The QAGOMA Research Library holds a collection of letters, photographs and other memorabilia relating to the famously reclusive artist Ian Fairweather, who spent the last two decades of his life in a hut on Bribie Island. A new book Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters from Text Publishing compiles several hundred of Fairweather’s letters, which…
Paintings of jacarandas in bloom have become a popular and appealing subject for Brisbane artists, the most famous image of the jacaranda is R. Godfrey Rivers’s painting Under the jacaranda, which has achieved enormous popularity since it was painted and acquired by the Gallery in 1903. The image depicts Rivers and his wife Selina sitting…
Bianca Mavrick Jewellery is a self-titled jewellery label featuring playful forms, eclectic motifs and exuberant colours. Mavrick is one of the skillful artisans featured in our QAGOMA Stores, with a background in industrial design, Mavrick is known for pushing the boundaries of production beyond the precepts of traditional jewellery making, believing that a piece of jewellery can become a bold signature for…
Brisbane born artist Milly Dent is one of the talented artisans featured in our QAGOMA Stores. Dent seeks to re-imagine daily routine and challenge conventional expectations of tableware, her work being both utilitarian and sculptural. Dent explores the relationship between fluid and static, pure and damaged, porcelain allows Dent to understand and push her practice to…
QAGOMA’s partnership with UNIQLO celebrates both the first anniversary of its Brisbane Queen Street store opening and GOMA’s tenth anniversary. Both anniversaries are a milestone as they provide the opportunity to show what really makes Brisbane the magnetic, vibrant city it is. Besides the display of QAGOMA art merchandise at UNIQLO, the Gallery in turn is…
‘O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism‘ showcases the iconic art of Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the most significant American painters of the twentieth century, alongside modernist masterpieces by the celebrated and pioneering Australian artists, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith. United by their love of nature, O’Keeffe, Preston and Cossington Smith developed subjects from their…