Townsville Shopping Centre: How to score free coffee mugs designed by local artists

Art and coffee lovers are being urged to hop into Townsville Shopping Centre before Easter Sunday to score coffee mugs featuring designs by local artists.

Parker Draper, 6, and Addison Draper, 7, holding coffee mugs designed by local artists Nicky “Bidju” Pryor and Emily Ingham at Townsville Shopping Centre. Picture: Shae Beplate

Art and coffee lovers are being urged to hop into Townsville Shopping Centre before Easter Sunday to score coffee mugs featuring unique designs by local artists with in-store spends of more than $60.

“These aren’t your average, run-of-the-mill freebies,” centre manager Kelly Taylor-Smith said.

“They’re exclusive, locally crafted pieces celebrating Townsville’s own home-grown art.”

The cups are available for shoppers who spend at least $60 at specialty stores in the centre and present receipts at the Customer Care desk before Sunday, April 27.

Each ‘Masterpiece on a Mug’ features a design as unique as the local artists themselves, from a modern bunny girl by Emily Ingham to an Easter wallaby by Nicky “Bidju” Pryor.

“We’re all proudly local at Townsville Shopping Centre and we love supporting home-grown talent, and it doesn’t get more local than conceptualised, designed and even printed right here in Townsville,” Ms Taylor-Smith said.

Gracen, 4, and Gabby Hormigoso, 2, holding coffee mugs designed by local artists Nicky “Bidju” Pryor and Emily Ingham at Townsville Shopping Centre. Picture: Shae Beplate

Ingham said she would be stoked if customers wanted one of her mugs.

“If someone sipped from my mug, I’d want them to feel bubbly and happy – like everything’s a little brighter and cuter for a moment.”

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