Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts is an independent platform for contemporary and experimental arts practice operating on Wulgurukaba and Bindal Country (Townsville, North Queensland). Umbrella was established in 1986 as a working studio and artist-run initiative by a group of emerging Townsville artists. Since those early years Umbrella has been transformed from an artist collective, offering practical studio-based facilities, to a funded and professionally managed members-based contemporary arts organisation. Umbrella runs an annual program of onsite and touring exhibitions, public programs, arts residencies, makerspace access, professional development programs, special events and a biannual festival, Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ). Umbrella is integral to our region’s thriving culture and creative economy.

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts

408 Flinders St, Townsville QLD 4810, Australia

07 4772 7109

umbrella.org.au

Tues to Fri 9am – 5pm
Sat & Sun 9am – 1pm.
Gallery closed Mondays, public holidays and during exhibition install weeks.

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts

Exhibitions

Mindanao Story Cycle

Mindanao Story Cycle

Ben Tupas

People, Culture & Country 2024

People, Culture & Country 2024

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Project

The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.

Michael Sun

Scaling new heights

A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.

Michelle Wang

NGV’s Reko Rennie retrospective asks whether he should be considered Australia’s Keith Haring

First Nations artist Reko Rennie possesses the gift of creating memorable images that are simultaneously puzzling, intriguing and entertaining.

Sasha Grishin

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

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