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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Engagement Strategy

Posted by Jason Smith   ●   22 Dec 2015

In April of 2015, the Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees formally endorsed the Gallery’s new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island (ATSI) Engagement Strategy, which provides practical and ethical guidelines and procedures relating to our commitment to Indigenous Australian art and culture. QAGOMA is committed to representing Indigenous Australian art and culture through collection development,…

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Behind the SaVAge K’lub

Posted by Amanda Pagliarino   ●   9 Dec 2015

In the lead-up to ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT8), QAGOMA’s conservation staff applied their skills and knowledge to several artworks that are on display. We share some background information on one of the exhibition’s major works, which required the collaboration of the Queensland Museum. Collaboration with the Queensland Museum Rosanna Raymond’s APT8…

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Shiga Lieko: RASEN KAIGAN (Spiral Coast)

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   3 Dec 2015

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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Kalpa Vriksha

Posted by Abigail Bernal   ●   6 Nov 2015

This focus project within The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) exhibition investigates how ancient techniques and subjects are still being used, and how they’ve evolved and become instrumental in the expression of contemporary concerns. The artists featured in the project ‘Kalpa Vriksha: Contemporary Indigenous and Vernacular Art of India’ come from small and…

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Highlight: Zhou Tao ‘Blue and Red’

Posted by Reuben Keehan   ●   29 Oct 2015

Recently acquired for the Collection, this video work demonstrates APT8 artist Zhou Tao’s use of editing techniques to combine two separate spaces into a new, meaningful ‘third’ space. Based in Guangzhou, in China’s highly urbanised Pearl River Delta, Zhou Tao is part of a generation of Chinese artists born after the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) that…

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