Wednesday 26 March 2025
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Transitions 2025

Umbrella and Townsville City Galleries are pleased to announce the participants for this year's Transitions mentorship program: 

  • Artist mentee Simsala Grimm with mentor Lisa Ashcroft 

  • Artist mentee Daniel Meza with mentor Luke McLeod

  • Artist mentee Natalie Simpson with mentor Ann Bartholomeusz

  • Artist mentee Alicia Allen with mentor Dylan Mooney

  • Writing mentee Michael Smith with mentor Dr Louise Mayhew  

The mentees all met each other in late February, starting the program with a series of icebreakers, professional development intensives and presentations from guest mentors, artists, and staff from Umbrella, Townsville City Galleries and other local galleries. They will now work one-on-one with their mentors (in person or online) over the coming months, alongside regrouping for critique sessions with their peers, staff and guests. We look forward to sharing more about the mentees, mentors and their projects soon!   

 The Transitions program is a partnership between Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts and Townsville City Galleries. 

Participants left to right: Alicia Allen (mentee), Simsala Grimm (mentee), Rachel Cunningham (Senior Education and Programs Officer - Townsville City Galleries), Daniel Qualischefski (Deputy Director - Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts), Michael Smith (mentee), Natalie Simpson (mentee) and Daniel Meza (mentee). Photograph: Sabrina Toby. 

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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.