Visit the Gallery Watermall & Sculpture Courtyard

The Queensland Art Gallery’s (QAG) permanent home at South Brisbane since 1982 was designed around the Brisbane River, and the spectacular Watermall within its cavernous interior runs parallel to the waterway threading its way through the ‘River City’. Watermall On entering the Queensland Art Gallery, the grand Watermall is one of the most striking exhibition…

City Symphony Live Music & Film with post-rock band hazards of swimming naked

The launch of our new event cinema series kicks off on Sunday 26 February and runs across 10 unique screenings and music performances until 26 November 2023. Our ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series will start with a screening of the iconic Man with a Movie Camera 1929 paired with Brisbane based post-rock band…

1000 elongated glass yams suggest toxic plume

Cloud Chamber 2020 (illustrated) by Yhonnie Scarce is based upon the form of a rising atomic cloud after a devastating nuclear blast, the hand-blown yam shapes in glass hang in the air like inverted raindrops capturing the light. Whereas clouds usually signal rain on Kokatha and Nukunu artist Scarce’s desert Country in South Australia, this…

Mavis Ngallametta’s work has personal significance

Wutan #2 2014 (illustrated) depicts a specific tract of land and its waterways in the Cape York region, Far North Queensland, leading to a site of significance to Mavis Ngallametta (1944–2019) — a sister work to Ngak-pungarichan (Clearwater) 2013 (illustrated). This large portrait-format landscape uses its height to chart a tract of land and water,…

What is a Still Life?

What do you associate with the term still life? Is it highly detailed, and realistic painted images of flower bouquets and tables laden with lavish bowls of fruit and game from a time past? Yes, the still life genre uses inanimate objects such as flowers, fruit and vegetables, and manufactured items to symbolically reflect on…