In May, the QAGOMA Trustees announced the first artworks to be acquired through The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust, established in 2018 with the extraordinary $35 million bequest of the late Win Schubert AO (1937–2017). Here, curators Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, Sophie Rose and Samantha Littley introduce these landmark acquisitions. Win Schubert AO was…
Opening at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from 18 June 2022, ‘The Soul Trembles’ — a major touring exhibition organised by Mori Art Museum, Tokyo — is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the work of Chiharu Shiota. TIMED-TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW Since the 1990s, Chiharu Shiota has developed a performance and installation…
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QAGOMA invited artist Tony Albert, whose connection to the Gallery spans more than two decades, to speak at the recent launch of Gallery’s first Reconciliation Action Plan. The following is the edited transcript of his speech, which both moved and entertained those in attendance. On the occasion of the inaugural QAGOMA Reconciliation Action Plan My…
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On the 26 May, National Sorry Day remembers and acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly separated from their families and communities. The date is significant because on that day in 1997 the Bringing Them Home report was tabled in the Australian Parliament, an inquiry into government policies and practices where children…
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Screening alongside ‘The Art of the Heist’ cinema program, tickets are now on sale for Le Mystère de la Tour Eiffel (The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower) 1928, a newly digitally restored film from a sole surviving nitrate film print. The thrilling caper will be presented with live musical accompaniment from David Bailey on the Gallery’s…
Our family relationships shape who we are and who we will become. Through photography, painting, wearable art, sculpture and installation, the young artists of ‘Creative Generation 2022’ consider the influences of family on their identity in contemporary society. ‘The natural instinct when we are growing up is to shy away from family traditions’, reflects Creative…