Category: Exhibition

Food, better lives, and a bowl of cherries

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   4 Aug 2014

The Gallery’s major exhibition and film program ‘Harvest: Art, Film and Food’ presents a selection of works from the Collection, alongside feature films and documentaries, depicting food across the ages and exploring food production, distribution and consumption from multiple perspectives. Here, Frances Bonner looks at connections between feminism, permaculture and food futures. ‘Harvest: Art, Film and…

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Ben Quilty’s view of Australia at war is a deeply human one

Posted by Chris Saines, CNZM   ●   20 Jun 2014

Every year, the QAGOMA Foundation Appeal seeks to add to the Gallery’s Collection a work that makes a compelling artistic proposition – one that somehow feels essential to us and might make others feel the same, in 2014, we are presenting a work by a leading contemporary Australian artist, Ben Quilty who is not yet…

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Harvest: Art, Film And Food

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   19 Jun 2014

The smell of Thai takeaway has been emanating from the Gallery of Modern Art… Just ahead of ‘Harvest: Art, Film + Food’ opening at GOMA from 28 June – 21 September, Arts Minister Ian Walker was on hand this week to serve up a traditional Thai lunch to three unsuspecting gallery visitors and Gary Stafford,…

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Yirrkala Drawings

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   13 Jun 2014

For the first time, a selection of 81 of a collection of 365 vibrant, colourful crayon drawings made by a group of senior Aboriginal leaders and bark painters in Yirrkala, north-east Arnhem Land, are the focus of an exhibition created by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in collaboration with Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre…

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Sam Fullbrook: Delicate Beauty

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   3 Jun 2014

The works of Sam Fullbrook, one of the most important Australian painters of the twentieth century, are on display in their first significant exhibition in almost two decades. Fullbrook’s ideas about painting were captured in an interview in 1985. In December 1985, filmmaker John Cruthers interviewed painter Sam Fullbrook (1922–2004) at his studio in Oakey…

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Terrain: A landscape of ideas and possibilities

Posted by Diane Moon   ●   26 May 2014

From the Gallery’s contemporary collection of Indigenous Australian paintings, weavings and sculpture comes a new exhibition, featuring works from north Queensland, Tasmania, the central and western deserts and Western Australia’s Kimberley coast that reflect vast distances, differences and commonalities. The land and its natural features can wield powerful aesthetic and cultural influences: knowledgeable and sympathetic…

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