An upcoming exhibition at the Gallery is set to showcase the work of some of Australia’s top artists working in new media. Seven individual artists and a collaborative duo have been shortlisted for the 2012 National New Media Art Award. Finalists for the $75 000 biennial award are Kirsty Boyle (Qld); Karen Casey (Vic); Robin…
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From modest beginnings in 1895, the Queensland Art Gallery celebrates 30 years at South Bank on 21 June 2012, its first permanent home after a series of temporary premises. This is the story of providing for the needs of the people of Queensland in all aspects of the visual arts. December 23, 1968, was a…
People. Boilermakers, housewives, bus drivers, dressmakers, clerks, students, typists, children, teachers. People are the pulse, the breath of the Art Gallery. Their presence, their interest, their movement make the building live. The Art Gallery is not designed merely as a vast repository of paintings and sculptures. Every metre within its halls projects a quality of…
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Untitled (Chakraman) is a rare example of Nepalese painting. Visually striking in its scale and colour, and rich with iconography, it illustrates concepts connected to Buddhism, Hinduism, tantric principles and yoga, while depicting a great number of deities and incarnations. The central figure is a yogi (male yoga practitioner) showing the inner structure of the body that presents…
While the Belle Époque often brings to mind scenes of bustling bars and crowded cabaret halls, upper-class women did not participate in Paris’s lively nightlife. The six women artists included in ‘Modern Woman: Daughters and lovers 1850-1918: Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay’ focus on domestic scenes, often intimate moments within the home and in private…
Tired of the trauma of civil war in which warlords rampaged throughout their country recruiting child soldiers and committing brutal human rights violations, the women of Liberia decided they had had enough and called a sex strike. At the time in Liberia, staging a protest, even a protest in which women merely sang and held…
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