The collection focused display ‘Plenty’ at the Queensland Art Gallery’s International Art Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries (7-9) is based on two groups of historical international paintings drawn from the Gallery’s Collection. Perhaps unexpectedly, these apparently gentle paintings can be traced to Australia’s early colonial period and the violent settler frontier. Two gifts are central. First,…
In his diptych The Spearing (A) and (B) 2009, Luke Roberts sets up an open dialogue between two images that parodies the art world, and agitates Australian race relations. In one frame, the history of tyrants is grasped in the hands of Roberts in his hometown of Alpha in central west Queensland (situated approximately 400…
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Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe’s watercolour Houses of Parliament, Brisbane 1885 (illustrated) was painted just before the artist left Australia to return to England. We can clearly see Queensland’s Parliament House and other recognisable Brisbane landmarks from across the river in a depiction of the daily life of a port city named after the river that runs…
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