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Townsville City Galleries presents an exciting Family Fun Day to launch our newest exhibition, YUCKY YUM YUM! Join us for a range of activities to celebrate all things yucky, yummy, and everything in-between! FAMILY FUN DAY
📅 Saturday 30 November
⌚ 9.30am-3pm
📍 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Activities suitable for all ages.
🍭 Sweet Sculptures – With the Hotham Street Ladies! 🍭
⌚ 10am-11am & 11.30am-12.30pm
Join the Hotham Street Ladies for a fun sugary art session! Each participant will craft their own sweet sculpture using fondant and a variety of lollies. Shape your fondant into something fun and imaginative, and then decorate it with colourful edible markers and delicious treats.
Free, bookings are essential as spaces are limited.
BOOKED OUT - add your name to the waitlist!
👉 https://whatson.townsville.qld.gov.au/events/sweet-sculptures-with-the-hotham-street-ladies-12-years-and-under-workshop
🍕 Easy Peasy Pizzas 🍕
⌚ 1:30pm-3pm
Enter the Perc Tucker Pizza kitchen and create yummy, yucky, weird, and wacky collaged pizzas!
Free, no bookings required, first come first serve.
🍦 Anything is Popsicle – Activity Space 🍦
Available during Gallery opening hours!
Create your own ice cream in the Anything Is Popsicle Activity Space by Kenny Pittock! Design yummy and yucky paper ice creams to showcase in our ice cream van!
Free, no bookings required.
Find out more about the Family Fun Day
👉 https://whatson.townsville.qld.gov.au/events/yukky-yum-yum-family-fun-day
About the exhibition:
Do you find joy eating food in fake rainbow colours, even though it might be bad for you? Do you like watching videos of objects being squished, or even people popping pimples?
Even if you answered "no" to all the above, you would know that some things can be both delicious and disgusting at the same time. Or they can be funny and sad. Sometimes we actually desire things because they are scary or dangerous.
The artists in this exhibition have made works that you might find both yucky and yum. Hopefully, the art sparks your senses. It may ignite your emotions and memories too.
Many of the works in this exhibition are connected by themes around food, nature and the "unnatural", disgust and taboo. These themes have complex and challenging histories, presents and futures. The artists don't shy away from tough subjects, but their works are also filled with fun and irreverence. YUCKY YUM YUM will be packed with new, artist-designed activities to keep you entertained and engaged over the long summer months. Just don't eat ice-cream off the pavement.
Featuring: Ebony Russell, Elizabeth Willing, Hotham Street Ladies, Jan Hynes, Kenny Pittock, Lisa Ashcroft, Smac McCreanor and more.
YUCKY YUM YUM will be exhibiting at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery from 29 November – 9 March 2025.
Image credit:
Kenny Pittock, BubbleO’ Bill from 100 Ice-creams, 2023, painted ceramic. Collection Bendigo Art Gallery, purchased with support from the Heather Williams Trust, 2023. Image courtesy the artist, MARS Gallery and Olsen Gallery
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 253-259 Flinders Mall, Townsville City QLD 4810, Australia,Townsville, Queensland
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