendors - APPLY TODAY 👇🤩

https://www.artspacemackay.com.au/whats_on/rock_paper_scissors_art_and_design_market/artisan_market_food_vendor_site?fbclid=IwAR3e1GAgWl5a4Yy_Dn8ks8vutij0TfQFo1uqbO87o1QOSSJqZP1n4g0MsEs

$45 single site; $75 double site

Market day is Sunday September 3.

14/05/2023

Benefits of being an Artspace volunteer:
1: Meeting new people.
2: Connecting with the art community.
3. Learning new skills - such as "book handling" our precious artist book collection.
Our volunteers provide gallery visitors with a "look inside" the Book of the Month. May artist book:
Peter KINGSTON (artist) Robert ADAMSON (poet) Shark-net seahorses of Balmoral, a harbour memoir 2012, linocut with Sakura oil based inks on Japanese Iwaki Mulberry paper, with digital print on paper, edition O/Z, 36.2 x 36.2 x 2.3 cm. Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased 2013. Photo: Jim Cullen Photographer

12/05/2023

OUR 20TH BIRTHDAY | While we are preparing for our 20th birthday exhibitions, we thought it fitting to share Ron McBurnie’s ‘Artspace Mackay’ gifted by the artist to the Mackay Regional Council Art Collection in 2021. This work was created on the back of an extended artist residency in 2019 and 2020, where McBurnie captured beloved landscapes and views of the beautiful Mackay region en plein air.

Ron McBurnie,'Artspace Mackay' 2020, ink and watercolour on paper, 31 x 41cm, Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, gift of the artist 2021. Photo: Jim Cullen Photographer.

11/05/2023

It's like opening a present when we receive new merch for the Gallery Shop! 🎁From postbox to shelf: porcelain pieces by artist Simon Suckling with silk screened images of his drawings 🎋 inspired by the nature surrounding his home and finished with gold lustre, plus a third firing to fuse the images to the surface of the glaze. 😍

11/05/2023

Applications for the springtime Rock Paper Scissor Art and Design Markets are open until May 21...that's next week!!
Makers and Food Vendors - we'd love to hear from you.
$45 single site; $75 double site
Market day is Sunday September 3.

https://www.artspacemackay.com.au/whats_on/rock_paper_scissors_art_and_design_market/artisan_market_food_vendor_site

09/05/2023

If you're a Mackay based Art Educator don't miss out on THIS THURSDAY'S Artist Talk, with our latest Artist in Residence, Dylan Mooney. Dylan's work has rich connections with our region and community with his current work linking to many aspects of the Australian Curriculum.

Artist Talk - Dylan Mooney: 5.30pm THIS Thursday May 11
To book a free spot visit: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/622177739367

IMAGE CAPTIONS: Portrait of Dylan Mooney, with Growing together (detail) from the folio ‘Queer, Blak & Here’ 2020. Photo: Rhett Hammerton.

09/05/2023

Artist Book of the Month

Each month we display a different artist book from the MRC collection. We have trained book handlers who are willing to sit with you for a few minutes so you can look at the book together. All you need is curiosity.
Please ask at the front counter if you wish to have a closer. It is a special way to engage with these artworks.

08/05/2023

Thanks to everyone who attended this month's Public Art Walk. What better way to spend a Friday afternoon, with a relaxing stroll around the city centre! We even spotted the amazing, brand-new mural by Muddy Grimes Tattoo!

If you missed it, the next walk is on 2nd June!

Photos taken by 'Meeting Place' by Wanda Bennett and Tracy Johnson.

08/05/2023

Local artists, makers and food vendors...here's a chance for people to see your products!
Applications close very soon on May 21!

It only takes a few minutes to apply. Just follow this link...
https://www.artspacemackay.com.au/whats_on/rock_paper_scissors_art_and_design_market/artisan_market_food_vendor_site

2023 Market Day Date: Sunday September 3
2023 All Stall Site Fees: $45 single site $75 double site

08/05/2023

Artist Bookmaking

Learn to make a variety of one page fold books with local printmaker and artist's book maker Traci Lietzke. Get your ticket now for this free, enjoyable workshop at Gordon White Library this Friday 12 May...

Artist in Resident: Traci Lietzke: One Page Fold Books

05/05/2023

PASTE UPS!

We are sad to see our original BLUEPRINT exhibition come down, so we thought we'd have a paste up session in 7th Lane.

Why not join us on a free Public Art Walk this evening for a last chance to see Muddy Grimes Blueprint exhibition?

Starts at 4:30pm from Artspace, book FREE tickets below:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/617452004567

Muddy Grimes pasting up work in 7th Lane. Photos: Lee Brake, Mackay Regional Council.

05/05/2023

FINAL DAYS | Make sure you add Artspace Mackay to your weekend plans and catch three wonderful exhibitions before they close on Sunday: ‘Great Australian Hoist’, Deanna Hitti’s ‘M is for Madraseh (school)’ and Glen Skien’s ‘Summer of the Seventeenth Doll’.

Installation view, Deanna Hitti ‘M is for Madraseh (school)’, Artspace Mackay Foundation Gallery. Photo: Jim Cullen Photographer

03/05/2023

Photos from Artspace Mackay's post

02/05/2023

2023 Kids Art Club Term 2

Term 2 Kids Art Club - LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!!!!
If you’re 8 to 12 years old and love making art, Kids Art Club, Artspace Mackay’s ongoing term-based Saturday art program is just for you!
Six Saturdays from Saturday 6 May to 10 June
10am - 12pm > 8 to 12 year olds
BOOK ONLINE at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/533295179237 (or through the Eventbrite app)
$180 per child (8 to 12 yrs) for six weeks (includes all materials)
Each week award winning artist Rosemary Payne will help students explore and respond to the exhibitions on show at Artspace Mackay through fun-filled art making activities. Participants learn new techniques and make art using many varieties of quality creative art mediums.
Contact: Artspace Mackay: 07 4961 9722 or [email protected]

Saturday art classes for kids 8 -12yrs

02/05/2023

JUST LANDED

A brand-new BLUEPRINT exhibition by the talented Matteo Calisti CalMa Art. Drop into Foodspace Mackay and check out Matteo's dreamlike digital art.

Photography by Jim Cullen

28/04/2023

DYLAN MOONEY | 'Phaius australis-swamp orchid' is a full-colour digitally designed illustration depicting Mooney’s research into native plants on Country. In this work, digital illustration is decorated with ochre the artist has collected from Yuwi Country, positioning living plants as a continuation of Indigenous culture. This work will feature in the upcoming Artspace Mackay 20th Birthday Exhibition, ‘In Bloom’ in the Foundation Gallery.

Dylan MOONEY, ‘Phaius australis-swamp orchid’ 2022, digital illustration hand-painted with Yuwi ochre, edition 3/5 + 2 AP, image: 110 x 78cm; paper: 119.5 x 88cm. Photo courtesy N. Smith Gallery. Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased 2022.

27/04/2023

Our Gallery shop is now stocking Furoshiki: silky-soft traditional Japanese wrapping cloths. 🎁The patterns are designed and produced by Mackay travel artist Danielle Brown Lotus and Lilly Designs Australia

26/04/2023

If you own a piece of pottery by Arthur or Carol Rosser, we’d like to loan it for our latest exhibition!!! Please bring it to Artspace Mackay (and share a message about your pot) between 10am and 5pm, Wednesday 3 May to have it considered for this very special community highlight!

Arthur and Carol Rosser created and sold their pottery in the Mackay region for over forty years. We know that many people in Mackay have a Rosser piece at home that they love and use. Artspace Mackay’s latest exhibition celebrates their beautiful work, and will include a special display shelf dedicated to Rosser pots that belong to members of our community.

If you have a cup, bowl, or vessel* made by Arthur or Carol that has their potter’s mark (AR or CR) and you’re happy to loan it for the duration of our exhibition Fire and Ash: Woodfire Pottery of Arthur and Carol Rosser (19 May to 13 August 2023)

*NB the display will only accommodate vessels up to 27 cm high and 22 cm deep.

IMAGE: Arthur ROSSER Bowl with foot c. 2000-2010, wheel-thrown, natural ash and applied Shino glaze, wood fired,7 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm; Bowl with foot 1997, wheel-thrown, applied natural ash glaze, wood fired, 8 x 14 x 14 cm. Collection of Carol Rosser. Photo: Jim Cullen Photographer.

26/04/2023

Enjoy a Friday afternoon stroll around the city on our FREE Public Art Walk, Friday 5th May.

Did you know that 165 Mackay residents of all ages and abilities came together to design the etchings on 'Meeting Place'? Learn more about this work and others in our collection.

Book now on Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/617452004567

Wanda BENNETT and Tracey JOHNSON Meeting Place 2016.
Photography by Jim Cullen.

26/04/2023

Term 2 Kids Art Club - ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT!!!!
If you’re 8 to 12 years old and love making art, Kids Art Club, Artspace Mackay’s ongoing term-based Saturday art program is just for you!

Six Saturdays from Saturday 6 May to 10 June
10am - 12pm > 8 to 12 year olds
BOOK ONLINE at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/533295179237 (or through the Eventbrite app)

$180 per child (8 to 12 yrs) for six weeks (includes all materials)

Each week award winning artist Rosemary Payne will help students explore and respond to the exhibitions on show at Artspace Mackay through fun-filled art making activities. Participants learn new techniques and make art using many varieties of quality creative art mediums.

Contact: Artspace Mackay: 07 4961 9722 or [email protected]