Tag: Sculpture

Hard-edge abstraction: Testing the boundaries of painting & sculpture

Posted by Peter McKay   ●   15 May 2023

Margaret Worth’s Untitled 1968 (currently on display in the Australian Art Collection, Queensland Art Gallery) is a striking example of hard-edge abstraction by one of Australia’s outstanding abstract artists. This rare modular structure tests the boundaries of painting and sculpture in a melding of colour and form. In the mid to late 1960s, Margaret Worth…

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Getting ready for bed: Contemporary art conservation

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   11 Apr 2023

The conservator’s public image is most likely of someone cleaning an old painting with a cotton wool swab in a studio with classical music playing. However, art conservation — particularly contemporary art conservation — calls for an innovative and creative approach to the unique challenges presented by contemporary art display. Preparing fragile and complex art…

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Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   10 Apr 2023

The exhibition ‘Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait’ considers the complex and fascinating genre of the self-portrait — a distinct form of portraiture in which subject and artist are one, here we examine the enduring human interest in the self-image, revealing artistic tendencies towards both introspection and flamboyance. ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ is devised…

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Visit the Gallery Watermall & Sculpture Courtyard

Posted by Elliott Murray   ●   21 Feb 2023

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…

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Go on a gallery sculpture walk with us

Posted by Elliott Murray   ●   15 Jan 2023

Ever wondered how many sculptures are surrounding the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art? We have compiled our precinct Sculpture Walk highlighting the 10 fascinating artworks by leading Australian and international artists. The walk is a delightful way to explore the works at your leisure at any time. Background Even before the Queensland…

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Intimately sized plaques allude to public memorials

Posted by Katina Davidson   ●   26 Dec 2022

Indigenous Australian objects and remains were removed from their resting places and collected by museums throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In To know and possess 2021 (illustrated), which adopts the commemorative trope of the bronze plaque, Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall highlights this history, and the debate that continues around repatriation, for contemporary audiences. ARTWORK…

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