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Rigid architecture translates into soft veils of memory

Posted by Tarun Nagesh   ●   18 Apr 2022

Throughout her career, Sumakshi Singh has developed a spontaneous and responsive approach to material and space. Her practice is characterised by rigorous explorations of spatial intervention that play in the gap between conditioned knowledge and direct perception, and in the spaces between physical object and illusory experience.1 Her works engage narratives from inner landscapes —…

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Installation of 350 cables imagine rain when caught by sunlight

Posted by Ruth McDougall   ●   15 Apr 2022

Kaili Chun is a Kanaka Öiwi artist who lives in the Hawaiian city of Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, the place of her ancestors. Chun is close to her Hawaiian family and holds great respect for the knowledge and values she has inherited, including a strong sense of love and responsibility towards the environment…

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Shrine-like sanctuary houses five contemporary deities

Posted by Samantha Littley   ●   28 Mar 2022

Ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa practises art with a spirit of generosity, optimism and inclusion. Community-minded and attuned to contemporary concerns, including climate change, social justice and the migrant experience, he addresses these issues through artworks that offer hope for our troubled times. Srivilasa is known primarily for his idiosyncratic and meticulously crafted blue-and-white porcelain sculptures that…

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15-metre-long bamboo raft references traditional Fijian watercraft

Posted by Ruth McDougall   ●   21 Mar 2022

Salote Tawale was born in Fiji and grew up in suburban Melbourne, and works across media to explore and comment on experiences of dislocation specific to living and working as an intersectional person in Australia. A queer woman of colour, Tawale views all of her works — whether they are representational or not — as…

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An inclusive vision of paradise

Posted by Abigail Bernal   ●   10 Mar 2022

Philippines-based artist Lee Paje’s two oil on copper works — a triptych The stories that weren’t told 2019 and Somewhere, someday when we are the sea 2021, a suspended 12-panel polyptych — were commissioned for ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10). ARTWORK STORIES: Delve into QAGOMA’s Collection highlights for a rich exploration of…

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Watermall installation underway for contemporary work from Bangladesh 

Posted by Tarun Nagesh   ●   22 Feb 2022

Suspended over the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall, installation is underway during ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10) for one of the most ambitious contemporary works to emerge from Bangladesh — a collaborative installation by Kamruzzaman Shadhin and the Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts, made possible by Metamorphic Foundation. Over more than 20 years,…

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