Category: Queensland artists

Obery Sambo creates unique responses to Meriam spirit guardians & medicine men

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   2 Jan 2023

Obery Sambo comes from a long line of master mask- and headdress‑makers from Mer (Murray Island), home to the Meriam people of the eastern Torres Strait. In addition to producing customary headdresses from the region, Sambo creates experimental interpretations of masks and headwear that are often activated through dance by the Meuram Murray Island Dance…

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Open Studio: Elizabeth Willing

Posted by Samantha Littley   ●   28 Dec 2022

In conceiving her multisensory and frequently edible artworks, Brisbane-based artist Elizabeth Willing aims to bring viewers into communion with her materials. For Open Studio (until 12 Feb 2023), Willing’s brings objects and research from her home workspace into conversation with artworks from the Gallery’s Collection and provides her with a platform from which to create…

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Go back in time to an evening at Dutton Park in Brisbane

Posted by Elliott Murray   ●   12 Dec 2022

Evening (Mt Coot-tha from Dutton Park) 1898 (illustrated) is an accomplished work of a painter aware of the work of his Australian contemporaries Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder. Frederick James (FJ) Martyn Roberts, born in 1871 was 27 at the time he completed Evening using the Australian impressionists broad-brushed technique to depict the…

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The Jon Molvig Project Database

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   8 Dec 2022

The QAGOMA Research Library is host to the Jon Molvig Project Database, a database of the Australian artist’s works, compiled by Glenn R Cooke, former Research Curator (Queensland Heritage), QAGOMA. Jon Molvig (1923–70) spent the greater part of his productive life in Brisbane where he dominated the art scene into the late 1960s. Brisbane was…

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