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…
In her installation Noon-nom 2016 Pinaree Sanpitak brings the bodily form together with the spiritual. While the artist’s practice has always evoked the human body, it was not until her son was born that she began focusing on the breast as a sacred and nurturing form. The similarities between the shape of a woman’s breast…
Learning staff are travelling to five regional communities to deliver digital storytelling workshops with secondary students and regional arts education roundtables with arts educators. The first round of host venues include: Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Pinnacles Gallery Townsville, Gladstone Art Gallery and Museum, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and Dogwood Crossing. Miles will co-facilitate the program…
Authentic arts experiences in the Gallery context play an important role in students’ learning. The Learning team has been building a solid platform of Q&A programs over the past 18 months where secondary students can question and inquire about the Gallery’s contemporary art collection and major exhibitions in an open mic format. More than 320…
Signwriter turned painter Leonard French (1928–2017) passed away in January, aged 88. French was an influential artist over a career that spanned six decades, including five years in the 1960s that he spent working on a 50-colour glass ceiling for the NGV’s Great Hall — the artist’s first time working in the medium and considered one of the world’s largest stained-glass ceilings, wrote…
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Even though they did not discuss their work with each other, North American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and Australians Margaret Preston (1875–1963) and Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984) shared a passionate curiosity for the natural world, and each worked within the emerging transcultural discourse of Modernism. Their respective early training in traditional representational techniques gave way…
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