‘GOMA Q’ Emerging Writers competition – by Kathleen Morrice

In conjunction with ‘GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art’, emerging writers had the opportunity to enter the ‘GOMA Q’ Emerging Writers Competition, launched on the opening weekend of the exhibition. A judging panel comprised of the Emerging Creatives team and the QAGOMA Blog coordinator had the difficult task of choosing a winner and four talented runners up from…

Robert MacPherson: Returning to colour

In the Mayfair (Peerless) series MacPherson returns to colour after thinking it inessential, and generally maintaining a monochromatic palette for his paintings of the 1970s. Taking their name from MacPherson’s drycleaner, the Peerless works use a drycleaner’s receipt with its sequence of named colours as a plan for making suites of single-colour paintings. In this…

‘GOMA Q’ Emerging Writers competition – by Anna Jacobson

In conjunction with ‘GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art’, emerging writers had the opportunity to enter the ‘GOMA Q’ Emerging Writers Competition, launched on the opening weekend of the exhibition. A judging panel comprised of the Emerging Creatives team and the QAGOMA Blog coordinator had the difficult task of choosing a winner and four talented runners up from…

Glencore Regional Touring Workshops

Glencore and QAGOMA offered regional Queenslanders the opportunity to participate in the ‘Glencore Regional Touring Workshops’ facilitated by Canberra based artist Sean Davey at regional venues during September to coincide with our exhibition ‘The Photograph and Australia’. Participants gained an understanding of the basic techniques of digital photography as well as practical experience taking photographs,…

GOMA Q: Liam O’Brien

This striking video work by Liam O’Brien addresses contemporary societal pressures and the resulting sense of confusion and alienation felt by many in today’s world. Specifically, the artist conveys the difficulty in resolving feelings of desire, intimacy and belonging, and how these feelings are appropriated, exploited and negated. My work explores the ambiguity of freedom…

Robert MacPherson: Exploring painterly possibilities

Robert MacPherson produced several groups of work titled Scale From the Tool in the late 1970s, mostly on canvas, in order to explore the painterly possibilities of standard house painting brushes. Taking his title from the name of the chosen brush brand (South Australian Brush Company), MacPherson does something different here. He retains the proportions…