This workshop is one of the many fabulous events occurring as part of PUNQ
@Pop-Up North Queensland – PUNQ https://www.facebook.com/punqfestival
$50 per person | 2hrs | 8 participants | 18+
2-4pm Sunday 1 August 2021
Discover how words can reveal hidden insights into ‘place’ when you pick up a pen in this writing workshop. Beginners will be guided by Arts Townsville’s Lynn Scott-Cumming to write through the eyes of a character and demonstrate meaning and establish details.
This workshop is coming up as part of the fabulous Pop Up North Queensland arts festival in Townsville. See more at: @Pop-Up North Queensland – PUNQ https://www.facebook.com/punqfestival
Already there is less than a fortnight before most of the prints in Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence are consigned to a drawer in my already art-cluttered house. It closes on the 23rd May. If you haven’t yet been, I hope you can make it in to Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts to have a look.
Over a three month period this year, I wrote over thirty poems as an adjunct to my print exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence. I’ve inserted one page I designed with both the image and the accompanying poem. When writing I tend to use a phrase or line or even just a word and run with it to see where it takes me.
After having been photographed numerous times at the opening of Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, I thought I could sneak a quiet cuddle in with my very supportive partner and fellow artist, Graeme Buckley! I was wrong. This is one of the many photos of the pair of us once our friends spotted us. This photo was taken by Rhonda Stevens, a wonderful artist who has as acted as an unofficial mentor to me since I joined Umbrella’s Makerspace Access Group.
My exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, is now on show. It is strange to revisit the work of a couple of years ago. Though a difficult hang, the wonderful staff at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts managed it with aplomb and a lot of patience for which I thank them heartily. My photo doesn’t do it justice. At the opening of the show, I received lots of positive comment on the unusual hang. There are 87 unique state prints, all of which were created in Umbrella Studio Access Space (now known as Umbrella Studio Makers Space).
The culmination of two years’ work, my Moon Phase series, created from Dec 2017 to 2019 is rushing up fast. My exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, is due to open at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts at 6pm on April 16th.
The works were created in Umbrella’s downstairs studio. I am a member of the previously named Umbrella Studio Access Group, but which is now called the Umbrella Makerspace Access Group
There’s over sixty prints from which to choose, so I don’t envy the gallery director, Kate O’hara and gallery manager, Daniel Qualischefski, the task of selecting which ones to hang. Obviously some will be quite easy to dismiss but I like to think there will still be enough good ones to make the choice difficult!
On a glorious day with a calm sea, we went on the inaugural SeaLink ferry whale watching trip. Our time out with the whales seemed all too short but it was wonderful to be there.
Watching the whales!
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Please Take a Seat text on the first and second wall, reading from left to right.
I recently had an installation in the Vault Space at Umbrella Studio. It consisted of four verses of prose about chronic pain. The responses I got for ‘just words’ were fascinating. One person told me it made them cry. Others said they didn’t like it, the piece was too negative. Others loved it. The Vault Space is an actual safe that is no longer in use. My audience were in the vault – with the door open – when they read these words:
Imagine you are in a vault
You can’t get out
No-one will find you
And there is not enough air
That vault is your mind
You are in pain
That pain has locked
You in your body
You cannot free yourself
You are locked
In with your pain
Imagine you are in a vault
Your mind is locked
In with your pain
There is no air
Only pain
Now walk outside
Look up at the sky
and breathe.
Jill and Margaret, busy on the install for Furred, Scaled & Feathered. Opening Sunday 29th Oct, 2 – 5pm, Gallery 48, 2/48 The Strand, Townsville
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