I was admiring Kim Hung II’s fascinating mosaic Work Team Contest when a thought struck me. It’s an interesting opportunity to look at the legacy of Socialist Realism with the work of Mansudae Art Studio in the DPRK (North Korea). What struck me about Work team contest was that if you remove the brass band and…
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Opening 3 August, the ‘National New Media Art Award 2012’ is an exciting overview of Australian artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Selected from across Australia, the exhibition profiles innovation made possible through the use of advanced medical apparatus, motion-tracking sensors, increasingly sophisticated custom programming and even nano-technologies. An interesting trend to…
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Kings, gods, saints and sinners, dogs and very small people will feature among the cast of characters to be seen in a Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado. The exhibition, an Australian first and exclusive to Brisbane, presents a portrait of Spain that starts with the perspectives of royal monarchs, their children, courtiers and jesters. The…
An upcoming exhibition at the Gallery is set to showcase the work of some of Australia’s top artists working in new media. Seven individual artists and a collaborative duo have been shortlisted for the 2012 National New Media Art Award. Finalists for the $75 000 biennial award are Kirsty Boyle (Qld); Karen Casey (Vic); Robin…
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From modest beginnings in 1895, the Queensland Art Gallery celebrates 30 years at South Bank on 21 June 2012, its first permanent home after a series of temporary premises. This is the story of providing for the needs of the people of Queensland in all aspects of the visual arts. December 23, 1968, was a…
People. Boilermakers, housewives, bus drivers, dressmakers, clerks, students, typists, children, teachers. People are the pulse, the breath of the Art Gallery. Their presence, their interest, their movement make the building live. The Art Gallery is not designed merely as a vast repository of paintings and sculptures. Every metre within its halls projects a quality of…
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