In late August, Australia and particularly Australian art lost a national force for good. Gordon Darling AC CMG was a towering philanthropist, a determined and pioneering chairman of national arts organisations, an astute advocate for development of the arts, and an assiduous collector and generous donor. The breadth and vision of Gordon’s passion and generosity touched…
Shiga Lieko’s photographs are characterised by their intense colour saturation, heavy use of flash and uncanny, dreamlike tone. She deliberately transgresses the conventions of documentary photography, blurring the boundaries between reality and representation, and drawing on local myths and personal accounts. By chance, Shiga became the official photographer for the small town of Kitakama in…
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Maria Taniguchi, the winner of this year’s Hugo Boss Asia Art Award is best known for her ongoing series of large ‘brick’ paintings in which she arranges a consistent grid pattern into different surface configurations. Taniguchi emphasises the performative nature of these paintings, the way in which she first draws out a grid on the canvas…
The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is one of the region’s most anticipated exhibitions. With a geographical reach that furnishes the Triennial with a diversity few art museum exhibitions can achieve, the series has grown to become central to the discourse on art in the Asia Pacific. ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of…
‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art‘ (APT8), internationally renowned as the world’s only major recurring exhibition of art from Australia, Asia and the Pacific, opened on the weekend in Brisbane with 32 000 people through the doors in the exhibition’s first three days, with the door count for the opening night events for…
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The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s flagship exhibition focussed on the work of Asia, the Pacific and Australia. This eighth edition includes more than 80 artists and groups. Two focus projects are the result of in-depth research and ongoing exchange with the region. Yumi Danis (We…
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