Brisbane is known as the ‘River City’ and a great way to get around is to jump aboard one of the river cruises or CityCat and ferry services on offer, if you are travelling by land, you can rely on the many vehicle, cycle and pedestrian bridges, although that was not always the case. Both…
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Connected lengths of duct punctuated by vents crisscross a room in the exhibition ‘Air’ currently at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane. Up close, it becomes clear the network is channelling air as the turbine ventilators spin and comes to life as a breathing system, wondrous for its unexpected industrial intrusion into the…
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The Queensland Art Gallery’s permanent home at South Brisbane was designed around the Brisbane River, and the spectacular Watermall within its cavernous interior runs parallel to the waterway threading its way through the ‘River City’. Watermall On entering the Queensland Art Gallery, the grand Watermall is one of the most striking exhibition spaces first viewed,…
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The launch of our new event cinema series kicks off on Sunday 26 February and runs across 10 unique screenings and music performances until 26 November 2023. Our ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series will start with a screening of the iconic Man with a Movie Camera 1929 paired with Brisbane based post-rock band…
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Cloud Chamber 2020 (illustrated) by Yhonnie Scarce is based upon the form of a rising atomic cloud after a devastating nuclear blast. Currently on display at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane during the exhibition ‘Air’, the hand-blown yam shapes in glass hang in the air like inverted raindrops capturing the light. Whereas…
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Everything in The air lock on display in the exhibition ‘Air’ at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) Brisbane, has some relation to the idea of air, it’s like a giant puzzle, inviting us to consider how the invisible subject ‘air’ can be held in a myriad of ways. Patrick Pound is an avid collector,…
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