Saturday 3 August - Sunday 4 August 9am - 4pm

PUNQ Art Fair: A Constructed World

PUNQ Art fair

Over the first weekend of PUNQ festival, A Constructed World will take over the old Bank of New South Wales building, a heritage-listed building at 337–343 Flinders Street being built back in 1887.

Gurambillbarra / Townsville based artists will take over and create offerings that include art installations and works for sale. The rooms provided to the artists are part of a larger maze-like installation inside the building created by local artists, Jan Hynes and Candace Miles.

ARTISTS BOOTHS:

• Big Eye Theatre | Blak Art Markets TSV
• Michael Andersen
• Douglas Elliott 
• Baylee Griffin (Potting Along) | Arranging Islands
• TAFE Visual Arts Students with Sandra Guy

• Lynn Scott-Cumming | Explore Nature Fantastic Workshop

• Amanda Sadler (ASads) | Layered Painting & Mixed Media Workshop

• Sonia Ward
• NQ Potters | Hand Building Workshop
• Graeme Buckley

Jan Hynes was born in 1944 in Western Australia. She lived and worked in Papua New Guinea and England before settling in Meanjin / Brisbane where she gained a Bachelor of Arts (painting) and began her career as an artist. Moving to Gurambilbarra / Townsville in 1996, Hynes studied for a Master of Creative Arts. In 2003 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery exhibited Hynesight. Five years later the PTRG exhibited The Strand of Hynesight inspired by The Strand in Gurambilbarra / Townsville.

In 2013, a collaborative exhibition with Alan Valentine titled Work in Progress was shown at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts. Hynes’s paintings documented the political correctness and safety awareness that had developed, especially for road workers. Umbrella later exhibited Hot Dogs, a series of dogs made from pine logs and re-purposed timber. A collaborative installation with Robyn Bogdanis was commissioned by Umbrella for Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ) Festival in 2021. The site-specific work on the Forts Trail on Yunbenun / Magnetic Island referred to the mythical drop bears of Australian folk legend. Hynes has been a consistent contributor to Townsville City Galleries’ Strand Ephemera (now renamed Ephemera: Seaside Sculptures) from its origins in 2001 to 2019. Hynes has also participated in Townsville City Galleries’ The Percival Portrait Prize each iteration. Hynes’s work has been collected by Artbank and several regional Queensland galleries including nineteen works in the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery collection.

Candace Miles was born in South Queensland in 1952. Candace had a creative urge from an early age. Living in various towns along the Eastern coast, including Yuwi Country / Mackay and Waibene / Thursday Is, where she developed an interest in the patterns and forms of reef spaces and the myriad marine creatures within – both sea and shore, through her many experiences. Nature's motifs are predominant in her work. Moving back to Gurambilbarra / Townsville, Candace formalised her artistic path by gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) majoring in sculpture at JCU - winning the University Medal in 1999. Securing a Commonwealth Scholarship, she then gained her PhD in Creative Arts in 2008.

Candace is a multimedia artist, comfortable with a multitude of 2D, digital and 3D mediums. She has been represented in many collaborative exhibitions in Gurambilbarra / Townsville and around Queensland. Her main solo shows were A Touch of Seeing, a Scent of Sound (1999); Milestones & Magnitudes – Squaring the 5 – Umbrella Studios 2006. Candace has held many sculpture workshops and taught sculpture techniques at JCU and TAFE. She has been short listed for public art works and contributed multiple works in Gurambilbarra / Townsville’s Strand Ephemera biennial seaside sculptural festivals - winning People’s Choice Award in the inaugural 2001 show. Candace is represented in collections, including Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and in commissions in Queensland, Warrane / Sydney and Lutruwita / Tasmania.