POSTWORLD
Alison Bennett, Neil Binnie, K.Verell (Blue Screen of Death), Gail Mabo, Ron McBurnie, Jenny Mulcahy, Catherine Parker, David Rowe, Jason Sims, Stephen Spurrier and Rhonda Stevens
POSTWORLD features Australian artists who create parallel universes. Audiences are invited into the playful, sublime, poetic and cautionary in this exhibition. Drawing on the detritus of human experience, these worlds have their own internal languages existing in alternate time and space.
As the show was built, each artist’s work expanded on this thematic provocation, finding pathways to comfort, resistant to the overwhelming sense of panic. Stillness, awe and appreciation resonated, honouring the world beyond its utility to provide resources for consumption in the Anthropocene.
New fictions (and possible futures) are rendered, providing alternate perspectives on the environment, gender and capitalist hegemony.
Please read more and direct any EOIs to Museums and Galleries Queensland here.
Tour Dates
| 23 February – 27 April 2024 | Mike Carney Creative Industries Gallery, QLD |
| 10 May – 7 July 2024 | Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD |
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3 August 2024 – 20 October 2024
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Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD |
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13 March 2025 – 10 May 2025
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Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW |
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13 September 2025 – 23 November 2025
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Signal Point Gallery, SA |
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10 April 2026 – 28 June 2026
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Qantas Founders Museum, QLD |
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28 November 2026 – 21 February 2027
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Rockhampton Museum of Art, QLD |
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1 April 2027 – 16 May 2027
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Warwick Art Gallery, QLD |
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28 May 2027 – 4 July 2027
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Tanks Arts Centre, QLD |
Education Kit
Ron McBurnie, Catherine Parker and Stephen Spurrier, The ghosts sleep beneath our feet and dance above our heads (detail), ‘Cosmic Witness’ series, 2020-22, Ink, acrylic paint, paint pens, pencil, watercolour and gold leaf, 42 x 29cm.
Open Hours
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Sat - Sun: 9am-1pm
Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks.
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Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts respectfully acknowledges the Wulgurukaba of Gurambilbarra and Yunbenun and the surrounding groups of our region - Bindal, Gugu Badhan, Nywaigi, Warrgamay, Bandjin and Gudjal - as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather, share and celebrate local creative practice. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first people of Australia. They have never ceded sovereignty and remain strong in their enduring connection to land and Culture.
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Acknowledgements
Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.
