Journeys North: Robert Mercer’s photographs focus on local culture

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   2 Mar 2016

Robert Mercer’s photographs feature Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in far north Queensland, focusing on local culture, work places and events. Following is his artist statement from the original ‘Journeys North’ exhibition. These photographs emanate from two trips I made to northern regions of Queensland. In September 1986, I visited Yarrabah Aboriginal mission, Cairns, Mantaka and…

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Journeys North: Graham Burstow’s photographs concentrate on leisure

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   25 Feb 2016

In the years leading up to 1988, the Galley commissioned six photographers to produce a portfolio on the theme of community life in Queensland entitled ‘Journeys North’. Their images looked at attitudes to Australian community life, and the unique qualities of the Queensland lifestyle, land and environment. Last exhibited January 1988 it is an ideal time…

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From the Director: Looking back with an eye to the future

Posted by Chris Saines, CNZM   ●  

More than 32 000 visitors streamed in through the Gallery’s doors during the APT8 opening weekend in November, making it our most successful weekend since GOMA launched in 2006. Among those visitors, almost 14 000 were part of a huge opening night party, more than 5500 experienced opening weekend and APT8 Live public programs —…

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Memories continue to be motifs in Leang Seckon’s works

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   24 Feb 2016

Leang Seckon is one of the few remaining artists in Cambodia who lived through, and directly experienced, the Khmer Rouge period (1975–79). His memories of this time, and his upbringing in the difficult era that followed, continue to be motifs in his works. Leang’s paintings are strongly autobiographical and reflect his experiences of the tumultuous…

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APT8’s conceptual threads

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   23 Feb 2016

The APT8 Conference was held immediately after the opening weekend celebrations and invited artists, researchers, and curators from Australia, Asia and the Pacific to address some of the key conceptual threads within ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ currently on view at QAG and GOMA until 10 April 2016. The triennial’s eighth edition…

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