Benjamin Law shares his story of growing up with GOMA

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   27 Oct 2016

Hear what GOMA means to Benjamin Law, GOMA 10 Ambassador. Benjamin sits in GOMA’s official ‘GOMA turns 10′ Ambassador chair, the QTZ limited edition GOLD by designer Alex Lotersztain Benjamin Law is a Queensland-born, Sydney-based journalist, columnist and screenwriter best known for his two books The Family Law (2010) and Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012). A television adaptation…

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2011: GOMA turns 10 countdown

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   26 Oct 2016

What were you doing in 2011 when GOMA was the exclusive Australian venue for ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ (11 June – 2 October 2011), a landmark exhibition of surrealist works from the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, in Paris. The exhibition presented more than 180 works by 56 artists, including paintings, sculptures, ‘surrealist…

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2010: GOMA turns 10 countdown

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   19 Oct 2016

As we continue our yearly countdown from 2006 to GOMA’s tenth birthday in December 2016, we highlight the exhibitions in 2010 that Brisbane embraced… do you remember ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ (18 December 2010 – 26 April 2011) which marked the end of the first decade of this millennium? This ambitious and…

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Arthur Boyd’s Sleeping bride

Posted by Chris Saines, CNZM   ●   18 Oct 2016

Arthur Boyd’s Sleeping bride 1957-58 is from the celebrated allegorical series of paintings ‘Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste’ — often known as the ‘Brides’ — Sleeping bride is one of Boyd’s defining contributions to Australian art. The Victorian-born artist is, together with his contemporaries Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester, among the towering…

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Art from Papua New Guinea celebrated

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   14 Oct 2016

The free opening program for ‘No.1 Neighbour: Art from Papua New Guinea 1966–2016’ at the Queensland Art Gallery this weekend will include a live acoustic performances by popular Tolai musician George Telek and Australian composer and producer David Bridie, artist and curator talks, a traditional sago cooking demonstration and more. ‘No.1 Neighbour’ demonstrates the Gallery’s…

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2009: GOMA turns 10 countdown

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   12 Oct 2016

This, our fourth blog highlights another major exhibition in our weekly countdown to GOMA’s tenth birthday this December. In 2009 ‘The China Project’ opened at GOMA (28 March – 28 June 2009), a three-part display of contemporary Chinese art practice that displayed around 150 extraordinary works from the 1980s by 51 contemporary Chinese artists. Paralleling this…

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