Cairns' Tanks Arts Centre's 'Jalbu Jalbu Murumaka' - Women Get Together -exhibition is part of the On The Edge Artist's residency exhibition.
On The Edge is the impressive and critically lauded art exhibition being held at Tanks Arts Centre until Sunday, May 18, featuring 12 established artists of the region and highlighting their intimate geographical connection to the lush and culturally diverse coastal edge of the Cairns region.
Running concurrently with this exhibition was an artists’ residency project, providing opportunities for emerging Indigenous artists of the region to improve their artistic and professional skills.
These six artists worked with several tutors including well known local identities Theo Tremblay and Dennis Nona over a four week program of workshops, critiques, industry visits and career planning, and the fruits of their labours will now appear as a separate exhibition.
This was a pilot project, initiated by the Tanks Arts Centre and supported by Arts Queensland’s Backing Indigenous Arts Program, and the exhibition features works by Kay Creek (Mossman Gorge), Marilyn Kepple (Coen), May Kepple (Coen), Priscilla Major (Kowanyama) and Lynnette Snider (Kuranda).
On The Edge Artist Residency Exhibition runs until June 11 at Tanks Arts Centre, Collins Ave, Edge Hill.
