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Turning the pages of Charles Blackman’s sketchbook

Posted by Jacklyn Young ● 13 Nov 2015

Sketchbooks have long been used by artists to jot down ideas, contemplate on particular moments and note creative reflections. They are a personal record of inspirational imagery that may later be referred to when developing ideas and composition for other works. Charles Blackman’s Buderim Mt Sketchbook: Civilization versus Eden, dated 1984, affords us a behind-the-scenes glimpse…

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The ‘Lure of the Sun’ on Charles Blackman

Posted by Michael Hawker ● 2 Nov 2015

The time Charles Blackman spent in Queensland in the 1950s, late 1960s and the 1980s — and the friendships he made there — were central to his development as one of the most important Australian artists of his generation. Brisbane beckoned us . . . painter mates in the city . . . and poet…

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Robert MacPherson: A simplistic view of a national art

Posted by QAGOMA ● 12 Oct 2015

Robert MacPherson’s work is often positioned against the historically pervasive national traditions in Australian art of landscape painting and heroic narrative. His works evoking landscape and important figures are tinged with irony, and attempt to look beyond stereotype and jingoism. Yet still they suggest something specifically Australian – whether it is language, food or cultural…

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Madeleine Kelly creates birds using drink containers

Posted by QAGOMA ● 30 Sep 2015

Madeleine Kelly is well known for her figurative paintings that assemble information gleaned from the fields of archaeology and the sciences. Her works convey an ecological awareness with a stroke of magic realism. In this installation, Kelly has recreated species of birds – somewhat whimsically, using Tetra Pak drink containers – that she has identified…

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Tim Maguire ’Trees and snow’

Posted by Bree Richards ● 14 Sep 2015

These carefully manipulated photographic prints by Australian artist Tim Maguire capture the simple beauty of one of his favourite subjects. Tim Maguire first came to national prominence in the early 1980s with confident landscape paintings that reassessed canonical Australian outback scenes. His interest in landscape has since been inflected by his long residence in Europe,…

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Watch as we install Robert MacPherson’s Boss Drovers

Posted by QAGOMA ● 7 Sep 2015

Watch as we install Robert MacPherson’s ‘Boss Drovers’ containing 2400 individual drawings 1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS DROVERS (“YELLOW LEAF FALLING”) FOR H.S. 1996–2014 comprises 2400 individual drawings, all deliberately executed as if by the hand of a ten-year-old. Over a 20-year period, Robert MacPherson made these in the guise of his alter ego, Robert…

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