Category: Collection

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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Highlight: Rex Warrimou (Sabiö) ‘Our Creation (Ömie)’

Posted by Ruth McDougall   ●   8 Oct 2015

Created by the only male Ömie barkcloth painter, this detailed visual creation story, recently acquired by the Gallery, marks a significant departure for the Ömie people of Papua New Guinea. In 2009, 63-year-old law man Rex Warrimou began the process of recounting the Papua New Guinean Ömie people’s creation story to young Australian curator Brennan…

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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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Obsessive-Creatives

Posted by Jacklyn Young   ●   23 Sep 2015

The Peter Tyndall and Robert MacPherson Correspondence Archive 1979–2014 in the QAGOMA Research Library is the result of 35 years of exchange between these celebrated Australian artists. They began corresponding after their first meeting at Ray Hughes Gallery in Brisbane in 1979 when the artworks for Tyndall’s exhibition at the gallery were stuck in transit due…

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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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Charles Blackman, Australia 1928-2018 / The Blue Alice 1956-57

Charles Blackman’s time in the Queensland sun

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Brisbane’s influence on the art of Charles Blackman, one of Australia’s most important artists, will be explored in our new exhibition from 7 November 2015. ‘Lure of the Sun: Charles Blackman in Queensland’ features over 50 paintings and works on paper, and explores the connections and friendships Blackman made while living in Queensland. The ‘Lure of…

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