Category: QAGOMA

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

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   23 Jul 2015

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…

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‘GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art’ Emerging Writers Competition

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   22 Jul 2015

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…

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From the Director: Curating contemporary Queensland

Posted by Chris Saines, CNZM   ●   21 Jul 2015

‘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,…

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

Posted by Sally Foster   ●   20 Jul 2015

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…

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Island Currents

Posted by Diane Moon   ●   17 Jul 2015

‘Island Currents: Art from Bentinck Island and the Torres Strait’ in the Queensland Art Gallery’s Watermall until 1 November celebrates the art and culture of some of the state’s remote island communities. Large, vivid paintings by women artists from Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria appear alongside masks, headdresses, handheld objects and sculptures —…

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Highlight: Julia Mage’au Gray ‘Best foot forward’

Posted by Ruth McDougall   ●   14 Jul 2015

Bold and sassy, this vibrant video work explores the intersection between urban and traditional lifestyles, as well as the artist’s Papuan and Australian heritage. Over a career spanning decades, Julia Mage’au Gray has creatively responded to her Pacific heritage and culture. Inspired by its performance traditions Gray revives and adapts customary forms, working across dance,…

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