‘Courage and Beauty: The James C Sourris AM Collection’ presents heady themes and concepts: the illusion of perspective and the transcendent picture plane; the burdens of oppression; a growing plurality in society and the possibility of more complex identities; the potential for colour and materials to make symbolic allusions to place and to inspire emotional…
For over two decades, Brisbane collector and benefactor James C. Sourris AM has amassed an extraordinary collection of postwar and contemporary Australian art. ‘Courage and Beauty: The James C. Sourris AM Collection’ at the Gallery of Modern Art until 25 June 2023 demonstrates Sourris’s drive to acquire exceptional works of art — especially those that…
Time and again, James C. Sourris AM has collected work by artists who display immense courage in their creations: artists who assert their difference and independence, and who bear the light of truth, often at incredibly difficult moments, when the tide of opinion is moving counter to their own. In 2011, the Gallery curated an…
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Special collections in your art library are important to the development and maintenance of our cultural heritage. The QAGOMA Research Library’s special collections are a treasure-trove of unique and rare items that can inspire and enrich, support scholarship and engage artists, visitors, researchers and students. Collecting these items is often only possible through a creative…
A generous gift to the Collection from James C Sourris, AM, this jazz-titled, lozenge-shaped canvas by Australian artist Dick Watkins ‘oozes 1960s cool and vitality’. In the 1968 catalogue for the landmark exhibition ‘The Field’, Royston Harpur identified The Mooche 1968 (illustrated) by Dick Watkins as ‘the outstanding painting’ in the exhibition.1 Curator Brian Finemore…
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Shoot point 1967, whose acquisition was generously supported by James C Sourris, AM, is a major work from a pivotal point in Peart’s career, and an important addition to the Gallery’s holdings of 1960s Australian painting. John Peart displayed remarkable artistic talent from very early in his life. Born in Brisbane in 1945, Peart commenced…
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