Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is located within one of Townsville’s heritage buildings on the corner of Denham and Flinders Streets, in the city centre. The Gallery has a diverse program of local, national and international exhibitions. A public program including floor talks, lectures and performances complement these exhibitions.

The Gallery is housed in a historic building established by the Union Bank of Australia in 1885 as its northern headquarters.

The Vault Shop is Townsville’s most exciting retail space for all things arts and craft in Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. Each month they feature an exhibition of small works for sale by north Queensland artists alongside a shifting array of exclusive unique items.

Bookings not required. Free Admission.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Corner of Flinders Street and Denham Street Townsville City QLD 4810 Australia

07 4727 9011

townsville.qld.gov.au

Tue to Fri 10am–5pm,
Sat and Sun 10am–1pm.
See our website for latest information.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

Exhibitions

North Queensland Ceramic Awards

North Queensland Ceramic Awards

Group Exhibition

18 Oct - 16 Feb

KNOW MY NAME: Australian Women Artists

KNOW MY NAME: Australian Women Artists

14 Sep - 17 Nov

Yucky Yum Yum

Yucky Yum Yum

Present moments at the Gold Coast Triennial

Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.

Sally Gearon

Archie Moore’s family ties

For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead.

Maya Hodge

Reviving the potter’s quarter

In an expansive show at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, seven leading Australian ceramic artists have reinvigorated one of Australia’s oldest museum collections by creating a contemporary potter’s quarter—known as the ‘kerameikos’ in Ancient Greece.

Michelle Wang

Inside Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio

Stepping into Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio in Kyle Bay, in southern Sydney, feels like a step inside the artist’s inventive and inquisitive brain—apt given that Contos’s upcoming show at UNSW Galleries, Eye Lash Horizon, explores aspects of what makes us human.

Michelle Wang

Rone finds beauty in decay

After six months on the long-abandoned third-floor of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, TIME • RONE has found its way to Perth, inside the historical Centenary Galleries—a wing of the Art Gallery of Western Australia that has been closed for over 20 years.

Sally Gearon

Can the nude become the artist? Interview with Julie Rrap

In a conversation with Lauren Carroll Harris for her survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Julie Rrap discusses 40 years of challenging the male gaze, and the cultural invisibility of the ageing female body.

Lauren Carroll Harris