Category: Asia Pacific Triennial (APT)

Aisha Khalid transforms traditional miniature painting with pins

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   28 Nov 2018

Aisha Khalid is one of a generation of artists from Pakistan who have transformed the tradition of miniature painting into an internationally celebrated form of contemporary art. In recent years, Khalid’s practice has extended to significantly larger paintings, murals, installations and tapestries. Watch | Aisha Khalid discusses her hanging tapestry In her textile works, Khalid draws…

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Simon Gende’s paintings are a humorous commentary on society

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   24 Nov 2018

Papua New Guinean artist Simon Gende was born in Gere in the Gembogl district of Chimbu province and is from the Kuman language group. Inspired by fellow Chimbu artist, the late Mathias Kauage, he began painting in 1989 and is now one of Papua New Guinea’s most respected artists. Gende is known for his paintings…

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Gavin Hipkins references a past that haunts the future

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   21 Nov 2018

Set along the Brisbane River, the dual projections of The Precinct 2018 in ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9) continue Gavin Hipkins’s blurring of documentary and experimental narrative film structures. The double perspectives draw on and quote from the first published novel set in Brisbane, The Curse and its Cure (1894) by…

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Karrabing Film Collective retains its connection to land through film

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   19 Nov 2018

The Northern Territory’s Karrabing Film Collective is a grassroots Indigenous media group and ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9) features a survey of their short films conceived and realised since 2014. Seamlessly blending fiction and documentary traditions, these films are a way for the group to retain connections to land and the ancestral…

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Boedi Widjaja engages with the Gallery’s architectural space

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   7 Nov 2018

Boedi Widjaja’s Black—Hut, Black—Hut 2018–19 is a site-specific architectural installation that formally engages with the architectural space and distinctive materials of the lower level of the Robin Gibson designed Queensland Art Gallery. Visually the artwork extends the overhang of the Gallery’s mezzanine with a black concrete platform, treated with salt to prompt changes in the surface. The numerous…

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Countdown to APT9: Iran and Laos

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   16 Oct 2018

The intensive research for every Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art provides many new opportunities to deepen our understanding of art from across the region. For the first time in the Triennial’s history, QAGOMA curators visited Iran and Laos to meet and talk with local artists and curators. In the third in a series of…

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