The spectre of large mining trucks and overturned earth continues to loom over Bougainville as the elected government of the politically autonomous region looks towards a referendum on Independence, promised as part of the 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement. The mine has been closed since 1989, and is currently protected by a Mining Act handing control…
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In the mid 1980s, with the financial assistance of the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the Queensland Art Gallery commissioned six photographers to produce a portfolio of black and white works on the theme of community life in Queensland. First exhibited in 1988, the Gallery now presents a comprehensive selection from this portfolio, allowing us to see…
Pushpa Kumari and Pradyumna Kumar are Mithila artists. Dating from at least the fourteenth century, Mithila painting and drawing is an ancient art form traditionally practised by women in the Mithila region of Bihar in northern India and Nepal. For several centuries it was used to mark rituals and ceremonies, particularly weddings, and created mostly…
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Kalam Patua is a contemporary exponent of Kalighat painting. He was born into the Patua community of scroll painters and storytellers and subsequently taught himself the Kalighat style, which draws on conventions from West Bengal scrolls and Indian miniature painting. Kalighat painting developed in the vicinity of the Kali temple in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in…
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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’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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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art stands and recognise the creative contribution First Australians make to the art and culture of this country.