QAGOMA has launched an immersive digital experience that animates and illuminates the significance of tow row 2016, the bronze fishing net sculpture by leading Queensland artist Judy Watson on permanent display at the entrance to the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Watson was born in Mundubbera in south-east Queensland and the spirit of much of…
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From enigmatic artworks to repurposed images, I’m sure many can testify to similar experiences of being introduced to visual artists and its many ‘genres’ via their record collection. In the second in the series — Sleevage: Collaborations between art and music — these musical conduits highlight the compact lessons in the history of art and…
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‘Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings and Worlds Beyond’ (10 September to 28 November 2021) brings together a selection of films drawing on more than a century of cinematic spectres. Curated by the Australian Cinémathèque, the program mixes iconic Hollywood hauntings with eerie, ethereal encounters and tales of love so powerful they spill into otherworldly realms. By…
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From an exquisite devotional scene, to a young Comtesse who was part of the royal court of Queen Marie-Antoinette, and a fleeting impression of nature, these works by Gerard David, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, and Vincent van Gogh span 300 years of innovation, reaching forward from the past to touch and move us in…
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Welcome to Spring. National Wattle Day was first celebrated in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia on 1 September 1910, then in Western Australia and Queensland in 1912. Wattle had become a symbol of Australian national identity from Federation — becoming one nation — the Commonwealth of Australia, on 1 January 1901. Branches of…
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QAGOMA’s Installation team are one of the Gallery’s many groups travelling under the radar, away from public attention, but whose crucial and careful work is on full view for the public. Installation is at the pointy end of a trajectory that involves many people pulling in unison to produce the exhibitions we see. We go…
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