Triple Exhibition Launch: 6pm, Friday 2 June 2017

Triple Exhibition Launch: 6pm, Friday 2 June 2017

With the busy winter season coming up, we are excited to bring new inspiring exhibitions to the Gladstone Region!

All are welcome to join Cr Matt Burnett, Mayor of Gladstone Region and guest speakers for the next official launch of three exhibitions 6pm, this Friday, 2 June 2017:

• Shapeshifters: 3D Printing the Future
• Indo Pop: Indonesian Art from APT7
• Works from the 2012 and 2016 Pacific Perimeter Print Exchange: Vie De Pacifique - Pacific Life and Vie Du Pacifique II

Light refreshments will be served after formalities

Please RSVP by 5pm, Wednesday 31 May 2017
Phone 4976 6766 or email: gragm@gladstone.qld.gov.au

Further information on each exhibition:

Shapeshifters: 3D Printing the Future

With clothes being printed from desktop computers and organs being manufactured in labs, 3D printing continues to revolutionise design as we know it. Shapeshifters centres on these new methods of making by drawing on the high-tech and rapidly evolving industry of 3D printing and fluid extrusion methodology. Featuring seven Australian and one international artist, the exhibition includes jewellery, furniture, prosthetics and digital interactive sound works.

Shapeshifters: 3D Printing the Future is an Australian Design Centre Touring Exhibition, developed in partnership with Western Plains Cultural Centre.

Australian Design Centre is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Australian Design Centre is assisted by the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW, and the Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Indo Pop: Indonesian Art from APT7

A selection of works drawn from the 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) held at Brisbane’s Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). APT7 featured the Triennial’s largest representation to date of artists from Indonesia.

Indo Pop showcases a diverse group of works in a variety of styles and media. The regional tour of Indo Pop includes video and digital works from artist collective Tromarama, together with the explosively coloured painting, The Journey (2011) by Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (Hahan).

Indo Pop: Indonesian Art from APT7 is a touring exhibition developed by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.

Works from the 2012 and 2016 Pacific Perimeter Print Exchange
Vie de Pacifique–Pacific Life / Vie du Pacifique II

This innovative exchange of contemporary prints was first initiated in 2011–12 as Vie de Pacifique–Pacific Life by Dr Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura while she was president of Impress printmakers Studio Brisbane. It was implemented to give printmakers in the Asia Pacific area an opportunity to share their work with an international audience and have a voice on issues that face the region.

The second Pacific Perimeter Print Exchange, Vie du Pacifique II, was curated and coordinated by Dr Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura and Jennifer Stuerzl from Migaloo Press in 2016. The series features artists from USA, Japan, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Australia.

Both print series’ have been shown internationally, showcasing a variety of printmaking techniques including traditional, digital and variable edition monoprints, on A4 size archival paper.

Dr Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura and Migaloo Press generously donated the Works from the 2012 and 2016 Pacific Perimeter Print Exchange: Vie De Pacifique–Pacific Life / Vie Du Pacifique II to the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Print Collection in April 2017.