This is the first extract from the Cindy Sherman exhibition catalogue by Betsy Berne. Berne is the author of the novel, Bad Timing. She also writes essays about culture, fashion, race and class and is currently working on a non-fiction book, Single White Mother. ‘Cindy Sherman’, is our first in-depth profile of the artist’s work since 2000 to be shown in Australia, and…
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As we prepare to celebrate GOMA’s tenth birthday, it’s interesting to see that many of the works in this year’s Awards draw on the repeated motif of memory. Memories – digital, flooded and spliced – abound as subjects for this year’s work. A wonderful example – Alex Boundy’s Royal, a moving video portrait the artist’s great–grandmother,…
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‘Cindy Sherman’ is the first in-depth profile of the artist’s work since 2000 to be shown in Australia, and the first chance for you to see in Brisbane large-scale, digital-based photographic works. QAGOMA is proud to present six of Sherman’s series: ‘head shots’ 2000–02, ‘clowns’ 2003–04, ‘society portraits’ 2008, ‘murals’ 2010 and two of her…
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An initiative of the Department of Education and Training and supported by QAGOMA, the annual ‘Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art’ returns to GOMA from Saturday 7 May to present the best works by senior visual art students from schools throughout Queensland. In addition to this exhibition, the Gallery’s commitment to learning includes its contributions to Queensland’s…
Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang-Ming’s affecting three-channel video Disappearing Landscapes – Passing II 2011 combines images of a dreamlike uninhabited city with scenes of ‘micro-documentation’ of the artist’s daily life in the deserted building where he made his home while creating the work. Touching on bigger topics like civilisation versus ruin, it also refers more personally…
‘A Bit Na Ta’ locates the – source of the sea – Blanche Bay, Rabaul – in the Tolai language of East New Britain. It is also the title of a project commissioned for the upcoming Queensland Art Gallery exhibition ‘No 1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016’. Comprising a music video installation and performance event,…
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