Category: Exhibition

Haegue Yang transforms our Watermall with 1012 Venetian blinds

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   4 Feb 2016

Watch our installation time lapse. Haegue Yang has created Sol LeWitt Upside Down — Open Modular Cubes (Small), Expanded 958 Times, a site-specific work hanging in the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall commissioned for APT8. Referring to modernist art history, literature, and social and political events, Haegue Yang transforms spaces through light, colour, objects and movement to…

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Danie Mellor: The otherness and mystery of the natural world

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   1 Feb 2016

Danie Mellor’s multidisciplinary practice often engages with the exotic, the uncanny, and intersections between cultural knowledge systems. Our relationship with the ‘otherness’ and mystery of the natural world is a focus for the work developed for APT8. A scene from the Queensland rainforest, the work is divided: one half is a positive rendition of the…

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Laurence Collinson, Australia 1925–86, Cooper’s Park 1945

Charles Blackman and Brisbane’s young artists and writers

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   28 Jan 2016

Charles Blackman while in Brisbane in early 1948 met the young artists of the Miya Studio, including Laurence Hope, Don Savage, and Laurence Collinson, and the closely affiliated group of Barjai writers, including Barrett Reid. DELVE DEEPER: KNOW BRISBANE through the QAGOMA Collection SIGN UP NOW: SUBSCRIBE TO QAGOMA BLOG for the next Queensland Story…

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The lure of Brisbane’s sun on Charles Blackman

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   26 Jan 2016

Over several years spent in Queensland, Charles Blackman was nurtured by a series of relationships and profound connections to place, and these inspired some of his most innovative and important works. During his first visit to Brisbane in 1948 Blackman experienced a period of intense personal discovery essential to the launch his career; he found…

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Students experience world cultures and histories through APT8

Posted by Melina Mallos   ●   20 Jan 2016

The development of educational resources at QAGOMA is a collaborative endeavour – and a very enjoyable one. Learning staff work closely with curators, as well as film editors, and design and multimedia teams to create relevant and fun resources for schools. The process is authentic in its relevance to the classroom, as evident in questions…

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Lyrical Lines: Examining two Drawings by Charles Blackman

Posted by Samantha Shellard   ●   19 Jan 2016

The preparation of artworks by Gallery Conservators for the exhibition ‘Lure of the Sun: Charles Blackman in Queensland‘ offered an opportunity to observe Blackman’s deliberate selection of certain materials and techniques to depict his subjects. This exhibition explores Blackman’s formative relationships with Queensland artists and writers that were pivotal in his development as one of Australia’s…

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