eX de Medici’s extraordinarily layered works in ‘Beautiful Wickedness’ opening at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane from 24 June 2023, reveal the artist’s ongoing concern with the value and fragility of life, global affairs, greed, commerce, conflict and death. ‘Oh, what a world, what a world! Who would have thought a good…
The surname should be familiar, taking its name from Richard Daintree (1832-78), the Daintree Rainforest near Mossman — north of the regional city of Cairns — is part of the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest in Australia and the oldest surviving tropical rainforest in the world. A number of features in North Queensland have…
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Queensland artist William Bustard (1894–1973) is well known as an artist, illustrator and stained-glass window designer whose artworks are held in Australian public collections, including QAGOMA (Brisbane townscape 1928 illustrated is on display in the Australian Art Collection, Queensland Art Gallery). Born in England in 1894, Bustard and his wife Lily migrated to Queensland in…
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Preparations are underway for our winter program of two irresistible exhibitions ‘eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness’ and ‘Michael Zavros: The Favourite’, presented side by side at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane from 24 June 2023. Focused on the practice of two highly regarded mid-career Australian artists, these exhibitions offer opportunities for unique…
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For our fifth City Symphony Live Music & Film event on Sunday 18 June, we’re going to Germany in 1930. The film Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday) 1930 charts a Sunday in the lives of four young people from the metropolis Berlin — the city is characterised as a vibrant and sophisticated, yet dirty and…
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A selection of an intriguing group of brooches are on display in the Australian Art Collection, Queensland Art Gallery — made by unknown jewellers, they were produced in the Australian goldfields, circa 1880–1915 and are a peculiarly Australian innovation. These elegant pieces in uniquely Australian designs which are made from gold, small nuggets of native gold,…
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