Robert MacPherson: The Painter’s Reach

The Gallery presents a long-awaited major exhibition by Robert MacPherson, one of Australia’s most respected and senior artists. MacPherson has a 40-year exhibition history, including several Sydney Biennales and many international exhibitions. Guest curated by Ingrid Periz — a former Harkness Fellow and a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and New York…

‘The Mooche’ oozes 1960s cool and vitality

A generous gift to the Collection from James C Sourris, AM, this jazz-titled, lozenge-shaped canvas by Australian artist Dick Watkins ‘oozes 1960s cool and vitality’. In the 1968 catalogue for the landmark exhibition ‘The Field’, Royston Harpur identified The Mooche 1968 (illustrated) by Dick Watkins as ‘the outstanding painting’ in the exhibition.1 Curator Brian Finemore…

Robert MacPherson: One of Australia’s most important conceptual artists

The 50-year career of one of Australia’s most important conceptual artists was celebrated with the major survey ‘Robert MacPherson: The Painter’s Reach’, at GOMA from 25 July to 18 October 2015. Deceptively simple black and white paintings defined by the limits of the artist’s outstretched arm and paintings based on the language of roadside signs…

‘GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art’ Emerging Writers Competition

Are you an emerging arts writer? As part of ‘GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art‘ you have the opportunity to enter our Emerging Writers competition, and win the chance to be published on our blog. We’re looking for talented writers who have something interesting to say about the work on display in ‘GOMA Q’, particularly the younger…

From the Director: Curating contemporary Queensland

‘GOMA Q’ attends to something of a wicked problem for art museums everywhere: how to engage with the local; to specify what it is without circumventing the national and global contexts in which it functions. While we didn’t conceive of ‘GOMA Q’ to argue for or to locate the essential nature of contemporary Queensland art,…

Emil Otto Hoppé: ‘Little Charwoman’ and ‘London Amusements’

Two vintage gelatin silver photographic prints, Girl Sweeping, ‘Little Charwoman’, London 1934 and London Amusements c.1935 made by Emil Otto Hoppé (1878–1972) capture undoctored views of life in the British capital between the wars. In the early decades of the twentieth century, EO Hoppé was one of the most successful and widely recognised photographers working…