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GALLERY SERVICES Annual Report 2014/2015 GALLERY SERVICES Overview 20 14 GALLERY SERVICES Annual 15Report 2014/2015 Publisher Gallery Services, Townsville City Council PO Box 1268 Townsville Queensland, 4810 Australia [email protected] +61 7 4727 9011 © Gallery Services, Townsville City Council and the authors 2015 Gallery Services Shane Fitzgerald Manager Gallery Services Eric Nash Curator Erwin Cruz Exhibitions and Collection Coordinator Michael Pope Education and Programs Coordinator Rob Donaldson Digital Media and Exhibition Design Coordinator Jo Stacey Team Leader Administration Gallery Services Holly Grech-Fitzgerald Collections Management Officer Carly Sheil Digital Media and Exhibition Design Officer Andrea Schutz Digital Media and Exhibition Design Fellow Sarah Welch Public Art Officer Leonardo Valero Exhibitions Officer Rurik Henry Exhibitions Officer Tegan Ollett Education and Programs Officer Jess Cuddihy Education and Programs Assistant Ruth Hughes Administration Officer Strand Ephemera 2011 Wendy Bainbridge Administration Officer Winner Danielle Berry Arts Officer Festivals and Events Award Damian Cumner Gallery Assistant Townsville Airport North Queensland Tourism Awards Jillian Macfie Gallery Assistant 2012 Sarah Reddington Gallery Assistant Denise Weightman Gallery Assistant Strand Ephemera 2013 Kelly Bianchi Gallery Assistant Winner Best Tourism and Events Communication Award Government Communications Australia Awards for Excellence 2014 Brick by Brick Townsville City Council Highly Commended Temporary or Travelling Exhibition Level 2 Award Art Acquisition Working Group Museum and Galleries National Awards 2014 Councillor Sue Blom Chair Screengrab6 Councillor Gary Eddiehausen Winner Councillor Colleen Doyle Visual Arts Exhibition over $5000 Mr Shane Fitzgerald NQ Arts Awards 2015 Ms Margo McOmish Ms Gail Mabo Troy Emery: into the wild Mr Steve Price Finalist Mrs Stacey Morrison Visual Arts Exhibition over $5000 Mr Paul Martinez NQ Arts Awards 2015 Cover: Marjolein Dallinga Skin [detail] CANADA MATERIALS: WOOL, SILK Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (07) 4727 9011 Cnr. Denham and Flinders St [email protected] Townsville QLD 4810 www.townsville.qld.gov.au Mon - Fri: 10am - 5pm @TCC_PercTucker Sat - Sun: 10am - 2pm PercTuckerTCC Pinnacles Gallery (07) 4773 8871 Riverway Arts Centre [email protected] Thuringowa Central QLD 4817 www.townsville.qld.gov.au Tues - Sun: 10am - 5pm @TCC_Pinnacles Closed Mondays PinnaclesTCC Contents GALLERY SERVICES COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT 05 Overview 56 Overview 06 Chair’s Report - 58 In Focus: The Douglas Kagi Gift Art Acquisition Working Group 62 In Focus: Major Acquisitions 07 Outputs 05 08 Visual Arts Strategy 56 ART IN PUBLIC SPACES 66 Overview EXHIBITIONS 67 Outputs 12 Overview 68 In Focus: 15 Outputs Restoration and Conservation 16 Major Exhibitions 66 70 In Focus: Community Projects 18 In Focus: Cornerstone 72 In Focus: Street Art 12 22 In Focus: WOW 28 In Focus: GIFTED 30 In Focus: A Permanent Mark ADMINISTRATION 76 Overview 77 In Focus: Friends of the Galleries CREATIVE SPACES 78 In Focus: The Vault Shop 34 Overview 35 Outputs 76 36 In Focus: Shop n Play 38 In Focus: Lightboxes DESIGN AND DIGITAL MEDIA 34 80 Overview 82 In Focus: Products CREATIVE CLASSROOMS 40 Overview 80 41 Outputs 43 Divisional Comparison 46 In Focus: Guest Lecture Series 40 48 In Focus: Strand Ephemera CREATIVE COMMUNITIES 50 Overview 51 Outputs 52 In Focus: Functions and Events 50 54 In Focus: Workshops Image: Jo LANKESTER Melbourne, Australia b.1972 Ghosts of the Boulder Past III [detail] 2014 10 colour plate collagraph 75 x 100.5cm unique state, no edition Photograph: Shane Fitzgerald 4 GALLERY SERVICES Annual Report 2014/2015 GALLERY SERVICES Overview It gives me great pleasure to present Gallery Services’ Strategic development to best position Townsville and its Annual Report for 2014/15, highlighting a very dynamic galleries for the future was a major focus in 2014/2015. and successful year in which Gallery Services maintained Such projects included the identification of all of the city’s Townsville’s reputation as one of the most dynamic regions public art and memorial assets with artistic, cultural, or for arts and cultural activity in Australia, and achieved historical significance, and Townsville City Council’s significant milestones in development, strategic planning adoption of the City of Townsville Art in Public Spaces and community engagement. Collection. As the custodian of these artworks and assets, Gallery Services can now better care for, plan, and publicise Following on from the successes of 2013/2014, in which these precious works. Gallery Services broke all manner of visitation records, 2014/2015 saw continued high levels of participation and a Still in the Art In Public Spaces field, the 2014/2015 focus on qualitative outcomes; now, and planning for the future. period also saw the formal endorsement of a Street Art SERVICES GALLERY Activation Framework, which will see Townsville become Gallery Services delivered 72 high calibre exhibitions at a leader in this field over the next three years. Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Pinnacles Gallery, and across its various community access spaces, again attracting in There were major developments in other areas of excess of 100,000 visitors throughout the year. Collections Management; while work towards the Special Digitisation Project continued, this section of Gallery These exhibition attendance figures see Townsville’s Services also achieved a whole-of-collection valuation. In galleries maintain their lofty position amongst the nation’s total, the City’s indoor and outdoor collections are now most visited regional galleries, and are made all the more valued at $14.8 million - one of the country’s leading public impressive when extended closure periods are accounted art collections. This value was bolstered by over $1 million for. These extended closures, particularly at Perc Tucker worth of acquisitions into the City of Townsville Art Regional Gallery, totalled close to five months, however Collection. With a very modest acquisitions budget, many allowed for extensive and overdue facility improvements. of these were gifts, including one of the country’s largest ever gifts of artwork by Dr Douglas Kagi. These improvements at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery have been warmly received by the community, and include the This substantive gift to the Collection is an unprecedented development of ‘The Vault Shop’; an improved, custom-built display of generosity20 and vision towards affirming Showcase display space; improved and adjusted lighting; that Townsville is regarded as a destination of cultural replacement carpet on the ground floor and stairwell substance and excellence. Comprised of 454 individual (with carpet replacement on the first floor scheduled for works from 66 artists heralding from throughout the world, 2015/2016); a refit of the limited on-site storage space the Douglas Kagi Gift is the single most significant gift for greater administrative flexibility and to house theCity made to the Townsville region. of Townsville Art Collection ceramics; improvements to back of house and office spaces; and the re-lining of all The Education and Programs team continued to deliver exhibition walls to enable works to be fixed directly to the amazing results, particularly in the engagement of the school wall, allowing greater flexibility in the display of modern sector, with over 8,000 students participating in a Gallery works and the removal of unsightly hanging wires. Services program, of which a mammoth 444 were offered. A portion of the total closure periods were of course standard To the team at Gallery Services I commend and practice related to the demount and installation of Gallery congratulate you on a year of commitment and dedication. Services’ many and varied exhibitions. In 2014/2015, Gallery To our patrons, Friend of the Galleries and those Services identified the need on occasion to extend these install/ members of the Townsville community who “discovered” demount periods beyond the customary week to enable the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and Pinnacles Gallery for the presentation of larger, contemporary, more complex exhibitions. first time I thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you at 14a Gallery Services experience in the future. Chief amongst these of course was the Australian-exclusive presentation of the international touring exhibition, WOW, World of WearableArt. This stunning exhibition captivated Shane Fitzgerald the Townsville public, and drew crowds from right around Manager Gallery Services the country. 27,992 of the total 44,662 visitors were recorded during the 2014/2015 financial year. GALLERY SERVICES15 Annual Report 2014/2015 5 GALLERY SERVICES Chair’s Report: Art Acquisition Working Group GALLERY SERVICES GALLERY 2014/2015 has seen considerable growth of the City of The largest body of work purchased was a series of 20 Townsville Art Collection. photographs by Tim Page depicting the Vietnam War. Recently Page was listed as one of the ‘100 Most Influential The year has seen 522 acquisitions in total, with the Photographers of All Time’ and is the recipient of many vast majority of these works entering the Collection as awards. This collection of images reflect the imprint left donations [494 in total], either directly from artists and behind after the photojournalist spent time with these collectors, or via the Australian Government’s Cultural Australian troops, some of them not long conscripted into Gifts Program. the army. TheCultural
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